Feathers - 1 or 3?

Which one do you like better?

Southwestern

Native American Chief

This wonderful image is from B&J's Stamps. The background teepees are from Stamping Sensations. I stamped the teepees in black on Bazzill paper. The Chief is stamped on copic paper and colored with copics. To cover a mis-stamped image, I used feathers as an embellishment.

Paper: Bazzill (2 different browns) and Neenah white paper

Ink: Ranger Archive black ink, Copics #E25, E27, R11 and E51 for the face, T3 for the feathers blended with the 0 colorless blender pen, BG05 and R22

Accessories: feathers (from Stamp A Mania), Deckle Nesties, twine

Father's Day Cards

I made 3 Father's Day cards this year (like always!).  I'm triply blessed!

The first one is made from some scrapbook paper that I've had forever. I cut out along the bottom around the race cars and then glued it onto a sheet of green paper

that matched (almost too perfectly, since you can't see where the green front wing of the

race car ends and the background paper begins) the color of one of the race cars. The c

ard is 9.5" x 4" to fit in a regular legal sized envelope. Walmart has them in such nice colors! I then cut a mat out of the same green that was wider than the sentiment so that it mimicked the card being wider than the white paper.

Stamp: Thinking of Father from SU!

Cardstock: AC Cardstock, primaries

Paper: ???

Ink: SU's Basic Black

The second card utilizes an image I've had for a couple of years. I really liked the image and so

couldn't bear to use it, but finally found the perfect card to make with it. The image came from a make and take at the Grapevine or Mesquite convention with Judy of B & J's Art Stamps, so all the stamps are theirs. I should have bought the main stamp because I like it so much. Maybe this year! The background was stamped with one of their background stamps, of which I have several. I love the brushed look! Judy has us stamp the whole background with a light color (in this case a yellow color) and then around the edges with a darker color (Indian Rouge and Patina Beauty). Once the background is stamped, we stamped the Indian with black, covered the whole thing with sparkly EP and heat gunned it. Next we stamped in the Patina Beauty two background stamps in the corners. Finally, we used Versamark to emboss the edges of the card with bronze EP. I put this on teal paper.

The last card was an easy card, nice and simple. At the Arlington convention this month, I bought some paper from Scrapbookers Painted Page. One of the papers I bought was of a sea plane on a lake. My step-father likes planes and I thought this would make a great card for him. I used a whole

sheet of 8.5" x 11" piece of cardstock and folded it in half to make a larger card. I used a red color from AC (American Crafts). I glued the paper on the cardstock and then punched an oval through the front of the card using the SU medium oval punch. I masked the oval and stamped the word JOY on the inside of the card through the oval. The JOY came from SU's Small Words set.

Organ Mountains Card

This is the card I made for my Dad on Father's Day. The mountains are the Organ Mountains in my hometown. The mountain stamp and the cacti stamp are from Stamp-A-Mania and the little hills I used to fill in between the two and the small yucca are from an old Stampin Up set whose name I do not know. I used a brown ink and then chalked the mountains with SU's Creamy Caramel and a tiny bit of Garden Green on the foothills. I chalked the sky using the SU cloud template and Brilliant Blue. I stamped the cacti in Garden Green and then used Liquid Applique from B&J's Stamps in orange, purple, white and red for the flowers. I hope my Dad liked it! :)

B & J's Art Stamps

I made this at the B&J Make and Take while at the convention. I believe this is a new stamp, because I don't remember seeing him before. He is awesome and I will probably be buying him soon. I inked up the background stamp with a yellow, a blue and Indian Rouge. After stamping the Indian (oops Native American) I embossed it all with Fire EP. You can't tell in the scan, but it is clear with iridescent sparkles in it. I then stamped the swirlies in the blue before embossing the edges with the Indian Gold EP.

Hopi Kachina Card

I just love this Hopi Kachina from Stamps Galore. I've had him for several months now, but this is the first time I've used him. The background and the swirls are from B & J's Art Stamps and the background speckles are from SU's Prehistoric Paintings. I used Inkcredible inks...Desert Peach for the center, Harvest Gold for the edges and speckles and Passport Green for the very edges and the swirls.