Courage / Horse Card

I have two different swaps due for March, one to be green cards but not St. Pat's theme, and the other swap green with horses . So I have been playing around.

This card uses a two tone garden green paper on the top and a strip of garden green, the horse is a CTMH retired stamp , then prisma-ed over double sided adhesive, added garden green cardstock(distressed edges) with the words "Courage is..." . Inked the stitches around. Added a green pearl dot.

The lighting does not do the colors true justice.

The inside strip of distressed cardstock and says " being scared to death but saddling up anyway" and I stamped another image from the horse set.

Anyone who gets this can certainly add more DIP distressing, stippling or other techniques if they desire.

Mock Grungeboard

Necessity does odd things to us when we don't have products we want. I was wishing for more grungeboard today for a mini album, started playing with some cardboard and this what I ended up with.

In case you can't see it , I took a cardboard box, a little heavier than a gift box but still pliable and ran it through the bigshot with a cuttle bug file. I only did 1/2 of the chipboard with the design and it did leave a little indention that covers up, you can do the entire piece.

Rounded my corners, punched holes, distressed with Desert Sand, added some corkboard and there you have it! Yes you can still sand it!

Make your pieces any size you like, leave them square or round the edges. Use piece for a card front, album page, layouts or whatever you like. If you have dies you can cut flowers, ABC's and more from your chipboard, pretty neat! Then just distress or sand just like grungeboard!

Add glimmer mist, buttons, flowers or whatever you like for your project.

If you are using a thinner chipboard, do one piece and adhere it to another if you want it thicker. Set weight on it until firm.

Stamping Puzzles on Sticks

I do some local preschool art classess and they wanted to use up some popcicle sticks. I had done these as card fronts and layout additons several years ago, you can leave them in pieces a give as a puzzle for travel or just a little gift wrapped in ribbons. Great project for any age.

We used versamark ink to stamp image, then this was brayered, sponged, and glittered by a 4 yr old.

Line your sticks up, stamp it. If using Versamark allow to dry for about 10 min. before coloring in. You can random stamp several smaller images if you want variety and can certainly do them is a fun color if you like. Your sticks have natural shadings and vary in color but that adds character to your image.