Quick Card Share

Share a quick card I did up today

to send overseas.

I am not usually a card maker. 

For some reason I find the space incredibly constricting

(go figure as I often work on ATCs which are much smaller).

The background in book text splattered with Gesso

and watered down acrylic paint.

The heart was cut freehand from a piece of "paper"

I made a while back using layers of

tissue paper, watered down glue, and acrylic paint.

Stitched the heart onto the card and left the tails flowing free.

Add a bit of text and into the mail it will go.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Craft Hoarders Anonymous March Challenge...GO GREEN!

     It's time for another challenge at Craft Hoarders Anonymous, but before we get to it please make sure to read the following announcement from Gloria (our Chief Hoarder)....

    Dear Friends. It's Gloria here. I am so sorry to tell you that this will be the LAST Craft Hoarders Anonymous Challenge. After the March Challenge ends, we will NOT be posting more challenges. I started this challenge blog as a way to keep busy while I recovered from an injury. Once I started to feel better, I started to take on more design work, and now I am over-burdened (again). I am still suffering pain and lack of mobility due to the injury, and once again, I need to down-size my crafting work. In an effort to make the best choices for myself, for my family, and for my finances, I have decided to close the Hoarders blog. This has been an amazing 14-month journey! I have the best team of ladies to work with! They are all so very talented. I have gotten to know some of our regular Readers and have discovered new artists. It is very painful for me to have to say good-bye. The blog will remain up on Blogger for a time, to allow people to derive inspiration from the work posted here. But, folks, this is our last challenge. 

Please play along and visit with us one last time! We will pick Favorites for March, as always. Thanks to each of you for your support this past year! It has been a blessing! You are all welcome to visit me at my Scraps of Life Blog, where I may have some surprises up my sleeve starting in April. Happy spring!

Go Green

Use this color board as inspiration for your green challenge. Make a challenge which has green as the predominate color. Use the other colors in this color board as your accent colors. You may make any type or theme of project that you wish. You do NOT have to use all of the colors represented here, but green must be the star of your project! There must be some green in your vast hoard...dig it out!

(Color inspiration by Design Seeds)

and now my final DT piece for the blog...

Supplies:

Silks Acrylic Glaze

Tattered Angels Plain Jane mist

Distress Inks

Distress Marker

Paper scraps

BoBunny Stamp

Doily

Make sure to visit the Design Team members blogs to see how they have 

Gone Green.

Design Team

Amber Milone
Christy Butters
Debbie Seyer
Donna Idlet
Ginny Nemchak

Glenda Brooks
Gloria Stengel 
Kathy Clement
Nancy Dynes (unable to participate)

Pam Bray
Teresa Horner
Wendi Robinson

Art Journal page with Bister

Sharing another Art journal page today.

This was created by first gessoing the page and then

pulling out my Bister stains to play.

These are so fun to play with.

By varying the amount of water you add you can alter the opacity of the colors.

Plus you get awesome drippage

Once the background dried I added some random stamping with a script stamp

and black Staz On ink.

The upper part of the page I added more stamping  to create 

a sort of brick wall.

The flowers are another old foam stamp.

Using black Gesso with it I stamped all over the page.

I needed a thick paint so when I used my white Faber Castell Pitt Pen it would't reactivate the Bister.

Using the Pitt Pen I outlined all the flowers and stems to make them pop a bit.

I am going to enter this in the 

Mixed Media Monthly challenge

where this month's challenge (#6)

is to use stamps.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Sketchabilities #126 with Swirlydoos

Checking out the 

Sketchabilities blog for  sketch #126,

I knew I had to use it for my next layout.

I combined it with the SGC challenge at Swirlydoos.

The challenge there was to tell your story somewhere on the page.

Journaling was to be an integral part of the page.

The other part of the challenge there was to talk about your fur babies.

Well we don't have any ourselves but we are lucky enough to have plenty of friends who share theirs.

This is the awesome sketch….

and here is my layout.

I used mostly supplies from past and present Swirlydoos kits.

One of the tags tucked behind the photo has the journaled story.

It's about the little one and our friend's donkey.

She spent hours with them, feeding, patting, and riding (until she fell off).

She was so happy.

Some stamping on the background paper with BoBunny & Clearsnap stamps 

using Frayed Burlap Distress ink.

Blue Fern Studio chipboard layered with paper scraps,

doilies and some lace trim.

Some Prima ink was rubbed through a Crafter's Workshop stencil 

to give a little pop of color.

Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist in Antique Bronze was 

misted randomly onto the page.

Make sure to visit the Sketchabilities blog and see the other takes on the sketch,

and the Swirlydoos forum 

to see how others are journaling on their pages.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Craft Hoarders Anonymous Challenge 15

It's September 1st (where oh where has summer gone?)

and time for another challenge over at 

Craft Hoarders Anonymous.

