Vintage Christmas

I had created these two fun pieces for Artistic Outpost using the beautiful Sleigh Ride plate.  I have to admit right up front that the non-traditional colors for the holiday is something I like to do but in this case was driven purely by the colors on hand in my acrylic paints. :)

I started with a coat of the Bahama Blue Acrylic paint from American and let that dry and then added a light coat of Ranger Paint Dauber using Cool Peri. Using a fine grit sand paper sand off some of the purple coat. Stamp image using StaZon Royal Purple. Color using water color pencils. Accent with glue pen and glitter on the outfits. Add highlights using white gel pen. Sponge brown ink around edges to distress. Versamark entire surface and heat emboss using clear embossing powder multiple times. Edge with silver paint pen.

I was able to sneak into my hubby's work room and steal a few hooks and hanging items. Of course I ended up having his help to get the hangers in correctly. :)

The second project starts with the same undercoat of paint.

The images were stamped and colored as the previous project. The snowflakes were stamped on with versamark and clear embossed to create a resist and then purple dye ink was sponged over the entire surface to show up the beautiful snowflakes. The entire project was again covered in versamark and clear embossing powder. The little hanger was silver and I embossed it using an embossing powder similar in color to the background.

Hope you are having a fabulous Friday. I am planning on hanging out with a few stamping friends tonight. Yeah!

Suzz

Play Date Cafe Challenge #49

Sarah selected  the colors for the Play Date Cafe challenge this week.
 

Another fun mix of colors to play with this week. The design team also had a second challenge this week to use a technique called Clipped Corners provided by our sponsor this week Technique Junkies.

I started with this card and had about 4 different backgrounds before I decided on this background. The flowers felt like they went with my temples and Buddha.  

After I finished my first card I realized that the technique called for only one corner to be clipped. So I created another card with this beautiful angel from Stampington.  

I am not going to include all the stamp credits and paper credits, but if you have questions about any of them, drop me a line and I will look them up for you. :)

Onto our wonderful sponsor this week:  Technique Junkies. I am always seeing the techniques from TJ on blogs and love the different techniques that are used. 

Technique Junkies is offering a wonderful  prize for the winner of the challenge. A three-year online-only subscription. The winner will have access to the online 2009, 2010, and 2011 issues. (Valued at 29.95)

Pat Huntoon is the owner of Technique Junkies and our guest designer this week, go see what she created using the technique and colors. Her blog is Pat Stamps.

Play Date Cafe Design Team

Sarah Anderson

Ruby 2 Shoes

Savannah O'Gwynn
Andrea Ewen

Julie Ranae

Lisa Somerville

Thanks for stopping by and look forward to seeing your entries in the challenge!

Suzz

Tag Tuesday - Calendar

I have not been able to play along in Louise's Tag Tuesday Challenge. So this morning I saw the challenge is calendars and decided to play along.  I also was inspired by Jacqueline's beautiful tag.

I have had this Maya Road stamp forever and haven't used it as it is a little calendar stamp you can use to stamp and highlight a date. I stamped it across the bottom and top and loved that it looked like a border.

The sentiment is Hero Arts. The leafy branches along the side are Hero Arts. Of course I had to add my little butterflies. The paper is Websters Pages. The woman is Rubber Stampede.

Have a wonderful day! 

Suzz

Embellish Challenge - Yellow, Black, Grey and White

I saw some beautiful cards using these colors out in blogland and they are from the Embellish Challenge to use the colors yellow, black, grey and white and to stamp a background or a pattern. 

Love the colors and the fun pictures!

I created two cards.  The first one is very me... The second one is... Well... you will see.. 

I pulled out my Damask stamp and created a pattern on the grey paper using a Judikins Damask and a new Cover All stamp from Impression Obsession which I love it looks like paint splatters.  So this card I think is very me. 

Here's my second card for the challenge:

So much empty space. Very hard for me to not add any more details. I tried to add gems and do other things to detail it up!:)  But ended up leaving the clean lines. Same splatter background with an overlaid stamp from Stampin up. The sentiment is from Cornish Heritage Farms.

There is a little frost on the berries but you cant see it in the pictures.

Hope you have a wonderful Monday!

Suzz

Hero Arts September Challenge

Hero Arts September Challenge is Autumn or the technique of making a gift bag.  I had to create a few cards for a class I will be teaching and I used my much loved Hero Arts stamps to whip up a few of the stamps. My LSS has a wonderful assortment of the HA stamps .

Here are a few of the cards I am teaching at my LSS that fit right into the Hero Arts Challenge this month:

I love using circles as this was something that always is a bit of a struggle for me in design. I was pleased with the effect.   The background paper is Coordenations and it comes already embossed. Very pretty.

This card was inspired by a card my friend Lisa created from our stamping time together. Her card is here.

This was inspired by my box I created and I just transitioned it into a card and used some lovely Basic Grey Indian Summer papers with some stamping of the Hero Arts Starburst Lace Stamp.

Have a blessed Sunday!

Suzz

I believe in Fairies

Simon Says Stamp and Show challenge is grunge.  They left it up to your interpretation. I take that to mean distressing up the project a little. 

I started with this:

 My daughter was using a deck of cards and when she tried to take them out she ripped the box and of course left it lying there after she was done.  I was going to throw it out and then decided to keep it for a future project.

Well when I received my Artistic Outpost stamps I also received this really beautiful set called Neverland with the most adorable Tinkerbell.  I decided she would look so cute in a little shadowbox. So I created this:

The flowers are from another AO set called Bloom and Grow. The little butterflies are actually stamped with Tinkerbell. You can't see it but her face is peeking out on the butterflies. :)

The inks are Memento Bahama Blue, Memento Rich Cocoa, Adirondack Citrus, and Versafine Vintage Sepia.

Hope you have a lovely Saturday. I am hoping to have some inky time! Yeah!

Suzz

Mojo Monday Sketch#157

I decided to play  along with the fab sketch by Julee at Mojo Monday 

Here is my take on the sketch using the ornament I created the other day. 

I like the effect of the ornament on the card and it could be popped off and used as an ornament after the recipient had enjoyed the card. :)

Of course all the stamps are Artistic Outpost Sleigh Ride and the die cut is Fleur De Lis from Spellbinders. Embossing powder is Ranger Queen's Gold. Pearls are from Memory Box.

I want to wish Julie a happy birthday! Today is a special birthday for her! Stop by her blog and leave her a birthday wish.
Thanks for stopping by...

Suzz