Going Coastal

Hi there.  I'm so glad you stopped by!

I thought I'd try something a little different.

I had a used canvas that I wanted to re-use so I'd covered it with gesso.

I used watercolors to paint a coastal scene then it sat on the table for a few days.

I wanted some texture so I used texture paste for the foam on the waves.  That pointed

palette knife worked great for spreading the paste.

I had in mind to do some cabanas and tried to paint the area over with white acrylic paint.

It became very apparent that I would NOT be able to paint stripes on these cabanas in an

attractive way.  So it sat for a few more days.

It dawned on my that I had some wide striped ribbon that could work for the cabanas.

It worked much better than what I could paint.

I wasn't sure how to do the roofs but Trina had a fantastic idea of using star dies.

She used them for faces on her Jack-o-lanterns, but they worked great for the peak on

the roofs.

I'd picked up the chunky fragments from a clearance table years ago and thought they 

would work great for sand or broken shells.

The gulls are die cut and colored with watercolor pencils.

Finally I die cut some "sea oats" from specialty paper that has lovely specks in it.  I sponged a bit 

of Brushed Corduroy DOX ink on the edged.  Just the stems are glued at the bottom 

so they can wave in the breeze.

I don't think mixed media canvases will lure me away from cardmaking, but it was a 

fun summer project,

Recipe

Stamps:  

Ink:   

Paper:   Woodgrain (TH), Collage Pad, Neenah Solar White

Other:  6" x 6" Canvas covered with gesso, Watercolors (Gansai Tambi), Grasses Dies (AR), Star Dies (ret SU), Flying Gulls Die (MB), Caran d'ache Supracolor Pencils (Grayish Black, Beige), Taupe Color Fragments (Stampendous), Ribbon (ret SU), Embossing Paste (Wendy Vecchi, Tacky Glue

Enjoy!

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Perfect Pearls with Friends

Hi there.  I'm glad you stopped by!

I've had Perfect Pearls for years and hadn't used them in years.

So when my sweet, organized and talented friend Loll suggested a Zoom get together

using Perfect Pearls, I was all in!

I die cut the butterfly from Mixed Media paper so it was all ready to add color. 

Then I smooshed  Distress ink on my palette, tapped a bit of Pearl Perfect Pearls on the ink,

spritzed with a bit of water and mixing it to use as watercolor.

I laid the die cut on another piece of  mixed media paper so my messiness

would run off on it for a background.  While the butterfly was very inky, I turned

it over and pressed it down for Print Making.  Then I covered the print butterfly when

I made the card.  Oh well, it made an interesting background.

I also added a snowflake that was laying on my table. I just liked the look of it

under the butterfly.

You can see the pearly shine better here.

Of course I didn't stop at one!

Stamped, heat embossed, watercolored with Distress ink mixed with Perfect Pearls

and water.  Maybe you can see that pearly glow better here.

Check out what my Zoom friends did with their pearls.

Brenda

Christine

Darnell

Loll

Susan

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe (card 1)

Stamps:  Out on a Limb Sentiments (PTI)

Ink:   Peacock Feathers (DI), VersaMark

Paper:   Mixed Media (Strathmore), Tempting Turquoise (SU), Neenah Solar White

Other:  Stitched Butterfly Trio Die (PS), Pearl Perfect Pearls, RyLynn Snowflake Die (SSS)

Card Recipe (card 2)

Stamps:  Winter Flowers (SSS), Merry Christmas Messages (HA)

Ink:  VersaMark, Worn Lipstick, Peeled Paint (DI)

Paper:  Neenah, Mixed Media (Strathmore), Gold Foil (SU)

Other:  White & Gold EP, Stitched Rectangle Die (SSS), Gold Dazzling Details

Layered Stencils

Hi there.  I'm so glad you stopped in.

How are things in your neck of the woods?
I hope all is well with you and yours.

Hilary is hosting CAS Stencil this month...

I've sponged some Peacock Feathers and Mowed Lawn Distress ink on a piece
of Neena cardstock.  Using a mesh stencil, I added some Pine Needles ink, removed
the stencil and sprtized water on it, flipped it over and pressed it on the inked piece.
After blotting with a paper towel, I had some stencil monoprint.

When everything was good and dry, I placed this Bamboo stencil over top
and inked some Distress Black Soot ink through it.

I was able to cut the piece in half and get a second card from it.

