Cheers, Chick!

 Hello crafty friends and welcome!

I made a card that combines a few challenges

and I'd like to share it:

It looks rather CAS for me, but there's actually 5 layers on this, not

including the card base. I've used DP from a collection that

looks like alcohol ink blends. I cut a strip for the diagonal element,

as well as using more to fussy cut the wine in the glass. I used

a red marker to darken the 'surface' of the wine. The

tiny bunch of grapes came with the same stamp set as the 

wine glass, and I colored it with Prismacolor pencils.

I didn't want to hide that gorgeous strip of paper, so I cut

the circle element from vellum.

A couple stamped sentiments and a bit more of 

the same DP on the inside finishes my card.

That's it for now. We've had a nice run of beautiful days, and

so I'm going out to enjoy the day.

Thanks for visiting!

I'd like to enter this at:

Seize the Birthday #259 - Alcohol

AAA Birthday #48 - Layer it Up

Sketch Saturday #723

Supplies:

Stamps: Dare2BArtzy/Totally Tracy - Always Wine Time; MFT - More Essential Sentiments, Girls Night Out

Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black

DP: Craft Consortium - Ink Drops Vivid; Bazzill - Vellum

CS: Thunderbolt; Spectrum Noir; Bazzill

Accessories: MISIT; Spectrum Noir markers; Prismacolor pencils; GC; Sunny Studio - Stitched Circle die

Adhesives: SA by 3L - tape runner, thin 3D foam squares; Ranger multi medium matte

Another fast watercolor card

Hi there and happy Sunday to you!

Just popping in with a another card I

made using the fast watercolor technique. 

I am really loving how this technique looks, and will

probably be making more cards. Be warned. LOL!

Anyway, here's my card:

couldn't resist a bit of snark on the inside:

just about dry:

 

The sentiment was stamped, then I doodled around the edge. Once I fussy

cut everything, the sunflowers were adhered with foam squares, and the leaves

directly to the card base.

Such an easy method, the only thing hard about it is waiting for

the ink to dry! LOL!

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

I'd like to enter this at:

CAS Watercolour challenge - sunflower

HLS Watercolour challenge - flowers

Seize the Birthday - ATG

Supplies:

Stamps: Dare2BArtzy/Totally Tracy - find your purpose; Spellbinders/Richard Garay - just because; Inkadinkado - humorous birthday

Ink: Versamark; Memento - rich cocoa; Ranger DI - mustard seed, wild honey, gathered twigs, evergreen bough, twisted citron, vintage photo

CS: Strathmore watercolor paper; Thunderbolt

Accessories: Inkadinkado - black EP; heat gun; water mister; MISTI; Faber Castell - medium black Artist PITT pen

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

Fast watercolor flowers

Good morning all!

I want to share a card I made for the current

Just Us Girls challenge: fast watercolors. 

 There's a link on the challenge site to this technique by Jennifer McGuire.

It was a lot of fun, but waiting for the images to dry, ugh! LOL!

Here's what I created:

and the finished inside:

I remembered to snap a pic while the images were still wet:

 

Again, it was torture to put this aside to let air dry, but I did it. ☺

Once dry, I fussy cut the images.* I die cut my main panel using

a pierced rectangle die, and for more interest also die cut 

the ring collage die. (which of course is mostly covered from

the flowers. LOL!)

I stamped the sentiment, then arranged the flowers and adhered

with foam squares. Another sentiment finishes the inside.

I love how this turned out, so I'm going to be making more cards

using this technique! It was so much fun!

That's it for this post. I've got more card pictures to edit now. LOL!

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

*I started to fussy cut these Monday, but then the mother of all storms let

loose over us, and I had to put down the scissors to combat the water

flowing into our basement. NOT a fun time, that. Luckily, we didn't get too much.

Finally finished my card yesterday.

Supplies:

Stamps: Dare2BArtzy/Totally Tracy - power of words; Simon Says Stamp - messages for everyday;

Hero Arts - good things

Ink: Versamark; Ranger DI - mermaid lagoon, wilted violet, spiced marmalade, picked raspberry, lucky clover, twisted citron; Memento - bahama blue

CS: Strathmore watercolor paper; Neenah

Accessories: water mister; Inkadinkadoo - black EP; heat gun; MISTI; GC; Avery Elle - pierced rectangle die; Poppystamps - ring collage die

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

SHOPPING OUR STASH # 357 - My Favorite Things

 Hiya and welcome!

