Rinea Foiled Paper Feathers & Aztec Card

Hello friends!

 I am over on the Rinea blog today sharing this fun technique 

used to create all sorts of nifty die-cuts made with beautiful foiled papers!

The background was created by stamping Joy Clair's Aztec Background stamps onto a piece of lavender cardstock using VersaMagic inks (chalk ink) and a sentiment from the Butterfly Kisses set.

Check out the following for complete instructions:

Princess Feathers Card

Supplies:

Rinea Foiled Paper - Princess Foiled Paper Variety Pack

Joy Clair - Aztec Background, Butterfly Kisses

Imagine - VersaMagic, VersaFine Clair

Spellbinders - Feather Dies

Cardstock

Xyron Adhesive

Lavender - Imagine's Color of the Month!

Have you heard that Lavender is the color of the month for Imagine?  It is and I created these fun and smelly sachets!  Smelly in a good way though - filled with lavender collected from my garden.

These little gems were made with the help of Fabrico Dual Tip Fabric Markers.
For complete details be sure to check out the Imagine blog - 

Quick & Easy Lavender Sachets

Have a lovely day friends!

More Gnome Fun!

Last week I shared one of my gnome cards using a new set of stamps from Rubber Stamp Tapestry called Fairy Garden.  Well today I have a couple more cards using this set...

This card was stamped on a bit of watercolor paper that I had taped off the edges.  After it was stamped n colored I removed the tape and splattered a bit more of the sky blue over the entire panel.

I had fun with color on this card. I stamped the circles all over the card using various colors of VersaMagic (chalk) ink.  After I had them all stamped I went back and stamped the images inside each circle with VersaFine Clair ink. Finally I stamped little sentiment and added the die-cut "hello".

Hope you all have a lovely week!

Steampunk Magic

Happy Day Friends!

Today I have a bit of Steampunk Magic for you...

the magic of flight!

I just love detailed schematics of various steampunk designs and this is one of my favorites. An airship in the shape of a bird.  If it flew I'm sure it truly was magical to watch. The background is made using Bronze Creative Medium which was applied to the cardstock using a faux wood grain tool. It's amazing how realistic it looks IRL.

Lost Coast Designs is sponsoring the current challenge at Allsorts of Challenges blog - Tags! where you will also find a nifty little coupon if you would like to order.

The current challenge at Lost Coast Stamps Creative Portal is Anything Goes!

Doesn't get much easier than that huh?  Just stamp any card and you're set to go!!

Be sure to enter both challenges for your chance to win :)

Good Luck Friends!

Supplies:

Lost Coast Designs - Steampunk Plane, Words

Imagine - Creative Medium, VersaFine Clair

Tag

Cardstock

Faux Wood Grain Tool

Raffia

Brads

A Little Gnome Told Me....

August 1st, 2018!!!

Can you believe it?

I don't know where the year has gone...

It sure doesn't feel like  it should be August already.

Well I thought I'd share the first of a little series of Gnome cards I've made for you all...

A little gnome told me that

Gnome is where the Heart is.

And here are 3 little guys to prove it! 

I had so much fun making this card using stamps from the Fairy Garden set. I started off by stamping the stump from the Budding Spring UM set, from there I stamped the 3 little Gnomes and went on from there. Everything was watercolored after I was satisfied with all of the little mushrooms, critters and such.  This is such a fun stamp set I don't know if I'll be able to wait to show you the other cards I made.

Supplies:

Rubber Stamp Tapestry - Fairy Garden, Whispers from the Garden, Budding Spring 
Imagine - VersaFine Clair

Kuretake Watercolors
Watercolor Paper

Cardstock

MFT - Stitched edge rectangle die

Steampunk Inspiration

Time is running short on the "No Body Here" challenge at Lost Coast Designs.  You have just today and tomorrow to enter your creation.

I made this card/tag with the challenge in mind. I love the steampunk stamps available at Lost Coast and this mechanical horse is one of my favorites. I smudged up the tag for a bit of a vintage feel.  The background was created by tearing bits of Rinea foiled paper and layering them onto a piece of cardstock. Once the cardstock was covered I ran it through in a gear embossing folder.

