Bird's the Word

Hello Everybody!

There's a new challenge at For Fun Challenges!  National Bird Day was Saturday-so in honor of that we must use a bird on our projects.  If you have more than one bird that is ok too! ;)  You can use eagles, flamingos, song birds, parrots, and I could go on!  I chose this little bird from the Girl's Paperie for my card.  The sentiment is from Mynnette Kitchen-I won it!  Yay! :)  Scroll on down, and I will share some more details!

I am also submitting this card into the following challenge:

Our Creative Corners: Color Challenge-Aqua and Pink Plus a Flower

The flowers and pearls are from Recollections.  There is a doily behind the pink circle (Core'dination Paper, Spellbinders circle) and a strip of tissue tape from Tim Holtz. 

Oh!  And the sentiment is a digi stamp so I printed it on glossy paper (along with some photos I was printing) and then I used Aqua Alcohol Ink around the edge of it.  

I can't wait to see what ya'll create!  Thank you to everybody that played last week!  Until next time my friends....Bird's the Word (hehe).

Merci!

Hello Everybody!

I am so excited to show you my card!  I made the background for it and I used mica for the first time!  Ok so let's take care of business first and then I can show you my card! :)

I am submitting this card to the following challenges:

Simon Says Stamp and Show: Inspiration Francaise-Eiffel Tower stamp from Hero Arts

Our Creative Corner: Make Your Own Background-inks and stamps

Moxie Fab World: Alphabet Stickers Challenge-Greeting on the card

So here's my card.  I bought a new little easel to hold my cards.  Yay! :)  I guess I will figure out if I will crop it out but for now there it is.  I also bought in that same little shopping trip some mica bits.  They are from Stampendous and have 5 different colors.  I have seen mica forever-but now I have some.  So I applied glue to the edges of the black cardstock to get it to stick.  I did this after I gold embossed the Eiffel Tower.  Then I sprayed gold Pearls Mist onto it.

Here is my background.  I love this background-so it must be one of the prettiest ones I have made.  LOL!  I used spiced marmalade and bronze distress stain and mustard seed and rusty hinge distress ink.  I applied them to my mat and spritzed a little water.  The result is just awesome!  Then I stamped the script on top.  But that wasn't enough.  So after this picture I went back and added swirls and polka dots using stamps by Stephanie Barnard (I got them a loooong time ago at CKU).

Here's a close up of my card.  The title is made from Making Memories sticker letters.

Thank you for stopping by!  Until next time my friends...Bonsoir!

A Distress Stained Halloween Card

Hello Everybody!

Hope all is well!  Happy Labor Day to those who don't actually have to labor on it! ;)

Tonight I made card for Halloween.  I am entering it into the following challenges:

retro sketches #27

Our Creative Corner: Resist and Wings

Simon Says Stamp Blog: Anything Goes

Here's my card!  I made the colored papers with white card stock and Distress Stains: spiced marmalade, stormy sky, and bundled sage.  The background paper has all three and then each layer after is each color by itself.

The pumpkin is the resist.  I used clear embossing powder on the Martha Stewart Stamp.  After I heated it, I swiped it through the Spiced Marmalade Distress Stain.  I used a Martha Stewart spider web punch for the bottom of the black layer.  I used Maya Arts twine.

The wings are the 2 bats (I didn't think I had the wings....and then I found these little bats from Cloud 9).  Yay!! :)  The sentiment is a plastic embellishment from Recollections at Michael's.

Thank you for stopping by!  Until next time my friends...no tricks--only treats :)

July 4th Wall Hanging

Hello Everybody,

I couldn't wait to get this posted and share with you!  I am submitting my wall hanging into 4 challenges:

1. Studio L3-A Compendium of Curiosities Volume II-Page 37 Tissue Wrap Flower Challenge 10.  The sponsor this week is The Funkie Junkie Boutique with a gift card for $25 to their shop.  So there is still a little time to play-so c'mon!

2. Simon Says Stamp and Show-A Bit of Brown!  There is a little spot on the right hand bottom corner that the cardboard is exposed and the burlap is a light brown and peaks out through some of the distress ink.  They are giving a $50 gift card to their store.

3. Our Creative Corner-Buttons and Burlap or Bow or Both-I used burlap to hang my art piece, and I put 3 buttons on the right side.

4. Just Us Girls-Red White and Blue

Here it is:

Here it is hanging on the wall.  Scroll on down, and I'll show you a few highlights!

My husband received this seed circular in the mail (it's an advertisement like a catalog).  I had flipped through it and made sure that when he was done that it didn't get thrown away.

It has some colored pages but the best are these black and white ones.  I know that I have paper that looks like this but I should save that ;)

The circular is the same size as my piece of cardboard.  So I took a piece out of the book and used Hodge Podge to glue it onto my cardboard.

Back in May I went to the Scrapbook Expo and bought this cool "paper" at Tall Mouse.

They also had these glitter sheets and bling sheets.  It was an awesome booth!

So I painted a place on my paper with white paint to help make the red pop.

I used my tiny attacher (Tim Holtz) to put the "paper" on my project.  I think I just used 2 little staples and knew I was going to cover them up.

Then I put glittery blue and silver behind my picture.  I used craft glue dots to adhere my picture.  Craft dots are big and thick sort of like a 3-D dot.  I added brad stars and buttons.  The July is made from Making Memories stickers.  The year is from Kaiser rub-ons.

Here's the burlap that I used to hang the wall hanging.

I used faded jeans and red brick to color the burlap.

Here are the tissue flowers.  They are so much fun to make!

I used red and blue distress ink on the background paper and the sealed it with Modge Podge.  I don't know if the paper will turn (it probably will unless it was sealed).

Here a close up of the buttons and the bit of brown down by the grapes in the right hand corner.

Here my project again.  Thank you for stopping by!  Until next time my friends...time to get out the  red, white, and blue!