Coloring inside the lines

I did a Tombow marker demo last weekend and had a few demo pieces done that I need to make into projects. Here is one such piece.

 I colored the flower image with Tombow markers and also used Tombow markers to stamp the sentiment. I used my Distress marker spritzer to create some dots also with my Tombow markers. I pulled out some Distress inks to use with the stencil though.

 The flower image is by Impression Obsession. The sentiment is by Stampers Anonymous (a Tim Holtz set) and I used a Crafters Workshop stencil for the background.

Stop by Crafty Capers to see the card in person. 

Happy Father's Day!

Happy Father's Day to all the great Dads out there! I hope you get spoiled.
I want to take a moment to publicly thank my Dad for all his hard work at Crafty Capers over the past 12 years. In the beginning, there were many evenings Dad and I were up late with stamps all over my parent's dining room table while Dad and I worked on calculating exchange rates, pricing and shipping costs. I can't even count the number of hours he spent helping me set up Crafty's displays in various malls on the Island. Even lately, he had had "emergency" calls asking him (Mom does some of these runs too) to head to out because I am out of twoons or the damn printer is out of ink and won't print! Thanks Dad!
Here the card I made for my Dad. I used the Tim Holtz set "Travel Ways" and Teresa Collins Far and Away paper (plus a bit of Bazzill). I stamped the car with Black Versafine ink and the Route 66 is stamped with Fired Brick Distress Ink.I cut out the red and brown frames with my Spellbinder Classic Square and Classic Square Scalloped dies. I distressed the brown frame and stamped the Hero Arts sentiment with Walnut Stain Distress ink. After this photo was taken I added Glossy Accents to the car for some extra pop.
Hope everyone has a great day!

A little late...

This card was SUPPOSED to be for Father's Day last weekend! (whoops!) Thankfully, we have a bunch of men's birthdays coming up in the next little while so I added a Happy Birthday sentiment instead of a Fathers Day one.
I began this card with a piece of Sticky Back Canvas and added some Hero Arts hot air balloons stamped with Versafine Onyx black ink. I colored them with my watercolor pencils then matted the piece onto a piece of scrap (BoBunny???) pattern paper then matted everything onto a piece of Hero Arts blue pattern cardstock. I messed up stamping my saying on the canvas (stamped it 1/2 on and 1/2 off the canvas) so needed to fix that boo boo so hand cut a couple of arrows and stamped happy birthday on them.
I grabbed a couple of Tim Holtz Stamers Anonymous ticket stamps and a sentiment and stamped them on more of the pattern paper then I hand cut them out. I added some Hero Arts Metallic Decor silver embellishments to the tickets and the happy birthday arrows.
Not my usual but I am happy with how it turned out.

Playin' with Distress Markers

The first batch of Tim Holtz Distress Markers arrived on Tuesday and the store is pretty much sold out. I will be placing another order shortly so if you would like your name put down on the pre-order list please contact the store. I am also expecting the Spring 2012 Distress ink pads (seasonal) late this week so if you don't have your name neeeeeed them might want to contact the store about that too because well over 1/2 the ink pad sets are spoken for and it is unlikely I will be able to get more since these pads are made in a limited batch. Enough housekeeping, onto the card for today! I had a bit of time to play with the new Distress markers last week and to be honest I was not too sure they would be "all that" but after playing with them I really LOVE them and I am not a distress kind of gal! I began this card by applying Distress markers directly onto the bird stamp then used my warm breath to activate the inks and stamped the image onto a square of white cardstock. Turned out so beautiful if I do say so myself! I then took my Niji waterbrush and blended some of the inks on his wings. Love it! I then used a key background stamp and used my Tea Dye Distress ink (pad) to add interest to the white cardstock. I then pulled out my new Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz sayings (virgin rubber and I bought them 2 weeks ago!) and stamped the sentiment with Walnut Stain Distress ink (pad). I matted everything as shown. I had to get a bit creative with the button since it had a shank (I think that is what it is called) so I punched a hole through the first layers of cardstock to recess it a bit. The final step for this card was to add Glossy Accents to the heart on the sentiment.

Hope everyone is having a great day!

Card Recipe:

Stamps: Stampendous Swirly Bird Nest, Hero Arts Fancy Keys, Stampers Anonymous Good Thoughts

Inks: Distress Tea Dye and Walnut Stain

Markers: Distress Markers

Other: Glossy Accents, yarn (from my Grandma's craft room), button (from my button box)