Beyond the Blue #6 - Pink is Perfect

 Good morning!  I'm back with another card for this week's Beyond the Blue challenge.  This time I went just a bit further by stamping a French script background over my printed piece.  I used a soft pink dye ink, and you can see it in the pink areas on my card.  But the green/yellow areas where I used acrylic paint completely resisted the ink.  It's such a cool effect!

I used the Feathery Leaves stencil from A Colorful Life Designs for this card.  It provides some wonderfully large blank areas which works great for a technique like this where you want to stamp a background.  You can use this code, HollyFan10, to save 10% when you shop for stencils at A Colorful Life Designs.

Check out the Beyond the Blue challenge and play along with us!  They just announced that they are drawing prizes, so you might be a winner just for playing.  :-)

Feathery Leaves stencil - https://acolorfullifedesigns.com/feathery-leaves/

Beyond the Blue #6 - Floral Alcohol Hello

 There's a new challenge up over on the Beyond the Blue blog today.  This week's challenge is all about doing Negative Space Monoprints with a gel press and a stencil.  I brayered some paint onto my gel press and then pressed the gorgeous Feathery Leaves stencil from A Colorful Life Designs onto the paint.  I carefully placed my paper over the stencil and used my fingers to rub it all over, making sure to pick up all the paint in the open areas of the stencil.

After I pulled the first print, I placed another sheet of paper on the gel press to pull a second print.  This second pull will usually pull all the paint off, but sometimes there's just a bit left over for a third pull.  I only did two prints with this particular session.  

After pulling most of the paint off my gel press, I covered the gel press with some yellow alcohol ink, very quickly brayered it into an even layer, and quickly placed my first pulled print onto the gel press.  All of the areas that had been covered with the stencil were white after the initial pull, and now those white areas are a gorgeous shade of creamy yellow.  

This technique is a lot of fun.  You don't have to do the alcohol ink part at the end.  I chose to do it because I wanted some color instead of all that white space.  I have a few more prints that I did with this technique, so stay tuned and I'll share those with you over the next few days.  :-)

Come play along with this fun challenge from Beyond the Blue!

Feathery Leaves stencil - https://acolorfullifedesigns.com/feathery-leaves/   (Use code HollyFan10 to save 10% when you shop at A Colorful Life Designs.)

Do Something Creative

Did you create something today? :-) I used the brand new Teeny Dots stencil from A Colorful Life Designs to create this clean and simple card. I positioned the stencil at the bottom of a white card and brushed some aqua ink over it. I love this cute little Teeny Dots stencil! I used the same aqua ink to stamp the sentiment and the pen.

Use code HollyFan10 to save 10% when you shop at A Colorful Life Designs. There's hundreds of awesome stencils to choose from!

Teeny Dots stencil - https://acolorfullifedesigns.com/teeny-dots-stencil/

Colorful Retro Thanks

 

Isn't this a fun retro card? I used the brand new Scattered Shapes stencil from A Colorful Life Designs with some distress inks to create this bright and fun thank you card. The new March release is up in the store and it's full of great new designs.

Use code HollyFan10 to save 10% when you shop for stencils at A Colorful Life Designs.

Scattered Shapes stencil - https://acolorfullifedesigns.com/scattered-shapes-stencil/

Open Rings Hello

 I used the Open Rings stencil from A Colorful Life Designs with a gel press print to create this bold and graphic card. It's so cool! Because of the paint I used with the gel press print, this has a texture like linen. I love the subtle variations in color all over the stenciled background.

Use code HollyFan10 to save 10% when you shop at A Colorful Life Designs. There's tons of stencils to choose from and more on the way for the March 1 release. :-)

Open Rings stencil - https://acolorfullifedesigns.com/open-rings-stencil/

Rustic Wood Grow

 Hi friends!  I'm playing along with the Beyond the Blue challenge today, and this week is all about a Rustic Wood background.  I loved the tutorial video, and I immediately went to work on embossing some white paper with a wood grain and then brushing on various colors of distress ink (Weathered Wood, Hickory Smoke, Pumice, Gathered Twigs).  I sanded the raised embossed areas and got a bit too heavy-handed on one of the panels.  LOL  

The sentiment is from Picket Fence Studios (Face the Sun) and I added some die cut leaves around the sentiment.  I'm in love with the background and I'm looking forward to making more in various colors.  Come play along with me and share your creations at the Beyond the Blue blog.

Technique Junkies February 2021 stamp release

Happy February 2021 Release Day!

We have new stamps and stencils in the Technique Junkies line!

All of the February 2021 New Release stamps are 15% off through February 8th! We can all use a little bargain, right? No codes needed, just put them in your shopping cart and the discount will be applied at checkout.

You can save an extra 10% off all the new release stamps by using my code, TJ10Holly. That's 25% off any and all of the new stamps released this month. That is a great deal!

For my first card today, I used the beautiful new Tamashii Modern Frame and the new Endlessly Create Yourself sentiment.  I wanted to keep this clean and simple and modern, so this is all black and white.  

This beautiful floral card shows off the new Poppy Arrangement stamp.  I stamped this with black Memento ink and colored it with Copic markers.  Some black Nuvo drops were added here and there as a nod to the black centers of the poppy flowers.

This popcorn card came about so quickly and easily.  I stamped the new Popcorn background with some bumblebee ink and then I stamped it again on some scraps of paper, cut out individual pops, and adhered them with foam tape.  The sentiment is from the new Going to the Movies set and I stamped it with the same bumblebee ink before matting with a brown square and a scalloped bumblebee square.  This card just makes me smile every time I see it!

Be sure to check out the list below for some sweet inspiration from our Design Team!

TJ Blog

Holly Brown

Lynda Pleckan

Patti Gilliam

Beth Norman-Roberts

Pat Huntoon

Judy Jackson