Inking it Up!

Happy Friday! I am glad it's the weekend, aren't you!? I love weekends, when family is all home from work and school. We tend to not "do" much on our weekends, mostly because of the cold weather, but it's nice to have all of us under one roof for a couple days; of course, by Sunday night, I am usually ready for my "boys" to go back to work! lol! 

Terrible, I know! 

Anyhow, I made this card a few days ago, and had not posted, yet, so i thought I'd share it today, and maybe provide some inspiration for your weekend crafting! :)

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I have several Distress Ink pads that I have not used: they've been on my shelf for several months, unwrappped from the store. :( I decided to open them up and create a window scene using some of my dies.

To start, I used a yellow-beige piece of paper from my stash and started streaking some Tim Holtz Peeled Paint Distress Ink all over the sheet (I just dragged the ink pad over it, I didn't use any tools for this). Then I scored some vertical lines on the sheet, using my Scor-Pal, at every half-inch mark. I lightly folded each score line and used my Tim Holtz Walnut Stain Distress Ink to add some dark color to the lines, intentionally making them "messy" to give the edges a bit of a weathered look. (Again, no special tooks, just using the ink pad to paper).

I punched my Memory Box Small Window and Small Flower Box from some pale yellow card stock, then used more Distress Ink on each piece: Fired Brick and Walnut Stain on the flower box, and Antique Linen and Walnut Stain on my window.

I cut some grass from my Memory Box Grasslands Border die, and I used my Impression Obsession Grass die. I like to use these two together for layering since one is taller and makes for great flower stems! I punched some red mulberry paper with my Martha Stewart punch for my heart "flowers". My window and box are adhered with pop dots to the faux siding paper, just to give them a bit of dimension. I added some blue, striped dp to the inside of the window frame, so that if peering into the window you can see the country-blue wallpaper in the house. lol! Silly, right?! I also added a crimped, scalloped "valance" that I made using my Fiskars Paper Crimper and my Scallop-Edge Scissors.

Here is a closer look at the card so you can see some of the inking better.

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Something I had to finish.....Post #2 today

hi, everyone!
Recently I posted about being at the beach. While there, I was not just enjoying the sun and surf.....I was working on some images to use on cards. You see.....my friend likes to use her Copics. She's awesome at it! Me........don't have any Copics, but I love my Prismacolor Pencils! So, we each took our coloring tools and played around with different techniques. Now....I decided that Copics are not for me. I am just not good at shading the images with markers. No matter.......I still LOVE my pencils! :0) I had colored in this pretty stamped image with my pencils, and then I used a watering brush, similar to the ones shown below

The water is stored in the handle of the brush, and the brush stays wet. Sometimes, though, it gets too wet, and I have had cases of big messes. It took me some time to learn to use this thing. Funny.........it didn't seem so complicated when I bought it!! hahaha!

Anyhow.....I colored my image in, then used the water brush over it to give it a watercolored look. Here's the result.

I ran the blue paper through the Cuttlebug with the Stylized Flowers folder. Then I sanded it, but that was futile - my paper was not white core paper, so I used some Craft White ink pad strokes over it to pop the embossed image from the paper. The brown paper is distressed on the edges with my distressing tool, then inked with brown. I cute the small plaid piece with my SU Word Window punch, and the larger piece is a strip that I used a corner rounder punch on. These are glued to the page, and then I added the edge anchors (a CTMH embellish that I've had for a long time). I did ink the image to give it a dirty, distressed look, and the edges of the plaid are also inked.

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Happy Crafting!

P.S. If you're looking for the free svg, scroll down to my first post of the day! :0)