Challenges:

CAS Stencil - Layered Stenciling

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Fun Birthday Sentiments (HLS), Thinking of You (ALT)

Ink:   Peacock Feathers, Mowed Lawn, Pine Needles, Black Soot (DI), Versafine Onyx Black

Paper:   Neenah, Basic Black

Other:  Texture Mesh Stencil (MB), Bamboo Stencil (Magenta)

Framed

Hello crafty friends.  I hope you are doing well and finding lots of crafty time!

Today I have some framed art.

While at the ESCR Retreat, Christine gave us some cardstock
with wide Washi tape on it.  Dolly had brought the Washi tape and we had
painstakingly smoothed it on that cardstock.

This wasn't the prettiest Washi tape but after this technique, I really loved it and
thought it made an awesome background.

First we covered the piece with gesso.  The piece above was covered in clear gesso.

The piece below covered in white gesso.

We cleaned our brushes and let the pieces dry.

Once the gesso was dry, we stamped on the pieces with Archival ink.

When that was dry, I colored the inside of the flowers with DOX inks that

I smooshed on my craft mat and spritzed with water, using a damp waterbrush.

I added some subtle stamping around the main design.

I loved these pieces so much that I asked Dolly for some more Washi 

covered cardstock so I could make some more.

She contacted Christine who had some pieces and she graciously sent me

another piece.

I cut it in half and did this one.

Then I did this one.

And I was lucky enough to find the frames at the thrift store.

The mats cost more than the frames!

Now to get them on the wall.

I'll enjoy seeing them and remembering the awesome time I had

with these wonderful, talented ladies.

You can see pictures from the retreat by clicking on the 2019 Retreat
button on the top bar.

Now all I have to do is get the grouping on the wall.

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe (1)

Stamps:  Scented Messages (PB), Timeless Textures, French Foliage (SU)

Ink:   Archival Jet Black, Broken China, Peeled Paint, Antique Linen (DOX)

Paper:   Neenah

Other:  Clear Gesso, Wide Washi Tape (Alt.)

Card Recipe (2)

Stamps:  Elegant Weeds (ret. HA), Texture (Drkrm Dr), Script Background (PB), French Foliage (SU)

Ink:   Archival Shadow Grey, Versafine Onyx Black, Wilted Violet, Peeled Paint, Antique Linen (DOX)

Paper:   Neenah

Other:  White Gesso, Wide Washi Tape (Alt)

Card Recipe (3)

Stamps:  Botanical Asperula (Stmpnds), Timeless Texture, French Foliage (SU)

Ink:   Archival Jet Black, Archival Shadow Grey, Broken China, Peeled Paint, Antique Linen (DOX)

Paper:   Neenah

Other:  White Gesso, Wide Washi Tape (Alt)

Card Recipe (4)

Stamps:  Enamor (PB), Timeless Texture, French Foliage (SU)

Ink:   Archival Jet Black, Archival Shadow Grey, Versafine Smokey Gray, Broken China, Wilted Violet, Faded Jeans, Peeled Paint (DOX)

Paper:   Neenah

Other:  White Gesso, Wide Washi Tape (Alt.)

Alcohol Ink and Dragonfly Corner For CAS Mix Up

Hi Ya'll.

There's a new challenge at CAS Mix Up

I used alcohol ink, stamping, heat embossing and die cuts.

The alcohol ink background was made by smooshing some paper on the
ceramic tile we were using as a palette.


Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Thinking of You (Alt.)

Ink:   Whisper White (SU)

Paper:   Basic Black, Whisper White (SU), Glossy

Other:  Alcohol Ink, Dragonfly Stems Left Corner Die (MB), White EP

Penny Black Watercolor Butterfly

Hi Ya'll.

It's reminder time for CAS Watercolour

To make this butterfly, I smooshed some tissue in ink that had been

laid down with distress inks and smooshed.

I really liked how it looked after it dried so I glued it to a piece of cardstock.

This Penny Black die was perfect to cut it out.

I wanted a little glitz so I die cut the body from a snippet of gold foil

and the sentiment from another.

The background was made by masking the card front and

stamping the music score.

There's still time to join in at CAS Watercolour

with your watercolor butterflies

and there's still time to join in at

CAS Mix Up

with your tissue paper creations.

My mixed media are tissue paper, stamping, watercoloring, masking and die cuts

Both Challenges are open until the 24th.

