BRI Mood Board Mountain Thanks Card

When I saw the Butterfly Reflections Ink Mood Board for November, my eyes were immediately drawn to one image on the board. It was a gorgeous mountain and sky scene and I knew at once I wanted to try to recreate it with some of my dies. I never make cards without any stamps, so this was a huge departure for me, but I love how it turned out. 

 I used Hello Bluebird's Glacier Peaks dies to cut out several sets of mountains. Then I cut them all with my circle dies. I used one of my smallest circle dies to mask off the moon in the background, then I inked up the background circle with Distress Oxide inks in peacock feathers, black soot and a little bit of chipped sapphire.

 I used my Versamark ink to ink up two sets of the mountains and I added gold embossing powder to one and white glitter to another. I inked up the final mountain in black soot Distress Oxide Ink. Finally, I cut out the word, "thanks" from Hello Bluebird and added it to the front of my circles. I used my Ranger Multi Matte Medium adhesive to adhere it all together, then attached to to a square, white card base.

Lawn Fawn Taco Birthday Card-Masculine Cards Challenge

I got this mini stamp set from Lawn Fawn a while back, but hadn't found time to use it yet. So, when they announced their latest lawnfawnatics challenge, "Masculine Cards" I was so super excited to pull it out and ink it up! 

My hubby and I have a couple that are our best friends and we usually go out with them every Saturday. They introduced us to this wonderful street taco place in our town and now I crave them constantly! So so good! Anyway, onto the card. I wanted a birthday card, but I didn't want to use a sentiment stamp, so I used some patterned paper that coordinated with my colors. The black paper says "Happy Birthday to You" and the sprinkles remind you of sprinkles and of taco toppings!

Enjoy! And go get yourself some taco's!

Always Fun Challenges-Watercolor Card

I'm so excited to be sharing my first card as a member of the Always Fun Challenges Blog! When Waleska told me the first challenge would be "watercolor", I kinda panicked! I don't paint and watercolor cards terrify me! In fact, I only own paintbrushes so I can spatter my card backgrounds. But, I remembered a video from the amazing Jennifer McGuire that I watched a while back where she used distress inks to watercolor and thought I could give it a try. 

 In her video, she uses dark papers, like navy blue and craft cardstock to watercolor her images on and I loved the way it turned out. I loved doing this! My paintbrushes are garbage, but it still worked out so well! The colors are so beautiful and you get such cool changes in color with only one ink!

 I used my one and only floral stamp from WPlus9. It's their Beautiful Ranunculus stamp. I had so much fun using this technique that I will definitely be buying more of their floral stamps! I stamped the flowers with my Versa Mark ink pad, then used gold embossing powder. The sentiment is one of my favorites, from a set called Compliments Volume 2 from Ink Road Stamps (they have the BEST sentiments!).

 Here are some behind the scenes pictures of my painting the cards. I don't have a Tonic Studios Glass Mat yet (saving up for that one), so I use a piece of white paper that I've laminated. I use it for projects like this all the time and it works great! Plus, I can replace it for super cheap whenever I want to.