Happy Easter

Wishing all of you a Happy, Blessed Easter Day!!!  

This card is an arch shaped ATC.  Dylusion sprays, Archival Inks for stamping in the background and on the cut out cross and to color the grass which is embossed using a folder from the Tim Holtz Alterations Springtime set, Distress Inks for edging the card, the cross and the punched out butterfly, Smooch for the gold dots around the edge, and Flower Soft for the flowers in the basket and dotted in the grass.  

Joy Tag

This is a tag that I included with Nancy's canvas. A #8 tag.  Distress Paints for the background.  Tim Holtz Sizzix die for the flowers, cut from watercolor paper, colored with Distress Paints and water, attached together with a brad, crumpled and white paint brushed on the edges.  Both the vine and leaves are Sizzix dies.  The white dots on the vine and background and white lines around the edge are done with a Sharpie paint marker.  The scripture stamp is from Our Daily Bread Designs.    

4x4 Mixed Media Canvas

I recently participated in a 4x4 canvas swap with a small group of friends.  This is the canvas I made and sent to Nancy.  I used acrylics, The Crafters Workshop stencils, and Studio 490 stamps on the canvas.  The white stenciled flower is outlined with a Sharpie paint marker.  The center of the flower is a couple dried drops of acrylic paint that were on my craft sheet - I thought they were cool and wanted to use them.  The white dots on the acrylic drops were made with the Sharpie marker.  Doodling done with a Pitt pen.  The flower and leaves are watercolor paper, Tim Holtz Sizzix dies, acrylic paint, stamped on with Wendy Vecchi Studio 490 dot and text stamps.  The stem is grunge.  The quote is also a Studio 490 stamp stamped with Archival Ink jet black on white cardstock, color added, cut out, edged and added to the canvas.

Below is the canvas I received from Michael - totally awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!

How awesome....

A birthday card for a friend!!!  The scripture stamp is from Our Daily Bread Designs.  

Love

Here are two atcs I made back in February for a swap on the VintagePhotoImageATCs yahoo group.  This particular swap was a Let's Get Stamping swap with a theme of Vintage Valentine's.   

Using Your Words

I'm still plugging along with Carolyn Dube's Use Your Words Free Workshop.  This is from Lesson 3 - Random Letter Fun.  The full sheet of fun is the shared technique in this lesson and then I used a piece of it on the journal page below.  Also used on the journal page are Dylusion sprays around the edge; the lady is a Wendy Vecchi Studio 490 stamp, stamped and embossed with black onto a scrap piece of a Gelli plate print; the calligraphy quote is a Quietfire Design stamp; the leafy branch is a Sizzix die cut from watercolor paper and sprayed with Dylusions; at the bottom left of the lady is notebook paper waste sprayed with pink Dylusions. 

Masterpiece

A new page in my scripture journal!!!  I chose one of my Gelli prints, tore it to fit the page, and set it aside.  Around the edges of the page I sprayed Dylusions cut grass and dirty martini and dried it.  I laid on The Crafter's Workshop Balzer Designs 12x12 Punchinella stencil and sprayed Dylusions white linen, removed the stencil, blotted and dried the page.  Glued the gelli print to the center of the page.  Stenciled two flowers, Wendy Vecchi Studio 490 Fresh Flowers, with embossing paste.  Let it dry.  Laid the stencil back on and added paint.  Let it dry and added doodling with a Pitt pen.  Computer generated the scripture, cut it out and glued it to the page.  I am linking to Carolyn Dube's March Gelli Print Party. 

Use Your Words Workshop Lesson 2

 This page is based on Carolyn Dube's Use Your Words Workshop, the second lesson.  This is a free workshop, you have access for life, and you can sign up anytime.  The layout of the page is totally lesson, not my own .  When I started I was in the mood for some texture so I added crumpled tissue paper to my page first leaving an open area for writing my list.  The stenciled thanks isn't so crisp because of the texture, which was fine.  I didn't do so well keeping my spraying down in the right bottom corner and because of the overspray onto thanks I thought it faded just bit so I added the black outlines.  A while back I got a few colors of Viva Inka Gold and hadn't used any yet so took the color old gold and highlighted some of my texture which also gave me metallic highlights as the page moves in the light.

