Thanks for Everything ATC Card

Hi Artsy Friends,
I hope you’re doing well under prevailing Coronavirus situation.

It’s time to play along with Happy Little Stampers (HLS) ATC (Artist Trading Card/Coin) Challenge again. The May Challenge Theme is Rainbow.
  
For Challenge Rules and other DTs’ inspirations, please check out the Challenge Blog.

I love how my ATC card turned out to be. Rainbow colors are so delightful and just made me happy. Hope this ATC is eye-pleasing to you. Thanks for stopping by. I wish you and your loved ones healthy during the pandemic.

ATC Details
1. Apply various Distress Stains directly on a watercolor paper panel. (DTP, Direct to Paper Technique)

2. Spray some water on panel to blend colors and create rainbow color effect.

3. Stamp my favorite text background (Hero Arts).

4. Stamp text (Simon Says Stamps) in black.

5. Apply embossing paste through a stencil (TCW) randomly.

6. Die cut flower (Simon Says Stamps).

7. Affix flower diecut on ATC panel and attach to a white ATC card. Voila!

 

Challenges to Enter

• Simon Says Wednesday Challenge- Use Dies and/or Punches
• ATC Around the World Challenge #65 – Flowers
• Crafter’s Castle May Challenge #29 – Anything Goes
• Through the Craft Room Door Anything Goes Challenge Week Beginning 5th May
• More Mixed Media Challenge - Anything Goes/Optional Pink
• STAMPlorations May Stencil Challenge – Always Anything Goes

  

• Take It Make It Challenge: May Anything Goes
• Love to Craft Challenge #46 - May Anything Goes
• Love to Create Challenge #5 – Anything Mixed Media Goes
• Love to Scrap Challenge LTSCB #133 - Anything Goes

Thanks for Everything

Hi Stamping Friends,

I’m super excited to join the New Release Blog Hop of Happy Little Stampers (HLS). This is my very first time to join a blog hop in my stamping life!

The newly released stamp sets are as follows.

I've made six cards using three of HLS's newly released stamp sets. Although I’m in the Mixed Media Design Team, all my cards are CAS (Clean and Simple) style this time. 

(1st)

The first card was done using VersaMark Resist (or so-called Ghost) Technique. 

(2nd)

The second card simply applied Distress Stain Dabber Direct Technique.

(3rd)

 

The third card used VersaMark Resist Technique again.

 

(4th)

 

The fourth card applied DIY Distress Mist Stenciling Technique.

(5th)

 

 The fifth card applied Distress Stenciling and Heat Emboss Techniques.

 

(6th)

 

The sixth card applied Heat Emboss Technique.

 

Hope these cards are eye-pleasing and inspirational to you. Please let me know which card you like the most and be sure to follow the prize rule listed below. Good luck and thanks for stopping by.

 

 

How to win? You need to do the following -

1. Comment on this blog post

2. Follow the links below to our Designer's blog posts and leave them a comment.

3. The Blog Hop will run for 1 week from 12th March 2018 @ 6am to 19th March 2018 6am AEST.

 That's it! Enjoy the show!

We have 10 prizes up for grabs. All our winners will be chosen at random and you MUST comment on ALL the blogs in the Hop.

Let's Go!

Comment on this post and then follow the links in the Hop.

Happy Little Stampers

Kylie

Anita

Heidi

Jane

Michelle

Linda

Stephanie
Helen Liu (you are here)

GOOD LUCK :)

Today is Full of Possibilities

Hi Stamping Friends,

It’s time to play along with Happy Little Stampers (HLS) Mixed Media Challenge again. The October Challenge Theme is CRACKLE.

For more details and other DTs’ inspirations, please check out the Challenge Blog. Anything mixed media could be linked up to our challenge as long as it follows our theme. Be sure to join for a chance to win $20.

Were it not for this challenge, I wouldn’t have dug out the crackle paste!  Ha! The following are how I made this tag.

Tag Details

1. Apply several DIY Distress Mists over two overlapping stencils (by TWC) on a watercolor tag. For DIY Distress Mist recipes, please check out my old post.

2. Ink the white area by Distress ink.

3. Apply a thick layer of Crackle Paste over the butterfly stencil (by Memory Box) on tag and let dry.

4. Color crackled butterflies by Distress Stains. Apply Gold Distress Stain Mist to create splatter effects.

 

5. Heat emboss text (by Simon Says Stamp) in white on black card scrap, adhere sequins and assemble the tag as shown on top.

