Distressed Cricut Tags

Evening Chicks!

When I use the Memory Box dies and others to do different projects, some of my wonderful friends dont have the dies but like to use the Cricut.  Soooo.. I pulled out the Christmas Cheer cart and found kewl images that resemble Tim Holtz ones.   Ooops, the fence is a die cut but the trees aren't!  I will post another one using the snowman from the same cart in a day or two.

My tags are nowhere near the super kewl level that Tim's are but, I am trying!  It is hard to tell but the trees are embossed with the CBug and lots of clear embossing powder dumped on after!

The recipe is:

Tags - From our shop
Trees - Cricut Christmas Cheer cart
Snowflakes - WalMart pack of 20 for super cheap!
Fence - Memory Box die
Ribbon - Not sure - My stash
Distress Inks - Gathered Twigs, Wild Honey, Peeled Paint, Evergreen Bough, Forest Moss
Perfect Pearls Spray - Copper
Ribbon - Stash
Embossing Powder - Clear...Lots of it!

Thanks for looking!

Huggzz...
Sheree
p.s.  I will be back playing with Stampscapes again after the holidays.  I will be able to wrap my head around them when things slow down a bit!

Fall Challenge Entry

Hi Everyone!
I'm finally posting!  There will be quite a few over the next while as I've been busy dealing with the sewer backup into the house lately.  When I found a couple of minutes I hibernated into my rubber room to play.  Here's one I've come up with!
Also, this card will be included in the package I'm putting together for Send A Smile 4 Kids Canada which gives cards to B.C. Children's Hospital for either patients or for patients to give to staff who do an incredible job!

And the recipe is....

Stamps - Rubber Stamped;  Small and Big Maple
Inks - Distress Ponmegranate, Gathered Twigs, Seedless Something and Frayed Burlap. Versa Mark Black, Ranger Big N Juicy (Foliage)
Clear embossing powder
Perfect Pearls - Green Patina, Mint, Heirloom Gold
3D dots - Dollarama

Challenge:
The Outlawz - Sunday CAS

Have a wonderful day!

Hugs,
Sheree

Stampscapes - Autumn Whatever Card

Evening Chickees!

The football game is on (yay!) so I've been doing my own thing in my rubber room again.  Yes, I'm on a 'fall' kick using Distress inks and Perfect Pearls.  This time I also incorporated a Stampscapes stamp to see how it would turn out.  Next time I'll live on the edge and try stamping a whole scene on something like this!

This card is a little different than the ones I posted this morning.  The original background is the same as they were all done at the same time... SUPER fast and easy!  It was blotchy using the Distress Inks and foam blender but each one was different so I could stamp whatever in different highlighted areas.

I started by using the Stampscapes oak branch and only stamping with the smaller edge branches.  As I stamped each one I immediately dusted on the perfect pearls randomly and dusted off with the larger brush.  (Now here's a huge hint!  Victoria at Craft Capers told me about using Swiffer dustin cloths.  I tried dusting my work and she was right!  It picked up all the loose pearl dust!)  Then it was stamping one by one around the paper.

Once it was done I stamped the sentiment which is also from Stampscapes.  I thought it fit perfectly!  I still wasn't satisfied though so took my oak branch again and just touched the tips of the branches onto the paper using Distress Ripe Persimmon.  Dusted that with clear embossing powder and these following photos show a close up of how it looks.. a REAL close up haha!

Hope those help to show what I've been trying to tell you!  Now here's the recipe:

Stamps:  Stampscapes 203G Oak Branch

              Sentiment - Stampscapes sheet

Inks:  Distress Wild Honey, Walnut, Frayed Burlap, Ripe Persimmon, Seedless Preserves

Perfect Pearls:  Biscotti, Mint, Green Patina, Cappuccino

Embossing Powder

Paper:  Staples 110 lb. white, Others are unknown from stash but could be Stampin' Up!
Twine:  From the greenhouse and dyed here and there with Distress Walnut
Button:  Stash

Thanks for looking and have a wonderful weekend!

