Love

Hi!  I have a quick little tag I wanted to share today.

 I just bought a few Ranger distress paints and wanted to play with them.  I also had a new criss cross stamp itching to be used.  I painted the manila tag with the blue paint.  I let it dry and then inked up the criss cross stamp with the orange/gold paint and stamped it on the tag.  I repeated it to cover the tag.  I loved the effect of the paint on the stamp and I used it to ink up the butterfly and stamp it on white cardstock. 

I decided to highlight the butterfly with a doily in the background.  I have to say I am addicted to these little sequins. 

Products: Darkroom Door - Texture Stamps - Criss Cross, Darkroom Door - Eclectic Butterfly, Darkroom Door - Love Wordblock, Simon Says Sequins, Ranger Distress Paints -Ripe Persimmons, Salty Oceans

Thanks for stopping by!

Suzz

Welcome to the Family

The Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge this week is  Family!  Being inspired by family means different things to me.  I spend some thinking about what I would create..  I started thinking of the definition of family which had me pulling out an old dictionary that I have on hand to pull pages to use in my art.

I had purchased this cheap dictionary awhile ago when one of the kids needed one for school. 

I went through the dictionary and pulled out the definitions for family, sister, and brother.

I tore around the edges and taped it down onto a piece of white cardstock.  I painted around the edges with white acrylic paint.  I sponged and distressed the edges with brown dye ink.  I then circled and underlined the words.

I stamped trees to represent the family tree. I stamped splatter using he same brown ink.

I then added in a few smattering of birds flying across the sky.  I pulled out this cute baby chipboard button and added welcome to the right half and took the stamped home an added it on the front.  I used a metal embellishment and layered on a few background panels to finish my card.  I thought this would make a cute baby card.

Products:  Ranger Archival Ink - Jet Black,   White Acrylic Paint,  Ranger Distress Ink - Walnut Stain,  Darkroom Door - Splatter,  Darkroom Door - Home Sweet Home, Darkroom Door - Trees, Visual Artistry - Lost and Found,  Idea-Ology - Metal Word Bands, Natural Hemp, Brown Cardstock, Melissa Frances Adopted Ancestors

For an opportunity to  win a   Simon Says Stamp $50 Gift Voucher come join in on the fun!

Thanks for stopping by!

Suzz

Tags A Plenty

I have been walking in and out of my craft room all day working on a series of tags inspired by Tim's Tag of August.

 A lovely play on tissue tape, distress stains and bits and pieces of metal accents.

I started with a masculine series of tags which I decided to give up on when I re-read Tim's post about muse and how he picked out a variety of different items to fuel his project.  I decided to start again and use a new stamp set for me to inspire my next series of tags.

 I ended up with two variations of the same tag.  I kept plaing with different textures and backgrounds. On the first tag I inked up the Hero Arts doily stamp with yellow paint and stamped it in the background before I put down the tissue tape.  I stenciled with white embossing paste with the doily layering stencil on either corner and the number stencil.

On my second tag I used different stencils and added some additional stamping.

 I ended up with one more tag but I am sharing to use with another project for a future challenge.

Thanks for stopping by!

Suzz

Travel the World

I've been playing again with the new Darkroom Door  texture stamp scratches. 

I started with stamping the scratches over the entire surface using Ranger Archival Ink - Potting Soil. 

I waned something with texture in the main image to blend with the scratches and the scenic image from the bicycle stamp worked beautifully. I added a row of numbers along the bottom from the Home Sweet Home set.  

I had a brown edge from the bicycle image so to separate the two areas I added a bit of chain stapled to the dividing line. I used it on top to hang a charm.

Something fun for me to play around with.

Have a great Friday!

Suzz

Summery Blossoms

I have been playing with the new splatter texture stamp from Darkroom Door.  I used it on a panel that I was going to use as a background.

I started with a panel inked up with a mix of yellow and orange splatter.  I then decided to ink up the pretty flowers with a mix of the same inks and stamp them in the panel.  I decided to create some texture by cutting layers out of the panel and distressing the edges.

Products: Darkroom Door - Splatter Texture, Simple Sayings, Bold Blossoms, Ranger Distress Ink - Mustard Seed, Ripe Persimmons, Fired Brick

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Suzz

"J" is for....

J is for ?  The Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge this week is all about being inspired by the letter "J".   My tag became a  "Just in Time" project.

I was playing with a sherbert array of colors and painted them on my gelli plate to look like this:

I made about 3 backgrounds for this and then waited too long and my last sheet ended up sticking to my gelli plate.  I peeled it off and soaked my gelli plate to get it clean.  I decided I liked the torn texture on the background and used it as the base for my tag.

I laid the honeycomb stencil over the background and sponged on a layer of brown dye ink randomly over the surface.

I stamped the flower using black ink and colored with watercolor pencils.  I stamped the sentiment and ended up embossing it in black embossing powder.  I then stamped the flourishes around the edges along with pretty trim.  I highlighted everything with a touch of white gel pen. 

I stamped the butterflies on another scrap of the backround and colored them to coordinate.

Products: Wendy Vecchi - The Beauty,  Tim Holtz Layering Stencil - Honeycomb,  Stampers Anonymous - Artful Artifacts, Ranger Archival Ink - Jet Black,  Stampers Anonymous - Butterflies & Moths , Memento Dye Ink - Black White Acrylic Paint,  Signo Uni-Ball White Gel Pen,
Black Embossing Powder, Ranger Distress Ink - Walnut Stain,  Pearls,  Paper Artsy Fresco Finish - JOFY,  PaperArtsy Fresco Finish - Eclectic, PaperArtsy Fresco Finish  Beach Hut,
Gelli Plate

For an opportunity to  win a   Simon Says Stamp $50 Gift Voucher all you need to do is share your midsummer inspiration.  

Thanks for stopping by!

Suzz

Mixed Media Birthday

Blessed Sunday to you!  I had some time to play this morning and created a few different projects while playing with the new Darkroom Door release.  The new texture stamps are fabulous and perfect for a little mixed media touch.  I decided to join in on the Mixed Media Challenge around the house.  I used an old toothbrush to sprinkle on my white acrylic paint.

I am swimming in cards and other projects but when the girls are looking for a birthday card for their friends they say there aren't any to be found.  I decided today to try something a little more free form to see if this would suit a girl teenager.  Although when I finished I realized this would make a pretty anniversary or wedding card.

I started with spraying an area on white cardstock using Tattered Angel - Cornflower blue Glimmer Mist.  After that dried II  spritzed a layer of white acrylic paint mixed with water to add a touch of white inky sprinkles. Next I used the Hero Arts - White chalk ink with the new Weathered Stripes texture stamps  to stamp stripes across vertically.      I decided to turn the stamp and repeat the stamping to give a hash mark effect.

I took the new splatter stamp  stamped in Ranger Archival - Blue Violet   and added random bits of color along with a few hearts from the Fun & Games  set.   I added the birthday sentiment from the Simple Sayings. 

Thanks for stopping by!

Suzz