INKspirations!

 Greetings!  I’ve been missing in action for the past few weeks from taxi service for my two boys.  We’re in the home stretch for summer vacation, and before you know it, school will be back in session.   The big excitement this week is my oldest will officially be a teenager!  🫣 - I’m not sure if I’m ready!   For his birthday, I made a special card that looks like a fishing vest.  You could easily make this a hunter’s vest by changing up the colors/prints of the paper. I was in a little bit of a panic because I hadn’t made his card yet, but I remembered I had this great die from Honey Bee Stamps- Honey Cut Dies Fishing Vest A2 Card Base. I was wanting to make something that looked like camouflage material, so I used the DSP from Stampin Up’s O Holy Night, and Unity’s plaid sheet and forest print from the Found in the Forest Paper Pack. I used a piece of kraft cardstock to make a sturdy base for the middle.  I added the O Holy Night to the inside...

  Hello!  It’s hotter than blazes outside, so it was the perfect day to sit down and color for awhile. This card is designed from this month’s sketch from Build Your Holiday Stash Challenge#71. The stamp is from Honey Bee Stamps called - St. Nick, and this is a combination of colored pencils, a marker, white acrylic paint and wink of stella. For my card, I turned the sketch vertically.  I used patterned paper from Unity Stamps called - A Dash of Christmas.   The Santa was stamped on a scrap piece of Neenah Desert Storm, and colored with Prisma color pencils.  For the trim, I used a small flat paint brush and acrylic white paint, and dry brushed.  Less paint and a little pouncing give a fuzzy effect.  A little wink of stella was used as an accent, and a dark brown water based marker were used to add a little stipple dots in the fur for shading. Santa was fussy cut and I used the same dark brown marker to color the edge before attaching to the card base....