Dreamweaver Stencils Challenge

You still have 2 more weeks to play along with the DWS challenge this month...February Flutters!  A quick post from me...moving day was 2 days ago and I still can't find anything!

Today I'm sharing a card that I created with the new Zen Flower stencil.  I used the double glitter technique and Tim Holtz's dry stickles glitters.  Fast and easy card because thats how I wish my life were this week...easy...

February Flutters

Are you ready for a new challenge from Dreamweaver Stencils for this month?  How about February Flutters...its open wide to interpretation, anything that flutters: a heart, wings, something in the wind...

Head to the Dream It Up bog for all the details on entering and a chance to win!

My card this week is one that I never posted from the last release for some reason, LOL.  It uses one of the new fabulous dies that coordinate perfectly with the stencils!  I used the Apron die all on its own for this card, cutting it 4 times with 4 coordinating pattern papers.  All the edges were distressed with Tim Holtz Frayed Burlap distress ink (Ranger).  I then carefully pieced it back together.

So why an apron?  Well the strings flutter of course!

Now head over to see what my teammates have created for you:

Dream It Up! 

Laura Drahozal 

Lyn Bernatovich 

Pam Hornschu 

Heidi Erickson 

Louise Healy  

Cyndi Bundy

Dreamweaver Sneak Peek

Its Challenge day at Dreamweaver Stencils and this month has been all about loosing weight, or keeping your cards clean and simple.  I'm sharing a peek at a new stencil today called Crusade Background.  This is one of my new absolute favs!

I used the double glitter technique so its not totally simple.  The technique can be quite easy but I picked a detailed stencil so it was a bit more of a challenge, LOL, but the final result is still clean with not many layers.

I used Tim Holtz's Stickles Dry glitter along with Double sided mounting paper for this technique.  The sentiment was created the same way with the Merci Stencil.

Here's a list of everyone from the Dream Team who's posting today:

Dream It Up!

Louise Healy

Cyndi Bundy

Terrece Siddoway

Cherylynn Moser

Lyn Bernatovich

Pam Hornschu

Lea Kimmel

A bit of Stampendous style Mixed Media

Welcome back to sneak peek week for Stampendous! Fran designed some really gorgeous Mixed Media Stamps this round including the new Mixed Media Dress Form stamp set.  Below is a snippet from one of the journal pages that I sent in for the January catalog using Dress Form plus a few other new stamps.

I began with my Creative Palette and some Tim Holtz Distress Paints, brayered them on and lifted a print using templates from the new Mixed Media sets.  I continued to add more paint and more layers with the templates as well as the background from Dress Form as well as stamps from some of the new Stack Art rubber stamp kits.

The Dress Form I stamped last using Versamark Ink and Vintage Mahogany Embossing Tinsel.

Here's a closer shot of how part of the background turned out:

Be sure to keep checking out the Stampendous blog for more peeks this week!

Dreamweaver Stencils with Tim Holtz Distress Paint

Good morning!  Today is the first Thursday of the month and time for a new challenge at Dreamweaver Stencils.  Its all about Holiday gift giving this month.  AND this week we are partnering with Ranger Ink using Tim Hotlz's Distress Paints.  We are also partnering with Beacon all this month.

Today I upcycled a Tazo Tea tin for a ready made gift box.  I painted the top of the tin with the Distress paint then set that aside to dry while I worked on the rest of the tin.

I pulled out my Gelli plate and brayered some Distress paint across that, laid down some stencils and transfered the monoprint onto sticky back canvas.

The ornament die was cut from Tim Holtz tissue paper that was adhered t mixed media paper using Fast Finish from Beacon then painted.

I added part of the Joyeux Noel stencil on top, stenciled onto painted canvas with Red Label paste.  This was then added to the front of the tin after tying some Tim Holtz Crinkle ribbon around the top of the ornament.

