Alice Trio

Hi and welcome!  It's time for another sketch from the team at Freshly Made Sketches and this week our hostess is the lovely and talented Cecile.  Here is her fun, square sketch:



Yes, I said square!  I love square cards but rarely think to make them, so this was a perfect opportunity.  I'm also playing along in the current Inkspirational Challenge which has a very Alice in Wonderland type photo inspiration.  I immediately thought of my very old unmounted stamps from Non Sequitur and went to work to come up with this card.

I started by stamping each of the three images onto a scrap of X-Press It card then I created masks for each image and masked them.  I sponged on some Distress Oxide inks and then over-stamped with a text image from one of the stamp sets.  After removing the masks, I colored the images with Copics before die-cutting them with a rounded square die.

Each image was matted onto a black panel and then arranged onto a 5" square white card.  The rabbit is popped up on foam tape but the rest are adhered straight to the card base.  The sentiment is from a PTI set and I thought the "belated" part worked quite well with the Alice theme 😃

I have to admit to really liking this card.  And the distress oxide inks are fun to play with.

Thanks so much for visiting.  The rest of the design team have some fabulous cards so head on over and check them out.

Products used:

Stamps:  Scrabble, Go Ask Alice (Non Sequitur), KIS:  Belated Happy Birthday (PTI)

Ink:  Black Licorice Hybrid, Versafine Onyx Black

Cardstock:  White, Black, X-Press It

Dies:  Nesting Rounded Squares (Lifestyle Crafts)

Accessories:  Copic Markers

Cheers

Karren

Edited to Add:  This card got a shout out at Inkspirational

Oriental Happiness

Hi, I had so much fun making this card!  The theme at The Male Room is "Oriental" and it gave me the opportunity to pull out some unmounted plates I've had since the early 2000's from a stamp company called Non Sequitur.  I'm also linking to the "Cards for Guys" challenge at Stampin' Royalty.

I started by making the vertical panel by sponging various distress inks onto a piece of white cardstock.  I then used the Crocodile stencil and Pumice Stone ink to add a bit of interest, before flicking some water onto the panel.  Once I was happy with the result, I sponged Vintage Photo around the edges before stamping the Asian Text image three times down the panel, using my Misti for placement.

The panel was then layered onto some black cardstock and then onto a Neenah Desert Storm card base.  I then went looking for an Asian-looking sentiment and found the Ori Kami set by Altenew.  I stamped the sentiment onto the card base using black ink then stamped the bird onto a piece of white card onto which I'd smooshed Blueprint Sketch ink and then flicked water on.  I fussy cut the bird and adhered him using foam tape.

Thanks for visiting.

Before I go, my daugher asked me to post her first attempt at watercoloring.  This is an Art Impressions image and she found some cheap, old watercolors of mine and wanted to try them out.  Not too bad for a first attempt :)

Products used:

Stamps:  Oriental Love Letters plate (Non Sequitur), Ori Kami (Altenew)

Ink:  Ranger Archival Black, Cracked Pistachio, Tumbled Glass, Blueprint Sketch, Peacock Feathers, Pumice Stone, Vintage Photo Distress Inks

Cardstock:  Desert Storm, white, black

Accessories:  Crocodile stencil (Tim Holtz)

Cheers

Karren

Edited to Add:  This card got a shout out at The Male Room.