Paint Your Dreams

Today is the big finale for the blog hop between Stampendous and May Arts!  If you missed out on all of the inspiration this week head over to the Stampendous blog and start from the beginning.  There are lovely prizes being given out to randomly selected comments.

Today's project is a card but it is a mixed media project.  I think this one will have to wait for my little sister's birthday because she is an artist and this would be perfect for her.

My background was left over from the previous project on Wednesday. (A painted background using the Creative Palette). 

I stamped over it with the music definition in black.  I then added a row of flourishes along the left side. I stamped the beautiful flowers to the right and colored them with STAEDTLER Karat Aquarell Watercolor Pencils. 

I stamped the beautiful face using black ink onto tissue paper.  I decoupaged it over my previous stamping and softened the whole effect with a whitewash of paint. 

I created her fancy hat using the beautiful May Arts Silk ribbon.  I took a large glue dot and scrunched a small piece of the ribbon onto the glue dot to form mini flowers.  I then stuck them onto the top of her head.

Products: Creative Palette, Stampendous Life is Art, Stampendous Sweet Pea, Stampendous Jumbo Cling Music, Stampendous Glance, May Arts Ribbon, Ranger Archival Ink - Black, Deco Art Decoupage, Deco Art - Americana - White Acrylic Paint,  Pink, Green

Now  hop along to see all the inspiration:

Jamie Martin

Cyndi Bundy

Janelle Stollfus (Friday)

Kristine Reynolds

Krissy Fossmeyer

Tobi Crawford

Lea Kimmel

Tenia Nelson

Suzanne Czosek

Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful weekend! 

Suzz

Family

All this week the Stampendous Design Team is hopping with May Arts.  I decided to create an upside down tag. 

I started playing around with paint and the Creative Palette.  I brayered pink paint over the surface and used a touch of sequence waste to apply patches of white paint. I then placed the cardstock onto the palette and picked up the painted surface. 

After the surface dried I stamped randomly over the background a combination of the music definition and the music from the new Mixed Media Musical Motif set. 

I then cut down my shape to a tag, distressed the edges.  I stamped the Minuet Bird using black ink onto the background and heat embossed him with black embossing powder.

I colored the bird with a mix of golds and greens using STAEDTLER Karat Aquarell watercolor pencils.

I stamped the Cherish Family quote onto tissue paper using black ink and decoupaged it to the surface. I wanted to make sure it popped on the surface and paint sometimes absorbs the ink so the tissue paper allows me to get the depth of color.

Hop over to the Stampendous blog and check out the posts this week as there is so many lovely projects using the beautiful May Arts ribbon and the Stampendous stamps!




Thanks for stopping by!

Suzz

Butterflies are in the Air

Welcome back for the final day in the Maya Road and Stampendous blog hop! Remember to go leave some love along the way for opportunities to win prizes.

I took a canvas tag book and turned  it into a wall hanging:

I spent the longest time playing with the hanger and trying to get it into the right shape. :)

I painted over the surface with Gesso.  I stamped music across the background with a few other postage stamps.  I stamped the butterflies on tissue paper and colored them with STAEDTLER Karat Aquarell  watercolor pencils. I then used Americana Decoupage to apply the butterflies.

I accented with the Maya Road ribbons and trims.

Products: Stampendous Jumbo Cling Butterfly Trio, Music Score, Maya Road - Organza Rose Ribbon, Canvas Album, Twine, Burlap Trim, Gesso, Wire Hanger, Tulle

Hop along to all the other wonderful inspiration:

Asia King
Cyndi Bundy
Jamie Martin 

 Janelle Stollfus  
Jennifer Dove 
Krissy Fossmeyer 
Kristine Reynolds 
Lea Kimmel 
Stephanie Lee 
Suzanne Czosek 
Tenia Nelson 
Tobi Crawford  

Thanks for stopping by!