I love how it turned out and can't wait to send it on it's way!

Be sure to stop by and add your creation to the challenge -

No Body Here.

Supplies:

Lost Coast Designs - Steampunk Mechanical Horse; Words
Rinea Copper/Gold Glossy; Mocha/Gold Glossy; Silver/Gold Glossy; Ebony/Gold Glossy Foiled Papers
Imagine - VersaFine Clair; Sponge Daubers
Tag
Fibers
Sizzix - Embossing Folder

Ocean Babies

Playin' with some new peg stamps today...Ocean Babies!

These little devils are so cute, they make really fun cards...

Having fun mixing up colors with a blue octopus baby, a green lobster, pink whale and orange seahorses which isn't really a stretch since some of them are on the orange side.  I almost never use orange but I really wanted to do something a bit different.  I think it turned out pretty good.

A fun underwater scene.  All of the foliage & coral are different peg stamps just arranged unexpectedly. 

Pairs of babies...the background is a lovely 

Supplies:

Rubber Stamp Tapestry - Ocean Babies, Whispers from the Garden 

Imagine - VersaFine Clair, Memento Dye Inks, VersaMagic (chalk ink), Sheer Shimmer Spritz - Sparkle

Rinea - Turquoise/Turquoise Starstruck Foiled Paper

Sizzix - Sentiment Dies

Cardstock

Twine

Golden Seashell Necklaces....

Happy Day Everyone!

Today I wanted to share my latest creations....

Golden Shell Necklaces!

They were created with this month's color of choice over at Imagine...

Golden Glow.

The inside and out were colored using a mix of All Purpose Inks...gold for the inside of course and a variety of colors out.

They can be worn either with the color showing or the mermaid/octopus out.

For information on how these shells were made, please see ~

Seashell Golden Glow Necklaces

Faux Ormolu Glass Bottle

You all know how much I love vintage goodies well today I have a fun project I made using Rinea foiled paper paired with a vintage glass bottle and Imagine's StazOn Studio Glaze.  Check it out....

Ormolu is the term used to describe gilt brass on decorative art objects from the 18th and 19th centuries also known as fire gilding. I decided to create a bit of faux ormolu on this very cool vintage glass bottle I found recently at a flea market.

Wash the bottle to remove any foreign dirt, debris and oils from the surface.

Use an Ink Blusher to apply a coat of Blue Hawaii StazOn Studio Glaze to the surface of the bottle.

After the bottle has dried you will have a lovely cloudy semi translucent "glaze".

It brings to mind the look of sea glass.

Die-cut 3-4 sheets of Gold/Gold Glossy Foiled Paper using desired filigree dies.

(These dies are from the Spellbinders monthly die club.)

Remove the die-cut foiled papers from the machine and carefully peel each piece apart.

Depending on the die you may have more or less embossed areas than others.

Keep this in mind for placement. I used the highly embossed pieces (those closest to the front of the die) for prominent areas and the less embossed (3 & 4th die cut layers) in areas that the embossing wouldn't be as noticeable (sides & back).

Run all of the pieces through the Xyron Sticker Maker.

Carefully peel off the foiled filigree pieces and apply them to the bottle as desired.

The results are stunning!

It looks like the bottle is encased in a gilt filigree cage.

I finished off the jar with this very elaborate antique perfume bottle stopper.

Supplies:

Rinea Gold/Gold Glossy Foiled Paper

Imagine - StazOn Studio Glaze - Blue Hawaii; Ink Blusher

Xyron Sticker Maker

Antique Glass Jar, Bottle Stopper
Faux Gemstones

Wire

Scor-Pal Card - Lemon Friends

It's been a while since I pulled my Scor-Pal out so I decided to use it on a card I made yesterday...

I scored lines on a diagonal every 1/2" one way then flipped it over and scored them the other way. I then stamped images from Rubber Stamp Tapestry's Fresh Lemonade stamp set in the little cells. As I was stamping I kept turning the paper a 1/4 turn so that the images were stamped in various directions.  Helps make it a bit more random and not so static.

