Stampotique Challenge~SDC 58::Sentiments

Stampotique always presents a challenge that to me is, well......a challenge.  I guess that's why I like to play along.  It is a great opportunity to think outside the box and try to get my limited collection of Stampotique stamps to do double duty.  (My husband would disagree about the "limited" part but that is a story for another day.  In my mind if I don't have them all I have a limited collection.)  The challenge this time is "sentiments" using only their stamps, of course.  I wanted to have some flowers on the card so I turned my favorite ladies upside down and used their skirts to make flowers.  This seems appropriate since my sentiment is "Everything has beauty but not everyone sees it".  The one I am entering is using Glimmering Hope.

I used water color paper and Reeves Water Soluble Wax Pastels to color the flowers.  If you haven't tried those yet you are really missing out.  I stamped the images with Ranger's Black Archival Ink, then  just added my color and sprayed it with water for a very soft effect.  If you want to dry it with paper towels a la Dyan Reaveley you can or use your heat tool.  I think children would love this technique and the crayons are very reasonably priced at Michael's.

Glimmering Hope

Then I tried using "Angel", her skirt looks like some type of tube shaped flower.

Same watercolor paper but I used Ranger's Distress Markers to color the images.

Angel

Have a great day and try to stay cool.  It has been unusually hot here in New England this year.  I have to water my garden every day which is not the norm!  But I have loads of tomatoes to look forward to and lots of fresh herbs.

"Shimmer, Glimmer, Glitter & Glitz" Cake Pop Box (holds 8 pops)

I've got a new hobby....making cake pop boxes for a very talent baker in California named Misty.  She runs a little business baking her delicious cake pops and from time to time she has special orders that require special containers.  That's where I come in.  The box I designed for her and mailed today is a "Grunge" style box using Stampotique rubber stamps that are comical.  The color scheme is red, black and white.  The customer likes skulls and so those are of course scattered through out.  It was really fun and I think it turned out very cool.  I threw in a gift card that matches the box theme.  Hope she likes it!  I liked it so much I posted it on the Stampotique site for their "Shimmer, Glimmer, Glitter & Glitz" Challenge (it really does have a lot of gold, Glimmer Mist and bling on it even if my photography doesn't show it). : D