Tropical beach scene

We made this card at the workshop I had last night. There are several fun techniques here. The first is moonlighting, which is masking to create the sun. Punch a circle out of a post-it note and use the hole to sponge in the ink. Then put the punched circle over the sun to mask it from the sky color.
Next up is masking and brayering. Adhere a big post-it note at the top of the cardstock then tear off across the bottom to expose the area for the sand. Brayer with Crumb Cake ink then spray on Gold Glow and Log Cabin smooch spritz. To create the sky, take the torn bottom part of your post-it note and cover the sand. TIP: Use hermafix adhesive for this since it's temporary. Remove the top part of the post-it note, make sure your circle mask is over the sun, and brayer with Bashful Blue. TIP: Don't have a full-sized ink pad to ink your brayer? Use reinker on a foam plate.
Next I stamped the palm trees and palm fronds. Because I was using clear mount stamps, I could bend the trunk of the palm tree!
The last technique is bargello. I cut 4 strips of striped DSP (2 are 1/2", 2 are 3/8") then adhered them to the Garden Green mat, varying the pattern of stripes and alternating the 2 sizes of strips.
Please try this and practice brayering. It's so much easier than you think! Repeated rolling helps even out the color, and you can also sponge and swirl ink over any remaining uneven areas. TIP: Store your brayer resting fully on the handle (rubber roller facing up). If you store it resting on the roller, you can get a flat spot.
Supplies (all SU): Stamps: Tropical Party, Sanded, Teeny Tiny Wishes; Paper: Very Vanilla, Pumpkin Pie, Garden Green, Travel Journal DSP; Ink: Bashful Blue, Crumb Cake, Daffodil Delight, Pumpkin Pie, Early Espresso, Garden Green; Accessories: 1" circle punch, smooch spritz, sponge, brayer
Happy stamping!

Bookmark card

This weekend was Virtual Stamp Night (VSN) on SCS. It is 2 days of fun challenges scheduled every hour. I wasn't able to play too much this time, but I did get one challenge done: a bookmark card. I've been wanting to make one for a long time. The one I chose to make has a bookmark attached, and the recipient just tears it off. I decided to make a masculine card, although I think it would work for a woman too.
Here is the template for my card.
Here is the inside of the card.
Here's a better view of the bookmark. I decided to do the moonlighting technique on both the card and the bookmark. I'll be demonstrating this technique at my October workshops.
Supplies (all SU): Stamps: Lovely as a Tree, So Many Sayings (retired), Hugs & Wishes; Paper: Confetti White, Kraft, Not Quite Navy; Ink: Chocolate Chip, Always Artichoke, Not Quite Navy, So Saffron; Accessories: cutter kit, 1 3/8" circle punch, sponges, Cropadile, metallic eyelets, Always Artichoke narrow grosgrain ribbon
Happy stamping!

Another wicked card

Here is another card from the SCS WICKED challenge. This card uses Jan's sketch and her moonlighting technique. My focal image is a little larger than the one in the sketch, but I made it work. The color combo is So Saffron, Always Artichoke, Chocolate Chip and Perfect Plum.
For the moonlighting technique, stamp your image and color it in. Punch out a circle from a post-it note to mask off the moon. Sponge all over the image then color in the moon if desired. A great tip I read on SCS was to use the post-it note left over from punching out the circle for coloring the moon neatly.
I colored the ground Always Artichoke and the tree trunks Chocolate Chip then I sponged Perfect Plum and a little Chocolate Chip over the whole thing. I sponged some So Saffron onto the moon.
Instead of ribbon, I used a strip of Perfect Plum cardstock with a line of paper piercing.
Supplies (all SU): Stamps: Lovely as a Tree, Sanded, Weathered; Paper: Very Vanilla, So Saffron, Always Artichoke, Chocolate Chip, Perfect Plum; Ink: Basic Black, Chocolate Chip, So Saffron, Always Artichoke, Perfect Plum; Accessories: sponge, small oval punch, crafters tool kit, watercolor crayons, aquapainter, 1 1/4" circle punch