Coloring without coloring on Day 5

What a neat concept, to color without actually coloring. My Favorite Things makes this set called abstract art, many companies make similar sets which consist of scribbles, paint brush swipes, spots, dots and splatters.

I stamped the image, Simon Says Stamp's beautiful flowers across two card panels of Strathmore Bristol Smooth cardstock. And I heat embossed it with ultra fine gold embossing powder.

I die cut the panel out with a Mama Elephant stitched rectangle from the Basic Set Dies. Then I simply stamped the large scribble from the MFT stamp set over the image, twisted citron for the leaves and spun sugar for the flowers.

The sentiment was heat embossed in the same gold embossing powder and it is from a Pretty Pink Posh stamp set called simple sayings Courage. I felt like the line style matched this stamped image so well.

I layered it on a piece of Tonic Gold Pearl Satin finish cardstock. I then mounted the matted panel to a piece of Bazzill Guava Sensation cardstock, which is an excellent match to the spun sugar distress oxide, and then onto another piece of the gold pearl cardstock.

I know I used a lot of products to make what seems like a super simple card, but I think it turned out really pretty and in just a few minutes I had a very beautiful card, in my opinion.

That completed day 5 of the coloring challenge for me.

Hog wild?!?

I picked up this pig stamp set from one of those shopping apps where everything is super cheap and takes forever to arrive. But it was totally worth it for these adorable images. There were maybe 7 or so images in the set but these three seemed like they could pull off some party hats and help a little boy celebrate in a hog wild sort of way...

I wanted them to be more birthday themed so I used this old set from A Muse studio Go Hog Wild, for the party hats, balloon and the grass tufts and flowers. I also pulled the sentiments from the set as well. 

A little masking helped me get those party hats in the right spots on those adorable pigs.

I used a die from Avery Elle to create the grassy border. I wanted it to appear there were rolling meadows for these critters so once I die cut the grass, I masked and sponged in an additional hill behind for the pigs to be on and it created additional depth. 

The grass was sponged with distress inks, twisted citron and mowed lawn. The balloon was a complete afterthought. once I had the card almost 100% complete I thought that pig needed something to hold. And the A Muse set had this balloon in it. It is a solid image stamp so you use colored ink to stamp it. The style wasn't the same as the stamped pigs so I used colored ink to stamp the balloon and then outlined the balloon to create a more cohesive look. This gave that pig a reason to be looking all crazy too... I added glossy accents to the balloon, pigs' eyes and to the one pig's teeth. 

As I almost always do, I finished the inside of the card with a sentiment.

I also stamped a smaller pig image and colored it to match the main images. 

I hope the little boy receiving this card thinks it is as fun as I do. 

You're Rawr-some

Oh MFT, you did it again! This dinosaur stamp set is so adorable and paired with this patterned paper from the Cool Kid 6x6 pad from Crate Paper created a most adorable card.

A stitched circle die from A Muse Studio for the main panel, The grass border die from Avery Elle to create the grassy border. Stitched banner from MFT for the sentiment strip and the clouds are a combo of Avery Elle and dies directly from China. The main panel is a stitched rectangle from Simon Says Stamp.

I used distress inks for the grass and the Altenew inks for the sky.  Copics for coloring the images. I took my colors directly from this patterned paper too! I did pop up the dinosaur and the banner sentiment with a little foam tape for added dimension.

 I finished the inside with an additional dinosaur and the leftover die cuts from the front. And I made the dinosaur stand on the remaining sentiment. Cute? Or... Rawr-some maybe?

Day 26 of the 30 Day Coloring Challenge

Day 26 of the 30 Day Coloring Challenge

Still participating in the 30 Day Coloring Challenge put on by The Daily Marker. Anyone can participate just use hashtag #thedailymarker30day

Today's card was another non-traditional coloring medium, ink on a dauber! I masked the cake image off one layer at a time and daubed on the ink. Blended the background a little bit with the same colors and that was it! I followed a sketch from Splitcoast Stampers SC581.

A Muse Studio Products Used:

Cardstock
Sugar
Onyx
Grapefruit Petite Polka dot
Papaya
Sky
Bermuda

Ink
Sugar
Bermuda
Lemon Whip
Papaya
Memento Onyx
Versafine Onyx

Sequins
Twine- Toffee

Stamp sets
Birthday Icons
Welcome to the Neighborhood


These items and more can be purchased at my A Muse Studio store HERE

Day 24 of the 30 Day Coloring Challenge

Day 24 of the 30 Day Coloring Challenge by The Daily Marker. Anyone can play along, even at this late date... just use hashtag #thedailymarker30day

Today was all about quick and simple. I stamped the images from A Muse Studio's Bundle of Joy set on this Sugar Cardstock. I chose to stamp the images on a scrap piece of cardstock and color them and trim them out, adhering them to the stamped images on the card front. I could have colored them directly on the card base and this would have been an even more simple card, but my coloring medium of choice tonight was Copic Markers and they tend to bleed through cardstock and I wanted a clean interior for this base.

A Muse Studio Products Used:

Sugar Cardstock
Bundle of Joy stamp set
Copic Markers

These products and more can be purchased here: Renee's A Muse Store 

Day 22 of the 30 Day Coloring Challenge

Day 22 of the 30 Day Coloring Challenge put on by The Daily Marker. Anyone can join in, just use hashtag #thedailymarker30day

I used A Muse Studio's splash and did the smush technique to apply the background then splashed some splotches. I die cut the hi out of the main panel and placed it over the onyx polka dot card stock. Simple and a new coloring medium. #colorallthethings