Wish Upon A Star

 Hello Friends

Today is the day I get to share my inspiration makes for this months theme over at Gecko Galz.

That theme is Wish Upon A Star!

Gecko Galz - Wish Upon a Star, Starlight ATC Sheet

I started off with this card I made using glitter paper to really make these lovely images pop. 

Gecko Galz - Wish Upon a Star, Moon Magic, Starburst ATC Sheet

My next project was this layout in my art journal. I layered on vintage papers and the constellation papers from the Starburst ATC.  I stenciled on snow paste through a star stencil and sprinkled on glitter then spritzed the entire page with a couple shades of blue spray inks. I Then added the image, sentiment, other bits and pieces and finally the sentiment.

Gecko Galz - Wish Upon a Star, In The Stars ATC Collection

My next creation is a Waterfall card...when you pull on the ribbon it flips up the next image on the flap as you can see in the photos...

Gecko Galz - Wish Upon a Star, Sun Moon & Stars, Starburst ATC Collection

And finally I have a home decor piece in this plaque I made. I just LOVE this image - she is so very lovely. She has been matted with glitter paper and was mounted on a plaque that I covered with paper from the Starburst ATC collection.  The little paper stars are from the Sun Moon & Stars collage sheet which I inter-mixed with some metal screen stars.

Hope you are inspired and enjoyed taking a peek at my Wish Upon a Star creaitons.

Kindred Spirits

 Playing with the Gothic image of the month at Gecko Galz...

A gothic take on Little Red Riding Hood...I love it!

A bit of gesso, watercolors, acrylic paint, vintage ephemera, washi tape, some stamping, stencils, Creative Medium and more!

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Happy World Card Making Day Card

 

My final card for the day....Happy World Card Making Day card :) The strip on the left side of the card is a gel plate monoprint that I stamped using Rubber Stamp Tapestry's new set called Card Maker!! How fun is that. The other side of the card was made using a stencil and sponge dauber. I added a few Pastel Flat Back Gems from Sparkle Blends.  Hope you had a chance to play today!

Fairy Lessons

 Fairy Hugs just had a New Release which includes stamps, stencils and new Fairy Hugs Powder Glitter!  Today I wanted to share my latest Fairy Hugs creation...

Starla is demonstrating the proper way to create a lovely cascade of Stardust to her little fairy pupils. After all, it's all in the wrist!

To create this card I started off by applying ink over the new Woody stencil over an inky background.

Next I stamped Starla, Condo Dwellers (mini fairies), Stardust and the Fern Leaves over the panel.

Once all of the inks had dried, I added loads of sparklie details using Fairy Hugs Powder which you can see very good in the photo below.

Hmmmm don't you just love all that sparkle? It's so pretty IRL and so hard to capture in photos but I think I was able to capture just a little bit of the amazing shine and lovely colors in this photo. 

So much fun to be had in Fairy Land!

Fairy Hugs Stencil - Woody

Starla, Condo Dwellers

 

Fern Leaves, Stardust

Be sure to stop by our Fairy Hugs Facebook Group 

Friendly Little Sea Turtle

Hello my friends! Today I wanted to share my Friendly little sea turtle - Raphael! He's one of the lovely stamps from Fairy Hugs!

Raphael is such a regal looking beast don't you think? 

He's perfectly content to keep watch over his watery kingdom.

The first step to creating this card was drawing an oval on a white cardstock panel using a pencil. I then stamped the shells, coral and sea weed peg stamps (all from Rubber Stamp Tapestry) around that oval using various colors of VersaMagic ink (chalk ink). I then diecut the shape from the panel and inked the edges and center of the oval.  

I wanted to give the illusion of swirling water in the center of the oval so I drew swirls with a fine tip liquid glue which I sprinkled Sky and Pixie Dust Fairy Powder on top. The two colors swirling together creates the feeling of movement.

I placed Raphael on my stamping platform. I then used Memento Dual Tip markers to color each area of the image stamping them one by one. For example I colored the shell using Coca and stamped, I then colored his belly using Cottage Ivy and stamped, his flippers were colored with 3 different shades of green then stamped, etc.  After the entire image was stamped I then colored him in again using the markers.  I added a bit of black and white using acrylic paint pens and then he was fussy cut. I added him to the panel using foam tape.

The blue mat was cut to size then inked with a small shell stencil.  This mat was affixed to a black card blank and the turtle panel was then mounted on the card.

I hope you have enjoyed this little tutorial featuring the very handsome Raphael.

Thanks for stopping by! See you next week.

Supplies:

Fairy Hugs Store Stamps - Raphael

Fairy Hugs Store Fairy Powder - Sky, Pixie Dust

Rubber Stamp Tapestry - Shells, Coral, Sea Weed Peg Stamps

Gina Marie Designs - Nested Label #1

Imagine - VersaMagic, Memento Dual Tip Markers, Sponge Dauber

Be sure to stop by our Fairy Hugs Facebook Group 

You are so Kind

Good Friday Morning!!  I have a lovely card to share with you today using a new set of stamps from Rubber Stamp Tapestry called Humming Bird Patio.  It's a beautiful new set of peg stamps that is so exciting. There are so many possibilities for this set I can see it becoming a classic favorite. Included in the set are two different sized flower pots, a foliage stamp, a flower cluster and two different hummingbirds. 

I stamped the flower pots using Terra Cotta Memento Ink then I went about filling each pot with foliage and flowers in various shades of VersaFine Clair inks. I used Memento Dual Tip Markers to color the hummingbird image to stamp it.  I added a bit of white paint pen work and markers to the pots and watercolor around the bottom.

