This card was the outcome of a total creative blank. I seriously looked at the card and had no clue where to even start. So I grabbed the first thing on my craft island – gold chevron washi tape – and stuck it down to cover the card. It’s always better when the space staring back at you isn’t plain white!

A mist with new colours of Dylusions Ink Spray was next. And that was actually pretty cool because they resisted the gold chevron in the washi but not the white part in between. I added some molding paste over a stencil but didn’t like it so I scraped it off, making it purple as it picked up the ink beneath. I tried again over the circle explosion stencil and liked it a lot better.

Then I blanked again. So I left the card, did another one instead with the leftover molding paste, and when I finally came back to this one I decided to go with the explosion idea of the stencil. I pulled out my Idea-ology Alpha Parts, covered some letters with Rose Inka Gold and stuck them on. I finished it off by doodling with my trusty Pitt Pens.

Pretty blah, but they can’t all be masterpieces.

As always, I do love the shine in the Inka Gold:

At least it’s shiny blah, right? 🙂

S.

This started out with a scrap of paper I had left from the Paperie June/July card kit. Trust me when I say I loved all the paper so much that there wasn’t a whole lot leftover See my LO’s here, here, and here)! And this piece had to be used – it’s by Allison Kreft for Webster’s Pages and it’s really just too cute.

I adhered it to an index card with matte medium, and added a piece of Studio Calico Fabrips that I had lying around – another scrap from designing with the kit, it was the binding of my mini album. I then scraped used molding paste (hence the purple colour) over the Chevron Arrow stencil and put it aside.

I wasn’t a big fan of this card, was really just trying not to throw away my scraps, so I had no idea where to go with it. Coming back to it a while later, these lyrics popped into my head – that’s what my mind saw with the mix of arrows and birds, I guess.

Anyway, I printed them on kraft sticky labels, stuck them down and doodled with my Pitt pen. A little Graphite Inka Gold around the edges and I called it done.

A weird mix for me but that’s what I like about this project – anything and everything goes, even the weird stuff!

S.

I’m sorry. It’s another paper towel one but I promise to move on after this one. For a while, anyway!

The sentiment was stamped on a previously ruined index card (I keep them for sentiments) and I highlighted the word “perfect” by stamping that word with some larger alpha stamps and then outlined everything with my Pitt pens:

I smeared some molding paste through the peacock feathers stencil – on loan from Marg but I definitely have to get my own – and the dimension is fab!

As a matter of fact, I think molding paste might be the next go-to item for my index cards!

S.