Hugs,

Sheree

My Card For Debby

Good Morning Chickees!
I was playing again last night while cooking dinner and these are what I have come up with so far. 
The card above is going to Debby who is on the design team at Send A Smile 4 Kids....  You will see her picture on my sidebar.  Click on the link above to learn of her tragic accident and how we bloggers are needed to send cards to inspire her.  Her address is also listed there.
I started with white 110 lb. cardstock from Staples and using Ranger Distress Inks I came up with the background.  The leaves were stamped with Walnut Distress and I used Perfect Pearls, Cafe, to give them colour and sheen.  Once the paper was dried I stamped the sentiment in Walnut as well and used clear embossing powder to give it texture.  Easy Peasy!

This second card is one I played with using a different sentiment.  It looks so pretty IRL!

Here is a photo of the Perfect Pearls taken with the light angle different ...

The recipe is as follows:
Stamps: Rubber Stamped Small and Big Maple
Sentiment:  Top card - Stampin' Up!
                  Bottom card - Stampendous
Inks:  Distress - Wild Honey, Walnut, Frayed Burlap, Ripe Persimmon, Seedless Preserves
Perfect Pearls - Cafe collection... I LOVE this set!!
Clear embossing powder

Thanks for looking and have a wonderful weekend!  The Canadian Thanksgiving is tomorrow and I can hardly wait to dive into the turkey!

Hugs,
Sheree

Distress Christmas Card

Once again my photography skills are showing how bad I really am on 'automatic'!!

This card came to me while playing with Distress Inks and  Ranger Perfect Pearls.  This card stock really started out as plain white!  Kind of looks like I was taking out my agressions on the paper!   

The background stamp is stamped in Frayed Burlap along with the Flourish.  Perfect Pearls Bronze was dusted onto the Flourish and the excess dusted off.   Next was that awesome sentiment which was stamped with Gold Brilliance and embossed with gold embossing powder.

The snow flakes were stamped with Frayed Burlap and dusted with Gold Perfect Pearls. 

I added more light to this photo so that the perfect pearls would stand out a bit more for you to see.  The card looks like #*%! in the photo but, IRL... It's not too shabby.  Victoria said it looks like store bought and classy... I love Victoria  :o) j/k

The Recipe:

Stamps:

Background - Penny Black Letter Background

Flourish - Stampendous! Jumbo Dahlia set  (Love this set!!)
Sentiment - Inkadinkado

Snowflakes - Penny Black

Inks:

Distress - Fired Brick, Frayed Burlap, Walnut

Memento - Rhubarb

Perfect Pearls

Bling - Dollarama

Thanks for looking!

Hugs,

Sheree

That's about it other than adding a wee bit of bling!

Stampscape - Dream

Good Afternoon Girls!

It's blowing a southeaster with horizontal rain today so thought I'd play in my room after the chores were done! (Didn't get them all done because I'm solar powered and it's rather dark with all the heavy clouds)
I've had Ranger Perfect Pearls in my drawer for a while and finally thought up a use for them! I didn't want to be like other Stampscape artists using the pine stamped multiple times and fades into the background. So once again I thought outside the box and this is what I ended up with!
I used the small lakeside cove stamps and didn't put the pearls on until I was finished stamping. I thought doing it that way I'd get a crisper image using the perfect medium.
The tops of the trees and the water are done with the pearl finish to simulate moonlight kissing the tree tops and playing on the water. The rocks were done in gold and the tree bottoms were coloured with copper. I thought the bronze was too dark to use on black.
Once it was all dusted off I added some stars with a Jelly Roll star pen along with a few more ripple kisses in the water. Stars were added last and if you look closely you'll see a couple of constellations!
The scene was layered on gold shimmery paper and my Martha Stewart photo corner punch finished it off (Hmm I think they are now my signature on every Stampscapes piece!)
The dream stamp was from 'G' and stamped with Brilliance white and then embossed with Stampendous Pearl.
A bow with generic ribbon was made and topped off with a real jewel... just kidding! The background cardstock is quite a deep brown but I tried to use the dining room light to make the Perfect Pearls shine and ended up making the background look lighter with my fantabulistic photography skills!
Hope you like it!

I have entered this card in the following challenges:
Simon says Stamp! - Anything goes
Craft Us Crazy - Be ONE With NATURE