Just wanted to say you're amazing

Thursday April 19, 2018

 

I was just playing in my craft room and I stamped this Simon Says flower and I also found on a shelf some liquid inks.. Susan Pickering Rethamel Pinata. I don't think I have ever used them and not even sure where I got them. I decided to give it a try. So I dropped a few drops in my little tray and just painted. I didn't care where color went or what I was just experimenting at this point. Since I didn't have any green in this set I took Lumiere green and used it for the leaves. I left the room and just let it be. Well couple days later I went back in and thought wow this kinda looks good. So I took a My favorite things die and cut it out. I then took some black cardstock and cut another. I then cut a section off as I didn't like it all one piece and across the card. I then thought the shimmer paper I was going to mount it to looked so plain so I watered down some black acrylic paint and splattered it all over. Once it was dry I added the flower part to the card. I thought hum I need a sentiment so I took the other piece and embossed the sentiment. I went over the flower with Spectrum Noir shimmer pen. I had fun just playing and seeing what could be done.

 

Challenges:
Everybody art #423 - die
Paper craft #009 - BINGO (embossing/text/no designer paper
Word art Wednesday wk. 330-331 - anything goes
Color crazy wk. 15 - anything goes
Dragonfly journeys #116 - April showers bring May flowers
Artistic inspirations #198 - anything goes
Make my Monday #69 - in the garden
Creatalicious #137 - anything goes/opt. dies/punches
Creative moments #141 - anything goes/opt. 2 or more flowers

Live Laugh Love - Catch the bug ABC

Monday August 28, 2017

 

Well today being Monday and at Catch the bug that means Anything But a Card.. ABC

 

So few months back I made a plaque which I have on  the coffee table ... It was time to make another plaque

 

 

So I cut a piece of watercolor paper 5X7 and spritzed with Dylusion sprays and water then dried it. I then I took some texture paste and added some stencil paste areas.. I can see I need to figure out better placement but I am learning.. I know next time... I then used some Art Anthology sand black paste and another stencil. I used a couple different stamps and stamped in different areas around the plaque. I used some Distressed crayon in black and went around the edges but it was too dark so I then went over the area with Lumiere paint.  I die cut the Live Laugh Love butterfly trio with Simon Says stitched circle die. I also cut a chip board circle for each image. I colored the images with copics and used Ranger inks to fill in around the image. I took Lumiere paint and dabbed it on the circle. I adhered the images to the chip board and added to the plaque. I then adhered the plaque to a piece of chipboard to give it strength. Right now I have it on my bakers rack so we can see it during meal time.  

Challenges:
Deep ocean #162 - fave color combo (green/purple/yellow/orange)
Word art Wednesday wk. 296-297 - anything goes
The house that stamps built - anything goes
Jo's scrap shack #203 - anything goes
QKR stampede #258 - eye on ball or anything goes
Glitter 'n' sparkle #254 - anything goes

Believe - I can do all things through Christ

Monday July 1, 2017

 

Well I have so many supplies and I have been wanting to do a mixed media type art piece and I love those kind of pieces.. So I said screw it.... I'm heading in. I can either love it or round file it... WELL I LOVE IT...

I started with a piece of 4.5 X 6 water color paper.. I sprayed three Dylusions sprays on it and spritzed with water and dried the piece.  I took a stamp that had writing on it and stamped it a couple places with out re-inking. I had a dandelion stamp I did the same. I then took Texture paste and a square stencil and added the paste in a few places.(I kind a like the bleed through vs. the white)  I then took a round stencil and some Art Anthology black texture paste that has grit in it, like a sand and did the circles in a few places.  I went through my chip board and found the piece with an arrow on it and a couple flowers. I colored them with Lumiere paint then went around the edges with some distressed crayons. I found this "I can do all things through Christ" from Paper Trey Ink stamped it on some cream card stock and cut out with a oval die cut. I took some gold Lumiere paint and added it over the sentiment. I die cut Simon Says Believe three times and layered them. Before I added anything I went around the edge of the piece with Distressed crayon in black and smeared it around.  I then added all of the pieces to the background base. I like that the arrow chipboard piece and Believe points down to the scripture.. I added a nice piece of white card stock behind the piece (since the backside was messy looking) it's on my coffee table so I can look at it daily. I hope it inspires me to create more.. I'd love to do a canvas piece. Plus I love the Believe - I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

 

Challenges:
Crafting from the heart #166 - anything goes
Artistic inspirations #182 - anything goes
Love to scrap #99 - anything goes
A bit more time to craft #47 - anything goes
Creatalicious #118 - anything goes/ opt. red, white, blue

Big Hugs

Wednesday June 28, 2017

 

 

I have another card for the Coffee Lovers Blog-hop

 

This is my next card for the challenge.  This is the background stamp that I used to stamp on the coffee cup for Mondays card.

I stamped the allover stamp by Hampton Arts on my paper. I then took Zig markers in various browns and wanted it to look like sand but also like coffee.  I stamped the coffee cups by Simon Says and colored with copics. I fussy cut them out. (I made the blue one my hubby and the green one is me) I then wanted to have a cute sentiment so die cut a My Favorite Things heart and used MFT big hugs stamp. I went around the edge with some Ranger inks. I added it between us.. Awh... I then added some twin below and wanted to add a sun but dies I had were too big so found 2 chip board pieces and painted Lumiere over them then layered them and then added a yellow sequin to the center for some more yellow. I went over the blue / green and heart with Spectrum Noir glitter pen. 

 

 

 

Challenges:
Coffee Lovers summer challenge
Crafty catz #376 - anything goes/opt. baby
A gem of a challenge #197 - summer colors
My time to craft #348 - summer time
Creative craft cottage #90 - no pattern papers
Artistic inspirations #182 - anything goes/opt. funny
Ooh la la #231 - summer time
City crafters wk. 368 - outside
Crafty sentiments - anything goes
Shopping our stash #309 - lazy summer days
Simon Wednesday - anything goes
The house that stamps built #J2817 - anything goes