My Favorite Things

 

Good Morning  and Happy Sunday.

I am on the blog today sharing with you a cute little Halloween style card. I am playing off the colours for our very first challenge that is still going on till Nov 1 over on our  Scrap’n Stamp facebook Challenge  page so please come on over and play along.  For my card I pulled out a stamp set I have been longing to use but had not had the chance to. The cute little Magical Day set From My Favourite Things.

It all started off with the black layer of the background. I was literally just playing around to see how well the Oxides inks would stand out on it.  To my happy surprise I really liked the look, so I went with it.  I mushed the ink on to my Glass Media Matt and dragged the black card stock through the ink. I didn’t use water as the card stock wasn’t  going to hold up well wet.  I also ended up pulling out my Fine Tech paints and splattered some orange and purple just to make things stand out a little more.

Once I was happy with the background I set it aside to dry and went on to stamp my images. I decided to stamp the bear and his little bunny using Versa Fine Black Onyx ink and then go over it with clear embossing powder.  I knew I wanted to watercolor the image in and this made it easier to contain the movement of the ink.  From there it was time to color, so I pulled out my Zig Clean Colour real brush makers, a paint brush and some water and went to town.

Once I was done with the images I set them aside to dry and went back to my background panel.  It felt a little plain so I  thought I would add some texture and interest using my stencil and some texture paste.  I mixed in some glow in the dark embossing powder to the paste and stenciled it over. I then added more of the embossing powder once I removed the stencil as I wanted to make sure it would really glow in the dark.

Now it was time to figure out the rest of the design for the card. I went through my stash of backgrounds, paper and dies to see what I wanted to create.

I decided to pull out more of the Alcohol ink background panels I had previously made and incorporate it into this card. ( Really hitting the PURPLE GREEN AND ORANGE colour challenge here)   I die cute some vellum using my stitched circle dies, as well as the ‘believe’ sentiment die which I cut out three times Gemini so I could layer it for more dimension.

The card itself is a bit bigger then an A2 but not by much. It measures 4½ x 5½. I cut down and layered the alcohol ink panel on to some mirror card stock that measures 4 1/8 x5 1/8 , I also layered the black distressed panel on to the same purple mirror card stock which measured 3 3/8 x 5 5/8 

I stamped and die cut a black banner using the MFT Die Stitched Banners and heat embossed in white embossing powder. I popped all the layers up to give some extra dimension and interest. For the vellum circle I went over it with Nuvo Aqua Shimmer brush as I wanted give it that magical look. I also went over the “Believe” sentiment.  In person this is very very sparkly 🙂  For finishing touches on the front of the card I added some sparkling clear sequins.

I also decided to finish off the inside of the card. I pulled out the same starry stencil from Tim Holtz and my Distress Oxides and added some detail all around as well I stamped the little bear again using a light gray ink with a coordinating sentiment from the stamp.

 

Sorry for the long winded nature of this post I try so hard to keep it short but fail each time lol..

I hope you found some inspiration and that you come on over the facebook page and share your creations with us.

Have a wonderful Sunday and a beautiful week ahead.

Nancy