Supplies:

Joyeux Noel, Large Flourish, Big Dots stencils (Dreamweaver Stencils)
Red Label embossing Paste (Dreamweaver)

Mowed Lawn, Evergreen Bough, Pine Needles, Picked Raspberry, Festive Berries, Aged Mahogany Distress Paint (Ranger)

Claudine Helmuth Sticky back canvas (Ranger)

Tim Holtz Carved Ornaments die (Sizzix)

Gelli plate

Brayer

Tazo tea tin

Here's who's playing today, so be sure to go leave some love:

Dream It Up!

Linda Neff (GD)

Cyndi Bundy

Lyn Bernatovich

Terrece Siddoway

Wendy Jordan

Heidi Erickson

Cherylynn Moser

Laura Drahozal

Louise Healy

Stacey Rumsby

Pam Hornschu

Lea Kimmel

Pumpkin Kiddo

This week is Stampendous' Kiddos showcase week and I have a cute little Pumpkin Kiddo card for you today.  Is she a little doll or what?  I haven't been coloring much lately but the kiddos are always fun to color with copics, speccies, pencils, or whatever you choose.

I colored her with my copics  (E00, E000, YR68, YR16, YR12, YG17, YG23, YG21, E27, E25) then cut her out with a Lifestyle Crafts die and put her aside.

My background was created by filling in a white sheet of cardstock with Tim Holtz Distress ink in Peeled Paint, Spiced Marmalade, and Broken China using a blending tool.  I then stamped the Haunting Background over that in Black archival ink.  She was finished with some layering and a bit of fun chevron ribbon from May Arts.

Be sure to check out what the rest f the team is posting this week on the Stampendous blog.

Gelli Printing with Tim Holtz Distress Paints

Good morning!  I'm up today on Paper Craft Planet with a tutorial for you using my Gelli plate and the new Tim Holtz Distress paint colors.  Here's the finished journal page that I did in my Dylusions Mini Journal:

First you need to gather your supplies.  I used my Gelli plate, Tim Holtz Distress Paint, Tim Holtz's new layering stencils,  and a brayer.

Even though the Distress Paints have a dauber on top its easier for this technique to open the lid and pour out a few drops.  Be careful, the distress paint is more fluid than most paints you would usually use for Gelli-printing so it pours out quickly!

Next brayer the paint into a thin coat, slightly mixing the colors but not too much.  You still want to see the variegation.  After I brayered it out I used a spatula (that I cut grooves into) to create some texture.

Place your journal or other paper onto the Gelli plate and rub.

Next I cleaned the rest of the greens off and brayered some reds. I added a stencil on top then pressed my page over the gelli again.

This is what it looked like at this point:

Next I added darker greens and a new stencil and transfered that to my page:

Then it looked like this:

I added some background stamping an inked y edges with the dark green paint:

Finally I added some Dylusions images that I stamped on watercolor paper and colored with a waterbrush and distress paint:

Supplies:

Gelli plate (Gelli Arts)

Brayer (Ranger)

Aged Mahogany, Festive Berries, Evergreen Bough, Pine Needles, Bundled Sage Distress Paint (Ranger)

Black Archival pad (Ranger)

Christmas Backgrounds, Christmas Borders, Christmas Words, Day of the Heads Dylusions stamps (Ranger)

Distress Watercolor paper (Ranger)

Dylusions small journal (Ranger)

Copic multi liner

Do you have a gelli plate that you bought and then stashed away?  Pull it out and try it!

Stampendous and 3L Scrapbook Adhesives

Good morning!  This week Stampendous is teaming up with Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L.  I have a card for you peeking one of the newest Jumbo Stamps,  Top Hat Snowman.  Is he the cutest little fat snowman ever or what?

He's been stamped and embossed with Vintage Mahogany Tinsel, colored with my Copics and then cut out and popped up with my favorite ever dimensional adhesive,  Crafty Foam Tape.  It comes in a big roll and I can tear off whatever length I want instead of having to use a million foam squares!

My background was stamped with one of the other stamps in the set, repeating over my entire background in Festve Berries Distress ink.  I also added a touch of Washi Tape and a button on top of that using Dodz (a double sided adhesive like a glue dot).

