Scrap-Mart Guest Designer and Tag Tuesday!

Back in December Scrap-Mart had their first Blog Hop and I was one of the grand prize winners of the Letter Press Combo Kit, which includes the Epic Six die cutting tool! Of course I had to play and love the ease of use!  The larger cutting platforms are a very nice feature!  Next, I have to play with the letter press part of this!!  Thanks again Scrap-Mart for the prize and guest designer spot!

If that was not enough of a surprise, Scrap-Mart asked me to be a Guest Designer!  Talk about a double win!  For more details on how I made this Valentine's Day tag, which is also going over to visit Louise for Tag Tuesday, visit the Scrap-Mart blog and tell them Terry says, "Hi."  There is some great art there!!!

Have a wonderful day and thank you for stopping by!

Tin Man Looking for Love!

With Valentine's Day just around the corner, I knew I had to incorporate this Tin Man from Artistic Outpost. When this plate was first released, I just had to have it! My DH loves the "Wizard of Oz" and I knew I would be using this image, but was not sure quite how. Well it all started with Linda and the new CCC#29 challenge of "Weathered Wood Grunge." I know this does not look like wood, but I did the technique to use for the love season! A fun and new group I have joined, Bella Creations, is having a "February Love Ticket" challenge and a sheet of these tickets can be found at Miss CutiePie! The Tin Man is also going in search of a heart and love at ARTchix Studio, The Cheerful Stamp Pad and Tag Tuesday.  And since The Wizard Of Oz is such a delightful childhood memory, we are off to see the kind people at Simon Says Stamp and Show.

I stamped the image and also made a mask. I stamped it twice as I wanted to tear the sentiment, which is part of the image. I then stamped a third time, so I could emboss the heart shaped clock in red! I used both Copic and Stampin Up markers to color the image (I gave him greenish eyes) then masked the Tin Man and city off. I used distress inks and then misted and blotted the excess water. Oh I had to do all of this twice, because for whatever reason, the first time when I lifted off the mask the face got torn! If it can happen, I can do it! I then stamped the second sentiment to add below the heart! Silly me also punched out the tiny hearts, shaded and glued them down. I have no doubt that the Tin Man will not only find a heart, but plenty of love!

Wishing you all a wonderful weekend and your visits and comments are always so enjoyed!

Quad Play!!

This week at Tag Tuesday, Louise has us doing front and back and it was fun to add interest to both sides! Vicki of The Cheerful Stamp Pad has two challenges currently running and one is for "Leaves" and the other "Giving Thanks," so my tag is playing double duty there. There is also a challenge prize at Vicki's and it is a delightful package of paper from the Paper Temptress, so if you have anything leaf or thanks oriented, link it up. We are also joining the GC76 color challenge at Gingersnap Creations. The snappers are using Eggplant, Pumpkin and Avocado as their colors and I loved combining those! The background is also done using the Antique Glimmers technique from the Technique Junkies! The leaf stamps and sentiment are from Heartfelt Creations and the Giving Thanks are PSX stamps.

Wishing all of you a wonderful weekend and your visits are very much enjoyed and appreciated!

GC72 Color Challenge and Tag Tuesday Banners

Today is kind of a bitter sweet day for me, so I decided to just play!  This tag is for the newest challenge at Gingersnap Creations "Neutrals plus one Color" and also Tag Tuesday's Banners.  Yesterday I started to play with this awesome witch from Scrolls Work Stamps and I knew what I wanted to do with her, but then the rest of my stamps came in (Super Woo Hoo) and I got different ideas!  The background is smoked, literally!  I've done it in decorative painted and just carry it along with cards.  If you do this, keep your distance from the candle and be in a safe place.  After you achieve you desired soot effect, do a light spray of matt sealer.  I then stamped my image and masked the other clouds to do my sunset.  I also stamped a couple of extra times, because I wanted to emboss my bats.  Oh I guess I like spending a ton of time cutting out!  The tree has quite a few steps and yes it was cut out.  I love dimension!  The tree was embossed with black on ivory paper and then I added brown and black to the entire tree.  The fence and corner spider web are all new Tim Holtz Sizzix line and those came from my Local Enabler (Scrapbooking Made Simple).  I added a little grass near the base of tree which both came from Scrolls Work Stamp!  I used two techniques from the Technique Junkies, which if you don't subscribe, you really should!  It is a totally awesome group!

