SSC164

Sunday Stamps Challenge #164 - Sketch Fun

For this card I used Stampin' Up! Fancy Frost Specialty DSP. I watercolor painted it with my Kuretake paints. The dies are from Spellbinders and I used the Blush glitter paper from SU! The embossed piece was created with Stampin' Up! Garden Trellis EF. I've added a piece of silver satin ribbon from SU!

I thought this was a very pretty Christmas card made using unconventional colors.

My card was chosen my Monika Reeck. Thank You Monika!

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Betty J Schaub

It's Been A While...

Hi there my fellow cardmakers & crafters. I know it has been a while since I posted. The summer kept our home full. We had a lot of family come for visits.
Anyhoo, today I am sharing a card I created for a challenge at SIP Challenge #117 - Watercolor

For my card I used my Kuretake watercolor paint set. Once I got started with this first card, the mojo kept flowing until I had made 3 more! It is very fun. I liberally wet a piece of watercolor paper with my paintbrush. Then I chose my color combo. For this card I used 3 shades of blue and a little pink that mixed with the blue, gave me a light purple. Which I loved! Then everything was completely dry I spattered my Perfect Pearls Forever Green, Mint, Forever Violet, and a little bit of Gold. I loaded up my brush with wet paint. Then I tapped the paint brush on my finger and spattered the metalics. Let your piece dry completely while you work on the other elements of your card.
I really do LOVE this technique.

Using Whisper White cs and one of the dies from the Eclectic Layers Thinlits from Stampin' Up!, I cut the pattern for my window.

I used Nuvo Crushed Grapes Crystal Drops on the four corners.
I used a stick for my sentiment and I die cut a little purple flower with a yellow dot for the center to accent my card.

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Betty J Schaub

FM227

Freshly Made Sketches Challenge #227

Loved this sketch! 

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Betty J Schaub

CTD377

Hello,
This week I played again in the Color Throw Down Challenge. I have to admit once again, this color combo was a challenge for me.
Below is the card I made.

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Betty J Schaub

C4C311

Crazy 4 Challenges #311

Ok, for this one I started with watercolor paper. Stamped and embossed the trees. Then I sprinkled Bistre and Brushos onto the paper. I used a paper towel and a piece of plastic to mask off the lower portion of the paper then I spritzed with water. I waited for that to try. Then I masked the top portion and added green and yellow Bistre and Brushos to the bottom then I spritzed with water. 

I used Stampin' Up! XL Round Label punch and created my two little hot chocolate mugs. Added some Liquid Applique' for the whipped cream on my hot chocolate. :-)

Fall is my favorite time of year. I love Thanksgiving and spending time with my family. 

Check out the challenge at Crazy 4 Challenges. 

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Betty J Schaub

BOKEH

BOKEH 

It's a new technique for me.  Below is the card I made with my Bokeh piece. 

In photography, bokeh (Originally /ˈboʊkɛ/, /ˈboʊkeɪ/ BOH-kay — also sometimes pronounced as /ˈboʊkə/ BOH-kə, Japanese: [boke]) is the aesthetic quality of the blur produced in the out-of-focus parts of an image produced by a lens. Bokeh has been defined as "the way the lens renders out-of-focus points of light"

I started my project by cutting watercolor paper to 4.25" x 5.5". Then using my Aqua painter I saturated the paper. Then using an acrylic block I dropped 3 drops of Re-inker inks in Calypso ?Coral, Poopl Party and Wisteria Wonder onto the block. Then I simply dipped the tip of my aqua painter into a color. Then moving over to my paper, I gently squeezed some ink onto the wet paper. Cleaned the brush and chief another color then repeated this process until the paper was completely covered with color.

When the piece was completely dry;  

Here's where the light effect comes in. I used a circle stencil and daubed white in various circles, overlapping a few. 

I trimmed it to desired size, stamped my sentiment and added pearls.

Then I stamped the inside. 

All done!

If you are interested in the Bokeh technique, go to YouTube and search Bokeh Sharon Armstrong. I watched several different videos. But Sharon's explanation and demo worked best for me.

Don't forget to check out my guest designer job at Deb Segler's Heavenly Touch

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Betty Justilian Schaub