Tuesday, April 10, 2012

A Birthday card and New Bee Rubber


For the background I started with Ranger's new specialty stamping paper.  I had been hearing how wonderful it was and decided I needed to get a pack to try.  This was my first time playing with it and it really is wonderful!!!!  I sprayed the paper with Stamp Zia Chroma Sprays (sun, cherry, and lava), dried it, and then sprayed again with cherry using a Plaid Stencil (ditsy floral) and dried.  Randomly stamped a text image (Wendy Vecchi Studio 490) with Ranger's Archival Ink pale ochre.  Added a line of stitching with my sewing machine and distressed the edges with Zutter's Distrezz-it-all.  Stamped Happy Birthday (Art Impressions) with Ranger's jet black Archival. Stamped the leaves (larger leaves are Paper Inspirations, smaller are Posh Impressions) with Archival Ink pale ochre and viridian and Adirondack meadow.  The bird (Sizzix Tim Holtz Alterations) and leaves (small thin metal die and I can't remember which company it's from) are cut from grungepaper.  The bird was inked with Ranger's snow cap pigment, dried and then colored with Distress Ink.  The leaves were colored with Distress Stains.  Flowers are Primo.  The heart brads weren't a deep enough yellow so I dabbed them on Ranger's sunshine yellow pigment pad and heated... perfect!!



Yesterday I received new stamps from Quietfire Design (see all the new ones HERE) and had to play a little.  The background I had left over after making the above card... after I sprayed over the stencil onto the background I used for the card, I lifted the stencil off and laid it ink-side-down on another sprayed piece... nice, huh!!!!  I cut that down to atc size and used it here.  Stamped the quote and both sizes of bees using Ranger's jet black Archival Ink.  Drew the border with a black pen... also added some other doodling in an effort to hide a smear I made with my finger when I was stamping the bees... in person it worked well - in the picture the smear is more noticable.  Sprayed a scrap of roses from Tim's Ideology trimmings with Stamp Zia's Chroma spray lava, dried them and brushed the top with Distress Ink barn door.  Added a brass bee charm from my stash... rubbed on some jet black ink... nope, not quite right... added Ranger's snow cap Paint Dabber on top working it into the grooves, dried it, rubbed on jet black ink with my finger catching the high spots, dried it, dabbed it with mustard seed Distress Stain and dried it... looks good!!!   Edged the card with Distress Ink wild honey.


8 comments:

Charmaine Stack said...

Both are spectacular, Wanda! Thanks you for sharing how you coloured the bird - I am definitely going to try that. I am intrigued by this special paper. Wonder if Suzanne will carry it?

Von said...

I love those backgrounds Wanda so crisp and viberant looking is that down to the new paper ?
Von x♥x

Quietfire said...

Wow, Wanda! Brilliant - literally! Thanks for using the new rubber!

Yogi said...

both are beautiful. Love the top one. Still waiting on my order for Specialty Paper... and my rubber and a few other toys.
Love the colors, so spring, fresh and I want to smile colors.
Have a great day

Marjie Kemper said...

Beautiful, Wanda! Gorgeous colors. Love the way you stacked the flowers up on the top piece.

Robyn said...

love the colors and how you accented the bee charm-
must practice my stencil spraying

tea said...

I just love to see how your creativity sores like a butterfly, you start with something wonderfull, and sail on the winds of inspiration to yet another precious result. Wow!

tea too said...

ps,, just what would you say the speciality is with this paper? I mean, after you add so much yumminess, it is hard to see what it started out as or to guess what quality it is that makes this paper so special?