Pen and Paperie: Impression Obsession

Monday, 10 June 2019

…fuerte y formal

Sharing a card I made for a colleague who is turning 60 featuring a great sentiment stamp from Impression Obsession called Another Day.

I love this stamp for milestone birthdays post 50 and it’s also perfect for both men and women. In this case, the gentleman in question hosted a country and western themed party for his birthday over the weekend so that gave me the perfect theme for my card. I couldn’t find a decent cowboy digi to colour so went with just printing a silhouette of a cowboy in the classic pose of dipping his hat instead.

I’ve based the top of my card on the current sketch at Moving Along With the Times but then turned my card into an easel to make it a little more special given the milestone age. I kept my colour scheme basic browns and found some awesome plaid designer paper in my Tim stash. I did the thin rectangular element as a few rows of string so I could play along at Southern Girls and as a nod to a cowboy’s lasso. Again, my Tim stash came up with the perfect combo of brown and red to match my plaid and add another dash of colour.

To add in my sentiment, I put down four layers of UTEE and then stamped directly into the still melted UTEE in gold ink. Love this technique and I think it works well with my theme bringing to mind branding and also carved ranch name plates. I used some Tim fasteners that look like screws in the corner to further suggest a board hanging over the entrance of a ranch.

I then did a 60 in the same technique for the base of the card, using numerals from Tim’s Merchant stamp set. This time I cut the base using a die in a shape that reminded me of a fancy belt buckle, like the ones you see cowboys wear in the Westerns. My traditional happy birthday sentiment is a fab chippie from Make it Crafty that I embossed in gold.

Over at Kitty B Aloha Friday they are looking for cards for guys, which this masculine themed card certainly is, so I am linking it up there too.

Ingredients:

Chalks & Powders etc

Ranger Ultra Thick Embossing Enamel ~ Black & Clear

WOW! Embossing Powder ~ Metallic Gold Rich Ultra High

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Spellbinders Nestabilities ~ S4-31 Labels Eighteen

Embellishments

Make it Crafty Chipboard Single Layered Words ~ 3¾" Birthday & 2" Happy

Tim Holtz Idea-ology Fasteners ~ Mini Fasteners

Inks & Paints etc

Tsukineko Encore! ~ Gold

Tsukineko ~ VersaMark

Papers

Bazzill Card Shoppe Cardstock ~ Marshmallow

Bazzill Smoothie Cardstock ~ Maltball

Core’dinations Cardstock ~ Kraft

Ribbons & Trims etc

Tim Holtz Idea-ology Trimmings ~ Naturals, Red / Cream

Stamps

Impression Obsession ~ IO-D14693 Another Day

Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Collection ~ CMS331 Merchant

Challenges

Kitty B Aloha Friday #144 ~ Cards for Guys

Moving Along With the Times #99 ~ Follow a Sketch

Southern Girls ~ Tape it, Lace It or Tie It

Thanks for stopping by!

Saturday, 14 February 2015

But dying without her vain were life of mine…

The card I’m sharing features a new image from Simply B Stamps, Miller Arabian Knight, that I did up as a Valentine’s card.

To make up my card I followed the current sketch over at Feeling Sketchy. I’m trying to keep to my resolution of using my dies more (OK for some just using them for the first time!) so swapped out the thin element for a lovely swirly heart die. I added a plain clay heart in the centre of the die cut heart for some added interest and depth. I did leave out the bow element as I couldn’t really think of something that would suit my image and I figured the swirly die was enough embellishment.

Over at Country View Challenges they are running a drips and drops challenge and one of the DT, Brenda of Bumblebees and Butterflies, did an awesome project up with a fab background I just loved. So I hopped on over to her blog and used her technique of an acrylic block, Distress Ink and water to create mine. I ended up with a bit of white space so I grabbed a Distress Stain and spritzed it over. Brenda had a few more elements to her background but I was sure I’d bugger it all up if I tried to do any more so just stuck with this simple two steps and I must say I am very happy with the result.

As I have a couple of hearts on this I am also entering it in the current challenge over at Die Basteltanten.

Ingredients:

Copics

Skin E000, E00, E11, E21 (E02 cheeks)

Eyes E30, E31, E37

Lips E13

Hair E21, E23, E25, E27, E29

Outfit B00, B02, B04, B06, C00, E30, E31, E33, E35, E37, N0, N1, N2, 0

Sword B00, B02, B04, C0, C2, C4, Y21, Y23, Y26, Y28, 0

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Impression Obsession ~ Heart Flourish

Spellbinders Nestabilities ~ Deckled Rectangles