Come fly with me

I wanted to play along with a few challenges, but I've also been wanting to try some new techniques...

I found Studio l3 which is a challenge blog that goes along with Tim holtz

Compendium of curiosities II. And the prize is a wow gift card from Simon says

Their challenge ends very soon, and if you have the book (which I don't by the way 😁)

Then they are on page 53...

So last time I was at the hobby lobby I checked the book out...

It's a cool technique where you emboss onto black paper and the color in the image 

Using perfect pearls....

So here's the ATC I created

Lucky for me Wicked Wednesday atc has a new challenge butterflies

This week! Plus Flutterby wednesdays challenge is anything with wings

So I stamped using my denami design stamps, in clear, and then clear embossed over to make a resist

Then I colored in the butterflies with my perfect pearls... The book goes much more in depth so check that out! 

I Added a some words punched on my dymo 

Do you like??

It's definitely more shiny in person....

Entering this into:

Studio l3: Challenge 25

Wicked Wednesday ATC: Butterflies

Flutterby Wednesdays: 210 any winged creture

Using Kraft Resist

First off I have to share that my Bright and Bold Card won over at Dilly Beans, check out that post here

I'm super stoked to get started on their newest Challenge "hearts"

Ok, so today I finally had some quiet time to myself in the craft room...

I had swung by Michaels yesterday on my way to work and picked up a pad of

kraft resist from Tim Holtz (after I saw his tutorial on his blog here)

I didn't really have anything in mind when I started, was just gonna play with the product a little bit

This is what ended up happening!

The kraft resist is basically kraft paper that has varnished images on it...

When you ink over these images and wipe the ink away there is color on page everywhere

but where the varnish is... It's a pretty cool effect.

As I was just playing around, I didn't care too much about color, but I think this

little card ended up pretty cute!

I did a sentiment only card per the challenge over at creative inspirations

Plus the bling (sorry it doesn't photograph very well!)

on the sentiment for the bling it up and gems and twine at cute card Thursday and

Crafty Creations respectively.

I also hand dyed and stamped the background for the anything goes challenge,

and added the buttons for the challenge over at corrosive challenges by janet

Finally, the background is mostly all hand made, the inking, the stamping, ect ect that is for

the challenge over at Anything goes challenge make your own background

I hope you're having a fabulous weekend!!

I am on a mini mostly staycation next week, so I will be in the

craft room with the kitty! 

Entering into: 

Creative Inspirations: Sentiments

Crafty Creations: Gem's and Twine

Cute Card Thursday: Bling it up
Anything goes: make your own background
Flutter by Wednesdays: Friends (must use butterfly or fairy)
Corrosive Challenge: Cute as a Button
A Blog Named Hero: Use Kraft