The sentiment is from the Whispers from the Garden set.

Supplies:

Rubber Stamp Tapestry - Fresh Lemonade, Whispers from the Garden

Imagine - VersaFine Clair 

Give Something Away Day

Did you know that tomorrow is Give Something Away Day?  It is so I made these fun friendship stones to give-away...  I was inspired by the Kindness Rock movement...artists decorate rocks and leave them places for others to find. I thought I'd place a few around our town square to see if anyone finds them.

You can check out the Imagine blog post - 

Make These "Give Something Away Day" Friendship Rocks - 

for a supply list and instructions.

Squeeze the Day!

Happy Day Friends!

It's time to squeeze the day ;)  LOL!!

This weeks challenge over at the Just Us Girls Challenge blog is Citrus.

It just so happens that I have a brand new set of stamps from Rubber Stamp Tapestry that fits the bill perfectly... Fresh Lemonade and a sentiment from the set - Whispers from the Garden.

To create the card I started by stamping the flower as a base for each cluster. I then stamped the lemons and limes, filled in with the large leaf bunch. I made a little lemon mask and then stamped the small leaf cluster here and there using the mask over the adjoining lemon/limes. 

Easy peasy, lemon squeezey!  (sorry, couldn't resist!)

Just Us Girls - #448 Citrus

What do you think?

Makes me thirsty for a Lemon Shake-Up!  I've been experimenting lately...I made a Strawberry Lemon Shake-Up the other day and it was exquisite!  I'm thinkin' it's time to try a Lemon-Blueberry Shake-Up?!?!

I was having so much citrus fun I decided to make another card....

I started off by tracing an oval onto the card.  I stamped along the left side then added a bit of watercolor along the right side.  After it had dried I stamped the sentiment, trimmed & mounted it toa green card base.

Have a sweet day!

Supplies:

Rubber Stamp Tapestry - Fresh Lemonade, Whispers from the Garden

Imagine - VersaFine Clair Inks

Cardstock

MFT - Banner Dies

B is for Butterfly!

Hello Friends - I have been playing with my Marabu Art Crayons again experimenting with backgrounds. Today I wanted to share the card I made using one of those experiments...  I also made this card for the current challenge over on the Lost Coast Designs/Carmen's Veranda which is... #56 I Spy...Things That Start With "B".

Stamps: Lost Coast Designs - Butterfly Set, Art Wings Sentiment

Since I knew I wanted to make a butterfly card I wanted a background that would mimic the light and shadows you see where butterflies play...in among the foliage in the garden. Here's what I did...

I started off with a piece of white cardstock that was a bit larger than the actual size of the card panel I wanted to use.  

I started off by scribbling Sunshine Yellow in scattered areas over the panel. 

Next I came in with Kiwi then Apple (both greens) and finally just a hint of Turquoise.  

As I mentioned I was experimenting so initially I tried to blend it all together with first a sponge dauber then a baby wipe but it just didn't give me the look I was going for - it ended up being just a big green blob.  Into the ??? pile.

So then I started over layering the colors in the same fashion but then I blended the colors gently with my finger tip and it looked pretty good.  

Next I took a crazy net looking stencil and placed it over one corner for a test to see if I could pick up some of the color to give lighter and darker areas.  It worked perfectly so I continued to pick up color in just small areas to create a random pattern rather than the exact stencil image. I was able to pull up some of the greens leaving the lighter green and yellows behind to give the exact look I wanted.

I am so happy with how it turned out...that's what I love about experimenting.  I also have several other "experiments" that I can use on other projects or maybe even a few Artist Trading Coins!

Hope this inspires you to pull out your watercolor crayon medium and give it a go.  And if you're so inclined it would be awesome if you would join in the fun over on the Creative Portal and share your "B" inspired card!

