Tim Holtz/Ranger

Featuring Tim Holtz/Ranger products

Autumn Thanks

Hi Everyone!

I can’t believe it’s November already! Seriously! Where is this year going?

Anyway, there’s a great colour combo over at the Color Throwdown challenge blog this week – red, teal and green!

I inked up my favourite Simon Says Stamp Fractile Leaves, embossed and masked them before doing some simple ink blending with distress oxide inks and regular distress ink. I added some water droplets and then coloured each of the leaves using the same inks.

After cutting out each of the images, I used some of the left over Broken China background to cut out the base of the sentiment. Finally I added a few Nuvo Jewel drops to finish off the card.

I’m also entering this into the current Case This Sketch challenge and also the Simon Says Stamp Flickr Challenge – Thankful.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Feline Spooky!

Happy Halloween, everyone!

I just had to create a Halloween card today – I have so many cute stamps I still haven’t used!

For this card, I stamped and then masked the cute Poppy Stamps ghost cat from the Feline Spooky set. I then created a blended background using regular distress inks and oxide distress inks. Once I finished blending, I lightly stamped a Hero Arts background stamp in white ink. It looks more bluey/grey than white – which I like as I didn’t want the background to detract from my ghost scene!

I’ve been waiting for a new background tree die to arrive so I could use it for this card. Unfortunately it hasn’t come yet, but I decided that the Memory Box Forest Archway worked pretty well with this design. I stuck it on top of the base, removed the mask from the kitty and coloured his tail and cheeks! Don’t you just love that shadow underneath him? So cute!

To finish the card, I added a sentiment from the Poppy Stamps set and a few ghosts that I had cut from the Poppy Stamps Ghost Collage die!

Have a spooky evening!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Deer, I love you

Happy Sunday everyone!

It’s time for a new challenge over at AAA Cards. This fortnight’s theme is ink blending and Stamplorations is our sponsor.

I love ink blending especially with distress inks and distress oxides. I’ve been blending a lot of autumnal/Halloween colours recently so I wanted to use some different colours for this card. I ended up using Tattered Rose, Shaded Lilac, Tumbled Glass and Cracked Pistachio. Don’t think I’ve ever used this combo before!

I used the Poppy Stamps Playful Deer Collage die to cut my card base and then stuck the blended background behind it. To finish off my card, I added a Winnie & Walter sentiment and a few hearts that I had cut from glitter cardstock.

My teammates have shared some gorgeous CAS cards on the AAA Cards blog and we are also joined by Guest Designer Kaja from Kajcyika Crafts. She has some amazing creations on her blog, so please drop by her site!

Thanks for stopping by – I do hope you play along with us!

LucieG.

Deco Trees

Happy Saturday everyone!

Not too much time for card making today as I have been batch cooking. Spent a long time in the kitchen but I know it’s totally worth it!

Anyway, I did manage a very quick Christmas card using this fabulous Memory Box deco tree die. I used a remnant from Distress Oxide/Color Burst background I made a few weeks ago for the inlaid die cutting and a Darice embossing folder for the background.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Autumn greetings

Happy Friyay everyone!

I pulled out a rather neglected Penny Black background stamp today and coloured it with some distress inks. The Crushed Olive turned out a little lighter than I originally intended, but I decided to stick with it, rather than try to darken it!

It was quite nerve-racking to cut into the painted background once I had finished it, but I do love the hidden greeting technique and I am glad that I did it!

I’m entering this card into the current Color Throwdown Challenge – plum, rust and olive.

Have a great weekend!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Merry Making – Wrap Up Day Coloured Cards

I love that Online Card Classes always include more techniques on their wrap up days and this class was no different! I will be trying them all at some point and will hopefully update this post when I do so.

In the meantime, I chose to start with Kelly Latevola’s card where she combined distress oxide inks with coloured pencils! Parts of this card were totally outside my comfort zone (loose water colouring, anyone?) but I totally loved making this!

I used the gorgeous W Plus 9 Christmas Rose stamp and a selection of my favourite distress oxide colours. It was fun to watercolour with them. I loved the effect created after the distress oxide was down, and was quite nervous about the coloured pencils, but I like the effect – more practice needed again, of course, but still great fun!

I finished off the card with some splatters of gold perfect pearls and sentiments from Simon Says Stamps!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.