So Grateful – Pigment Ink Blending

Hi Artsy Friends,

I used to think Pigment Inks are for Heat Embossing. After noticing some demonstration stunning cards of ERUM TASNEEM using light-colored pigments inks over dark-colored cardstocks, I thought I might give it a try.

I decided to apply complimentary color scheme for this card. I think it turned out not bad. This has opened up more opportunities for me to make use of Pigment Inks. Thanks, Altenew, for hosting this challenge.  

Hope this card is eye-pleasing to you. Thanks for stopping by and have a colorful day.

Card Details

Pigment Inks (Buttercream, Warm Sunshine and Ruby Red), Embossing Folder and sentiment die are all by Altenew.

Challenge Entered

• Altenew Pigment Inks Contest 2021     

• Tic Tac Toe Challenge #138     

My take is Thankful Sentiment, Free and Any Color

• Cut it Up Challenge 238 - Thanks or Thanksgiving
• Little Red Wagon Challenge #626 - So Very Thankful
• Watercooler Wednesday Challenge WWC328 - Tristan's Challenge: All About Occasions
• Crafty Sentiments Designs – Anything Goes (November 2)
• Love to Craft Challenge LTCCB #64 - November Anything Goes
• A Perfect Time To Craft Challenge for November #11
• Love to Scrap Challenge #151 - Anything Goes

Get Well Soon – Real Leaf Print

Edited on 11/5/2021

I’m so glad this card was chosen as a TOP Three by CAS Mix Up October Mixed Media Challenge. What an honor!

Hi Artsy Friends,

Today I challenged myself to apply Oxide Inks on a real leaf and printed it on a card, thanks to inspirations from several challenges. The shape of the leaf is very special, isn’t it? 

It’s Bauhinia or so-called Purple Camel’s Foot/ Orchid Tree/Mountain Ebony. Bauhinia is very popular here in Taiwan and is one of my favorite street trees. And there’re two huge Bauhinia in my neighborhood. 

The card is for a friend who’s going to have an operation. Hope my card is eye-pleasing to you. Thanks for stopping by and have a beautiful day.

Card Details

Sentiment is by Hero Arts. Wonky Frame die is by my Favorite Things.

Challenges Entered

• CAS Mix Up October Mixed Media Challenge- Botanical Prints     

• Try it on Tuesday Challenge - Autumn Blessings
• My Time to Craft Challenge #467 – Get Well Soon

• We Love Chocolate Baroque October Challenge – Anything Autumn
• Girlz Creative Crafts Challenge #17 – Autumn

• Inspirational Station Challenge # 15 – An Autumn Countryside     

• Allsorts Challenge #645 – Embellish it
• Simon Says Stamp IG Challenge – All About Autumn      

• The Four Seasons Challenge – Anything Goes Fall     

• Stay Crafty with Hero Challenge #28- Fall Colors     

• The Crafting Challenge October Challenge – Autumn Colors
• Unicorn Challenge #70 Autumn and/or Halloween

Sending Lots of Love and HUGS- Herringbone

Edited on 2021/10/21

I'm excited that this card was chosen as a Featured Project by Little Red Wagon Challenge #622.

Hi Artsy Friends,

I’m playing with Altenew Educators “Alphabet Name Game” Blog Hop and Linky Party + Giveaway. This is such an interesting challenge that I can’t afford missing it.

My first name starts with H. I have incorporated 3 H components in my card, namely Heat Embossing, Hugs with letter H and Herringbone Technique which I haven't played for a long time.

I dug out my Altenew Patterned Papers and made the Herringbone pattern. I’m so happy that I finished the card before the last minute. Hope it’s eye-pleasing to you. Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day.

Card Details

Patterned Paper, stamp and sentiment die cut are all by Altenew.

Revisit to Some of My Old Cards Using Herringbone Techniques

• Hello, You Make Me Smile- Herringbone
• Sew Special ~ 刊登在VSN雜誌5月號的作品之二 (Herringbone)

Challenges Entered 

• Altenew Educators “Alphabet Name Game” Blog Hop and Linky Party + Giveaway          

• Papercraft Challenge #74 – Sentiment as a Focus
• Little Red Wagon Challenge #622 – Girls Just Want Fun
• Creative Moments Challenge # 224 – Anything Goes
• Crafty Sentiments Design Oct 5 – Anything Goes 
• PIP Challenge # 2140 – Anything Goes
• Mix it Up Challenge #54 – Anything Goes with Optional Paper Piecing
• The Crafter’s Café Challenge #275 – Anything Goes
• Gem of a Craft Challenge #21 – Anything Goes
• Through the Craft Room Door Challenge Oct 5 – Anything Goes

Hope Your Day Is Amazing

Hi Stamping Friends,
Inspired by Altenew Academy’s class - Monoprinting Made Easy, I practiced my Gelli Plate with dye inks for the very first time and the background was what I made. Hope you like it. Like the card says, hope your day is amazing. Thanks for stopping by.