Challenge #56 - I Spy Things That Start with "B"

Supplies:

Lost Coast Designs - Butterfly Set, Art Wings to Fly

Imagine - VersaFine Clair Nocturne

Marabu - Art Crayons

Stencil
Double Stick Foam Adhesive
Green Card Blank

Watercolor Cotton Card

Hope all of my USA friends had a nice holiday yesterday.  It was a scorcher but we all made it through.

I have been wanting the cotton set of stamps from Altenew since they came out.  Well I finally got them and couldn't wait to play...

We were recently down in Alabama and got to see real cotton in the fields. I was able to purchase a couple stalks of cotton at a flea mall (that's what they call them down there...that's a whole nother story) and they are in a vase on my kitchen table.  I love it...it's so organic, just beautiful.

So I saw that this weeks challenge at  CAS on Friday/Sunday (it's called both for some reason) is #136 Watercolor so I thought I'd give it a go.

The "frame" around part of the cotton was just a swish of water then a bit of color added.  So easy yet very striking don't you think?

Supplies:

Altenew - Cotton Stamps

Watercolor Paper

Imagine - VersaFine Clair - Acorn & Nocturne
Prima - Watercolor Confections

Niji Waterbrush

Happy 4th of July!!!

Hope you all have a safe and enjoyable 4th of July!!!

Just a little something from me to you with the help of Joy Clair stamps and Imagine products.

It even has built in fireworks in the way of sparklie embossing powder!!

Ahhh the wonder of VersaFine Clair Inks - they make stampin' so much fun.

Take care friends!!

Things That Start with "B"

Happy July Y'all!!  

I hope you're all enjoying full blown Summer now!  

It's the first and you know what that means...a new challenge on the 

Lost Coast Designs/Carmen's Veranda Creative Portal!  

Today's challenge is ~ #56 "Things That Start with "B"".

Hmmmmm - get it ;)  If we're honest with each other, we all feel like this from time to time.  I figured this was the perfect sentiment for this image/challenge - LOL!!

The image was stamped on cardstock using Nocturne VersaFine Clair ink then colored using Prismacolor colored pencils. It is mounted on a bit of Turquoise/Turquoise Starstruck Foiled Paper which was mounted onto a yellow card base.  The card was then wrapped with ribbon, sentiment stamped, matted & mounted on the card using double stick foam tape and I finished it all off with some sparklie sequins.

Now...who to send this to?!?!?!  LOL!!

Wanna join in the fun?

Hop on over to the Lost Coast Design/Carmen's Veranda Creative Portal 

to find out how to play.

Supplies

Lost Coast Designs - Tea Party, Inner Bitch

Imagine - VersaFine Clair Nocturne

Prismacolor Colored Pencils

Rinea Turquoise/Turquoise Starstruck Foiled Paper

Fun with Flower Cards

Hey, long time huh?  

Did ya think I feel off the face of the Earth?  

Nope, just stampin' away.  Each year about this time Just For Fun Rubber Stamps puts out a new selection of stamps and I have the honor of creating samples for them.  They put on a big stamping show in FL ~ in a couple days as a matter of fact and they like to have their display boards all spiffed up with samples using their newly minted stamps.  I have create 92 cards in 2 weeks time (with a week of vacation in between those 2 weeks).  YES, Ninty-Two!!  I'm pretty impressed with myself and can't wait to start sharing those creations with you but you'll have to wait for just a little while longer.  I can't share until after they get the stamps up on their web-site which will be a couple weeks as they have another show in Raleigh, NC next weekend. 

So in the mean time I needed a few cards to send to some friends and I decided to play with some flower stamps since so many are now blooming. 

I love this card...it's very simple for me but the flowers turned out so cool.
Can you believe the grass is actually a pineapple top!

This was a personal challenge to use orange...it's not a color I use often.

Finally a "me" card...

lots of ink, stamping and some sponging with a bit of messy thrown in - LOL!!

My fingers were very inky after I was done with this one ;)

So what have you all been up to???

Supplies:

Imagine - VersaFine Clair; Memento, Sponge Daubers, On Point Glue

Rubber Stamp Tapestry - all image stamps

Just For Fun Stamps - sentiment stamps

Cardstock
Glitter

CSI Case File No. 256

Hello Friends! 

