Michael Strong Card of the Day - Tuesday

This uses the "Bingo Blast" technique shown in the April/May 2009 issue of Technique Junkies. The colours used are Squeezed Lemonade, Broken China and Picked Raspberry.

Stamps: Michael Strong (Mini Shapes)

Michael Strong Card of the Day - Monday

This uses the "Bingo Blast" technique shown in the April/May 2009 issue of Technique Junkies. The colours used are Broken China, Tumbled Glass and Chipped Sapphire. The die cut is punched out of vellum. There is some translucent embossing done with a dots stencil.

Stamps: Michael Strong (Mini Shapes)

Petals and Wings January Sketch

Here is my card based on this month's Verve sketch - January 2016.  The flowers were stamped in Tim Holtz colours (Festive Berries, Ripe Persimmon, Wild Honey).  The leaves are vellum, cut with a die cut.  The butterflies are embossed on vellum with white embossing powder and cut out. 

Stamps: Verve (Petals and Wings)

Mojo Autumn Birthday

 This card is based on this week's Mojo Monday (#429) sketch. 

To make the background I first sprayed some Tim Holtz inks (Squeezed Lemonade, Wild Honey and Rusty Hinge) onto a craft sheet and then plopped my paper into the inks.  After it was dry I stamped my stamp (Forrest Floor 2) with Wild Honey.  The leaves were cut out using a Tim Holtz die and the tiny pinecones are also from Tim Holtz -- his tiny tattered rose. A piece of burlap, some ribbon and a gold bow completed the card.

Stamps:  Designs by Ryn (Forrest Floor 2), Stampin Up! (Voila)

Michael Strong Card of the Day - Fermented Friday

Here is my final card of the week.  It is a center step card and totally out of bounds for mailing.  I just gave up at the end.  Anyhow she can hand this one to someone.  So much more personal.

The ghosts are punched out of vellum so they are transparent -- just like real ghosts.

Hope everyone has a terrifically terrifying Halloween!

Stamps:  Michael Strong (Spooky Silhouettes)

Michael Strong Card of the Day - Tenebrous Technique Thursday

My technique for this Thursday is "Ghosting".  I stamped a word script stamp with Versamark onto some glossy paper and then rubbed some black ink over top.  The ink resisted where the Versamark was stamped onto it for a ghostly look.  Then I stamped Mike's spooky tree on top.

Alas this card also did not go through the card slot and extra postage was needed.  Again I probably should have seen it coming but I honestly thought all the dimensionals I used to pop up the image would just squish flat.  Oh well.  I was still trying at this point.

Stamps:  Michael Strong (Spooky Silhouettes)

Michael Strong Card of the Day - Wayward Wednesday

My card of the day finds me finally stepping over to the dark side of embellishments with that "Boo!" sticker.  It was plastic and therefore didn't squish down so it pushed the postage machine over the edge and into extra postage.  My sister was not happy.  On a brighter note, once I finally became corrupt I was free to let my creative juices loose and do whatever kind of card I wanted.  (Yes, I noted that it didn't take me long...)

Stamps:  Michael Strong (Spooky Silhouettes)