Choose To Shine Liquid Pearls Card

Hello All! Thanks for stopping by and visiting, especially today on my birthday, and Earth Day! Whoop whoop!!! I have the first of two cards that were in the Ranger booth at Creativation this year, highlighting Liquid Pearls, a fav product of mine that really ups the level and flair of a project. Hope you like it! 

I spread a thin layer of Rose Gold Liquid Pearls onto Mixed Media Cardstock with a palette knife, and let that dry. I embossed it with the Latticework Texture Fade from Tim Holtz and Sizzix. I inked the edges of the girl with Vintage Photo Distress Ink, and then used a detailed waterbrush and Rose Gold Liquid Pearls to wash over her hat, dress, and ballet shoes. I also inked over the Crinkle Ribbon with Vintage Photo and misted water on it, and crinkled it up to dry. I ran Tarnished Brass Distress Paint around the edges of the Quote Chip.

I rubbed the Black Soot Archival Pad over the raised portions of the card that I embossed, and let that dry. I mounted the card onto the Rose Gold Cardstock and then onto a Kraft card base. I filled in portions of the embossed card with Onyx, Pewter, and Gold Pearl Liquid Pearls. Once dried, I adhered the girl on, and affixed the ribbon. I added the Quote Chip last.

 Thanks for all the commenting on my sample cards...I appreciate all of you so very much! Mwah!

 Supplies:

Ranger MIXED MEDIA CARDSTOCK	Ranger Liquid Pearls in Rose Gold	Ranger ONYX PEARL Liquid Pearls Pearlescent Paint	Ranger Liquid Pearls in Pewter	Ranger Liquid Pearls in Gold Pearl
Ranger Palette Knife set	Sizzix Tim Holtz Textured Fade in Latticework	Ranger Tim Holtz Archival Ink Reinker in Black Soot	Ranger DIY Archival Ink Pad	Tim Holtz Core dinations Kraft core Metallic
Ranger 8.5 x 11 Kraft Cardstock	Ranger Adhesive Strips	Idea-ology Paper Dolls	Tim Holtz Distress Mini ink pad Vintage Photo	MINI ROUND INK BLENDING TOOLS
Tim Holtz - Water Brush Detailer	Tim-Holtz-Idea-ology-QUOTE-CHIPS	Tarnished Brass - Distress Paint	Tim Holtz Idea-ology Crinkle Ribbon	Ranger adhesive foam white

I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon!

New Holiday Collection Stamps - April

Hello crafters! Here are some samples from my new Holiday Collection Stamp Series, for the month of April, from WeCraft. I just received the stamps, so I'm sorry they are too late for Easter for this year, but you can keep them in mind for next, or use them for Spring. The April, May, and June sets are available now in select stores in Texas, and online at WeCraft.  I sure had fun doing Easter cards again...lol! I hope you all like them, and a big thanks again for all the support and encouragement on this new endeavor. I'm learning as I go...from drawing the images, scanning them, coloring them, and then having them produced, it's takes a lot more time than I thought it would...so much goes into it all. I'm just so thankful for all of it!

April Set - 9 Images

All the samples are made with Tim Holtz Distress Mixed Media Heavystock, Metallic Cardstock, Archival Inks, Distress Inks, Distress Markers,  Cotton Thread, and Kraft Cardstock from Ranger, and all stamped with Tim's Stamping Platform. For the Rejoice card, I stamped the lillies three times in Black Soot Archival, watercolored them in with Distress Inks, and added dots to the stamens with Wendy Vecchi Enamel Accents. The background is more Distress Ink, and followed by a light misting of Wendy's Buttercup Mica Spray. 

This was such fun to make. After stamping in Archival, I watercolored the peeps in with Distress Ink, and then covered with Frosted Lace Stickles...perfect for the peeps look I think. I added more Enamel Accents to the eyes and noses.

I die cut the heavystock with the smallest oval from Tim's Sized Ovals Movers & Shapers from Sizzix, and stamped the images on them so they look like decorated eggs. I watercolored them all, and added the grass die cut from the Tapered Fringe Strip Die. After watercoloring the eggs, I sealed them with Distress Micro Glaze, and then flicked the spots on them, and added a mist of Mica Spray. 

I stamped the Rejoice word all over the background using Watermark Resist. I die cut the gold cardstock with the Stacked Baroque Thinlet, and then embossed with the Star Bright Texture Fade. I highlighted the stars with Walnut Stain Archival. The eggs were made just like the above card.

 

 

Here are the May and June sets.

Thanks for stopping by everyone. I'm off to finish up the rest of the samples for May and June.

I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon!