Day 5 - Dragonfly Tag

Final day as card captain this week at Yahoo Group, Enjoy Michael Strong Stamps and I have made another tag. I had my gesso out again playing with mixing colors and textures. I colored the gesso with Radiant Pearls in colors of pink, blue, orange and copper and gave the tag a spritz of glimmer mist. Once the gesso had dried I stamped the mesh background stamp by Stampin Up on the tag.

I made the flower from Tim Holtz die cutter called tattered flowers and the leaves from a Sizzix die cutter.

The dragonfly of course is from the Michael Strong collection. I stamped the dragonfly on a piece of left over textured paper I coated with gesso from the tag I made on day one. I embossed the dragon fly with copper embossing powder. I love the way the dragonfly shimmers in the light.

A sentiment and some ribbon completed the tag. I had a fun week as card captain . I hope you enjoyed my cars and tags this week.  

Judy

I would like to enter this tag in the following challenges

Art Impressions – red, orange, yellow, green and blue

Paper Minutes – No designer paper

Through the Craft Room Door – anything goes

Day 4 - Technique Day

Day 4 and it is technique day at Enjoy Michael Strong Stamps. For today I chose to use a technique I found on Splitcoaststampers called Embedded Image. You can find the directions for the technique here.

I stamped Mike’s hexagon image on a piece of pattern paper, covered the entire image with Versamark and then embossed it with clear embossing powder. I repeated the process again. I then stamped the two hummingbird images on top of the hexagon image and embossed them with copper embossing powder.

This process give the card an interesting effect. Thanks for stopping by today and have a wonderful day.   

Judy

Day 3 - Finger Painting with Metallic Rub-on-Paste

 

It is Wednesday and Day 3 of being card captain at Yahoo group, Enjoy Michael Strong Stamps. My card today I used the Lily stamp from Mike’s collection and used Metallic Rub-on-Paste and my fingers to color the card. The background stamp is by my friend Lisa from Local Rubber King. I like the way the two stamps go together. They make a nice collage.

Thanks for stopping by and have a creative day.

Judy

Day 2 - Box Card

 

 
I used three different pattern papers for the card along with the Cloisonne crane stamp by Michael Strong Rubber stamps and a friendship definition stamp by Stampin Up.

I found the pattern for this cute card on the Split Coast Stampers’ web site:

http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/resources/tutorials/boxcard/

Thanks for stopping by today.

Judy

 
 

Snowman Tag

 

This week at Come and Get It Challenges it is a Bingo challenge. The idea is to pick a row, any row going vertical, horizontal or diagonal from the grid then make a card using those items, now I have a free space in the middle, so you can use anything for that, just let us know what it is in your post.

Pearl	Lace	Die Cuts
Twine	Free	Buttons
Punches	Rhinestones	Ribbon

Here is my card. I chose the line with pearls, free and rbbon.

  

I had fun making this tag . I had this piece of textured cardboard that I found in the recycle bin which I painted with gesso mixed with pearl EX Powders and Radiant Pearls. The picture of the tag does not show how the background sparkles in the light very well.

I added three rubber stamps. The snowman is by Michael Strong Rubber Stamps and the other two stamps are from my unmounted rubber stamp collection. I added glitter snowflakes, pearls and a ribbon to complete the tag.

This card is also my Day One as card captain at yahoo group Enjoy Michael Strong Stamps.  We have a lot of fun creating with Michael's stamps and every few months I like to take my turn as card captain. 

I was pleased how the tag turned out. Thank you for stopping by and I hope you will join us at Come and Get it his week. Bingos are so much fun - lots of room for creativity.

 

Judy

I would like to entry this tag in the following challenges:

Just Some Lines – two different coloring medium – Radiant Pearls/Gesso/ Pearl Ex, and Copic Markers

Stampin for the Weekend – starting early for Christmas

Inspiration - Day 2

I created this tag for day two as card captain at Michael Strong Rubber Stamps using Mike’s dragonfly rubber stamp. To make the collage tag I used several different rubber stamps and distress inks and then flicked water on the card to make the water spots and blend the ink (squirt and flick technique). The stamps I used along with the dragonfly were:

Postal Stamp by Rubber Stampede
Sentiment - Inspiration (unknown)
Cheese cloth background rubber stamp by Stampin Up

Hope you enjoyed today’s creation and have a creative day.

Judy

Inspiration - Day 2

I created this tag for day two as card captain at Michael Strong Rubber Stamps using Mike’s dragonfly rubber stamp. To make the collage tag I used several different rubber stamps and distress inks and then flicked water on the card to make the water spots and blend the ink (squirt and flick technique). The stamps I used along with the dragonfly were:

Postal Stamp by Rubber Stampede
Sentiment - Inspiration (unknown)
Cheese cloth background rubber stamp by Stampin Up

Hope you enjoyed today’s creation and have a creative day.

Judy

Metallic Markers with Brayer - Day 1

It is my turn again to be card captain this week at one of my favourite rubber stamp groups, Enjoy Michael Strong Rubber Stamps. Today’s creation was done with a technique using metallic markers with a soft rubber brayer.

I applied the markers directly onto the brayer by drawing lines after I had sprayed it lightly with a little bit of water. I then rolled the brayer on to white glossy card stock and turning the brayer slightly to have the colours blend together.

Once I had the background the way I wanted it I let the surface dry and then stamped two different beach stamps over my brayered background in Stazon ink. I embellished the card with Michael’s sea shell and star fish which I had stamped on a similar background.

Come join us at Michael Strong Rubber stamps.  Thanks for stopping by today and have a creative day. 　

Judy

Day 3 - Time to Enjoy

It is day 3 as card captain at Enjoy Michael Strong Stamps and today I have made a tag using the Wrinkle Free Distress technique.  Once I had inked my background using the technique I stamp it with the “time to enjoy” sentiment by Hero Arts.

I then added to the tag a background stamp by Stampin Up and a flourish stamp by Quiet Fire designs.  To complete the tag I added of course the Cloisonné Crane stamp by Michael Strong and some fibers.

Well back to my craft room to see if I have a space to work or if I have to clean up.

 Judy

Japanese Kimono Card Sketch

Good Morning. This week it is my turn to be card captain this week at Yahoo Group “Enjoy Michael Strong Stamps”.  I love Mike’s stamps and it is always fun to try and come up with different ideas on how to use them. I love the challenge of coming up with new ideas be it a card sketch or a technique. 

Today’s card is a sketch that I had come across that I chose to use Mike’s kimono stamp along with a couple of other oriental stamps that I have in my collection.  I liked how the simple card came out. 

Click here for more info on “Enjoy Michael Strong Stamps” or click here to see Mike’s blog and his fantastic rubber stamps.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day.

Judy

Dragonfly on Mica

It is day two for me as Card Captain at my Yahoo group Enjoy Michael Strong Stamps and my card today is using Mike’s dragonfly and mica.  I love the effect of the leafing foil and PearlEx Powder that I put between the layers of mica.  The background stamp is called “Italian Poem” by Hero Arts which I edged the paper with gold embossing powder.  I also used an embossing folder for part of the background and rubbed it with metallic rub to tie the papers and the dragonfly together. 

Well back to my craft room to stamp some more. 

 Judy

Double Z Fold Challenge

The technique this week at Come and Get it Challenges is the Double Z Fold.  You can find a tutorial on this technique on the Split Coast Stampers web site. 

http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/resources/newsletter/Oct052011/

I made a variation to the tutorial by adding a sleeve to close the card.  I also used the distressed ink water colour technique to colour images.  I like the watery effect of the wet distressed inks give.   I used several different stamps for the card.  The panels of butterflies are by Michael Strong Rubber stamps, the “Just for you” stamp is by Rubber Stampede, and “It’s your day” stamp is by Hero  Arts.  The flowers are part of a Hero Art stamp and cut set , my new toy that I just love.

Now it is your turn to try the double z fold card.  Come join the fun at Come and Get it challenges.  http://comeandgetitchallenges.blogspot.ca/

Have a creative day and thanks for stopping by.

Judy

Heated Pearls

For my last day as card captain at Enjoy Michael Strong Stamps I chose to use another old technique called Pearl Ex - Heated Pearls for my background to this cloisonné butterfly card.  You can find the directions for this background technique at:

http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/resources/tutorials/pearl_extrade_heated_pearls/
I love the way the unique texture appears when you heat the white glue and Pearl Ex. I coloured the butterfly with glitter pens to add some more sparkle to the card.

This has been a great week for me at Enjoy Michael Strong Stamps.  I just love the challenges.  Come join us at: 

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/enjoyMichaelStrongstamps/

My favourite quote is by Maya Angelou. “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”  Thanks for stopping by.

Judy

Party Time Tuesday Challenge #59-Monochromatic

The challenge this week at Party Time Tuesday was to create a monochromatic card.  Since it is nearly the first day of spring and St. Patrick ’s Day is in a few days I decided to use shades of green as my main colour.   I used several layers of green embossed papers and coloured my pretty Michael Strong’s Cloisonné tulip with my different green Copics then added radiant pearls in an oyster shell colour on top of the butterfly and tulip flower to give the card some shine and texture.

This was a fun challenge like always.   I am off to my stamp room to clean up my mess.  Happy stamping everyone.  Have a creative day.

 Judy

Card Sketch with Serigraph Technique

 

It is card sketch time at one of my favourite Yahoo Groups Enjoy Michael Strong Stamps.  I wanted to do a technique with this sketch and I decided on the serigraph technique that I found on Split Coast Stampers web site.

http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/resources/tutorials/serigraph/

I used Mike’s mosaic frame stamp and used three colours of distressed inks to colour the rectangle that I cut from the frame to make the sketch pattern and the vertical stripes. I added the pattern to an embossed background that I inked the edges with one of the distressed inks. 

The pattern made a very pretty simple card I think.  The frame stamp from Mike’s collection I think is one of the most versatile stamps.

Come join the fun at enjoy Michael Strong Stamps. 

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/enjoyMichaelStrongstamps/

Thanks for stopping by and have a creative day.

Judy