Stamping With Neutrals

Make It Monday #214: Stamping with Neutrals. The background is stamped with Lovely Layers in Soft Stone and Dark Chocolate Inks.  The Rosie Posie Flower is stamped and then painted with Raspberry Fizz, the leaves are stamped in Soft Stone. Late night finish means a photograph at my desk.

A Different Sort of Graduation Card

The moon is a 3 step stamp set from Kitchen Sink's Owl & Autumn Moon stamp set. The first 2 layers are stamped in white pigment ink, the 3rd is stamped with silver metallic pigment ink. The sentiment is from Safe Harbour Sentiments stamp set by Waltzingmouse stamped in Versafine as is the ship from Waltzingmouse's Ocean Bound stamp set.  The blue cardstock is Blueberry Sky by Papertrey Ink.

This is for the Old Pajamas Challenge at Waltzingmouse's PJ Party, and Graduation at CASology.

Bon Voyage!

Waltzingmouse Stamps PJ Party Can It/Jar It challenge. The jar and sea (stamped with Mermaid Lagoon Distress Ink) are from Papertrey Ink's Friendship Jar stamp set. The ship is from Waltzingmouse Stamps'  Safe Harbour Sentiments stamp set. The sentiment is from Ocean Bound, and is heat embossed with Hero Arts White Embossing Powder.

The background stamps are from Off Beat Backgrounds, the stitching is stamped with Black Soot Distress Ink, the grid is stamped with Papertrey Ink's Aqua Mist. Then Iced Spruce Distress Stain is used over the background. The cardstock is Papertrey Ink Classic Kraft, Stamper's Select White and Ocean Tides.

Coffee and Doughnut

Coffee Coloured Challenge at Waltzingmouse's PJ Party. Everything is stamped with Versafine pigment ink, which is waterproof. I gave it a quick shot of heat with the Ranger Heat-It to make sure it was dry and wouldn't smudge.

The Doughnut frosting is painted with Papertrey Ink's Dark Chocolate and a waterbrush. The coffee cozy is painted with Pure Poppy. The doughnut frosting and coffee cup eyes are covered with Glossy Accents.

Let's Get Together

I got the We Go Together stamp set from Waltzingmouse just in time for another card for the Summer Coffee Lover's Blog Hop. It's also very colored, so perfect for the 30 Day Coloring Challenge.

The doughnut is painted with Picked Raspberry Distress Ink, The coffee cozy is painted with Twisted Citron

The background is Twisted Citron, Squeezed Lemonade, Mermaid Lagoon and Picked Raspberry "smooshed" onto a piece of plastic packaging and spritzed with water. The card base is Papertrey Ink's Limeade Ice.

Oh! The places You Will Go!

This week's CASology cue card is Graduation. Since I need a card for a friend's bright daughter's graduation, the timing is perfect. All the stamps are from Waltzingmouse's Ocean Bound set. The rope frame is stamped with Wild Honey Distress Ink and Papertrey Ink's Dark Chocolate and then gone over with Brushed Corduroy Distress Marker on manilla card stock and fussy cut. The ship and the sentiment are stamped with Memento's Paris Dusk. The card base is Papertrey Ink's Ocean Tides.

Thank You card

I used Altenew's Painted Flower stamp set. I really love this set. It has multi-layered stamps, but they can be used individually like I did with this detail stamp on Tim Holtz' Watercolor Paper with Versafine ink. Then I painted the flowers in with Kuretake Gansai Tambi watercolors. The pearlescent vellum is really vintage, I don't have any idea when I bought it or who makes it. It's cut with Papertrey Ink's Mat Stack 1 die with Taylored Expressions "thanks" die that was heat embossed with Rangers Fine Detail Gold Embossing Powder.  The card base is Papertrey Ink's Tropical Teal.

The vellum die cut was adhered to the watercolor by lightly tracing the mat where I wanted it to be in pencil, applying Scotch Vellum Tape to the water color within the pencil lines, erasing the pencil lines and putting the mat on. Putting the vellum tape on the watercolor rather than the vellum makes a world of difference.

Simon Says For the Love of Plants and it's been colored, so I'm entering it in the 30 Coloring Challenge also.