Cantaloupe Crisp Birthday

I have been sorting cardstock, ink and refills and deciding which Stampin' Up colors I want to keep and which I will be selling,  While doing that I stopped to create today's card using Crisp Cantaloupe cardstock and Designer Series Paper.  I  came across the two pretty butterflies which were watercolored on Shimmery White cardstock.  The other thing I came across was a retired three corner punch.   I am sure that I used it at least once before.  The sentiment is from Cottage Greetings.  Have a great day!

Card For My Artist

Yesterday was a celebration of the Schaumburg School District 54 Board Room Artists.  (In an earlier post, I posted a photo of Sydney and her swan art.) There was a gallery walk during which we viewed the projects of 28 students, one from each school in District 54. The talents of these young people amaze me.   Their art work will be on display for the next year in the School District 54 Board Room.

This is the card I made for Sydney.   How perfect to have the Stampin' Up Swan Lake stamp set.  The background layer was stamped using the Marbled background stamp and Soft Sky ink.  I will say it again~~I am so very proud of Sydney!  Have a great weekend and enjoy the Spring weather!

Lifting Ink Technique

The other day I was watching a video on Simon Says Stamp.  The video was showing how to use distress inks and a shammy to give texture to your cards. The shammy she used is the Absorber which is a full size shammy you can purchase on Amazon.   The shammy is pretty big and can be cut down in size to make it more manageable and/or to share with a number of your friends.  For this technique, you add Distress Inks or Distress Oxide Inks to your cardstock. Then take the wet shammy (not soaking wet) and scrunch it up, patting it against the inked cardstock,  The wet shammy lifts off some of the ink.  I have two samples of cards I made using this lifting ink method.  The sentiments on both cards and the hummingbirds are from Pretty Pink Posh.  The rose is from Altenew.

Do you remember the home decor painting trend from about 20 or so years ago?  You painted sections of a wall and then used Saran Wrap to remove some of the paint?  That is what I thought of as I was making the backgrounds for these cards and laughing about how this looked pretty bad on all four walls in a bedroom!!!  But it is pretty as a card background, though!  Have a great day!

Space Explorer Again

I mentioned the other day that Cherie gave us the makings for our own Space Explorer card.  Cherie's card was so cute, I had to make a card using those pieces.  Mine turned out to be a shaker card.  Both pattern papers used on today's card are from Lawn Fawn.  I have had them for awhile and the little stars are perfect for a little astronaut.  I used Stampin' Up framelits to create the stitched circle around the shaker.  Poppy Parade cardstock was a good match to the little stars and we have a Poppy Parade card base, too. My Favorite Things has some of the cutest stamps.   Have a great day!