Butterfly Reflections, Ink

Happy Thursday crafty friends!   Ashley D. here!   Lunar New Year, or Chinese New Year as it’s commonly called, is coming soon - just 5 days until we ring in the Year of the Pig!   And one of my all-time favorite sets has to be Mama Elephants Lion Dance!   To create this festive card, I began by die cutting a red frame from Bazzill Wax Lips cardstock using Mama Elephant’s Tri Window Cover die .   I then splattered it with Blue Gold Kuretake Gansai Tambi watercolor paint , backing it with a panel cut from Bristol Smooth Cardstock ink blended with Distress Oxide ink in Squeezed Lemonade , splattered with a quick spray of water for added texture.   For a bit of depth, I adhered it with foam tape.   I then stamped several images from Mama Elephant’s Lion Dance and Mama Elephant’s Lunar Extras in Memento Tuxedo Black ink, and colored them with Copic markers (Y11.Y15, Y17, R02, R05, R27, R11-for the cheeks, E000, E00, E50. N3, N5, W3,...

Greetings fellow crafters!   Happy Thursday, Ashley D. here!   If you’re anything like me, you’ve got lots of holiday themed stamps, and it seems a shame to banish them to use only a few months out of the year.   I love to make the most of my stamps (aka investment, *wink* *wink*), and take them, what I call “beyond the set.”   And I especially love it when I can use Christmas stamps and dies well beyond the holidays!   Today I created a baby boy card using two holiday favorites; Neat & Tangled’s Little Baby Jesus stamp and Mama Elephant’s new Oh Joy Halo Script die cut set.   I first stamped the baby Jesus onto Copic X-Press It Blending Card using my favorite Memento Tuxedo Black Ink .   Then I used the included small star stamp to create a pattern on the blanket.   No need to mask the edges, since we’ll be cutting him out.   I then colored him in with Copic markers (BG01, C-0, W-0, E000, E00, YR31, YR12, and R00), and added ...