Sparkly Hibiscus II

Two things I love, molding paste and watercolour, so I couldn't resist making more sparkly Hibiscus with my Designs by Ryn Hibiscus stencil, and the red glitter embossing paste. I was really excited by Ryn's Hummingbird stamps also. They are just perfect for using Twinkling H2O's on. I have lots of Twinks and I don't use them enough even though they make me happy. But now I have a Hummingbird stamp, and I think I'll be stamping and painting it on everything! I wish I could have gotten a better photo that showed the gorgeous twinkling blues and greens better. But today was just not a good photo day for me. I don't have the old Picasa 3 on the new laptop and I miss it a lot!!

The card looks a bit wonky because i had a bit of an accident with it. I think I can fix it though by putting something heavy on it.
The leaf stamps are by Ryn and I used Perfect Pearls and VersaMark ink to make those. The sentiment is from a die set by IO.
This is for the Design's By Ryn October Customer Challenge.

Simple Hibiscus

I have two postings today because I have two entries for Designs By Ryn's Customer Challenge. I was very excited to get my package from Ryn. It took me a quite a while to decide what I wanted her to send me, as I love EVERYTHING. I have three sheets of her stamps, and a couple more singles already, so I had my eye on her stencils. I decided on the Hibiscus and WOW!! It is lovely.

For this card I just used one of the beautiful Hibiscus images, and put Molding Paste thru it. I have a big jar of Judykins red glitter embossing powder that I've never used, and decided this was the time!
I started by sprinkling gold EP on the flower's stamen, and then tapping off the excess away from the rest of the flower. Then I added the red sparkle EP,and finally a light metallic green. I waited a while and then set it with the heat gun. I love the simplicity of this card with just that sparkly flower.

Blue Jays and Birches

Just another super quick card for the Impression Obsession Fall Birthdays Challenge. Two in one day! Puppy is having a very long nap, so I had a bit of time.

I had been out with the Blue Jays. This time of the year they follow me around the yard for peanuts, and they knock on the patio door for me to go out and feed them. So they became the inspiration for this very simple card which used up the last of the metallic paper I made. I used some chalk to dirty up the Birches so they look more like mine. I wanted to use a "Happy Birthday" stamp, but it must be buried on my desk, and I'm still avoiding that !! So I used an IO clear stamp, one I use A LOT. Just love that sentiment. I don't think I've used any other stamps from that set, but that one makes it worthwhile. I'd love to be able to play with paint and more stamps, stencils, mediums etc., but until the puppy is older, simple is about all I can manage!

IO stamp set CL227
IO dies DIE022-U
IO dies DIE079-U

Mixed Metallic Powders

This is a very simple card I made using Impression Obsession Sentiment dies (DIE174-W), and small leaf dies (DIE095-D). I started by drawing a couple of curvy lines on my front panel with pencil, and then cut the leaves out, staying within the shape I wanted. I then took a piece of card stock and covered it with Versamark ink. I sprinkled a bunch of metallic embossing powders on the the cardstock, one at a time until it was covered, and then heated it. I love mixing embossing powders, it's been a favorite technique since I started papercrafting. I cut two strips of the mixed metallic paper for the top and bottom of my card, and cut out all the leaves I'd need to fill in all the ones I had cut out, and also the sentiment. I put tape on the back of the card front to hold all the inlaid pieces, glued the sentiment on , and attached the front to the card base. Super easy, super simple, but those leaves are gorgeous in person. one of the embossing powders I used was a gold glitter, and it adds just that right amount of subtle sparkle, allowing this card to be suitable for either gender.

I am entering this in the IO Challenge : Fall Birthdays
http://mitrafriant.typepad.com/impression_obsession_news/2016/10/new-impression-obsession-challenge-fall-birthdays.html