It's Tuesday and a Special day!! Shopping Our Stash has a NEW Challenge.

As I said it's a Special Day, not only is it a new challenge, #363 Smooshing at Shopping Our Stash, it's Rudolph Days, Let it Snow at the Jingle Belles it's my Hubby's Birthday!!! So first things first!!! Smooshing, love the term, in the last little while I have done this technique often, with distress oxide inks especially with winter cards but this time I wanted to do something different so I did alcohol ink smooshing. (how to do it at the end)

The colours are so much more brilliant IRL. I cut the smooshed shiny paper with an Elizabeth Craft Design stitched oval added foam core die cut poppies with a cute hello, both are unmarked. The background is embossed with a cuttlebug asian folder.

Used the off cut from the oval for a layer on the inside. 

This smooshed background was the first I made and it is what I used for the instructions. The die cuts were done with foam core. And the oval was elevated with fun foam.

The sentiment is from Stampendous and one of my oldest cling mount stamps.

I shopped my stash for the shiny cardstock (5 years old or more) Technique haven't done in years either,  everything is from my stash, even the foam core I bought 1 1/2 years ago to make a photo booth and it never was used.

Now on with the instructions.

Inside a large zip lock storage bag I put a sized piece of cardstock, this is for knowing where to put your markers.

Scribble all over the plastic bag with the desire colour alcohol markers making sure you cover all over the area of the inside piece of paper.

Then you spritz it with rubbing alcohol and it swirls together, take your cut piece of shiny cardstock and lay it carefully on  top, don't let it sit too long. lift it straight up, check to see if it how you like it. and it drys really quickly (no waiting) forgot to take a picture of the finished piece (duh) but here is another picture of the card.

I am entering this in:

Jingle Belles Rock ~~ Let it Snow

Rudolph Days ~~ September

Thanks for visiting today and head over to the Main Blog and check out what the rest of the design team have made. Check back on Saturday to see hubby's birthday card.

It's Saturday!!! Time for a New Challenge at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers!!!

Challenge #102 at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers is "Farm Life" if it's on a farm we want to see it on a card!!!  I don't have a lot of farm animal stamps but Bugaboo Stamps has lots of different ones although I printed one I didn't use it I decided to go with a set from Stampin'up I have only used twice and to make the same card as I have made here....so have a peek.

Yes it's an Etch-a-Sketch card, I used a tutorial I found on line.  I stamped the image on vellum and backed it on grey to give it the look of the screen. The tutorial was easy to follow.  The Etch-a-sketch will be 58 years old this July. Did you have one?

Close up of the sketched farm animals

Finished the inside with a super sweet sentiment....sorry no snark this time, I'm not sure my snark button is working....perhaps next time.

Thanks for visiting today and head over to the Main Blog and check out what the other dt members have made and I know they have managed some snark.