The Spot Challenge #145 - Splish Splash with Stampin' Up! Friends are Like Seashells Bundle and an Ink Smooshing Technique

 Hello my Friends!    I'm so excited to share my design team card for this week's challenge over at The Spot!  One of my all time's favorite techniques is Ink Smooshing and it was perfect for the Splish Splash Challenge #145!

So here's your change to smoosh, splatter, sprinkle or spritz your way to a fun card!

Here's my card featuring Stampin' Up!'s  Friends are Like Seashells Bundle from the Sand and Sea Suite in the brand new January - June 2021 Mini Catalog!

I loved the background so much!!  If you have never done ink smooshing, I hope you'll give it a try!  I used Stampin' Up!s Fluid 100 watercolor paper for my background.  Fluid 100 paper comes in 7" x 5" panels so I always cut them in half and use 3 1/2" x 5" panel for my card.  I start off by spritzing the watercolor panel with water so that the ink will move well once applied.  Next I pressed my Bermuda Bay Ink pad onto a piece of window sheet and spritzed it and then pressed onto the watercolor paper.

After I applied the Bermuda Bay Ink, I repeated the process with Shaded Spruce Ink focusing on the upper portion of the panel. 

After applying it to the panel I decided to add more texture by sprinkling some salt on it... 

Depending on the type of salt you use, you will get a different effect.  I usually use sea salt but I was out of it so I used table salt.  The salt will absorb some of the ink and create a speckled effect.  The larger the salt, the large the speckle.  Mine turned out to be pretty small since I used table salt.  I used my heat tool to dry the panel and then brushed the salt off with a paper towel.

I decided I wanted to add a little bit of yellow at the bottom so instead of using the acetate sheet, I just used a acrylic block to smoosh the So Saffron Ink onto the bottom..

I finished the bottom layer off with more salt and dried it but wait... there is more! lol

Next to add some shimmer... I mixed a dollop of  Frost White Shimmer Paint mixed with 70% Isopropal Alcohol in a SU Spritzer and spritzed all over the panel!  So pretty.. the picture doesn't do it justice!

Before Adding my Sea Shells, I decided to use my Basic Black Stampin' Write Marker to spritz some black onto the panel.  The beautiful Seashells were stamped in Sahara Sand ink onto Whisper White cardstock and then colored in with Petal Pink Stampin' Blends.  I added some clear Wink of Stella to them as well.  The sand dollar was stamped in Sahara Sand Ink onto Whisper White but that one I left white but again added some Wink of Stella for shimmer.  I stamped the Starfish in So Saffron onto Whisper White and added some Wink of Stella to it as well.  After cutting everything out with the coordinating dies, I used the Seashells 3D Embossing Folder to add some dimension to the two Seashells.  I applied the Starfish and Sand Dollar with Multipurpose Adhesive and added the shells with Dimensionals.  The sentiment was stamped with Versamark Ink on a Strip of Basic Black Cardstock and then heat embossed in White Stampin' Emboss Powder.  I added the strip with dimensionals just above the Seashells allowing them to overlap the strip just a bit.  I matted the panel on Basic Black Cardstock and then adhered it all to a top folding Shaded Spruce Cardbase. Last but not least I added three Shaded Spruce Gems to complete it.

For the inside...

I have several good friends that love the beach so I thought the love you to the beach and back were perfect for the inside of a birthday card for them.  I added some of the stamped images at the bottom of the inside panel in Bermuda Bay, Shaded Spruce, Sahara Sand, and Petal Pink. 

I really LOVE how this turned out and it was so much fun to make.  Card making is all about having fun, right?  If you haven't ink smooshed, please give it a try!  

Blessings, Tina

Product List

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SIP #130 Say No To Christmas with Stampin' Up! Cake Soiree

Hello and Happy Tuesday!  Hope your week is off to a terrific start!  Last weekend was a fabulous weekend for us and I'm looking forward to the end of the work week so I can enjoy an extra long Christmas weekend!  I'll be off work for 4 days in a row!  Woo Hoo!  I just have to get through 3 more work days after today and it's sweet long weekend freedom!  

As usual, Tuesday means another Stamp, Ink, Paper Challenge and this week's it's Just Say No to Christmas which basically means.. make anything BUT a Christmas Card!  Well isn't that easy!

