Thinking Of You Card For Penny Black Challenge

I have a card today for the Penny Black Saturday Challenge. 

I used Penny Black stamp 40-453 Passionate, along with the thinking of you verse from the Collage of Wishes set.  

I stamped the Passionate image onto Strathmore Bristol vellum with distress inks, then use Polychromos colored pencils to bring out the details.

Some PB background stamps and ink blending created the background.

I stamped the verse from the Collage of Wishes set, then added some faint images with some older PB stamps in the background.  A spatter of ink and a silk ribbon and bow finish off the panel, which I attached to a green A2 card. 

The theme of the Penny Black Saturday Challenge is always Anything Goes.  The optional extra this month is Ribbon and/or twine.  I hope you will join us, and maybe even win a prize!  Details are on the PBSC blog HERE.  

Thank you for your visit to my blog today.  Stay well and healthy.  Prayers for our countries, and for our world!

Blessings,

Easter Fun Challenge At Impression Obsession

 Welcome to the Impression Obsession 

Easter Fun Challenge.   

 I hope you will join us for this fun challenge.  

Just make a card or cards, and enter them HERE.  

Each card you enter gets you a chance to win a $25 gift certificate to the IO store! 

These fun stamps combine to make my Easter card today...

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Impression Obsession Stamps:
Spring Words Block D12202 
Bunny Butt D12205 
Bunny Block D12206 

I love these fun, whimsical block stamps!  
I stamped them onto watercolor paper, then painted them using Kuretake Gansai Tambi Watercolor paint. 

I cut out each block, and attached them to a pink A2 card.
That's it!  Easy-peasy.  Some crystal sequins finish the card.  Don't you just love the little bunny bottom sticking out of the flower pot? 

I hope you will join us in this fun, springtime challenge.  For more inspiration, be sure to check out the other designer's posts HERE.

Thank you for stopping by today.  I appreciate your visits and comments.

Blessings,
 

Technique Junkies April Stamp Release

 Welcome to Technique Junkies April Release Day!
We have new stamps in the TJ line.  
Check out the list below for some 
sweet inspiration from our Design Team! 

All of the April 2020 New Release 

stamps are 15% off through April 8th.

Just put them in your shopping cart and 

the discount will be applied at checkout.  

And, if you add my code, TJ10Lynda, 

you will get an additional 10% off!  

That's 25% off the new release stamps!!

 

 

I have two cards for your inspiration today. 

Friends Are Flowers

 

Stamps:  Poppies and Roses

                                In Full Bloom Sentiments

This is a fabulous background stamp.  I stamped and white embossed the Poppies and Roses onto craft card stock.  I used distress reinkers to paint the flowers.  I started with one layer of color, then when that was dry, added another layer.  I repeated this, depending on the color, two or three times, for a total of four or five layers altogether.  I was careful not to add too much water, so as not to pill the card stock.

I embossed the verse from the In Full Bloom Sentiments set, under the watercolored panel.  Added a matching ribbon, then attached the panel to a craft A2 card front.

Your Own Kind of Beautiful

Stamps:  Lotus Corner

              Own Kind of Beautiful   

This is a one layer card!  I stamped the Lotus Corner stamp with light pink distress ink onto very pale pink card stock.   When that was dry, I used Polychromos colored pencils to add highlights and shading, and deepen the color.   

I added the Own Kind of Beauty verse with Ranger Archival Ink.  To create the illusion of dimension, I drew a line around the image and verse, using the fine tip of a gray Tombow marker.  I created a mask to cover the image area, and brushed pink distress ink along the outside of the area.

I hope you like my cards.  Be sure to check out the other designers' cards, using the links below:  

Technique Junkies Blog 

Pat Huntoon 

Beth Norman-Roberts 

Ceal Pritchett  
Giovana Smith 

Holly Brown 

Jeanne Streiff 

Judy Jackson 

Ro Donner 

Lynda Pleckan  (that's me)
Carmen Garcia 

Patti Gilliam

Thank you for visiting my blog today, and for your kind comments.

Blessings, 

              

Old Is New At Impression Obsession - Peace Bouquet

Hello friends!  It's time again for Old Is New at Impression Obsession.  I used an older fall stamp from the IO line for my card today.  I challenged myself to make it look 'springy.'

IO Stamps/Die:
Autumn Bouquet D15145
Be At Peace C13893
Blessed Rock C20805
Typewriter Sentiments DIE905-Y

I stamped the Autumn Bouquet onto green card stock, and colored it with Polychromos colored pencils.  I used an oval die, and mounted it to another oval die cut piece of light blue card stock.  I attached this to a blue A2 card front (to which I had added a green strip of card stock).  



I die cut the 'peace' word from the Typewriter Sentiments die set, added it to a blue scrap, and attached it with foam tape. 

A green silk ribbon adds the finishing touch!

