Doing the Oxide Lift!

No, it's not a new dance move! My crafty friend Julie at Cape Cod Scrapper shared a pretty spring card featuring the oxide lift technique.



She got the idea from this Simon Says Stamp video by Gina K and after watching it I had to try it too.

https://youtu.be/NwIzqVV9E9U

It just so happens that the new monthly challenge at Just For Fun Rubber Stamps starts today and the theme is Spring Flowers. Perfect for this technique!



I used the JFF Rubber Stamp image American Beauties to create my version of the oxide lift. A little Worn Lipstick, Shabby Shutters and Broken China Distress Oxide inks paired with Derwent colored pencils and voila! I also added some Diamond Stickles for a little sparkle and Club Scrap® Earth ink to frame my image.



Make something featuring spring flowers and share it with us for a chance to win a gift certificate to shop at JFF Stamps! I'll look for you in the gallery!

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Coffee Talk

I love coffee...hot coffee, iced coffee, coffee ice cream, coffee in the morning, coffee after dinner...Coffee=leisure and relaxation. A "cuppa" coffee, a good book and curled up in my favorite chair? Ahhhhh!

My youngest son painted this when he was in junior high. I LOVE it and and it hangs in my kitchen!



His art inspired mine.

[caption id="attachment_12383" align="alignnone" width="3542"] JFF Rubber Stamps Coffee Sign and Single Coffee Bean
CUTplorations ATC die.[/caption]

I tried a "new to me" technique. I colored the the stamp with some of Faber Castell's Big Brush Markers, huffed on it to remoisten and stamped on kraft card stock. I've tried this before with watercolor pencils and misting with water, but never markers. I wanted a clean stamped image and this effect was exactly what I wanted. I like how the distressed red paper soaked up the ink on the coffee bean image and blurred the edges!

The new JFF Rubber Stamps monthly challenge is to use a die cut.



Link up your die cut creation for a chance to win a gift certificate to shop at JFF Stamps!



SUPPLIES USED:

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 Faber Castell Big Brush Markers @ Simon Says Stamp



Stickles Glitter Glue in Diamond @ Simon Says Stamp



Club Scrap® card stock

Club Scrap® Trattoria Love charm 



CHALLENGES ENTERED:

Pile it On Challenge #140 Circles or Squares

All Sorts Challenge Blog Week 459 Bring on the Bling

Sweet Stampin' Challenge Blog Use up your paper scraps!

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Rolling with my Peeps

I love a good joke, especially the kind that evokes a good belly laugh. You know, the side splitting guffaw, tears running and you can't breathe laughter? I feel euphoric after a good laugh and always want more. My sister and I would try to make each other laugh all the time when we were kids, especially in church or other places where it was "inappropriate"! We would get the biggest kick out of making my straitlaced grandparents laugh. Memaw would have to tell Papaw to calm down! My kids knew from an early age, all they had to do was make us laugh and all would be right with our world. My husband says that he asked me out a second time because I laughed at his cheesy pickup line AND I had big boobs. *shrug* Laughter truly is good for the soul!

This is my kind of humor...



It reminds me of the videos of Gramma and Ginga!

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-fcv-aSRlk]

I recreated this cartoon on an Easter card. I don't like marshmallow peeps, yuck, but they are a kitschy celebration of spring. I won't eat them, but I'll make art with them!



The new challenge is up at Just for Fun Rubber Stamps and the theme is die cuts. I dusted off my Cuttlebug and cut the background panels using one of STAMPloration's crazy running stitch rectangle dies and trimmed the green panel with Lawn Fawn's stitched hillside borders.  I stamped the blue background panel with JFF Rubber Stamps seashore grass silhouette for depth. The marshmallow bunnies were stamped on Club Scrap® card stock (don't you love the patterned paper from the Delft collection?) and trimmed with detail scissors. I added some Diamond stickles for sparkle and a little bowtie that was an embellishment in Club Scrap® 's Trattoria kit. I added a three-part bow to make things a little more festive. (Watch this video to view the steps to create a perfect three-part bow for yourself!)

I created the speech bubbles in Photoshop Elements using digital elements from Club Scrap® 's Comics kit, printed them on white card stock and trimmed with detail scissors.



I like to add dimension with a little foam tape, so I popped up the Happy Easter speech bubble and dapper bunny with a few pieces.



I had a leftover bunny, so I gave him an Easter makeover. May I present...Sir Peepsalot!



My crochet skills came in handy! I chain stitched some gold wired string I had in my ribbon basket and added an over sized egg with some stickles to complete the necklace. My little Easter rapper needed some sunglasses, and the Tim Holtz Crazy Things stamp set had the perfect pair!

Link up on the Just For Fun Rubber Stamps blog with your die cut creation for a chance to win a gift certificate to shop at JFF Stamps! I'll look for you in the gallery!

Life is better when you're laughing! ♥

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