I put together this tutorial showing how to mask your card stock in order to put a sun in the background. 

Supplies:

Start out with Barely Banana card stock and punch a circle from a post it note.  You will want to punch it trying to get as much of the circle out of the sticky portion of the Post it Note.

Position your circle mask on your card stock and brayer the entire card stock with Summer Sun ink.

Sponge More Mustard ink on using a circular motion with the sponge with out going all the way to the mask.  Leave some of the Barely Banana ink showing around the sun mask.

Sponge Pumpkin Pie on in the same manner, only don’t cover all of the More Mustard Ink.

Sponge Really Rust on in the same manner only don’t cover all of the Pumpkin Pie ink.

Remove Post it Note mask.

Stamp branch using Black ink.

Stamp Bird using Stamp-a-ma-jig for positioning with Black ink.

Decided I wanted the image to be darker to the right side so I sponged on Bravo Burgundy ink.

Distressed edge of  with Tim Holtz distressing tool.

Sponged Really Rust ink on the More Mustard pieces of my layout.

Stamped weeds at bottom of More Mustard Piece of card stock.

Assembled card front and stamped additional branches on with black ink using my Stamp-a-ma-jig for placement.

Since I stamped over layers of card stock there were little gaps in my stamped image so I colored them in with a black marker.

Finished card!

I love making scenes with the emboss resist technique and I created this tutorial to show you the process.  If your up for a challenge, give it a whorl!  I would love to see your creations using this tutorial, please leave me a link to them in the comments section!

Supplies:

Note:  When working a scene with the emboss resist technique you work from foreground to the background (front of scene to back of scene).  This is so your images in front resist the ink of the images you want to look like are behind them.

I started out with Whisper White card stock and loaded my stamp with Versamark and then Certainly Celery and stamped it, heat embossed it with clear embossing powder.

I store my clear embossing powder in a plastic sandwich size container so I don’t have to mess with putting the embossing powder back into a tiny canister or cleaning an embossing powder tray.

Stamped the same stamp again only this time loading with Versamark and then Garden Green then stamping it, heat embossed it with clear embossing powder.

Loaded tree stamp with versamark and Cameo Coral ink, then went over the trunk with a black marker, stamped, heat embossed them with clear embossing powder.

Loaded house stamp with Versamark and then black ink, stamped, heat embossed it with clear embossing powder.

Used a Versamark marker and went over the entire house with it and heat embossed it with clear embossing powder.

Tore the edge of two post it notes and positioned them to cover the sky area.  You will put the torn edge where you want your horizon line to be.

Brayer Old Olive ink on.  Don’t be shy, use a lot of ink and work it into the nooks and crannies of the embossed trees and bushes.

Remove Post it Notes and wipe the Old Olive ink off of the house with a paper towel.

Next brayer on Soft Sky ink.   Brayer across the card stock, not up and down.  Start at the very top of the card stock, with most of the brayer off of the cardstock and work the brayer back and forth moving down the card stock.  Use a lot of ink and work it into the paper.  I like to leave some white card stock showing above the horizon line so I don’t brayer all the way down to the horizon line.  The more ink you put on the paper the better it blends and you won’t have those brayer lines.

Brayer on Blue Bayou ink in the same manner as the Soft Sky ink in the last step, only don’t brayer all the way down over your Soft Sky ink, leave some of it showing, we are creating a graduation in color.

Do the same process as the last two steps only using Not Quite Navy ink.  Don’t brayer all the way over your Blue Bayou ink.  Remember, lots of ink and work it in.

Sponge on Night of Navy ink around the edges of the card stock and work it into the bottom card stock in the bushes area and at the top of the card stock in the sky.

Use a White Gel pen to put in the walk way in front of the house.

Assemble card and stamp Stitched Exotics using Stampa-ma-jig and White Craft Ink.

Finished creation!

If you enjoyed this tutorial, give me a shout out in the comments section.

Hope your world is completely filled with color today!

Oh, it’s not fancy, but it’s functional, lol.   This is a glimpse of my desk in my craft room.  I call it the craft room because I have many hobbies.   Can you tell I like to have my coloring tools very, very near me when I’m working.  Prismacolor Pencils on left in a bucket, ink pads straight ahead, markers to the right.

Today I thought I would just show you how I have my Prismacolor markers organized.  I just bought this set off of e-bay for a very good price.  Set of 156 markers for $225.  They didn’t come with the rack to put them in, but that’s ok.  I had my son make me a cubby hole set up, which works wonderfully.

So now I have all of my markers in one place.  Each cubby hole for the Prismacolor markers has a tag at the top telling the number range for the markers in that particular cubby.  Makes finding a marker much easier.

Now, if you know me, you know I’m a visual person.  So I cataloged each marker, so I can quickly find a color.

I just printed out a list of the Prismacolor marker numbers and colored a stripe of that color next to it.

Hope this glimpse didn’t scare anyone.  Like I said, not fancy, but functional!

Hope your day is bright with color.