This month the Imagine Artist Team is joining up with CSI Challenge blog to share a bit of inspiration. I was assigned case file #256 to try to solve the case (shown below) and this is what I came up with...

I was so excited about this as I had the perfect stamps to go with "The Scene" and since we like to travel so I thought the inspiration was the perfect way to celebrate how we "camp" on road trips!  You see, our idea of camping is the Holiday Inn, Marriott, Hampton Inn and Suites, etc.  The photos are from a trip earlier this year when we had to stop in Harrisburg/Hershey area during a pop up snowstorm. We lucked out and got the last room available at Spring Hill Suites and it was beautiful to boot!   

My inspiration from Case File No. 256 was "The Scene", Colors, Banners and more.  

These stamps from Just For Fun Stamps went with the theme perfectly!!

And I had this Club Scrap "Road Trip" stamp that worked out so well...

I also used a map and travel sign stamps to create various background pieces as well...

Hope this inspires you to pull out your stamps, inks and photos to scrap your travels.

Supplies:
Imagine - VersaFine Clair - Nocturne, Cheerful, Tulip Red, Warm Breeze; Memento Dual Tip Markers
MFT - Banner Die
Just For Fun Rubber Stamps - Camper 1, Camper 2, Wash Tree, Campfire
Club Scrap - Vintage Travel Stamps, Washi Tape, Cardstock

Spread Your Wings...

Hello Friends!  I hope you're all having a lovely week so far.  Today I wanted to share a piece that I made just for the heck of it.  A bit of Art Therapy if you will.  It's been a stressful couple of weeks and I just wanted to stamp and ink and futz around so that's just what I did.  I had no real plan so this took a few days to come together but I am so happy with how it turned out.....

Stamps - Lost Coast Designs - Butterflies, Butterfly Lady, Circles Background
Rinea - Oma's Postcard (writing)
Viva Las Vegas - artys elements (can't find the names on their web-site...too many stamps to sort through)

So I am playing with my Marabu Art Crayons again...

they are just too much fun!

A bit of scribbling, blending

water spritz - but as you'll note in the photo below, this was covered.

And here's how it turned out.
I should note that this is a piece of foam core board.

Before I added color I used a piece of tape to tear away a couple of the top layers of paper just to give it some character.  You can sort of see it in this photo.

Used a pretty stencil from Club Scrap to pick up some of the color off of the board.

This is what it looked like...

Now, here is where I really started getting into it and forgot to take photos of the process.

I added several layers of stamping using VersaFine Clair Morning Mist, Golden Meadow, Summertime (orange) and Tulip Red.

I then spritzed the left 2/3rds with Frost Shimmer Spritz.  I adds the shimmer of glitter without having to explain why there is glitter everywhere ;)  LOL!!

Next I spread some Creative Medium through a stencil and let it partially dry. I then sprinkled on metal leafing flakes and used a paint brush to gently brush away the excess.  

I then applied VersaMark ink around the edges and embossed using Seth Apter's Rocky Road Baked Texture EP.  LOVE this stuff!

I stamped the butterfly fairy, water colored her plus a few extra tiny butterflies.
She and the sentiment were the affixed to the panel.

A few more looks

You can see the Shimmer Spritz near the tiny butterfly and "wings" area.

Amazing texture from the Rocky Road huh?

Hope you enjoyed the journey...

Supplies:

Imagine - Shimmer Spritz; VersaMark; VersaFine Clair - Nocturne, Morning Mist, Summertime, Tulip Red, Golden Meadow, Creative Medium
Lost Coast Designs - Butterflies, Butterfly Lady, Circles Background
Rinea - Oma's Postcard Stamp
VivaLasVegasStamps - Art circle, Dots, BubbleWrap
Marabu - Art Crayons
Seth Apter - Rocky Road Embossing Powder
Club Scrap - Flower Stencil
Kuretake Watercolors
Prima Watercolor Confections
Stencil
Double Stick Tape