Since I have a couple nephews that have birthday's coming up, I decided it was time to pull out my Artful Inkables stamps. She has some awesome stamps for the guys in our lives, and here is what I made today, using the challenge today, to use the new basic grey color for one of the cards.
This is one of the bikes that comes in a set of two, and I used both today. With this one, I used wild wasabi, and chocolate chip CS, as well as watercolor paper.
I stamped the bike with black stazon and watercolored it with my watercolor pencils and an aqua painter, using my silver gel pen for the chrome accents. I matted it on wasabi and chocolate.
I inked the sentiment and did the sponging in chocolate on wasabi, and matted it on the chocolate. I then added the silver brads, using my mat pack for placement, and then added the image panel with dimensionals. I think the image should have been stamped with brown stazon instead, but that is now for another card *wink, wink*.
For this one, I used the new basic grey CS and ink. I really love the charcoal look, it is dark, but not black, and is is grey, but not silvery.
I stamped the bike with the new grey ink, since it is a water resistant ink. I did it on watercolor paper, since I wanted to try watercoloring with it. I used my aqua painter and watercolor pencils, and it did not bleed ONE BIT. I used the silver gel pen for te chrome on this bike, as well. I then matted it on grey, and used my photo punch on the real red CS, to make my corners. I attached them with the silver brads, and then used my cutter kit *love that little tool* to distress the edges.
I stamped the sentiment on the red in grey, and added the word window tabs with silver brads. I then matted this onto greay, and added the image panel with dimensionals.
This one used brilliant blue, and black CS, as well as the watercolor paper. I stamped this one with black stazon, watercoloring it again with my watercolor pencils and the aqua painter. I used the silver gel pen for the chrome accents too, and then matted it on blue and black.
I stamped the sentiment on the side in black on the blue and matted it on black. I matted the image panel right on the base, and then added the silver brads, using the mat pack again.
To give it a little something extra, I put crystal effects in the white area which would be the lights. It gives it a cool dimension, and makes it look more realistic. I think this set ROCKS for all ages in the masculine category, from man to teen to boy!!
Here is a close up of the lights, so you can see how they really look. I know the two boys that are going to receive them will be pretty excited.
I really like how I made them fairly similar, yet they are so different. MY WORD, stamping means endless possibilities!! You can't beat that, have fun and happy stamping.
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