STAMPlorations Stencil Sunday (Part 2)

Hello crafty peeps!

I'm back with my second installment of

STAMPlorations Stencil Sunday!

I'm still having so much fun crafting with the new

Faces stencils, so this time around I've created another

card and a mixed media panel using the same three stencils:

Faces - Gorgeous,  Dots and Dashes, and Swirly Blooms! 

First is the card I made:

 After sponging black ink through the 

Faces-Gorgeous stencil, I covered the panel with the Swirly Blooms

stencil, and sponged three colors of ink around one side of the panel.

I repeated the same for the other half of the panel with the 

Dots and Dashes stencil. I die cut from black card stock and gold glitter paper

the Fearless word die, stacked and glued offset, and adhered to the card.

She really IS gorgeous!

For my other project, I made a mixed media canvas panel:

I. Had. So. Much. Fun. Making. This!!
Here's a photo process. Hope you have your favorite
beverage at hand. LOL!

I started with 5" x 7" canvas panel, and after the coat of Gesso dried,
I added a few different green paint colors with a brayer.

Next I sponged a light blue paint through the

Dots and Dashes stencil:

Over that I sponged yellow, orange and fuchsia paints through

the Swirly Blooms stencil:

While that was drying, I heat embossed the three flower images in black EP

from the Just Because stamp set multiple times. I realized that I needed  A LOT 

more flowers than what I originally started with (in the next pics). I 

wound up heat embossing each flower about 9 or 10 times.

I did a quick and easy water color technique where you swipe Distress Inks 

directly to the paper, spritz with water, and leave it alone to do it's thing

while it dries. Then I fussy cut all. of. those. flowers!

I die cut an oval in some scrap paper and used the negative as a 

mask to add beige paint in the cut out. I wasn't heavy handed as I

still wanted the pattern underneath to show through.

When that dried, I added black Gesso through the

Faces - Gorgeous stencil. This was an experiment, and I found out

that you have to go light handed with Gesso as it's not as thick

as embossing paste, and will run a bit (see lips). Luckily, what I 

planned for the hair would cover most of my boo boo. LOL!

I stamped the sentiment from the Bold Sentiments-Hashtag Authentic

stamp set in black Staz On ink. Because of the texture of the canvas,

you won't get good coverage, but I fixed that by going over

it with a black Artist PITT pen.

The last thing was gluing all those flowers around her head to

become her hair. I just love how this came out!!

It looks adorable on a tiny easel!

You made it to the end! Thanks for sticking it out until the end!
For a chance to win a $15 gift code to the STAMPlorations store
simply leave a comment here and on the main blog.

If your in the mood to shop, you can use my
personal discount code,

STAMPGIRLCHRIS

for an extra 20% off your order!
Thanks for visiting. Have a wonderful day!

Supplies on both projects: 

Stencils: Faces-Gorgeous, Swirly Blooms, Dots and Dashes

Supplies for card:

Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black; Ranger DI - Fossilized Amber, Ripe Persimmon, Abandoned Coral, Hickory Smoke

CS: Neenah; TE

DP: DCWV - gold glitter

Accessories: GC; CUTplorations - Fearless word die; sponge daubers; scrap paper; post it tape

Adhesives: SA by 3L - tape runner; Ranger - multi medium matte

Supplies for canvas panel:

Substrate: US Supply 5" x 7" canvas panel

Golden Gesso

Plaid paint brush

brayer

DecoArt Americana Acrylic paints - Sour Apple, Citron Green, Festive Green, Blue Haven, Banana Cream, Coral, Dragon Fruit, Warm Beige

GC & SB - Std. Lg Oval Nestie, scrap paper

Imagine - sponges

Dina Wakley - Media Black Gesso & pallet knife

STAMPlorations - Bold Sentiments-Hashtag Authentic, Just Because stamp sets

Faber Castell - black Artist PITT pen

Strathmore water color paper

Versamark ink, Inkadinkado black EP, heat gun

Ranger DI - Shaded Lilac, Dusty Concord

water mister

DecoArt Americana - Satin Varnish & sponge brush

Ranger- multi medium matte

SHOPPING OUR STASH #394 - Hello Cupcake

Hello and welcome back crafty friends!

I'm hosting this fortnight at

SHOPPING OUR STASH, and picked cupcakes as the theme.

Here's my card:

and the inside:

Who wouldn't love a cupcake to celebrate their birthday? 

(add a glass of wine to wash it down with and that's what I call a balanced meal) LOL!

