Birthday Splash!

Yesterday I worked on some birthday cards and this is one I came up with that went together really quick and easy with the use of bingo daubers and an old ink cleaner bottle with yellow food coloring water in it, I used them for making a background. If one bounces the dauber really hard it will splash spatters of ink for a neat look.

Then my next mission was to add the sentiment which is from the Gina K. Designs Stamp It Big set. I popped up the birthday portion of the sentiment over where I had added the hanging presents image which is from the Gina K. Designs Happy Birthday To You set.  I found Spectrum Noir Aqua markers which were nearly the same shade as some of the inks and used them to color the presents. After that I layered this panel to Gina K. Designs Blue Raspberry card stock which matched the ink in the sentiment. My final step in the creation of this card was to add the ribbon bow.

Our weather is changing and we are getting back to more normal winter temperatures for us. So far it is not too bad but the wind is picking up. South of us they are supposed to get lots of snow too, but the weather map did not show us getting nearly as much if any!

Well, have a nice day everyone!

God bless,
Verna

Bingo Dauber Splat!

A few days ago I had so much fun making splats with various forms of inks and methods. So while I was recuperating I remembered I had bingo daubers and thought perhaps if I slapped them on the card stock really hard they might make a splat! Well, guess what? It worked. I was really pleased with the splats I created.

However, not all daubers are the same. I had two of the same name brand but for the life of me I could not get them to splat. I own four of them so only my red and green worked. I even turned the others upside down overnight thinking the dauber needed to be juicier with the ink but still it did not work. I purchased them years ago at a dollar store in our local town. I have not seen any since! But never fear I will make use of all of them for a quick and easy background.

I used sentiments from the Gina K. Designs Stamp It Big set by Carolyn King. This is actually two sentiments and in that set you can combine them to make various different sayings. I like that!

Well, here in South Dakota it is a blustery day with snow earlier and now the winds. Oh, winter! You are growing weary for me! LOL

Well, thanks for looking and I hope your day is going great!

God bless,
Verna

Splat! I Have a Background!

I just had to join in the  Scrapy Land Challenge which advocates making your version of Splats! on a background or card design. And there is nothing more fun to me then getting out any inks, paints or other mediums to make a background. For this card I chose to use alcohol inks.

I chose to use dies from Cheery Lynn Designs for my card. And, I cut them all out in black card stock except for the angel wing die that goes under the butterfly and the center panel for the sentiment. The angel wing was cut from my Splats! background and then glued to the black overlay butterfly die. I popped the butterfly up to give the card more dimension.

Below I will show you my backgrounds I made before I finished them into a card design.

First of all I used white glossy card stock. The colors of alcohol inks I used to drop some splats were Andirondak Willow, Shell Pink and Cloudy Blue. I just dropped the inks randomly and watched the magic begin.

The dies from Cheery Lynn Designs I used were FRM132 French Lattice Small Frame, DL 156 Small Lace Butterfly with Angel Wing, and an older die of Cheery Lynn Designs which I have used over and over to get perfect layers called ST 014 Card Maker's Stacker's Nesting Dies. That was how I die cut the rectangles for the sentiment and the black layer.

I chose to use a complimentary light blue card stock for the base card and also for the rectangle where the sentiment from I Brake For Stamps was stamped in Gina K. Designs Black dye ink.

And, of course, this is my usual style of a more clean and simple look for a card. Good thing I restricted my die cutting to a few only a day as my arm and shoulder still bother me some. But I find it so fun and love to see how the dies one uses really make a beautiful addition to a card.

I am also entering this in the Cheery Lynn Blog Challenge to make a card that is not square. I think this qualifies since it is rectangle.

Thanks for looking and I hope your week has been going fantastically!

God bless,
Verna