Color Throwdown Challenge #501

This is for today's Color Throwdown Challenge to use gray, yellow, and kraft. These are done with Distress Oxide inks and Unity stamps.

Having fun with Oxide inks

I am giving a little love to an old, favorite stamp of mine...this palm tree. It is from an old Stampin' Up set. I tried the gel plate impressionsim technique for my oxide distress inks for a technique challenge and then I found this challenge over on Paper Playful:
http://www.fashionablestampingchallenges.com/

This was a fun new way for me to use my inks so thought I would share the results. I inked my largest acrylic block with some of my oxide ink colors, spritzed it with rubbing alcohol and this was the resulting background. Then I stamped the palm tree, the circle for the sun and the sentiment. I colored the tree with colored pencils

CCEE1837 The Impossible card

Hi, friends. Lynn McAuley here! I will be hosting the CCEE Challenges for the month of July and hope that you will want to join in on the fun.

Suddenly I am seeing the Impossible Card popping up everywhere I turn. This new fun fold is based on a famous card trick so it isn't really all that new! I thought it would be great if the CCEE Stampers put their own "twist" on this design with their creations this week.

Here is a link to a tutorial by Maymay Made It Crafts that will show you what it is all about! It demonstrates the Impossible Card in several varied sizes.

Won't you join us in creating an Impossible Card. It really is simple and not at all impossible!!

If you post to an online gallery, please include keyword CCEE1827.

Spotlighting zinnias

Decided to take part in the Back to Basics and Beyond Challenge this week. The challenge is to do "spotlighting."  I love this stamp I have had for a while that I ordered from Flourishes. Marcella Hawley is the artist and I just love her floral pieces.  Thought this flowers on this design paper reminded me of these zinnias so used it and pulled out that bright orange to be the card base. I colored with alcohol markers and stamped the image with versafine black.

CAS card with "thumping"

I made this card for the Addicted to stamps #299 CAS challenge and also for the "thumping" challenge over on ModSquad Challenge today.  The flower stamp is from Stampin' Up and the sentiment is from "My Favorite Things."  I used Stampin' Up markers for the flowers and versamark and gold embossing powder for the sentiment.

SOS371 and CAS Colours and Sketches

These are the colors for the CAS Colours and Sketch challenge this week:
grapefruit grove, daffodil delight, and highland heather. I used the ink and rubbed it across the inside an embossing folder, spritzed it with water and smashed my white paper inside of. Then I covered some white paper with the grapefruit grove and highland heather inks. I stamped the flower over it and then fussy cut them out. The sentiment is from Stampin' UP.

The challenge for the shopping our stash challange  was to use geometric patterns. So I picked this old embossing folder from my collection, and printed with it. The stamp is an old favorite from Stampendous.

Unity CAS challenge

This is my card for a challenge going on over at Unity. I love their wonderful red rubber stamps. I used my oxide distress inks to make my background.