Daffodils in a Teapot

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It's time for a new challenge from Time4Scrap and the theme is "Be Mine".  The sponsors are Beccy's Place and Dilly Beans.

 I've gone more of an un-traditional route and chosen the Daffodils in a Teapot digi image from Beccy's Place.  Copic markers were used to color this image and a Spica glitten pen was used for some highlights.

I decided to create my background using the wax paper resist technique.  But instead of crumpling up the wax paper, I die cut a piece of wax paper with the Quatrefoil cutting plate by Taylored Expressions.  Before ironing, I brayered Distress Ink (Antique Linen) onto one of the pieces of glossy card and left the other white.  Next I ironed the die cut wax paper and then added more Distress Ink (Dusty Concord) with a brayer to the cardstock covered with Antique Linen.


For the sentiment, I stamped the heart using a Unity Stamp rubber stamp with Squeezed Lemonade and stamped directly on top of the heart my sentiment from CC Designs with Dusty Concord and heat embossed with Clear embossing powder.  After fussy cutting it out, I pop dotted it onto my background.

Be sure to visit the blog and check out what the rest of the team has created.  You have two weeks to upload your project.

Space Family Portrait

Can you believe it's already time for a new release from Die-Versions?  The days are just whizzing by.  This release is all about Boys, Boys, Boys.

I'm debuting two of the new dies with this Space Family portrait (right now I have the Jetson's theme running through my head :-).....meet George  Jetson and his lovely wife, Jane.  His boy Elroy....)  So, seated in his comfy chair is the new Whispers Super Robot and on the left is the Sweet Petites Baby Bot.  Both of these die cuts are made from a soda can and the Die-Versions dies cut this thin metal with ease!

On the right is his "wife", Spacey, a digi image from Mayzy Arts.  She's been all dolled up with Copic markers and Spica glitter pen.  The rest of the cozy setting is a rubber stamp from CC Designs.  I've paper pieced the chair and the lamp shade and added a bit of glitter.  As you can see with the photo on the right, there is also lots of dimension.  The sentiment is a rubber stamp from Unity Stamps.  Glossy Accents was added for more shimmer.

Be sure to visit the Die-Versions Blog for more great projects using these new dies designed around boys, plus some more great Express Edges too.

Back to School

School is in session in most places.  We've been back at school since the first week of August.  For this card, the blackboard is a free digital stamp from KLM Digi Stamps and the little boy perched on top is by CC Designs Take A Seat Sugarplums set.  Everything is colored with Copics.

I colored and then cut out each design and then adhered them to my card base.  It took longer than I initially thought to color the blackboard because there are so many layers of C4 and C6, each making the image slightly darker.  But I like the end result - it looks like a blackboard to me (although I think a lot of schools now use white dry erase boards - oh well). 

This week's challenge at Stamp Something weekly challenge blog is back to school.  Go on over, there's still time to play.

Meow means I Love You

The image and sayings are from a C.C. Designs rubber stamp set called HR Designs Milo and Greta.  I used my Copic markers to color my kitty (one of my cat's was the model for this kitty).   The yellow cardstock was run through the Fiskars Heart texture plate and adhered to my base.  Alcohol inks created the small strip that the saying is tucked under.  (Use glossy cardstock, drop a few drops of alcohol ink onto your surface, and pounce to your hearts' content.)  And as all you cat lovers know, "meow" does mean "I love you".