Crafts on the Run

Sunday, February 8, 2015

Heck, coloring on Kraft is hard! Tried my Inktense but the water tore up the Kraft paper, couldn't use my Copics so had to try my Polychromos. Those worked well but I am very inexperienced with them. I cheated on the ice cream and used Copic opaque white and Perfect Pearls for the sprinkles. The hardest part was actually seeing what I was doing on the Kraft paper. I couldn't even see the little bits of white embossing that clung to the paper ( yes I did use antistatic powder). Frenchie Claudine is such a cute digi image and perfect for this challenge.

Saturday, January 3, 2015

Gorgeous Flowers Blooming just for you!

Happy New Year! We hope you have had a wonderful time over the holidays and wish you an amazing 2015!

Today we are excited to be sharing a new release of beautifully illustrated flower stamps from Make it Crafty. They are intricate and delicate with lots of detail and are the perfect choice for many occasions.

These gorgeous new flowers are available in both digital and rubber and the rubber stamps also come with a hand written sentiment, which of course you could use between all the different flowers.

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I am so happy to be participating in Make it Crafty's January Blog Hop. The two stamps that I am using are Birthday Daisies and Roses of Love.

I stamped PTI's Stone cardstock with MFT'S wood plank background stamp using MFT Grout Gray hybrid ink. Over that I stamped MIC's new Birthday Daisies using MFT'S hybrid Licorice Black.
For the colored panel I stamped Neenah Solar white in MFT'S Grout Gray to create a very soft image. The image was colored with my new Faber Castell Polychromos. These are an ink based pencil and I love how smooth they go on the paper and how well they blend without a build up of wax.
I then attached the ribbon from my stash to the back of the image and attached it with dimensional tape.

For the Roses of Love I wanted to try a watercolor resist so I stamped with Versamark and embossed with clear embossing powder. I watercolored with with Kuretake watercolors and then tried the hot iron technique to remove the embossing. It almost worked, you can't feel the raised embossing but you can still see a little shimmer of it on the image. I then took Simon Says Stamps Stitched Square dies and placed three together on the image and ran it through my big shot but kept them attached to each other with washi on the back side. I matted with a piece of Bazzill gold metallic paper onto PTI 120 lb white cardstock and embossed the sentiment from the stamp in Filigree gold embossing powder.