I Have My Eye on You with Lost Coast Designs

Hi Dreamers!

I am back with a really fun image from Lost Coast Designs called Face with Butterfly.  I made two pretty different cards with this stamp.  On the first card, I also stamped the Iron Works Border repeatedly on a background of brown packing paper.  On the second I stamped on white tissue paper.  As you can tell, I don't throw out all those interesting papers that come with shipped orders.  LOL  (I purchased all my inks and Markers from Blockheads Paper Arts.)

• Start by making a card base from Kraft CS and layering with  a bright green CS.
• On brown packing paper---the kind that is used to cushion items during shipping----stamp the Iron Works border stamp with Rich Cocoa Memento ink repeatedly.

• Stamp the Face With Butterfly with Tuxedo Black Memento ink.
• Color some of the stamped areas with Distress Markers by Ranger.

• Crumple the stamped brown paper and add some Tumbled Glass Distress ink.
• Add to card
• Tie a knot in a piece of ribbon and hand gather the tails.

The second card is a bit different from the first card. On this card, I stamped on white tissue paper.  

• Make a card base from Blue CS and layer with wine CS

• On a piece of white CS, stamp the Face with Tuxedo Black Memento ink
• Color this image with Copic Markers using bold colors.  Don't bother to do any shadowing and shading.
• On  a piece of white Tissue Paper, stamp the face again.
• Position the Tissue paper over the stamped and colored image matching up the images exactly.
• Wrap the edges of the tissue paper around the white CS and glue.

Love this soft effect that results from overlaying with the stamped tissue paper!!

I would like to enter my Face With Butterfly card #1 in the Simon Says  Stamp and Show challenge:
Use a background stamp in an interesting way  or use a stamp to create a background.----------
I used a border stamp to create an interesting background.

The weather is beautiful here in good old Michigan today!! Already 70 degrees F!!!  So I am going to head outside and get a bit of work done in the garden.  Lots of old dead stuff to cut down.  Doesn't that sound like fun!!??  Sure!   I will be back later this week with a Spring in Paris card made with Stampsmith stamps.  OHHH!  That will be fun!!
I hope you are having a great day in your little corner of the world.   Love ya.
Karen