Playing with Pan Pastels

So, the other day, I decided to play a bit with my Pan Pastels. This is the card I ended up making, which was not at all what I had originally had in mind! 

I was thinking of making a Christmas card, with a gold Pan Pastel background. I wanted a solid gold, but instead ended up with a shimmery gold.  So then I decided to cover it with green.  But I still wanted a gold element, so I tried stenciling some stars with gold Pan Pastels.  That didn't work either.  I ended up just blending the gold into the green.  Finally, I tried stamping with Versmark, and then lightly adding a brown (actually Orange Extra Dark) to the stamped image, and lightly blending it into the green,  Although it doesn't show in the photograph, I was able to add a gold shimmer, by adding some Gold Pssst Sheer Shimmer.  The image was then trimmed and matted.  Ribbon was added before adding it to the card base.

Supplies used:

• Stampin' Up Lovely as a Tree stamp set
• Versmark
• Pssst Sheer Shimmer Gold
• Pan Pastels 280.1 Orange Extra Dark, 640.3 Permanent Green Shade, 911.5 Rich Gold

Last Halloween Card for 2015

For this card, I used a variety things, CTMH Artbooking Cricut Cartridge, Mama Elephant and Lawn Fawn stamps, and Distress Ink.

For this card, I used the following:

• Close to My Heart Aek & Shriek Stamp Set
• Close to My Heart Artbooking Cricut Cartridge
• Mama Elephant Bootastic Stamp Set
• Lawn Fawn Spooktacular Stamp Set
• Versmark
• Stampendous Detailed Black Embossing Powder
• Ranger Liquid Platinum Embossing Powder
• Distress Inks Forest Moss, Stormy Sky, Chipped Sapphire, Block Soot
• Glossy Accents

To make the card, I sponged the Distress Inks on watercolor paper.  I then spritzed it with water.  I cut the spider web from the Artbooking cartridge and attached it to the card.  I tamped the cat (from Aek and Shriek) and spider (from Bootastic) in Versamark and added Detailed Black Embossing powder and heat set.  I then stamped the tombstones and sentiment (from Spooktacular) in Versmark and added Liquid Platinum Embossing Powder and heat set.  The entire image was added to the card base.  Glossy Accents was added to the spider web to complete the card.

Mama Elephant Bootastic and Lawn Fawn Spooktacular Halloween Card

Here is another Halloween Card I made with the Mama Elephant Bootastic and Lawn Fawn Spooktacular stamp sets.   I found several layouts similar to what I used on Pinterest.  I found that both of these stamp sets work well together.

 

 

For this card, I used:

• Mama Elephant Bootastic Stamp Set and Matching Dies
• Lawn Fawn Spooktacular Stamp Set
• Copic Markers C1, C3, C5, R29, R59, E50, E53, Y06, YR14, E35, Y31
• Versamark
• Memento Tuxedo Black Ink
• Stampendous Detailed White Embossing Powder
• Spellbinders Square Dies
• Signo White Pen

To make the card, I stamped the images from Bootastic with Memento Tuxedo Black Ink.  These were then colored with Copic Markers and cut with the matching dies.  I then cut 3 squares from a strip of black paper.  and backed the strip with white card stock.  The Halloween boys and girls were then added to the strip.  I stamped the sentiment (from Lawn Fawn Spooktacular) with Versmark Ink on orange card stock.  Detailed White embossing powder was added and heat set. 

 

The black strip, sentiment and spiders were then added to the card base.  I used the White Signo pen for the spider's web.

 

 



Halloween Card 2015

Here is yet another Halloween Card I made this year. 

For this card, I used:
Tim Holtz Shattered Stencil
Distress Ink Forest Moss, Stormy Sky, Chipped Sapphire, Dusty Concord, Black Soot
Ranger Vintage Photo Embossing Powder
Memento Rich Cocoa Ink
Lawn Fawn Spooktacular Stamp Set
?? Tree Stamp

To make the card, I placed the stencil on a piece of watercolor paper.  I then sponged the various Distress Inks over the stencil.  I then removed the stencil, and stamped the tree with Versmark and then added the Vintage Photo Embossing Powder and heat set.  The sentiment stamp is from Lawn Fawn Spooktacular and was stamped with Rich Cocoa Ink

Lawn Fawn Spooktacular Halloween Card

Here is a Halloween Card made from Lawn Fawn Spooktacular Stamps and matching dies.

For this card, I used:

• Simon Says Stamp - Stitched Rectangles
• Lawn Fawn Stitched Hillside Borders
• Copic Marker C3
• Memento London Fog Ink
• Distress Ink Stormy Sky, Chipped Sapphire, Dusty Concord, Black Soot
• Zing Clear Embossing Powder
• Stampendous Detailed White Embossing Powder
• Lawn Fawn Spooktacular Stamps and matching dies

To make the card, I first cut watercolor paper with the large rectangle from the Simon Says Stamp dies.  I sponged the various Distress inks on watercolor paper, only going about halfway down.  I then cut three different colors green card stock with the Stitched Hillside borders,  These were then added to the watercolor paper.  The tombstones were stamped on white card stock with London Fog Ink, colored with Copic C3, and then cut with the matching die.  The ghosts were stamped on vellum with Versamark, the Detailed White embossing powder was added and heat set.  These were then cut out with the matching die.  The ghosts and tombstones were then added to the card.  The sentiment was stamped with Black Memento Ink.

Mama Elephant Bootastic Halloween Card

Here is another Halloween Card I made.  This one using Bootastic from Mama Elephant.

For this card I used:

• Mama Elephant Bootastic Stamps and Dies
• Copic Markers C1, C3, C5, R29, R59, E50, E53, Y06, YR14, E35, YR 31
• Stampendous Detailed Black and Enchanted Aubergine Embossing Powders
• Ranger Liquid Platinum Embossing Powder
• Martha Stewart Halloween Stamps
• Distress Inks Forest Moss, Stormy Sky, Chipped Sapphire, Dusty Concord, Black Soot.

To make the card, I first crated the background.  I used watercolor paper and the distress inks like watercolors.  I then stamped the images from Bootastic on white card stock with Memento Black ink.  These were then colored with the Copic markers, and cut using the matching dies.  I added the images to the background I had created.  The fence, bats and sentiment were stamped with Versmark,  Enchanted Aubergine embossing powder was added to the fence, Detailed Black Embossing Powder used for the bats and Liquid Platinum added to the sentiment and heat set.  The entire image was added to the card base.

Bird Crazy Halloween Cards

Love these Crazy Birds!  They are quick and easy to color, and the matching dies are wonderful.

Here are two Halloween Cards I made with the Bird Crazy stamps and dies.  I also used Crazy Things and Crazy Talk.

 

 

For these cards I used:

• Bird Crazy, stamps and dies
• Crazy Things
• Crazy Talk
• Distress Ink (a variety of colors)
• Staz-on Black

To make the cards, I stamped the birds twice with the Staz-on ink, then colored them with the Distress Inks.  Then using the matching dies, I cut the birds, eyes and wings.  I then stamped and colored the broom, hat and pumpkin.  For these, I needed to fussy cut them, since I don't have the matching dies. I stamped the sentiment on a piece of scrap paper.

I assembled the cards, using pop-dots for the eyes and layering all of the other images.  The moon was cut from a piece of patterned paper.  There was a blank area on the card, so  I stamped a few bats (from an old Martha Stewart set) in black.

Challenges Entered:
Simon Says Stamp Stamptember use a Stamp Challenge and Blog Hop