SYS Homework, Days 2 & 7

 Yes, days 2 & 7 ... so I'm jumping around a little bit. Oh, well. I finished two cards last night that were influenced by the online Stretch Your Stamps classes I'm taking.

This first one was influenced by the Collage Stamps class on Day 2:

 I didn't use an actual collage stamp, but I did use a Tim Holtz background. Also, in class they applied the ink to the craft mat, then stuck a piece of watercolor paper into the ink to pick up the colors. Meh, I just did direct-to-paper. Less mess and I'm lazy. Tip: I started the direct-to-paper with the lightest color and worked my way towards the darker ones. That kept me from cross-contaminating the inks in case a darker one wasn't completely dry yet. At least this made sense to me at the time.

I stamped the background with Ranger embossing ink over the dried card stock and clear-embossed it. Then I went over the whole thing direct-to-paper with my Chipped Sapphire ink instead of the black they used in class. I buffed off the embossed part and voila - colored clocks!  Here it is up close and personal:

You can see where I overlapped the inks a little. Love it!

Next, I made a card sorta like on Day 7, but not. One of the techniques for Day 7 (using Floral Stamps) was to stamp on glitter. I kinda backed into this one. Here's my card, then I'll explain:

 In class they made the glitter background, stamped the flowers on the glitter, then colored it. Not me ... nope. You see, last weekend I was influenced by this post on Michelle Zindorf's blog to play with the shaving cream technique. Here's what I made that night:

 Since these were stacked on my desk, I decided to use one for the glitter technique, and my flowers would already be colored! :) I applied wide strips of Sookwang tape to cover the paper, then covered it with Dazzling Diamonds glitter. I have a ton of the micro-fine glitters, but they are all colored. :( I was very surprised to find I had so little clear glitter in my stash. So here's my glittered shaving cream background with the stamped image:

See, all colored for me. :) I cut it out, then decided it needed leaves. I drew them on the remaining glitter spaces, colored them with Copics and cut them out.

I also cut the frame in the top layer like we learned in class. Cool technique, and I'll be doing that again.

In other news, I was stupid and pulled weeds in my 10x20 back yard on Saturday, and now I have poison ivy. My right hand is swollen so I can't even hold a pen, which was tough since I had to sign three things to pick up the ointment tonight. So I won't be stamping much for a day or two until I regain the use of my right hand. :( If you'd like to have a pity party for me, please go right ahead. Oh, and it's spread to my neck and forehead and the corner of one eye, but I can't put the ointment near my eye. And today I see new spots on my left hand and arm.  The doctor said it would get worse before it gets better. Gee, thanks. So PITY ON, people! *whimper*.

And thanks for stopping by!