Zentangle

This is an interesting technique that you can see more samples of on Zentagle.com
Basically it is black and white doodling, either by hand or you can use your stamps, I combined. This uses the Time Well Spent set and some miscellaneous mini stamps, and a black marker. It was very time consuming and my hand is numb but I was happy that I tried something new!

Teapot Tuesday

Night & Day specialty paper by SU with red grosgrain ribbon. Teapot image unknown. This is for today's Teapot challenge on SCS of a crossword/black & white inspiration.
Have a great day everyone!!

In Support of Black and White

Today's challenge on SCS was to make a black and white card. I have a collection of vintage greeting cards and I cut out this image from one of them. This was from the late 40's or early 50's I was told. The inside of the card reads "you're holding up in great shape". I used the eyelet border punch on some Ghostly Greetings designer paper and filigree brads.

Black & White Challenge

This week's Three Amigas challenge is to make a black and white card with a pop of red. I was inspired by this lampshade from hunkydoryhome.com












For the background I stamped the brocade style image stamp from the new Stampin' Up Friends 24-7 set in Versamark and then embossed it in white repeatedly to create the background. This took a bit since I had to re-position the image with the stamp-a-majig after each individual image embossing. I love the way the background came out though! The rest of the card was a snap after that. I stamped this same image in black on Whisper White, added sentiment in Real Red with a rhinestone brad from the Pretties Kit and some of the new Valet ribbon. This is SO pretty in real life. It is a ruched black velvet, it's a shame you can't see the detail of it in the photograph. This 3 pack of ribbon is a must have!
Please join us for this challenge. We call it the Three Amigas Weekly Challenge or TAWC so make sure you use the TAWC so we can find your cards in the SCS gallery.
Have a wonderful stamping week, y'all!

Julie's card
Sharon
Sharon Graham
Lisa
Julie Alberda
Chris