Supplies:

Jumbo Top Hat Snowman (Stampendous)

Vintage Mahogany Embossing Tinsel (Stampendous)

Festive Berries Distress ink (Ranger)

Versamark Ink (Tsukineko)

Kraft, White cardstock

Dodz, Crafty Foam Tape, My Stik (3L)

Washi tape (Bella Blvd)

Button (stash)

twine (May Arts)

Copics (E79, E74, E71, R89, R59, R29, R27, G24, G21, B21, YR14)

Playing today:

Stampendous Impressions

Scrapbook Adhesives Blog

Jamie Martin

Krissy Fossmeyer

Lea Kimmel

Rhea Weigand

Gelli printing in my Dylusions Mini Journal

Here's a page for you that I did in my Mini Journal a few weeks ago but never got around to blogging about for some reason. 

I began by playing around with my Gelli plate for the first time...yeah me!!  On top of the Gelli background I stamped a small border in Archival then added some cut outs from new Dylusions sets...This Old House, Day of the Heads, and Pin Up Queen.  I stamped my images on watercolor paper then colored them with Dylusions ink.

Hope you enjoy!  I'm at a weekend of classes with Dyan Reaveley, Wendy Vecchi, Canvas Corp, Petaloo, Maya Road and more!  Pics to come soon!

Shattered Circles Flowers

A couple of weeks ago I taught my first Pan Pastels class at Betty's.  It was an all day affair and tons of fun.  After we worked in our Visual Journals learning new techniques we put some of those techniques to use in creating this small canvas.

The flowers were created with Julie Fei-Fan Balzer's Shattered Circles stencils from The Crafter's Workshop.  The larger ones were done with the 12x12 version using Molding Paste and then painted over with the Pan Pastels. The smaller ones were done with the same stencil in the 6x6 version and we painted directly through the stencil.

Inside circles are book text punched out.  Stems were free painted and the leaves were stenciled with Dyan Reaveley's newest Leaf Flourish stencil.

The sentiment on the tag is from a relatively new Tim Holtz set called Way with Words.

Here's a few pics from the class:

I had a fun crowd this day, Lynn, Kathy, Sharon, Judy, Peggy, and Dow.  

That's a lot of Pan Pastel love going on!

If you'd like to schedule a Pan Pastel class, leave me a comment and we'll schedule one on the store.  I can also travel to you if you are in the Carolinas area but not local and can gather some friends.

Stampendous Jumbo Leaves Journal page

Today I have a journal page that I created last week featuring the new Jumbo Leaves from Stampendous.  I wanted to play with mixing Glimmer Mist sprays and my Pan Pastels and the clear FREE masks that come with the new Jumbo stamps were a perfect pairing!

I began by placing the leaf masks over my blank journal page and then spraying Glimmer Mists on top then moving the masks and repeating.

I then swiped some light color Pan Pastels across the page and then sponged more Pan Pastels through the Quatrefoil stencil from The Crafter's Workshop by Ronda Palazzari.  Here's a closer look at the masked effect on the finished page:

I also stamped a few of the Jumbo Leaves on the background in Distress ink:

On the side of the page is a piece of Kraft damask cardstock from Canvas Corp that I sprayed with more Glimmer Mist, glued to my page with Beacon Fast Finish, and continued my Pan Pastel stenciling onto.

Finally for the focal point I stamped a bunch of the leaves onto a text print from Bazzill in Versamark and then added a mix of Aged Spice, Aged Scarlet, and Aged Bronze Embossing Enamel to and heated.

I cut these leaves out and added them as a cluster to my page and added a sentiment cutout from Canvas Corp.

Hope you enjoy!  Be sure to check the Stampendous blog for links to more of our DT's fall peeks this week!

Stampendous and Maya Road Blog Hop

Welcome to the Stampendous and Maya Road Blog Hop!  I hope you've had fun this week checking out all the cool projects from both teams :)

Today I have a Mixed Media layout to share with you:

1. Spray Radiant Rain over Mod Spirals stencil onto a 12x12 sheet of watercolor paper.

2. Heat set.

                                                     

3. Paint Hand and Hearts chipboard shapes and Costers from Large Square Coaster Book with Silks acrylic glazes.  Heat set.  

