Try That Technique--Hidden Image

There's a reason this technique is called Hidden Image. Unless you look very closely, you might miss the knight stamped all over the background. Actually he's even more obscure because of scanning. He can be seem much better on the actual card. The Try That Technique challenge this week is the Hidden Image technique a bonus technique on the 2010 CD. This was a fun technique to try and I got to use my My Knight stamp sheet from Artistic Outpost.

Critter Sketch Challenge 39 Dragons

This week the challenge at Critter Sketch was Dragons. I love this dragon stamp from Stampland. I stamped him on some Asian paper from Kodomo and used a Stampin' Up stamp for the sentiment. The background is a beautiful with turquoise embossing on gold metallic paper. 

Bloggers Challenge 177 and Sunday Stamper

This week the challenge for Bloggers Challenge was a sketch provided by group Mom Lisa. It was a great sketch, a little more challenging than some, but a lot of fun to work with.The Sunday challenge at Ink on My Fingers was Winter. Going Grey With Scrap Creations had Christmas as the Challenge theme. All of these challenges worked so well together. I chose my focal image and sentiment from the Artistic Outpost stamp sheet Snowy Woods. I used a Spellbinders die to cut out the oval, sprayed it with Perfect Pearl Mists in Forever Red. The background panel and two of the strips along the side were cut from origami foil paper.  For the snowflakes and white strip I used one of Tim Holtz's On the Edge dies, Snowflurries. The base card front was dry embossed with the Cuttlebug snowflake border folder. I can't wait to see how everyone else interpreted this sketch.



Try That Technique--Mono Mosaic

The Try That Technique Challenge this week was MonoMosaic from the December "05 TJ newsletter. This is another fun technique with a cool outcome. I grabbed a number of stamps I had in my polymer clay stamp collection for the background. I love all the different designs. My focal image is from Prickly Pears.

Oh Alice Challenge Chapter 38

I've got a ticket to ride the Wonderland Express. The theme for the Oh Alice Challenge this week is "Tickets Please".  I used an image of Alice from Oxford Impressions and the train from Artistic Outpost. The ticket is one of the Tim Holtz journaling tickets with a sentiment from TJ Designs.

Kitchen Sink Stamps Crew Challenge 29

The Kitchen Sink Stamps Crew Challenge  this month is monochromatic. Being fall, I thought this handsome turkey and falling leaves would make a great image for a monochromatic card. I used stamps from both Turkey Trot and Owl & Autumn Moon.
Color recipes: (All inks are Adirondack)
Turkey -- 1 sandal, 2 hazelnut, 3 espresso
Branch -- 1 latte, 2 hazelnut, 3 raisin
Leaves -- 1 latte, 2 rust

Play Date Cafe Challenge 54

This week in the Play Date Cafe the challenge is to use the colors stucco orange, celery, and white. I thought that this large stamp from Stampland was a perfect image for these colors. I used Creative Inspirations paints in peach and sage to color the flowers and leaves and outlined the open leaves in white gel pen. The orange sentiment ribbon, orange butterfly, white mat and green cardbase help to maintain the color pallette.