Thursday, January 26, 2017

LIFE IS A SONG AND A RAINBOW


Hello my junkie friends!!!  

I was in Michael's Craft Store a few weeks ago and they had a big display in the papercraft area that stated "Rainbows and Unicorns are the Latest Fun Fab in Papercrafts".  From what I've seen online and in many markets, they might be on to something.  

In light of that statement and motivated by the word "fun", I have been looking at my stamps through rainbow colored glasses lately and what I might have stamped in black or darker ink awhile ago, I chose this silhouette #S613 "Birds on a Fence" to turn it into a rainbow image.  The sentiment is #DF647 "Life is a Song".  I thought the two worked well together, especially with this technique.  




The technique is one I saw the fabulous Kristina Werner do in a recent video.  It intrigued me...so here's my version.  I tried the technique her way and then I changed it in a small way, but it worked so much better for me.  

Instead of applying the inks with the ink pads direct to the stamp, I used my finger daubers, loaded it with the ink color then applied it to the stamp to the portion of the stamp where I wanted the color, then I stamped it.  Without cleaning the stamp, I applied my next color (with a different finger dauber dedicated to the particular color family I'm using), some of the color from the previous color incorporated itself and I got a lovely blend from them.  I did this with each color up the rainbow spectrum.  

I hope this makes sense.  It's really easy to do and it's such fun to watch the results take place.  

What I think is fantastic about this technique is it can be used with line stamps or solid ones.  So have some fun....let those rainbows flow and have some stamping fun.  

Cheers,

Wednesday, January 25, 2017

ANYTHING GOES AT THE HOUSE THAT STAMPS BUILT

Hey there blog friends....it's the all time favorite challenge this week....ANYTHING GOES...at The House That Stamps Built.  



I have to tell you, I totally CASE'd this idea from Heather Telford and this card.  My colors are different but the sweeping look of those watercolors just stole my heart away.  


It's anything goes...so come on over and play along with us.  Check out the details of how to enter the challenge at The House and don't miss checking out these awesome blogs and their ATG projects from the rest of the Rock Stars.  



Deonna - Donna - Heather - Joy - Laurie - Patti J - Shirley 


I'm also entering this in the ATG Wednesday Challenge at Simon Says Stamps.  


Thanks so much for stopping by.  I hope you'll get a chance to play along this week.





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