Birthday Numbers

A card today for CAS-ual Fridays Count Me In Challenge which is to use numbers on your project.

I finally was able to get inky with some Distress Paints.  I really love how these paints mix with each other and create wonderful marbled paper.  I used some of that marbled paper for the background of the hexagons.

I used Salty Ocean, Broken China, Mustard Seed and Picket Fence.  No green paint but love all the green shades that developed from the mixing of the blues and yellow.

I popped everything onto black glossy card stock that I flicked with some of the Salty Ocean Distress Paint. A perfect card for a teenage boy, I think.

I'm also entering this card over at Moxie Fab World's Birthday Card Challenge.

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Make Your Mark

Another challenge has gone up at CAS-ual Fridays and this week you need to use a marker on your project.

I swiped some Distress Markers across watercolour paper and blended them with water for a loose, kind of care-free backdrop for the funky leaf from the Fronds set at Impression Obsession.

 

I used Spica Glitter Pens and Stardust Pens to colour some of the little circles on the leaf and I pulled out my Crop-a-Dile to add eyelets.  Am I the only one who has a huge stash of eyelets that rarely get used?  I think they may be passé.

 

A friend suggested I should enter this for the Make Your Own Background Paper Challenge in the Moxie Fab World and so I am.

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The Long and Short

That's the name of this weeks challenge over at CAS-ual Fridays.  The card must have a long side and a short side, no A2 cards this time around.

I used some old maps to die cut the hearts and made a little window for the sentiment.  Since Moxie Fab World is having a window challenge right now I'm entering it over there as well.

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Leaves

I like this time of year, it lets me indulge in one of my favourite obsessions...leaves. In particular, fall leaves in all their glorious colour.  I could spend hours inking up leaf stamps with Distress Inks, spritzing them with water and stamping them on watercolour paper and that's pretty much what I did yesterday.

With so many inky leaves I just had to make another card.

 But I made a couple of small changes in the second design.

Well it seemed only right to add another one into the mix.

Then I thought a fourth card would make this a great gift set and I forced myself to stop there  : )  but I could have made more...

What I love about this is that no two leaves are ever the same just like in nature...sigh.

Each card is a little different from the others.  Some have distressing, one has deckled edges, the brads and sentiments vary but they all have sparkly Glitter Ritz strips which are just so pretty.  I wish it showed up better in the photos.

I'm entering these cards over at the Hero Arts September Challenge and over at Moxie Fab Worlds Repetition Challenge. There's still lots of time to enter a project for each challenge.

Wishing you an inky day!

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Embossing

I'm back with another card today and this one is focused on embossing, one of my fave techniques.

Embossing is a simple way to add texture and visual interest to a card like with the Woodgrain stamp I used on the background and for focal images like the swirly flowers.

There are a couple of challenges right now focused on embossing. One is at the CAS-ual Fridays blog.

The other is at A Blog Named Hero.

I think this also qualifies for Moxie Fabs Repetition Challenge and Simon Says Stamps Put A Stamp On It Challenge.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great weekend!

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