Mansion

Have you ever started a card, put it aside, and then forgotten just what you planned to do with it? 

I'm posting for Biblical Impressions today.  I wasn't exactly sure what I would do with this card, in fact, I'm still not sure ... the we've moved text is attached with temporary bond - we're not moving!  But my mind was a complete blank ... I can't remember what I had in mind when I ordered it this pretty mansion!  I love stone and brick houses, and I don't own any other stamps with a home on it, so perhaps that was reason enough!

The birds are not part of a stamp ... they're covering a blot of blue ink.  I'm always nervous adding something like this, but fortunately, it turned out!

Funky Birthday Card

I'm posting (while rolling my eyes) for Eureka today. This is a totally unplanned card.  The odd squiggly-lined panel started out as just a place to clean off my brushes as I pained another card with opalite inks.  But as I started "stroking off" the paint of a third color, I decided it looked kind of fun, and proceeded to cover the whole scrap.  So, of course, I had to make a card.  :-)

The Baroque background is black embossed on black; the baroque corner and Happy Birthday text are also embossed in black.

Yesterday I posted leaf cards for Eureka, so today I am posting leaf cards for Biblical Impressions.  I love how different techniques can create a completely different look for the same image!

This first card is just a nice, simple monochromatic card, a quick and easy card for a no-frills recipient.

For these leaves, I used gold leaf.  I am happy with the look, though I think I could have gotten the same effect with metallic/mica powders; gold leaf is shown to best effect with stamps that have thicker lines/images.

Mosaic leaves!

It's challenge time again at the Eureka Challenge Blog! The theme this week is "Fall Fun;" please show us your creativity, and get a chance to win free images from Eureka!

I love Eureka's mosaic stamps!  In addition to the leaves and background images shown  here, there is a pumpkin as well, with which I made a card last fall.

For this card, I used Eureka's gold leaf.  I love how beautiful the gold leaf looks, it totally changes the look of the image!

  This card was made with metallic/mica powders, another fun medium that adds a sparkle to the image!

I'm posting today for Eureka.  I was looking at my comforter just before going to bed one evening, and thought, "What a pretty card background this would make!"   Of course, then I couldn't sleep for awhile thinking about which stamps I would use!  I wonder if any other cardmakers have that problem?  I knew that I would definitely want to use Eureka's Baroque Background stamp, so I started with that in the morning.  I ended up also using the peacock feather and in samples below,  the Mosaic background stamp.  The background was created using faux batik technique, and sponging brilliance ink dew drop-shaped pads directly onto the cardstock.

This is the comforter:

Here are a few of the other backgrounds I made trying to catch the look.  I couldn't get a decent photo of two of them, so included one of all four together.

 

I stopped before adding black to this one because I liked how it looked at this point: