You!!

Happy Thanksgiving!!!!  

There is soooooooooo much to be thankful for but the short list is -- God's love, salvation through Jesus Christ, family, and friends including 

YOU!!!!!!!  My blog friends!!  

I appreciation each of you very much!!

This is a very quick journal page I threw together while the turkey was in the over and I had a break from cooking other things.  I decided to use mostly acrylic paints for this.  The background is a few blobs spread around with a junk credit card.  Stenciling on top of that.  The leaves at the bottom are a stamp.  Details added with either black or white pen.  The scripture (computer generated) was part of the sermon last Sunday at church and I just knew I had to use it on a page.  To finish off the page, I die cut a leaf from grungepaper and used Distress Ink, pen, and bit of metallic paint on it. 

You are....

Lots of good stuff here!!!  I made this for my daughter and she loves it!  I've used Wendy Vecchi, Dylusions, Ranger, Sizzix, and Tim Hotlz products to create this wall hanging.  The base is an Art Parts large creative cover.  The center panel is sticky back canvas stamped first with paint using the Studio 490 text background image.  Then comes Dylusions sprays (the greens, yellow, and oranges) and water, dried, and then more stamping.  The base, flowers, flourish, and ribbon are all colored with Dylusions Sprays.  Stamping on everything with either Archival ink or Adirondack pigment inks using either backgrounds images from Studio 490 or Dylusions. The flourish and flowers are sticky back canvas attached to Wendy's Clearly For Art sprayed, dried, and stamped.  The large flower is also embossed with an embossing folder.  A couple scrap pieces of burlap.  Both white and black pen work.  The saying is a Dylusions stamp.  The center of the flower is a Wendy Blossom Bucket piece with an Idea-ology chit-chat sticker in it. The base is edged with tarnished brass Distress Stain.

I'm also sharing this on Artists in Blogland. 

A Perfect Day Journal Page

The beginning of this journal page is a paper towel that I used to blot ink off of a plastic fern leaf I was using as a mask while making a whole bunch of scripture note cards a while back.  The paper towel was so cool that I pulled the two layers apart and glued one to a blank page in my journal and there it sat for the last several weeks until yesterday when I decided to do something with it (and finished it tonight).

The current challenge (#54) on the Everything Wendy Vecchi Yahoo group is to use gesso plus you always need to use at least one of Wendy's stamps.  I started by using a Crafter's Workshop stencil of a fern leaf, applying gesso through it with a pallet knife and let it dry.  I first added some ink over the stencil with a blending tool and wasn't very happy so laid the stencil back on and sprayed it with Dylusions bubblegum pink and dried it... and then to define it more, especially since the gesso bled under the stencil some, I used a black pen.  Next I got out Wendy's heart stencil/mask and using the actual cut out heart, layed it so it overlapped the leaf  and sponged gesson around the outside pulling the sponge away from the heart so the gesso faded out and dried it.  Again used a black pen for more definition.  Stamped the saying (Studio 490) on a scrap of white cardstock, cut it out, glued it on, and went around each piece with the black pen.  I lightly brushed some gesso along the top and down the left side of the page, dried it, and using Wendy's line stencil added Archival Ink magenta hue.  At the time I used pink on the leaf and then for the lines I thought the pink was looking ok but now I'm not so sure especially after uploading the picture... if it bugs me too much I might go back over the leaf and the lines with a little bit of orange/red shading to help it match the page better.  The words are also from Wendy stencils and I just used a black pen in the stencil and then after removing the stencil added some white highlights.  Some dots in the lines and in the heart finish things up. 

time!

Again I started this atc with a scrap used to pick up excess color.  The clock background is stamped and embossed with sticky powder and then I used green foil on it.  The foil didn't stick everywhere... I think because of the fine lines some of the sticky powder was heated too much and wasn't sticky enough to hold the foil but it actually worked really well giving it a more distressed look.  The men (Tim Holtz image) are stamped on a scrap of white cardstock with Archival jet black and cut out.  The clock is a salvage sticker and Ideology spinners and alpha parts finish it off.

Good-Bye to Summer

As with the last several atcs I've shared, I started with a piece of "scrap" card that had picked up excess color from another project.  I stamped the swirls and embossed them with sticky powder and then added leafing onto the sticky brushing the extra back into my container and burnishing the card well with an old sock.  The girl is an image from Dezinaworld and I colored her shirt with a waterbrush and Dylusions yellow spray ink.  The leaves are die cut, colored and stamped.  The words are hand written, cut out and edged with ink.

Distress Stains on a Tag

Over on the Ranger blog they've announced that the seasonal Distress colors will now be available as stains... yay!!!!  This is great!!!  I love those bright colors!!!  And if you've been to my blog lately you've probably noticed all the bright projects and I love them, but working on this tag reminded me of how much I love the not-so-bright colors too!!  I'm glad we can go with whatever we feel like that day.  

Ranger is giving away some of the new stains and to have a chance to win you can share any project using stains.  Instead of hunting through my blog to find one already posted, I decided to whip up a tag.  I started with Distress Stains on a craft sheet (dusty concord, old paper, and tarnished brass) along with a little water and smoosh, dry, dip, dry, dip dry... that looks good.  What to do next?  I had been looking for a certain embossing folder earlier that I was thinking about using for something else so with folders fresh on my mind I decided to use one.  I chose one of the book covers, embossed the tag, and then rubbed Distress stain brushed corduroy lightly over the embossing.  Stamped the quote and numbers (Tim Holtz) along the bottom with Archival Ink and added white pen around 'fears' and 'dreams'.  I had some Sticky Back Canvas already stuck to some Clearly For Art (left over from another project I'll be sharing soon) with enough space left to die cut the movers & shapers butterflies so did that; added stains to the canvas (dusty concord and old paper) spraying with water to help them blend a bit, added brushed corduroy stain around the edges, and stamped the script (Studio 490) over them with Archival jet black.  I first inked the edges with black then decided to distress them, rubbed brushed corduroy stain over the distressing and sprayed just the edges with water for a little bleeding.  Attached the butterflies with glossy accent.  Dyed the ribbon with the same colors of stain and finished.  

A couple of close-ups. 

Flowers, Flowers, Everywhere

Winter's too close for flowers to be everywhere outside but they can be in our art. Although it doesn't seem like November when it is suppose to be 70 degrees here on Saturday, but then the high on Monday is only suppose to be 34 - crazy, crazy weather.  

Here are 3 more atcs I made for the last swap.  I loved how they turned out!!!  All three backgrounds were cut from one oversized green tag that was printed using a gelli plate.  Back in September I believe, a friend came over and we played a bit with the gelli plates I had recently bought.  At that time I hadn't watched any videos and we just did whatever.  It was a lot of fun and I'm really ready to have another play time with them.  

After cutting the atc pieces from the tag I stenciled a different Wendy Vecchi flower onto each piece with modeling paste.  I love doing these flowers with the paste!!!!  After the paste was dry I added coloring with Dylusions spray ink or with markers.  I attached an Idea-ology piece to each atc after adding paint to the letters.  All the atcs were edged with the tarnished brass Distress stain.

On this first atc, the white dots on the flower are done with a white marker.  I just touched the marker and the spot bled a little which was very cool.  A threaded button for the center.

After coloring this flower I stamped it with Wendy's Studio 490 dot background and added more color with a Sharpie glitter paint marker - very cool!!  I used a white pen around the petals.  The center paper flower was on my work area.

For this 3rd atc I again stamped with Wendy's dot background and added extra details to the leaf.  The center piece on the flower is a Wendy Vecchi Blossom Bucket piece and I colored the flower with a yellow glitter Sharpie paint marker.  

Unique

ATCs are a great way to use up left over pieces of inked, sprayed, dipped, whatever pieces of paper which is exactly what I used here.  I used the Dylusions leaves stencil with ink along the top.  The girl is a Paper Whimsy image found here. Added the German scrap around the edges - got mine from Collage Stuff. "unique" is stenciled on (Wendy Vecchi Studio 490 stencil) with modeling paste, colored on top and shadowed with a black pen.  

Take a risk

A fun and bright atc.  I started with a piece of left-over pick-up-extra-color cardstock, layed on a mask and sprayed it with dylusion pink.  Added stenciling and stamping with ink and stamping bubble wrap with paint. The flowers (Hero Arts) are stamped with black, outlined with a white pen, and darkened the dots and added lines inside the flowers with a black Glaze pen (can't really see that in the picture).  The words are a Dylusions stamp.

A Journal Page and A Card

This post catches up all the older projects... yay!!!  But I have several atcs I made this past week for the in-person atc swap I attended Saturday to share so I intend to keep the blog posts coming.  

I made this journal page last month.  I was cleaning up my desk and had a piece of paper with this quote on it.  Instead of sticking it away somewhere I decided right then and there to put it on a journal page.  I picked a page from the journal I started in the class I attended at Stampaway that had some ink smeared on it.  I stamped the lines (a Dylusions stamp), messing up my idea for having them line up just so... but just went with it.  Wrote in the quote.  Stamped the leaves along the tome and the flowers (both Dylusion stamps) in the background.   Colored in the leaves and some of the flowers using Dylusions spray ink.  Decided in did too much coloring on the flowers and now my quote didn't stand out enough so made the beginning letters more bold and added some white highlights to the word 'yourself' and also to the leaves.  Added gold dots to the center of some flowers.  The large leaf vine and flower at the bottom are die cut from grungepaper and sprayed with Dylusions spray.  The leaves are stamped with the Studio 490 speckled background image.  "unique" is a Wendy Vecchi stencil.  I used a white pen to draw in the stencil and to add the other lines on the flower.  

The car and tread along the bottom of this card are Tim Holtz stamps.  The sentiment is Hero Arts.  I stamped the card on a piece of scrap from picking up extra spray while working on a different project.  I didn't think to take a picture of the piece I actually used but I had other similar pieces so took a picture of them.  There was a perfect area on the piece I used that gave a shadow look under the car.  Created the bottom background with sprays and a stencil so it would match.  Layering with black cardstock and black pen dots.  

1 verse - 3 cards

Time to Catch Up - Day 5

These cards were actually made just last Saturday but that was a week ago so I'm including them in my catch up time.  October is Pastor Appreciation month and last Sunday was the day our church chose to honor our Pastors.  These are the cards I made for them.  

The center piece of each card are backgrounds I had in my "extra backgrounds file".  That was very helpful to getting started and in getting them all done (I am a slow stamper).  The scripture is from Our Daily Bread Designs and is stamped with Archival Ink jet black on 2 cards and embossed with white on the other card.

The center on this first card is left over paint from a project brushed onto cardstock.  The bottom background layer is red cardstock stamped with a leaf image, a text image, and sponged around the edges with ink.  The leaf is die cut (Tim Holtz Sizzix die) from white cardstock, sprayed, inked, stenciled, and for the 'veining' I folded the leaf, rubbed ink on the fold, unfolded it and repeated until I had all the lines I wanted.

The center piece on this second card I think was pigment inks on colored cardstock.  The bottom background piece is blue cardstock, stenciled (Crafters Workshop) with Dylusion spray, embossed with an embossing folder, sponged with ink and splattered with pewter Distress Stain.

The center piece is alcohol inks.  The bottom background piece is Dylusion sprays, Distress Inks, stenciling, splattering and doodling.  I like all of the cards but after they were all done, this was my favorite. 

Thanks for visiting!!!!!!!!!!!!  I appreciate you!!!!!!!!!!!

VerDay on a Pop Up

Time to Catch Up - Day 4

I decided I wanted a different title on the post, the others were getting boring, lol.  

Today I'm sharing one card.  When I got together with friends in Ohio over Stampaway weekend - See THIS post - most of us bought the Sizzix pop up card base die and one (or more) inserts and we thought it'd be fun to have a swap between up.  This is the card I made.  Since most of us had also bought Ten Second Studios VerDay set and it was a new item for me, I wanted to use it too.  I cut watercolor paper with the base (no insert) and then cut them in half to have the pieces to VerDay - so that is my background.  I had also ordered all of Wendy Vecchi's new stencils when I was at Stampaway so after they came in the mail I wanted to use them too.  I used the heart first, drew around the shape with a charcoal pencil and then smudged it with my finger.  Next I stenciled the flower using modeling paste and after it was dry colored it with Tombow markers and used a water brush to blend the colors more.  I stenciled the lines along the bottom with paint. I used green and white but didn't mix them totally so I had variations in color.  This was the first one I did and after this I stenciled the lines before the flower making it much easier since the flower is dimensional.  "Embrace.The.Adventure." is a Studio 490 stamp, stamped on white cardstock with jet black Archival, cut with deckle scissors and inked along the edges with milled lavender Distress ink.  

For the inside I also cut watercolor paper and used Dylusion sprays, Wendy Vecchi stencils, Crafter's Workshop stencils, the hearts are an unidentified stencil I have, and inks.  I used the flowers insert when I cut this and then also cut the extra flowers to layer up.  They are sprayed, stamped with dots using snow cap pigment ink and then the centers have Pearl pen on them.  The word stamp is also a Wendy Vecchi Studio 490.  

Thanks so much for looking.  

I truly appreciate all of you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Time to Catch Up - Day 3

Day 3 and my "my documents" folder is looking so much nicer.  I also cleaned out a lot of old "junk", deleting what I didn't need and filing the stuff I wanted to keep.  

Today I'm sharing some tags.  All of these started with Ranger's #8 manilla tags.  

The background is color along with a metallic on a craft sheet and lots of dipping and drying.  The flower and leaves are a stencil.  The sentiment is an old Hero Arts stamp.  The white in the stenciling and around the letters of the sentiment is done with a white pen.  The sentiment didn't stand out enough after I stamped it and the white helped.  The flower is made with phone book pages.

The door image and scripture on this tag are from Our Daily Bread Designs.  I made the tag to fold up and hold a gift card but still be a complete tag if you unfolded it.  The leafy image around the edges is an old stamp from Posh Impressions.  I can't remember for sure what I used to color in the image, it could be distress inks and either a paint brush w/ water or a Dove blending pen.  It could also be chalks with a Dove blending pen.  The color around the image is distress ink applied with the blending foam.

I think the backgroudn on this tag is color on the craft sheet and dipping and drying.  The text stamping in the background is a Studio 490 stamp and snow cap pigment ink.  The border image stamped in black is a Dylusions stamp.  White highlights with a pen.  I painted ont he stems for the flowers and added white pen highlights.  Flower buttons tied with thread.  Butterflies punched from book page and sprayed.  Sticky back gems for the centers.  The sentiment is from Our Daily Bread Designs. 

The background is sprays, inks, and stencils.  More stenciling for the flowers around the edge.  The calligraphy is a Quietfire Design stamp.  Cut from grunge leaves and flourish.  Flourish is painted with Distress Crackle paint.  The flowers are die cut from kraft glassine, color added and then dried with a heat tool (no blotting to keep lots of color).  There is also a piece of colored book page and a piece of sprayed burlap in the mix at the bottom.  Colored seam binding at the top. The center of the flower I've glued more brass shavings (on THIS post I shared by brass shavings story).  Before adding the shavings and to hold the flowers together I would have used Tim's little stapler.  

I hope your enjoying all this eye candy!!!  Let me know!!