Peek-a-boo Card With a Furry Friend

Hello friends!!!  It's Lisa here today, and I have a sweet peek-a-boo window card with a hidden surprise to share with you.  I usually don't focus much on the inside of my cards, but with this type of a card both the outside and the inside of the card shines...

To create my card I started by adhering patterned paper onto the front of my card.  I then added the strip along the bottom and diecut my window in the front.  Using the window as a guide to stamp my cute raccoon from the Bushy Tailed stamp set.  I knew I was going to add a banner on the front of my card, but I thought it would be cute to add one on the inside as well.

I love the hidden surprise this creates for the recipient when they open it up.  I hope I've inspired you to look at fun ways to dress up the inside of your card too!  Thanks so much for stopping by and Happy Crafting!

Lisa

Alcohol Lifting with CAS-ual FRI-days Stamps!

Hello wonderful crafty friends!!!  Are you still swooning over last weeks new release?!  I know I still am!  And today I'm mixing one new set and one older set with a new to me technique: Alcohol Lifting.  Since I'm a newbie to the technique myself I decided to use more solid images, as I thought this would be easier to work with for a first time.

To begin I cut a piece of Yopo Cardstock in half as bases for two bookmarks.  I also laid out my supplies: Alcohol inks, Alcohol Blending Solution, Blending Tool, and Alcohol Lifting Ink.

I then had fun adding the alcohol ink in two different ways.  For one I just dripped the ink repeatedly as well as the Blending Solution, and for the other one I pounced the alcohol ink and blending solution onto the Yupo paper with my blending tool...

Oh how I just love how different each one of these is.  Once they were dry I inked up chosen stamp sets: Nate & Friday and Tutu.  I then stamped them onto my inked backgrounds.  When doing this I noticed that the image might slide a little if you don't hold it firmly down.  I had also watched a previous video done by Tim Holtz on how to correctly use the Alcohol Lift Ink, and so I knew I would have a little bit of time to transfer the ink I lifted from the background onto another area, so I tried that next...

While my stamp off images are not perfect (I didn't stamp them onto a porous surface, but rather onto the back of my Yupo bookmark), but I do love the marble effect it gives.  Next, I flipped my bookmark back over and dabbed where the image was to lift off several times before finally buffing my lifted image on the front...

Isn't this just so cool?!  I LOVE the ghost like look of this, it goes with the bright colors.  I then repeated this with the green bookmark...

I finished both of them off by stamping some sentiments with Versafine Ink...

I then trimmed the edges and added some twine to the tops...

Thanks so much for stopping by today!  I hope you've enjoyed my post, and if you re-create this look with your CAS-ual Fridays Stamps make sure you share it with us on one of our social media sites!

Happy Crafting!

Lisa