Club Scrap Artist Team challenge: Bleach

Every month the Club Scrap Artist Team

has  a technique challenge and this

month it is 

~stamping with bleach~

You can find out about the technique on the 

Club Scrap Blog.

I have two cards for you to share.

I have been trying with bleach on my papers,

but did not get a great result. Not every paper

works with the bleach. Then I remembered 

I did a technique called "Batik Bleach"

(click on the words and you have a printable tutorial)

and that is what I want to share with you here:

I put some papers in a box and took two spray

inks that fitted the papers of the

September "Transformations"- kit: blue and green.

You can use any spray ink you have.

I guess you know why the paper is in a box, because

you don't want ink everywhere on your desk!

After spraying let the ink dry or use your

heat gun if you are in a hurry.

Prepare a tray with a few layers of paper towel

and add some (cheap) bleach.

Take your stamp and use the bleach pad for

stamping. You will notice it takes a little while

to react completely.

These are the two backgrounds I made with some

of the rubber stamps from the

"Transformations"- kit.

Now the pannels are ready to use on a card.

This kit came with some beautiful sentiments

that are great to stamp on this background and

emboss with black embossing powder. The stones

are stamped on black paper and embossed with silver.

As i used only half of the stone pile on the front of the card, 

I used the other half on the inside for decoration.

The second card is with the ginko stamp.

As our neigbours have such a tree in front of their house,

I have many pictures and see that the eaves are starting to fall now.

Besides the bleached background, I also stamped the

leaves on shrink plastic for decoration on top

of the card as falling leaves, to go with the sentiment.

I glued them on the card with glossy accent and added 

also glossy accent on top of the leves to make them shine.

The little strip i had left over i stamped with gold

ink and the leave for decoration inside the card.

Thank you for looking!

Have a creative day!

Cupcake Inspiration 327: Lace

Today I worked again on the Cupcake Inspiration

challenge and this time "lace" is the theme.

I made this card with several older Club Scrap

stamps I have from various kits.

Do you know the 3 kits I used and I send you

my card as a prize!

As I do not hav any lace around, I thought to make my

own lace background with this border stamp.

I stamped it with versamark and embossed it with

white embossing powder.

Next I took some encore gold and colored the

background. With a paper towel I rubbed the inked

of the embossed part. It gave it a vintage look.

On top I stamped the cupcakeand embossed it

with white and gold embossing powder.

A white ribbon around the card and adding a fork

charm,so you can dig into the cupcake right away!

Thank you for looking!

Tim Holtz September tag: Shanah Tovah

On the first day of the Jewish New Year,

I share with you my Tim Holtz

tag for September.

On Tim's blog you can see all the original

instructions for his tag,

but I made my own version.

I started with making the backround tag with

the following distress sprays: brushed pewter, peeled paint 

and iced spruced.

Next is to make the alcoholink background.

As I noticed my gold was dried (need to buy a new bottle) 

I choose touse the silver for this tag.

After splashing the ink on my craftsheet,

I did the direct to paper technique and

this is the result.

As i do not have the same paste, Tim used on his,

I took out the texture paste and added this with

a credit card.

When the stencil is off it looks like this.

When all was drie, I colored the paste with 

cracked pistachio distress ink.

I choose to get the Crazy Birds out for my tag.

Stamped themon manilla paper and colored them.

On top alayer of frosted film for glitter effect.

The apples are punched out of a piece of scrap paper

and colored with cracked pistachio ink. Added with

a foam tape to the bird. The bird is cut out with my new thinlets!!

The sentiment for this card is in Hebrew and means:

a Happy and Sweet New Year.

It is embossed in silver on gray paper to give the 

metal inpression.

Close up of the bird with the apple,covered with glossy acent.

Why the apples? On New Years eve we eat a sweet apple with

honey to wish each other a very sweet year,

Have a creative day!

Sunday Scrap Page: Shanah Tovah

Raymond and I 

wish our family 

and friends all 

over the world 

that the coming year 

may be filled with 

health and happiness

and sweet memories.

L'Shanah Tovah Umetukah

This scrap page is made with the new Club Scrap kit 

for September called Transformations.

The Hebrew new year wish is typed with my computer

and the English sentiment is by Create with TLC.

The flower is from my stash but the clasp in the heart

as well near the photo came with the Club Scrap 

kit and so did the ribbon. The leaves are stampd from the 

Art Nouveau unmounted rubber stamps.

This border I made wiith the honeycomb stencil  from

Michael Strongs Hanhah's Busy Bee stamp set

and the bee stamp.. Tjhe apples are Michael Strong's

latest digital stamp. You find it on his blog.

This time I colored the apple digital (with the help of a collegue

at work) and I add it here for you if you want to use my version.

Just pringt and cut.I used the leaves that came with the Club

Scrap Transformation kit.

Have a creative day!

Saturday card for Rosh Hashanah

Today I have more for you than just a card.

I start with the card.

Yes,it is another one for the Jewish New Year.

I used some Create with TLC subway art

in combination with Michael Strong's

tulip stamp.

You find the subway art HERE for only $ 1.25.

The small tulips are stamped on green and red paper

and first embossed and then cut out to model

them on the card.

But i also made this legal sizeartwork to frame

and put on my side table for the New Year.

I printed the subway art a larger size then

used for the card.

After i printed the subway art I covered it with

post it notes. Then I took the honey comb stencil and

created a border around the word art.

Here you see how it looks when finished with the

stenceling and taking away the post it notes.

Here you see it finished. I used again my home made

pomegranate stamps (see here) and the Busy Bees

and Hebrew sentiment from Zum Gali Gali.

Have you noticed the cute pomegranate boxes?

I found the template HERE and thought it looked

great for decoration. Everyone on my dinner table

get's one with a sweet chocolate inside!

Oh how sweet the New Year will be!

Have a creative day!

Remember

Here my contribution to never forget 9/11.

I made this card with the mini star stamp

by Michael Strong.

Michael Strong's digital apple

Here I am again with Michael Strong's

digital apple stamp.

This time I have another fun card idea for you

that involves some computer skill.I

I told you I don't have much,so this skill

classifies as very easy!

Start by printing the size of apple you 

want on white paper (I even added a sentiment)

Print the same image on colored paper.

I choose red,green and light yellow.

The white paper I cut to the size of the right panel

for my card (4 x 5,25 inch - my card is 4,25 x 5,5 inch).

The colors of the apple are going to be layered,

so i cut the red apple for the 1st layer, the green

one for the 2nd layer and the light yellow is the core.

Take some foam tape and add to the background of the layers.

Now stick all the layers on top of each other.

Can you see the layers?

And here is the finished card.

Of course I had to use some ink!

The sentiment is adigital sentiment by

Create with TLC

and you find it here.

1.  Added a few glitter gemstones
2. and also some honeycomb around the apple with a stencil.

And here is the bee again,so adorable with the

heart on it's body. It is from Hannah's Busy Bee stamp set.

Have a creative day!