I finished the card off using sequins from Sparkle Blends called Flower Power. 

Winged Things

Hello Friends - I hope you all are safe and sound wherever you may be. Today I wanted to share a gothic arch I made for the current Lost Coast Designs/Carmen's Veranda challenge #95 Winged Things. 

  I started off by stamping the Ledger page using Morning Mist VersaFine Clair ink over the entire arch.  I then stamped the ART Doll directly onto the arch. I made a mask and then stamped the Doodles Circles over it all.  I inked up the whole arch using a variety of VersaFine Clair inks and a sponge dauber.  It still needed something so I colored white dots using a stencil. I stamped a second ART Doll on a scrap of white paper and embossed it with black EP from Imagine.  It was colored, fussy cut and then popped onto the arch. Fun huh.....

BUT...what I didn't tell you is that it opens up to this! I used a whole stack of stamps to create this...most images stamped in Morning Mist except for the swirls that were stamped with Paradise VFC ink.  I used another fun stencil to create the nifty patterns then inked up everything else.  The Flying Moon was stamped on a separate piece of white cardstock, embossed and colored then fussy cut.  I added a bit of glitter to the crown for good measure.  The moon and sentiment were then added and all of the edges were then inked to finish it off.

I hope you are encouraged to join in on the fun and create your own "Winged Thing" to enter into the challenge!

Challenge #95 Winged Things

Supplies:

Lost Coast Stamps - Doodle Circles, Ledger Page, ART Doll, Victoriana, Doors & Windows, Jewel Shrine, Small Cityscape, Long Swirl, Flying Moon

Imagine - VersaFine Clair inks, Black EP, Sponge Dauber

Glitter, Cardstock, Stencil

Scorch Markers & Christmas Ornaments

Hello Friends -

Have you seen the ads for the Scorch Markers on Facebook that are supposed to be an easier way to get the wood burned look?  Well I'm here to tell you they work!  I bought a set of 3 markers so Mom, Morgan and I could test them out and play.  Here are the results...

The most important things to keep in mind when using these markers are:

1. Prime the pen...you have to push the nib down on a piece of paper until the tip turns an orangish color...this is the medium soaking into the nib.

2. Use enough medium on your wood. The wood really soaks it up.

3. HEAT - you must use a very hot heat tool. I started off with my embossing gun but it was only 450 degrees. It did it but took forever. We switched to dh's heat gun set at around 650 +/- and it worked fairly quickly (about 1/4 the time it took for the embossing gun). 

Something else to think about is the longer you heat it the darker it gets. We played with heating some areas more, some less. I think they all turned out amazing!

We used stencils for most of them but we also free-handed a few.
Sorry I can't name all of the stencils/mfg...I have an envelope I put them in all together.

If you have a question about a particular stencil, JLMK and I'll see if I can figure out who made it.

We went on to embellish the Scorched sides as well as the backs so no matter where they were on the tree they would be beautiful.

All in all these pens were amazing and really did yield some pretty new ornaments for our trees this year.

Shimmer & Shine Sunflower

Hello Friends!

Today I wanted to share a card that is up on the Rinea page which combines Rinea's lovely foiled papers with Imagine's products to create this....

You can find the full directions on the Rinea blog here:

Shimmer & Shine

but I wanted to share some photos of it with you...

It's amazing how you can take a simple stamped image and with a few cuts you can turn it into a lovely 3d piece of art on a card. Initially I stamped the sunflower head 3x and the leaves twice. A few snips here and there and wallah...

I had lots of fun making both the background and oval mat with Imagine inks and stencils.
I hope this inspires you to pop on over to see how it was made :)

Supplies:
Rinea: Gold/Gold Glossy Foiled Paper; Emerald/Emerald Starstruck Foiled Paper; Jade/Jade Starstruck Foiled Paper; Sapphire/Gold Glossy Foiled Paper

Imagine: Fireworks! Spray - Bahama Blue, Cottage Ivy; VersaFine Clair Ink - Verdant, Green Oasis, Shady Lane, Paradise, Nocturne; StazOn Pigment Ink - Piano Black; StazOn Studio Glaze - Spiced Chai; Sponge Daubers; On Point Glue; Tear It! Tape

Unity Stamp Co: Shimmer & Shine Sunflower Stamps
Stamplorations: Leaf Stencil
Gina Marie: Flower Stencil
MFT - Oval Dies; Scallop Oval Die; Fishtail Die
Cardstock, Double Stick Foam Tape

Playing - Masterboards!

Recently I decided I just wanted to play with inks and embossing powders and well, let's just say I wanted to get inky. I decided that making a masterboard would fulfill my needs.

I started out from a page from an old atlas...the pages with all the city listings. I love these pages - so much potential!  I started inking...scraping the ink across the page with a squeegee this way and that. Dragging lots and dragging a little.

Next a bit of stenciling

Some stamping, some embossing even a bit of pen work and doodling.

And I ended up with a whole sheet of inky goodness to create with.

I made 5 cards, 2 ATC's and I even had left overs that I'm going to use as book marker/tags.

If you'd like to see the full tutorial, please check out -

See How to Create a Mixed Media Master Board with Mboss

Stamp - Craft Consortium - Wildflower Meadow - Fresh Cut

Stamps: Sunny Studio - Lemons; Rubber Stamp Tapestry - Sentiments

Stamp - Unity - flower; Stamplorations - Leaf Stencil; Circle Grid - vintage unknown

Stamps - Rubber Stamp Tapestry

Stamps - Sunny Studios

Collage Images & Sentiments - Finnabair

Have a lovely day friends!