Kicking off the new year with a Craft Hoarders Anonymous challenge

Happy 2015!

It's time for a new challenge at 

Craft Hoarders Anonymous.

This is a fun one for sure;

CHOOSE YOUR CHALLENGE!

Create any type or style of project you wish, as long as you pick ONE (1) item from each category in the chart below! Choose your cardstock, printed paper, or other base (box, canvas, tray, etc.). Next, choose your adhesive. Finally, from the chart below, choose your coloring medium, fiber, technique, texture, and embellishments for your project! The combinations are almost endless! (You may choose more than one item from each category, but you MUST have AT LEAST ONE from each!) Have fun, and welcome to a NEW YEAR at Craft Hoarders Anonymous!

Here is the chart to choose from...

This is what I have made using the above chart.

I used the Beloved kit from Swirlydoos to create this layout of me and the youngest.

From the list I have;

Spray Mist, Paint, Twine, Stamping, Distressing Tool, Chipboard, Metal,

Flowers, Buttons, & Bling.

Whew!

Supplies:

Kaisercraft paper & Die Cuts

Prima Crystals & Flowers

Tattered Angels Mist

Blue Fern Chipboard

Twine, Metal, & Gesso

Views of my dripping mist, chipboard & twine...

Make sure to visit the Design Team members blogs

 to see how the have worked with this challenge.

Amber Milone
Christy Butters
Debbie Seyer
Donna Idlet
Ginny Nemchak

Glenda Brooks
Gloria Stengel 
Kathy Clement
Nancy Dynes

Pam Bray
Teresa Horner
Wendi Robinson

Playing with Sketchabilities 130 and Swirlydoos

Happy 2015 everyone.

I hope your Holiday season was filled with family and fun.

My house has finally cleared out.

The last of the visitors left yesterday and I finally get to start creating again.

Today I pulled out the newest sketch from the

Sketchabilities blog, #13o.

Totally fun and ready for some messy media.

I also had on my desk the December kit from 

Swirlydoos

Enchanted Evening.

Perfect!

This is the layout I created.

The base paper is from BoBunny Rose Cafe line.

I added some scraped on Gesso and Primary Cyan fluid acrylic paint by Golden,

followed up with some stamping using stamps from

Tim Holtz and Club Scrap.

A little strip of dyed lace and some Dresden Foil trim.

Prima flowers & resin.

The chipboard is from Creative Embellishments, 

colored with Prima ink and clear embossing powder.

A doily is layered under the photo 

and blue twine circled around it.

Some Tim Holtz rub ons and splattered

Glimmer mist in Slate finish off the page.

That's it for today.

So happy to be back creating.

Now to go put away all the decorations!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

A little peek into my space...

Morning everyone!

I hope that Holidays were wonderful for all

sand that you are all getting back into the creative swing.

There is an extra week this month so some of us at

Craft Hoarders Anonymous

are sharing peeks into our creating spaces.

(Don't worry---new challenge will be posting soon and it's an awesome one!)

I went back and forth with sharing photos.

When you browse the web it seems full of all these pretty, neat as a pin,

well organized, not a piece out of place spaces.

I'm not knocking those, in fact I am a wee bit envious, the rest of my house is neat as a pin

but my creating space is, well as my kids often say...a disaster. 

This is a photo of my main work space. 

I create in chaos and revel in it. 

I have a 2 large windows which let in the sun for the majority of the day.

See...piles of inks, mists, stamps, epherma, and more.

I tend to have several projects going on at once.

I also usually have a page or 2 open in my art journal.

Using the pages to clean of my stamps and use extra paint, this way I always have backgrounds ready to go.

One thing I am proud of though is one of my embellishments holders

I made.

Sure you can spend lots of $$$ but mine was created after a trip to Walmart.

What is it in it's other life?

A rotating shoe holder!

Perfect to spin around looking for just the right bit.

I also have a large closet in my room which is a bit more organized.

Shelves full of paper, and fabric just waiting to be played with.

A spice rack has been turned into a holder for more mists, inks and paints.

That's it for the look into my space.

Make sure to visit the others who are sharing spaces this week.

Thanks for stopping by and taking a peek.

Sketchabilities 129 with Swirlydoos Treasured Yesterdays kit

Sharing a layout today created using the new sketch from

Sketchabilities.

This is sketch 129

and it's PERFECT for some custom background making.

I paired the sketch with the October kit

Treasured Yesterdays

from Swirlydoos.

This is the page I created.

The base paper is from Prima's Epiphany collection.

Layers of masking tape, lace, washii tape,

drywall tape and cheesecloth were all adhered to the paper before being covered with a 

layer of Gesso.

While it was still wet I dropped some 

Cobalt Teal (fav color EVER!) acrylic paint from Golden 

onto the page and brushed it around.

Slate Glimmer mist was heavily misted and the page was tipped sideways

for the streaks.

There is stamping using both StazOn and Distress ink.

