Color Inspiration: Joseph's Halloween Coat

Hello and welcome to my blog today I am going to share another place to find color inspiration for your projects and the card that I created from this week's inspiration piece.  The Color Inspiration is a bi-weekly series that I share with you places and ideas to find color inspiration.  Here's a look at my project this week.

I found my color inspiration piece this week from Dollar General in the card section of the store.  I was so surprised at how many beautiful cards where there that you could draw inspiration from.  For this weeks card I did the Joseph's Coat Technique.  If you don't know what that is I will try and do a video coming up on how to do that.  But, here's the inspiration piece for this week's card.  

I found a couple cards in the card section of the store that caught my eye so you will be seeing some more inspiration from those later on in this series.  I love the use of Coastal Cabana, Mango Melody, Terracotta Tile, and Basic Black on this card, plus a little Very Vanilla as well.  Which are all the colors that I used on my card.  I am not a big fan of glitter but I will use it every once and awhile, I didn't use it on today's project.  

As I mentioned I used the Joseph's Coat Technique to create today's card.  Basically all that is is you color an area with ink and trap it under clear embossing powder and then cover over it in black or another dark ink color.  For my version I inked up my stamps in versamark first then inked it up in the color ink I wanted to use and then stamped it down.  After I did a few images I would cover it in clear embossing powder and heat set it.  I repeated this until I had the entire card covered.  Then I inked over everything with Tuxedo Black ink.  And, then buffed it off with a paper towel.  What you are left with is this wonderful multicolored card that pops.

You can save this image to your color inspiration board over on Pinterest.  Thanks for dropping by today, I hope that you have a wonderful Sunday.  If you need any of the products you have seen on my card you can pick them up in my online store from the Stamping Up! Shopping List below.

Happy Stampin' 

Rick Adkins 

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Wonderfully Wicked Cling Stamp Set [150547] $18.00	Gather Together Photopolymer Stamp Set [150589] $17.00	Basic Black 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [121045] $8.75	Very Vanilla 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [101650] $9.75
Mango Melody 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [146989] $8.75	Coastal Cabana Classic Stampin' Pad [147097] $7.50	Mango Melody Classic Stampin' Pad [147093] $7.50	Terracotta Tile Classic Stampin’ Pad [150086] $7.50
Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad [132708] $6.00	Versamark Pad [102283] $9.50	Embossing Buddy [103083] $6.00	Heat Tool (Us And Canada) [129053] $30.00
Clear Stampin' Emboss Powder [109130] $6.00	Black Stampin' Emboss Powder [146956] $5.00	Stitched Nested Labels Dies [149638] $35.00	Multipurpose Liquid Glue [110755] $4.00

Wonderfully Wicked Night Sky Silhouette

Hello and welcome to my blog; today I am going to share a super cute evening silhouette card with you!  This little cutie is perfect for Halloween or any other time of the year.  For my card today, I used the Wonderfully Wicked stamp set on page 55 of the 2019 Stampin' Up! Holiday Catalog.  In the video tutorial I show you how to create the ink blended background complete with my tips on creating the perfect moon.  Here's a look at my card.

The Wonderfully Wicked Stamp Set was the perfect choice for today's card because of the perfect sentiments, and the fun little silhouette images.  You'll have a wicked good time using the Wonderfully Wicked Stamp Set.  The silhouette images look great stamped solid in any color as I did on today's card.  With the sentiments in this stamp set you can combine individual greetings to create a custom sentiment.

To create the moon I used one of my Layering Circle dies and cut out a piece of Masking Paper.  For masking paper I use Avery Reuseable Labels, which can be picked up online or in some office supplies stores.  I ordered mine from Amazon.  The pack is huge so it will last forever.  I've had it since last year.  Once I had my mask in place I did my ink blending.  I use Makeup brushes for this because they don't hurt my hands.  I started out with Crushed Curry and then faded that into Pumpkin Pie.  Next I used Rich Razzleberry and Blackberry Bliss inks to finish everything off.

I used a t-square ruler to draw my horizon line and then stamped my images in tuxedo black ink.  For the cat I used my Stamparatus to be able to stamp it a couple times to get him black enough.  I then filled in the ground with multiply layers of  the Dark Soft Suede and both Dark and Light Basic Black Stampin' Blend Markers.  I flicked up some grasses using the Dark Basic Black Stampin' Blend.  To finish off my card I used Versamark ink to stamp my sentiment and White Stampin' Emboss Powder and heat set it.  I stamped some more bats on my inside piece and then layered everything together.

Video Tutorial: 

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Thanks for dropping by today, I hope that you have enjoyed my little card.  If you need any of the supplies you have seen today you can pick them up in my online store.  

Happy Stampin' 

Rick 

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Wonderfully Wicked Cling Stamp Set [150547] $18.00	Crushed Curry Classic Stampin' Pad [147087] $7.50	Pumpkin Pie Classic Stampin' Pad [147086] $7.50	Rich Razzleberry Classic Stampin' Pad [147091] $7.50
Blackberry Bliss Classic Stampin' Pad [147092] $7.50	Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad [132708] $6.00	Versamark Pad [102283] $9.50	Basic Black Combo Pack Stampin' Blends [147942] $9.00
Soft Suede Dark Stampin' Blends Marker [146875] $4.50	Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [100730] $9.75	Basic Black 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [121045] $8.75	Stamparatus [146276] $49.00
Heat Tool (Us And Canada) [129053] $30.00	Embossing Buddy [103083] $6.00	White Stampin' Emboss Powder [109132] $6.00	Layering Circles Dies [141705] $35.00
Multipurpose Liquid Glue [110755] $4.00	Sponge Daubers [133773] $5.00	Stamping Sponges [141337] $4.00