Craft Hoarders Anonymous Challenge 19…FOR ALL YOU DO, THANK YOU! and blog hop with the My Artistic Adventures team

It's a new month and time for another challenge at 

Craft Hoarders Anonymous.

                                             Challenge #19 For all that You do, Thank You! 
        Create a "thank you" gift for this challenge. It can be a Thanksgiving hostess gift or a simple thank you card. It can be a "thanks for helping me out of a jam" present, or a "thanks for being you" scrapbook layout. As long as your project says, "THANKS," enter the challenge!
                    We want to see you de-hoard some of your stash and say thanks to someone!
                                         (Your project does not have to be Thanksgiving-themed!)

Special this month we are also doing a blog hop with the team at

My Artistic Adventures.

Heather Hudson provided us all with some dynamic collage images to work with this month.

The design teams from both blogs are hooking up and hopping together.

Make sure to check out everyone's links at the bottom.

I created a thank you tag that can be attached to a hostess gift.

After I photographed this it went onto a bottle of wine for my neighbor.

(she hosts the most fabulous parties!)

The stars on the background all come from a Christmas sheet 

found in Heather's store.

I used chipboard from Dusty Attic colored with Maya Road mist.

A little piece of leftover scrapbook paper to create a small banner for my sentiment.

You can see more of the stars here.

The background was torn book text covered with Gesso and Golden acrylic paints.

Some random circle stamping, then the stars were added.

I outlined all of them with a Black Soot Distress Marker and smudged with my finger.

I colored some Modeling Paste with more acrylic paint and used it with a Crafter's Workshop stencil to give a bit of dimension.

Some colored seam binding used to make a large bow.

Supplies:

Golden Acrylic Paints; Gesso; Dusty Attic chipboard; Modeling Paste; Crafter's Workshop Stencil; Heather Hudson collage images; Distress marker; Maya Road mist

This month's prize sponsor is 

Heather Hudson and My Artistic Adventures

Blog: http://heatherahudson.blogspot.com/ Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/heatherahudson/videos Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/shop/MyArtisticAdventures

Stop by Heather's site and see all the cool images she has to work with.

Check out what the Craft Hoarders Design team has created

Amber Milone
Christy Butters
Debbie Seyer
Donna Idlet
Ginny Nemchak (on vacation)

                                                                     Glenda Brooks
                                                                     Gloria Stengel 
                                                                 Jan Marie Ennenga
                                                                   Karen Zueger

                                                                  Kathy Clement

Pam Bray
Wendi Robinson

Then make sure to visit the Artistic Adventures team

                             My Artistic Adventures Challenge Blog

                                       Helene

                                       Shawn

                                       Carol

                                       Lisette

                                       Sandi

                                       Candy

                                             Heather

Once you have done all the hopping head back to Craft Hoarders Anonymous and link up your project.

                                                               You have 2 weeks!

                                        Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

October Round Robin with Swirlydoos

Sharing my entry for this month's

Round Robin over at 

Swirlydoos.

Every month I take the chance and join up with this amazing challenge.

It's so much fun to see how the layouts evolve week after week.

It's my turn to share a layout.

Team 1 Week 3

I followed Maggi and Kimberly on my team.

The theme this month was

Get your spook on….

How appropriate with Halloween coming up.

This is what I created.

Using mostly supplies from past kits including paper, mediums and embellishments.

The image is from 

Polly's Paper Studio.

Totally reminds me of Edgar Allen Poe's 

The Raven

I transformed lots of miscellaneous flowers using

a copper paint dabber.

Black gesso and Lindy's Stamp Gang mists were used to alter 

the background paper.

The chipboard clock and keys were also colored with Lindy's.

Black netting added in spots.

Head over to Swirlydoos and check out what the other teams have done this month.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Craft Hoarders Anonymous Challenge 17 HAPPY FALL Y'ALL

It's time for another fantastic challenge over at

Craft Hoarders Anonymous.

                                                          Challenge #17 Happy Fall, Y'all! 
Many of us like to purchase NEW seasonal products EVERY season. What happens to last year's fall, Halloween, and Thanksgiving products? We HOARD them! Drag out those hoarded fall-themed items and make a project to share with us! You can make something for fall, Halloween, Thanksgiving, or any other fall or harvest celebration!

Challenge 17 is sponsored by 

Polly's Paper Studio

Check out her store! She has some absolutely fantastic collage images.

For my piece I created a page in my art journal.

I wanted to just play and with Halloween just around the corner my muse went that way.

Supplies:

Polly's Paper Studio Collage images

Lindy's Stamp Gang mists

Dusty Attic Chipboard

Echo Park paper and die cuts

Tim Holtz stamps

Tissue paper, cardboard, doily & tape

The chandelier is from Dusty Attic and colored with Lindy's Stamp Gang 

Screamin Banshee Black mist.

