Actually, I prefer long walks through Hobby Lobby. LOL.
It's Teapotter Tickle time! Sabrina has given us a very fun challenge. We are stepping into the New Year with step cards and feet images. I opted for both for extra cookies. What a great excuse to finally use this fun Colorado Craft Company stamp--which happens to be on sale right now. And it also happens to work for Kim's Denim VSN Mini Challenge that I never got a chance to do.
You know how I am funfold-challenged. But The Cat's Pajamas has a couple of options of step card templates in the Cutables section of the shop. That made my life way easier!It cuts the base and all the panels. No measuring!
I cut the base in a denim blue and went with white for all the panels. But I didn't really want the back panels to be white, so I decided to try out my new SU Spiral Dye stamp again today, but this time with the gelli plate. I used a brayer to spread Kaleidacolor ink on the gelli plate and then made an impression on it with the stamp. By the way, I have a really cool extra background now from cleaning the ink off the brayer and then stamping it with the stamp that was inked up from the gelli plate. I wanted the colors of my image to really match, so I swiped the ink pad on my silicone mat and watercolored the image. This was risky, because I had stamped it on Neenah with Memento instead of WC paper with Versafine. But it worked out great! I used Copics for the arms and boots. For the shadow I mixed all the different colors together and did a little wash. And then I spritzed the ink with water and picked up some splatters to add a bit of interest around the image. I had a lot of fun in my craft room this morning. It's nice to be on vacation. I'm not working again until January!
Registered: January 26, 2010 Location: Wisconsin Posts: 79115
Tue, Jan 10, 2023 @ 1:46 PM
Jennifer,
So happy to have received your card for the tickle! Even prettier in real life! Your coordinating colors with the side panels are so well done! Many thanks for sending this lovely card to me!