New cards

Suzanne at Oxford Impressions has a new plate of script and background images called French Script. I paired these images with some from one of my favourite Oxford Impressions plates called China dolls. In this one, I used the acrylic paint resist technique that Tim Holtz has on his site. I used a gold acrylic paint dabber for the resist and various distress inks to complete the background. The girl is stamped with Memories black on glossy cardstock and coloured with water based markers applied with a paint brush and with chalks.



This image uses distress inks for the background on matte coated card stock and the background image from Oxford Impressions is stamped with Memento Cocoa. The girl is stamped with Memories black on glossy and coloured with markers used as paint and chalk.


Supplies used: stamps from Oxford Impressions, Ranger distress inks and paint dabber, glossy card stock, matte coated cardstock, memories black ink, Memento cocao ink, various water based markers, chalk, ribbon, brads.

Winter has arrived

These are also inspired by Tim Holtz's 12 tags of Christmas. They seem to be very appropriate for today, the first day of winter. On the news, they are saying that this will be the first winter in 40 years where every part and region of Canada will have a white Christmas. May all of you have a very blessed and merry Christmas.

Supplies uses-seasonal grungeboard, distress inks, adirondack dabbers, brilliance inks, stamps by Paperbag Studios, Hero Arts, All Night Media

A masculine Santa card

I apologize for the fact that this photo is a little out of focus. I took it quickly right before I gave it to the recipient and obviously my camera settings were a bit off. Hopefully it is good enough for you to get the idea.

This card was done for my son-in-law and is my attempt at a masculine card. I used my Wizard and some cuttlebug folders to texture the cardstock. This is my take on a technique that Annette showed on her blog here. I used gel medium to glue the sections together and Golden fluid acrylic paints to colour the background. I really like the almost leathery texture that these paints give to cardstock.

The Santa face was stamped on tissue paper and adhered to the background with gel medium. It was painted with some glaze lightly tinted with raw umber to give a more antique feel and a gold Adrirondack dabber was used to add metallic accents. The lettering was done with a dymo labeller. I used aged copper brads and turners as embellishments.

Supplies used- Wizard, cuttlebug folders, Golden fluid acrylics, Adirondack gold paint dabber, copper brads and turners, Santa stamp by Rubber Stampede, dymo label maker