Mojo Monday
 
This is the sketch for today on Mojo Monday's Blog.

 

 

This is the card I came up with. It's hard to tell from the picture, but the print on the bottom

is 100% cotton fabric paper from michael miller memories .

( I've had this in my stash since The Scrapbook Shop days!)

The bow is seam binding dyed to match.

 

Hope you had a great Monday!

 

till next time,

Doni



Say What?

 

This is the card I made for todays featured stamper challenge on Splitcoaststampers . ...

 Smoatsmom, aka Colleen Dietrich was chosen the featured stamper today.

 

You can see her card that inspired me here:

http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/2111372?&cat=500&ppuser=146480

 

I was going to do a card more like hers ..Using similar colors

and using a butterfly punch instead of the hearts...good idea..right?

 

Well, I ended up with bright colors....big suprise there! lol...

and... as I was digging through my stash I came across these  stamps

that I've had forever and never used , so I inked them up!

That's how this card ended up looking nothing like what I started out to make.

Go figure!

 

Here's the inside:

 

 

 

Thanks for stopping by today!

 

till next time,

Doni

 



Rainbow Fish

 

 

Rainbow Fish is the title of a childrens book I remember reading over and over

again to my grandchildren when they were very little.

 

It stuck in my head because in the illustrations,

 the fish was made out of beautiful glittery shiny paper .

 

So...when todays Mix-Ability challenge at SplitcoastStampers was

"Glitter under Glass" my brain skipped right over to glitter under water and the memory of rainbow fish.

 

This is what I came up with:

 

 

 

Believe me, in real life this card glitters big time!

 

I stamped the fish on white cardstock ...( I borrowed and stamped this fish quite awhile ago and don't remember who makes this stamp...sorry!)

 

I sponged a little distressed ink ( Broken Glass) and then with Stampin up markers drew

what is supposed to look like seaweed and added this really neat

 glitter that looks like slivers of green glass.

 

The fish  is colored with copics...B04, YG03, Y00, y13, Y18, YR68

Then I went crazy with the colored glitter !

 

The addition of some dew drops as bubbles and a

Get Well sentiment by Smooches finishes the card.

 

Oh yes, I used a 3/4" circle punch across the top to " chomp" waves,

thus also qualifying this card for the Free For All SplitcoastStampers challenge.

 

Thanks for Looking!

 

till next time,

Doni

 



Bokeh Effect


Bokeh is actually a photography technique that is a blur or an out of focus area of the image.

Today on Splitcoaststampers the try a new technique challenge is to try the bokeh effect.

See what I'm talking about here:

http://scrapbookgirl.typepad.com/paper_scissors_and_superh/2013/03/bokeh-inspired-stamping.html

 

 

This is my take on the bokeh effect

 

Step by step here's what I did:

First I chose stamps...  

 

 

then I chose colors... I chose pink yellow and oranges

 because I didn't want it looking too much like a Valentine.....

 

 

next, I stamped the image with Memento ink because it's formulated

to work well with copics and it won't smear when you sponge over top of it

 



 

The sponging is very light in the upper left corner and in the lower right corner.

 

From this step on , I got busy creating and forgot to take more pictures...

but what I did was to stamp hearts  three times before re-inking the stamp ..making sure I had the darker shades nearest the heart pillow the bear is squeezing.

 

Then I colored the image with copics.

E13,E53,E57 and R20 for the bear

RV63, RV55 and RV66 for the heart pillow

 

I grounded the bear by shading with brown chalk.

I like shading with chalk because if you don't like it

you can always erase it with a white eraser.

 

It was fun playing with this new technique . I hope you'll give it a try!

 

Thanks for stopping by.

till next time,

Doni

Make a wish

 

Todays Featured Stamper challenge on SplitCoastStampers has us looking through

Silke Kittmann's fabulous gallery. This is a link to her card that I chose to CASE:

http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/1949291?&cat=500&ppuser=143291

This is my card:

 

I really did start out with teal and lavendar cardstock ...somehow the mojo was just not happening, so most of what I was trying ended up in the trash.

 

Earlier I had been working on a card featuring a horse ( I'll post this later) , anyhow...

I had a lot of brown and copper paper and stuff sitting on my desk so that's

how my pretty little fairy girl became copper...

.because my mind had been thinking of a chestnut brown mare!

 

The inside of this card is going to say:

 

Happy Birthday!

May all your birthday wishes come true.

 

 

Thanks for stopping by today.

 till next time,

Doni

Rainbows

This is the card I made for the Addicted to CAS Challenge.
you can find the challenge here: http://addictedtocas.blogspot.com.au/2013/05/atcas-12-rainbow.html

 

Here's what went through my head when I read the challenge:

Rainbows... after the rain...wet...watercolors

 

I wasn't sure how to  keep the watercolors going in the direction I wanted, so I cut a mask ( I just cut a circle and then cut random points all the way around)

 

And since I keep forgetting to buy a set of watercolor paints,

I used Stampin up markers and a water brush.

To do this just scribble a patch of color on an acrylic block and then pick it up on the water brush,squeezing as much or as littlle water as you want.

Here's what I used:

 

To finish  I stamped a tree from the Stampin Up "Lovley as a Tree " set

and added a happy birthday greeting from Stampin Up's "Teeny Tiny wishes " set.

I figure you can't have too many birthday cards!

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

till next time,

Doni

Backyard Beauty

Have I told you that I love spring?

This is the flowering crabapple tree I planted in the backyard , oh so many years ago!
I don't think it has ever been this full of blooms.

 

The ground beneath looks snow covered!

 

Just wanted to share this with you.

 

till next time,

Doni