Cinema Saturday #22

Doesn't this card just scream Singin' In The Rain!?!

No? No it doesn't... but that is the movie that inspired it, for this weeks Cinema Saturday challenge. As much as I wanted this card to represent the singing and dancing, I just couldn't see a way to make it happen. And you know I am a sucker for costumes, right? Well, I was inspired by this costume:

Our additional recquirement this week was to include something related to water. If I had gone the singin' and dancin' route it would have been drops of Crystal Effects, but I didn't so I had to think of something else... and the jewelry worn with this dress has pearls so there's my water element. You could also say the clear beads and rhinestone brad fit that too (especially the "drop" shaped ones...). The sentiment reflects the singin' and dancin' though, so it's kinda in there!

All supplies by Stampin' Up!
Cardstock: Whisper White, Regal Rose, vellum cardstock, brushed silver
Stamp Sets: Happy Everything, Fine Lace, Leaves a la Carte
Inks: Whisper White, Encore silver
Accessories: Pretties Kit, Fairytale Ribbon Originals, clear embossing powder, dimensionals, mini glue dots
Show watched while creating: Singin' In The Rain

Touch of Prints

I felt like doing some collage-style stamping on Sunday, so I decided to make the card for the Boomerang Sketch Challenge blog. Boomerang is one of the first stamping yahoogroups I joined way back when, and the only one I am still active on, so many things to fill a day now I just don't have time for them all! Anyway, when I started working on the card I had thought I would do some crayon resist, so I started with some white gloss, cut it in half and started stamping. I then decided that it might be better to mask the areas I didn't want other things, which I did to one piece and then forgot to move the masks to this second piece! I also sponged Blue Bayou ink over the other piece, and it was all just a bit much and that piece fo cardstock now resides in the bin. Oh well, you can't win them all! The butterfly has been stamped on Blue Bayou cardstock using StazOn Jet Black and I then coloured it with a blender pen and Whisper White craft ink (picked up from the lid of the ink pad). The Fine Lace background is a second-generation impression (initial impression stamped off on scrap so the colour isn't as intense).

All supplies by Stampin' Up!

Cardstock: Always Artichoke, Blue Bayou, white gloss
Stamp sets: Touch of Nature, Petal Prints, Heartfelt Thanks, En Francais, Fine Lace
Inks: Purely Pomegranate, Blue Bayou, Old Olive, Always Artichoke, StazOn Jet Black, Rose Red
Accessories: Purely Pomegranate double-stitched grosgrain ribbon
Things watched while constructing card: Ghost Ship, Cloverfield

Colour Challenged Butterfly

Saturday night was another Inklings Cyberstamp, this time hosted by Kari. The second challenge she gave us was a colour challenge: Ballet Blue, Soft Sky, Not Quite Navy, Pink Passion and Really Rust. Boy was it a challenge (I'm kinda wondering if this was her revenge on the colour challenge I posted when hosting the cyberstamp!)! I just couldn't tackle it on the night though just before I went to bed I did a test run on colouring this butterfly. Taking a look at it in the morning I decided it would work so I set to on my card proper. For the butterfly's body I used my aquapainter to pick up Really Rust ink direct from the reinker bottle so the colour was more intense... a bit of a cheat as it was easy to make it darker and more brown than Really Rust but hey, whatever works! Cutting around the antennae of the butterfly is rather tricky as they are so skinny, so once trimmed I coloured the edge and back of the paper with Soft Sky ink to blend in with the layer underneath.

All supplies by Stampin' Up!

Cardstock: Soft Sky, Very Vanilla, watercolour paper
Stamp Sets: Touch of Nature, Fine Lace, So Many Sayings
Inks: StazOn Jet Black, VersaMark, inks used for colouring: Ballet Blue, Soft Sky, Not Quite Navy, Pink Passion, Really Rust
Accessories: Basic Black marker, aquapainter, Earth Elements brads, Very Vanilla taffeta ribbon, 1/8" circle punch, dimensionals

Paisley in the Spotlight

Here's another card for the Inklings cyberstamp. For challenge #1 we had to use the spotlight technique. Since I have done that technique a few times I decided to do things a bit differently. I wanted to use a background stamp for the spotlighing, and then I decided to follow Beate's sketch #33 and have three spotlights! The Paisley background stamp has been inked with Vintage Violet and stamped once on Whisper White, and once on Silver (re-inked before stamping of course). I then carefully coloured the paisley with markers in Almost Amethyst, Certainly Celery and Sage Shadow. My spotlights were then cut out, mounted on 1 1/4" squares of Whisper White to highlight them, and mounted onto the silver layer. The background piece is the Fine Lace background stamp inked with Almost Amethyst and stamped on Almost Amethyst cardstock, then the edges have been inked with Vintage Violet. The card base is Sage Shadow cardstock, and I've used some Celery brads and silver cord to finish the card off.

Big Life Primas

Finally managing to get some time to stamp. Like a lot of people I have been reading about lately, I made a resolution/aim/intention to use old, neglected supplies. But I couldn't just turn my back on some new stamps, so I combined the SU! Sellabration "Happy Harmony" set with the SU! "Fine Lace" background stamp that I have had for a while, along with Prima's, brads and assorted cardstock, most of which has been sitting in my stash for a good long while.

The lace and flowers were stamped in VersaMark, with SU! pastels in "Mellow Moss" applied to the flower stems. The sentiment was stamped in VersaFine "Imperial Purple".