I love how it mirrored the one in the collage image almost perfectly.

Up close of some of the images from the store.

The background is various Lindys mists which I spread with a wet paintbrush.

Stamping with several stamps and Solvent ink.

More of the layers.

Tissue paper and tape also are added for more layers.

Cardboard from a box and doily also added under the focal image.

I'm in love with all the images from the store.

Can't wait to create more with them!

   

      Make sure to stop by the other team members blogs to see what they have created, and welcome the newest member Wendy to the group.

Amber Milone

Christy Butters

Debbie Seyer

Donna Idlet

Ginny Nemchak

Glenda Brooks

Gloria Stengel

Jan Marie Ennenga

Karen Zueger

Kathy Clement

Pam Bray
Wendy Robinson

         Then make sure to head over to Craft Hoarders Anonymous and link up your fall project.
                                                             You have 2 weeks.
                                          Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

You Look So Perfect!

One of my friends on Facebook 

shared a link to a sketch challenge blog.

Intrigued I went over to check it out.

Scrap and Music 4Ever :

They give you a sketch and song lyrics to incorporate onto your page.

FUN!

I had to play, especially since I had the best photo (in my mind)

for both the layout and the lyrics.

Here is the sketch:

The song is :

 She Looks So perfect.

This is what I created using the June Swirlydoos kit and

adding some Dusty Attic chipboard.

The chipboard was colored with Frayed Burlap and Broken China

Distress Paints.

Chalkboard Ink in Chestnut Roan was rubbed through a Crafter's Workshop stencil.

Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist in Latte sprayed across the page.

Petaloo Flowers.

The paper and DieCuts are from Kaisercraft.

Now the story behind the photo.

This was taken the day the girls graduated from 8th grade.

Several days before my daughter found a photo of all of them together in this pose on the last day of Kindergarten.

Now in the original they were all holding something, I know, but we only had 1 piece of paper this day.

The fact we were able to get a bunch of 14 year old girls to get all goofy; bonus!

They decided to recreate realizing that just the fact they have stayed together and are still good friends after 9 years is a rarity.

Hopefully in 4 years we'll get to recreate it again.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Respect Yourself…an Art Journal page

Art Journal page for today-

RESPECT!

I'm a huge collector of quotes and my favorite way to

save them is on Pinterest.

I can find a quote for just about anything there.

The background for this page began as a lot of my backgrounds do.

When I work on other projects I open to a page in my journal and use it 

to clean up my stencils, paints stamps etc.

When I'm ready to work I already have a jumping off point

(plus it saves money---paint is expensive!)

The background is first some Liquitex Acrylic Paint spread

around with an old credit card.

The Triangles are created using Black Gesso with a

Crafter's Workshop Stencil.

Once they were dry I used my new 

Faber Castell Pitt Artist Pen in White

(seriously my new love) 

and outlined them all.

Stamping with a mist bottle top and acrylic paint.

More of the FC Pitt Artist Pen in the center of the circles.

Gelatos in blue/green were scribbled onto my craft sheet 

and turned into a paint.

Then used with another Crafter's Workshop Stencil and my finger.

Stamping with a Hampton Arts stamp and Archival Ink.

and misting with Dylusions Black Marble through an Alphabet stencil.

The Chipboard is from Dusty Attic.

Painted with Silks Acrylic Glaze and then roughly outlined

using another Pitt Pen.

The quote was printed out on copy paper,

cut out and adhered to the page then colored with

more Pitt Artist Pens.

That's it for today,

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Swirlydoos 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 am on Team 1 and followed Hanne & Cheryl.

The twist this month

Something warm. I don’t care what it is as long as it’s WARM!!!!!!!!!!

Laughing but I have to agree with our hostess.

I want warm!

I used the October 2013 kit from Swirlydoos

The Sweetest Thing

with BoBunny papers.

I also pulled in a piece of Pink Paislee & a piece of handmade paper.

My photo of warm is Venice. 

When we went it hit the upper 90s every single day.

I am missing 90 degree weather right about now...

I also did a little bit of random stamping with a Kaisercraft stamp.

My "warm" place.

Doilies and flowers layered under and around it.

Chipboard is from Dusty Attic  and painted with

Silks Acrylic Glaze

Some Tsukineko ink was also rubbed through a Crafter's Workshop stencil.

Make sure to check out the Round Robin thread to see how others create for their turn.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Layouts to share....

On this beautiful fall Friday

I wanted to share some layouts done

that were featured in 

Scrapbook News and Review.

The first one uses Crafter's Workshop, Pink Paislee, 

and Stencil Girl stencils

to create the layers of pattern over the already

patterned paper by BoBunny.

The next one is my daughter as she explores the

rocky coast of Maine.

