Wildflower Silhouettes and Distress Oxides

Happy Friday!

It is time for an inspiration post at the Take It Make Challenge blog for this months challenge - a few more of us providing a few ideas for the Anything Goes (with stamping) challenge. As usual there are fabulous prizes up for grabs including a Christmas bundle from Kaisercraft incorporating stamps and stencils plus the chance to be selected to feature in Craft Stamper Magazine!

I was inspired by a birthday card I received from a friend to use my acrylic blocks and blending tools to make some colourful cards. I used both Distress Oxides and Distress Inks and stamped Tim Holtz Wildflowers in black archival.

Back later with my latest offering for PaperArtsy.

Nikki

Tissue Stamping card

Hi there. We are one week into the new challenge on the Craft Stamper - Blog. As usual it is Anything Goes - as long as there is some stamping! There is great prize up for grabs this month - the new Ranger Alcohol lift ink and reinker.

 It was my good friend Cathryn's birthday recently and her favourite colour is purple! 

I created a multicoloured background with paint on card and added some stamping and stencilling. I then took a piece of tissue paper and stamped the wildflowers carefully in archival ink on the tissue before adhering to the coloured card underneath. I love the subtle effect this achieves.

I added a Wildflower die cut and my greeting before matting and layering.

Nikki x

Theories Cards

Hi 

Back for my second post today - if you missed the launch of our new challenge at A Vintage Journey you can find my post here. 

We also have a new challenge today on the Craft Stamper blog - Take it Make it challenge. As always it is anything goes with stamping. 

I chose to make some much needed cards for forthcoming birthdays using Tim Holtz's Theories stamp set. My backgrounds are all Distress Oxides.

Nikki 

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Gelli Stamping with Distress Inks and Oxides

Hello - today we start a new challenge on the Craft Stamper blog - as usual it is anything goes with stamping.

For my inspiration piece I decided to use my distress oxides (and inks) on a gel plate. I used a small rectangular gelli and brayered one colour of ink on the surface before stamping onto it. I then stamped the gelli onto card. I repeated with different colours and stamps covering the surface and sometime overlapping colours.

The cards were made from the gelli printed masterboards - adding layers to create extra interest!

Nikki

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Textured quote panel

Hello and welcome to my second post of the day. Earlier I posted my Rusty and Crusty canvas for the new challenge at A Vintage Journey - you can find it here.

And it is time for a new challenge over on the Craft Stamper blog too, as always it is Anything Goes as long as you include some stamping. For my design I created this textured 6 inch square MDF panel. I added lots of texture paste, sand paste and leftover card scraps before painting it all black. Once dry, I dry brushed with white gesso before adding Deco Art Media Fluid Acrylics to colour. I added some extra white dry brushing at the end too. 

I stamped one of Alison Bomber's PaperArtsy quote stamps on some white card and heat embossed in white before using the same fluid acrylics to colour the card. 

For this months challenge at Craft Stamper the winner will receive 2 stamps sets from Imagine, Design, Create.

Thanks for stopping by today.

Nikki

Painty Birthday cards

For the start of the new Craft Stamper Take It Make it challenge I reached for my Dina Wakley paints and had some fun with paint, stencils, new Dina washi tape and collage paper and various stamps!

I think this one is my favourite - love the collage paper and washi faces!

The greeting is PaperArtsy.

Greeting is by Stampin' Up.

I chose my colours to complement those of this fab, quite thick washi tape.

Maybe went a bit mad with this one! 

More washi and scribbly text collage paper.

Do pop on over to the Take It Make Challenge blog to see lots more inspiration!

And do join in - this months winner will receive two stamp sets from That's Crafty - new stamps by the lovely Donna Gray.

Nikki

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New Sara Naumann stamps - Craft Stamper Take it Make it

Hello! Today see's the start of the February Take It Make It challenge on the Craft Stamper blog.

The sponsor this month is Darkroom Door.

For my inspiration piece I decided to use the new Sara Naumann stamps (PaperArtsy) released a week or so ago. I was lucky to receive these early for the launch - and made quite a few designs for the release.

You can see my post at PaperArtsy - 28th January - or on my blog here.

I used a mix of blue and green PaperArtsy Fresco paints, some stencils and the heart and words from ESN23 (below).

I am back on Monday with the first Destination Inspiration post for February at A Vintage Journey - it is a lot darker than this one - but maybe one of the few darker pieces I do this year as I have decided it is the year of COLOUR!

Nikki

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One stamp - 2 colours

Hello!

I am very pleased to be joining the Craft Stamper Take it Make it challenge Design Team for 2018! Our January challenge launches today and as usual it is Anything Goes with Stamping.

I decided to have a play with Distress Oxides / Inks and one of Tim Holtz's large background stamps. I am planning on using more colour in 2018 so I went quite bright - just using Wilted Violet and Twisted Citron.

I made a few panels to start off - varying how I inked the background and whether I inked or stamped first - just to get some subtle variations. Lots left over after the 2 cards I have made so far!

For one I added an Alison Bomber quote:

And the other a birthday sentiment - as I need a card early January!

Thanks for stopping by - see you soon

Nikki 

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Distress Oxide and Wildflower Cards

Hello again, back for my second post of the day. I am the guest today over on the Craft Stamper Inspiration post for the May challenge. 

I finally got hold of a few more colours of distress oxides and had a play making lots of backgrounds. I decided to use them to make some birthday cards featuring Tim Holtz Wildflower stamps and dies. My Wildflowers and Sentiment thinlits are cut from kraftcore cardstock. 

These were inspired by the wonderful creations by Richele Christensen on the Ranger Blog. 

Nikki

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