Playing with new supplies

New supplies are always fun!

I recently ordered Stencil Builders from Gina K. Designs. Shown here the Teardrop Stencil Builder and the Dotted Swirl Stencil Builder.  I also ordered three ink pads from a new-to-me company, Lisa Horton Crafts. The inks are labeled dye/pigment blend called Interference. Cloud 9 is part of the name too, but not all Cloud 9 ink pads are Interference. 

This Jennifer McGuire Video is where I first heard of this ink. The video will show you so much more, I'm just giving you a few still photos of what I played with today. The magic of this line of ink is that it looks completely different on white paper versus black. On either paper, you will see a shimmer that is much nicer in person than what I could capture in a photo.

Here is the color Fruit Salad on white paper. The color evened out more after I took the photo. My goal today wasn't to make anything, it was to learn how to use both the stencil and ink. 

In this photo, I'm trying to capture the shimmer

The purple shade here is Crushed Velvet. The north and south teardrops overlaying the Fruit Salad color are the smaller teardrops in that stencil set. 

Here are the same inks used on black paper, same orientation.

I used the Dotted Swirl Stencil Builder in the color Mermaid Lagoon on both. It looks teal on the white version and purple on the black!

The shimmer is truly amazing in person. 

These samples may become backgrounds on cards. This was fun to do on a rainy morning. 

Euchre Birthday Card

This card wasn't difficult, but it was fiddly to assemble. That isn't a negative comment, just a heads up to be patient and don't expect this to be done in 15 minutes. The die set used is Karen Burniston's House of Cards Pop-up  The playing cards used on the tower can be found here or possibly locally or on Amazon. Papers, the circular dies used on the front of the card and the alphabet dies are all from my stash. If I had been thinking about getting back into blogging (it has been 15 months since my previous post 😳), I would have noted what products I used. 

If you play Euchre, you'll recognize this as a perfect Euchre hand.