Suzz

Enjoy Simple Things

I know I don't stop often enough to enjoy the simple things. We recently took a family road trip which gave us plenty of family time and lots of time looking out the window and seeing all of the natural beauty and enjoying the simple things.  This week at Simon Says Stamp and Show the challenge is Anything Goes!  Easy enough and there is the wonderful $50 gift certificate for one randomly selected participant.

I have been holding onto a Assemblage Clock waiting for a chance to create something special.

I painted the outside with a mix of white acrylic paint and pink acrylic paint. I put flower trim on the inside to cover the inside walls. I covered the back of the clock with pattern paper and smeared a touch of white paint over the surface. 

I trimmed out the outside with lace trim.

I painted the banner white and stamped the sentiment in teal. I added the white flowers to the side and stuck the little banner in with some white ribbon.

Inside the clock I stamped the large clock face using StaZon onto acetate. I did the same with the Eiffel Tower and painted on the reverse side with the pink paint. I added a highlight to the flowers.  The little broken doll earned a set of butterfly wings stamped with versamark on tissue paper and embossed in light pink embossing powder.

Products:  Snow Cap Dabber, Claudine Hellmuth Pink Painterly StudioPaint,  Tim Holtz - Idea-Ology Assemblage Clock, Banners, TIm Holtz Worn Lipstick Embossing Powder, Versamark, StazOn - Teal Ink, Hero Arts Big Clock, Stampendous I Love Paris SStampendous Jumbo Butterfly Trio, Idea-Ology Fractured Doll, Stazon - Black, Prima Flowers, Trim, 
Artistic Outpost - 

Don't forget to play along with us for a chance to win a gift certificate from   Simon Says Stamp.

Thanks for stopping by!

Suzz

Stampendous Core dinations and May Arts Hop

Yes, it’s blog hop time again! This time three terrific companies are partnering  together and they are sharing inspiration all week long.  Stampendous,  May Arts Ribbon, Core’dinations papers and the new David Tutera line of creative papers and embellishments are all teaming up to hop together.

AND there will be prizes! On the  Stampendous Impressions Blog they will be giving away three prize packages including the Cling Jumbo Butterfly Trio (WITH Free Template included), A Jumbo Perfectly Clear Handle, a random assortment of the David Tutera products,  some Core’dinations goodies (again random), a Sand-It tool to make the most of your ColorCore paper, and some  May Arts Ribbons (random assortment). You will want to be commenting on every post this week for a chance to win!.

I was unable to play along with the team this week but wanted to share something fun I made with the newest release from Stampendous.  I created a birthday gift bag. 

Products: Stampendous Cling Birthday Fairy, Copics, Ranger Distress Inks -  Blue, Prima Flowers, Stampendous Fuschia Glitter

To celebrate the hop I am giving away a package of goodies to a randomly selected comment. If you leave a comment on my post by June 7th 11:59 you will be entered for a chance to win.  I took a quick photo of the goodies I have set aside so far.  I will be adding a few more things in the package when I send it out!

For more chances to win head over to Stampendous daily to see the inspiration from the Design teams!


As always thanks  for stopping by.

Suzz

Swimming with Mermaids

The Stampendous and May Arts Blog Hop Finale is today. The Stampendous DT has been playing with the wonderful May Arts Ribbon all week. 

My inspiration started from the ultra fun loose-braid wired ribbon from May Arts.

The ribbon is perfect sea weed that my mermaid and sea horse can play hide and seek in.

The background is sprayed with Glimmer Mist (Patina).  After it completely dried I stamped the Stampendous Geo Bubbles using Versamark and heat embossed with white embossing powder.

I glimmer misted some crepe paper to create the background seaweed.   I added a beautiful sea floor using the Steel Blue Glass Glitter.  The Mermaid and Sea Horse were stamped on white cardstock and colored with my Copics.  I added a hint of glitter in the scales on the mermaid.

Hop along to find all kinds of wonderful inspiration! Don't forget to leave a little love along the way for a chance to win a fabulous prize!

