Orca by Tracy Blackwolf

 Hello everyone! Hope you're all keeping warm... My project for today is a nice and simple card suitable for framing.

 This is a big stamp! wont fit on an A2 size card.(4.5 x 5.5) But I love these beautiful animals so this stamp is a must for me.

I stamped it on white heavy stock with black  versa clair ink. I filled in where needed as solid areas seem to always need some help. I used black watercolor paint for that.

I then took some paper towel and covered the stamp and sprayed salvaged patina  and stormy sky on the card. I dried it with heat tool.

Next I took my red line tape and made a frame around the Orca.

I removed the liner and used a sheet foil pretty side up, and stuck it to the tape all the way around.

Its a black holographic foil- so cool! wish the camera picked up the colors better.

Next I used a glitter marker to color all the black on the orca, I wanted a bit of sparkle I used some gilding size or glue to add the dots and used the foil again. last I layered it all on a piece of black cardstock.

and thats it!

Hope you enjoyed!

Stamps used:

Orca, lg.

Other supplies:

Black hologram foil sheet

Red line double stick tape

Distress spray stains- salvaged patina, stormy sky

versaclair nocturne ink

Halloween tags with witch and death moth

Hey everyone,

just two days until Halloween, so of course I have another inspiration project for this. Today I want to share these two tags. I know, it might be a bit hard to see on the photo, but guess which material I used as a base?

... it's foil! Windmill foil to be exact.

I cut my two tags from the foil and colored them with alcohol inks and some blending solution. I worked on them as long as I was happy with the look.

 While they were drying, I stamped and cut two focal points - the witch with her broom and the death moth - on watercolor paper. I left a white boarder around both images. I usually don't do that, but I thought they needed a little more contrast to stand out against my colorful tags. Bonus: it made the cutting much easier. ;-)

To add more interest I chose a chipboard element for each tag and heatembossed it - my favorite thing to do with chipboard.

As my backgrounds have dried in the meantime, I could work a little more on them. I decided to turn the tag around and stamp on the smoother side without the alcohol ink. For stamping I used a white Stazeon ink which works really well on foil. I stamped the row of chakras as well as part of the tree stamp on the red tag and two different skulls and the branch antlers on the blue one. The tree and the antlers both create a similar look when you just stamp parts of it, but I wanted to give you double the inspiration. 

I finished the tags by glueing the chipboard pieces, the cutout images and a lot of thread on them and added one of the Tim Holtz stickers on each.

I haven't had my alcohol inks for a while now, but it was fun playing with them on the foil. And of course there are some cool possibilities of using foil tags for decoration such as placing them in front of an electric candle.

Stamps used:
Witch Holding Broom (19705)
Death Moth (20056)
Weathered Tree (19467)
Realistic Skull (19724)
Branch Antlers Set of 2 by Cat Kerr (20147)
The Head Figure by Cat Kerr (20138)
Chakras (20246)

Other material:
- windmill foil
- watercolor paper
- Versaclaire Ink (nocturne)
- Stazon ink (opaque cotton white)
- Ranger alcohol inks + blending solution
    red tag: sunset orange, purple twilight, wild plum
    blue tag: denim, turquoise, raspberry
    on both: pitch black
- Scrapiniec chipboard elements (spiderweb 4967, boarder 4614)
- Embossing powder (Lindy's Gang - chalk it up)
- black and white thread

See you soon & happy Halloween!

Christmas Greetings for HIM

Hi all!!!  Here we are just 3 days before Christmas...wow it flew by fast!!!  Are you all ready??  How about some inspiration for a last minute card for HIM.

I have a tutorial for you today, it is picture heavy so grab a cuppa and see for yourself how I have been foiling stamped images!!

I started with a piece of white cardstock, Deer Head by Cat Kerr and some Heidi Swapp reactive screen ink.

I put a small dab on my craft mat and rolled my brayer through it.

I rolled it over my stamp which I had on the appropriate size acrylic block.

I made sure the entire image was covered with the ink.

You can see the detail you still get in the stamped image.  Let the ink dry.

After cleaning the screen ink off the stamp and while the stamped image is drying stamp in archival ink on a piece of white cardstock and on dictionary page to be used as a mask.

Cut a piece of foil the size of the stamped image.  Lay the piece on top foil side up.

I used a laminating machine which came with a folder to put your images in to run through the machine.

When the machine is heated up run the folder through.

It cools very fast, when it is ready peel the foil off.

Look at this foiled image!!!

Using the cut out mask stamped on the dictionary page cover the deer part of the image, I left the antler gold.

With the Thicker Fir Branch stamp in green archival ink at the bottom of the deer image.

I cut the deer head out of my other piece of cardstock, colored with Distress Markers and a water brush and adhered.

Aren't these golden antlers AWESOME?!!

To finish the card off I stamped the Christmas Wishes sentiment and created a banner.  I used foam bits to add some depth.
And there you have it...a quick manly card for him.

As we are wrapping up the last month of this term and 2016 I hope you have been inspired.  Thanks so much for visiting and spending time with us while we share bits of our art with you.
Merry Christmas to all and to all MAKE SOME ART!