Art Ali

Glimmering Bird Song

I made another card just for fun today! 

We had to stay home to keep an eye on our dog - to stop her from licking the wound she had sewn up yesterday - yuk!  So between cooking a huge batch of chicken and rice casserole and watching the dog, I managed to squeeze in a card.  It's for a couple of Splitcoast challenges - Ways to Use It (the color orange) and Clean and Simple (Spring).

It uses one the new Tim Holtz Components stamps called Bird Song, which is stamped onto an Antiqued Glimmer (TJ Dec/Jan 10) background.  I'm not sure you can even see the sparkle from the Glimmer Mist - the winter weather is not cooperating at the moment, but here's a close-up anyway:

The sentiment is also from a new Tim H set called Good Thoughts.  The first half is stamped on the front of the card and the second half on the inside.

Happy stamping!

Supplies:

• Stamps: Bird Song & Good Thoughts (Stampers Anonymous), Vintage Vogue (flourish inside - Stampin' Up!)
• Cardstock: Vintage Cream (PTI), Basic Black, Real Rust
• Ink: Spiced Marmalade & Fired Brick Distress Inks, Memento black, Really Rust, black marker
• Accessories: ribbon (unknown), black brad (American Crafts), Glimmer Mist

Purdy Paper

I was lucky enough to play with some beautiful papers from PaperTemptress for my Clean and Simple spot at Gingersnaps this month.

Here's one of the cards I made with Vintage Silver Lustre and you can find the other two cards over at on the Gingersnaps blog.  The Stampington image was heat embossed with silver embossing powder on another PaperTemptress c/stock called Pearl Glimmer.  The red c/stock and ribbon are Riding Hood Red from SU (a retired In Color).

Note: I can't include direct links to the paper because I'm an SU demo (against company rules), so you'll have to play detective and find them yourself on the PT website - I'm sure you can figure it out!!

Thanks for visiting! 

Warhol CAS Style

On Monday I wrote a post on Gingersnaps about creating clean and simple (CAS) cards using the Warhol Technique.  This technique was featured in the Feb/Mar 05 edition of Technique Junkies.  Here's one of the cards I made - you can see the rest at Gingersnap Creations.

The image was stamped three times with black ink onto Dusty Durango, Blush Blossom and Groovy Guava card stock, then punched with a 1" square punch.  The three squares were mounted onto vanilla and black c/stock.  The 3 1/2" x 5" card base was scored at 1/2" intervals with a paper cutter and scoring blade.

Thanks for stopping by today!

 

Stamp credits:

Inchie Style & From the Desk by Cornish Heritage Farms