June ATC's Received

I always love a happy mail day! I have received my June ATC's from the Creative Block Stamper's Anonymous Yahoo Group and the All Things Tim Yahoo Group. 

Creative Block Stamper's Anonymous: Use A Different Stamp On Each ATC

Susan Salyer (Gorgeous striations of color...so vibrant, and love the embellie!)

Brandy Wickham (Love that blinged up bow tie...great texture!)

Cynthia Estes (Talk about hardware...so cool....WOW!)

And, here are my three again.

 

All Things Tim: The Beach

Jocelyn Cazier (WOW....embellishment city...love this texture...AWESOME!)

Stephen Jew (The covering on this is AMAZING and so impressive...really looks like the fish is underwater...WOW!)

Chris Rickert (Oh my word...this is so STUNNING...every little detail...WOW!)

Claudine Criner (This ATC is so fun...love those waves...COOL!)

And here is mine again.

  I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon, and then trade your wares!!!

Navy, Pink, & Yellow

Sharon Wheet of  Designs By Sharon, is hosting again at Our Creative Corner this week. Sharon wants to see "Navy, Pink, and Another Color (you decide)". Create a paper craft item and use the challenge colors of navy and pink, and then you pick the missing color...any color...maybe kraft, yellow, gray, etc. Neutrals like black, white, cream, or brown do not count as your extra color. Here is an Inspirational Photo Collage to help you out.

The Design Team has made some very gorgeous projects for you to gain inspiration from. Please check them out.

Linda Coughlin- The Funkie Junkie

Vicki Burdick- It's a Stamp Thing

Sue Butler- Scrumplescrunch

Ann Marie Hile- Stampin' Anne

Wendy Janson-  It's All About Stamping

Marcy Kaminski - En Papillote Arts

Holly Kean- Kean On Paper

Irena Kowalczyk (aka Rudlis) - Love, Life and Crafts

Meihsia Liu- Simply Paper Crafts

Tui Nathan- Stampin Time

Lori Rider- The Diva Stamper

Kristin Tierney- Lilly Beth Boutique

Sharon Wheet- Designs by Sharon

I decided to do a little cleaning out, and discovered some papers I had that I have always wanted to use. I wish I knew the name of the embossing one. If anyone knows please drop me a message. I thought yellow was a good color to compliment the navy and pink, but I HAVE to say, I do not like this finished card at all. It just did not appeal to me after I added the pink.  It's strange that you can create something out of your own mind with your own hands and not like it.

I added 2 yellows and 2 blues to my craft sheet and spritzed with water.

I placed my paper in the ink a few times and had some left over, so I added a tag as well. I added some more Distress Ink with an ink blending tool to really heighten the yellows and blues. The tag was dipped a few times more than the card so the inks mixed a little to create green. I tried to prevent that from happening on the card. I loved both of these so far.

I saved a piece of junk mail because it had a nice weight to it and it happened to be navy. I used it to frame out the card. I still liked everything so far, but that was about to change.

I had some mini Prima Flowers, but they were the wrong color so I gave them a spritz of pink. These came out lovely. I love this homemade paper from Prima as well. The texture is wonderful. So both of the pink items I love...just not with my navy and yellow. I tried to add in more yellow in hopes I would like it, but still no.

Supplies:
From My Stash- embossed resist paper, Prima Flowers Homemade Paper, yellow cardstock, recycled advertisement card, thank you charm


I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon!