Basteltraum's Challenge #102: Animals

 

Hello crafty friends

I am back with another inspirational card for the new challenge over at bastel-traum's blog and it is all about animals this time.

I went with a stamp by colorado craft company called "Lots of Love" and I am so in love with Anita Jeram's images! I am pretty sure you all know her children's books that took the world by storm. I am so happy I discovered this company that creates stamps of her adorable images!

I decided to color this image with the no-line technique. For this, you stamp the image in a very light hue and color then without creating harsh outlines. I really love the soft look you can achieve with this technique.

Then I decided to stamp the sentiment with embossing ink and emboss it with superfine white embossing powder (this one is perfect for tiny/small detailed images or sentiments). Then I brushed some pigment ink (it's an old ink pad by Mama Elephant; unfortunately it's discontinued... but any light blue pigment ink will work!) over the sky and voilà - there you have an adorable animal card :-)

So I hope you will share your creation with us over at bastel-traum's blog!

Happy crafting!

Hugs, 

Basteltraum's Challenge #101: Water

 

Hello everyone!

We are in the middle of May already and spring is in its full bloom! This already lets me think of summer, sun, beach and sea... I think that's probably why I got inspired for my card for this month's challenge over at Bastel-Traum's blog - a colorful underwater scene with a swarm of fishies, yay!

I colored my fishies with chameleon pens. I love these markers because you only need a handful to achieve a beautiful blend between the colors! After coloring, I fussy cut (yes, I truly did :-)) all the fishes on its outlines.

For the background, I heat embossed first my sentiment with white embossing powder and brushed a bunch of distress oxides onto a watercolor cardstock panel (the heat embossed sentiment is resistent to the oxides, it won't get stained). I used Cracked Pistachio Blueprint Sketch and Chipped Sapphire. For the finish, I used some Distress Micro glaze to make the surface permanent and sealed against water or new layers of moist color. I waited a while to make sure the glaze had absorbed a bit. 

I wanted to add some sunrays that breaks into the water from above. For that, I used some white pigment ink and sunray stencil. I slightly dabbed some ink over the glazed panel (the glaze will prevent that the white ink will stain with the distress oxide color when applying!)

After that, I glued all my fishies onto the panel with Nuvo Deluxe Adhesive (it's my favorite liquid glue, I like it even more than Tombo Mono Multi glue!). Voilà, there you have a colorful underwater scene! :-)

I hope you got inspired and will play along with us - see you there over at Bastel-Traum's blog!

Happy crafting,