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Friday, February 20, 2009

A happy Friday to you all!

The vivacious Vicki Garrett is hosting today's Hanna Stamps Challenge (HSC57) in the SCS forum and her embellishment of choice is....METAL!! A perfect companion for GI Jon Riley and Motorbike Riley.

I hate to say this again for the second time this week, but I really like how this card turned out! No, really, I do! I love the colors and the punches of white cardstock. I think the patterned paper helped me out a bit though. ;)

I stamped Riley with Distress Ink in Black Soot because it doesn't bleed with the Copics. I got out my special Riley Copic set and colored his body, boots and extremities in. Then, very carefully, with my aquapainter brush and more ink than water, I colored Riley's clothing in with reinkers. I say 'very carefully' because the Black Soot ink will bleed with water and reinkers. Since it was a small area, I took a risk.

Can you see my goof up? I used the reinkers to create a shadow on the ground and it looked more like a puddle of mud! So I pulled my sponges and Vintage Photo ink out and went to town all over the mistake! I used the Zig pen to add the grains of sand. I had originally left the area around Riley white, but it seemed too stark, so I lightly sponged around him too. Mistakes can be fixed! :D

I had some metal alphabet embellishments that had that coil thing on the back of it to slide onto the edge of paper, so I ripped it off and added some camo twill ribbon to it. Then I added the brushed metal eyelets to balance the whole card out.

Here's another quick one I did using Motorbike Riley.

We'd love for you to play along with us, so if you decide to, please use the keyword HSC57 and leave a link in the thread so we can leave some love for you.

Have a great weekend and I hope you squeeze in some stamping. Toodles!

Supplies

Card 1

Stamps: Hanna Stamps 'GI Jon Riley', sentiment by Studio G mini alphabet set

Inks: Distress Inks 'Black Soot', Riley Copic set, Old Olive, Morning Marigold Distress Inks 'Vintage Photo'

Paper: Georgia Pacific cs, Bazzil cs, PP - 'Creative Imaginations 'Army Emblem' and Reminisce 'Go Army'

Access: Twill ribbon, metal hardware, eyelets, dimensionals, sponges, zig pen

Card 2
Stamps: Hanna Stamps 'Motorbike Riley', sentiment by Inkadinkado Clear Stamps 'Road Trip'
Inks: StazOn 'Jet Black', Versamark, Riley Copic set, Basic Grey, Ballet Blue, Cool Caribbean, Distress Inks 'Black Soot'
Paper: Georgia Pacific cs, Bazzil cs, PP - Crate Paper 'Static Collection - Gravity & Reaction'

Access: Marvy scalloped circle punches, eyelets, dimensionals, sponges