Wow...card

Here's the last card (for now) using the Anne Taintor playing cards. Like the others I used the Faux Marble Technique from the Technique Junkies Oct/Nov 09 newsletter. For this one I used Ranger Distress Inks in Crushed Olive and some swirls that I cut with my Silhouette

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Diane

Live in the moment card

I made this as an anniversary card for some good friends. The background is the Glimmer Lace technique  from the Aug/Sep issue of the Technique Junkies newsletter. I substituted Ranger Distress Ink refills and Perfect Pearls. The stamps are Tim Holtz designed by Stampers Anonymous. I layered the sentiment by cutting a shape with a Spellbinders die.

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Diane

Love...Anniversary Card

Here's a card I made for an anniversary. I used the Glimmer Lace Tutorial from Technique Junkies found in the Aug/Sep 2010 issue for the background. I also used the Pinwheel technique from the same issue. I used my own sprays made with Ranger Distress Ink reinkers and Perfect Pearls for the background. I used some smeared Stickles for the Pinwheel parts. I got the idea from the Ink Stains blog. The stamp is from Hero Arts.


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Diane

Happy Halloween!

If you've been getting sick of seeing Halloween cards for the last few posts you'll be happy that these are the last ones for the year since today is Halloween. I made these two cards using Tim Holtz masks and Ranger Distress Inks in orange and purple colors. I believe I used Rusty Hinge and Dusty Concord. Both cards have stamps by Artistic Outpost. I cut around the one with the boy to show a bit more of the background. I added a bit of Stickles to the one with the girl on the fence and Distress Stickles to the spider web as well.

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Diane

Witches ATC

Here's a change from the Halloween cards I've been posting, it's a Halloween ATC! Actually the theme for this Stampers Corner Yahoo Group is "Witches" not Halloween. I got this image from the internet but can't remember where so I can't give credit. I can give credit for the stamp though. I used a portion of an Artistic Outpost stamp and then cut around the swirls to tuck the printed image through it. After stamping the image I added some Stickles to the stamped potion. I wanted to color the background blue to match the sky and had some leftover homemade shimmer/glimmer that I made with Ranger Distress Inks and Perfect Pearls. My mister clogged so I decided to pour the remaining contents onto the cardstock so the whole thing is very shimmery/glimmery.

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Diane

Happy Halloween Preview #4

Only two more days to Halloween and here's two more cards. For these I used more of the Studio G stamps and embossed the Versamark ink with clear embossing powder. After that I used some orange and purple Ranger Distress Inks to color in the backgound. When you get the color you like rub the surface with an old t-shirt or paper towel and the ink comes off of the embossing powder area since it acts as a resist. Both of the cards have images by Crafty Secrets.

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Diane

Gorgeous Geishas ATC

I made this ATC for the Stampers Corner Yahoo group using the Glimmer Lace technique by Technique Junkies. I made with the Glimmer Lace technique by Technique Junkies. I made my paper with Ranger Distress Inks and Perfect Pearls instead since I had those supplies on hand. The theme for this ATC was Gorgeous Geishas and I used a stamp by Inkadinkado and made an attempt at making a knot with mizuhiki cord.


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Diane

Another Glimmer Lace card

This technique by Technique Junkies is called Glimmer Lace. I made a few too many backgrounds and the lace was not giving the best masking effect BUT I kept it since I liked the colors and the glimmer/shimmer. Like others I made I used Ranger Distress reinkers and Perfect Pearls. The stamp is by Hero Arts.

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Diane

The World on a card

A few weeks ago I made a bunch of backgrounds using the Glimmer Lace Technique Junkie technique. I used Ranger Distress Ink refills in the mini mister with a bit of water and Perfect Pearls. I made too many impressions without letting the lace thoroughly dry and I wasn't happy with this one. After it dried I decided to use it anyway and I thought the Inkadinkado stamp of the world would go well with it. I used another stamp with postmarks (manufacturer unknown) and then a bit of paper from the DCWV Travel theme to complete the card.

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Diane

Non Paper ATC

This challenge with the Stampers Corner Yahoo Group was to make a NonPaper ATC. I used grungeboard and stamped on it with acrylic paint using a Stampers Anonymous stamp. The important thing to remember if you do stamp with acrylic paint, gesso or gel medium is to wash your stamp off ASAP otherwise you might ruin it since the "stuff" will dry and stick to it forever. After the paint was dry I used Ranger Distress Inks then wiped off the part that was on the paint since it acts as a resist. The big embellishment is from K&Co Life's Journey series. The next step was to use a clear tag by Heidi Swapp. I colored the back of it with a silver Galaxy Marker. They don't bleed up on acrylic surfaces like other markers. I stamped on the front using StazOn with a stamp by Inque and secured it to the ATC using some silver mini ric-rac and then outlined the ATC with a Krylon marker.

