JUST US GIRLS #384 - Trend Week

Good morning friends and welcome! At JUST US GIRLS, Maria is your hostess for

Trend Week, and she's picked a most excellent trend - STENCILS!

I went and made a few tags using a couple of them:

I started out with a 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" piece of white cardstock, and spritzed it using a few

colors of Dylusions spray inks. I then sponges black soot DI over it using a couple stencils. I was able to cut out three tags from it. I stamped some fun snarky sentiment and a couple retro gals to add, and finished with some ribbon. 

Yep, So fun!

Now it's your turn. Break out those stencils and make something fun! Be sure to

link up at Just Us Girls so that we can admire it. Need more ideas? Well then, just 

visit the blogs of my teammies, and our Guest Designer, Nancy and leave them 

some bloggy love! 

Thanks for visiting. Have a wonderful day!

I'd like to enter this at:

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Make your own background

613 Avenue Create - ATG with twist (no digis)

Supplies:

Stamps: Dylusions - Quote Bubble; Riley & Co. - Ethel , Midge Winking

Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black; Ranger DI - Black Soot

CS: Taylored Expressions

Accessories: Dylusions ink spray - Fresh Lime, Vibrant Turquoise, Crushed Grape; Dylusions stencils - quote bubble & triangles; GC; STAMPlorations - ATC & Tag Builder dies; Ranger - sponge tool; May Arts - ribbon; MISTI; Fray Check

Adhesives: SA by 3L - Thin 3D foam squares

SHOPPING OUR STASH #293 - All That It's Cracked Up To Be

Good morning friends and welcome. 

This week at SHOPPING OUR STASH, we are challenging you to

use crackle paste or a crackle technique on your card or project!

For my project, I created an art journal page.

(You might want to get your favorite beverage, because this is a

photo heavy post!)

I based my page on this art journal page by Tracy Weinzapfel. Thanks Tracy! I recently

won some of Tracy's stamps and so (instead of hoarding them, like I usually do), 

I used one of the sets, called Heart Swirls & Doodles. Now, if you watch her video, you'll 

notice that she has pretty much every color of paint bottles on her back wall. (so jealous!),

Me? Not so much. In fact, most of the colors I used on this page, I mixed, because I only have 

about 15 colors of paint. LOL!

Here are the colors I used:

(a complete supplies list is at the bottom of my post)

I started off by first going over the page with Gesso and dried it with my heat gun. Then I mixed black and white paint to get a dark grey and added that. Again, heat gun to dry.

Next I took a little bit of Blue Harbor and a couple drips of Kelly Green and mixed that with

my crackle paste, and painted that on. I left that to dry naturally overnight. 

(Of course, I forgot to take pictures of those two steps.)

Ok, so instead of boring you any more with my blabbering,

I'm just gonna bombard you with a bunch of process photos,

(that I did take pictures of):

I stamped the hearts, then painted them. Once the paint dried (by heat gun), I re-stamped

the images, not caring if I didn't line them up exactly again, because,

this is ART people! LOL! I went over the lines with F-C black Artist Pitt pen to 

darken them. I used a black Prismacolor pencil and Fantastix to

blend the shadow around the hearts. Added shading and highlights.

I stamped the sentiment onto some scrap paper, painted over it with some watered down

rust and turquoise paints, hit it with the heat gun, edged it with brown ink,

and adhered with Multi Medium. Hit it with the heat gun again, and went around it

with the Fantastix for some shading.

I cleaned up a bit before taking these shots, but yeah,

this is my happy place!

One last shot:

I hope that you step outside your comfort zone and try using crackle paste, or 

a crackle technique, and link up your project at Shopping Our Stash! We'd love to see it.

Looking for more ideas? Then check out what the SOS Crew, and our new Guest Designer,

Wendy Townsend, have created to inspire you. 

You made it to the end! Thanks for visiting. Have a great day!

I'd like to enter this at:

Mixed Media World #22 - ATG

613 Avenue Create #195 - ATG w/OT

 

Supplies:

Stamps: Dare 2B Artzy/Totally Tracy stamps - Heart Swirls & Doodles

Ink: Staz On - Jet Black; Memento - Rich Cocoa

Accessories: Strathmore art journal; Golden - Gesso; Deco Art - Media Crackle paste & Multi Medium; Deco Art Media Acrylic paints - carbon black, titanium white, cadmium red hue, primary yellow; Deco Art Americana acrylic paints - blue harbor, kelly green, irish moss, dark chocolate; Ranger Adirondack acrylic paint daubers - stream, terra cotta; various paint brushes & sponge brush; water mister; Faber Castell - black fine Artist PITT pen; Prismacolor pencil - black; Fantastix; baby wipes; paper towels; heat gun

SHOPPING OUR STASH #285 - Stickle Me Elmo

Hello friends and happy Tuesday! We have a new challenge starting today at SHOPPING OUR STASH! As our prompt suggests, we want to see Stickles, or a similar product, on your cards or projects. Here's my card:

 ...and the inside:

This card turned out totally different than how I first imagined it. I wanted to put a sentiment banner between the two groups of flowers, but I realized I left too much white space at the top of the panel. This also wasn't supposed to have bees on it. The bee under the word wishes is hiding an ink smudge. I couldn't have just one bee, so I stuck two more on it. Happy accidents, because I really like how it turned out. I used Star Dust Stickles and traced around the roses. the leaf veins, and the largest dot on the dot trio stamp. Even the bees came with glittery bodies! Bonus!

Now it's your turn to break out those neglected bottles of Stickles, Wink of Stella pens, SN Sparkle pens, or any kind of glitter glue, and create something with them! Don't forget to link up at Shopping Our Stash so we can admire it. For even more inspiration, check out what my teammies came up with and leave some love on their blogs. I'd also like to welcome our Guest Designer, Marina! I'm looking forward to crafting with you this month! 

Thanks for visiting. Now go forth and create something fun and sparkly!

Just a reminder: We are looking for Guest Designers! If you'd like to be considered for February GD, simply leave a 'DT' after your name when you link up! Easy peasy lemon squeezy!

I'd like to enter this at:

Seize the Birthday - ATG

613 Avenue Create - ATG with favorite technique twist - mine is masking

Supplies:

Stamps: Winnie & Walter - The big the bold & Extras, The big the bold & Party

Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black, Lady Bug, Angel Pink, Bamboo Leaves, New Sprout, Gray Flannel

CS: TE, Darice

Accessories: MISTI; GC; Avery Elle - Pierced Rect dies; MFT - Stitched Rect Frames; Ranger - Star Dust Stickles; Inkadinkado - masking paper; Jolee's Boutique - bee stickers

Adhesives: SA by 3L - tape runner