Celebrate

Welcome back 
I thought I'd show a card I made using some Pan Pastels and Versamark. Don't have Pan Pastels well dust off those chalks and you will get the same effect.

Stamp the image with Versamark and then add the color - using chalks/Pan Pastels. What applicator did I use?? I just used my finger. I just gently tapped my finger onto the pigment color and then tapped my finger onto the stamped image. I also gently rubbed 

I stamped a wooded image and used greens and blues and some browns on the trees. Used grays and blues  on the stream and the bank (by the label)

Let me share my card with you. 

I love this look, to me it gives me a misty/foggy morning look, Hope you like this look as well. 

LET ME SHARE WITH YOU THE I SUPPLIES USED ON MY PROJECT

Stamps:  Stampscapes - Pines and Rocks Paper/Card Stock:White CS green CS Ink: Versamark Dies Used: Sizzix Tim Holtz - Handwritten Celebrate Accessories: Blackboard label, Pan Pastels

I am submitting my card in the following challenges:

• Cards und More - # 167 - No Designer Paper (week 2) (#74)
• Digi Choosday Challenge - #38 - Anything Goes (#6)
• Lemon Shortbread Always Anything Goes  (#80)
• Through The Craft Room Door - Always Anything Goes (#16)
• Artistic Inspirations - Anything Goes (#167)
• Colouring in Scrapland -  Clean & Clean or Fully Loaded (#11)
• Crafting from the Heart - Always Anything Goes (#64)
• Craft Your Passion - Always Anything Goes (#65)
• Lost Coast Designs - Anything Goes (#17)
• The Paper Girls -  (Week 1) Nature (#13)

Thanks for stopping in today and I will be back real soon.

Paris

Hi Everyone
I have been playing in my studio today and wound up working with a new 12X12 piece of embossed paper from Canvas Corp. This floral sheet was a creamy color and was just calling my name so I bought it and looked at it for a few days before I decided what to do with it.

Well I have been working on a project using Pan Pastels so since those were on my desk, I decided to color with those.

Then after the coloring was done, I wanted to use an image that did not compete with the paper, so I decided on a stamped Eiffel Tower image and a tag and a really fluffy bow, all from my stash.

SUPPLIES USED ON MY PROJECT

Stamps:  My Sentiments Exactly - Amour Sentiments Paper/Card Stock: Cream CS, White CS, Dk Green CS, Canvas Corp - Embossed  Paper  Ink: Memento - Gray Flannel Accessories: Ribbon, Craft-Dee BowZ  tool, dimensional foam, Pan Pastels

Well that is the card I came up with using that yummy embossed paper.Hope you like this one.

I am submitting this card to the following challenges:

Fab 'n' Funky - #258 May Flowers (#32)

Inspiration Destination - #32 Always Anything Goes(#52)

Penny's Paper-Crafty -  #226 Anything Goes (#55)

Ruby's Rainbow -  #103 Anything Goes (Week 2 of 2) (#96)

WordArt Wednesdays -  #182 - Anything Goes/ Family Friendly (#73)

Wonderful Wednesdays -  Always Anything Goes (#20)

Clear It Out  Challenge Theme: Anything Goes Stash: Anything Goes (#82)

Deep Ocean Challenge - #103 - Flowers -(#56)

Digi Choosday Challenge - #18 - Anything Goes (#48)

Fan-Tastic Tuesday -  #81 Anything Goes with a twist: Use Pastel Colors(#26)

Have a great weekend

A Turkey Revisited

Hi Everyone

I want to welcome to my newest follower, Pamellia. Glad to have you joining me.

I wanted to post this right after Thanksgiving but I got busy and I just forgot. So, let's regress to a few weeks ago, Thanksgiving. I hear some laughing. OK OK

I live in the greater Cincinnati area and ever year the Cincinnati Enquirer, our local newspaper, holds a contest, Dress the Turkey. They publish a large line art drawing of a turkey in the newspaper.. The contest says to dress it however we want and submit it. They give a deadline and the winners and others are published on Thanksgiving Day. I love Zentangle® and since there is so much open space on the turkey, I decided to tangle this cutie.

After I tangled this turkey I colored it with Pan Pastels to add to his personality. I loved how this turned out,  and wanted to share this before Thanksgiving was long gone.

Well it time for you (and me) to come back to the present, back to preparing for the upcoming Christmas holiday, you know, the shopping, the decorating, making cards and all the other things we do at this time of the year.

I am submitting this to the following challenges:

• A Little Bit Crafty - Anything goes.....but NOT Christmas!!! (#89)
• Altered Eclectics -  ANYTHING GOES (#22)
• The Sisters of Craft - Anything Goes (#72)

Have a great week.

