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.  

Amy Shulke and Vanilla Arts

What has brought me out of the darkness of no blog posts in over a year? Finding a favorite instructor on YouTube and hoping to help her build her channel. I almost quit trying to do anything with alcohol markers many years ago after lousy experiences with supposedly "Copic-certified" instructors. Then I found Amy Shulke teaching at a private store and was instantly hooked on Copics and Prismacolor pencils. 

All of the work in this post is from early 2015 to mid-2016. Personal events in my life interfered with continuing and by the time I was ready to resume, the pandemic had changed everyone's life. To see what Amy might bring to your coloring experience, please check out Amy's YouTube Channel.  

Here are my results from those classes years ago. I still use the techniques and apply them to my cardmaker projects. 

SCT Crop & Create Cardmaking March 2022

The online card-making event on March 25-27 from Scrapbook & Cards Today was absolutely wonderful. Of the online events I've been part of, theirs has offered the most per event and been the most organized, even when unexpected things occurred behind the scenes. 

The first day featured what would have been "Make & Take" projects in a live event. This first card features a stamp, die, and stencil from Photoplay.

This card is a stitched Hi die from Spellbinders.  I made a second card without the stitching to use a few days after the weekend. 

These are from a company that I didn't know about, and is right here in Michigan, LDRS.

This is from American Crafts.

These are from Honey Bee

There were a few more that I either haven't finished yet. All of these kits and instructors were bonuses in that they weren't announced when we registered for classes. I knew there would be some, but the quantity and quality of product and instruction were great. 

The first scheduled class was Gina Krupsky and Gina K Designs in a class called Floral Frenzy. 

Next was Amy Yingling with products from The Stamp Market. I changed the second card to be a gift tag because I thought it was too bulky to mail. There was one more card that I chose to skip. This class was called Say It With Color. 

The third session was Libby Hickson, stamps from Hero Arts, class called Fun Folds.

The last class on Saturday was Birthday Celebration taught by Jenn Shurkus using Lawn Fawn supplies.

Sunday morning began with Cathy Zielske and Concord & 9th. The second image shows what is inside the card above it. There is a third card that I missed photographing. The class was Clean & Simple Stencils & More!

Next is Tayor Vanbruggen with a 4-piece stencil set, Create in Quads, from Taylored Expressions. Inking each layer with one color per stencil onto an 8" x 10.5" piece of cardstock gave us these four card fronts when cut apart. I haven't decided on sentiments for the first three cards yet. 

The seventh class, Spring Is In The Air,  was taught by Laura Bassen for Pinkfresh Studios. 

Last, but certainly not least was Make & Shake by Mari, by Mari Clarke for Honey Bee Stamps. She also taught the other Honey Bee projects on Friday.