DESTINATION UNKNOWN - by Fran Chalmers

Hi everyone!

Today I have made a card for you.

First I  put some distress inks on my mat and added water. I smooshed the card on top, drying between layers.

Then I stamped the broken fence at the edge of the card.  I had to mask the top of the stamp off as the card was bigger than the stamp, and stamp the middle bit on its own before then stamping the top.  It was difficult to match it up completely right, but it it easy to use a fine liner pen to join the lines up if you are a bit out.

I stamped the lady onto the card, and then onto thick paper.  I coloured and fussy cut her out.

 I added a bit of texture in the gap between the fences and around the main image before gluing the coloured image onto the card.  I added the sentiment, which I edged in red.

 

I added the "One Way" stamp for a bit of interest.

I mounted it onto a black card to finish it off.

Stamps Used:

Running Lady 1080

Jagged Chain Link Fence 19140

Mesh texture 19569

One Way Small 19180

Destination Unknown 19091

Other Items Used:

Distress inks in Tea Dye, Spiced Marmalade, Mustard Seed, Candied Apple

Memento Ink in Tuxedo Black

Versafine Clair ink in Nocturn

Black fine liner

Copic Pens

Hope you  like it! See you next time x

Enjoy what's left of winter.... by Tracy Blackwolf

Hello all!

Hope you're all doing well - this week on the blog is a quick and easy card, enjoy.

The background is done using spray stains. I just love how the colors blend together. When you're happy with the color blend,  dry with heat tool to stop the process. Once the background was dry, I stamped the running lady and dried her. Then I used a paint brush and a bit of the spray stain to color her dress a bit.

I then took the bubble wrap texture and stamped it with two different ink pads ,one on each side just for some texture. after that I took a sheet of acetate and stamped the bugs around so they are chasing her.. Its hard to tell but doing that on the acetate gives a bit more dimension. And also if you don't like the placement of the bugs, you can stamp another sheet of acetate..

After that I used the computer to make the words I wanted for this card...A little more spray stain brushed on with a paint brush and some foam tape on the back and done. I also used some tiny black foam tape on the back of a couple of the flies to attach the acetate.

I know most of us are sick of winter but the sentiment is so true- spring/ summer brings the bugs.LOL

Be safe ,find humor where you can, and keep doing art!

Stamps used:

Running lady    1080

Bubble wrap texture    19566

Mosquito   1885

Fly   18952

Other supplies used:

Kaleidacolor ink pads: Riviera and Desert Heat

Disstress spray stains: Salvaged Patina, Mustard Seed, Picked Raspberry, Dried Marigold

Acetate

Black Staz on ink for the acetate

Versafine ink for lady

Viva Las VegaStamps & Pan Pastels!

And 2nd today for our Pan Pastels Feature is the superbly talented Glenda Tkalac!

Ok, how exciting was this?? We were given some yummy pan pastels to play with and it was my first time playing with them, I was a Pan Pastels virgin!! haha I decided that I wanted to do two projects using the uber fabulous Running lady stamp

She looks exactly how I've been feeling lately so I decided to do an art journal page using her as well as these other fab stamps, the film strip stamp

and the one way stamp

and the one way small stamp

and the pylon stamp

and last but not least the arrow stamp

First of all I took a brick wall stencil and then sprayed it and then laid it onto my journal page and pressed evenly so I only got some of it (and yes I had to enjoy a nice cold beer while doing this)... also forgive the dim pics as I was playing at night!

 Then I took some of the orange pan pastel and used the sponge tool and colored when I wanted orange.

 Now it was time for placement! I had stamped the running lady stamp onto plain white cardstock and then cut her out and placed her where I wanted her, and then used black shimmerz to create a black cloud above her ('cause that's how I'm feeling lately!)

 then I got all kinds of other fun stuff as well as the cut out stamps and glued them onto my journal page.

 and here is my finished journal page!

I also made an ATC using the running lady stamps and pan pastels.  Here are the materials I used

 Once I glued the papers I wanted together onto a 2 1/2 by 3 1/2 piece of white cardstock I then took a stencil and placed it on top of the papers, and then using the sponge rubbed the orange pan pastels where I wanted it and sprayed a clear coat fixative onto it so the pastels wouldn't rub off

 I also had a rub on that was really old and crappy and wouldn't rub on so I taped it onto the card using clear tape and then glued the running lady onto the card, smudged the edges using staz on ink and voila! Here is my ATC.

I hope you enjoyed seeing how I used these stamps as well as the Pan Pastels and until next time!