The Spot Challenge #159 - Ink Blending Sneak Peak of Stampin' Up!'s new Color & Contour Bundle

Hi There! I hope you are having a great week!  My Monday was crazy but the good news is that it was my last Monday at work!  I'm retiring this Friday!  I couldn't be any more thrilled!!!  So the weekend was fun filled as I attended a virtual demonstrator event.  Monday being what it was, I ran home as fast as possible to make my card for this week's Ink Blending Challenge at The Spot.  I love ink blending!

So this week's ink blending is what I will call a Pink Ombre with a Sneak Peak of the new Color & Contour Bundle from the 2021-2022 Annual Stampin' Up! Catalog!

I started blending my 3-3/4" x 5" panel of Basic White Cardstock with Blushing Bride Ink and then blended in Flirty Flamingo and Polished Pink!  I spritzed a little water on it and used a paper towel to absorb the moisture.  Then I added some spritzes of a Mixture of Champagne Mist Shimmer Paint and Alcohol.  I stamped the outline of the flowers from the Color & Contour Stamp Set in Memento Tuxedo Black Ink.  The watercolored look inside of the flowers was stamped in So Saffron, Polished Pink, and Blushing Bride.  I colored the leaves in with the new beautiful So Succulent Blends and added some quick coloring using the Light Mango Melody blends to the inside of the two pink flowers.  I heat embossed the sentiment on the bottom right of the front panel in black.  I added the flowers with Dimensionals and added a few splatters with my Basic Black Stampin Write Marker.  I matted the front panel onto a 3-7/8" x 5-1/8" panel of Basic Black cardstock and then mounted that onto a Thick Basic White 4-1/4" x 11" card base (scored at 5-1/2") for a top folding card.  Finally I finished it off with some Matt Black Dots!  The Matt Black Dots are my new favorite embellishment!  

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Blessings, Tina

SIP Challenge #121 with Stampin' Up! Vintage Leaves

Hello and Happy Tuesday again!  I had a wonderful weekend and have survived Monday again so all is good, right??  lol  As usual Tuesday means another Stamp, Ink, Paper Challenge and this time is another Tic-Tac-Toe with lots of options!

My Card qualifies to go in many directions with this Tic-Tac-Toe.  It could go down the first column, Leaf, Orange, and Twine, or straight across the middle with Orange, Wood and Embossing, or Diagonal with Die Cut, Wood and Twine.  How's that for coloring within the lines this time?  lol
I decided to pull out my favorite fall stamp set by Stampin' Up! Vintage Leaves and the Leaflet Framelits.  I also revisited a fun technique called Joseph Coat.   

I started out by sponging Daffodil Delight, Crushed Curry, Pumpkin Pie, and Wild Wasabi onto Bristol Smooth Cardstock.   I stamped the leaves onto the ink blended cardstock with Versamark and then clear embossed them.  Once embossed I used a brayer to bray Early Espresso Ink over the embossed leaves.  Once the ink dried, I used the coordinating Leaflet Framelits Dies to cut the leaves out.  I did the same type of ink blending onto another Bristol Smooth Cardstock for the background on this card.   The ink blended layer was cut into a panel with Avery Elle Wonky Stitches Dies.  I double matted it with Early Espresso Cardstock and then Pumpkin Pie Cardstock and then attached it to an Early Espresso A2 Card Base.  I used the smaller rectangle from the Avery Elle Wonky set to cut out a piece of the Wood Textures DSP.  I matted it with Early Espresso and then added it to the center of the card.  I stamped the sentiment (from the September Paper Pumpkin kit) using my Misti in Versamark first and then Early Espresso Ink and then clear embossed it.  The leaves were arranged in a bundle of sorts and then used Natural Twine to tie a bow in it.  The leaves were attached with dimensionals.  The smaller ones were adhered to the front with Tombow liquid adhesive. 

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Blessings!  Tina