I don't have a very big selection of heavy bodied paints so had to mix for colors and after I was done stenciling I had this on my craft sheet and thought it looked pretty cool so took a pic....

and because why waste the paint I turned to another page in my journal, sprayed on some water, and then brushed the colors of paint over my page.  This will be fun to finish!!!!

And the winner ..............

.... for the Quietfire Queen of Hearts Blog Hop on my blog is................

Ms Linda swtanxiety94@yahoo.com said...

Beautiful WAY TO DESPLAY A GIFT. earrings are darling.

Congratulations, Linda!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Head on over to HERE and send Suzanne an email with your name and address and she will get your stamps in the mail.

A HUGE thank you and big (((HUGS))) to everyone for visiting and leaving such wonderful comments.  YOU ARE APPRECIATED!!!!

The Last Day

This is the last day to leave your comments on the Queen of Hearts Blog Hop post found HERE and have a chance to win!!  Also be sure to visit the other blogs (links in post) for more chances to win. 

Fine

I signed up for Carolyn Dube's Free online workshop titled Use Your Words and the first video was today. 

My page is similar to hers - I loved her orange and yellow color combo - I just added to it a bit.  The words were influence by an article I also read today found Here.  I had a lot of fun doing the "can't really read it and don't want to be able to" journaling - I hadn't done that before and it really was lots of Fun!!!!  I wish I hadn't put that drip of orange up in the corner but I'll live with it.

Quietfire Queen of Hearts Blog Hop

Welcome to the Quietfire Queen of Hearts Blog Hop!

We’re sharing our love/Valentine project ideas with you as we lead up to the big Queen of Hearts event on February 14th! 

Today is my turn!

Each day designers will be posting brand new artwork they have created using Quietfire rubber stamps.  Visit our blogs on the day of our featured project, post a comment on our Blog Hop post (see the schedule below) and you will be eligible to win a grab bag of Quietfire Design rubber stamps valued at $50! (yes, Suzanne doubled the value from the original announcement!)  Each Designer will randomly choose a winner from the comments on their own Blog Hop post, so make sure you’ve commented on all the blogs by midnight Thursday, February 14^th.  Tell your friends!

All winners will be posted on the Quietfire Creations Blog on Sunday February 17th. If you are one of our lucky winners, please contact Suzanne privately with your snail mail address.  (Her email address is in the sidebar of the Quietfire Creations Blog)

Here is our schedule:

Saturday, Feb 9th: Terre, Holly

Sunday, Feb 10^th: Wanda (you are here)

Monday, Feb 11th:  Sherry

Tuesday, Feb 12th: Yogi

Wednesday, Feb 13th: Robyn

Thursday, Feb 14^th: Suzanne

Don’t forget to leave a comment! 

 My project is a pair of earring presented on a card.  These earrings would make the perfect gift for a mom, sister, or bff.  

Supply List - 

Quietfire Rubber Stamps - Valentine's Day/Love 2013 Set

Natural Cardstock

Library pocket - short

Shrink plastic - white

Archival Ink - jet black

Chalk Pastels

Colored Pencils

Kryon Leafing pen - silver

Distress Stain - aged mahogany, picket fence, brushed pewter

Distress Ink - spun sugar, worn lipstick, dusty concord, picked raspberry

Dylusions stencil 5 x 8 - Dotted Flowers

Heat Tool

Blending tool w/foam

Sanding block

Jewelry findings and beads 

1/16" hole punch

Sand one side of shrink plastic with a foam sanding block.  Stamp flourished heart w/rose twice using jet black onto plastic.  Dry ink from a distance with a heat tool being careful not to get too close or too hot as you don't want the plastic to shrink yet. Color rose and leaves with colored pencil.  Color the rest of the heart with chalk.  Cut out hearts, punch a 1/8" circle in each heart, and shrink according to directions.  If the hearts aren't laying flat after shrinking, place an acrylic block gently on top while they are still warm to straighten them.  Go around the edge of each heart with the silver Krylon, let dry.  Seal hearts - I used a spray sealer.  Assemble earrings.  