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Cling Music Score (Stampendous)

Ink:   Sahara Sand (SU), Wilted Violet, Faded Jeans (Distress)

Paper:   Neena 110 lb., Tissue paper ($ store), Gold Foil (SU)

Other:  Flights of Fancy Die, Heartfelt Die (PB)

Memory Box Dragonfly Corner

Hello, my friends.

I'm trying to use some of my NBUS dies and had some fun with this one.

I die cut the Dragonfly Corner from an Alcohol Inked piece, die cut a frame to fit it into

and backed it with a piece of tissue paper scrunched and glued to cardstock.

The whole design piece is backed with foam to add dimension.

There's so many wonderful tissue paper cards in the

CAS Mix Up gallery.

Using tissue paper, stamping, alcohol ink, and die cuts

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Fun Birthday Sentiments (HLS)

Ink:   Bermuda Bay (SU), Alcohol Inks (R)

Paper:   Neena Solar White, Tissue, Yupo

Other:  Dragonfly Stems Left Corner (MB), Stitched Rectangles (SSS), Foam

Celebrating Independence Day

Hello.

Happy Independence Day
if you live in the USA.

And I hope my Canadian friends had a wonderful Canada Day!

This is a CASE of a card by my good friend LeAnne.

Thanks for the inspiration, my friend!

The main image was an ATC card done for the June swap

for my crafty ladies group.

I've stamped on Naturals White and Cherry Cobbler snippets

with my Woodgrain background stamp, then cut both into strips.

I used a new embossing folder, Pinewood Planks for the background

and added even more texture with corrugated cardboard and burlap ribbon.

I also want to share the bounty my friend Candee (Card Corner by Candee) brought me.

Everything was full of candy.  Appropriate don't you think?

She also knows my favorite treat and spoils me.

You can see how she made these goodies here. 

While you're there check out her other posts.

Candee has some awesome organizational hints and lots of creative cards and projects!

Challenges:

Just Us Girls Challenge: Congrats on 400 challenges! That's something to celebrate!

Less is More: Colors of your country's flag.

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: Red, White and/or Blue.

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Anything Goes

Time Out Challenges: Celebrations with the optional twist of one layer cards. No option here.

 

 

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamps: Woodgrain Background (retired SU) 

Ink:   Midnight Muse (retired SU)

Paper:   Naturals White Midnight Muse (retired SU), Cherry Cobbler

Other:  Pinewood Planks Dynamic EF (SU), Corrugated Cardboard (box), Star Punches, Burlap Ribbon (retired)

Embossing Gel Try

Hi, y'all.

Today's card isn't what I had in mind when I started.

I had a NBUS  stencil from Penny Black and thought embossing paste would work well with it.

When I pulled out my box with the embossing pastes, gels, etc.,

I saw the NBUS translucent embossing gel and thought of all 

those backgrounds needing to be used.

So I picked the one I thought would be best for these flowers

and almost chickened out.

It was such a pretty background that I hated to take a chance on ruining it!

Do you ever do that?

Well, I took a deep breath and proceeded, telling myself that I could always do another background.

Well, it didn't work.  Aargh!

The flowers were totally lost on the background.

But I didn't want to waste that background.

After all it was one of my favorites.

I remembered my dear friend Loll having a similar experience with a stencil.

She cut out the flower and put it on a  CAS card.

So I used ink to stencil the design on a piece of white cardstock

(you can't go wrong with white. It goes with everything).

I cut out the gelled flowers and popped them on the stems.

Saved!

Maybe not what I originally intended, but fit to send.

This month's CAS Mix Up challenge

My mixed media are stamping, embossing gel through a stencil, ink through a stencil, 

fussy cutting and die cuts.

I'll take this over to Simon Says Monday Challenge: Touchy Feely too.

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Lots of Thanks (SSS)

Ink:   VersaFine Onyx Black, Mowed Lawn, Sun Sugar (D)

Paper: Primrose Petals (SU), White (Neena)  

Other:  Flower Dance Stencil (PB), Texture Paste Transparent Gloss (Ranger)

Fresh Daisies and Holly New Technique

Hello crafty friends.

Today I'm sharing a new technique that my friend Karen came up with
and challenged us to use at Splitcoaststampers.

Karen is always trying new ways to use our stamping stuff.

This time she found a new way to swipe our credit cards!

I used the same colors of DOX ink that Karen used because I loved the color combination.

I pressed the ink pads on my craft sheet one at a time, spritzed with a little water,
swiped a used gift card through the ink and dragged it on some Neena cardstock.

After drying the ink, I repeated with the next color and so on.

