Adore

Happy Wednesday!  Just playing in the craft room over the past few days and what I was trying to achieve didn't pan out. Instead I ended up creating a tag with with some pretty summery colors.

I am going to continue to explore with my techniques in hopes of getting an end result I like. :)  

This is a mix of distress inks in the background with a stencil laid over the top and more darker distress ink sponged on.

I added a few glossy embossing paste. (Much trickier than the regular embossing paste. (hence the splotchy letters)

I then finished with a stamped image on tissue paper which was decoupaged onto the background.

I am entering this in the A Vintage Journey - Stencil It  challenge. 

Thanks for stopping by!

Suzz

Christmas Decorations

Good Morning!  I have been busy playing with some die cuts and creating Christmas decorations that can be attached to a gift and used as an ornament.

 I started with the Basically Bare - Dress Form Die cut and the Basically Bare - Angel Wings.  I painted the form with white gesso and then sponged with antique linen.

I then took the lace and spritzed it with Tarnished Brass Stain Spray and then layered it on the dress form.  The background was stamped with the Memory Box - Dream stamp.  I found this bunch of holly in my Christmas Stash and added it to the waist. 

The wings were covered with Idea-Ology Shimmery gold paper.  I then just stained a few flowers with the tarnished brass added a little glitter and made a flowery necklace.


 My second project is two canvas hearts.

 I stitched together two canvas hearts with a little stuffing inside.  The outside is simple with a little gold embossing paste using the doily stencil from Tim Holtz.  After it dried I spritzed with a pink mist.

I don't sew so this was a labor of love. If I had a sewing machine and knew how to use it I would have quickly sewn the edges. I love the rustic feel of the whip stitch.

I am entering this in the following challenges:

Frilly and Funkie - Tis the Season
A Vintage Journey's - Vintage Christmas 

Thanks for stopping by!

Suzz 

Adventure Awaits You

Things with Wings is popular!  The Vintage Journey Challenge and the Frilly & Funkie Challenge are both hosting a things with wings challenge.  I have been busy playing with Brusho Color Powders and decided to use one of my backgrounds to create a things with wings card. Tim brought Brett's work to Stampers Anonymous in a previous release and I love the images he draws and was happy to bring one of his images to my card.

 I had every intention of using some butterflies I had stamped and cut out from my color powder backgrounds, but these sneaky wasps landed on this background and I went a completely different route!

I stamped the frame and shadowed it with touches of blue.  I masked the outside and stamped the gent from  Stampers Anonymous drawn by Brett W.   The wasps are Art Gone Wild.  The stickers are from the new idea-ology chit chats.  Loving the different options in the book!

Have a fun weekend!

Suzz

Masculine Cards

The Vintage Journey Challenge this month is Destination! 

I created two cards using a new set of Steampunk inchies that to me speak of travels and dreams that all people who travel to many destinations. I was inspired by Tim's distress inks and distressed the edges on my first card with Vintage Photo.

The next card uses a great sentiment for all travellers.   A bit clean cut for a vintage card but the images are vintage! :)

Products: Ranger Distress Ink - Vintage Photo, Ranger Archival Inks - Black, Coffee, DarkRoom Door - Steampunk Inchies, Welcome Home, Photobooth Gentlemen, Wordstrip - Art de Fleur

Thanks for stopping by!

Suzz

Encourage Hope

The extremely talented Astrid has challenged us over at A Vintage Journey blog to be inspired by Spring Colors. I am happy to be sharing my art today on the Vintage Journey blog as a Pinworthy guest.

I was inspired by the first colors we see when the weather starts to change... Greens and Blue.  I mixed up a bit of everything in my journal page using the Tim Holtz layering stencil in the background as the base for my page.

I started with the stencil and some embossing paste on a sheet from my journal.

After applying several rows of the stencil with white embossing paste I let that dry.  Then I applied a layer of antique linen distress stain spray to soften the background.  After that I used up some green and blue glimmer mist and dripped it down the page and picked up the paper and turned it different ways to cause it to move across the page.   After that dried I pulled out some remnants which I had unfortunately placed on the outside of the plastic envelope which meant they were stuck in various places.  I pulled it up and used the bits and pieces that weren't left on the plastic to apply to my page.

I then stamped my sentiment on tissue paper and used decoupage to add it to my background.

Then I dug through my odds and ends and gave a nice shiny coat of gold to some of them and layered them onto my background.

I also used the weathered clock die to frame out an image from the Tim Holtz Idea-Ology Found Relatives.  I spritzed and stained a zipper to match. It is fun to see what can be assembled in a  journal page from a few leftover bits and pieces.

Come join in on the fun at  A Vintage Journey. 

Suzz

Looking Glass

Today we are going through the looking glass. The Vintage Journey challenge this month was about the looking glass and you could interpret a variety of ways.  I decided to play with an acetate tag as my looking glass inspiration.

 As always I am in the middle of three to four started projects which are in stuck mode.  I decided to stop and play along with the challenge by creating a tag to try to get the creative juices flowing.   This tag started with acetate but I pulled out some bronze paint and started applying paint to the acetate.  I didn't like that so I added a layer of mica flakes which I thought would look cool with the bronze.  Not so much... :) 

So I covered everything with a coat of gold paint and then spritzed yellow/orange spray ink over that.  You end up with this mix you see of golden tones, yellow, orange and a touch of bronze underlying it all. 

I then wiped out my center with a baby wipe and stamped the face on white cardstock which I placed behind the acetate.  I dug around looking for some accessories to frame her with that were already in gold but only found the spray so I used the black flowers and just accented them with gold.

Products:  Ranger Distress Paint (Bronze, Gold), Stampers Anonymous, Ranger Distress Stain Spray - Black Soot, Dylusions - Yellow/Orange Spray, Stampendous Mica Flakes 

Hope you are having a lovely week!

Suzz

Time

A Vintage Journey is hosting a special numbers challenge. It had me thinking about special numbers coming up this year. I have a few special numbers this year and decided to showcase one of them on a card for the challenge.

I started playing with the seedless preserves distress stain spray and ended up with purple fingers and hands!  But oh what a lovely color.  I mixed it in with the yellow Mustard seed.  I decided to pullout a clock die cut representing the passage of time.

Thanks for stopping by!

Suzz

Love is In The Air

Happy Wednesday! I have been busy creating this week but nothing I wanted to share until today.  This morning I was flipping through a catalog and  I spied an ad for some lovely denim pillows from Pottery Barn.  The pillows  had me thinking how I could replicate the effect.

I was inspired by the design team at  Vintage Journey's Love is in the Air.

   Here are the pillows:

I tried a few different effects to get this effect and was satisfied with the effect when I finished but wished I could have gotten the denim blue color.

I stamped the images on white cardstock using versamark and heat embossed with clear embossing powder.  I then tried a few different techniques but ended up using acrylic paint to give my denim texture.

I did a second version with ghost stamping and it was pretty but you can't get the cloth effect and get a strong enough image.

The stamps are Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz and the stickers Idea-Ology.

Thanks for stopping by!

Suzz