Love

Hi Everyone! Welcome to my blog. I want to show you a tag I made with these sweet chickadees by Sparkle N Sprinkle.

I made the background using the splatter stencil from Tim Holtz and doing the mono printing technique here. I used Tumbled Glass and Weathered Wood stains. You can see the white splatters in the middle of the tag.

Next I used white matte embossing paste and Tim Holtz's snowflakes stencil. I added Stickles Diamond glitter glue on the snowflakes to make them sparkle.

                Thanks so much for stopping by. I hope you have a wonderful day!


Challenges entered:


Crafty Cardmakers:  Love, Love, Love
Our Crafty Corner:  Anything Goes Challenge 6
Simon Says Wednesday:  Have A Heart
Tim Holtz: 12 Tags of 2016 - February
We Love 2 Create:  Anything Creative Mixed Media Goes Challenge 3

Stencil Play

Hi and welcome to my blog. I hope you are having a good day. It is so hot and humid here. I trust you are staying cool. First I want to give a thanks to Nancy Dynes who joined my blog recently! Now to show you a card I made using a stencil. I must give credit to my good friend for teaching me this technique she saw online. I love techniques and I made quite a few backgrounds with this this one!

This is what I did. I chose a leaf stencil, dabbed 3 colors of Distress stains all over it and spritzed the stains with water. I turned over the stencil and pressed it lightly on watercolor paper. You end up with a blotchy background. Now while the stencil was still wet, I inked up a script stamp and stamped it on the wet stencil and pressed the stencil onto the paper again. You do not really see the script, but it adds some interest to the background. 

I now had the open spaces of the leaves left, so I outlined the leaves with a fine point Sharpie marker and colored the leaves using Distress inks and my water pen.

Thanks so much for stopping by. I hope you have a wonderful day!

Challenges entered:

Love To Scrap:  Anything Goes

Mod Squad:  The Wing's The Thing

Simon Says Monday Challenge:  No Ordinary Paper

Beautiful Blooms

Hi Everyone! I hope you are having a good day. The winter chill has really settled in, but I am thinking ahead to Spring and all the lovely flowers. Here is a card I made with one of Our Daily Bread stamps. I always need birthday cards so this was a great stamp for that.

I made the flowers using coffee filters, Tim Holtz's Tattered Flowers die and Distress Stains.  

Thanks so much for stopping by. Have a great day!

Challenges entered:

Frilly & Funkie:  Winter Blooms

Our Daily Bread:  Sketch

Enjoy The Journey

Hi Everyone! I trust you had a Happy New Year. I want to share a tag I made for 2015. I had a lot of fun making it.

I made my own tissue paper background by dabbing Distress Stains on white tissue paper and stamping on it when it dried using black ink. I crumpled it and then pressed it out a bit. I adhered it to a tag by sponging on a liquid glue. The numbers were cut from black glossy card stock and adhered to corrugated cardboard.

I used Antiquities embossing powder from Sparkle N Sprinkle around the edges of the tag and on the saying. The ribbons were dyed using Distress Stains.

I hope you will have a great year ahead in 2015!

April

Challenges entered:

Frilly and Funkie: Anything Goes

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge:  Anything Goes

Tim Holtz:  12 Tags of 2015 -- January

Summer Tag

Hi Everyone! I hope you are having a good day. It is warming up here again so it is really feeling like summer. I want to share a summer tag I made. All of these elements on my tag remind me of summer  -- flowers, birds, butterflies, dragonflies, etc. I had fun incorporating all of these into my tag. I received my inspiration from Tim Holtz's 12 Tags of 2014 August tag challenge. I used Distress stains, the honeycomb and splatters stencils and the birds image from the Life's Possibilities stamp set. You can see Tim's demo here.

Around the two edges I used Surf glitter courtesy of Sparkle N Sprinkle.

Here is a closer view. I used a fun product called Inka Gold on the label and dragonfly. I rubbed the copper color onto each piece, let dry and then buffed with a paper towel. The letters are raised on the metal label, so I sanded them so that they would show up better.

Thanks so much for stopping by today. I hope your day is filled with good things!

