Acrylic Block Collage

A very cool technique on Splitcoast Monday.  Acrylic Block Collage.  Here are the instructions.

 

I colored on my block with 2 blues, kraft and suede, misted with water and pressed onto the paper.  Then I masked the area and stamped some trees and snowflakes.  Then I removed the mask and stamped my tree using stamp a ma jig.  Added some piercing and rhinestones.

 

The colors are from Dynamic Duos.  Soft Suede and Pool Party.

 

This one with the bike my mom and I made.  She colored the block with 3 colors - olive, cajun and navy.  We stamped the bike image a few times to try to get it dark, but ended up using black and gray marker to darken it up by hand. 

Happy Happy Bike

I made this card for 2 challenges.

 

The color challenge at Splitcoast - Perfect Plum, Summer Starfruit, Tangerine Tango & Pool Party

 

This cool layout coumes from Retro Sketches.

The bike image is colored with puple mostly but I added the orange and yellow in the flowers.

Clear Block - Summer Afternoon

 

A very simple card using a layout from Sketch Frenzy Friday.

 

I inked a clear acrylic block with green and pressed onto the white paper, then stamped the line image from "Summer Afternoon" overtop.  It's quite hard to see from the photo.  It's a subtle effect but is a nice and easy way to add color to this image.

 

I added a zig zag from "Tasteful Trim" die and a little twine bow.

The colors are Wild Wasabi and Certainly Celery with Chocolate Chip and white.

New Queen... QFTD129

My two cards for the QUEEN this week.  Come take a look at the Queen for the Day Challenge and come play along.

 

I loved Peggy's layout for this card.  Actually the angles of the triangles were the hardest part to figure out.  I mixed a few oranges (not my usual go-to color) and made this with a cupcake so it would be suitable for boy or girl (or even adult!)  I loved the brads on Peggy's card too, but I didn't think with the shape of my sentiment it would work very well, so I tried a bit of white twine.

 

I love her very simple bike on kraft.  I tried a few different colors, although I loved hers.  I also changed the placement of some things.  I added some piercing and faux stitching in the corners and am not sure if I like it.  I think it makes it a bit too busy.  The colors of this are kraft (crumb cake), real red, baja breeze and midnight muse.

I colored the bike image with the midnight muse marker except for the flowers I colored in the lighter blue and red.

New Queen... QFTD125

I made these two cards for our Queen this week...
Come join in the Queen for the Day Challenge.

 This first card uses a combination of 2 stamp sets - Evergreen and Serene Silhouettes.  I just love how it turned out.  The layout was from Barb's card, except I changed the placement of the sentiment.
The sentiment is from Evergreen too.  It says...  "Remembering with you that silent night so long ago and the Savior's gift of peace, hope and love that fills our hearts today."

I made this card using Barb's layout again.  Love her dark red layers behind everything. 

I colored the image with markers.  I purposefully twisted the ribbon so there would be loops like that.  I like it.

Summer Afternoon - Made for You

I made this card for two challenges.

The color challenge at Splitcoast - Vanilla, Cherry Cobbler and the new Gumball Green.

I challenged myself NOT to make a Christmas card with these colors.

The layout is from Techno Stamper.

Summer Afternoon 1

Playing with my fun new stuff!

Stamp Set: Summer Afternoon (hostess set!)

New Framelits die, argyle embossing folder, finishing touches edgelit and ribbon!

I used watercolor paper, blender pens and SU markers to color my image.  I also stamped the rabbit twice and paper pieced it.

The colors and layout I came up with on my own!  I used Sahara Sand, Midnight Muse, Basic Gray (and watercolor paper and white for the one rabbit).