Time to Catch Up - Day 2

For Day 2 of my catch up week I'm sharing some cards!!!  Hope you enjoy them!!!

This first card I did for a wedding.  The quote is a Quietfire Design image and it's die cut with a Spellbinders die, color added around the edges and in the openings around the edge of the die.  The background is printed paper.  The flowers are silk. The little row of hearts is a long sticker.  

This next card uses Ranger's Specialty Stamping paper, sprays, a stencil and is also sprayed with Perfect Pearls spray.  The scripture, bird corner and grass/butterflies border image are all from Our Daily Bread Designs.  I've layered a stamped yellow piece along the bottom along with some torn green paper.

Sweet 16 is a Tim die die-cut from some orange flocked Doodlebug paper.  The green flocked paper for the background is also Doodlebug.  The oval piece is colored and stamped lightly.  Pearls around the edge.  The leafy swirls are green cardstock cut with Cherry Lynn dies.  Paper flowers and brads to finish it off.

Again the scripture on this card is from Our Daily Bread Designs.  The background is sprays and some ghosting with a stencil.  Sticky back lace under the flower.  The flower is made by punching scalloped circles from book pages, stack them, add a brad to the center, crumple each circle to the center, fold back out, and spray with color.  

Another scripture card.  (Our Daily Bread Designs scripture stamp)  The background is sprays and a stencil.  The leaf image is a Dylusions stamp.  White pen for the stitching and highlights on the leaves.  The flowers - the pink, etc flowers are a paper towel from wiping up color glued to Clearly For Art and then die cut using Tim's die.  The bottom white flower is lace glued to Clearly For Art and die cut.  The flowers are then heated and shaped.  

The background is again made with sprays and stencils.  Stamping around the edges are Dylusion stamps.  The sentiment is a Versus Rubber Stamp.  The flower is made from Studio 490 white Clicker Cuts (pre-cut Clearly For Art).  I colored the flowers with alcohol inks and heated and shaped them.  The leafy swirl is a Sizzix die cut from grungepaper and colored.  The large white flourish is a Tim die cut from grunge and painted with Distress Crackle.  The button in the center of the flower is a Studio 490 Blossom Bucket piece.

Thanks for looking and commenting.  I hope you are having a great week!!!!

Time to Catch Up - Day 1

I have a bunch of things from this summer that I haven't shared on my blog yet and I've decided I need to get these posted before they get any older (and so I can clean up my basic my documents folder and get things moved to their specific folders).  Today I'm sharing atcs!!  Most of these were made before our last in-person swap at the end of July and with our next swap coming up this Saturday my creating time this week is focused on atcs so I'll have a bunch more to share.  I'm going to just hit the highlights of each card (what I can remember) and if you have any questions, just ask.

The background for this first one is the wax paper ironed onto glossy cardstock as a resist and then add ink technique.  The birds, leaves, and flourishes are rub ons.

I think the background on this next one is watercolor spray and a stencil.  The butterfly is stenciled on first with gesso, then I used a black pen and added color.  The speckles on the background are stamped with gesso.  Doodling with a white pen.  A scrap of colored muslin tied around and an Idea-ology piece.  

Pulled this background from my stash.  Stamped on the leaves and text.  Tissue tape on the bottom.  The bird on the branch is a rub on.  

The background is colored muslin (don't remember what I used for the color) painted with rock candy Distress crackle paint.  The flowers (Studio 490) are stamped with Archival Ink jet black.  White pen for the highlights, tiny holeless bead glued in the centers.  

This sweet girl rubber stamp image is from Lisa M. Pace's Antiquated Collection   Printed papers and stamping for the background.  Paper flowers behind the girls' heads.  Ribbon, bead ribbon, and buttons along the bottom. 

The steampunk wings are from Dezinaworld.  I don't remember where the girl is from.  I probably started with a scrap for the background and added stamping - the leaves are a Dylusions image, the flower is from Hero Arts.  More flowers stamped and cut out for the bottom.  Idea-ology mini gears in the centers. 

The last time my daughter was here for a visit she was working on a project and had stamped an "old world" world map a few times getting one the way she wanted for her project.  Afterwards I took one of the left overs and cut two atc-sized pieces from it and issued a challenge for her to use one in a project for me and vice-versa.  This is the atc I made her using the map in the background.  The quote was stamped onto white shrink plastic and shrunk so it would fit on the atc.  The car is a Tim die cut from shrink plastic and shrunk.  

And that takes care of catching up my atc projects!!  Thanks for looking!!!

Gift Tags and a Winner

All of these tags were made from one 8 1/2 x 11" piece of Ranger's Specialty Stamping Paper and I still have some left for a few more tags.  

I sprayed the paper with water and  Dylusion sprays - red, pink, and both greens, blotted and then sprayed again with the same colors (no water) and dried.  Then I flipped the paper over and sprayed with water and the sprays but using less of the sprays to keep things lighter. 