Hope you all are having a wonderful cool down and enjoying this first day of Fall!  I truly appreciate your visits!

Triple Play Challenge!

We are now at the 12th week of the Compendium of Curiosities over at Studio L3. Linda had us open our books to page 44 to do Chipped Enamel! Now I will say that I was not real enthused to do this one, because I did not think "the process" was very attractive. Once I actually did it, I liked the look! Now my color selection was limited, so I made do with what I had. Thanks again Linda for the push to go through each and every technique in the book! You are awesome!!!

Simon Says Stamp and Show wants layers this week, so I layered some paper, which was die cut on the top and bottom with TH "On the Edge." I think the flowers also count as layers along with the butterflies! The designer paper is from Tim Holtz "Lost and Found."

Louise at Tag Tuesday is looking for butterflies this week. I used the three step process of Kitchen Sink Stamps and then clear embossed to kind of blend in with the Chipped Enamel. BTW, this is the first time I did these butterflies and the finished pieces are quite nice! No one really likes to cut out items, but I wanted extra "Layers." All was finished off with my favorite embellishment - Pearls!

Sure hope all of you are having a wonderful week! Thanks so much for the visit!

Simon Says Stamp and Show and Tag Tuesday!

Another double duty challenge piece for Tag Tuesday and Simon Says Stamps and Show. Louise told us no paper for the tag and Simon Says has us going Wendy Vecchi style. So here is my take on both. I cut out my design on a saved cardboard shirt shaper (?) and added double sided adhesive. Cut out the shape with and old pair of DH Levi's and that toped the cardboard. Then with part of the denim, I add again double sided adhesive and there went an old pair of curtains! On the empty spaces, I added glitter. The flowers were then again added to grunge paper to add a little dimension. Yes, it would have been far easier to just ink and stamp on the grunge!!  The window frame and leaves are stamped with "Love" from TH stamps. The bird was punched and stamped! Wow, that sounded pretty violent to me! BTW, my bird Fred turned 23 on the 16th and that is very old for a Patagonia!! The denim house was outlined in a bronze marker. I have never done "Wendy" style and don't have any of her products, so was very far out of my comfort zone with this one. 

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Have a wonderful evening!

I won a RAK from Sarah of Vintage Figments

Sometimes I feel like a little child! Last week Sarah of Vintage Figments hosted Tag Tuesday for Louise and the theme was to use a Mannequin! The generous and lovely Sarah was going to select one lucky person to receive a RAK package! Was that sweet and awesome of Sarah or what?? Well as luck would have it, I am that lucky person! I was going to post my RAK win from Sarah, when it arrived, but just could not hold off on sharing my excitement!!

Thank you again so much Sarah and Louise! I promise I will share my treasures! Have a wonderful evening!

Tag Tuesday "Mannequin Template."

Today at Tag Tuesday the challenge is to use a mannequin template, which I used pinking shears to cut out. Both my Mom and I use to sew and recently I have been thinking about taking her old little sewing cabinet and going through it. Let's just say that this challenge encouraged me to take this out of my garage and look through it after six years. Kind of a bittersweet day. The items out of her basket/cabinet are the rhinestones around the neck, the netting with the metallic hearts and maybe flowers over the mannequin, the pearl lace trim at the waistline, the ruffled lace at the bottom, the detailed metal button and large safety pin.

I did the "Antique Glimmers" technique from the Technique Junkies. The background stamp is from Lost Coast Designs and I guess I kind of did a collage with that. Did not want it to go in one direction. I would have added buttons, but there were not any and I wanted to to have Mom's stuff! Here is a button close up.

Thank you for popping on over and as always, your comments are deeply appreciated! Have a wonderful evening!

