Tutorial Tuesday - Clear Resist Techniques

Supplies:

Clear Resist ink pad
Variety of coloured ink pads
Glossy cardstock
Stamp
Sponge

Ink your stamp into the clear resist pad and stamp it onto your glossy paper. Let dry approximately 10 minutes. You can use your heat gun to speed up the drying process.
Tear a scrap piece of paper, making sure it is long enough to cover your card.
Lay your paper over your card, leaving an inch to ink with your sponge.
Continue to ink your card.
When finished, you are ready to complete your card.
Sponging colour randomly with a sponge is another way of decorating the card.
See what happens when you don’t wear gloves?
I thought I would try a little vintage with this technique to show you how versatile this technique can be. When using a photo-like stamp, the image looks like a negative, so to give a nice detail of the face, I restamped the image onto cardstock and glued it on top of the resisted image.
Here I chose to add embellishments. I wanted to keep the “art” look of the card and stamped a flower onto a piece of polished stone paper. After cutting out the flowers, I adhered them down the spine of the card with glue dots.
I kept this as a one-layer card. There is so much one can do to make the one layer card interesting. By adding a sentiment, stamping over top of the resisted flower with a coloured flower, and adding dragonflies, there is enough interest without having to add embellishments.

Cupcake Anyone?

Did you have a nice weekend? Here is a justjohanna cupcake for you. A Happy Birthday tab was added. Stickles are sprinkled on the top of the icing. Yum!

To Someone Special

How’s your weekend going? Are you ready for Halloween? My front yard is all decorated with scarecrows and mums, and the candy is bought.

Stacy’s colour challenge, over at the Stamp Shack, is to use burgundy, cream, black and gold, which inspired me to go classic. Inside I added a Happy Birthday sentiment.

Have a great day!

Tagged–again, and again

Thank you to all the wonderful ladies who tagged me this week:

Ila
Sarah
Suzy
Kim B

Life has been hectic today–my DD and DS were in a car accident (thankfully they are fine). The car they were driving was totalled by a driver who turned left right into the oncoming car DS was driving. DD knew I was going to start crying when I saw her in emerg in a stretcher, with a neck brace, so she kept saying, “it’s okay mom, it’s okay, I’m okay, I’m okay.” Pretty sad state of affairs that DD has to calm me down! How precious my children are to me!

Okay, on to business.

If you could have 100.00 worth of scrapbook paper or assorted embellishments, which would you choose? Only $100? What’s with that?! I’m a paper piggy so it would most definately be paper. I love colour, colour, colour!

If you had to choose between using only stamps or rub-ons, which would you choose?
Stamps, of course!

If you knew how to do both awesome cards and layouts but could only do one for a whole year…which would you do?

Most definately cards. My viewers want cards and techniques, so I give them what they want.

Would you rather own a scrapbooking store or have your own scrapping room at home…(can’t have both he he he) Store, and I’d sneak in lots of stamps.

And last but not least, what is your CURRENT cardmaking or scrapping style. Very colourful and funky. Of course I’m using loads of techniques too.

Now I get to tag. I’m tagging:

Kim H

Kim P

Have a great weekend folks.

Bonjour