A Happy Christmas wreath

Time for another Muse: Christmas Visions installment!

Just 4 more months until these cards need to be in the mail!  I can honestly say, that on today's date, I am behind!  Way behind, so, let's get to crafting!

I ordered this new Memory Box stamp set from Ellen a few weeks ago and I am so VERY happy that I did!  I love the style of this set to stamp. emboss or paint!  It also has sentiments, a bird and single flowers and branches...really lovely!

I stamped in Shabby Shutters distress ink and then took out the Kuretake Gansai Tambi paints.  I added WOS to my mistletoe berries and used a Lil' Inkers stitched die to cut out.  The background uses the KGT paints also and the sentiments (from the same set) are stamped in PTI smokey shadow ink, 3 times with the help of MISTI.What inspires you?  the water colour element, wreath, colours, sketch?  Looking forward to seeing you in the gallery!

Have a great day!

Chriss

Rose coloured poppies

Happy Tuesday!

I have been playing around with Mr. Holt's distress inks these last couple of days and I have been yearning to ink of this new to me Technique Tuesday poppy.  I love that they are a true duplicate (as much as a "duplicate" and as unique as each flower in Nature is) of the Icelandic poppies that I used to enjoy in my gardens when I lived in Montreal.  The gardens always had so much colour from May to August with all of the Perennials scattered in the beds.  I do miss these pastel, paper-like blooms, June if I am remembering correctly...but this stamp provides a warm comfort.  I stamped the image onto a watercolour panel in Dove Gray Staz On ink and used the Squeezed Lemonade, Spun Sugar, Tattered Rose and Picked Raspberry to add colour to the poppies.  The background is also a watercolour card stock that I heat embossed in Ranger Liquid Platinum with a PTI border stamp.  I used the same pinks of distress inks to wash over the card front panel.  This week's (CAS)E this Sketch from Gayatri was my guide for arranging and I added a thin Liquid Platinum strip to the poppies panel.  The colours used for this card were inspired by the Inkspirations challenge Rose colours.  As I used Tim Holtz's inks in the creation of this card and the background was created with Heat embossing (2 H's), I will be sending it into the SSS Monday challenge H is for... 

Thanks for taking a peek today!  I always enjoy the company :)))

Chriss

A watercolour with collage stamp

Just for fun today, I tried a watercolour technique.  Probably the simplest one, where you use ink pads or drops of ink on an acrylic stamp block, spritz with water (I used an aqua painter to add my water) and lay your card stock sheet on top and let the magic happen!  I saw this on a Magenta stamps site and I have some of this company's beautiful stamps that I thought might be a creative and quick image to stamp in black over the dried watercolour art that your acrylic block created!

I don't know if you can see in the photo, but i happened to use the raised "grid" side of an acrylic block and I like how the inks pooled in the grid and you can see the grid lines.

 I don't see a name on the packaging of the stamp that I used, but it has this product # C09231-M .  I am pretty sure that I purchased this one from Ellen Hutson, but when I visit friends and family in Montreal, I usually try to go to a local stamp shop and take a peek at the Magenta stamps :)  I know that you can also now order directly from Magenta here.

This was so easy and I am so, so pleased with the outcome that I will be making some more of these ...today!  On my first card, I used PTI Aqua Mist, 

SU Marina Mist and Starfruit.  The other colour combination that I used was Aqua Mist and SU Calypso Coral.  Here's a pic of a small group that I made in less than an hour.  The Aqua combo matted on the black card stock layer was misted with Mr. Huey's Blizzard mist...crazy sparkly! Thanks for taking a peek!

Chriss

ETA : I was a selection on the Magenta Style blog for this

Thank You!