The card used to hand the earring on is natural cardstock cut to 2 1/8" x 3 1/2".  Stamp the flourished heart border image at the top and the bottom with jet black and add colored pencil.  Stamp the Flourished heart w/rose image in the center of the card with spun sugar.  Add spun sugar ink to the edges using the blending tool.  Cut two slits in the card and at the end of each slit punch a 1/16" hole.  Hang earrings on card. 

   

The folded card is from natural cardstock and edged with spun sugar.  The background piece is natural cardstock colored first with aged mahogany stain going back and forth in one direction, dried, then went back and forth in the other direction and dried.  Added worn lipstick around the edges with a blending tool and then just a little dusty concord with a blending tool.  Layed the flower part of the stencil along the edge and sponged on picked raspberry - repeated to do all four sides.  Dabbed picket fence stain along the bottom wide enough to stamp the flourished heart border, dried it, stamped the border image in the center and then filled in by stamping again to the right and to the left, and added color with colored pencils.  Decided I really liked how the picket fence lightened the background and added just a bit along the other edges.  Added some dots using the stencil and brushed pewter.  Edged the whole piece with silver. 

The library pocket is edged with spun sugar.  Stamp the flourished heart w/rose in the center with spun sugar and then again to the left and to the right.  Stamp Happy Valentine's Day with jet black. Assemble card as shown. 

Winter

Some winter themed ATCs... and it's felt a lot like winter here the past few days - first rain turning to snow and then plummeting temps for a couple of days.  The temps are headed back up this weekend to closer to freezing - yay!!  

I can't give credits for the images used on these as they were part of package of fun stuff I received back from the hostesses of our last local mail in swap, but I had fun using just some of what was in that package.

I love these images - the trees and then the vintage snowman.  I couldn't resist creating a frame with embossing paste and sprinkling on Distress rock candy dry glitter. The snowman is on foam tape so he stands out more.  

Love Dove x 4

A set of atcs I made last week to take to our quarterly in-person atc swap in Des Moines.  I started by cutting us a gelli plate print into atc sized pieces.  I stamped the dandelion (Dylusions, from the set bits of this) using Archival Ink jet black.  Tore the Dove candy wrappers to size and glued them on with Ranger's Glue 'n Seal matte.  Stamped one more dandelion overlapping the Dove paper.  Left things simple because I really like the gelli print and didn't want to cover up too much and it looked good just like this.  

I'm linking to Carolyn Dube's Gelli Plate Party.  

4th Annual Queen of Hearts Challenge

Quietfire Design is announcing their 4th Annual Queen of Hearts Challenge.

Create art and enter for a chance to win prizes!  It's easy!

 For details, visit the Quietfire Creations Blog

Journal Page

Lots of layers here... I almost trashed the page a couple of times but I kind of like it now.  It does look much better in person.  Back when I did the last journal page I shared with the brick wall on it - when I was finished I had left-over paint on my craft sheet so I grabbed the group of flowers (they are from Chocolate Baroque) you see stamped along the bottom, it was, after all, just sitting there waiting to be used :) and stamped on a blank page to use later.  So I thought I do something with that page.  I started by sprayed Dylusions ink on the page which of course the paint stamped flowers resisted.  I also had the new January Stencil Club Kit stencils from Stencil Girl and wanted to use the largest stencil so laid it on the page and sprayed ink.  Well, it was rather dark but I thought I'd keep going and tried to add some "drips" with spray, that didn't work so well either, thought about tearing it out and throwing it away but opted for the challenge.  I added white Distress Stain over the page which muted the flowers too much so I stamped right on top of the flowers already there (just the higher up flowers) using Archival Ink jet black to make them stand out again and tried spraying again - nope.  I decided I really needed to lighten up the top and paint was my best option so put some white tube acrylic paint and gold Lumiere paint on my craft sheet (I did not mix them together), put the stencil back on and using a cosmetic sponge started picking up and applying paint.  I also stamped more of the flowers down in the bottom right corner first with pigment ink but it didn't show up so well so then with paint and also sponged some gold paint along the bottom and on the edges.  I took a water brush and some of the gold Lumiere and made splatters over the page.  I finished by stamping and white embossing the quote (stamp from Quietfire Design).  I kind of looks like flowers outside in front of a fancy window.  

