Bev is hosting the Wacky Wednesday challenge this week and has challenged us to get out our heat guns. I don’t know about you but my heat gun is a tool that I use daily and couldn’t do without.
My first project is a clean and simple card (CAS) that I used my heat gun to emboss the center of the sunflowers and also heated the gingham ribbon to pucker it up to create the appearance of age. I stamped and masked the chicken and chicks and then stamped and masked all the sunflowers. I watercolored the images, filled in the flower centers with my versa marker and heat embossed using clear embossing powder. I tied the multi loop bow and heated carefully with the gun to pucker and attached it to the base of the card. This was a fast and simple project.
My second card shows no sign of a heat gun but it was used over and over throughout the project. The Color Challenge on SCS yesterday was to use red, olive and black. I am not a patient stamper and cannot just sit and wait for paint to dry. Each color on my scene was either stamped, painted or sponged and then heat set so I could move quickly onto the next step without having the ink of one color run or smear into the next. I stamped a few trees and dried with the gun, masked and stamped the barn in between them and heat dried and masked, and then stamped additional trees around the barn. I painted the barn walls with red, heat dried and then painted the roof with black and heat dried. I heat dried the whole scene to make certain all the colors were dried before using a sponge to apply the blue sky area.
I haven’t posted for the last several days as I went to Ohio for my 40th high school reunion. I attended a small Seventh-Day Adventist academy, Mount Vernon Academy and graduated in 1969. We all lived together in dorms, attended classes together, worked together to earn our tuition, and ate and played together much like a very large family. We only had 80 kids in our glass and I was thrilled to see 50 of them return for our reunion. What a joy and thrill it was to attend this wonderful event.
Head over to the Rubbernecker blog for all the details on the challenge and for links to all the design team samples too! I hope you’ll play along with us! There’s a chance to win a 40% off gift certificate for your next purchase at Rubbernecker!!!
Stamps: Rubbernecker Wildflowers, Kittie Kits Farm Scene, Chicken Coop, The Moose is Loose, Outdoor Master
Paper: White, Watercolor, Red, Black
Ink: Black Brilliance, Peeled Paint, Vintage Photo, Lemonade, Fired Brick, Dried Marigold, Real Red, Black Soot, Bashful Blue
Accessories: Gingham, Heat Gun, Brushes, Sponges, Mounting Tape, Crimper, Glue Dots
Oh Kittie! The sunflowers and chickens is such a perfect combination and the barn scene is just as wonderful. Glad you had a good time at your renuion too.
These are gorgeous!!!!
I like both of the cards, but I think my favorite is the sunflower one!!!
Gorgeous Kittie both of them!!
Just heartwarming! Both the cards and the story of your upbringing and reunion.
I like your first card the hen and chicks are soooo cute but love your second card! I’m a sucker for your full scenes!
*thud* I LOVE your red barn card! Your sunflower card is just gorgeous with that ribbon and your stamping on the clean and simple white card. I’ve gotta figure out a way to bribe you to come here and let me watch you stamp for a week. 🙂
kittie I just love all your cards. they are clean and simple yet elegant and very appealing!!! They really help to inspire me Thanx—Char
Both cards are totally adorable Kittie, I’m especially loving the sunflower card . . . you know me and flowers . . . LOL!
You did a fabulous job on both of these awesome works of art, Kittie….The chicks with the sunflowers is FABULOUS and I love the little red barn scene!!! I’m glad you had a fun reunion….there’s nothing like getting together with old high school friends!!!
Beautiful, Kittie. Nice hint about heating the individual colors before you go on to the next color in order to avoid bleeding.
Oh, Kittie, I just love these!! LOVE the chicks beneath the sunflowers, with that warm gold gingham ribbon! And the red barn amid the pine forest is so striking!! Especially when you add the black gingham!
Beautiful cards, Kittie!!
I really need to try that multi-loop bow–I just love how it looks on that card. The hen and her babies look so sweet amongst the sunflowers, too!
I am not good at waiting for paint to dry, either (unless I have an interruption–and I have no choice). That red barn pops out of its setting just like country barns do along the road!! BEAUTIFUL!
Your sunflower card is absolutely adorable. I might have to design something like that tonight. I’m like you, use the heat gun almost every time I stamp, loved the embossed effect. I’ll have to try heating the ribbon, something I’ve not done before.
A favorite combination of mine-sunflowers and gingham-love your card! tfs
very cute, I especially like the chics amongst the sunflowers 🙂
Whoa!
There is no way for me to “choose” between these two, Kittie! I love the barn surrounded by the trees! My childhood barn seemed to ‘beg’ for a tree in the Oklahoma plains. The sunflowers were a part of my youth, and are a Texas summer staple here. Yay! I love the chickens in front! Did you know that I’ve spent many a summer at SDA gatherings in the CA Redwood Forests? Wonderful memories, indeed!
~Bev