'Sistah Sorros' FACE Cards

Happy Hump Day Everyone:

With the exception of adding a acrylic paint, today's cards are just a neat spend on the cards I shared with you yesterday. You may have noticed, I have not decided what greeting/sentiment I want to put on the front of the cards. Still pondering. Take a look [anyway] and share your thoughts.

Each card represents an African-American Greek sorority.

Zeta Phi Beta

Sigma Gamma Rho

Alpha Kappa Alpha

Delta sigma Theta

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FACE Cards

Happy Hellos Everyone!!!!

Let me just say, 'The Peddler' was busy at work this weekend. I thoroughly enjoyed bringing these ladies to life. Take a look and tell me what you think. Also, tune in later to see the special spend I used to create a card for my 'Sistah Sorros.'

So much went into each one of these cards.

To begin, each stamp image was stamped with embossing ink by Ranger Ink

 and embossed with black detail embossing powder. That took a minute (smiles)

Although I did not use them all, I pulled out every distress ink

 pad by Tim Holtz I own and I went for it.

When using distress in inks, my goal is often seems to be--create an artistic

 backdrop. There was no difference with this card. I tried to bring the back-

ground to the forefront of her face by adding a little moisture to her face. This

 technique also represented several shades of color.

 Additional hues and moisture were added

 and allowed to drizzle across the paper.

Lastly, a sentiment was added and the card was topped-off with a shimmering mist.

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Shake-It Up

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I hope you have manage to tackled the "Hump" in your Hump Day. I also you enjoyed yesterday's card. Hopefully, you will find today's card just as nice. Today's card is the perfect card to bring along to the celebration.

I absolutely loved how this shaker greeting

 card turned out. I found it much easier to

create than using the traditional method--

building a wall of foam tape.

Instead of foam tape, I elected to use my new [purple handle] fuse tool.

I wanted to use a stitched rectangle die, but I do not own one, so I use a

 rectangle dies with an etched edge.

As you can see, I began to have a goodtime with creating this style shaker card.

 I decided to create as many as I could using as many colors that were available to me.

As always, thanks for stopping by The Peddler's Gallery and be sure to come back real soon.

Faux Water & Oxide Backgrounds

Happy Hellos Everyone!

I  hope you enjoyed a wonderful Easter weekend. My holiday began with a bump or or two and ended in a bit of a swirl. However it was a fantastic weekend. As I mentioned in the previous post, I am just all about the oxidize inks and today's post is a mixture of oxidize inks and Copic Markers. Take a look and tell me what you think.

 This is a perfect card to encourage or congratulate that special person in your life. I had so much fun creating the background for this greeting card. 

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The use of faux water provided texture and did not blight the hues.

Applying additional texture, I outlined the whale with Nuvo.

I found this neat stamp set by Ranger Ink. I loved it enough to take time to emboss it in dark purple embossingpowder. 

I cast a little light on my whale as if it surfaced to the top of the ocean and accented the eye with Nuvo.

Just a closer look at my whale waving goodbye. 

As always, thanks for stopping by The Peddler's Gallery and be sure to comeback real soon.