Challenge 15:

                                                               All the Pretty Flowers
This challenge is for all of you flower hoarders! Maybe you hoard pre-made flowers. Maybe you hoard flower punches or dies. Maybe you hoard flower stamps. "Dig" out those flowers and use them on your project!

Here is my creation.

Another page in my art journal using collage images from Crafty Secrets

The background is book text colored with Distress Paints and Glimmer Mist.

Some of my many hoarded flowers were used in creating this.

Believe it or not I have 3 drawers filled with nothing but flowers.

Definitely a good challenge to use the hoard this month!

The quote came from another Crafty Secrets image and I cut it into pieces to fit my page.

I love the versatility of the images that they produce.

Supplies:

Collage Images: Crafty Secrets

Glimmer Mist: Canvas Corp

Distress Paints: Ranger

Flowers: Prima

There are 2 sponsors for this challenge

Prize 1:

Heartfelt Creations® is a leading Rubber Stamp & Scrapbook manufacturer for the craft industry. Heartfelt Creations was established in 1997 as Golden Rule Supply manufacturing Rubber Stamps. In January 2006 Golden Rule Supply became Heartfelt Creations.

Heartfelt Creations provides a unique line of artistic stamps, detailed dies and designer papers. Many of our stamps coordinate with our exclusive Spellbinders™ dies. The innovation of our stamps paired with matching dies offers a whole new dimension of possibilities and quickly adds eye-popping 3D depth to any project. Our designer papers are designed to coordinate with our product collections adding the perfect complement to any Heartfelt Creations stamp or die.

Website: http://www.heartfeltcreations.us/

Online store: http://www.heartfeltcreations.us/product-home

Blog: http://www.heartfeltcreations.us/blog/

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/HeartfeltCreations

                                                         and Prize 2: 

                                       an assortment of collage images

Crafty Secrets/Heartwarming Vintage Company is owned and operated since 1993 by Sandy Redburn, who started out publishing supplier resource and marketing books for professional crafters and small businesses.

Over the years the business evolved to focus on Sandy's passion for antiques, vintage images, paper, ephemera and old books which became the basis for the Heartwarming Vintage Collection of paper arts products and Clear Art Stamps. Sandy has a blog and writes an online newsletter which has over 12,000 subscribers as well as an e-newsletter for retailers of their products. Be sure to join in the fun with our monthly Blog Linky Party, the first Monday of each month when we invite you to upload your Crafty Secrets creations for a chance to win a $50 shopping spree in our online store, and every participant receives a $6 shopping credit.

Website: http://craftyvintagegirl.com/index.php/

Blog: http://www.heartwarmingvintage.blogspot.ca/

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Crafty-Secrets/129235430422442

         Make sure to stop by the other team embers blogs to see what they have created:

Amber Milone

Christy Butters

Debbie Seyer

Donna Idlet

Ginny Nemchak

Glenda Brooks

Gloria Stengel

Jan Marie Ennenga

Karen Zueger

Kathy Clement

Pam Bray

     Then head over to Craft Hoarders Anonymous and link up your flowery creations.

                                       Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Swirlydoos June Round Robin

It's my turn to create a layout for

the monthly Round Robin challenge at 

Swirlydoos.

I've said it before, this is one of my favorite challenges out there.

Telephone for the scrappy land.

This month's challenge (hosted as always by the wonderful Ms Peggy)

went like this….

And now for this month’s twist: As the title of this Round Robin suggests, it’s all about misting!!! Now, I KNOW that as Swirly Savages, each and every one of you has enough bottles of mist to stock your own LSS. Why not take out a bunch of them and have some fun? There’s so much that you can do with them: masking & stenciling, dripping, splatting, splashing… You can color your mediums, you can color your laces and trims, you can color your flowers and chippies… Or maybe you have a favorite technique that you’d like to share with the rest of us…

Misting!!!!!

This month's challenge was made for me lol.

This is what I created after following Maggi, Steph & Jeannie.

I used the April kit from Swirlydoos,

added Modeling Paste, Washii tape,

stencils, stamping and more.

Modeling Paste through a Prima stencil.

Silks through an UmWow stencil.

All the trims and bling came in the kit.

The chipboard circles are from Blue Fern Studios and were colored with Silk's Acrylic Glaze.

Lindy's Stamp Gang and Tattered Angels Mists in shades of blue were used for my drippings.

The stamped circles are from Tim Holtz.

The little flowers are from Prima and were misted with

Tiffany's Blue from Lindy's

(my bottle is empty sob, this is my favorite blue).

Make sure you stop by and check out the Round Robin thread and see how each group created and lifted each other.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Sharing some mixed media pieces today….

Today I'm sharing some pieces I did up.

I needed to work on a card for a friend and wound up

working on a canvas at the same time

to send off to another friend.

The first piece is a 5x7 Mixed Media Canvas.