I hope my tag is inspirational to you and hope today is full of possibilities for your craft creations. Wish you a great day and thanks for stopping by.

Challenges to Enter

• More Mixed Media Challenge - "Anything Goes" with optional Orange
• MIUCB #6 - Anything Goes + Watercoloring
• A Vintage Journey October Challenge – Crazy for Autumn Colour
• Stamps and Stencils October Challenge – Autumn ~ 'The Season of Mists and Mellow Fruitfulness'
• We Love to Create Challenge 1 Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes
• Creative Artiste Challenge #31 – Anything Mixed Media Goes
• Creates and Makes Challenge # 15- Anything Goes
• Craft Stamper, Take It Make It October Challenge – Anything Goes Stamping Challenge
• Classic Design Team Open Challenge # 17 – Anything Goes
• A Perfect Time to Craft Open Challenge #10

 

Congrats, Mr. and Mrs.

Edited on 8/8/2015
This card was chosen as one of the three Winners by Use of Your Stuff Challenge #182 and won me another new badge which I can proudly display on my blog. Thank you, DTs. Yay!

This is a not-so-traditional wedding card. I made this for my niece who is currently a professor. She has determined to marry a gentleman with a totally different cultural, educational and career background. This is so unusual, so I decided to make an unusual wedding card for her. I wish her a happy marriage life as colorful and cheerful as this card!

Card Details

1. All stamps are by Hero Arts.
2. Die cut is by My Favorite Thing.
3. Technique applied is Emboss Resist with Distress Stains and DIY chipboard.

If you like this irregular wedding card, please let me know. Thanks! LOL!
This card is also for the following challenges:

1. Craft Stamper Magazine Take It Make It Challenge May Challenge, Take A Stamp - Anything Goes
2. Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge –LET'S GET SENTIMENTAL
3. Mixed Media Mojo May 2015 Challenge – Tic Tac Toe Board
   I have chosen tape, Chipboard and stamp.

4. Virginia's View Challenge #14 layers and dimensions
  
5. Use of Your Stuff Challenge #182 – Embossing

Watercolor Splattered Hello Card

I re-visited Watercolor Splatter Technique and made this card which will be entered into the following challenges:

1. CASology Week 116 - Splatter
       
2. Colour Me #41
 
3. Less is More #193 - One Layer Card, keeping it CAS and including 2 of something!
      
4. Virginia’s View Challenge # 8 Clean and Simple
  
5. Simon Says Use Watercolors

6. AAA Cards Game #24 Autumn Colors
  

Card Details

1. I used Distress Stains and Hero Arts Daubers to create splattered flowers and used paint brush to create water droplets.
2. Text stamp is by Simon Says Stamp.
3. I actually did a step-by-step tutorial about this technique back in 2009. Please check out here.

I must say I am still trying to get familiarized with this kind of CAS style. I think it's not bad. What do you think?

Edited on 2014/11/08
This card was selected as one of the Top Three in AAA Cards Game #24 Autumn Colors. What an honor! Thank you, ladies!

Playing with Gelato and More Stenciling Art

The twelve butterflies are the leftovers from my previous butterfly canvas artwork! Instead of keeping the canvas plain white, I decided to practice the Gelato Drip Technique! Hmm, it worked out quite well!

I thought I could enter this project to Simon Says Stamp’s Current Challenge-Paste. I used stencils to make these 12 butterflies, and some of them used Embossing Paste and Gesso. They definitely all look textured! The following are some close-ups of them!

I think now I am addicted to not only stencil art but also Gelato!

這12隻蝴蝶是上一份蝴蝶帆布作品剩下的，這次Helen不想讓背景一片純白，想玩一玩現在很夯的流水技法(Drip Technique)。只要是水性顏料都可以玩這種技法，而這次Helen使用的是Gelato。要讓顏料順利往下流，訣竅是必須在卡紙或畫布上先塗上一層Gesso，等Gesso乾了後，才能塗上水彩或Gelato，然後噴水，就能順利產出如流水般的背景了！

More Stenciling Art – 繼續玩型版技法

I have been addicted to Stenciling Art since last year and have been unable to stop!

I have recently utilized twelve stenciling techniques and come up with this butterfly canvas artwork! Oh, I really love it!

I also managed to make twelve tags which correspond to the twelve butterflies so that I will not forget how I made each butterfly!

