Faux Watercolour and Embossed Postage Due

I saw this card on the internet and thought I would give it a go. You squirt some re-inkers onto a plastic sheet, (I used a plastic wallet) and spritz with water. Use this to stamp your image onto whisper white card then allow to dry. Ink the stamp up again in versa mark ink use a stamp-a-ma-jig to line up your stamp and stamp over the inky image, heat emboss with white embossing powder. There is a little tutorial on the link to show you how to do it.
Here is my card:

 It is a few weeks since I made it but I think my re-inkers where, island indigo, calypso coral, pool party and wisteria wonder, the stamp set is postage due.  Here is a close up.

I really like this effect, what do you think?

Mini Flip Album #2

Here is another mini flip album I made using the beau château DSP, this time lots of chickens! 

 The Front cover, Elements of Style stamp set again!

First page, the piece of card is tucked in the flap to show you that it isn't stuck down all the way and you can slide a photo in there: 

Pages opened up:

 Centre page, behind the door:

 Back page:

 These little albums are so easy to make,  my daughter Jessica who is 9 made a beautiful one the other day, I just helped her measure and cut.

Mini Flip album

We had a lovely class last night, thanks Val for having us again. Everyone made a mini flip album, it is based on a tutorial by Robin  which I adapted a little bit so the cover is all in one piece, (here are my instructions with the change in). We used some retired DSP, Beau Chateau, which is gorgeous and the elementary style stamp set that compliments it perfectly. I have done two version of this album using this paper, this is the first one:
The Front cover:

 First pages

 Opened up:

 Centre pages opened up:

This shows you all sections, I forgot to take a photo of the back pages! 

It is easy to make once you know how and makes a lovely keepsake, thank you Robin for sharing your idea.

Faux Chalkboard Technique #2

As  I promised, better late than never, here is the other method we used to do the faux chalkboard technique.  It is exactly the same as method 1 but stamp the image in whisper white pigment ink and smudge it, no heat embossing. It gives a more faded look so we made a more shabby looking card, the stamp set is Vintage Verses from SAB and the colour scheme is raspberry ripple and summer starfruit with some speciality DSP thrown in for good measure.

 Here are the two methods together, which do you prefer?

Box Card

I have been sorting out my card stock to see how much I have that is retiring after the colour refresh. I have got lots of certainly celery card (I am sure you will be seeing a lot of it over the next few months), so it seemed a great idea to enter another challenge. 
Pals Paper Arts colour challenge:

I thought I would have a go at making a box card, which was really fun. I kept it quite simple but you could really go to town on it, they look complicated but are really easy.  I used the  mixed bunch stamp set and of course certainly celery, bashful blue and marina mist.

Just realised that I forgot to take a photo of it closed, (duh!), here is one of it partly closed before I decorated it. You could put a small gift inside, tags, confetti etc then close with ribbon or a belly band.

Serene Silhouettes aperture

I know I promised to show you method 2 for the faux chalk board effect, I'm really sorry but I will show it later in the week as I've got another challenge card to show and the deadline is looming.
For this card I have combined two challenges:

A colour challenge from 
Inkspirational :

Freshly Made Sketch

For pink, banana and slate I chose melon mambo, so saffron and basic grey, this is a combination I have never used before but I really like it! I used Serene Silhouettes stamp set and lots of punches.

Here is my card:

I don't know if you can tell but the circle is actually a window, the photo below should make it clearer:

Here is a close up:

For the butterfly I stamped the image then punched out a butterfly. I also used the simply scored borders plate to emboss some lines at each side of the melon mambo strip;

I really enjoy doing challenges, I am using colour combinations I would never think of, it certainly gets the mojo working! I was really chuffed that the card I made for the last inkspiration challenge was named in the top 5.

Faux Chalkboard Technique #1

The faux chalkboard technique is everywhere on blogland so I thought we would do it in our technique class.  It is really easy to do, there are lots of tutorials out there if you have a look.  We had a go at two different methods.

• Method one, swipe the black card with the embossing buddy to get rid of static, (it doesn't matter if it leaves any white marks/dust for this technique).
• Draw  lines about 1/8" away from the edge of the card using a white gel pen, I smudged each line with some tissue before drawing the next line. You could use a white pencil.
• Stamp the image in versa mark (or you could use whisper white pigment ink) and heat emboss with white embossing powder.
• Use a sponge or tissue to smudge whisper white ink onto the black card.

I used the Pursuit of Happiness and pennant party stamp sets. Here is my card:

 We also decorated a little memo book to match, this would make a great teacher gift, it looks like a card in this photo though!

 Here is the set together?

As always we made a little ATC technique card to go in our ATC holder as a reminder of the technique.  I will show you the other method we used tomorrow.