Word Art Wednesday New Challenge #637-638 with Seth Apter Designs!

  Good Morning! It is Word Art Wednesday's Anything Goes Challenge # 635-66.

 As always,  anything family-friendly goes a card, an ornament, a journal, or framed art; we love you sharing your talents and creations!  

We have our beautiful devotion by Karen Letchworth, a digital scripture gift from Karen Murray, design team inspiration, and a sweet $25.00 prize from Seth Apter Designs! Check the website out; there is something for every type of crafting.

My card for this week's verse. 

The stamps I used were this set from Crafty Individuals; I am very fond of these images. The two girls remind me of happy summer vacations at the beach with my sister Robin and the couple holding hands, Steve and I. For this card, I used VersaFine Clair ink on 130# watercolor paper and used watercolors for the coloring.

The background was a freebie from Adobe. Here's a hint about background images like this: If you are printing with an inkjet printer, you can tweak the image with a wet paintbrush and add more or move the printed color just a little.  

This week's verse for your digital stash:

Thank you for stopping by, and I hope you join in the challenge!

Ginny M

Word Art Wednesday Fresh Challenge # 635-636 Sponsored by Stamps of Life!

                   Good Morning! It is Word Art Wednesday's Anything Goes Challenge # 635-66.

 As always,  anything family-friendly goes a card, an ornament, a journal, or framed art; we love you sharing your talents and creations!  

We have our beautiful devotion by Karen Letchworth, a digital scripture gift from Karen Murray, design team inspiration, and a sweet $25.00 prize from Stamps of Life! Check the website out; there is something for every type of crafting.

My Card for this week:

For this card, I used a preprinted Anna Griffin card base and a few of her flower die-cuts

I mounted the bible verse on glitter cardstock.

Dimensional tape and gold paint were added to the flower centers.

I know I have said this many times, but I make cards to send to people, so they are pretty flat and very mailable.  There was a trend that I tried years back: stunning cards with layers of dimension, flowers, ribbons, and all kinds of amazing things.  Truly works of art on a small scale. But had to be mailed in a box.  That was beyond my time and postal budget.  My main goal in card-making is to encourage and to bring Jesus to someone's day and life.

This week's beautiful verse gift to you:

Thank you for stopping by, and I hope you have a wonderful day shared with the people you love!

Ginny M

Masculine Card for Encouragement and a Little Old School Stamping.

 As encouragement for the men in our church, Steve sends an encouraging "word" to each of the men at the beginning of the month.  My job is to take that encouragement and turn it into a card.  For February, I decided to hand stamp the card front after doing the message on the interior.  

I used a terrific stamp by Paperbagstudios, wood mounted, red rubber.  I believe this company is no longer in business, but I can still find their cool stamps on eBay, which is where this one came from.  I'll show you the card and then take you through the process: 

This is an A6 size top fold card; the base is  Sundance felt finish 110# card stock

The stamp is 3.5x4.5 

I liked the quote on the stamp, but I needed to remove it for my purposes.

Without the quote:

 It was a little difficult to get a good stamped image; this is not abnormal for larger wood-mount stamps.  Since I am a collector as well as a user of vintage Magenta stamps, I worked out a great way to get a good image time after time many years ago.  I used a simple tool called a Speedball Press.

They are a little pricey and many stampers now do not use wood mounts.  So I can't recommend you run out and get one, you may never need one.  If you do use big block wood mounts, you will love this!  Instead of slamming the stamp on paper or placing it on paper and then standing on it, try one of these:

I placed a silicone sheet on the rubber surface to prevent the card stock slipping.  I placed the card stock on the mat, then placed the inked stamp on the card, brought down the handle, and pressed!  Very simple and you get a good image every time.

If you would like to read another post I made some years ago about the press click here

The lever action places the right amount of weight evenly over the stamp.

    

Here you can see the difference between the hand stamp on the left and the pressed stamp on the right.

 This makes an even bigger difference when you are making large batches of cards, especially if you have and type of hand issues.

The image illustrated this verse:

Don't we all need direction?

Thank you for stopping by I hope this post was helpful to you!

Ginny M