Challenges entered:

7 Kid's College Fund:  Anything Goes/Get Wordy

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge: Anything Goes

Tim Holtz: Tags of 2014 - August

Stand Up Card

Hi Everyone! I hope you are having a good day. This afternoon we had some showers that we really needed. It is fitting then that my card has a "rainy" image on it! I made this stand up card that Joan at Joan's Touch demoed on her blog. I have never made one of these before and I enjoyed making it. The challenge on her blog is to make one of these type cards. You basically cut out most of the image and fold back the card so that it stands on its own. You can see how to make it here. The card folds flat so that you can send it nicely in an envelope.

I made some roses to add to the card. Here is a close up. The leaf die is from Memory Box and the butterfly die is from Cheery Lynn.

Thanks so much for stopping by. I hope your day is wonderful!

Challenges entered:

House Mouse and Friends:  Splish Splash

Joan's Touch:  Stand Up Card

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge:  Anything Goes

Autumn's Loveliest Smile and Technique

Hi Everyone! Thank you so much for dropping by today. I want to show you an Autumn card I made using the "no iron batik" technique.  I have been in a Fall mode lately. I love the colors, smells and crisp air of Fall. This technique is perfect for those leaves stamps you might have for Fall. I used the Sparkle N Sprinkle Swirly Oak and Swirly Maple leaf in stamp set 410.

Supplies needed:

1. white coffee filter
2. Versa Mark ink
3. clear embossing powder --  I used Velvet Sparkle EP437
4. Distress Stains
5. Swirly Oak and Swirly Maple Leaf stamps
6. heat tool

First randomly stamp the leaves onto the coffee filter using Versa mark ink. It will be hard to see where you stamped. It helps to turn the coffee filter as you stamp to get a better even coverage.

Next sprinkle on the embossing powder and heat it with the heat tool.

The reaction of the embossing on the coffee filter makes the images look waxy so there is no need to iron off the powder. Now start pouncing different colors of stains over the coffee filter starting with the lightest to the darkest.

I hope you enjoy making some Fall cards using this technique. Have a wonderful day!

April

Fall is in the Air

Hi Everyone! Thanks for stopping by my blog today. We are having another Fall - like day after a very hot day yesterday. I want to show you another Fall card I made. This image of House Mouse is originally holding a heart with its feet, but I have him holding a pumpkin for Fall. Isn't he cute?

I want to enter this card into two challenges:

House Mouse and Friends:  Autumn Leaves

ABC Challenge:  V is for Very Cute

I hope you all have a wonderful day!

Chirpy Fall

Hi Everyone! I hope your weekend has been a good one. We have had a hint of Fall this weekend and I am loving it! I want to show you a Fall card I made using a new Just For Fun stamp I got at the stamp convention this weekend! I love this stamptangle bird. I patted different Fall colors of Distress inks randomly over the bird and then stamped it. I love the way it turned out. Using a die, I cut the leaves from card stock that I stained with Distress stains. I then tapped Versa Mark ink over the leaves, added clear embossing powder, sprinkled a little Autumn Medley glitter  from Sparkle N Sprinkle over the powder and heated from the bottom. I did this twice to make the leaves shiny and sparkly. I want to enter this card into Joan's Gardens, Simon Says Stamp and Rubber Buggy challenges. You can see the challenges below.

Thanks so much for stopping by. I appreciate it! I hope you have a great day!

Joan's Gardens -- Fall colors, bird and leaves
Rubber Buggy -- Anything Goes
Simon Says Stamp -- Emboss It

12 Tags of 2013 -- Septemeber

Hi Everyone and welcome to my blog! I hope you are enjoying your weekend. I want to show you the tag I made for Tim Holtz's September tag challenge. I had fun using all the stencils and layering. On the dots stencil I used translucent paste and glammed it up by adding Sparkling Snow glitter, courtesy of Sparkle N Sprinkle. I used Distress inks and white acrylic paint with the other stencils. The background was made by using Distress stains. The stamps used are Tim Holtz (numbers) and Fiskars (cupcake). You can see Tim's demo by clicking here.

Thanks so much for stopping by. I hope you have a great day!

Challenges entered:

Tim Holtz:  21 Tags of 2013 -- September

Loves Rubber Stamp Challenge:  Anything Goes

DRS Designs:  So Bright

Pink Elephant:  Numbers

Catch the Bug:  Anything Goes