Stamp-a-faire 2016 -- Part III

Well, Sage and I made two cards each yesterday evening
before calling it a night and watching a couple of episodes of Castle.

Sage had started on Danielle's Gilded in Gold Challenge
in the morning, having diecut and stamped her butterflies using Floral Pops Butterflies.

She used a foam brush to paint on the Liquid Gold.

She was very frustrated (I should have had some smaller foam brushes on hand)

and I had to touch things up a little for her. 

Her best friend, with whom she's going to camp tomorrow, is named Faith,

so Sage wanted to make her a card with her name on it. :)

While Sage worked on her card, I tackled a Masterpiece Inspiration Challenge.

My best friend, with whom I went out for lunch yesterday, requested

a masculine birthday card from me, for a rancher.

I chose this piece as my inspiration (as well as Melissa's card):

And used my On The Farm stamps and dies to create my card:

I started by stamping the checker board pattern (from On the Farm) 

onto my white cardstock panel in pure poppy.

Then, I masked it off and blended classic kraft ink onto my panel.

Then, I layered a Tim Holtz stencil over top and added more kraft ink.

For the tag, I diecut a Tag Sale 7 die from white cardstock 

and just the end of it from black cardstock.

I stamped the tag with images from the set and added

a black cow diecut -- since Sage was painting with the Liquid Gold,

I decided to dip his hooves into the gold -- a fun little finishing touch!

Sage also created a card for the Masterpiece Inspiration Challenge.
She decided to make a birthday card for Jonah using this piece:

She was inspired by the colours in the painting and the numbers,
which made her think of ages, which is perfect for a birthday card.

She has really taken to the ink blending technique and repeated it here,

in smokey shadow, orange zest and Altenew Caribbean Sky.

She spritzed it with water and then used a paintbrush to blend the colours.

She diecut the ferris wheel and cars from my MIM County Fair kit

and stamped them in enchanted evening and blueberry sky.

She stamped the sentiment (from KIS: Birthday) in enchanted evening.

And lastly, I decided to create a card for
Lizzie's Mastering Drips & Splatters Challenge.
I used this Master Colour Recipe, but substituted hawaiian shores for the aqua mist:

I pressed each colour onto my acrylic black and used my water brush
to splatter the ink onto my card.

I really love how the ink concentrated on the bottom of my card like that!

(I liked it so much, I chose not to add drips to it, leaving it as is -- I hope that's okay.

Once it was dry, I trimmed it out and adhered it to hawaiian shores cardstock.

I added some thread and the Inspired: Faith diecut from black cardstock

and the sentiment which I heat embossed in white on a strip of black cardstock.

Well, I tidied up my space last night so Sage and I would be
ready to tackle the rest of the challenges when we get home from church.

Thanks for looking!

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