Friday, September 9, 2011

Biblical Impressions Blog Hop

Hi there and thanks for stopping by, we would love for you to hop along with us and enjoy some fall and wildlife eye candy. From here you will hop over to Ceal's Blog to see her project and then follow along because you are in for a treat! here is the hop order in case you get lost along the way.


Thanks for Hopping with us

A Fall Drive (QKR Stampede)


I can forget all about the world when I’m in my stamp room creating and this was such a fun card to get lost in!

To start off I drew the highway on cardstock to make a template which I’ll store for future use. I designed the template about a quarter inch wider than the card so I have room to move it into different positions according to the scene then what hangs over the edge is cut off. I layered the same amount of cardstock under at each to match the thickness that it rest on.

The white lines were added with Sakura gel pen and the edges were ink distressed with Ranger Distress Ink – black soot.

The scene was created by masking off with torn edged paper and sponging, I always sponge the lightest colors first (the sky) so the dark doesn’t get picked up on the sponge. Once the layers are on I stipple with a plastic stipple brush to add texture.

The trees are Fiskars large and small tree punches and I cut the middle down just a little so all three are different sizes. Aleene’s tacky glue was used to attach the Autumn Flower Soft.

The little pond was colored in with Copic markers it’s best to do this before you sponge on your ink so the markers won’t be damages by picking up the distress ink.

The cattail was also colored with Copic markers, cut out and I layered the bottom with the same thickness that the top will rest on. ¼ and 1/8” circle punches work well for this task.

The sky was created using my acetate cloud template sponge and ink.

The sun is cut with 1/14” and 5/8” circle punches and attached together with Aleene’s Paper Glaze because it a shiny coated glitter paper so it doesn’t shed. I then cut the V shapes freehand all around.

Images: QKR Stampede -  14501 Car, 11602 Cattails
Paper: The Paper Man – speckled black, grey for trees, Bazzill – dark yellow, reddish, grey, unknown white for scene, Beckett Expressions – Iceberg for images
Ink: Memento – Tuxedo Black, Ranger Distress Ink – black soot, pine needles, peeled paint, broken china, forest moss
Copic colors: Car – 110 black around the edge, R59,46, C00,0,1,2,3,5, Water – B32,34,49, Cattails – G28,09,05,07, E25,29,37

Thursday, September 8, 2011

Duck, Duck.... (Lots of photos)

Hello there! I hope September has started out well for you all. We started school here yesterday, and so far so good! The kids had no problem getting up and ready for school in the morning, mom...well that is a whole other story. I don't like mornings. Well today I thought I would share a fun waterfall card with you. I have only made this style card one other time, but I really like the way this one turned out. I went with a humorous card today using 2 images from QKR Stampede. First I used the little ducky called Sitting on Log. I also used the Stitched Goose stamps. Here is what I came up with.


HA HA HA...I told you it was a silly card. When I was looking through the QKR Stampede store, I saw all the duck stamps, and thought it would be cute to do a duck duck goose card. The waterfall style card was perfect for it too. I stamped the images and colored with colored pencils. Then I hand wrote the words. I felt the card needed a little more then just the images, so I also added a few of the little paper flowers that you can also pick up at the QKR Stampede store too.

Well that is all. Thanks for stopping by today, and have a wonderful day!

A Fall Birthday (Eureka Stamps)


Here’s a bright and cheery card for those masculine fall birthdays, I used images from Eureka Stamps to create the card:

A few details and supplies about the card:
Prismacolor pencils to color the images.

The cut out leaf and sentiment oval are popped up with foam squares.
A little ink distressing was done on the solid tan, green and sentiment panels.

The faux bards are cut with the Cuttlebug die Tiny Tags, tacky glue was used to attach to the card and Aleene’s Paper Glaze was applied to create a shiny finish. 

The inside leaves are a punch out that is colored with the pencils and the vein detail was drawn on with a Marvy fine tip marker.  

Paper: The Paper Company - green, tan, Stampin Up - burgundy, Beckett Expressions - Iceberg

Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Pumpkins For Sale

Are we ready for fall yet?
Pretty soon we will be purchasing Pumpkins and gourds.
Biblical Impressions has some very realistic looking images that I loved coloring with my Copics.

I had a scrap of this great Moroccan paper with the perfect colors for fall. 
Ribbon was in my stash.
QKR Stampede has many new paper flowers available in so many fun color combos- Hope you go and check them out!
 

Witchy Balloon Holder

Today's post is for Eureka Stamps. 
They have a lot of really cute balloon holder/ balloon stamps to choose from.
I used the witch with the black cat balloon.



I colored the image with colored pencil and used chalk for the background.
Thanks for stopping today! 
See you next time!
Barb

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

BI Sunflower

Today for my Biblical Impressions post I have used Medium Sunflower. Patterned papers are some that I've had sewn together for a long time and have a stack of them that I pull from time to time to see if my coloring matches anything I have in my stack. I thought this paper panel was perfect for my image.

I left the a sentiment off, so I can use it for whenever I need a card.