finally inked...

On Monday Joanne announced the Gina K's challenge this week; ink up a stamp you haven't used and then confess how long it's been waiting to see ink - well this stamp was part of my birthday gift from my Hubby and was birthday was just before Christmas BUT I will use the disclaimer that it had a wee bit of a stay at Canadian customs (really not a very good excuse!!)

For this card I combined a total of 3 challenges on SCS - Gina K's Get Inky; SC216 and CC206. The colour challenge is More Mustard, Rose Red and Kiwi Kiss or Old Olive - I love this colour combo so I had to play along.

The stamp is from Gina K's A Year Of Flowers and it's inked (finally) with memento black and stamped on Gina K's 80lb Pure Luxury cs. I coloured the image with Lyras and Mineral spirits; which I still find really challenging to get the shading but one must practice!! I used lots layers on the card with the base being Gina K's Pure Luxury 120lb cs, layered with more mustard & more mustard DS paper, then the scallops are rose red layered with Kiwi Kiss ds, both cut with nesties. I then added a strip of kiwi kiss and rose red ds paper.

Thanks for all the great challenges & have a great day!

Dana

A Little Retro....

I'm cheating a little bit - this is my post for Monday and depending where you are it will be the Monday post but if you are still up on the west coast sorry!! I realized that I had to get this card linked to SCS before 9am & I am assuming it's Eastern time.

For this card I completed Gina K's Tailored Challenge; using a tailored bow on my card, if you don't know how to make on Joanne B has a great tutorial on her blog.

The stamp is Gina K's Retro Boutique, which I stamped on Gina K's 120lb Pure Luxury cs. The dress is coloured with copics, then I paper pieced the skirt with SU ds paper in Pink Pirouette. I used dimensionals at the bottom of the skirt, but not at the top to make it look like it flows. On the top of the dress I added stickles to make it shimmer.

The image is cut with a nesties, and mounted on
su's pale plum. The image is mounted on Perfect Plum, which I embossed with D'vine Swirls and the card base is SU Pink Pirouette cs.

The Tailored Bow is SU Pink Pirouette cs - thanks for the great challenge and tutorial Joanne!

Have a great Monday

Dana