Next I chose some Spellbinder dies ( scalloped ovals lg, 2010 heirloom ornaments, nested poinsettias, labels twenty), picked some of the new Christmas stamps from Quietfire Design and started stamping (Archival ink jet black) and die cutting.  Then I chose to make a couple that were just rectangle in shape (no die used). 

The lines and dots were done with a black pen and a white pen.

The added color on the Christmas tree and the red dots around the edge were done with a water brush and Dylusion spray inks.  Gold was added to the star at the top using a Sharpie gold paint marker - waterbased.

The flowers along the bottom of the Noel tag are done using a Dylusion stencil and Distress ink barn door. 

When I stamped the peace on earth image, as I picking up the stamp block I slipped a bit and got a double image at the top of the tree.  It actually didn't look bad, seemed to just blend in with the scrollwork, except for the star at the top, so I left it and drew over the star with the white pen.

The ribbon on the tags is the 7mm white silk ribbon available from Quietfire Design colored with Distress stains.

You can add more variation to the background by flicking on a little water, blotting it and drying.  I did this on the Blessings tag.

I added highlights to the star below with a silver Sharpie paint marker and with the white pen.

On the backs of the tags I just wrote To: and From:.  You could even leave them blank and write a special note when you know which package you are going to put them on. 

The tags are quick to make!!!

And now onto the winner (on my blog) of the Quietfire Christmas Blog Hop - Kindling Your Creativity.  The random number generator chose..........................

Carolyn Adams said...

Gorgeous card, Wanda, and a great tutorial! Not too sure I'd have the patience for more than one of these!

Congratulations, Carolyn!!!! You need to email Suzanne with your complete  address.

To see all the winners from the hop and find Suzanne's email address visit the Quietfire Style Blog HERE.

Quietfire Christmas Blog Hop - Kindling Your Creativity

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Happy Monday!!!  Thank you for stopping by!!!  Scroll down to the bottom of this post for all the particulars about the swap and links to all the participants.... and don't forget to leave a comment on this post for your chance to win a grab bag of stamps from Quietfire Design.

I have chosen to make a card using the new "Christmas waves a magic wand" rubber stamp.  Now I realize that there is no way any of us could make a bunch of these cards to send out for Christmas; however, we usually have a person (or 2 or 3) that we like to make an extra special card for and this would be perfect...  OR how about framing it and giving it as a gift or using it in your own home while decorating for Christmas.  Just some ideas!!  

Supply List --

Quietfire Design Stamps - Christmas waves a magic wand, and a flourish
Watercolour Paper
Specialty Stamping Paper
Core'dinations - Distress & Adirondack
Grungepaper
Dreamweaver stencil - LG713 Amsterdam Flourish
Embossing Paste
Dies - Vintage Cabinet Card; Mini Repositionable Cabinet Card; Festive Greenery; Mini Reindeer
Dylusion Sprays - postbox red, lime green, cut grass
Distress Inks - barn door, vintage photo, mowed lawn, pine needles
Archival Ink - jet black, viridian
Lumiere Paint - bright gold
Tiny copper bells
4mm white satin ribbon 
Craft Sheet
Heat Tool
Ink Blending tool
Mister bottle with water in it
Palette Knife or Embossing Paste Spreader

** Note - It looks to me like the quote is blurry in the pictures and I've retaken twice and it still looks like that on my screen.  I want to let you know, if it's blurry on your screen, that it is not blurry in real life.

I began by creating the central frame piece.  I cut it from watercolor paper using the two cabinet card dies.  I love these dies from the movers and shapers line and how we can put them together and cut just once to make a frame.

Next I embossed onto the frame using a metal stencil and embossing paste.  Working on a craft sheet, I placed the stencil on the frame and pressed paste through the stencil using a palette knife.

Lift the stencil straight up leaving your design on the frame in paste.  The extra paste on the craft sheet can be scraped up and put back into your jar.  Scrape over the stencil to remove excess paste, move it to another area on your frame, and apply paste again. Continue until you have the design everywhere you want it.  If you find that you can't place the stencil without getting into wet paste already on the frame, do the areas you can, let it dry, and then go back and emboss the other areas.  If you are not going to immediately use the stencil again then wash it.  If you let the paste dry on the stencil it will be very hard to remove.

Let the paste dry completely.  (This is the end of any step-by-stap pics)

After the paste was completely dry I sprayed the frame with all 3 colors of Dylusion sprays and dried it with the heat tool.  I then used the gold paint on the flourishes.  I first tried to just lightly sponge over them or use my finger and I was getting more paint then I wanted on the areas around the flourishes and then (finally) remembered to place my stencil back over the paste and apply my paint that way thereby protecting the areas around the flourishes.  I also used a small paintbrush to add extra paint on some of the flourishes that just weren't gold enough.  Set the frame aside and let it dry.

