Inspiration

Good morning and happy Saturday! A couple days ago, after an unusually stressful day at work, I came home and wanted to get messy inky, so I did some faux water coloring with distress inks to create this background!

I've been loving this technique lately, you can create any color backgrounds you want! The white ink splats in the background is from a fun set by Neat and Tangled called Ink Splash. I embossed them in white ink on my watercolored background. After that, I added this fun graph stamp from a set by MFT. I inked up the graph stamp in white ink and then randomly stamped it around the card.

I didn't have a real plan for this card, it was completely free-style and just went where it took me, so I didn't know what kind of sentiment to use. I decided on this one from MFT's sentiment line, but can't find it on the website. I embossed the one sentiment in two different colors by masking off each section and pouring embossing powder on each line separately. I finished it off by tying some twine around the card front and adding some tiny rhinestones. 

Thanks for stopping by today, hope you have fun plans for the weekend!

Distressed!

I'm SO distressed today! But that's a good thing, heehee;) I've been playing with my Ranger Distress Inks (Broken China, Shabby Shutters, Peeled Paint, Black Soot)today! I watched some tutorials by Jennifer McGuire today (on TwoPeas) and was really inspired to play along:)
My card base is Vintage Cream by PTI. The green piece is Ripe Avacado, also by PTI. The way I did the background on the main image is using my Ranger Distress Inks! See {THIS} link for directions by the queen distresser herself;) Here's a close-up I took to show the shimmery effect the Perfect Pearls has on the piece, it's super shimmery and beautiful:) The script stamp is called "Background Basics: Text" by PTI, the swirl is from "Fancy Flourishes" also by PTI, and the flower (Bayleaf) and sentiment (Birthday Centers) are by Cornish Heritage Farms.
My honey got home today, he's been gone for a whole week! He was doing some training some I'm super happy to have him home:) We're watching "So you think you can dance"! Isn't he awesome, he watches with me:) Such a great guy!

You girls have a great weekend:) See ya tomorrow!