I love watching birds in all seasons, but it's especially fun in summer when I can sit on the deck with my cup of coffee only a few feet away from the feeders. Reminded me of this beautiful Impression Obsession stamp, Nest Collage, so made one more card for the IO challenge, Summer Fun. I began with a piece of watercolor paper & the smooching technique using pink, green & gold Gelatos--love the soft effect. I also added some splatters with the gold. I stamped with Adirondack Meadow Green. The sentiment is also IO, C5171, & is stamped in Versafine Vintage Sepia. Colored some pearls with a Copic, mounted my layers & finished just in time as the challenge is about to close.
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I'm also entering at City Crafter Challenge Blog where Smooching & Splattering are 2 of the choices. I used scraps for everything but the actual card, so will enter at Pixies Snippets Playground. I won't be in the prize draw as it's the wonderful Spellbinder I just bought & used for THIS card. Thanks for stopping by.
My brother-in-law is about to have a birthday. He loves the outdoors, so thought I'd use this beautiful stamp by ODBD for his card this year. Found the perfect gift for him when we were at the coast--a really neat fish windsock! The current ODBD challenge is sponging or stencils. As you can see, I went back to one of my favorite techniques--emboss resist. The image was black embossed & then I sponged on Distress Ink salty ocean, mowed lawn & pumice stone, using the new mini tool that I bought with a coupon weeks ago. I hand cut the image a bit smaller than the blue mat which was cut with Spellbinders Curved Rectangle. The edges of the sponged image & sentiment (also ODBD) panels are black embossed. Now I'm wishing the water splotches were smaller--next time--LOL! Finally opened my bottle of Goosebumps texture spray & used it on the scene--really a nice effect in person. The card front has stitching from Lil' Inkers & is embossed with a Tim Holtz folder. SSS Wed is Anything Goes, so I'll enter there. Since only the card itself was cut from a whole piece of cardstock, I'll take this over to Pixies Snippets Playground. SSS Work it Wed theme is to use blue, so I'll add my card there. Hard to believe it's already August, although our weather has felt like August for weeks--LOL! Thanks for your visit which I always appreciate.
We need the rain & it came. Fortunately hubby's jacket covers me to the knees & Fritz has his custom raincoat made by my talented sister. We've had rain alternating with sun all day. I'm always amazed at how some trees are completely bare while others still have nearly all their leaves. Thought you might enjoy these pictures.
I know you're busy, so here's my card using Memory Box Prim Poppy die, Paper Smooches free digi sentiment & Dots & Dashes die. Love the smooth DCWV glitter cardstock--all beautiful colors & here I used the gold. I'm entering Memory Box Challenge #6 (Glitter), Paper Smooches (Gold), Share Joy Challenge (Tic Tac Toe Thank You, Flowers, Ribbon), CAS-ual Chic (Precious Metals), Dies R Us (Thankful) & The Playground (Use Snippets).
