My Mojo is Coming Back!

(Note;  this was originally published my other blog.  I am moving 2014 posts over here.)

Hello Stamping Friends!

I can hardly believe that I am blogging two days in row.  Plus I made 2 additional cards yesterday which I will post in the next few days.  My stamping mojo is definitely coming back.  (By the way...this blog "address" is new.  I have no followers yet, even though I had many on the last blog.  I'd love to have you follow me here now!)

The first card I have today was made on Super Bowl Sunday.  I kept thinking it needed something more, but now that I have set it aside for a while, I like it.  This card uses the first color challenge of 2014 from SCS: Rich Razzleberry, Island Indigo, Night of Navy.  I absolutely love these colors, and because of their "cool tones" I initially planned on making a snowy card.  Instead, I was craving something different...I am ready for spring!  My card base is island indigo, and I added a layer of razzleberry pattern paper.  The main image panel features a fun technique that I learned during a Virtual Stamp Night years ago:  Serigraph.  I rarely use my brayer, and even for this card, it didn't work as well as I had hoped, but I think the results still look nice.  In a nutshell, I stamped the silhouette image with versamark, embossed with clear embossing powder, then randomly brayered the challenge colors over the top.  I gently wiped off any color from the flowers.  The tutorial actually has you stamp on top of some color and emboss with white.  One time, I embossed with early espresso over the brayered colors.  Whichever way, it has a lovely marbled look.  The sentiment is from SU's "Trust God," and I used the scallop punch.  Very old night of navy organza ribbon wraps it up.

My other card came about on Monday because I had a half sheet of crumb cake card stock from Sunday's project, and this bold DSP scrap was on the top of my growing pile.  I had not touched anything with poppy parade for a while, so this turned out to be fun.  This dsp is called Pocket Full of Posies, I think, and it was designed to coordinate with the SU set "My Friend."  I randomly stamped on the card base directly (something I rarely do) for a background.  The sentiment was stamped on very vanilla, but I sponged heavily with crumb cake, baja breeze, and night of navy.  My embellishments are poppy parade poly-twill ribbon and navy candy dots, plus some dimensionals.  I didn't have any challenges in mind for this card...other than to use some retired materials!

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Inky {{{HUGS}}}

Kim