Stamps from Oxford Impressions, Tim Holtz and Club Scrap helped

add pattern to the background over the paint and other medias.

Petaloo flowers, Prima Die Cuts & metal bits

all were added to the page.

Several circles were hand drawn using a Distress Marker, Charcoal pencil, 

Sharpie and India ink.

Thread scraps were added around as well.

That's it for today.

Make sure to stop by the Sketchabilities blog to 

see how others are

using the sketch.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day.

Believe…a Mixed Media canvas with Bonus Video Tutorial

Feeling in the Holiday spirit today

(even though it's grey and rainy outside).

I pulled out this background I created a while back,

my box of Christmas crafting goodies,

put on some carols and began to create.

I have also created a quick video for you on how I did the background of the canvas.

Using Acrylic Paint and Jet Dry (yes the stuff that goes in your dishwasher)

you can create a really cool distressed base for your art.

This is my finished piece...

Here is the video for you.

It's a super easy technique using items you probably already have on hand.

Once the background was completely dry I

stamped on it with various stamps and Solvent ink (i.e. StazOn)

and yes if you look closely my stamping is upside down.

From when I stamped to when I began adding my elements someone (blaming the 8yr old here)

turned it around.

Embrace the mistakes, they add character!

I also used acrylic paint with sequin waste as well as bubble wrap to stamp.

Old Rub Ons from my stash, some paint drips and some misting from Tattered Angels.

There are sequins scattered across the page from when I was cutting up the Prima floral cluster.

Nothing goes to waste here!

The focal cluster is made with dyed cheesecloth, half a doily, BoBunny metal and a bunch of Prima wood and flower. The big red flowers are handmade and purchased from an Etsy shop.

Some washii tape with music on it to remind me of the carols I was listening to.

Tim Holtz white Rub On snowflakes were scattered about.

The white just pops off the background.

Craft Hoarders Anonymous Challenge 21…Have a nice trip!

It's time for the last challenge of 2014 at

Craft Hoarders Anonymous.

Can you believe this is number 22????

How time has flown since the 1st one.

I hope that you have enjoyed playing along with each one as much as I have.

                                        Challenge #22 Have a Nice Trip! 
                         Many of us travel around the holidays, so let's celebrate our adventures!
                       Dig into your hoard and find some items that are vacation or travel themed.
Do you have a hoard of cruise ship ephemera? Do you have a box of transportation stamps? Do you have a stash of camping themed papers? Or piles of Disney embellishments?
                                                                Show them off!
                                    Create a vacation or travel themed project for us!

Here is the layout I created for this challenge.

In 2011 we took the ultimate road trip. 

Traveling across the ocean to Germany to pick up my husbands new car.

I hoard every little teeny tiny scrap of paper and this layout was a perfect place to use them.

By tearing the edges and punching some others I created

little pops of color on my page.

I used white card stock as my base. 

Rubbed some Distress ink through a Crafter's Workshop stencil as well

as misting with some Lindy's Stamp Gang Starburst Spray.

I used stamps from Artistic Outpost and Distress inks to add the maps and title

to the page. 

You can see I don't always clean my stamps well

since there is a bit of color variation on some of the images.

It's ok though, I tend to like the results when it does this.

Supplies:

Cardstock

Paper scraps

Lindy's Stamp Gang mist

Distress ink

Artistic Outpost stamps

This month our challenge is sponsored by

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One person who links up their project before the deadline has a chance to win 

this awesome pack of dies.

So head on over to the rest of the design team 

and 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
Wendi Robinson

Then head on back to 

Craft Hoarders Anonymous 

and link up your project.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Mojo Monday with Flying Unicorn

Every week there is a new sketch challenge on the 

Flying Unicorn forum

called MOJO MONDAY.

Now I never get these done early and rarely in the week they come out 

so it's always a little bit of Happy Dance

time when I get one done before the next one comes out.

Here is the sketch for the week

designed by the Flying Unicorn owner ,Alda.

It's perfect for family photos we took 3 YEARS AGO 

and I just rediscovered sitting in their original envelope

(don't judge)

I used the December kit from Flying Unicorn

which came jam packed with all sorts of 13Arts goodies,

from the paper used, to mists, to awesome new stencils.

Fun fun fun!

The 3 circle chipboard pieces come from Creative Embellishments

and are perfect for this sketch (they came in the kit too).

I covered them with Silver acrylic paint and then a light misting from Tattered Angels 

Glimmer mist in Slate.

The letters are reeeaaaallly old Glimmer Chips from Tattered Angels.

They are misted with both 13Arts & Glimmer Mist.

There are Petaloo flowers, Prima resin & wood pieces.

I dug more reaaaallly old clock faces out and tucked them here and there.

The background has some random stamping,

misting with 13Arts mist in Woodbine and grey ink through a 

13Arts stencil.

That's it for today.

Wishing you all a fantastic weekend.

Thanks for stopping by.