Need a lift??

Good Morning! Jessica B. here for QKR Stampede today! I had fun doing this little card. I made a scene..( I know, you are shocked :)).

First up, I used this little frog..isn't he keeutee?? Now admittedly I am not a "cute" card maker. I LOVE what others can do with cute stamps..but when you have a fear of patterned paper..you really just need to know how to color well and hope for the best..which is the motto I live by  HA!..but QKR Stampede had some CUTE images that even I can pull off ~wink~. Plus, as we all know, I love me some frogs..and turtles..and butterflies....hmm..I am seeing a pattern here , you?

Anyway..on to the card.

kinda cute huh?

Ok, so this card was a collaboration of stamps if you will. First up I used the frog, then I used these rocks, and this grass. Now  you KNOW I had to mask something right? No card is complete without masking. So to start off, I stamped el frogo. Then I inked up only part of the rocks and stamped them. Then I stamped the grass behind the rocks..and decided the frog needed something behind him because he was just looking like he had been plopped down on his lily pad..so I masked him and stamped the grass over him..then it looked right. So I began coloring. I wanted to make the frog look as though he was sitting on the waters edge so I "built" up a sandy area..see how some of the rocks are in the water..and the water is just to the edge of the sandy area?? That was intentional. I used a combination of Faber Castell Polychromos pencils and Prismacolor pencils. Then I stamped the grass kinda in front of the rocks to create a bit of depth. I added extra dark shading under the lily pad and the rocks in the water to create some depth..and added a bit of a darker brown to the parts of the grass where it meets the dirt if you will..also to keep the grass from looking like it was sitting on top of the ground...there is a method people..I promise. Now, I kinda lost some of the detail in the dragon fly..mainly because I stamped EVERYTHING in green ink. Yes, you read that right..GREEN ink. I don't always like to color something in that is outlined in black...that way you can give certain images a more cohesive look..a bit more natural if you will. BUT, you do lose a bit of detail in doing that. You can still see the dragon fly..in person you can see the details of his little face..but not in the pic. Lesson learned here.

Ok..that is it for me today! Please stop by the QKR store and see what other cute images you can pick up..

Have a great one!

ETA:: I forgot about the clouds..I used a prismaclor pencils to make the random blue marks for the clouds..I will explain a bit more about that on my blog soon...

Hi there!  Today I wanted to share a card I made using the Faith Hope stamp from Biblical Impressions.  This stamp is actually one big stamp, but I cut it into 4 sections. 

 As you can see, I went with a long card this time.  I cut each part of the stamp apart, and layered onto the base.  I did some paper piecing for the flower pots, and colored the rest of the image with marker. 

For the watering can, I used some liquid pearl (as you can see from above).  Last I hand wrote the sentiment on using a marker. 
Well that is all from me for now.  Have a great Monday!

Butterfly mania!

I went a little crazy with the images from the Dragonflies full sheet from Biblical Impressions!  This first card has the large butterfly.  I embossed with Purple Pastel gold leaf, then painted in with H2Os.  The cardstock I used has a slightly bumpy texture, which in turn gives the gold leaf a bumpier appearance.  I like the effect!

For the shadow butterfly, I used irridescent mica powders.  I used a paintbrush to apply the color in splashes, then when fiinished, gently used the brush back and forth over the whole panel to get every area coated.  If you look closely at the edges, you will see a slightly smudged look: I handled this too soon after embossing.  Unlike gold leaf and embossing powders, mica powders need to be left for awhile to "set" before cutting.  I hadn't used these in a long time and had forgotten.

Here is a picture that includes all four of the butterfly images ... do I have an obsession with embossing??? ;-) I think Biblical has a stamp that says something like, "so many stamps, so little time;" I think I would reword that to "so many techniques, so little time!" at least for these stamp images!   Note that the shadow butterfly shown  here is a more accurate rendering than the photo above.  By the way, if you look at the medium butteflies, embossed on dark green, blue, and red marbled cardstock in the upper right corner, there are a few spots of chipped gold embossing.  This is because I did not trim them right after embossing.  On glossy cardstock, both gold leaf and embossing powders get dryer as time passes, and so will flake off when cut.  However, shortly after embossing, there is still enough moisture to keep this from happening.

Mother Duck

I think this cute Mother Duck and baby from Eureka Stamps will make a nice Mother’s Day card for my granddaughter to give to her Mommy, it's it the cutest image!

This is a tall card - the front measures 4" x 9.25".  Cut the cardstock 8" x 9.25" and score to fold at 4" of the 8" width.  This will fit in a business size envelope that you can find in department and many dollar stores.

Copic markers were used to color the image: B0000,00, BG10,11,13, C00,0,1, G82, R20,22, YR02,04, Y13,15,17,19, YR23

The image section and designer paper were taped together on the back to form the one panel.

The Decorative Trim lace was taped to the back side of the double panel with single sided tape and the holes for the brads were created with a Bazzill piercer.

TheEK Success flower punch was used to cut the pink flowers and they were debossed using a metal ball stylus and folded paper towel for cushion. The tiny white flower is cut using a Fiskarsborder punch and the yellow center is cut using the Cuttlebug and their Tiny Tags die, I punch out ¼” circles and place them over the hole for the tag and run through the machine. The leaves are cut using a Martha Stewart Branch punch and I punched only a portion of the image. These were attached together and to the card with Aleene’s tacky glue.

The envelope got three simple lines scored with the Scor-Pal.

Images: Eureka Stamps - digi8501 Mother Duck, QKR Stampede - digi11107 Mother’s Day

Paper: The Paper Company – bumpy textured pink, Beckett Expressions – white for image, unknown – solid white border, Making Memories – designer paper, Die Cuts With a View – yellow glittered cardstock, Stampin Up - green

Ink: Memento – Tuxedo Black

I Like Bugs...

Well....not really...but I do love these stamps!

I have a very quick and simple card to share with you today!

I found this cute image and sentiment on the QKR Stampede sight and just had to get it because it made me smile!

This adorable little Rag Doll was fun to color.  I'm sure you'll be seeing more of her from me in the future!

Stamps:

Washing Dishes by QKR Stampede

Bugs and Kisses by QKR Stampede

Paper:

Bazzill Basic Colored Card Stock

Mohawk 80# Bright White card stock

Ink:

Memento Tuxedo Black Die ink

Copic markers

Other:

Brads

I hope you are having a great week!

Thanks for stopping by!

Kristine

For you...

HI! This is Jessica B. here for Eureka Stamps today!

I made a cute little tag to go with a tea pot I bought for a dear friend for Mother's Day.

I used this sweet tea pot stamp! I stamped it in Archival black that I stamped off first to make it lighter and then die cut and embossed it. I colored the image with colored pencils and OMS..and did a bit of very light sponging. The little "For you" is written with a micro pen. I set a flower shaped eyelet and tied on a sage green ribbon. ..done deal!


I hope you are having a great entrance into May where you are. It is beautiful on the SC coast here!

Thanks for visiting!

Fruit of the Spirit

Scenic coloring is always a challenge for me, but I like working with images where coloring is very straightforward, so this Stained Glass Dove was perfect for me!  I used H20s to paint the colors onto the embossed image.  I then embossed the image a second time onto a transparency.  I attached the embossed transparency after applying a thin line of diamond glaze along all the black "framing" of the "glass"  (When you emboss the plasic it will buckle, so I had set it overnight under a weight to flatten it down, and repeated that step after attaching the two pieces.)  The Galatians 5:22 scripture is not embossed.