Art Ali

Happy Birthday Gingersnap Creations

We are celebrating our 1st birthday at Gingersnap Creations!  I can't believe a whole year has passed since Sharon and I set up this blog.  It started as a way for us to have some stamping fun together and satisfy our need for creating without rules and restrictions.  But boy, have we grown! 

Hundreds of people from around the world play our challenges each month!  We have a magnificent Design Team, who work so hard to make fantastic artwork each week.  We post awesome tutorials and techniques, review books and products and showcase different manufacturers and artists. To name but a few of the things we do.

As part of our birthday celebrations, we're hosting a joint challenge with Artistic Outpost- you can check out the details of the challenge here.  This is the card I made for the challenge using their Cutie Pie set.

 

To make it a little more special, I created a Top-Latch card (TJ technique June/July 08 edition) - here's a side view, so you can see it better.

Artistic Outpost is one of my very favorite stamp companies and I own quite a few of their plates.  In case you need a little inspiration for the challenge, I've put a few of my favorite cards into a photo album, which you can find in the sidebar.

Happy Creating!

Supplies:

• Stamps: Cutie Pie (Artistic Outpost), Celebrate Everything (Stampin' Up!)
• Paper: Vintage Cream (PTI), pattered paper from Making Memories and Basic Grey
• Ink: Black Memento, Copic Markers
• Accessories: Rhinestones (Amuse), Dazzling Diamonds (SU)
• Tools: Scallop edge punch (SU) & glue pen

Button Tags

The Spicy Supply Challenge over at Gingersnaps today is buttons.  Here are a few tag/distress ink projects I came up with for the challenge.

On the first tag I sponged on Peeled Paint and Faded Jeans ink with the blending tool and gave it a light spritz of water.  I applied a mask and blended in some more ink.  And finished the tag base with a spritz of perfect pearls mixed with water.  The bird and sentiment are a transparency that I adhered with the button.

The images on the next two tags were clear embossed before applying Distress Inks with the blending tool.  After a spritz of Perfect Pearls and water, I ironed off the clear embossing powder and added a little more ink to tone down the images.  The vintage bone buttons were adhered with Art Gel.

This tag uses a stamp from Artistic Outpost with Faded Jeans and Weathered Wood Distress inks.

This tag uses an image from Stampers Anonymous with Fired Brick and Spiced Marmalade Distress inks.

Don't forget to check out the other Gingersnap Creations Design Team projects on the blog - they are awesome!

Sanded Whitewash

I made a couple of cards using the TJ technique Sanded Whitewash (Aug/Sep 09) today.  The basic idea behind the technique is to dry brush gesso onto colored card stock.  Once dry run the c/stock through an embossing folder and sand raised areas to expose c/stock below.

I added another step to the technique by swiping the same colored ink as the c/stock over the sanded pieces.  It toned down the pieces and made the affect more muted.  The first card uses Dusty Durango card stock and ink for the technique.  The main image is from Artistic Outpost.

The second card is a double challenge card for Gingersnaps:  Color Challenge (orange, green & brown) & Random Redhead Challenge (thankfulness).

Thanks for visiting!

Supplies

Card One:

• Stamps: Serenity (Artistic Outpost)
• C/stock: Chocolate Chip, Dusty Durango, Very Vanilla
• Ink: Dusty Durango, Chocolate Chip
• Accessories: Sheer brown ribbon, brown brads
• Tools: Big Shot, Cuttlebug embossing folder

Card Two:

• Stamps: Define Your Life (Stampin' Up!)
• C/stock: Old Olive, Chocolate Chip, Dusty Durango, Very Vanilla
• Ink: Old Olive, Dusty Durango
• Accessories: Sheer brown ribbon, brown brads
• Tools: Big Shot, Cuttlebug embossing folder