After I was satisfied with the colors, I squirted some white paint on my craft sheet,
pressed the edge of the gift card in it and pressed it on the design piece.  I did this
several time and got some splotches (I was being messy) and dragged the edge
across and up and down the piece.

For some added contrast, I pressed the edge of the card in my black ink pad and
did some cross hatches with that.

I have a twofer too.

Merry Monday is looking for rustic this week.

so this time I used some neutral Distress inks and left off the paint.

I had finally got the mess of paint cleaned off from the first card.
I think it's magic paint and it duplicates itself.
I squirted a little and swear I cleaned up a whole bottle full!
What a mess!

I found this piece of holly that I'd watercolored and not used
and plopped it on my "barn board".

The sentiment is heat embossed.

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe (card 1)

Stamps:  Agapanthus (TT)

Ink:   Perfect Plum, Wilted Violet, Worn Lipstick, Tumbled Glass (DOX), Memento Tuxedo Black

Paper:   Neena, Orchid Opulence

Other:  Fresh Daisies Die (SSS), Rectangle Peek-a-boo Window Die (MFT), Wicker White Acrylic Paint (Plaid), Metal Brads (with prongs cut off)

Card Recipe (card 2)

Stamps: Christmas Blessings (Verve)

Ink:  VersaMark, Antique Linen, Pumice Stone, Weathered Wood (Distress), Memento Tuxedo Black

Paper:  Naturals White (retired SU), Basic Black, Neena, Mixed Media

Other:  Holly Berries Die (PB), Koi Watercolors, Real Red Marker (SU), Black EP (SU)

Stenciling with Distress Oxide Inks

Hello friends.  Welcome to my blog.

Here's another card from my play with the Distress Oxide Inks.

I LOVE this silky smooth ink for stenciling!

I sponged the ink through the stencil, spritzed with water and
removed the stencil.  The water makes the ink brighten up.
It left a few splatters to give some feeling of texture to the flower.

I cut one X-stitch border piece from a larger one and inlaid it.

Some splatters with watered regular ink and dew drops finished it up.

This month's CAS Mix Up

I've used stamping, splatter, stencil, and inlaid die cuts.

I'm also taking this to TIME OUT Challenges

FLOWERS WITH THE OPTION OF KISSING

No kissing on this card but I'll send some with the hug!

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Friendship Messages (SSS)

Ink:   DOX (Wilted Violet, Peeled Paint), Elegant Eggplant (SU)

Paper:  Neena (110 lb. Solar White) 

Other:  Lovely Large Flower Stencil (Wendy Vechi), X-Stitch Border Dies (Gina Marie), Clear Droplets (PPP), Fun Foam

Playing with Oxide Inks

I had an opportunity to play with my new Distress Oxide Inks (DOX) last week.

Here are two samples of smooshing with them.

I used the same technique on both of these samples.

The one on the left was smooshed on cardstock.

The one on the right was smooshed on Tim Holtz Specialty Paper.

For each sample, I applied the ink to my craft sheet one color at a time 

and smooshed the paper in the ink WITHOUT spritzing with water.

Then I spritzed the inked piece with water as I dried it.

It moved a lot more on the specialty paper.

I thought the colors were more vibrant than when I spritzed the inks with water before smooshing.

It looks more like smooshing with Distress Ink with the

advantage of the colors layering.

Here's a card I made from the sample on the left.

That bit of pink made me think of a flower.

I framed it with a NBUS Stitched Hexagon Layers.

There's a piece of die cut foam underneath.

I don't know if you can see the background or not.

It was a piece that had been dry embossed with a stencil.

It adds a very subtle embossing.

It's a good thing it's subtle, because the embossing is crooked.

The more I tried to straighten it, the worse it got!

This is the card I made with some of the piece done on Specialty Paper.

It's a shameful CASE of Jennifer McGuire's card.

I love this NBUS Poppystamp die!

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: ANYTHING GOES

Pixie's Snippet Playground: Used snippets for my butterfly.

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Beautiful Butterflies (PTI)

Ink:   Memento Tuxedo Black, Fossilized Amber, Twisted Citron, Worn Lipstick, Spiced Marigold DOX (TH)

Paper:   Neena (110 lb.), Specialty Paper (TH), Basic Black (SU)

Other:  Stitched Hexagon Layers, Kaleidoscope Butterfly, Texture Mesh Stencil (MB), Floral Stem Collage Poppy (PS), Candy Dot