Showing posts with label Inkadinkadoo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Inkadinkadoo. Show all posts

Monday, 12 February 2018

""Wild Horses" for the music prompt at #onelittletag



Hello my friends!
I am back again with another tag for the music prompt at the one little tag craft challenge. This tag is inspired by The Rolling Stones song "Wild Horses". I had my sister in mind when I created this tag. I was also thinking about my niece who lives in Northern Alberta. So far north that you have to use the ice roads to get there at this time of year. There are many wild horses where she lives, they have to put up fences to keep the horses out of the yard. As a matter of fact, she was recently late for work because two horses were having a scuffle in the middle of the road!
To create this tag, I used my homemade stamp positioner to stamp the horses first in brown archival ink. The stamps are from an Inka Dinka Doo set. Then I'm masked off the single horse using a mask I created from a piece of paper previously. I did not mask off the running horses. I use some makeup brushes that I got from the dollar store as ink brushes sometimes. They work quite well. (little tip!) I used various distress inks to create the background. A little bit of blue in the sky and various browns and green for the ground. I kind of swirled things around to look like dust and use my Copic opaque white ( ilovetostuff!) To create the dust clouds. Then I smooshed a few different distress inks on to my craft mat, spritz them with some water, and use my fan brush to add some splatters. I did the same thing with my copic white. Then I unmasked my single horse, and put my tag back into my stamp positioner. This time I used black ink to stand for horse, but I placed the ink strategically knowing that part of it would be Andy dust cloud so I didn't want it really dark.





To finish off the tag, I mounted it to a burlap paper mat  from a pad I got at the dollar store a while back. I thought the burlap really suited this tag. Then, as usual I finished it off with a black mat..
I hope you enjoyed today's take, and I hope my sister likes it!
Thank you so much for stopping by and allowing me to share some of my art with you.
Kim XO

Tuesday, 1 November 2016

My latest Christmas card using a Tim Holtz die




Hello my friends!  Thank you for visiting and having a look at my latest Christmas card. 
I created this card using my new Tim Holtz die.  I have a feeling that this is going to be one of my favourite and most versatile die sets in my collection.


I also used an Inkadinkadoo stamp set.

I used distress ink to blend a background.  I punched a circle out of some low-tac shelf liner to make a mask for the moon.   I just love how water reactive distress ink is, and I  splattered some water with some perfect pearls in it to give a snowy shimmery effect.  I edged the houses and the inside of the globe  I used my Wink of Stella clear to add some shimer to the moon and the roofs.



I had some gold trim with an adhesive back (that I got from Michaels) that I used to embellish the globe.

This was a fun card to make because I like to create little scenes.  It took a bit of time to assemble all the pieces, so it wouldn't be ideal to make multiple cards, but very nice for that special card.

Thanks again, so much for taking the time to visit my blog and I hope you enjoyed my latest card and that perhaps it has inspired you to create your own card.

Have an awesome day!

Wednesday, 4 May 2016

Tag 4-25 "Seasons Greetings" #onelittletag


Tag 4-25
Welcome to my blog! Those of you that have been following along may know that I reserve the 25th of each month for a Christmas tag.  I am still playing catch up and I felt like making a Christmas tag so here it is!
I got the cute train stamp and die from Local King Rubber Stamps at  the Creative Festival last week. I have to give credit for the design of this tag to Lisa Xang, owner of Local King.  This tag was totally inspired by a sample card that she created.

Here is a link to the Local King website http://www.localkingrubberstamp.com/

Tuesday, 3 May 2016

Tag 4-14 "Artist" #onelittletag #MMM#7


Tag 4-14 and MMM #7
Welcome to my blog!  I have been busy today. This tag is another for the magazine challenge on the FB  One Little Tag Craft Challenge and also MMM#7 for the Mixed Media Morsels FB challenge I am also doing.  That prompt was a circle background.  This was a fun one, hope you like it!  Yhanks for joining me, have an awesome day!

Thursday, 28 April 2016

Tag 4-4 "Rise and Shine" #onelittletag



Welcome to my blog! 
Another tag for the "put a bird onit" challenge with the One Little Tag Craft Challenge on FB.   This is a new stamp set for me and I thought it was cute and wanted to use it I used a coated card stock for this tag, which I don't normally use. It is a pretty slick surface.  I am going to play around with this card a little more and figure out it's pros and cons.
Thanks for stopping by!  I am back at making tags so if you have been enjoying them, make sure to check back for new ones and maybe some new tutorials as well!

Saturday, 20 February 2016

Tag 2-19 All the Stars in the Sky #onelittletag

Tag 2-19
Last one tonight, I promise! I am playing catch up. I have been pretty busy  and tomorrow is another busy day. Going to a painting workshop.  Looking forward to it and I should be getting my supplies ready, but I really wanted to get some tags posted before I'm too far behind. I'm a little disappointed with this tag. I like it, but the embossing didn't really come out well and a few things I was trying didn't quite work. But I have had the idea for this tag a while and I will try it again. My 3's are my distress ink background (twisted citron, wilted violet and peacock feathers) and I embossed 3 stamps.
Thanks again for popping by!

Friday, 19 February 2016

Tag 2 - 17 Eat Cake #onelittletag





Tag 2-17 Eat Cake
3 cupcakes and 3 colours , black white and kraft for the 3's challenge. This  tag is inspired by my friend Janet's daughter Rachel, an artist in the kitchen who made a suggestion that I do a cupcake tag.
I didn't want to go too cutsy, I was trying for a more elegant look.  I kind of like the way it turned out.  I may try another one and add a pop of red stickles for the little cherries, but I wanted to keep to our 3's challenge for this one.