Turning the Page June 2023

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Time to turn the page on our calendars to a new month.

I make calendars each year for my desk and my family.

I thought I'd set up a regular post each month to share them.

I hope you enjoy my “Turning the Page” posts.

Here's our June page using the Dragonfly Quatrefoil stamp from Deep Red.

By the way, the calendars are clipped together and can be displayed on an easel

or hung on a push pin or magnetic hook.  We all have a different way to display them.

If you would like a word document with the calendar, email me (bonklass(at)gmail(dot)com.

and I will be glad to send it to you so you can design your own.

If your email address is not in your profile, I have no way to send this to you.

Email link is in my profile on the sidebar.

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Singing Birds

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I'm sliding in at the last minute with this one.

Both of these dies are quite old.  I hope they are still available.  If not, I'm pretty sure

that Memory Box has something similar.  Their new Backyard Wren is high on my wish list

but for now these little gems will have to do.

The branch was cut from cardstock and colored with a Copic marker (branches) and 

a sponge dauber with Distress Oxide ink (leaves).

 

The birds were cut from watercolor paper and colored with a damp waterbrush and ink squished

into the top of the inkpad.

I used the branch die to emboss the background and to finish it off, covered the birds with

sticky notes and splattered with some Brushed Corduroy re-inker and White Gouache.

I love this sentiment and think this card will go to a sweet friend who is going through

chemo.  She's a singer.

Challenges:

Memory Box Outside the Box - For the Birds

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Eloquence (PB)

Ink:   Rustic Wilderness (DOX), Cajun Craze, Baked Brown Sugar

Paper:  Neenah Solar White, Watercolor (Arches Cold Press), Field Day (MFT), Back of cover of Mixed Media pad (Strathmore) 

Other:  Copic E23, Fresh Foliage die (MB), Singing Birds die (MB)

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Today we celebrate Memorial Day, a day of remembrance to honor all those who have died

in service to the our country during peace and war.

Taps

Day is done, gone the sun

From the lakes, from the hills, from the sky.

All is well, safely rest

God is nigh.

  

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Ink Blending on Coloured Card

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This month's zoom session was a fun one.

We stamped and embossed on colored cardstock and did some ink blending around the edges.

We started with a similar color as the cardstock and used darker shades toward the edge,

ending with black on the very edge.

My first attempt was a bust.  I'm not sure I can even salvage it.

But I was happy with this one.

I added a little bit of ink in the center of the flowers.

While I was at it...

I stamped this Penny Black stamp and embossed in white on a piece of Baja Breeze cardstock.

After brushing color around the edges and in the trees, I added some Chunky White Frantage

and heated from the back to add more snow.  A torn paper snowbank and little bird show

off the sentiment.

Then I did another and split it for two card fronts....

There was a spot that missed the stamping and embossing and some ugly splatter blotches

on this piece.   So I found a snippet of card and added a bit of ink left on my blending brush.

It made a perfect place to pop my die cut and bit of stamping for a sentiment.

Here's the second...

This time I used a strip of vellum and a foiled sentiment.

I hope you'll go to the Group of Seven Cardmakers website and check out

directions for doing this technique with a video tutorial.

And be sure to check out what the gals have done to inspire you and visit their

blogs to pick up any tips and tricks.

Challenges:

Rudolph Days - Anything Christmas

Card Recipe (card 1)

Stamps:  Flora & Fauna III (W+9), Easy Expressions Original (Ton)

Ink:   Whisper White, Victorian Velvet, Picked Raspberry, Wilted Violet, Black Soot (DI)

Paper:   Fresh Freesia (SU), Neenah Solar White

Other:  White EP, Easy Expressions Original Die (Ton), A2 Thin Frames Die (SSS)

Card Recipe (card 2)

Stamps:  Snow Dust (PB), Christmas Sentiments (PB)

Ink:  Whisper White, Baja Breeze, Marina Mist, Night of Navy, Black Soot

Paper:  Neenah Solar White, Baja Breeze

Other:  White EP, Chunky White Frantage (Stmp), Delicate Pine Frame Bird (MB)

Card Recipe (card 3)

Stamps:  Hand Drawn Snowflakes (HA), Christmas Sentiments (PB)

Ink:   Whisper White, Faded Jeans, Stormy Sky, Prize Ribbon, Black Soot (DI)

Paper:   Blue (?), Silver Foil

Other:  White EP, Silver EP, Fancy Peace Die (Alt), Flurry of Snowflakes EF (Spl), White Acrylic Paint (for splatters)

Card Recipe (card 4)

Stamps:  Hand Drawn Snowflakes (HA), Christmas Sentiments (PB)

Ink:   Whisper White, Faded Jeans, Stormy Sky, Prize Ribbon, Black Soot (DI)

Paper:   Blue (?), Silver Foil, Vellum

Other:  White EP, Flurry of Snowflakes EF (Spl), Perfect Sentiments Holiday Foil Plate & Die (PFS),

Silver Foil (Spl), White Acrylic Paint (for splatters)

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Painted Poppy

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I do love poppies and have quite a collection of poppy stamps and dies.

So when our craft group was trying to think of a subject for our swap this month,

I suggested poppies.  With Memorial Day coming up, it seemed fitting.

Then I had a problem of choosing which poppy stamp or die to use.

Altenew's Painted Poppy won, hands down!

I stamped and colored it in the traditional Memoria Day red poppy.

Then for my blue loving friends.

Finally in pink.  (The border is pink, but the camera seems to see red.)

I used Bristol paper for all of these.  It warped pretty bad.  I managed to get it flattened.

Note to self to used Mixed Media or Watercolor paper next time.

Challenges:

Double D - Flowers

Card Recipe (card 1)

Stamps:  Painted Poppy (Alt), Out on a Limb (PTI), Splatters (?)

Ink:   Versafine Onyx Black, Tea Dye, Festive Berries, Fired Brick, Peeled Paint, Forest Moss (DI), Tumbled Glass, Wilted Violet Re-inker (for wash)

Paper:   Bristol (Strathmore), Black, Poppy Parade

Other:  Ebony Black Nuvo Crystal Drops

Card Recipe (card 2)

Stamps:  Painted Poppy (Alt), Out on a Limb (PTI)

Ink:   Versafine Onyx Black, Archival Shadow Grey, Broken China, Mermaid Lagoon, Peeled Paint, Forest Moss (DI), Brushed Corduroy DI (for wash)

Paper:   Bristol, Black Pacific Point

Other:  Ebony Black Nuvo Crystal Drops

Card Recipe (card 3)

Stamps:  Painted Poppy (Alt), Out on a Limb (PTI)

Ink:   Versafine Onyx Black, Tea Dye, Picked Raspberry, Aged Mahogany (DI), Tumbled Glass, Wilted Violet Re-inker (for wash)

Paper:   Bristol, Black, Melon Mambo

Other:  Ebony Black Nuvo Crystal Drops

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