Stampin' In Alaska

  I'm so excited to share my first design team project for Pajama Crafter Stamps! For today's card we'll be combining ink blending, stenciling and wobbler action for a fun underwater scene. Stenciling and Ink Blending I began by creating the blended background with various blue distress inks.  Then layered with a sunray stencil from my stash and inked with a darker blue distress ink.  I like to create my scene first which helps me to decide where to place both the focal image and sentiment. Stamping and Cutting The fish image from Mother Puffer stamp set was stamped, ink blended and fussy cut.  A mini wobbler was adhered for the swimming action. Pro Tip:   To make the most of my stamps, I used the shore image from Adventure Awaits  stamp set for the ocean floor by simply cutting out the ocean waves from the polymer stamp.   The image easily realigns on my stamping platform if I want to use it for the original design. Pajama Crafter Stamps Pr...

  I'm joining the current Art Impressions Challenge - Feeling Blue.  We are using the color blue on our project.  What a better way to use various blues that a water scene!   My card features the Art Impressions Submarine Cubbies set.  This set includes several water creatures, a submarine, sentiments and coordinating die cuts. I used several inky techniques on this card.  I started by ink blending the cloudy sky with a cloud die template and Stormy Sky distress ink.  The various water critters were ink smooshed using Stormy Sky and Blue Print distress inks.  I pulled a Gelli Print from my stash for the "water" panel.  Of course, the submarine was stamped onto gray card stock and die cut then cropped to peek onto the panel.  I finished with a sentiment from My Favorite Things. I would like to share my card with the following: Art Impressions Challenge #359 Feeling Blue Simon Says Stamp Wednesday:  Stamp It!   Polkadoodles...

  I'm joining the current challenge at Art Impressions with the adorable Submarine Cubbies set.  The current challenge is to create both the inside and front of your card.   For ease of photographing, I did not mount the inside of my card immediately.  The left image is the card itself (front) and the right image is the inside panel. My card front started with a MFT sunray stencil and blue cardstock from Stampin' Up!  The submarine and ocean critters were die cut, colored and layered onto the stenciled panel.  A fun ocean floor scene from Impression Obsession was stamped on the bottom edge.  A wave stencil from MFT was used on the inside panel.  A couple of ocean critters from the Submarine Cubbies set were combined with seaweed, silhouette fish and rock from MFT to create the inside scene. I would like to share my card with the following: Art Impressions - Inside Out Challenge #347 PIP Challenge #2312 Anything Goes Simon Says Stamps Monday...

  I'm joining the current Art Impressions Challenge with a shaped rocker card.  My card features the adorable Submarine Cubbies set.  This set comes with both stamps and matching dies.   I started by stamping the submarine onto grey cardstock then die cutting.  All of the sea critters in the set were stamped onto water color paper, colored with Tombow markers then die cut.  I managed to include all of the sea critters (save one fish) on my card.  The rocker piece was made with a 5 inch circle die from Pink and main.  Designer paper and wave dies from MFT were added then the submarine was attached with all of the fun sea creatures.  Stickles was added to the waves for dimension. I would like to share my card with the following: Art Impressions Challenge #318 Get In Shape Word Art Wednesday: Week #525 - 526 Anything Goes Challenge Colour Crazy Craft Challenge: Wk #2 Anything Goes Polkadoodles Craft Challenge:  Wk #3 Anything Goes Simon S...