A Mini Card

A quick little mini card using some of the newest stamps from Quietfire Design plus an older one, the I Love You Alphabet image.   I started with a #8 manila tag, folding it in half.  I used Distress Stains to color the outside (barn door) and the inside (scattered straw) and then Distress Ink barn door applied with a blending sponge around the inside.  The background on the front is stamped with Distress barn door ink.  The heart is stamped on a scrap of white cardstock using Archival Ink jet black, colored in using a waterbrush and Distress Stains - just pick up a little stain off your craft sheet and start painting - and cut out.  All the sentiments and the flourish inside the card are stamped with jet black and color added to the inside flourish again using the waterbrush.  The 13mm white silk ribbon is colored with Distress Stain barn door and scattered straw.  

You could take more time and doodle edges with a black pen or add more stamping using some of Quietfire's flourishes from the Flourishes 1 set or how about the Flourishing Inside Hearts.  Leaving the left side of the inside blank allows a place for you to write a personal message.  

Love You

I received new stamps in the mail yesterday from Quietfire Design - the 2013 Valentine's Day collection - and I just had to make something today!!!  Although this is great for Valentine's Day, it could also be just an I Love You for any time and that's what this tag is for, my hubby just because.  

I started with a Ranger #5 manila tag and put spun sugar Distress stain all over it, dried it, did another layer of spun sugar and while it was still wet added fired brick along the edges and dried it.  Then I added barn door along the edge, sprayed just the edges with some water and dried it again.  Stamped part of the Love You Heart 3 times along the left edge of the tag using jet black Archival Ink and also a whole heart on a scrap of manila cardstock.  Stamped the I Love You Alphabet 3 time down the tag to cover the whole tag using Distress Ink tea dye. Added spun sugar Stain to the extra heart, dried it, cut it out, added barn door stain around the edges and in the letters using a water brush.  Decided I wanted some gold and used gold Smooch on the very edge of the heart.  Stamped the Heart Flourish border image onto 13mm white silk ribbon using jet black, added spun sugar stain to the ribbon and dried it, added barn door and peeled paint stain to the image using a water brush while also holding the heat tool on the image so the color wouldn't bleed too much on the ribbon and dried it.  Tore a scrap of manila cardstock, colored it with barn door Stain, dried it, and added the stamped ribbon on top with double sided tape.  Adhered it to the tag and trimmed the sides even with the tag.  Layed the extra heart upside down on a scrap of manila card, traced around it with a pencil, cut out the heart about 1/16" larger than the pencil line, flipped it over, added barn door stain around the edges and layered the heart together with foam mounting tape.  I also adhered the hearts to the tag with foam mounting tape for lots of dimension.  Added gold dots around the edge of the tag with Smooch.  Colored a piece of 13mm silk ribbon with barn door stain, crumpled and dried it, stamped the Heart Flourish Border on the ribbon and tied it to the tag.  Glued on a gold heart charm.   

Wishing you the Happiest....

This card is large, almost 7" square, and looks so much better in person.  I started with one of my pick-up-extra-ink-etc pieces of cardstock that has Dylusions and Perfect Pearls on it.  Next I used The Stamping Gear and one of their stamps to create the flower.  In the center is a Wendy Vecchi Studio 490 stamp.  All the stamping is done with Archival Ink jet black.  Next I used a white pen in each of the petals and some of the letters which really made things pop.  Doodling with both black and white around the edges and the piece layered onto black cardstock.  

Instead of piecing together cardstock to make a folded card I added a pocket to the back.  It was a yellow library pocket and I sprayed and stenciled on it then added stamping along the bottom with the same image used to make the flower and again added the white to it.  In the pocket was put cash and I wrote both on the pocket in black and on the cardstock with white a note.