#YellowInApril - Playing with glitter liquid inks

Hello crafty friends, 
I have a process video for this card uploading to You Tube

 as I write up this post.   

On the video, I'm playing with some really saturated glitter liquid inks.  The ones in the bottles are by Brea Reese and the ones in the jars are by Spectrum Noir.  I have to spend more time playing with these inks to learn how to adjust their saturation while maintaining their glittery.  My initial attempts at blending colors wasn't as successful as I would have liked, but that's why practicing will be a good and fun thing.  

The stamp I used was the "Calla Lilies in Square" by Northwood Rubber Stamps.  The dies  were the Stitched Grassy Hill Edgers by Frantic Stamper and one of the Altenew layered Plaid cover dies as my trellis. 

Thanks for stopping bye.  Until next time, take care.

Craft Roulette #109 Card & Video

 Hi crafty friends... here's my submission to Craft Roulette Challenge, Episode #109 (46th consecutive):

When the wheel fell on calendar, I wasn't too worried, because I knew I had several calendar stamps and embellishments from my scrapbooking days.  Finding them was going to be the hard part, because it had been YEARS since I last used them.  I can't tell you the number of times I have tried to reorganized my stuff only to get frustrated and STOP.  I just can't handle the initial mess that it creates.   But I digress.  I finally found my stash of calendar stuff, before completely giving up the search and creating something digital in Elements, and I was good to go.

I pulled some older products... a backgound stamp by Hero Art and Basic Gray, a multi circle die by Spellbinders and some newer products... a birthday stamp set by Honey Bee (Happy BEEday) and a stencil by Heffy Doodle (Lots of Happy).

 Using the happy stencil, I distressed ink (mustard seed) my card front yellow.  I wanted the yellow stenciled background to be visible, but subdue, so I inked more mustard seed over the front card panel after removing the stencil.  Next I stamped my green calendar and blue background elements.  This is when I should have figured out where I wanted my bees and stamp them out.  Using the multi circle die, I die cut into the blue stamped background, aligning it so that certain parts were in some showed nicely in the circles.  I also used it to die cut my large calendar circle, the smaller one I added later, because I needed more green, so I fussy cut it.  I filled the circles with my stamped elements, but looking at the card now, It would have been nice to leave a couple of them open (showing the yellow stencil background).

  
Here's a link to the process video for this card.  

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Craft Roulette #108 Card & Video

  Hi crafty friends... here's my submission to Craft Roulette Challenge, Episode #108 (45th consecutive):

I didn't over complicate this card by adding tons of stuff to it.  I used two hot air balloons (Wplus9 Going Places) that I found in my stash already stamped, colored and die cut... they were ready to go, LOVE when that happens! I stamped a cloud background by Katzelkraft directly on my card front, because it wouldn't bleed though, so no need for a separate card panel.  Of note, the cloud background is unmounted, so I used the clear mount stamp from Purple Onion Designs to hold it for stamping.  I have both sizes of these clear mount stamps and love them. 

Here's a link to the process video for this card.  

Thanks for stopping bye.  Until next time, take care.

Craft Roulette #107 Card & Video

Hi crafty friends... here's my submission to Craft Roulette Challenge, Episode #107 (44th consecutive)

this card came together super fast. The image is digital from Lily of the Valley called "Telephone Ted".  Of course, I colored the phone in purples.  I used a purple pattern paper for the die cut frame and purple distressed oxide ink for the large stamped doily.   

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TOB - Apr2022 Mid Month Challenge

Hello crafty friends,

Welcome to this month's challenge reminder post.  Have you started working on a card/project?  If yes, GREAT!  If no, WHAT are you waiting for?  We want to see your Halloween creations.   Remember  the Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge, runs from the 2nd to the 28th of the month and the theme is always Halloween... ANYTHING related to Halloween!

Ok, just between us, I have to be honest and admit that I'm not happy with how this card turned out.  But still went with it, because not every make has to be a work of art.  This hobby is suppose to be fun and relaxing and a lot of us get stressed out about making everything we do prefect.  I'm here to tell you it's ok to just have fun with you crafts and still submit your projects to challenges like this one.  

For my card I used the winter fence line stamp from IO and the pumpkin patch die from IO.  I also used the largest of the stacked dome stitched dies by MFT and one of the stitched grassy hill edger dies by Frantic Stamper.  I aligned the tiny pumpkins along the fence post (took inspiration from one of the pictures below). 

Here's this month's mood board for additional inspiration... Hope to see your card/project soon. 

Challenge ends on the 28th, winner will be announced on the 1st on the month before the start on the new challenge.  For a full list of all the rules please visit Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge home page.  unit next time... take care.

Craft Roulette #106 Card & Video

 Hello crafty friends, 
     here's my submission to Craft Roulette Challenge, Episode #106 (43rd consecutive):

I figured most submissions where going to have birds on trees, so I didn't want to go in that direction.  While flipping through my bird bin I pulled out a couple of stamp sets with birds that had coffee cups in their hands, but when I came to this set the idea of color blocking popped into my head and I just had to run with it. 

I started by creating a grid on my card front, which leans nicely to the Dutch door parameter even though my "door" is on a slight angle.  I stamped the birds on a separate sheet of card stock and using alcohol markers colored certain parts of them using my  Red +2 colors of purple and blue.  I fussy cut my birds... tip:  don't worry about cutting around those tiny bird legs.  Before sticking them onto your card, stamp them in the spot you want them and then stick the fussy cut one over it.  The legs or any other tiny detail will show.  This works even if you use foam tape, which I did on my birds.

Once my birds were ready, I focus back on my card.  I inked blended each section, so that each bird would have an alternate color behind, but as you can see I messed up, because the red bird ended up in the red section.  Oh well, stuff happens and you move on.   Initially, I was only going to splatter water on the card, but with the black text in the birds and the grid lines, the card needed the black splatters.  I also sprayed the card with shimmer.  On the inside, I stamped the three feather stamps from the set in the three colors red, purple and blue. 

Here's a link to the process video for this card.  

Thanks for stopping bye.  Until next time, take care.

TOB - Apr2022 Challenge

Hello crafty friends,  welcome to a new month at the Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge, which runs from the 2nd to the 28th of the month and the theme is always Halloween... ANYTHING related to Halloween!

I took my inspiration from the umbrella pictured in this month's mood board.  I used two sheets of 5x7 recollections Halloween pattern paper and die cut them with an A2 stitched rectangle die, them using a paper trimmer and keeping the two sheets together, I cut the panels into "rays" sections.  This technique leaves you with enough pattern paper for two A2 card fronts.  I alternates the two patterns to get the look/design the umbrella had.  I added a stamped and die cut sentiment from Simon Says called Hand Lettered Halloween.  On the Right card I inked the die cut sentiment orange before stamping and the left card I left it white, but die cut a second one and used it as a shadow. 

Here's this month's mood board for additional inspiration... Hope to see your card soon. 

Challenge ends on the 28th, winner will be announced on the 1st on the month before the start on the new challenge.  For a full list of all the rules please visit Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge home page.  unit next time... take care.