Single layer Kraft card

So over the weekend on Pinterest I saw a tutorial for a single layer art journal page using Kraft cardstock and brown ink for the images and I fell in love with the look. Of course the art journal that I work with has white pages so that would not work well for me, but I have Kraft cardstock and I love to make cards on it so, there you go Cherry make a card with it.

I used Kraft cardstock from Michael's which is kinda thin, but hey its what I have. I used the Brilliance ink in Coffee Bean from Tsukineko, and color pencils in bright neon shade to color in the images and white to accent everywhere.

I really like the look of this and will probably make a few more like it....

Now for the big giant fail... because lets be real not everything we make is going to be outstanding and perfect, well nothing I ever make is perfect, but that is ok to. I thought that I would get a cute rainbow effect on this card and I drew my lines nice and neat with a brown marker and everything... Well even thought the markers were pastel colored they were still to dark for the paper... I may try using colored pencils next time, because I am not giving up on it, just this attempt was not great... Right! I thought that you would agree.

Yeah not a big fan of that look... and here is the link to the inspiration post http://michelleward.typepad.com/michelleward/2014/01/new-stencils-a-giveaway-and-a-hop.html. I would like to thank you for stopping by today and we will chat again soon.

Love and Hugs

Cherry

RANTS

I know that I have not posted in a while, and that is ok, life gets in the way of things sometimes and we cannot always do what we would want to do. However, I find it necessary to do a rant today about the Recollections brand cling stamp, which have no names, that is with the black and pink collections in stores, the dollies stamps to be specific. I have stamped these in several mediums onto different surfaces, and I will be honest I thought they would be great to make a copy cat version of the Maggie Holmes dollies in gold velum sheet. They are not, I repeat not, anything like I would have expected from Recollections brand at all. Yes I have a lower expectation for this brand, but come on. I find that unless I push the stamps into the mount the cling only attaches in sections, not all over like it is suppose to, and I use a Fiskars clear mount for my stamps. Then it does not fully stamp, again no matter what the medium that I am using to stamp with, i.e. dye ink, pigment ink, or embossing ink. And to that it always seems that the ink misses in about the same spot in the stamp, there does not seem to be any ridges or bumps on the stamps to explain why they do that. I am just very unsatisfied with this product and would not recommend it to anyone else.

Here is the link to my Instagram for a sad photo, http://instagram.com/p/mTHA_kE6cO/

But I would like to end with a positive thought on this, even though it does not meet my expectations I can still use them, until I can get different ones, I will just hide the bad parts by layering over them, humm maybe an idea for a new post.

Thanks for stopping by
Love and Hugs
Cherry