Stampendous Impressions Blog

Cyndi Bundy

Janelle Stollfus

Jennifer Dove

Jennifer Ingle

Krissy Fossmeyer

Kristine Reynolds

Lea Kimmel

Mary Dawn Quirindongo

Melinda Gleissner

Pam Hornschu

Stephanie Lee

Suzanne Czosek (you are here)

Taylor Usry

Tenia Nelson

Wendy Jordan

Wendy Price

May Arts Blog

Thanks for stopping by!

Suzz

Stampendous & May Arts

All week long the Stampendous team is hopping with the May Arts team.  We have paired up to provide lots of wonderful inspiration.  You can go to the Stampendous Blog or the May Arts Blog to find out who is hopping everyday!  There are prizes too!  Visit all the blogs every day and leave comments  We'll choose a random blogger each day to pick a random winner!

Onto my project:

I used the gorgeous Stampendous Jumbo Cling Amaryllis stamp to create a wreath of flowers.  The flowers on the Amaryllis are already in an arch. I stamped them three times on white cardstock using black water resistant ink.  I colored them using STAETDLER Karat Aquarelle watercolor pencils and waterbrush.  I cut them out using my detail scissors and cutting some of the petals out.  I used the cut out petal  for depth and to entwine the beautiful May Arts Gold Net RA02 throughout my wreath.

The background is stamped using the beautiful Christmas Background in Ranger Archival Coffee ink and distressed with brown dye ink and a distressing tool.  I mounted it on a coordinating brown card base. I added a hint of Stampendous Crushed Glass Glitter to the center of the flowers.

 Don't forget to hop along to see all the wonderful inspiration:

Stampendous Impressions Blog

Janelle Stollfus

Jennifer Dove

Stephanie Lee

Taylor Usry
Suzanne Czosek (you are here)

May Arts Blog

Thanks for stopping by! 

Suzz

Red & Rustic Christmas

 I was so happy to see the Tuesday Trigger from Moxie Fab World.  I had entered into the May Arts Deck the Halls with Burlap Monthly challenge.  They send you a few yards of ribbon and you have to create a project using them.  While the beautiful ribbon works perfectly with the lovely Moxie Fab trigger.

I started with creating banners using the lovely red stripes.  I sponged the edges after I cut them to add a little more fraying and distressing. The background is stamped using Hero Arts Old French Writing.  Distressed with a brown dye ink. Placed on a kraft card base.  The flowers were a pretty color but I wanted the red so I glimmer misted them with a nice red color. I created faux leaves with the burlap ribbon and tied multiple bows using the green and natural twine. I finished off the card with mini banners with the Christmas sentiment.

Here is the inspiration photo:

And the beautiful ribbon I started with:

Hope you are having a wonderful Friday! 

Suzz

Lily Pad Challenge - Ribbon

This week's  challenge at Lily Pad Cards is ribbons and our wonderful sponsor is May Arts!  

I created two cards using my May Arts ribbon.

My first card used some of this beautiful crochet lace to create a mask:

 

The lace was laid across the white cardstock and covered the entire surface and sprayed a lovely pink glimmer mist onto the white cardstock. 

The big butterfly and the vines (Hero Arts) were stamped onto the background using Ranger Archival Coffee ink. The vines were highlighted with a white gel pen. The butterfly was shaded with watercolor pencil and highlighted with white gel pen. The edges of the butterfly were cut out with the exacto knife and popped up. 

The sentiment (Hero Arts) was stamped using the same brown ink. The edges of the panel were sponged with  brown dye ink. The smaller butterflies were stamped on a remnant of the background and shaded with watercolor pencils. Fussy cut and attach to background.

The second card using the same lace and some beautiful Wrinkled  ribbon.

 

The background paper is sponged and stamped over using Old Letter Writing (Hero Arts) and Stampers Anonymous Sewing set. The dress form has a lace skirt with a knot tied from the lovely wrinkled ribbon. The stamp is from Nina B and fits the label 18 die cut. 

All the details of the challenge are at the Lily Pad Blog.

Design Team: Alice Wertz, Deborah Nolan, Lin Brandyberry, Nancy Krueger, Sherri Thompson, Vicki Papaioannou

Thanks for stopping by!

Suzz