DAY 4: Blue Knight Rubber Stamps Week & GIVEAWAY

Hello my crafty friends!
Welcome to day 4 of Blue Knight Rubber Stamps & GIVEAWAY here at my blog!

I have been having the best time this week...

 sharing cards that I've created with so many terrific Blue Knight stamps...

and today...
I am excited x's 10!

I love to color images...
Pencils coloring...
Water coloring...
Alcohol marker coloring...
Pastels...
Inks...
Pigments
I love it all!

All of this coloring-love could only mean that

I was really looking forward to inking up

Mark & Salem...and Tracie & Bailey....

and getting busy with some coloring!

But first...let me introduce you to
 Mark & Salem.......and  Tracie and Bailey
(You can find both stamps HERE, at the Blue Knight Rubber Stamps web site)

              

The sentiments used when creating today's cards are
Legendary (left)...... and Once in a Lifetime (right)
             
After enjoying silhouette stamping for a few days
my crafty little hands were eager to pick up some markers

and get bust coloring!
and...
This is what I whipped up!

I love blue and tan together..

and decided to make that the color palette for this card.
I chose some nice masculine style prints that went well with the image colors

and matted the prints and sentiment piece with navy and kraft colored card stock.
I stamped the image...trimmed it..and double matted it with a print and navy card stock...
but first...I inked the edges a bit/
I die cut the image piece with a large tag die 

and used the tag die as a stencil for inking the edges of the die cut tag.
I added a small hole to the top of the tag with my Crop-a-dile

and added some raw twine to finish the tag.
I positioned the image tag with fun foam for added lift and dimension.

I loved coloring this image and creating this card

and I am thrilled that Blue Knight has a great selection of images

that highlight physically challenged children

After Mark & Salem were colored and transformed into a card..
It was time to create a card with Tracie & Bailey!
*Yay...more coloring!*

I colored this image with Copic markers as well...

but instead of choosing a print...
I opted to create my own background
(One that would go with the colors and mood of the image...

as well as complementing the flowers on Tracie's pants.

So...I got out my Ken Oliver Colorburst Inks pads...

my Ken Oliver Stencil Brushes

a little spray bottle of water..

and a Sheena Douglass retro style stencil...

and I got busy creating the background.

The magic happened when the inked card stock was spritzed with water

and left to dry.
The colors blend and move and transform themselves !
Once the spritzed piece had dried..I added some stenciled flowers

Spritzed lightly again...

Let the piece dry...

and then...

I created this card...
(I love this sentiment!)
The image piece was die cut with a double stitched rectangle die...

I used the die...as I did with the card above...

as a stencil for creating the background by brushing ink onto the card stock.
(I matted the image piece, the sentiment and the inked background piece 

with the same deep turquoise card stock.)
The matted image piece was positioned with fun foam for added dimension.
I stamped this wonderful sentiment onto white card stock
 Trimmed it to size...inked the edges a bit... then matted  the sentiment piece

and positioned it with foam dimensionals.

I couldn't be happier with this inked....spritzed and stenciled background!
The colors are perfect
(thank you Ken Oliver Colorburst Inks)
The reactive qualities of the spritzed ink gave me the exact look that I was going for!
and..

the overlay of stenciled flowers pulled it all together, I think.

Creating each of today's cards was so enjoyable!

I got to Color...create a background with reactive ink...
I got to do some die cutting and stenciling.
I got to envision today's cards in my head...

and I got to create them...exactly as I had wanted them to be!
Now that's the stuff that card making dreams are made of!

and...
I'd love for YOU to have a chance to dream up your own Mark and Tracie cards
So...
if you have a USA mailing address...be sure to post a comment below
(and below each of this weeks Blue Knight Rubber Stamps blog posts)
You'll get one giveaway entry for each daily comment.
At the end of the week...2 winners will be chosen
One winner will choose one of the silhouette stamps below
and 

one winner will choose either Mark or Tracie
          

So...don't forget to post a comment today...
(**It's not too late to visit the prior Blue Knight Week posts here at my blog

to post  comments for additional GIVEAWAY entries!)

Thanks for visiting today...

Wishing you a wonderful day!
Looking forward to seeing you tomorrow 

for Day 5 of Blue Knight Rubber Stamps Week!
Michelle.