Thursday, May 15, 2008

Warhol Technique with Touch of Nature

This is the second card for my most recent Techniques Classes. Inspired by many of the works of the late Andy Warhol, this technique simply repeats an image multiple times on different colors of card stock arranged in a grid. It is easiest if your image fits in a square punch (I used Stampin' Up! 1 3/8" square punch here), but the images can be cut into rectangles or larger squares by hand if this works better for your design. For this one I used (upper left to lower right) Pink Passion, Old Olive, Purely Pomegrante, Certainly Celery, Pumpkin Pie, and Tempting Turquoise. Those squares are matted on a rectangle of Textured Basic Black, and then mounted with dimensionals on a Whisper White card. I stamped "happiness" from the Warm Words set in the lower right hand corner before, though.

Happy Stamping!
Brycia

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Friendly Flowers Split Negative

This is one of the two cards my latest Techniques Class is doing. The Split Negative technique yields dramatic results without much difficulty. For this one I used the Friendly Flowers set and black and white, but any two colors work well as long as you have matching ink and card stock to reverse the colors of the image. Stamps with a strong line of symmetry work best, but nearly any image will do.

Happy Stamping!
Brycia

Monday, May 5, 2008

Summer Fun Page

This is the page my scrapbooking clubs did in March. The colors are based on the Summer Picnic Designer Series Papers and are Old Olive, Real Red and Bashful Blue. I used the Friendly Flowers set for the centers of the Die Cut Blooms and some are mounted on chipboard circles.

Happy Stamping!
Brycia

Thursday, May 1, 2008

Celebrate 8


Hi Everyone! Sorry it has been so long since I've posted... I've been busy doing non-stamping things like painting, wrangling with a new computer, and darned if I know what else. The time just flies when you're having fun they say... so I guess I must have been having lots of fun!!! LOL! Anyway...
This month is National Scrapbooking month, so to start the month off, I thought I'd post my most recent scrapbook page. This page uses the direct to paper technique and chipboard (which is all 25% off from Stampin' Up! this month). I started with Ballet Blue card stock, smeared Whisper White Craft in over top in both horizontal and vertical directions, and spread the ink a bit with a sponge where I got it too thick. While that was drying, I cropped my photos and layered all of them on Real Red card stock. After the white ink dried, I stamped the star from Nursery Necessities along and underneath where I planned to place two of my photos, and stamped "Celebrate" at the top. I added a On-Board Chipboard star, heart, and tag covered with Certainly Celery Designer Series Paper. The "8" is inked with Real Red craft ink and that and a red button were attached to the chipboard with mini glue dots. After I was all finished I added a few swipes of dots with the Lots of Dots Jumbo wheel. Both the dots, stars, and celebrate where stamped in Ballet Blue Classic ink.
Happy Stamping!
Brycia