Made Especially For You, Distress Ink!

This week's challenge at Made Especially For You is to make a card using Distress Inks. I chose to use my Yoshimi stamp from Sister Stamps. I die cut a piece of white card stock and stamped Yoshimi in the center and Copic colored her. Then I used a Momento ink finger tool to blend in Tumbled Glass and Festive Berries Tim Holtz Distress inks. Then I ran picket fences white distress stain over it and then ran more Festive Berries over the edges of the die cut with my Tim Holtz foam tool. I also inked all the other paper pieces with Festive Berries, too! A lot of distressing, but with a minimal look ...just how I wanted it! :)

This week's challenge is sponsored by Whoopsi Daisy!

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Inky and glittery fingers for all!
-Gaby

Sweet Stamping Treats

For this week's card for the design team I chose to use the Ladybug with Flower's digi. I used the print and cut feature on my Silhouette to put the digi in the die cut. I Copic colored the digi and distress stained the background with a paint brush. Once it dried I adhered it to Lawn Fawn Bright Side paper and tied Divine Twine into a bow at the bottom and adhered it to a Kraft card base. I thought it needed an extra zhush, so I added some Doodlebug gems to the centers of the flowers. :)

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Inky and glittery fingers for all!
-Gaby

Inspired Stamps, Shape Up!

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This week the Inspired Stamps design team was asked to make a card with one of their stamps that featured shapes. I chose to use the Fruitful Flourishes as my shape and His Little Ones: girl studying for the little girl. I made a boarder with some of the swirls from the Flourishes set. I stamped them in Versa Mark and sprinkled white embossing powder to heat emboss. Once the embossing cooled I ran Tim Holtz's Antique Linen Distress Stain over the embossing and the entire piece of white card stock. Once that dried completely I stamped individual words and phases from the same set in brown Memento ink in a semi-boarder. I colored the HLO girl with Copics and adhered her to the two rectangle papers I cut earlier with foam adhesives. Attached a flag with a button and linen thread to the bottom and then adhered to a white card base.

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Inky and glittery fingers for all!
-Gaby