Our challenge at Sweet Stampin is feature a creature for Hallowe'en. I wanted to use the crazy Bird stamps from Tim Holtz - I started off by creating my background with some distress inks, and layered them with various stencils including a cloud stencil. The Bird was coloured in with some water colour pencils. The little Hallowe'en stamps are from an old SU set called Bitty Boos. It always comes in handy at this time of year and is the only Halloween stamp set I have!
Our challenge this week for Sweet Stampin is Pirates/Nautical theme. I don't have any pirate type stamps and didn't really fancy doing a punch art card so went with the nautical theme. I decided to try the Retiform Technique as I haven't done that in a while and used two retired Stampin Up sets - High Tide and Wetlands.
For my inks I used Tim Holtz Distress Oxide in Salty Ocean and SU Night of Navy. The retiform technique is quite fun as it can be different everytime you try it. There is a touch of glimmer on the water as I added some Glossy Accents to it to make it shimmer.
