…a sound in their voices which suggested rum

Sharing a card featuring a third stamp from the Cocktails Blueprint set from Tim Holtz.

This time I’m playing over at Global Design Project where they want to see sunshine.  So I’ve gone with vibrant colours and a very summery cocktail complete with a slice of the sun, aka pineapple, and umbrella to ward off those dangerous rays!

My layout follows the sketch at The Paper Players, with my drink acting as the main focal shape.  To do up my drink I stamped it on heat resistant acetate and embossed in black.  I then coloured the shine on the glass with a Copic and added some white reflection.  On some water colour paper I stamped another drink and coloured up the non-glass elements, which I then paper pieced to the clear glass.  I realised too late I should have masked out the ‘rum’ in the centre of the glass given I had to trim off the other blueprint elements as they were way too thin to fussy cut.

Finished my card off with another fab chippie from Make it Crafty.  As I’ve kept the whole card CAS I am also linking it up at Addicted to Stamps and More.  Am really having a ball with these cocktail stamps, might make up a card with the last one in the set before the weekend is out.

Ingredients:

Copics

Glass BG32

Chalks & Powders etc

Stampendous! Embossing Powder ~ Detail Black

Embellishments

Make it Crafty Chipboard Layered Words ~ 2¾'' Hooray

Inks & Paints etc

Molotow Paint Marker ~ Signal White

Tim Holtz Distress Archival Ink ~ Black Soot

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Aged Mahogany, Festive Berries, Fossilized Amber, Mowed Lawn, Mustard Seed, Rusty Hinge, Squeezed Lemonade, Twisted Citron & Wild Honey

Tim Holtz Distress Markers ~ Black Soot, Mowed Lawn & Twisted Citron

Papers

Bazzill Burlap Cardstock ~ Ruby Red

Bazzill Card Shoppe Cardstock ~ Marshmallow

Crafter’s Companion ~ Heat Resistant Acetate

Fabriano Watercolor Paper ~ 200gsm Hot Pressed

Maja Design Coffee in the Arbour ~ Lemon Meringue Pie

Stampin’ Up! Cardstock ~ Daffodil Delight

Stamps

Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Collection ~ CMS335 Cocktails Blueprint

Challenges

 

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Take every birthday with a grain of salt

Sharing another card featuring one of the stamps from the Cocktails Blueprint set by Tim Holtz.

Have to say I am loving this set for adult cards, you can do the stamps up in so many ways.  For this card I’ve taken my layout from Freshly Made Sketches.  It was great for letting the stamp take centre stage.  As for the stamp, I stamped it in Barely Beige so I could do some no lines watercolouring.  Have to say it behaved a bit interestingly, the ink that is.  I also was a bit heavy handed with the aqua on the glass but you live and learn and I really am learning with my watercolouring.  Added in the salt rim with some glitter for a bit of a tactile touch.  And what is better as a sentiment for a card featuring some alcohol but one of Tim’s new Snarky Small Talk stickers?

Got my colours from the current palette at Cupcake Inspirations.  Not sure if they do have peach margaritas but went with it anyway and the lime was covered off with the image.  Matted onto cream cardstock and then also layered up the peach and lime cardstock so I could play along in the first challenge at Back to Basics and Beyond.  Gotta say I love my layering and matting!

I didn’t have any embellies that I thought really suited so I made my own epoxy sticker by printing off a lime image and covering it in Glossy Accents.  To finish off the card I traced over the words and lines of the stamp in black mostly because I forgot to mask and do that when I was stamping.

Ingredients:

Chalks & Powders etc

Tim Holtz Distress Stickles Dry Glitter ~ Clear Rock Candy

Embellishments

Tim Holtz Idea-ology Paperie ~ Small Talk Snarky

Inks & Paints etc

Copic Multiliner ~ Black 0.5

Derwent Watercolour Pencils ~ 6 Deep Cadmium, 14 Deep Vermillion, 45 Mineral Green & 47 Grass Green

Kuretake Gansai Tambi Watercolors ~ No 50 Pale Aqua & No 51 May Green

Ranger ~ Glossy Accents

Simon Says Stamp! Ink ~ Barely Beige

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Dried Marigold, Squeezed Lemonade, Tumbled Glass & Twisted Citron

Papers

Bazzill Card Shoppe Cardstock ~ Marshmallow

Bazzill Smoothie Cardstock ~ Apple Crush

Stampin’ Up! Cardstock ~ Peekaboo Peach & Very Vanilla

Stamps

Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Collection ~ CMS335 Cocktails Blueprint

Challenges

Back to Basics and Beyond #1 ~ Matting and Layering

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…I think that perhaps it’s the gin

Sharing a card for an adult birthday featuring one of Tim’s new stamps from the Cocktails Blueprint set.

Used the current sketch at Feeling Sketchy for my layout, using the martini stamp for the main element.  As this card is going out to a guy I went with the martini, most manly of the drinks in the Cocktails set, thinking maybe I really need to get the beer and wine set too ~ does the crafty wish list ever get any shorter?!  I also limited the embellies to the celebrate chippie from Make it Crafty, all time fav chippies, and a few enamel dots.

Having kept this card CAS means I can link it up at Papercraft Challenges.  It also means it is flat (the Make it Crafty chippies ship regular post, another bonus) and easily goes in a regular envelope so I’m also good for the birthday party over at Cards in Envy.

And because CAS doesn’t have a ‘b’ for boring in it I’ve gone a bit fancy with my stamping and colouring of the martini.  I didn’t stamp on the card base but rather on vellum, which also helps the glass to look well, more glasslike.  Also stamped in embossing ink and used white embossing powder for a different look and apart from a bit of fussy cutting this was uber quick as hardly any colouring in a regular martini.

Ingredients:

Chalks & Powders etc

Ranger Embossing Powder ~ Clear Super Fine Detail

WOW! Embossing Powder ~ Opaque Bright White Super Fine

Embellishments

Make it Crafty Chipboard Single Layered Words ~ 3'' Celebrate

Stampin’ Up! Enamel Dots ~ Halloween Night

Inks & Paints etc

Tim Holtz Distress Crayons ~ Crushed Olive & Tumbled Glass

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Embossing

Papers

Bazzill Card Shoppe Cardstock ~ Marshmallow

Bazzill Smoothie Cardstock ~ Blackberry Swirl & Forest

Bazzill Vellum ~ White

Stamps

Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Collection ~ CMS335 Cocktails Blueprint

Challenges

Cards in Envy ~ It’s Birthday Party Time!

Feeling Sketchy ~ Sketch #191

Papercraft #10 ~ Clean and Simple

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