Tag Tuesday Christmas Colors in July

For the Tuesday Tag Challenge, Louise has chosen "Christmas Colors," but you are not to use Christmas Stamps! The first thing that came to my mind was to use the new Tim Holtz Halloween stamps that I ordered from eclectic Paperie! Once I saw a couple of my favorite people using "Halloween," that made the decision easy! I also knew I was going to use another new Sizzix die that I picked up from Stacey. These are pretty huge wings and would look great in scrapbook layouts or wall hangings! The wings and tag background are embossed and highlighted. The background for the witches face, bat and crow were done with various alcohol inks in shades of green. All images were embossed. I added red color to the eyes using a alcohol marker and added a red pearl eye to the crow and other flashy bling to the tag and wings.

This was another fun challenge! Thanks you for stopping by and commenting! Have a wonderful weekend!

Tag Tuesday Challenge #60 Faces

Faces are the theme this week at Tag Tuesday! For some reason with all the financial concerns that so many people are dealing with these days, I decided to make a little light of the situation. When I have an extra few dollars, I like to invest in the stock market and if any of you are in the market, I don't have to tell you how stressful it can be. So speaking of stress, all I could think about was "Loud Larry" from Scrolls Work just yelling about how stressed he is! The money used is mine and I reduced the size to make little monies! Some were reduced to 25% and that is how it feels at times!! The background paper is from Graphic 45 and is Wall Street paper! Oh "Loud Larry" does have blue eyes to go with the blue background paper. I did stamp out a few, incase I removed any body parts and lucky me, I did not. The extras I gave a little color to the mouth area only, but just did not like him colored with the style of this paper.

Hope you all enjoy my "Stock Market" humor! Have a most wonderful weekend and as always, the blog and I thank you for visiting!

Double Duty Tag

I decided to enter this tag for two challenges! For the first challenge at Studio L3, the lovely Linda has taken us to page 43 of the "Compendium of Curiosities," week five!! Louise at Tag Tuesday has us with the theme of "Hearts," Challenge #59. This is my first time working with Distress EP and although I like that there is no shine, I am not sure that I would use it again for sentiments. I wanted kind of a rainbow effect, so used five different colors of EP and do like how that came out. Just wish the lettering would have held onto more crystals! This was quite enjoyable to work with a new product and come up with a combined design for two challenges! Fun, Fun, Fun!

The background music stamp is from Impression Obsession. I die cut and embossed the heart and wings using Tim's new Sizzix line and added pearls. Thanks for popping by and commenting, which I always do appreciate. Have a fantastic weekend!

Tag Tuesday Challenge #58 -- Summer

Here is my challenge piece for Tag Tuesday! Red/White/Blue papers were 1/2" cuts adhered to the tag. BBQ stamp is an older Stampin Up set. The BBQ was embossed and then I cut out a separate base to give a little pop! Hot dog is layered on top of the bun (of course). Could not resist the beer bottle cap!

Have a safe and wonderful 4th of July!

Tag Tuesday Challenge #57 - - Postage

Another Tag Tuesday and this was an easy choice as to the postage to use.  My DH gave me "create a stamp" postage gift and I knew I wanted a picture of my parents on the stamp.  It was my way of sending them all over the country and to somehow keep their spirit always flying!  The stamp is from I Brake for Stamps.

I used the Antique Glimmers from the Technique Junkies on the background of the stamped image.  Here is an actual close up of the postage stamp.  Thank you for stopping by for a visit!

Tag Tuesday Challenge #56 - MEN

This is my first "Tag Tuesday" challenge and I have been wanting to play for awhile.  since the theme is "Men" and Father's Day is on Sunday, I thought why not make a tag!!!  The "Sugar Daddy" actually was an idea that I got from a good friend, while we stopped by for a brief visit on Sunday.  she "lovingly" referred to her husband as a "Sugar Daddy."  those words stuck in my mind and I knew that I had to use them for my "Sugar Daddy," which are die cuts from Tim Holtz Sizzix Decorative Strip, Vintage Market.  The letters were also embossed.  The truck (applied with dimensionals) and gear (steering wheel) are also TH.  The lower background stamp is from Stampin Up and I wanted the back and white garage floor look.  I wish I had just masked it myself to achieve a smaller pattern print. 

Oh, the picture is of my DH on our wedding day.  Thanks for taking a look!  It has been fun to play along.