Happy Valentine's Day! 2 of 3

 Hello Friends!

Here is the last frame I made out of the six. It's for my nephew who likes Stem.

I gessoed the wooden frame first. And when I painted it with paint I could see areas that didn't get paint. So I left it like that-you can see the white peaking through. I feel like it adds personality to the frame. I used a Tim Holtz stencil for that computer board looking lines and Finnabair gold wax. Then I added clay stars and used vintage gold Finnabair wax on them. I glued little metal gears to the others side and a clay heart with wax on it. I stamped the atom and the carbons at the top using Close to My Heart stamps and Ranger Archival ink. Those stamps go with a chemistry stamp set-so cute! I got it a few years ago. 

Thank you for stopping by! I hope your day is awesome! :)

Valentine Frames

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Welcome to Day 13 of my 14 Days of Valentine's Day Craftiness.  I am excited to show you the frames I decorated in a pack that I bought from Hobby Lobby.  I showed one yesterday and I am going to show you 4 today. So I am leaving 1 frame for tomorrow. :)

All of the frames started like this:

I either gessoed it or

I put light modeling paste through this simon says stamp stencil.  

From there I painted and decorated. I First painted this frame pink.

Then I added a little white paint and sprayed water on the frame. Then I added some crimson Ken Oliver watercolor powder.  And then I added some purple.

Here you can see a close up. So fun! I also hot glued some paper studio flowers and this cool snazzy heart both from Hobby Lobby. And the butterfly I had in my stash :)

 
                                                      

The second frame was just gessoed. And I didn't have any purple craft paint so I borrowed some fancy acrylic paint from my husband how does fine art painting from time to time. Swoon! This color is so pretty!  I was able to create an ombre effect. I had this love charm and hot glued the back of it so it wouldn't come off and get lost. I also had these paper flowers from Kaiser and they matched the ombre perfectly.

This frame recieved light modeling paste hearts. I painted with the same purple paint as above but just did one color. However if you notice the top left and bottom right corners are a bit white that is because I used a white matte Finnabair wax on it to give a little highlight for dimension. The flower is a clay flower I painted with Finnabair Opal magic Pink paint so sometimes it will have blue colors in the light.  Then I used twine for a metal key.  I also painted the 3 wooden hearts with the same opal paint.

I painted this frame red after the light modeling paste dried. I hot glued the Paper Studio paper flowers to the corner. And then I balanced it with another jazzy gem heart from Hobby Lobby.

These were so fun to share with you! I hope you enjoyed them also. Thank you for stopping by and I hope you come back tomorrow to see the last frame and the rest of the Valentine's Day projects. :)

Christmas Thank You Cards With Palm Trees and Flamingos

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Happy New Year! I love January because there is this energy of new hope and goals.  And they are achievable because nothing is going on right now LOL.  And then once February comes along and time starts to go faster and the calendar fills up with obligations.  But until then-I am going to enjoy January! :)

So I was able to make some Christmas Thank you cards in the nice quiet after the new year. 

I have used this stamp before-it's from Close to My Heart.  An oldie but a goodie.  I used a paper pad from the Paper Studio (Hobby Lobby) for the backgrounds and cardstock.  On this card I used gold ink from Colorbox. And also some cardstock.

This one has Paper Studio background paper.  Close to my Heart stamp and the die cut sentiment is one of my favorites from Queen and Company.

So the next set of stamps have flamingos from Taylored Expressions.  This is the first time I have used stamps from them.  I also got the matching die cuts and that is a wonderful thing!  Most of the time I am a fussy cutter but with their skinny little legs it's nice to have the matching die.

Some pop dots and twine were added to this one.  And that sentiment is a Fiskars stamp (also used above).

Glittery Stickles close up :)

For this card I added a present stamp from Stampin Up.  It's fairly new-I think released last year.  

A big thank you for stopping by!  Until next time! :)