Rainbow card set

Hello Friday :) I'm looking at a weekend off so I'm super excited! This week I knew I wanted to play along with Embellish Color Trends Rainbow Challenge.

I love the once a month Inspiration Challenge at Lily Pad Cards, so I'm playing along with them too.  This month they had Jennifer McGuire (love) visiting on their blog. She created beautiful cards using a couple of different resist techniques. I decided to use the paint resist technique for my card set.

I created this card set for my friend's birthday using the large fabric design and classic messages. Both stamp sets are from Hero Arts.

I cut a panel of white card stock to 4 x 5 1/4 and rounded one corner. I stamped the large fabric design with Snow Cap Adirondack acrylic paint (Ranger). Once it was dry I rubbed on a dark, a medium, and a light distress ink of each color. For example the purple one in the above photo is milled lavender (light), dusty concord (medium), and chipped sapphire (dark). I hope that makes sense :)

For the hearts I traced chipboard hearts (hoarder, I know) onto white card stock and cut them out. For the closed heart I sprayed it with Pearl Glimmer Mist (Tattered Angels) just to add a little shine. Once they were dry I took the medium color of distress ink and inked the edges. I also used the medium ink to color the entire open heart, I added glossy accents for even more shine :)

I cut a half inch strip of white and stamped the sentiment from Classic Messages with jet black archival ink (Ranger). The set has 8 different sentiments, I used a different sentiment for each color. I adhered everything flat except for the open heart, for that I used foam adhesive. I mounted the whole panel on a white card base after I rounded the top right corner.

Here is the whole lot of them, with a list of the distress inks I used.

milled lavender, dusty concord, and chipped sapphire

 spun sugar, worn lipstick, and Victorian velvet

 worn lipstick, barn door, and fired brick

 wild honey, spiced marmalade, and rusty hinge

 scattered straw, mustard seed, and wild honey

 shabby shutters, peeled paint, and forest moss

tumbled glass, broken china, and faded jeans

Thanks for popping by :) I hope you all have a wonderful weekend!!

Happy Fourth of July!

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Happy Fourth of July to you!! Any Independence Day celebrations planned?

I have to work today but thankfully only until 3:30. Then I'll be heading over to my grandparents for a cookout with family :) The 4th is our big family holiday and all of my out of town relatives come to visit, can't wait to see them!!

Today's card is fitting for the holiday and I'm playing along with Penny Black. The challenge is to decorate your card inside and out. I'm also entering this into OTWC color challenge. Of course it's Red, White, and Blue to celebrate this wonderful holiday :)

This is OTWC Inspiration photo

Here is my card

This large stamp from Penny Black's Trims collection has always looked like a firework to me :) I kept the card simple to let the beautiful stamp be the star (hehe) of the show. I stamped my "fireworks" in barn door, faded jeans, and broken china.

The sentiment is from another Penny Black set, To You. I stamped this in jet black archival ink (Ranger). To make my fireworks shine I added stardust stickles.

Here is the inside, I stamped in the same colors and used the same stickles.

Thanks for dropping by and Happy Independence Day to you all!

Young Crafter's Unite!

Happy Friday! I cannot tell you all how excited I am to be participating in the Young Crafter's Blog Hop!!

If you are just popping in and would like to start from the beginning here is the link to Marie's Blog. If you came here from the talented Janice at the Constant Scrapper you are in the right place :) Don't forget to leave comments along the way, there are some fantastic prizes to be won!!

So the theme of this hop is young crafter's making projects with their favorite things. What makes me a young crafter? For starters my age, I'm 27 so in the big scheme of things still young :) However, what really makes me feel like a young crafter is stamping. Every time I use a stamp I feel like a kid again, except this time I'm creating my own coloring book and it's way more awesome!

I used most of my favorite things on today's card. I'll fill you in as we go :)

I started with a white card base, which is favorite thing number 1. I love white space!! I stamped the large flower (Hero Arts, Layered Flowers) several times in versa mark then heat set with white embossing powder. This is favorite thing 2, I am fascinated at the ways to create interest on a flat card. I know it's hard to see in the photo but in real life it's so pretty! Once my embossing was done I rounded all my corners.
For my panel I cut white card stock to 3 x4, and rounded all the corners. I stamped the large flower again in versamark and heat set in white. Numero 3, resist techniques . . . well any kind of techniques really {heart} them!  For the color I chose worn lipstick, spiced marmalade, and rusty hinge distress inks. You guessed it number 5 is distress inks. I love the techniques you can do with them, the colors they come in, water coloring images with them, love, love, love! Once I rubbed on the colors I sprayed the whole panel with water, to help blend and give a soft watercolor look. The color scheme is the 6th fave, I fall head over heels for bright colors paired with black and white.

After I dried the panel I stamped the sentiment (Hero Arts, Truly Appreciated) in jet black archival ink(Ranger). This ink comes in at number 7. I use this ink for everything, it's wonderful. I adhered my panel on with foam tape (#8) to the center of my card.

To finish I threaded and black button with white and adhered it the flower center. My last favorite (if you follow my blog you already know this) is stardust stickles which I added to the smaller circles.

As number 5 stated I love distress inks for their versatility I wanted to share a past project showing you just how wonderful they are. This is my nephew's birthday card. Every single thing on this card started out as white card stock except for the black card base, oh distress inks how I love you :) You can see the tutorial for it by clicking on the photo.

I believe I've kept you long enough :) Thanks for popping in for a visit, if you like what you see I hop you'll consider leaving a comment so I can come visit you too! (not to mention those prizes, ay?) Your next stop on the hop is the ever so talented Bunny!