The paper is from The Scrap Cake,

mists are Lindy's Stamp Gang 

and the chipboard is by Dusty Attic.

The next layout was done using homemade acrylic 

spray paint and a Crafter's Workshop stencil to form a resist

for the Lindy's Stamp Gang mist sprayed over.

A few pieces of tape and some Dusty Attic chipboard to finish it.

Last but not least the little one as we were getting ready to see the 

Women's World Cup in Germany

2011.

The paper and chipboard are by Pink Paislee.

Gesso scraped over the paper and then misted with Buccaneer Bronze

Moonshadow mist by Lindy's.

The large flowers are by Petaloo.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

New Adventure....

Over at Swirlydoos 

I'm participating in the 

Round Robin challenge again.

This time I am a member of Team 4 and got to lift Erica's beautiful layout.

The twist this month (you know there has to be one)

Will the giddiness ever end? Maybe not, because, of course, we need to have a theme, don’t we? And after much thought, I have picked the perfect theme for September: Beginnings!!!! Here in the Northeast, the school year starts during the first week of this month and it puts me in mind of new clothes, new supplies, new teachers and new classrooms. With that in mind, I’d love to see your take on “new” and “beginning”, using just what these words mean to you.

and this is what I created...

My take on NEW is with this photo of the middle daughter. She is an avid soccer player, playing not only for her club but also the State in the Olympic Development Program.

This past summer the State chose her as one of the top in her age group and sent her to Alabama to Regional Pool training, where she would train with the best soccer players in our 13 state Region (Region III). She was gone for 5 days playing soccer from wake up until bed time.

                                My husband caught this photo as she checked in, 

                                           beginning her New Adventure.

                            

           I used the June kit Brass Shilling from Swirlydoos for the majority of supplies, just about everything else used can be found in the store. 
                            My papers are from Kaisercraft.
                   

  I altered the papers with Modeling Paste, a stencil from Crafter's Workshop, Moonshadow mist from Lindy's Stamp Gang, Silks Acrylic Glaze, and stamping.

I layered corrugated cardboard, and burlap under my photo.

I had these 2 silver hinges forever. To make them fit my color scheme I dripped some Alcohol Ink onto them.

I clustered several types of Prima & Petaloo flowers.

The flourishes all come from Dusty Attic and were colored with Dark Bark Prima ink.

The words are all rub ons.

There is also a bit of Creative Imaginations Doily paper peeking out in the layers.

Thanks for stopping by and make sure you head on over to Swirlydoos to see the other lifts this week..

ATCs, a Tag and a Card

Today I'm sharing several pieces which were recently seen in

Scrapbook News and Review.

While I tend to work on bigger things like scrapbook pages, art journal

pages and canvases, it's always fun to occasionally go down in size.

The first piece is a simple sympathy card.

The base is watercolor paper, layered with Washii tape and book text.

Colored with Lindy's Stamp Gang mist.

The chipboard is from Dusty Attic.

Next I have an ATC created on a Gelli print base.

I save all bits of leftover prints, and ATCs are a perfect way to use them up.

The stamp is from Hero Arts, stamped with StazOn ink and colored with Faber Castell Big Brush pens.

A white gel pen was used to add accents.

The next ATC is done on a base of pape rtowel leftover from cleaning my desk.

(yes I save EVERYTHING)

Stamped onto it with a script stamp.

Added the sentiment and a chipboard sticker from Pink Paislee. 

Here is a tag done on another Gelli print done over an old map.

I outlined the buildings and added more torn Gelli prints for the ground as a contrast.

Last but not least is my RED ATC

done for the color theme.

I just collected red items found on my desk and collaged them onto my base.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Always...a mixed media canvas

So I love browsing Pinterest.

I click and pin somedays with what seems like reckless abandon never going back and actually really looking at what I had pinned.

This wasn't the case here though. 

I stumbled across a video tutorial by Gabrielle Pollacco showing how she goes about creating canvases.

I actually watched, start to finnish, with no fast forwarding (I am notorious for fast forwarding) and was so inspired I immediately had to create my own canvas.

I have this picture of my Grandmother from 1932. I copied it so as to preserve the original and went to town.

5 different mists were used (Lindy's Stamp Gang, Tattered Angels, & Smooch).

Chipboard from Blue Fern & Dusty Attic.

Modeling paste, stencils, and dry wall tape for texture.

Tons of bits and bobs that I have accumulated over time.

Flowers from the flower drawer (don't judge...I actually have 2 drawers full of flowers).

Gesso & Golden fluid acrylics, with some Ranger Distress pains on top.

It was fun adding layers and pieces. I didn't have to worry about colors matching, everything got covered with Gesso so it all worked.

If you are interested in seeing what else I pin...

come find me on Pinterest.

Who knows what may inspire me next.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day.