Card Details
1. Stamps and die are by Altenew.
2. Apply Altenew Crisp Dye Ink, Rubellite and Pink Diamond, with stripe mode on Gelli Plate.
Cover Gelli Plate with a white card panel and let dry.
3. Stamp layers of floral images and layers of leaf images with Altenew Crisp Dye Inks- Warm & Cozy and Green Meadows, respectively and die cut the images.
4. Assemble the card as shown on top.

Challenges to Enter

• Altenew July 2019 Inspiration Challenge

    

• Stamping Sensations July Challenge - The Earth Laughs in Flowers

• Addicted to Stamps and More Challenge #351 - Anything Goes

    

• Creative with Stamps Challenge #40 - Stripes

     There were vague stripes in my card, Rubellite and Pink Diamond.

• Love to Craft Challenge LTCCB #36 - July Anything Goes
• Mix it Up Challenge MIUCB #27 - Anything Goes + Optional Foiling

     I did not play with Optional Foiling.

• Happy Little Stampers HLS July Anything Goes with Dies Challenge

    

• STAMPlorations Summer CAS Card Challenge

     

• Through the Craft Room Door Anything goes challenge week of July 23
• Die Cut Divas Challenge Blog - Anything Goes with an Optional Twist of Patriotic

     I did not play with the twist.

Hello, You Make Me Smile - Herringbone

Edited on 4/21/2019
I’m happy that this ATC was picked as a Top Three by Through the Craft Room Door Challenge out of 100+ entries, with the following remark:

Such a great idea to recycle scraps to make such colourful and striking cards especially in a climate where everything seems to be disposable and single use.

Hi Artsy Friends,
I’m so excited to become a member of Happy Little Stampers (HLS) ATC (Artist Trading Card/Coin) Challenge Design Team starting from April. I haven’t made ATCs for a long time. The DT role will surely enable me to make more ATCs in the future. Ha!

The APRIL Challenge Theme is PERTTY PAPERS.

For Challenge Rules and other DTs’ inspirations, please check out the Challenge Blog. Please join us for the fun.

Pretty Papers made me think about the scraps/leftovers of Mixed Media background papers that I’ve kept. The following are how I made my ATC.

ATC Details

1. Dig out my previously-made Mixed Media background paper scraps.


2. Apply Herringbone Technique to arrange the paper scraps to a panel.

3. Stamp text in black ink. Die cut texts from black card stock and adhere to Herringbone panel. (Texts and Die Cuts are by Hero Arts.) Mount the panel to a white ATC card base. Viola!

I hope these ATCs are eye-pleasing to you.

For my previous Herringbone Technique card, please check out here. Thanks for stopping by and wish you a great day ahead.

Challenges to Enter

• More Mixed Media Challenge - Anything Goes with optional Yellow
• Allsorts Challenge Week 514 - Sentiment in Focus
• Love to Craft Challenge LTCCB #33 - April Anything Goes
• Craft Stamper, Take It, Make It April Challenge – Anything Goes Stamping Challenge
• Watercooler Wednesday Challenge WWC215 - Donna's Feminine "Anything Goes" Challenge 
• We Love 2 Create Challenge #3 - Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes
• Through the Craft Room Door Anything goes challenge week of April
• World Wide Open Design Team Challenge #03 - 15th March 2019
• A Perfect Time To Craft Challenge for April #4 - 2019

 

Hello, You Brighten My Day

Edited on 4/29/2018
I’m super excited that this card was chosen as one of the Outstanding Designs by CAS Mix Up Challenge Blog. Thanks DTs, you ladies made my day!

Hi Stamping Friends,

Rubber Band Technique is something I learnt in my early stage of stamping journey, yet I haven’t played it for many years. I was so inspired and fascinated by Loll’s artworks that I decided to make a card with a similar style.

Card Details

1. Use a previously-made scrap (shown below) and apply Distress Inks to create tone-on-tone effect.

2. Apply Rubber Band Technique with Archival Black Ink on background scrap.

3. Die cut wonky stitched frame (My Favorite Things and Simon Says Stamp, respectively). Die cut text (Hero Arts) and bird (Memory Box).

4. Stamp the text and assemble the card as shown.

I'd like to thank Loll for her wonderful tutorial video and inspirations. I’m so delighted that I made this card. Hope this mixed media CAS card is eye-pleasing to you. Thanks for stopping by.

Challenges to Enter

• CAS Mixed Up April Challenge – Rubber Band Technique + Stamping + Your Choice

 

     Distress Ink Direct on Stencil is my choice in this card.

• AAA Cards CAS Game #112 - A Favourite Technique

    

     My favorite technique is stenciling.