Have you ever had a day where everything just goes wrong?? Well that was the type of day I was having when I started playing around with this Cake Soiree Stamp Set and Sweet Soiree Framelits.  First of all.. it's a fabulous stamp and die set.  There are just soooo many possibilities.  I started stamping, coloring, and playing around with it and everything I tried to do just didn't work.  I finally decided to just breathe in, make it a little crazy and love it like that. lol

My background was created on SU watercolor cardstock by pressing some Tim Holtz Distress Inks onto wax paper... I used Peeled Paint, Mustard Seed and Picked Raspberry.  After inking the wax paper, I sprayed it with my Distress sprayer and then squished it onto the watercolor paper.  I used my heat tool to dry it.  Once completely dry, I embossed the Best Wishes Sentiment in the upper right hand corner.  I used my Lil' Inker Stitched Rectangle Dies to cut out the watercolored panel.   The cake was heat embossed in black onto Whisper White Cardstock.  I used the Stampin' Blends to color in the case.  The cake stand was cut out of Gold Foil Cardstock.   The flowers on the top of the cake were stamped in Daffodil Delight and Melon Mambo and the leaves in Old Olive.   I added some gold sequin trim in the upper left corner with a stapler and then added a some Pretty Pink Posh Sparkling Clear Confetti.  I adhered the panel onto another panel of Old Olive Cardstock and then adhered that onto Basic Black panel cut with the Mama Elephant Scallop die from the All Prettied Up Creative Cuts Dies.  All of that was adhered to a top folding Neenah Classic Crest Solar White card base.  Kind of crazy.. a lot going on... but I still like it!   I had tried mounting it just on the Old Olive and then white but it really needed the black to make the colors pop!  

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Blessings, Tina

Here's a list of the Stampin' Up Products Used:

Product List

• Cake Soiree Clear-Mount Bundle [147627]
• Watercolor Paper [122959]
• Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [100730]
• Old Olive 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [100702]
• Basic Black 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [121045]
• Basic Black Archival Stampin’ Pad [140931]
• Old Olive Classic Stampin' Pad [126953]
• Calypso Coral Classic Stampin' Pad [126983]
• Daffodil Delight Classic Stampin' Pad [126944]
• Clear Stampin' Emboss Powder [109130]
• Versamark Pad [102283]
• Gold Stampin' Emboss Powder [109129]
• Calypso Coral Light Stampin' Blends Marker [144042]
• Calypso Coral Dark Stampin' Blends Marker [144044]
• Old Olive Dark Stampin' Blends Marker [144573]
• Old Olive Light Stampin' Blends Marker [144574]
• Daffodil Delight Light Stampin' Blends Marker [144586]
• Daffodil Delight Dark Stampin' Blends Marker [144585]
• Pink Pirouette Dark Stampin' Blends Marker [144592]
• Pink Pirouette Light Stampin' Blends Marker [144593]
• Heat Tool [129053]
• Embossing Buddy [103083]
• Big Shot [143263]

SIP #125 Color Challenge with Stampin' Up! Vintage Leaves

Hello and Happy Tuesday!  Hope you are having a fabulous Fall weather week.  Today is of course another Stamp, Ink, Paper Challenge and is my very last Fall Card of the year!  Take a look at the Challenge Graphic.. it really does scream fall to me!

I decided considering the colors in the challenge that it would be a perfect time for one last card to mail out for Thanksgiving.  I used the incredible Vintage Leaves stamp set from Stampin' Up! but the

sentiment is from the retired Lighthearted Leaves stamp set.  I love this sentiment and can't seem to part with this set!  All of my stamping was done on one layer of Watercolor Paper.  I used the smooshing technique to smoosh some Pumpkin Pie, and Daffodil Delight Ink onto the watercolor paper and dried in between layers with my heat tool.  Once completely dry I ran my embossing buddy over the front of the card.  I used my Misti to stamp the leaves and Sentiment first in Versamark and then in Early Espresso.  I then heat embossed all of the stamping with clear embossing powder.  There ending up being just alittle more white on the stamped panel than I wanted so I took a sponge and a little bit of Daffodil Delight Ink to fill in the other areas.  I used my Lil' Inker Stitched Rectangle Dies to cut out the stamped panel and layered on a skinny layer of Early Espresso Cardstock.  All of that was mounted to a A2 card base of 110# Neenah Classic Crest Solar White Cardstock.  Lastly I added a few sequins from Pretty Pink Posh to finish it off.

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Blessings, Tina