“Cheers!”

Todays theme for the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge was “Bright & Cheerful”. I have been dying to get my hands on these “Tropical” thinlits from Sizzix and they just came in yesterday. So…….yes, these were the best part of this make. I think, anyway. Margaritas run a pretty close second though. Haha. Todays card was pretty simple. You will see two of everything in this post, because I just knew I was gonna screw up something! Haha. Didn’t happen, surprise, surprise, so now I have two of this cute little beauty. Here’s how it went.

I decided to go with a Kraft card base this time. For my background, I used the Distress Watercolor cardstock and my Distress Oxides. The colors I chose today were Mermaid Lagoon, Cracked Pistachio, Broke China, and Tumbled Glass. I smudged a little of my Mermaid Lagoon onto my nonstick mat on my glass media mat, then spritzed it with some water. Then I dabbed my paper into the mix until I was happy with the coverage. I did this same procedure on the other three colors. Once I was happy with the coverage, I spritzed my paper with a little water and dried with my Ranger Heat It Tool. With the Ranger Distress Specialty Stamping Paper, and my Memento ink, I stamped my Margarita from the Stampers Anonymous Cocktails Blueprint (CMS335) stamp set by Tim Holtz. My cheers sentiment is from a set I’ve had for a few years and it’s stored just as pictured. It has no card or manufacturer or part number. Sorry.

The next thing I did, I took my Distress Splatter brush and my Liquitex White Gesso and splattered some small dots of white onto that blue background. I dried it with my Heat It tool and then framed the edges by distressing my paper with the Black Soot Distress Paint. Once I made sure everything was good and dry, I taped it to my card base with my X-Press-It double sided tape.

Next up, Margarita!! I used my Copic markers to color today. For the Margarita, I used YG21, YG23, and YG25. For the stem of the glass, I used BG02. I tried a little of the Icicle Stickles as a rimmer, but it turned out to be a little too gold. So, I ended up wiping most of that off, and went with the White Blizzard Nuvo Glitter Drops at the end.

Next was the fun Tropical thinlits. I actually used some alcohol ink experiments from last weekends demo to cut these pieces out. Some were pretty perfect colors for what was not even intended for today. I have not a clue what colors of alcohol inks I used, so I won’t be able to give you the details on that, but I used different shades of greens and oranges, and yellows. Once I cut out my images, I glued them down to my card with my Art Glitter glue. Things are kinda hanging off the edge, so if I end up sending it to someone, I’ll have to trim the edges. Like I said earlier, I did add some more Nuvo glitter drops to the rim of my glasses as the last step.

When I think of bright and cheerful, I think of Summer and Summer colors. Like I said, I got these dies in the mail yesterday, and that was what I went for. If you look at my scrapbook stash, I have the most of Summer and Beachy themed papers and embellishments. And, these Stampers Anonymous stamps are kinda my fav because who doesn’t enjoy a margarita by the pool??

Until next time,

Jennifer

Here is a list of the supplies used in today’s make:

Distress Watercolor Paper

Distress Specialty Stamping Paper

Products used :

Distress Oxide Ink Mermaid Lagoon

Distress Oxide Ink Broken China

Distress Oxide Ink Cracked Pistachio

Distress Oxide Ink Tumbled Glass

Distress Collage Medium

Archival Ink Jet Black