4. Stamp Dream Text onto coasters, hearts, hands in Archival black ink.

5. Edge pieces in black with pad or marker.

6. Spray a scrap of watercolor paper with Radiant Rain.  Heat set.  Stamp just sayin' from Smashing Notes set in archival ink.  Punch out.

7. Adhere coasters to page with Fabri-tac adhesive and dimensional tape.  Adhere other chipboard shapes with fabri-tac.  Add tab with glue stick.

8. Stamp journaling using Tiny alphabet.

Supplies:

Dream Text (Stampendous)

Smashing Notes (Stampendous)

Tiny Alphabet (Stampendous)

Large Square Coaster book (Maya Road)

Hand and Hearts chipboard (Maya Road)

Mod Spirals stencil (The Crafter's Workshop)

Watermelon Mist, Teal Zircon, Carmen silks (Splash of Color)

Ginger Flower, Spanish Moss, Teal Zircon Radiant Rain (SOC)

Archival Black pad (Ranger)

Faber-Castell Brush marker

Fabri-tac adhesive (Beacon)

Glue stick (Ranger)

Dimensional tape (3L)

Watercolor paper (Strathmore)

And, of course, there are PRIZES!! Maya Road will have one grand prize you can win by commenting on their blog, liking them on Facebook, and commenting on their Facebook page. We’ll have three prizes for the week comprised of a Maya Road alterable book (I have two chipboard and one canvas), Some MR chipboard or other embellies, and Stampendous EJK08 White Encrusted Jewel Kit – perfect for covering chipboard with blingy goodness and Stampendous CRW092 Cling Artist Elements and SSC1122 Elegant Borders Perfectly Clear Stamp™ Set. Readers will have until Sunday night September 15th to comment on as many of our team blog posts as they can. Monday we’ll choose three bloggers at random from the week and each blogger will choose one winner from her comments. Winners must have a United States mailing address. Let’s get HOPPIN’

Asia King

Cyndi Bundy

Jamie Martin

Janelle Stollfus

Jennifer Dove

Krissy Fossmeyer

Kristine Reynolds

Lea Kimmel

Stephanie Lee

Suzanne Czosek

Tenia Nelson

Tobi Crawford

The Maya Road Design Team Blog

Stampendous meets Maya Road

Are you ready for  week of fun with Stampendous and Maya Road? I am super excited to be able to combine all my Stampendous goodies with some fun embellishments from Maya Road! 

Today I created a fun Mixed Media fall tag for you.  My focal image is one of the leaves from the new Jumbo Leaves set.  It was embossed with Aged Bronze Embossing Enamel and then colored with Twinkling H2Os.  On top of the leaf I added some small Vintage Paper Posies from Maya Road that I painted with my Twinks.  This was tied together with some May Arts ribbon and then I added a couple of Vintage Pale Pink Pearl Ball pins that I painted with Silks.

The background tag was sprayed with Dylusions and then stamped in Distress Ink with the Leaf Background.

Heres a shot of the painted pins:

I also added a few flourishes from the Decorative Scrolls chipboard set painted in Silk and then partially embossed with Aged Spice and Aged Wine enamels.

Supplies:

Jumbo Leaves (Stampendous)

Leaf Background (Stampendous)

Aged Wine, Aged Spice, Aged Bronze enamels (Stampendous)

Decorative Scrolls Chipboard (Maya Road)

Vintage Ball pins (Maya Road)

Vintage Paper Posies (Maya Road)

Carmen, Boysenberry, Nutmeg Silks (Splash of Color)

Spiced Pumpkin, Wine & Roses, Yellow Roses Twinkling H2Os (SOC)

Pure Sunshine, Crushed Grapes, Squeezed Orange, Cherry Pie Dylusions (Ranger)

Gathered Twigs Distress ink (Ranger)

Versamark pad (Tsukineko)

Fabri-Tac adhesive (Beacon)

May Arts ribbon

Please hop around to see what my Stampendous teamies and the Maya Roadies  have created for you today!  Be sure to leave comments for everyone for more chances to win!

Asia King

Cyndi Bundy

Jamie Martin

Tenia Nelson

Tobi Crawford

The Maya Road Design Team Blog