I'm hooked on decorative scoring, as you might be able to tell. On the following two cards I've scored some diagonals that all started at the same point and then flared out. I was going to call them sunbeams, but that wouldn't have fit this card.... 
To me it seemed more appropriate for these fairies to be out and about in moonlight, so here they're moonbeams. These stamped images are all by Studio G and stamped using Memento dye inks.
This is more of a sunbeams kind of card, I think. I just didn't feel like using super bright and sunny colors though. The flower image is by Hampton Art and the sentiment is by Stampendous.So, those are my beams of light cards that have been made using the big Scor-It and the Scor-It ruler accessory. I'm telling you--that extra ruler makes all the difference. And for those of you who read about my Scor-It's missing foot, the replacement arrived in the mail today. That was speedy! Thanks again to Tim Hammonds, President of HAMMONDSgroup, maker of the Scor-It, and thanks to Vivian who gave him the heads-up on my missing foot.
I just love this stamp image and this Fiskars border punch.
The stamp image is by Stampendous. The border punch is the new Lacy Days of Summer. The sentiment is by Hero Arts. The patterned cardstock is by Me & My Big Ideas.
I'm late getting to this Wednesday Stamper challenge. The theme is Purple and any colors that go with it. I've made an ATC.
The background is polished stone. The stamp images are by Stampendous and Memory Box. I accented the bird in the background with some Diamond Stickles because I thought it was getting lost in the branches.
A discussion of scoring boards started me thinking about the advantages and disadvantages of the different types out there. I have a Scor-It. I love the rubberized surface and the beautiful crisp score that the sort of tongue-in-groove method gives. It's different from just running a tool in a groove, but that may not be enough of a difference to really appreciate if you're glancing at scoring lines on a card front. A bigger difference, I think, is the fact that if you want to get the look of embossed lines, you score the front of the cardstock with the Scor-It, but the back of the cardstock with the scoring tools that work by running the tool in a groove, like the Scor-Pal or Aleene's boxmakers. I wish I could remember whose blog I was looking at a few nights ago when I saw some different ways of using score lines. This is a card that was inspired by what I saw on that blog.
This is just a very simple take on what I saw, but basically on that blog the score lines were used in very creative and very decorative fashion. I used Stampendous stamp images here, colored with Copic Spica glitter pens. I then added the score lines to give more visual impact. This would have been tricky to do from the back of the cardstock, eh? I'm looking forward to trying some other creative ways of using score lines with stamping.
I love the Self-Addressed kits and have been a subscriber for some time now. I was thrilled to see that this week's challenge on the daring cardmakers site had to do with using a specific card sketch and papers/cardstocks from a Self-Addressed kit, if possible--the Tasty Template challenge. I tend to hoard my SA papers, so this was a good reason to pull some of them out.
This card was made with papers from the May 2006 kit. I used a Stampendous stamp as the main image and embellished using a Sakura Glaze pen for faux stitching, Fiskars scallop scissors for decorative edging, and a butterfly punch. Everything else came from the kit.
I finally had a chance to tackle this week's daring cardmaker challenge, which was to get out of the comfort zone. Looking at the cards that I've been making recently, I noticed that I've been using embossing folders and die cuts quite often. I've been using patterned and textured papers. I've been leaning toward collage and Asian type art. I decided to go back and make a card using an image that was simply stamped and colored with colored pencils. Here's that card....
This is a Fluffles stamp by Stampendous that I colored using Prismacolor colored pencils and a blender pencil. By the way, I made two of these images. I received a Lyra splender blender yesterday and I wanted to see if I could tell any difference between it and the Prismacolor. Nope. The results were similar. The sentiment is by Hampton Arts. I embellished with eyelets and a Fastenator staple--I hadn't used either of those in ages.
You know, this was a fun change of pace. :-) It also gave me a chance to feel in the mood for spring!
