Tonight I colored a stamp from Heartfelt Creations.  I used Distress Markers and Ink Pads.  I masked everything but the pumpkins and colored them with the blending tool and Rusty Hinge, Spiced Marmalade and Wild Honey.  The rest was colored with Distress Markers.  I used the blending tool and Vintage Photo around the edges.

New Purchase from Stampers Best

These are the new stamps I purchased from www.stampersbest.com.  I also purchased 10 sheets of there Cling Cushion.  I have been unmounting my supply of wooden mounted stamps so I can use them on acrylic blocks.  I will be freeing up a lot of storage!  If you decide to go to the site and want 10% on your order, use coupon code craftyiam (all lowercase).  They also give free shipping on orders over $35.00.  You get a free gift will ever order. Isn't that cool!

Holiday Card Workshop - Day 3

Here is one of the cards from Day 3 of the workshop.  I wish I had more time to play with the new techniques!  I love the way the background was created.  I never thought of using the scoreboard like this!

Holiday Card Workshop

Here are a couple of cards I made for Day 2.

Online Holiday Card Workshop

Here is a card I made for day 1.  I used distress ink markers instead of Copic marker or colored pencils.

I have been having fun creating cards made with Papertrey Ink's Mover dies.  I will be getting together with a few friends tomorrow night to teach them how to make the cards!

Below is my entry to the Enjoy Michael Strong Stamps yahoo group's Saturday Sketches.  It is a valentine card that I will be sending to Operation Write Home.

MS Strong Card Captain

I was card captain fro part of last week for the EnjoyMichaelStrongStamp yahoo group.  Below are the cards I posted.

Getting ready to be Card Captain

Michael Strong Lily Stamp with Clear Emboss Resist

This one and the purple card used White Emboss Resist.

This card is using the Crayon Resist Technique

I have spent the last few days making cards to get ready for Card Captain for Enjoy Michael Strong Stamps yahoo group.  I will be Card Captain April 30 - May 4, 2012.  All of the cards must have been made with at least one Michael Strong Stamp.   Several of the cards I used the Emboss Resist Technique with Distress Ink.

Creative Chemistry 101- Day 5

Today we worked with Distress Stains, unfortunately I did not have the Picket Fence one.  I used watered down acrylic paint.  It worked ok but not as good as Distress Stain Picket Fence.  I will have to try these again when I get the right products!

Creative Chemistry 101 - Day 4

We worked with Alcohol Inks.  I have worked with them before.  I love the backgrounds you can create with them.  Since Easter is right around the corner, I choose to use the rabbit stamp from the Spring Sprung stamp set.  I did not have any of the colorful Ranger Archival Inks, so I used  Palette hybrid ink from Stewart Superior.  It worked pretty good!

Creative Chemistry 101- Day 3

Tonight I did not have all of the supplies that I needed.  The first 2 techniques were not a problem but the Reflecting Stamping was.  I have Texture Fades but none with a large flat space so I used one of the Sizzix Texture plates and it does not emboss as crisp of an image and it seems to smear the stamping as well.  Even though it did not goes a great as I hoped I still have fun and learned alot!

Creative Chemistry 101 - Day 2

Today was day 2 of the Creative Chemistry 101 class.  I enjoyed learning more about Distress Inks.  Here is my homework.  I finished one of the tags with ribbon.  I look forward to tomorrows class.