Bliss

Hi Everyone,
I have just returned from a week in Florida, attending the Collins Show, taking classes, doing M&T's at the show for Craft-Dee BowZ and having a fun time at Disney. The show was wonderful and I met so many great store owners from all over the U.S.I even ran into a few owners that I knew. Took a class from Tim Holtz and it was really a great class. Show & Tell  with my class projects will be next week. This week I have a few posts already scheduled and Craft-Dee BowZ is having a fun Blog Hop coming up Thursday and Friday. I need to get my blog hop project finished. The theme will be Halloween, that's always a fun theme to work with.Please try to join us for a fun blog hop.

When I packed for my trip, I decided to work on a few Zentangle tiles since it's been so long since I have tangled anything.So I took along tiles and my micron pen to work on something on the trip down. On the flight down, I worked on a tile just to shake off the cob webs. I sat next to a lady from Lebanon, Laura, who asked about the project. As we chatted she mentioned that she and her husband were flying back on the same day as I was and we had all reserved the same seats for the return trip.

Waiting in the airport for the return trip, I made Laura a tile for a gift. (Sorry I didn't think to take a pic). Laura was so surprised and loved the tile. We chatted all the way back and she was going to pick up a Zentangle book and try her hand at it.

Since I was in the Zentangle mood I decided to do another tile and color it with the new Pan Pastels I received while I was away.

Here is my newest Zentangle tile:

I matted it with a few different colors of card stock added a simple sentiment and wella..........

The sentiment was stamped using VersaMark and I covered the ink with an orange pearlescent Pan Pastel color. Yummy. I also used other pearlescent colors on this tangled piece.

SUPPLIES USED ON MY PROJECT

Stamps:  My Sentiments Exactly -YT575 True Friends Paper/Card Stock: Pink, Yellow, Purple, White, DP Ink:VersaMark Dies Used: Heartfelt Creations Posy Patch HCD701 Accessories:Rhinestone, Pan Pastels, Corner Punch, Flower Punch

I am entering my project in the following challenges:

• Anything Goes with a Twist Challenge 01 -- Anything Goes (#91)
• Sister Act Card Challenge - No. 77 - Anything Goes (#90)
• Crafting By Designs - Anything goes (#157)
• Crafting with Dragonflies -  #36 Anything goes (#45)
• Inspiration Destination - #1 Anything goes (#69)
• Through The Craft Room Door - Always Anything Goes (#176)

Hope you have a great week and mark your calendar for the Craft-Dee BowZ blog hop It will start at 10:00 P.M. Wednwsday Oct. 8. Hope you will join us.

Amy's Layer Cake Collage Class

Hi Everyone
Just a quick post to show you a collage piece that I made in a class I attended yesterday. The class was called Amy's Layer Cake Collage and was held at Stamping Buddies.

This was a super class and I was so happy with the finished piece.

The instructor, Amy Flowers, is from the Columbus, Ohio area. I have taken quit a few of her classes over the years and I have learned so much from her.She is really great!! Thanks Amy for another fabulous class.

This piece consists of many layers of papers matte medium, acrylic paints and Pan Pastels. And we also used sticky backed canvas, painted it and then traced designs on to the canvas using stencils and I cut them out and stuck them onto the piece (the leafy designs).

The butterflies were from DP scrapbook paper while the music notes, keys and the words are from a pre-printed tissue weight paper.I added a few circles for more interest.I dipped a small bottle top into acrylic paint and used it as a stamp.

This piece is on a canvas stretched over a frame and ready to adorn a wall in my home.

Hope you had a good time checking out the end result of my class yesterday.

Have a great week.

I am submitting my art piece in the following challenges

Since this is not a card and contains no stamped images if it disqualifies me from a challenge, I totally understand. Hope you enjoy the artwork.

• Crafting At the Weekend  #2 Anything Goes (always) #48 (7-25)
• Paper Crafting Challenges -#13 (W1 of 2) Anything Goes #32  (7-10)
• Paper Creator's Crafts #26  Anything Goes  #28 (7-10)
• Suzy Bee's Bloomin' Challenge - #35 Anything Goes #43  (7-5)
• 4 Krafty Girlz -  # 21 Anything Goes #150  (7-10)
• My Heart Pieces -  Anything But a Card #22  (7-15)
• Crafting By Designs -  Anything Goes #54   (7-1)
• Crafty Creations - #266 Things with wings #75 (7-10)
• Rhedd & Rosie's Challenge Blog - #35 Anything Goes #135 (7-2)
• WordArt Wednesdays - Anything goes  #182   (7-2)