This week at SHOPPING OUR STASH,

is all about a few of your favorite things. Could be a favorite stamp,

technique, embellishment, papers, holiday, etc.

Show us a few of your favorite things on your projects!

 Here's my card:

and the inside:

My favorite things on this card: 

Halloween - my favorite holiday!

Grumplings stamps by Taylored Expressions

Coloring, this with Prismacolor pencils

And of course, a bit of snark! LOL!

But wait, I have a two-fer:

and the inside:

My favorite things on this card:

Wine!

Coloring, this time with Spectrum Noir markers

CAS cards - I know, they are growing on me

Did I mention wine?

So what are a few of your favorite things to add to your projects? We'd love

to see them. Just link up at Shopping Our Stash so that we can

admire your work! For more great ideas, do check out what my teammies

 have deemed their favorites, and leave some bloggy lovin while there!

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

Supplies:

Halloween card:

Stamps: Taylored Expressions - Grumplings in Costume; Hero Arts - Celebrate Everyday

Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black

DP: G45 - An Eerie Tale

CS: Thunderbolt; Bazzill; scraps

Accessories: Prismacolor pencils; Faber Castell - black artist Pitt pen; GC: SB - sm and lg standard circle nesties, Oval Bliss nesties; TE - Grumplings in costumes dies; EK Success - Deco Scallop Edger; MISTI

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

Wine card:

Stamps: Dare2BArtzy/Tracey Weinzapfel - Always Wine Time; Avery Elle - Cheers

Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black

CS: Crafter's Companion; Neenah

Accessories: Spectrum Noir markers; MISTI; Recollections - washi tape; Sakura - white Gelly Roll pen; Fiskars - corner rounder

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

SISTERHOOD OF SNARKY STAMPERS #92 J is for Jumble

Greetings Snarky peeps!

Edna and the Sisters welcome you to our new challenge at the

SISTERHOOD OF SNARKY STAMPERS:

J is for Jumble!

What's that mean? We want you to try your hand at a collage! 

Whether it be on a card, layout, canvas, whatever, we want to see it!

I created a mixed media canvas board:

As usual, I stalked Pinterest for inspiration, and came across this lovely collage by Pamela Towns.

(Thank you Pamela for being my muse!) Of course, I took the bones of her

gorgeous creation and went off on a mixed media tangent. 

I really intended to take pictures along the way, but I only got so far, and then 

I got so in the creative zone, I forgot to take more pictures. 

watered down acrylic paint - still wet.

I let this dry overnight.

Once the paint dried, I attached the long strip of ephemera with matte medium.

After that dried, I used a stencil and embossing paste in a couple corners.

I left this to air dry overnight.

At this point, I totally forgot to take pictures.

The hemp cord I braided myself. Except for the flower, sentiment and cord, all

the bits and pieces came from one ephemera pack. The flower was stamped

and fussy cut, and the swirl stamp is from the same stamp set.

 I thought it needed some bling, so I found some

ancient pearls to stick to the center of the flowers.

I'm actually quite pleased by how well this turned out. Collage is

not my strength, so I really fussed about placement of items forever on this.

I hope you find some time to play along in our Jumble challenge at the 

Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers! I can't wait to see what you create!

Need more ideas? Then do check out what my Sisters and our newest

Guest Designer - Ike have made to inspire you!

Thanks for visiting!

Supplies:

US Art Supply - 5" x 7" canvas panel

DecoArt Americana Acrylic paint - Ultra Blue Deep, Berry Red, Purple Pizzazz

DecoArt Media Fluid Acrylic paint - Carbon Black

water mister; various paint brushes

K & Co. - ephemera pack; Words & Phrases stickers

Dreamweaver - embossing paste; pallet knife

TCW - stencil

Golden - Matte Medium

Herschberg Schultz - hemp cord

Dare 2B Artzy/Totally Tracey stamps - Power of Flowers

Recollections - card stock

Staz-On - black ink

Ranger - Multi Medium Matte

SA by 3L - 3D & Thin  3D foam squares

Studio 112 - pearls

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