I'm still inspired by Stephanie Ackerman's class last week

so you'll see her style definitely influencing me today.

Layers and layers of paper, acrylic paint and stamping 

helped create it.

Onto to the card which started the whole play day.

On a 4x9.5" base I layered papers as I had on the canvas piece.

Adding acrylic paint and tissue paper layers...

Before cutting houses out of old book text and lining them up across the card.

More acrylic paint to color them.

The heart was cut from a scrap of painted paper.

The words come from a Tim Holtz sticker book

(love creating sentences with them).

Some stamping and Washii tape helped finish 

up the card.

Off to pop everything into the mail and send them on their way.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Swirlydoos March Round Robin

It's time for another layout done for a 

Round Robin

at 

Swirlydoos.

In case you don't know how it works,

week one someone shares a layout, the next week someone shares their take on it 

and so on and so on.

Kind of like the game of Telephone but with scrapbook layouts.

Here is mine for this week.

I follow Andie for Team 2

This month's twist:

Now, what could be more appropriate than DIE CUTS? From your crank-operated Bug, from your Vagabond, from your Cameo, from your Cricut… Now is the chance to show off your collection of shapes!!!! Don’t own a machine? No problem: I just know that all of you Savages have a hoard of die-cut chippies!!!!!

I used the March kit from Swirlydoos.

The paper is from Prima

Flowers are Petaloo.

Added Gesso

Some Dylusions in Vibrant Turquoise and some stamping

with a Prima clear stamp and Archival ink.

Prima ink in Worn Jeans was rubbed through a new

Balzer Bites stencil by TCW

(I am digging the new stencil sizes)

Red Velvet Art Anthology paint was brushed through

Rebekah Meier stencil

(also by TCW).

The chipboard I used is from a recent purchase from 

UmWow Studio.

I just love the star confetti.

I colored it with some Lumiere 3D paint.

Lastly I flicked some Liquitex Acrylic ink across the page .

Make sure to check out the Round Robin thread on the forum to see what others 

have created.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Original

I know I know…

I used this pic last week as well, BUT it was perfect for this layout and now oldest gets a copy and I get a copy.

WIN WIN.

This past weekend there was an online crop at Flying Unicorn.

In one of the challenges Shona provided a sketch for us to use.

I wound up loving the sketch and this is what I came up with

All paper is from 7 Dots Studio.

There were found papers, tissue paper and masking tape adhered

to it then covered with Gesso.

Lindy's Stamp Gang Moon Shadow mist was then misted heavily and blown around the page.

There is also some Silk's Acrylic Glaze applied in spots.

The flowers and wood pieces are from Prima.

Chipboard from Blue Fern (I think) was colored with chalk ink

and then highlighted in spots with more Silks.

There is stamping on the background with  Kaisercraft and Club Scrap stamps.

You can see the tape and tissue paper here.

Some more of the blown mist.

Thanks for stopping by  and have a great day.

Feeling a little green today...

I've been up since 2am which means by now

I have been awake for a full 11 hours.

Now while it stinks on the sleep front

 (and man oh man and I am dragging)

on the creating front I had this layout done before anyone else was even up.

The patterned paper comes from Melissa Frances.

Some Gesso was swiped across with an old credit card, and then 

Silk's Acrylic Glaze in Olive Vine was rubbed on 

in spots with my finger.

There was Washii tape, stamping and some misting using

Heidi Swapp Color Shine in Chartreuse.

The mist coordinated perfectly with my Silks

(love it when that happens).

There is some lace layered under the photo and the flowers

come from Petaloo.

My collection of Hydrangeas is slowly wilting away..boohoo!

Think I'm going to go find some caffeine now.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Valentine's Day is coming and I have some great classes to help you get ready….

Just wanted to share about 2  classes I have  up for sale over at The Art Studio

...perfect for Valentine's day or anytime you need something

for that someone special.

The first is a one day class where we will make 3 different mixed media Valentine cards. Each one is chock full of techniques and yumminess. Anyone would feel special receiving one of these hand made cards.

The class is $12.99 and has full video step by step as well as PDF downloads.

The following are some sneaks from the class...

Next up is a mixed media wall hanging perfect for Valentine's day or any day.

In this one day class we will create an 8x10 wall hanging with a large heart as a focal point.

I'll take you step by step in it's creation, always available to answer any questions that may come up.

The following are some sneaks from the finished project  (I have to say I was so happy with how this turned out I can't stop looking at it).

It retails for $12.99

and has full video and step by step downloadable PDFs for you 

to follow along with.

This is perfect to give to that special artsy friend for the 14th or keep for yourself hanging in your room.

Here are a few sneaks.

                                                Both classes are currently for sale over at
                                                               The Art Studio.
                           Head on over and check them out….Valentine's Day is almost here!
                   

 

                                         Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!