自去年起Helen迷上型版藝術，到現在還欲罷不能！前陣子決定彙整十二種型版技法，每一隻蝴蝶運用一種技法，並把蝴蝶貼在仿麻畫布上，再用畫框裱起來，嗯！真的很像一件藝術品喔！

運用的技法及媒材如下：

1.浮雕膏烙印技法 (浮雕膏與復古染色劑之運用)
2.浮雕膏與復古染色劑混合技法 (浮雕膏、復古染色劑與滾輪之運用)
3.位移技法 (復古印台之運用)
4.復古印台與水(Finger Flicking Technique) (復古印台之運用)
5.復古印台與水(Water Stenciling Technique) (復古印台之運用)
6.復古壓克力彩直接上色與抗色技法 (復古壓克力彩與復古染色劑之運用)
7.仿金屬技法 (型版壓凸與復古壓克力彩之運用)
8.燙凸抗色技法(浮水印台與復古染色劑之運用)
9.仿皮革技法(凸粉之運用)
10.復古裂漆與復古壓克力彩混合技法(復古裂漆與復古壓克力彩之運用)
11.Gesso抗色法 (Gesso與復古染色劑之運用)
12.Gesso與復古壓克力彩混合技法 (Gesso與復古壓克力彩之運用)

完成12隻蝴蝶，也同時完成12張技法標籤，耶！收穫豐盛！

以上也是Helen在好心藝二月及三月份的課程內容！

With Joy 〜刊登在400 More Ideas 雜誌上的卡片

最近新卡片完全斷炊，其實已經有點忘了玩印章、做卡片是怎樣的快樂了！所幸有這麼件令人開心的事，就是Helen有作品(如圖)被刊登在雜誌上第六頁了！
 

400 More Ideas 雜誌是Stampington & Company轄下的新雜誌，所謂的「新」指的是雜誌名稱，不過雜誌內容和編輯精神則是承襲原來的Catch Up Issue雜誌，所以是新瓶裝舊酒！哈！據個人觀察，400 More Ideas承襲原Catch Up Issue雜誌的編輯方式特色，是將同一色調的卡片彙整在同一版面，因此攤開雜誌，兩個頁面上的六張卡片，可能主題或風格迥異，但是色調卻是一致的，這在視覺上相當舒服！
 

Helen這張卡片是2011年底投的稿，已經忘了當時的主題是什麼！不過那不重要，只要能獲得青睞，能讓同好欣賞，就是一件很開心的事！
 

卡片說明
 

1.     所有印章出自Hero Arts。

2.     背景技法為燙凸抗色法，不過上色媒材用的是Distress Stain (復古染色劑)。作法為，在卡紙燙凸後直接抹上Distress Stain共三色，再噴上自製珍珠水(Pearlized Water)，使混色更自然！

3.     蝴蝶刀模出自Memory Box，花邊刀模出自Tim Holtz/Sizzix。

在此也謝謝好心藝劉姐刊登此訊息！也恭喜同時上榜的小雅！也請不吝來個「讚」，鼓勵一下Helen吧！

延伸閱讀

1.     好心藝Catch Up榮譽榜。

2.     Heartfelt Wishes ~刊登在Catch Up Issue雜誌Volume16 的作品。

3.     Enjoy 〜刊登在Catch Up Issue雜誌Volume13 的作品。

4.     燙凸抗色法(Emboss Resist)。

彩虹母親節卡 〜 魔卡挑戰#85賓果3

這是一張彩虹色彩的母親節卡！主要為魔卡挑戰#85賓果3而做，其他參加的挑戰都是搭便車喔！

Helen的賓果有兩條線，最右邊的直線：背景章、訂書針、字章和最下面橫線：燙凸、撕紙、字章。

這張卡片同時參加的MUSE挑戰，是由格友票選出最欣賞的卡片，不管有沒有參加挑戰都可以投票！投票時間為4月28日凌晨起24小時截止，Helen的卡片是第24號，大家如果有空，拜託前去投票給Helen喔！先謝了！

 卡片說明
 1.     所有印章出自Hero Arts。

2.     大家應該一眼就看出來Helen又再玩燙凸抗色了，只不過這次上色的媒材是Distress Stain (復古染色劑)，七個顏色依序上完色後再噴上(加上金質粉)的水，讓色與色之間融合得更自然，真是非常簡單！
 3.   愛心部分是由遮蔽技法完成。

4.     這張卡同時參加

Moxie Fab World, the Wonder of Watercolor Challenge

Muse Challenge #14 (Helen的靈感來源是遮蔽技法和珍珠裝飾)

Hero Arts April Challenge, Just For Her

Simon Says Challenge, Anything Goes