…the fine simplicity of our forefathers

Sharing a card I made for a fishing friend featuring one of the stamps from the The Great Outdoors set from Close To My Heart.

I used the current sketch over at Freshly Made Sketches for my layout and thought it would be fun to use the bubbles from the Big Bang Confetti set by Winnie & Walter to create the scattered circle pattern.  I stamped these first in VersaMark ink and embossed with clear embossing powder.  I then added the fish in and used a mask to keep the fish white while I did the distress watercolour background technique to create my water.  Unfortunately, once I added in the background the bubbles became a bit too subtle but this led me to a fix that let me use some of my PTI raindrops I’ve been hoarding since forever.  Love the subtle dimensional element these added, just wish I had more sizes to fill all the stamped bubbles.

I wanted to play along at Mod Squad for their fun titled challenge ‘Greet Your Vellum’ so I stamped my sentiment on a piece of vellum that I attached under one of the raindrops.  The sentiment is from the Stampin’ Up! Lemon Zest set and was heat embossed with some metallic Zing! embossing powder.  I cut the piece of vellum to a flag shape and only adhered the point so it would flap a bit like a fly you use for fishing.

Over at Southern Girls they’ve got animals up to all sorts of antics and, as my card features an animal, I’m also linking up in their challenge.

Ingredients:

Chalks & Powders etc

Ranger Embossing Powder ~ Super Fine Detail Clear

Stampendous! Embossing Powder ~ Detail Silver

Zing! Embossing Powder ~ Metallic Finish Blue

Embellishments

Papertrey Ink ~ Raindrops

Inks & Paints etc

Jane Davenport Mermaid Markers ~ Meteorite & Moonbeam

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Evergreen Bough, Mermaid Lagoon, Peacock Feathers & Tumbled Glass

VersaFine Clair ~ Paradise

VersaMark Stamp Pad ~ Watermark

Wink of Stella Glitter Marker ~ Clear

Papers

7 Dots Studio

Bazzill Card Shoppe Cardstock ~ Marshmallow

Bazzill Monochromatic Cardstock ~ Lagoon

Bazzill Vellum ~ White

Stamps

Close To My Heart ~ The Great Outdoors (retired)

Stampin’ Up! ~ 143808 Lemon Zest (sentiment)

Winnie & Walter ~ WW001 Big Bang Confetti (bubbles)

Challenges

Mod Squad ~ Greet Your Vellum

Southern Girls ~ Animal Antics

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…find somebody whose life has given them vodka…

Sharing a quick CAS card I did up for a friend’s birthday featuring stamps from the Lemon Zest set by Stampin’ Up! and the matching punch.

I went with my zesty theme after seeing the colour palette at Color Throwdown.  Stampin’ Up! had the perfect colours in their cardstock and I triple matted in the three palette colours and cut thin strips to create my stripy borders.  These follow the current sketch over at CAS(E) this Sketch.

I bought the Lemon Zest bundle so I used the matching Lemon Builder punch to cut out my lemon and the leaves and used clear embossing powder over the coloured ink to give them a lovely, lemon rindy texture.  I masked off part of the sentiment from the Lemon Zest set to add the ‘with zest’ to the lemon.  The ‘birthday’ of my sentiment came from a retired Stampin’ Up! set and I hand wrote the rest of the sentiment with a Distress marker.

I popped the lemon and leaves up with foam dots to add dimension.  Once I was done I thought it still needed something and the current challenge at 4 Crafty Chicks provided the answer in the way of sequins.  I have some lovely yellow sequins that would have been perfect for this but my craft room is literally on the floor of the room (I’ve just moved) so finding them proved impossible and I had to go with these metallic ones instead that I did manage to find.  Working with limited supplies (basically stuff I’ve ordered since I moved so not in the craft room pile up) does test the creativity but I am still pretty happy with how this card came out.

Ingredients:

Chalks & Powders etc

Ranger Embossing Powder ~ Super Fine Detail Clear

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Stampin’ Up! Punch ~ Lemon Builder

Embellishments

Craft Medley Cup Sequins Pailettes~ Dazzling Metallics

Inks & Paints etc

Stampin’ Up! Stampin’ Pad ~ Basic Black

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Embossing, Squeezed Lemon & Twisted Citron

Tim Holtz Distress Markers ~ Twisted Citron

Papers

Bazzill Smoothie Cardstock ~ White

Poppy Smooth Cardstock ~ White

Stampin’ Up! Cardstock ~ Crushed Curry, Lemon Lime Twist & Melon Mambo

Stamps

Stampin’ Up! ~ Happiest Birthday Wishes (retired) & Lemon Zest

Challenges

4 Crafty Chicks #364 ~ Sequins

CAS(E) this Sketch ~ Sketch #235

Color Throwdown #456 ~ Hot Pink, Lime Green & Yellow

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