• Addicted to Stamps and More Challenge #286 - Anything Goes

     

• CAS-ual Fridays Challenge CFC #196 - Spring Fever

      
     The beautiful colors like pink, orange, yellow and the bird all remind me that spring is coming.

• Simply Create Too Ch. #137- Use Die Cuts

• Watercooler Wednesday Challenge WWC164 - Marsha's Feminine "Anything Goes" Challenge

  

• Creative with Stamps CWS #25: CAS + Sentiment

  

• Make My Monday Challenge # 68 Things with Wings
• Through the Craft Room Door Anything Goes Challenge 3th-10th April
• Love To Craft LTCCB #21 - April Anything Goes

 

Two-Tone Glittering Wedding Card

Hi Stamping Friends,

Happy New Year!

I made this card for a subordinate. I am happy that I finally tried the two-tone Glitter and Stencil Technique. The glitter-covered card is really sparkling and pretty.

I wish all of you an even more productive and sparkling year ahead in the year of 2018! Thanks for stopping by.

Card Details

1. For Two-Tone Glitter and Stencil Technique, please check out Jennifer McGuire’s tutorial.  

2. Stamp is by STAMPlorations, text die cut and stencil are by Hero Arts. 

Challenges to Enter

• AAA Cards Challenge CAS Game #105 – Sparkle
  

  

• Cards in Envy Framed with Circles Card Challenge
• Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes
• Love to Craft LTCCB #17 - December Anything Goes
• That’s Crafty Challenge- Anything Goes
• Time Out Challenge #99 – New Beginnings

     Marriage is for sure a new beginning for a person’s life. That’s why I think this card is qualified for the challenge.

• Crafting by Designs December Anything Goes Challenge
• Crafty Creations Challenge #357 Anything Goes
• STAMPlorations Never-Ending Anything Goes Challenge

  

• Crafting with an Attitude Challenge #34 Anything Goes 

Today is a Good Day to Smile

Hi Stamping Friends,

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

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 patterned paper scraps and some previous DIY book pages from my old project leftover box. The following are how I made this tag.

 

Tag Details

1. Adhere patterned paper scraps and DIY book pages to tag to create a collage using Gel Medium.

2. While Gel Medium is wet, cover the collage with several pieces of tissue paper, creating some wrinkle effects, to reach Shabby Chic look.

3. Die cut butterflies. Apply Distress Inks on the white butterfly.

4. Heat Emboss text in white on black cardstock. Torn the edge. Lay silver sting under the butterfly. Assemble the tag as shown.

I must say I’m quite delighted for what I’ve made. Hope this tag is eye-pleasing to you. I also hope “today is a good day to smile” for you. Thanks for stopping by.

Challenges to Enter

• Simon Says Monday Challenge: STAMPtember® Stamp It Challenge
• Craft Stamper, Take It Make It September Challenge – Anything Goes Stamping Challenge
• More Mixed Media Challenge - "Anything Goes" with optional Brown

  

• Mix it Up Challenge #5 - Anything Goes + Optional Twist of Inlaid Die Cut
• Creative Artiste Challenge #30 – Anything Mixed Media Goes
• Creates and Makes Challenge # 14- Anything Goes
• The Artistic Stamper September's Creative Challenge - Take a little Colour
• Love to Craft LTCCB #14 - September Anything Goes
• Classic Design Team Open Challenge # 17 – Anything Goes
• A Perfect Time to Craft Open Challenge #09

 

Thanksgiving Blessing Tag

It is a 3-day long weekend here in Taiwan and I am so blessed to have been able to make artworks three days in a row. After making a super CAS card yesterday, I challenged myself to make a quite sophisticated-looking one and this tag is what I made today. Boy, I am in a heaven.

I am entering this tag to the following challenges:

1. Stamploration {Stencil Sunday #14} + October Mixed Media Challenge
   
2. Crafter Stampers, Take it Make it October Challenge, 'Take A Technique - Ink Stitch Paint Collage Print Paper
In my tag, I have inks, faux stitches and faux newspaper.
3. Just Us Girls Trend Week 314 – Use Stencils
4. The Sisterhood of Crafters, Lets All Go To 'The Pumpkin Patch
5. The Mixed Media Monthly Challenge #17 - Word Search


   
    My word inspirations are pumkin and black.

Card Details

1. All stamps are by Hero Arts and all stencils are by Tim/Stampers Anonymous.
2. Pumpkins were colored by Copic Markers.
3. I added crackle embossing paste first. After dry, I applied two layers of stenciling then covered the whole tag with some distress inks.  I overstamped the newspaper background, making the whole background full of textures as shown below.

 
4. I added faux stitiches on the side as the final finishing touch.

I feel extremely blessed after making this tag. Hope you like this tag. Thanks for stopping by.