Inside:

That's it.  I have been spending lots of time in my studio, trying to stay away from all the craziness with the news and scary events happening.  I find peace in my room.  I am sharing this peace with you today, via my card.

You can see the other participating designer's cards on the Impression Obsession blog HERE.

May you find peace and relief from anxieties as these events unravel in our world.  I turn to the source of all peace for me, my Lord.  When I look to Him, I know he is with me.  I know he will care for me, and be with me as I walk through this.  I pray you find that comfort.

Blessings,
 

Hope Is Stronger Than Fear

Hello. 

I thought we could all use a little message of hope, and my card for the Technique Junkies blog today is just that.

Technique Junkies Stamps:  Contemporary Floral
                                           Hope Is Stronger

I started with a background which I had created a (long) while ago, using shaving cream and distress ink reinkers.  You can find a tutorial on this technique HERE, on the Splitcoaststampers tutorials page. 

I inked the Contemporary Floral stamp with Ranger archival inks in green shades.  I used my Misti to stamp it a few times, adding different shades of greens.  

I embossed the Hope Is Stronger verse on a scrap piece of white card stock, and embossed it with black.  I used foam tape to added it to the card for dimension.  Some layering, and I was done!

And for the inside....

 



Don't forget to use my code, TJ10Lynda at the checkout for a 10% discount on your purchases at Technique Junkies.








I pray you are all safe and well, and that you are finding peace in these are trying times.  Our country, indeed, our world, needs prayer.  Let us join together, help each other, and pray for God's mercy.  Peace be with you, my friends. 

Blessings,
 

Impression Obsession Pour One On Challenge

Welcome to the Impression Obsession Pour One On challenge.   I hope you will join us for this fun challenge.  Just make a card or cards, and enter them HERE.  Each card you enter gets you a chance to win a $25 gift certificate to the IO store!  I kept my card pretty simple today...

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I used the Impression Obsession WP1007 Layered Coffeepots clear stamp set for my card today.  The die is from the DIE805-YY Checkered Frames die set.

I added some layers of kraft and gray card stock, on a black A2 card front.  The verse on the card front and inside are from the Layered Coffeepots clear set. 

WP1007 LAYERED COFFEE POTS

I hope to see you at the Impression Obsession Pour One On challenge with your card.  
Be sure to check out the other Design Team cards listed in the IO post HERE. 

Thank you for visiting my blog today.  I appreciate your visits and comments.

Blessings,

Card From Live Online Class With Copics and Polychromos

Hello, lovely peeps!  I am excited to show you a card I made today.  Not that it's spectacular, but because it is a card I created in an online class this afternoon, given by Lydia Fiedler.  You can find Lydia's blog, Understand Blue, HERE.  Be sure to stop by and see her magic soon!  Here is my card...

I used Magenta stamps in my card today, with Copic markers and Polychromos colored pencils.  Polychromos are my favorite colored pencils.  They allow many layers of color, without that waxy buildup.  Yet they blend ever so beautifully!!

I love Lydia's technique of adding Copic coloring to the image in the shadow areas, then filling in with colored pencils, leaving that all-important white space.  I haven't mastered the 'white space' quite yet.  I can't help it...I love to blend!  She uses a flicking technique, which I am practicing.  I'm somewhat happy with my card, however, I need to keep a little more white space, and do less blending out so my flicking strokes show more.  I will keep practicing. 

Another tip I had learned from Lydia is to add some of the color from the flowers into the leaves.  I actually saw this on one of her previous videos, and have been doing it ever since. 

I loved Lydia's class today, which she had offered (free) as a ray of positive sunshine in this cloud of Coronavirus frenzy.  It was a refreshing way to get away from the stress of all of that for a while this afternoon.  Be sure to stop by her blog and sign up for her posts.  She is a very talented, funny, and lovely lady.  I have learned a lot from her these past few years.

I am adding my card to these challenges:
The Flower Challenge - Anything goes
Simon Says Wednesday - Use some green

Thank you, Lydia!

Blessings,
 

Zentangle For A Wednesday Morning

Hello!  I have a spring-like ZIA (Zentangle inspired art) tile today, for the prompt at the Art Nudge group on Facebook.   
Art Nudge is an inspiring new FB group.  Every Tuesday there is a new 'nudge' to get you inspired to create art.  ANY art.  Be sure to check it out and join the fun! 
 
I was inspired by the tulips, and the colors in the prompt.

My kitty, Bella, helped me create today.  

Walking on my work to get a better look. 

Taking a cat nap on my die cutting table next to my desk.  She loves that there's a window there for her to watch the squirrels and birds. 

Although it's colder today, spring is definitely in the air.  The geese are trumpeting their way back in droves (actually, I believe it is gaggles).  We had temps in the 60's Sunday and Monday, and lots of sprouts are poking through the garden soil.  My 'gardening urge' is intensifying.  Yes, that is a thing!
 
Thanks for stopping by.  Happy 'hump' day!

Blessings,