The paper behind the frame is Specialty stamping paper.  I sprayed it lightly with water and then sprayed it well with lime green spray.  Then without blotting or pressing, just leaving it as is, I dried it with a heat tool.  I love how textured the color is on the Specialty stamping paper if you just dry it.  I layed the frame piece onto this piece to determind where I wanted to stamp the quote and then stamped the quote using jet black.  Stamp flourishes around the edge with viridian ink.  Adhere the frame.

Not knowing exactly how I wanted to do the pieces of greenery I cut a strip from both green and brown core'dinations paper.  I sanded both pieces before removing all the cut outs (a tip learned from Tim Holtz I think during last years 12 tags).  I used the pine cone from the brown piece sponging a little vintage photo around the edges.  I used green inks on the greenery pieces and also added details to the holly leaves by folding and sponging ink.  I took the flourishes from the green paper and inked them with red, then rubbed on some snow cap stain, then added more red and decided they just didn't quite look right so I painted them gold but because of the red ink it tinted the gold reddish which is why 2 of the flourish have a red tint.  The 2 flourishes from the brown paper were just painted, not ink, and so they are more gold.  Decided where I wanted the pieces to go and glued them on.  I punched different sizes of circles from red core'dinations and used them as berries tithe holly leaves.

The deer is cut from grungepaper and inked with brushed corduroy and vintage photo.

The ribbon is rubbed with barn door ink.  The bells are copper so I did sponge just a little gold paint on them so they matched better and it gave them a little shimmer.

The whole piece is edged with gold paint and then attached to a red core'dinations folded card.

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Now onto the details of the swap!!!  

The Quietfire Design 2012 Christmas Blog Hop!  

October 15th through 19th, 2012!


Quietfire Design would like to introduce you to their New Holiday Selection of rubber stamps!  Each day designers will be posting brand new artwork they have created using the new rubber stamps.  Visit their blogs on the day of their featured project, post a comment on their Blog Hop post and you will be eligible to win a grab bag of Quietfire Design rubber stamps!  Each Designer will randomly choose a winner from the comments on their own Blog Hop post, so make sure that you’ve commented by midnight Friday, October 19th.  Tell your friends!

All winners will be posted on the Quietfire Style blog on Sunday October 21st. If you are one of our lucky winners, please contact Suzanne privately with your snail mail address. 

Here is our schedule:

Monday, Oct 15th: Yogi ,Wanda

Tuesday,Oct 16th: Robyn, Holly

Wednesday, Oct 17th:  Sherry

Thursday, Oct 18th: Monica, Terre

Friday, Oct 19th: Suzanne

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Quick Reminder and Sneak Peek

A reminder that the Quietfire Christmas Blog Hop starts tomorrow.... and a little peek at my project.  I hope you can stop by!!!  

From Leaves to Christmas

First the Leaves!!!  The colors outside have been gorgeous lately but many of those leaves are falling with the strong winds we've had the last couple of days.  For this card I started with a piece of Ranger's Specialty Stamping Paper, stenciled the leaves with white stencil embossing paste and let it dry completely.  Next I sprayed the piece with Dylusion sprays bubblegum pink, postbox red, and melted chocolate and let those dry or use your heat tool.  I used Lumiere sunset gold paint over the stenciled leaves first just trying to carefully sponge over them and then got smart and placed the stencil back over them and sponged the paint. I also used a small paintbrush to get more paint on some areas.  Gold paint also sponged around the edges.  A black pen for all the doodles around the leaves and around the edges.  The quote is stamped with Archival Ink jet black.  I decided I wanted more "texture" in the background and so laid a Dylusion stencil over it, sprayed with water, removed the stencil, and blotted and dried the piece.  I layered this piece to black cardstock and then to a folded deep pinkish card.  

Now onto Christmas!!!!!!!!!  

Starting Monday, October 15th through Friday Oct. 19th Quietfire Design is having a Blog Hop to introduce everyone to their new Christmas stamps and I am taking part.  Here is all the important stuff!!!

The Quietfire Design 2012 Christmas Blog Hop!  

Quietfire Design would like to introduce you to their New Holiday Selection of rubber stamps!  Each day designers will be posting brand new artwork they have created using the new rubber stamps.  Visit their blogs on the day of their featured project, post a comment on their Blog Hop post and you will be eligible to win a grab bag of Quietfire Design rubber stamps!  Each Designer will randomly choose a winner from the comments on their own Blog Hop post, so make sure you’ve commented by midnight Friday, October 19th.  Tell your friends!

All winners will be posted on the Quietfire Style blog on Sunday October 21st. If you are one of our lucky winners, please contact Suzanne privately with your snail mail address. 

Here is our schedule:

Monday, Oct 15th: Yogi ,Wanda

Tuesday,Oct 16th: Robyn, Holly

Wednesday, Oct17th:  Sherry

Thursday, Oct 18th: Monica, Terre

Friday, Oct 19th: Suzanne

So, don't forget to come back on Monday to see my project and leave a comment for your chance to win fabulous QF rubbah!!!!!!  And you definitely don't want to miss everyone else's amazing projects throughout the week!!!