Now it's your turn to break out those cupcake stamps, papers, and embellishments

and create a fun project with them! We'd love to see what you made in 

the gallery at Shopping Our Stash! For more ideas, do check out

what my talented teammies created, and leave some bloggy love.

Thanks for visiting. Have a great day!

Supplies:

Stamps: STAMPlorations - A Snarky Birthday to You, Sentiment Builders:Celebrate

Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black

DP: MME - The Sweetest Thing

CS: Crafter's Companion; Thunderbolt; scrap

Accessories: Spectrum Noir markers; GC; SB - Std. Circles Lg & Teardrop Circle Nesties; Crate Paper - border sticker; WOS pen; MISTI

Adhesives: SA by 3L - tape runner, 3D & Thin 3D foam squares

SISTERHOOD OF SNARKY STAMPERS #133 - N is for Nerd

Hello and welcome snarky peeps!
It's time for the next challenge at the
SISTERHOOD OF SNARKY STAMPERS!
This fortnight we want to see your nerdy creations.
Here's what I came up with:

and the inside:

This not-so-careful mad scientist has a sweet birthday wish on the

inside of the card. LOL! He's colored with Spectrum Noir markers, and

I've Winked the test tube and smoke poof for some shimmer. His glasses

also received a coating of Glossy Accents. To get his hand to look like he's

holding the test tube, I also stamped just his hand and fussy cut the three fingers to 

glue over it.

Now it's your turn to get nerdy at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers! Need
more inspiration? Simply visit the blogs of my Sisters and our newest
Queen and Guest Designer, Samantha, to see all the fabulous nerdy goodness
they created for your viewing pleasure!

Thanks for visiting, and I hope you have a great day!

I'd like to enter this at:

Paper Smooches April Sketch Challenge

Seize the Birthday #163 - ATG 

Addicted to Stamps and More #337 - Make Your Mark 

Supplies:

Stamps: Paper Smooches - Great Chemistry, Digits; Unity - February 2012 KOM

Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black; Versamark; Ranger DI - Black Soot; Hero Arts - Neon Orange

CS: Crafter's Companion; Neenah; TE; scraps

Accessories: Spectrum Noir markers; GC: Paper Smooches - Bam Bubbles dies; MISTI; WOS pen; Ranger - Glossy Accents; Stampendous - white EP; heat gun; Sakura - white Gelly Roll pen

Adhesives: SA by 3L - tape runner, Thin 3D foam squares

Kitty in a teacup

Hello friends and welcome.

I have a card to share, that I made for one of my neighbors.

She has two cats and loves drinking tea so this came about:

and the inside:

I've colored the image with my Spectrum Noir markers, then used a couple

Prismacolor pencils to 'flick' fur onto the kitty. 

Here's a close-up:

The 'gold' rim on the teacup and saucer, along with the flowers

 were winked by Stella for a bit of shimmer.

That's it for now. Guess I'll go and do some housework.

LOL! Just kidding. I'll be in my craft room!

Take care, and thanks for visiting.

I'd like to enter this at:

Addicted to Stamps and More #337 - Make Your Mark

Seize the Birthday #163 - ATG

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge - Spring Mood Board (I may not have any of the

three cute baby critters shown, but I hope this cute kitty will suffice, plus all. those. flowers!)

Supplies:

Stamps: Aurora Wings - Kitty in teacup digi; Taylored Expressions - In & Out Birthday

Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black

CS: Crafter's Companion; Neenah; TE

Accessories: Spectrum Noir markers; Prismacolor pencils; Wink of Stella pen; MISTI; computer and printer

Adhesives: SA by 3L - tape runner, 3D foam squares

Playing with embossing powders

Hello and happy Tuesday to you!

I had a little play time in the ol' craft cave yesterday, and

wanted to share what I made. I tried a new to me technique

called layered heat embossing. This technique works great with

any of those layering stamps, of which I have maybe two: a peacock 

and a Christmas tree. I used the peacock for my experiment:

here's the finished inside:

I don't think I've used my anti-static bag so much on one project ever! LOL!

And miracle of miracles, it worked for me!

Just look at all those layers of embossing powder:

I was happy to find that I had a couple of blue embossing powders to use.

The one I used for the solid body had glitter in it, as did the gold I used on

the tail feathers, so there's a bit of sparkle all over this bird!

This was a fun technique, and I hope to experiment with it again soon.

That's it for now. I'm going to go play in the dirt and plant the

flowers I bought on Sunday. Had to wait for decent weather first.

