Faith, Hope, Love

How about some happy bright colors?  All of our spring flowers are blooming and I wanted to embrace the sunshine and the newly green grass.  I had just received this new DarkRoom Door Shadow 3 Up frame stamp, and wanted to play with blending three colors together on the frame.

I started by inking up the middle of the stamp with a yellow dye ink.  I quickly added the orange along the top of the stamp and the green dye ink along the bottom.  Then I spritzed with water to allow some natural blending along with increasing the coverage of my colors.  I stamped onto white cardstock.  I then let it dry.

I stamped the flowers from the Garden Greetings set using Versamark over each panel.  I sprinkled on the white embossing powder, shook off the excess and heated it up.  After that I just cut the word panels from the Wordstrips out to attach on each panel.

Now this probably should have taken about 5 minutes to make but it took me multiple iterations to get the effect I wanted. 

Have a fabulous Saturday!

Suzz

Extra Extra Read All About It!

Welcome to the Artistic Outpost Monthly Blog Hop!  This month we are featuring Masculine projects.  My DH has a special birthday coming up and I wanted to create something special to celebrate.

I started with a leftover paperbag that I thought would be fun to use as a big pocket for a series of tags.

I asked each of my kids to write down a series of memories they shared with their dad and I filled out the remaining ones to equal 50 special moments of time.

I cut out pieces of lined paper to use on the front of the tags.  I sprayed gold glimmer mist over stencils on the white paper to give different patterns and effects.  I stapled the paper to tags which were glimmer misted to match.  I distressed all the edges with brown dye ink.  I stamped the Paperboy in the bottom corner and colored with the image with watercolor pencils and waterbrush. I added a few stamped Extras randomly.

Each tag has stamped images mixed in with the journalling. 

The bag uses a combination of Glue Paste and gold Glimmer mist.  I stamped the boy from the PaperBoy onto the envelope.  I added a mix of the Newspaper words from the Paper plate and the ledger plate from Ephemera Backgrounds. I added the clocks from Auld Lang Syne along the top right of the pocket.

Hop along to the other fabulous inspiration from the other DT members:

Gerrie Johhnic 

Lisa Somerville

Suzanne Czosek (me) 

Tracy Evans

Linda Coughlin

Alison Bomber

Terry Horrall

Kate Yetter

Thanks for stopping by!

Suzz

Suitcase Gift Bag

When I saw the new DarkRoom Door Postage Background Stamp I thought of the Sizzix Suitcase die.

I started with cutting out two sets of the dies.

I stamped the postage stamp using a water resistant black ink onto the background.  I added touches of color to the postage stamp using watercolor pencils and a waterbrush.  I sponged the other pieces with black dye ink to get the edges and pieces to pop against the colorful background.

I added a few brass accents to the front.

I then decided to turn this into a gift bag.  I didn't want to create the bag myself and had an "AHA" moment where I ran into the kitchen and pulled out a brown paper lunch bag.

The bag was a bit too long for my purposes so I trimmed it off to fit behind the suitcase without it showing.

The only other trick was to make it lay flat when it wasn't open.  To do that I had to fold the bottom of the bag in half to put another crease in it so it would lay flat.

When you stand it up it looks like this:

To finish off my bag I decided to take some beautiful tissue paper I up-cycled with adding travel related words using the Journey Wordblock Stamp.  I used black water resistant ink on the tissue paper.

Any good traveller has charms and mementos picked up along the way.  I created a few Faux Metal charms to dangle on my suitcase.  I started with applying versamark to white cardstock. I used a gold embossing powder.  I heated it up and repeated until I had a nice thick coat of embossing powder.  I applied Versamark ink to the the Postage mark  from the New York Volume II set and heated up the embossed paper until it was liquid and set the stamp in the embossed surface. Let this cool off for a minute and the stamp will pop right out.  I then cut out the shape. I also took my Journey Wordblock and did the same thing and cut out one of the words to make a longer shaped charm.  I found the word Explore on the Venetian Wordstrip which was mounted on black cardstock and added to the charm collection.

Now I have a great gift bag to give someone who is going off on a Journey. My gift bag can be used for a graduation, retirement or any other journey in life.

Happy Inking.

Suzz

Golden Opportunity

Little paper is the challenge this week at Simon Says Stamp and Show.    I love the 6x6 pads of paper as they offer a sampling of the papers and many of them are in smaller prints that work beautifully on cards.  My choice was to use the Bazzill Antique 6x6 paper scraps to cover a cardboard clipboard. 

The papers have a lovely nuetral color with various prints in text, lines, and ledgers.  I love how it adds a layer of texture.  I was able to use up scraps of these papers from a previous project and create a lovely torn edges to my pieces for texture.

I also had this Gold Embossing Paste sitting on my desk wanting to be played with so I laid out a stencil over the background and spackled on clocks.

I used a mix of white clue with water to apply the paper onto the clipboard. I let that dry.  I then spied the lovely gold embossing paste which inspired my next step:

I laid a stencil over the background and applied a layer of the embossing paste.  I waited patiently for that to dry.  It goes on muted and dull but it dries to a beautiful gold sheen!  I then added a touch of distressing with brown dye ink.

I stamped a series of images from the New York plate using brown ink and embossed it with brown embossing powder. I stamped a few of the sentiments onto other pieces of pattern paper and cut them to tag shapes and layered them onto brown cardstock with an edging of gold.

I added Versamark watermark ink to the metal on the clipboard and sprinkled it with Aged Gold Embossing Enamel and heat embossed it to coordinate.  The edges of the clipboard were edged with a gold pen.

I added a fun set of New York charms onto the top of the clipboard.

Products:  Wendy Vecchi Metallic Gold Embossing Paste , Crafters Workshop stencil,  DarkRoom Door New York Volume I , Volume II, 

Stampendous Aged Gold Embossing Enamel, Versamark Watermark Ink, Gold Krylon Pen,  Ranger Distress Ink - Vintage Photo

Simon Says Stamp is offering a  $50.00 gift voucher for one randomly selected participant in the challenge, so come join us in showing off your 6x6 papers! 

Thanks for stopping by! 

 

Have a wonderful day!

Suzz 

Framed Again!

Sorry it has been so quiet this week. I have been in meetings all week and tired when I got home. I have been getting up early for a little creative time but haven't had time to post about it.  I decided to post one of the projects I created this week.

This features a new Wood Frame stamp from DarkRoom Door.

I wanted to create a window effect and blended in some of the lovely spring flowers from the Garden Greetings collection.

I stamped the flowers over a background that I created previously using Dylusion inks and shaving cream. A lovely mixed background of spring colors.  I stamped multiple flowers onto the background and cut them out. I also stamped a few of the butterflies from the new Collage - Butterfly and Post stamp.  I added a background of pattern paper Pink Paislee Hope Chest.  I pop dotted the frame stamped in brown ink but edged out with black ink.  I then cut an opening into the front of the card to position the window frame over.

The middle flower is pop dotted and attached to the inside of the card.  The other two are on the outside and peeking out from the second layer of the window frame.

I added the sentiment and attached it to the side. Everything was distressed around the edges with a touch of Vintage Photo around the edges.

Have a fabulous weekend!

Suzz

Inspired By

This week at Simon Says Stamp and Show we are being inspired.  You choose what inspires you, it can be a song lyric or a quote from your favorite author, or an idea from your favorite blogger or your favorite artist.  I was  inspired by the fantastic  Hot Air Balloon created by Candy from a previous challenge.  

I had sitting out plastic Easter eggs left over from our Easter decorations.  I decided to use the idea of covering my egg with the embossed metallic sheets. 

 

I cut the embossed sheets into pieces which I layered over the egg. 

I had my DH drill hole in the top and bottom of the egg. And I added a handle to the top and the bottom had a leftover handle found at the flea market.  

I decided to create a coordinating butterfly.  I cut the butterfly from a die cut and embossed the surface with the embossing folder.

I decided to antique my metal with a coat of versamark and Stampendous Aqua Embossing Enamel. I then smeared the surface with StaZon Black ink. 

I added changes, charms, and pearls draped around the top.  I covered the inside of the egg with the same process. I added a hinge to the back to allow the egg to open to hide a gift.

Products:  Ranger Metal Foil Sheets, Tim Holtz Sizzix Patchwork Embossing Folder,  Stampendous Aged Aqua Embossing Powder,  StaZon Jet Black Ink,
Idea-ology - Baubles,  Versamark Watermark Ink, Chains, Faucet Knobs, Philosophy Tags, 

Simon Says Stamp is offering a  $50.00 gift voucher for one randomly selected participant in the challenge, so come join in on the inspiration this week.

Thanks for stopping by! 

Suzz

Butterflies & Postcards

Hello! I am back with another card.  I was playing around with a new Butterfly Post collage stamp from DarkRoom Door to create a card for the Fashionable Stamping Challenge of Anything Goes!
and for the Moxie Fab World The Wonder of Watercolor Challenge.

 The stamp provides the sweetest grid pattern with a mix of butterflies and postcards. 

I stamped the image using Ranger Archival black ink.  I then had fun coloring each grid with a combination of greens, oranges, yellows and blues using STAEDTLER watercolor pencils.  I softened the effect with a waterbrush. After everything dried I used an exacto knife to cut the wings of the butterfly up to let them float.

I added a No. 36 on the side from the DarkRoom Door Vintage Office set.  This would be a perfect birthday card for someone turning 36. :)

Have a lovely day!

Suzz