Give Thanks Forever

Happy Thanksgiving to one and all!

When you have just one beautiful stamp, you hardly ever need any other to complete a beautiful card. Don't you just agree with that? Here are a few samples of the just one beautiful script stamp from I Brake for Stamps. All but one were stamped with Versafine ink and embossed with black EP, on different background techniques.

This first one is done on watercolour paper. Colour-washes were used for the background.

This second one is on a regular smooth stock, brayered with spectrum pad.

This one is done on an oil pastel on regular smooth stock.

Last but not least, for this one, I stamped using VersaFine ink, let dry and coloured on top with my Copic markers.

May you find many things in your life you are thankful for today and always! Thanks for stopping by. Until next time, may mojo live happily in your heart, and may passion bloom in your soul. Be well!

Friday Sketchers #4.2

Here's my second card for Friday Sketchers #4. Stamp is by The Queen's Dresser Drawers. Background is done using Scraped Oil Pastel, another great TJ technique, 08 - '07 issue. Tough Boy are stickers. And seriously, the patterned paper has all the colours you see on the stickers. They just seemed to pop in an annoying way in the photo. Believe me it definitely looks good IRL.
Until next time. Be well!

In Dreams...

This is one of those cards that when I finished I went, "WOW, I like this!" I made this card for a Colour My World swap on IFS. We were to used lots of colours and just one stamp. I thought of the colours of the rainbow and this is what I came up with!

This is a no layer card, simple and very vibrant! I masked the two straight sides of a smooth white cardstock with low-tack masking tape. The colours were done using oil pastel and heated to set. The saying stamp is by Penny Black, stamped with StazOn Jet Black ink.

Hope you enjoy this simplicity! Until next time!

Text & Oil Pastel

Oil Pastel Technique. I learned this from Laura Anne Jacobs of Bugawumps at a local rubber stamp store. With this card, I started out with a piece of matted white cardstock, armed with oil pastel, I scribbled all over the piece, using two to three colours. I left some area white. Then with an old hotel key card, I scraped the oil pastel, turning the piece every which way to move and re-apply the oil pastel all over the piece. I love the texture this scraping and laying down of colours that the oil pastel create.

After I accomplished the look I was after, I heat set the oil a bit with a heat gun. Then I stamped this beautiful text stamp by Wordsworth with StazOn Jet Black ink. The piece then is mounted on a black card base.


This next one was done pretty much the same way except that I used baby oil and cosmetic sponge to blend the colours. The piece is smoother and the colours blended well. Then I stamped the text stamp by A Stamp in the Hand using also the Jet Black StazOn ink. Do any of you know what this stamp say? I see "We" something and ends with "together" something or other. No matter what it say, I think this wood mounted stamp is fairly nice. And I got it for less than $3 brand new.

So, which look do you like better? The smoother one or the more textured one? Personally? I like the more textured one. The more texture the better :)

We are leaving for Arkansas this evening. Won't be back till Sunday evening. I'm going to meet two stamping friends, Audrey Huffman of Arkansas and Lyn Stonehewer of England whom I have only met on the Yahoo Inky Fun Stampers group. But I'll get to meet them in persons tomorrow. I'm so so excited. Hope to stamp some while I'm there.

I'll see y'all after we get back. Until then, have a great weekend, y'all!