Easter - Famtasy Easter Ocean, Ching Chou Kuik

Hallo,
  Time for another challenge over at Sweet Pea Stampers blog. This time it is for Easter or Spring. Check out the challenge here - http://thesweetpeastampers.blogspot.co.uk/

 I used a digital image from Ching Chou Kuik called 'Fantasy Easter Ocean' (I have this one in rubber too :)
  I colored her with prismacolor pencils and cut her out with a Spellbinders die and edged it with gold metallic pen - also edged the other 2 layers too....
  I found some pretty pink ribbons and paper, the smaller square is saved from last yeas calendar....and then added some pearl bead swirls and gold corners to finish her off.

  I am off to spend the day with some girlfriends at a big Arts and Crafts fair in Fairhope Alabama - it combines a great art show with tons of arts and crafts. We go every year, it is about a 2 hour drive away so we make a day of it and take our time. I usually come home with a ton of new ideas and a bunch less money :) Lets hope the weather is nice!!!
  I plan to spend the weekend between yard work and the craft room so I am hoping to get a bunch done!!!
   All for now - Take Care
         Tera

Easter Lily

Hallo,
Well another hole in my blog for yesterday but looks like there might be a few more in the weeks to come - I just have gotten a bit behind here at home, the next 2 weeks are softball tournament, and I have decided to dive into my craft room and see if I can get things decluttered a bit ( I bought some big plastic see-through bins today with that in mind) and I am determined to excersis more - so between all that I may not get here as often as I would like, but rest assured it will be as often as I can :).
Todays card was done for the current challenge over at Flourishes which is for 'Easter" I used an out-of-the-box technique (from Technique Junkies) for the flower on the top left. The bottom right flower was stamped, partially colored and then I layered another fully colored flower over the top as I did with the purple on too.
The top layer was cut with a Spellbinders die. The second layer is a really pretty purple embossed with a texture folder. I edged the base layer of white cardstock with the same ink as I used for the phrase. The flowers were colored with copics.
Check out the challenge here - www.flourishes.org/blog/
All for today - gotta get a couple chores done and a nap before work tonight.....tomorrow is a softball game so will try to get up early to go watch my DD play before work....
Have a great week everyone!!!
Tera

Happy Eggs

Hallo,
What a beautiul day we had here in NW Florida - warm and sunny!!! I did several hours of yard work this am - planted some plants and raked some leaves (we have oak trees here in the south that shed their leaves a bit in the fall but even more so in the spring).
I would so much rather do yard work than house work on a day like today - course come summer here in Fl. then not so much (not at all in reality - too HOT)
Well todays project is for the current challenge over at the Outlines blog for 'Easter'. I have had these in the works for several fays but just managed to finally finish them today. I found the eggs at A.C. Moore already colored and with the white stem/hanger on them. I added stamps from Outlines - flowers that I stamped onto patterned paper, embossed and cut out. I added some accents with viva decor pens too.
Check out the challenge here - www.outlineswithkathy.blogspot.com
Take Care
Tera

He has Risen

Hallo,

I am off to bed right quickly here - my bed is every so softly calling my name....it was a busy couple nights at work but I say that alot don't I . It is job security though, so I should not complain. It is one of my favorite sayings that between cigarettes, fast food and denial I will never be without a job.......

I finished off this 8X10 canvus this weekend and am really tickled how it turned out!!!!

I started by painting the white canvus with cream and purple acrylic paint and when it was dry lightly brushed on some gold acrylic paint.

For the next step I got out my glimmer mist and some glimmer screens (from Tattered Angels) and put down a layer of glimmer mist in purple. When that was dry I lightly brushed on a little more of the gold mettalic paint.

The 2 shades of purple cardstock is from 'Paper Temptress' and have a pretty sparkle to them. The main panels were cut with a labels die and the fancy stuff behind is one of the new fancy tags - both from Spellbinders.

The large cross is from 'Holly Berry' and embossed with white embossing powder. All the other stamps are from 'Verve'. I stamped the cross and put on the white embossing powder - then stamped the phrase in black and used black embossing powder.

The wings are a 'Tim Holtz' die cut from heavy cardstock and again from printed paper.

The printed paper comes from an old Bible that I got at a garage sale with some other books. The Bibles cover was in tatters and most of the pages loose.

I glued the Bible pages to the heavy cardstock and then painted the back with cream acrylic paint - swiping some on the front. I had intended to put the wings up over the top edges so the back would show - thats why I painted the backs.....but in the end I liked this arrangement better. Then I added some gold mettalic acrylic paint on the edges and a few swipes....

The corners are also from 'Tim Holtz' and I lightly brushed a little of the gold paint on the texture of the corners so they would show up a bit better.

I stamped 'He has Risen' from the 'Verve' set on each of the 4 sides of the canvus.

Lastly I added some gold bead flourishes to the one side of the canvus.

I just love doing this kind of stuff - I have made a resolution (better late than never I guess) to make time to do more altered work like this.

This canvus went out in the mail today....can't tell who yet :).

I have 3 more canvus prepped to do something similar with. After sleeping a bit today , I plan to get all my chores done so tomorrow I can play all day with my canvus and acrylic paint, and stamps, dies cuts , embossing powders.....well you get the idea.....

Off to bed with me......

Take Care

Tera