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Hi Everyone, I had fun today, making this card - is it a Christmas card - I guess not - after all there is a little devil sitting in front of my stylized water colored tree - I guess its dreaming about Christmas... You have seen this little devil before - disguised as an angel HERE and HERE , but today I show him in its "natural" beauty ;) I added Fine Tec gold water color splatters and the star is a die cut by Lil' Inkers. The devil you can find HERE . He is just too cute! If you want to see more of Alexandra Renke's beautiful products come by on December 22nd - I'll have a big surprise for you, but I won't say more for now..... Linking up with: Stamp, Ink, Paper - anything but Christmas Less is More - Children - devil child ;) Dream Factory  - Miracle on 34th Street (anything Christmas) Happy Splattering!

Hi Everyone, Its challenge time at  ATSM ! For the next two weeks the theme is CAS - my all time favorite! I first heat embossed in gold - using WOW embossing power and then water colored the background with distress ink. Added some tiny sequins and that's all.  We have two sponsors for this challenge: https://shop.deedeesdigis.com Deedee will offer $15 coupon to the store for our winners. AND http://rosey-hearts.blogspot.ca/ Prize is 5 digis from the store Here is another view of my card: I am linking up with: One Layer Simplicity challenge - Sparkle and Shine Simon Says Work it Wednesdays - June Happy Little Stampers - CAS challenge - stamping CASual Fridays  - CAS - embossing I hope to see you at  ATSM ! --X-- And here is my card I made for the Spotlight feature over at STAMPlorations - if you want to see the tutorial hop on over! I am linking up with: Night Shift Stamping ...

Hi Everyone, its INSPIRATION day again at  STAMPlorations !  Again our wonderful DT made some beautiful cards to entice you playing with your stamps or stencils - STAMPlorations or otherwise. And perhaps I can also inspire you to play along with us! I did the no line water coloring technique here - there a lots of youtube videos , in case you want to try this out. Its fun and almost looks like you did this all by yourself.... ;) I used the gorgeous  Blooming Buds  set designed by our very own DT girl Deepti.  The vase I got from the  VIGNETTE: Eclectic Florals . Linking up with: Colour me....! Simon Says Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes

Hi Everyone, its INSPIRATION day again at  STAMPlorations !  The DT girls made some beautiful cards to entice you playing with your stamps or stencils - STAMPlorations or otherwise. Today I have been playing with  that cute set called  Small Birds : As you can see I was in one of my silly moods.... I think I have seen something like that somewhere, but I can't remember where - I tried to find it, but no luck....... I water colored the images, used an EK success punch for the speech bubbles, which I mounted with foam tape. Googly eyes - of course.... The sentiment I pieced together with letters from  Sentiment Builders: Christmas & New Year  and the question mark is from the set  Sugar Rush         So, if you are up for it - CASE my card or any other card and link it up  HERE  over at STAMPlorations. The InLinkz gallery  will be open until the 5th of June - gives you plenty of time! One w...

Hi Everyone, I have two cards for you today. For the first one I pulled out my cute YNS stamps  and I am playing in their latest color challenge - you have to pick at least 3 colors. I settled for green, yellow and a tiny blue ink splot. Made a puddle of water on water color paper and then filled it in with water colors. Waited for it to dry and then stamped that sassy snake on it. Added some definition with a white Sharpie and some splatters, as well as the sentiment.  This is a one layer card - I love to make those. Rounded the corners.  Linking up with: Pink Elephant challenge  - Anything goes Your Next Stamp Simon Says Wednesday challenge  - anything goes And now my second card - very different and not my usual style. but I wanted to use my Ryn Tanaka stamps again - thy need to be inked up every once in a while..... This one I have had for a long time and actually never used.... I also wanted to play in the WOW embossing...

Hi Everyone, its INSPIRATION day again at  STAMPlorations !  The DT girls made some beautiful cards to entice you playing with your stamps or stencils - STAMPlorations or otherwise. For this card I used the Kingfisher from Shirley's set  Small Birds  and colored it with water colors. I then made a mask and sponged around the bird. The sentiment is from the new set  Noteworthy . LOVE the fonts!         So, if you are up for it - CASE my card or any other card and link it up  HERE  over at STAMPlorations. The InLinkz gallery  will be open until the 5th of May - gives you plenty of time! One winner will be randomly drawn from all entries to win a $15 gift certificate or their choice of any 2 ARTplorations stencils. Also linking up with: Simon Says Wednesday Challenge - CAS Aud Sentiments - Things with Wings

Hi Everyone, its INSPIRATION day again at  STAMPlorations !  The DT girls made some beautiful cards to entice you playing with your stamps or stencils - STAMPlorations or otherwise. In this card I am combining three sets -  the new STAMPLorations April/May stamp club set -  Mixed Media Grunge ,  Blossom Overture  and Trendy Butterflies I stamped the Morning Glory, water colored it and then masked it. Added all the other stamps and voila - a one layer collage card emerged!           Mixed Media Grunge            Blossom Overture                  Trendy Butterflies I really like it! Perhaps I'll do that more often - what do you think? So, if you are up for it - CASE my card or any other card and link it up  HERE  over at STAMPlorations. The InLinkz gallery  will be open until the 5th of April - gives you ...

Hi Everyone, I took a little blogging break - too many other things to do, but now I am back. I wanted to play in this weeks  Muse challenge , where the creative Kristie Goulet from Kreative Kristie  (so true, her blog title) made this interesting card - you'll see it below. Here is my take on it: I took watercolor paper and water colored the red and blue strip. Added the butterfly (Memory Box) and the love sentiment (Papertrey Wet Paint) Her you see Kristies beautiful card: And another view of my interpretation: Happy stamping!

Hi Everyone, its INSPIRATION day at  STAMPlorations !  The DT girls made some beautiful cards to entice you playing with your stamps - STAMPlorations or otherwise.....  I am playing with the set  Trendy Butterflies . I inked them up with Gesso - trying the Gesso resist technique. Not sure if I am happy with it. I like my images crisp, not smudgy.... sloshed some water color around the butterflies - the resist worked only partially.....Stamped the sentiments onto watercolor paper - to have the same colored paper and colored the large word with the same colors as the watercolor background. You can see it if you look carefully.... So, if you are up for it - CASE my card or any other card and link it up over at STAMPlorations. The InLinkz gallery  will be open until the 5th of April - givse you plenty of time! One winner will be randomly drawn from all entries to win a $15 gift certificate or their choice of any 2 ARTplorations stencils. ...

Hi, Cornelia here today, I want to share a water color emboss resist technique with you, using two of the sentiment builder sets - Thank You and Happy :                   The technique I used varies a bit and I have a tutorial for you below. For the Happy Birthday card I also used those circles form the Holiday Artsy set  and some sequins, as you can see. For the Thank You card I heat embossed oink vellum with that pretty little flower from the Vignette Eclectic Florals  and added distress Stickles to the center. I made a collage to not bore you with too many images.... You see my supplies - water color paper, Versamark, clear embossing powder and my ancient watercolors that I used when I was in school.....nothing fancy.... After clear embossing the sentiment I took a brush and applied some water color around the letters and misted them with water, using a mini mister. See fist pic...