Thanks for visiting. Have a great day!

I'd like to enter this at:

CAS Mix Up Challenge - Layered Stamping + Heat embossing + fussy cutting (the banner)

Seize the Birthday #163 - ATG

Craft Stamper - April Take It Make It challenge

Supplies:

Stamps: Hero Arts - Color Layering Peacock; MFT - Birdie Brown Greetings Galore

Ink: VersaMark; Memento - Nautical Blue

CS: Neenah; Bazzill

DP: scrap (I think it's HOTP)

Accessories: MISTI; Stampendous EP - Blue Tinsel, Alexandrite, Jade Pearl, Jeweled Gold, Detail White; Inkadinkado - black EP; heat gun; static bag

Adhesives: SA by 3L - tape runner, Thin 3D foam squares

Stencil Sunday at STAMPlorations (Part 1)

Hello crafty peeps and welcome. I'm excited to be joining in

the reboot of the STAMPlorations Stencil Sunday feature! Shery has

restarted this post to showcase all the fun ways you can

create with the ARTplorations stencils and masks! You'll be seeing

this feature every 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Sunday each month.

Today is my turn up at bat, and I have a card and an art journal page to share.

Grab your favorite beverage, this is a photo heavy post. LOL!

First is my card. I started by sponging various inks using the

Faces: Grace stencil:

(Late in the day isn't a good time to take photos. LOL!)

Using some scrap paper I created some masks of the hat and shoulders

and sponged a light blue ink through them.

I put the Clustered Hearts stencil under the masks and sponged a

darker blue ink through them.

After coloring in the background with a yellow marker, I sponged a

darker yellow ink around the image using the Dream Flower stencil. I

stamped the sentiment from the Just Because stamp set. I glued a gold

sequin as her earring because a lady needs a bit of bling, doesn't she?!!

Here's my finished card:

For my second project, I created an art journal page. I prepped the page

with a coat of Gesso and once dry I applied embossing paste through the

Faces: Grace stencil. Remember, you can flip the stencil over for a 

mirrored look, which means yet another way to use the stencil!

I randomly added some paints to the page:

Once dry, I stamped a few images from both the

Mixed Media Grunge and Mixed Media Elements stamp sets.

Finger painted a light coating of Gesso randomly.

I decided that I wanted the colors to show on her face so I painted

another light layer of the colors randomly over the page.

Using both the Clustered Hearts and Dream Flower stencils, I sponged

the same paints around the page.

I put the Faces: Grace stencil back over the embossed image, and

with my finger applied some Gold Rush Metallic Lustre over it.

Once it dried and I buffed it to show the shine, I cut a scrap of paper

to cover it and splattered watered down paint over my page.

I used sentiments from the Bold Sentiments: Hashtag Authentic stamp set

and stamped, incorporating second and third generation stamping around

the initial stamped sentiment. Here's what my

finished page looks like:

Congratulations for making it to the end of this photo heavy post! LOL!

For a chance to win a $15 gift code to the STAMPlorations store leave

a comment here and on the main blog. 

Also, in case you feel the uncontrollable desire to shop there, feel free to

use my personal discount code,

STAMPGIRLCHRIS

for an extra 20% off your order!

Thanks for visiting. I hope that you have a fabulous day!

Supplies for card and art journal:
Stencils: Faces-Grace, Dream Flower, Clustered Hearts

Supplies for card:
Stamps: Just Because
Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black, Nautical Blue, Summer Sky, Toffee Crunch, Rich Cocoa, Cantaloupe, Angel Pink; Ranger DI - Worn Lipstick
CS: Strathmore Mixed Media paper; TE; Darice
Accessories: sponge daubers; MISTI; scrap paper; X-Acto knife; post it tape; Spectrum Noir - CT1 marker; Darice - sequin; Q-tip
Adhesives: SA by 3L - tape runner; Ranger - multi medium matte

Supplies for art journal:
Strathmore art journal
Golden Gesso
Plaid paint brush
Stamps: Bold Sentiments Hashtag Authentic, Mixed Media Grunge, Mixed Media Elements
Ink: Staz On - Jet Black, Blue Hawaii, Orange Zest
DecoArt Americana acrylic paints: Bleached Sand, Indian Turquoise, Coral, Desert Turquoise, Black
Dreamweaver embossing paste
pallet knife
DecoArt Metallic Lustre - Gold Rush
foam sponges
toothbrush
water mister