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Diane

Funky Disfunctional card

Here's another card using Anne Taintor playing cards and the faux mother of pearl technique with Ranger Distress Inks. This color is called Victorian Velvet. The lattice cutout was cut with my Silhouette. The stamp says "If you obey all the rules you miss all the FUN" and is a quote by Katherine Hepburn. I thought it worked well with the playing card.

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Diane

Wake up little sushi card

This is another in my series of using the faux mother-of pearl technique with Anne Taintor playing card images. This color is bundled sage, one of the new Ranger Distress Ink colors. I used a Fiskars punch for the corners and cut out two swirly things (that's a technical term) with my Silhouette for the accents.

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Diane

Evening In Paris ATC

I made this for the Altered Designs TGIF ATC mingle. The last Friday of every month this year is an open theme so I decided to use some stamps by Altered Arts magazine. I did a bit of masking with the table and tower. I colored in the items on the table with watercolor markers and painted on some Stickles on the tower. The rest of the coloring is with Ranger Distress inks. The final touch was a bit of layering and an embellishment.

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Diane

My Garden Kicks A** card

This is yet another of the faux mother of pearl cards I made using Ranger Dabbers and the new Distress Ink colors, this one being Spun Sugar. I added a coordinating image from an Anne Taintor playing card, a rubber stamp flower border, punched corners and an embellishment cut with my Silhouette.

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Diane

Fabric ATC

I made this ATC for the Altered Designs Yahoo Group. The theme was fabric. Initially I didn't think I was going to participate, but then I looked through my stamps and found this one. The area of the skirt was just begging to be covered in fabric. I happened to have some of the fabric I used many moons ago laying around. I've no idea what I initially used it for since I don't sew. I think my former sister-in-law made me something and gave me the remnants. Anyway the stamp was too big for the ATC but I couldn't bear cutting her off so the bottom of the skirt and her legs dangle. I colored her skin and face with watercolor markers then came up with this saying to go with it. The background stamp is from Hero Arts and the girl is from Stamp Francisco. I used Ranger Distress Inks in colors that coordinated with the fabric (Rusty Hinge, Crushed Olive).

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Diane

Risque ATC

The theme was Rique at Altered Designs for their TGIF ATC. I chose this image I had downloaded from Gaby. I used a background paper and quote from a Leisure Arts ATC paper pad. I stamped with the Nightingale set by Inque using Ranger Distress Inks and then added a bit of bling. The final step was to outline the image with a Marvy Metallic Marker.

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Diane

Drowning in Dickens Triptych

Back in May at Art and Soul I met a gal named Jennifer. We were in a Leighanna Light class. She and I and another gal shared our workspace. Jennifer and I got to talking and decided to exchange email addresses and work out an ATC trade. We settled on doing a triptych with the theme of “drowning”. I was stumped when Jennifer asked about what theme we were going to do. I sent her a list I had downloaded but forgot how vague the themes were. I pondered this for a while and decided to see if there was an online thesaurus. Turns out there is http://www.eat.rl.ac.uk/. I entered the word drowning in the stimulus box and it spit out 34 different answers. One of them was Dickens which had me puzzled. I’ve been listening to classic literature when I take my neighborhood walks but as of yet haven’t listened to any Dickens so I had no idea where the connection came in. I wasn’t sure if they meant the author or not but after a bit of googling about Charles Dickens I found he used the reference to drowning a lot in his books. http://www.online-literature.com/dickens/. Now I finally had some direction in where to go.

I downloaded a map of Dickens’ London and cut it to fit and copied some of the quotes that reference drowning in Dickens’ books and used three different type faces that are indicative of his era. I printed them on vellum so you could still see some of the map. I already had an image of Dickens from a collage image book and carefully cut it out from the book. I used grungeboard as the surface and glued down the map, quotes and the image then used some Ranger Distress Inks to age the edges and the outside.

I used grungeboard hinges but used glossy accents to glue them. I added brads but they are for decoration only. The last step was the outside decoration so I listed some of his books by the years they were published and then added the title “Drowning in Dickens”.

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Diane

Red, Yellow and Orange ATC

Last month on the Stampers Corner Yahoo Group the ATCOTM theme was red, yellow and orange. I carefully applied Ranger Distress Inks directly to the Stampers Anonymous stamp. After the ink dried I went over it with blending foam in a contrasting color. I used Ranger Alcohol Inks in themed colors on the silver word "dream" to make it fit in and I'm done.

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Diane

More medication card

Yet another in my series of cards using the faux mother of pearl technique and a playing card by Anne Taintor. This color background is the new Ranger Distress Ink color Stormy Sky. I added a stamp by 100 Proof Press (am I nervous?) and a collage element by Crafty Secrets. A die cut with my Silhouette finishes the card.

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Diane

What I "really" want to do card

Here's another card using the faux mother of pearl technique with an Anne Taintor playing card. This time I used the new Ranger Distress Ink in Barn Door. The stamps are from 100 Proof Press and Stamp Francisco.

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Diane