Bethinking

The Aliens Have Landed...

Today's challenge was to come up with a card that Felicity could take to a "Space" party. I don't have any space stamps so I spent quite a while staring at my stamp collection, trying to work out what I could do! In the end, this is what I came up with...

The moon and the alien are stamped using the "Nursery Necessities" set, while the "stars" are an asterix from the Everyday Flexible Phrases set. I've stamped the background in Versamark, then embossed it in white and brayered Night of Navy ink over the top to look kind of like the night sky. I brayered a bit of Bashful Blue around the moon so that it was lighter.

To create the "spaceship" I used the Faux Metal technique, and the Happy Birthday stamp from "Family Phrases". A couple of eyelets and some silver cord, and I had something that looked a bit like an alien in a spaceship! Of course, that's just based on what I think aliens look like...

Supplies Used

Stamps: Everyday Flexible Phrases, Nursery Necessities, Family Phrases

Cardstock: Night of Navy, Wild Wasabi, Glossy white

Inks: Night of Navy, Wild Wasabi, Versamark, Bashful Blue

Accessories: Slit punch, Oval punch, 1 3/8 circle punch, eyelets, Cropodile, Silver cord, Earth Elements Brads, brayer, White embossing powder, silver embossing powder.

Crayon Resist technique

The crayon resist technique is one of my favourites to use. The leaf stamps from this set were stamped onto glossy white card, then coloured in with a normal white wax crayon, stolen from my daughter's collection!

I then sponged Ruby Red and Really Rust ink over the card, and the crayon areas "resist" the ink, but the rest of the white gloss cardstock picks up the colours. This card is an Artist Trading Card that I did recently for a demonstrator swap - all of us created a different card using this technique.

The stamps used are from Artfully Asian, with the background being from Looks Like Spring and the word from Everyday Flexible Phrases. I'm waiting for my order of new catalogue goodies to arrive, so am trying to keep myself occupied by being creative in the meantime!

Spring Scrapbooking

I created this page for Felicity's album last night, using the "Looks Like Spring" stamp set and matching Designer Series Paper, and the Spring Flower punch. The colours I've used are Barely Banana, Mellow Moss, Chocolate Chip and Cameo Coral, and it's based on Very Vanilla cardstock. I've added glitter to the big flowers using Heat and Stick Powder and Dazzling Diamonds. (Just ask me if you want to know how to do that!) I'm pretty happy with the page, but I think I need to add a title under the photos. I couldn't think of one - any suggestions?

Labels: Scrapbooking