die frau - a challenge two-fer: WSC 36 & AFSS6

I really wanted to get something posted for Beate's latest sketch challenge. I thought it was a fun design, but I felt like I had too many choices for a stamp. I didn't know where I wanted to go with the design.

Then I read Allison's "girl" challenge and I knew that I could make a card for both challenges.

The stamped image is the ONLY girl image that I own. (Probably means I need more stamps?!?)

I black embossed her on ivory cardstock, layered her to red cardstock, which was then pop-dotted to the background. The background paper is from a thrift store purchase; a German health book. I still can read some of the german words and found a page about (I think) family health. Die frau was cut with Phoebe from Quickutz.

Supplies: She Knows rubber stamp (Rubber Stampede); black, ivory cardstock (unknown); red cardstock (The Paper Company); bookpage (Herders Gesundheits Buch); embossing ink (Tim Holtz distress ink); black embossing powder (Ranger, Superfine detail); adhesives: Xyron & pop-dots; die cuts: Phoebe (Quickutz).

Thanks again for looking.

AFSS5 - Trees

I've been reading Allison's blog, Stampin' When I Can, for awhile now and decided to try my hand at her challenge this week.


Additionally it's been interesting reading the posts at the Yahoo RangerInkLink group this week. Lots of posts by group members about their favorite Ranger products. Alcohol inks have been getting lots of cheers, so I decided to play with the set that I already had on hand.

I had first used alcohol ink last summer, when I took the class 52-card Pick-Up at BigPictureScrapbooking's online site. I have another image that I've enjoyed using alcohol inks with, but it's not ready to be posted today. But I do have these tree cards.


So, the story on these cards is this: I stamped the main tree image with Brown StazOn ink on glossy cardstock (just the generic stuff you can purchase at Michaels). After the main image was dry, I watercolored the top card with Weathered Wood distress ink (blue sky) and used the Ink Blending Tool from Ranger with Latte alcohol ink for the ground. On the second posted card (which I actually did first) I used the Latte alcohol ink for the ground with the Blending tool, then diluted some of the Latte ink with water in a Mini Mister and sprayed the whole card. Unfortunately I don't have the color adjusting function in PhotoShop Elements quite down and the card background in this picture looks very white. In RL it's actually a light warm brown.


We're having a garage sale this weekend for my agency to raise money for the March of Dimes Walk-a-Thon that's happening here in our district in April. I plan to take some of my cards to the garage sale and see if they'll sell. One way to make a donation, no?


Materials: blue card: white cardstock (Georgia Pacific); blue cardstock (Bazzill); white glossy cardstock (Michaels); tree stamp (Rubber Stampede); background wind swirl (Hero Arts); weathered wood (Ranger distress ink); Latte (Ranger alcohol ink); Versamark; ribbon (Michaels).

Materials: rust card: rust & blue cardstocks (Bazzill); glossy white cardstock (Michaels); tree stamp (Rubber Stampede); ribbon (Michaels); buttons (Dress It Up).


Thanks so much for looking.

Grunge Kitty

Each month the RangerInkLink group at Yahoogroups has a challenge. This month's challenge revolved around Furry Friends.

I've been a "cat" person most of my life; and even though I currently own a feathered biped (as my DH refers to the cockatiel), my first thought for a "furry" challenge was a kitty project.

I really liked all the techniques that Tim Holtz posted in December, 2007 at his blog. I used the technique for weathered wood from Day 8 to create the background on this tag. I hand drew (if you want to use that word) the kitty paws, 'cause I just couldn't justify purchasing the stamp that I wanted at Michaels (even with the 40% coupon hole in my pocket). The triangle stamp is an old Judikins stamp; since I unmounted several of my old stamps years ago, I don't know the name on the stamp. The kitty face is Rubber Stampede; likewise nameless. The kitty paws and the triangle stamp were all embossed with black opaque embossing powder. The word CAT is grungeboard, inked with black soot.

Supplies: Lake Mist paint dabber, weathered wood distress ink, frayed burlap distress ink, black soot distress ink, distress ink embossing ink, ZIG emboss writer embossing pen, Stamp-n Stuff midnight black opaque embossing powder, brown fiber (maybe EK Success).

Thanks for looking.