Welcome to Paris Tag

Sharing another tag this week using another Julie Nutting mixed media doll stamp by Prima and a long border stamp by Dylusions. My Phoebe doll stamp was stamped on 140 lb. Strathmore watercolor paper, added color with watercolor crayons and water brush, cut out and then dressed with coordinating dress, shoes and scarf. I put a tiny pearl bead in her hair.
The hearts border stamped image was inked with archival black. Welcome to Paris is a Prima image. Oh so French stamp image was inked and added to the tag by Prima. Use distress inks on tag to give a distress look.
The strings added on this tag were from a piece of fabric that was unraveling in my stash, I cut off some and added to my tag to finish.

Little Princess Card

Only one page from my 8" pad had the quote; There Lived a Beautiful Princess, it was folded in half and used on this card.

Julie Nutting newest image, Betty was inked on watercolor paper, cut out and then color was added to hair, shoes and skin tones. Designer paper stamped dress was applied to doll. Little Prima flowers were added along with a little piece of lace. Bling was added to flowers and her hair.
So simple to make.
Finished size: 4 x 8"

Happy Valentine's Day

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Happy Valentine's Day

I just got this sweet little 2014 Julie Nutting stamp in the mail. She was inked on watercolor paper, cut out, and then I used watercolor crayons to color her shoes, hair, hair band, and skin tone. I used my Silhouette Cameo to make the stencil background and paper flowers. Viva Glitter Pen was used on the flowers although it's hard to tell from this photo. A pearl dot was added on Prima flowers and three more along edge of tag. 

I used the stencil with distress inks to add color to my tag. Designer paper from my stash on the dress and bow in her hair. Bling, Viva Glitter Pen and Tim Holtz tissue paper was also used on this tag. The stamp quote is from Great Impressions; G261. White trim added to top of tag. I used one of Ranger's large manila tags, trimmed off 1/2" on length. Finished size 4 1/8" x 8"

Valentine Journal Page

I've created this journal page for my Tuesday blog post on Crafting with OWSE. You can see my tutorial here: http://craftingwithowse.blogspot.com/2014/02/a-special-for-friend.html

Supplies:
Stamps by Julie Nutting and Dyan Reaveley
Distress ink, Archival ink
Viva Glitter Pen
Flourish from Prima
Flowers and heart stencil by Cameo
Journal made using 140 lb watercolor paper and my Bind it All

Always

These are stamps you either like it or don't. But I think she is just too cute! I love creating the background with her stamps and sprays. 

Chicken on left was inked over newsprint cut out and added to tag. 

All stamps by Dyan Reaveley.  Watercolor crayons were use with my water brush on the inked and stamped image in foreground, cut out and applied to my tag.

                                                          

Steampunk ATC

This is one of the ATC I made for the mini envelope book I shared on February 5, 2014 

Here is the link to book. 

http://wwwstampedimpressions.blogspot.com/2014/02/steampunk-book-with-graphic-45.html

I used Graphic 45 and VLVS steampunk stamp on this ATC. 

Steampunk Book with Graphic 45

Cover page

Sharing a mini-book I made with the following supplies from my stash. 

These pages were made using Tim Holtz envelope and steampunk dies. Inside each envelope is an ATC with more Graphic 45 and steampunk images. 

Graphic 45 papers was used with VLVS stamped images. 

Each envelope was painted with my Gelli Printing plate, stencil and acrylic paint.  

Bind it All tool was used to make the envelopes into a book.

This is a good project if you are snowed in.

2 of 8

3 of 8

4 of 8

5 of 8

6 of 8

7 of 8

8 of 8

We had over 4 inches of snow yesterday, a little more snow today. The temp was down to 7 and -8 wind chill this morning. We are having a high of 17 today February 5, 2014. Calling for more bad weather Thursday. This weather is causing pain with my Arthritis and Fibromyalgia. 

Love is...

I made this cute little tag for my sister. I hope she likes it.
I had a lot of fun making it with the bright colors of distress inks.

The butterfly background was made with a stencil from my Cameo and two distress inks on manila #8 tag. The butterfly image in black was also made by my Cameo. Stamped image was inked with StanOn black ink pad.

Published Tags

These are two of my Valentine tags published on RRA.

Gelli Printing on Fabric

I found blue denim jeans and jumpers for 25 cents in clearance isle at my local thrift store.
After running the clothing through the washing machine and dryer I removed zippers, trim, buttons and bottom hem.
The pockets were saved. I left the pieces large to use in a patch quilt for camping or at the bench.
I used my Gelli plate, acrylic paint mixed with fabric medium and my stencils on denim.
It took some adjustment to see what acrylic colors would show on the denim.

Experimenting with Paper

Example #1

It all started with Tim Holtz Lost and Found double sided designer paper.

Dry brush Liquitex iridescent pearlescent paint over the blue designer paper.

White gesso over the iridescent paint.
This was done with a hit and miss technique with semi-dry brush of white gesso. Let dry.
Apply Distress Gathered Twig ink over the gesso,
with an inked foam blending tool, then spray with water and heat set to dry.
Apply Distress RipePersimmon ink over the gathered twig inked piece with an inked
foam blending tool, then spray with water and heat set to dry.
Apply Distress Aged Mahogany ink with an
inked foam blending tool, then spray with water and then heat set to dry.
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I love the results of this and would never dream
 it all started as Tim Holtz scrapbook paper if I hadn't done it myself.

(the color has not be enhanced)

Example #2

Example #3

In example #3; I sprayed Perfect Pearls Mist (Heirloon Gold) over example #2 tag and then heat set to dry.

Update:
This morning, I made this example using white card stock and supplies listed above!

Example #4

The possibilities are endless what you can do with your stamping supplies!

Do you love to play with ink and paper?

Spiral Love Booklet

 
Spiral Love Booklet 
by Judy Cantrell 
I made this booklet over two years ago, although it was never shared on this blog. 

The inspiration came to me when I saw a book that spelled out words in my local craft store. 

Each cover letter has its own pages behind it for jotting down notes or thoughts. I made this heart's gift using a variety of tools and supplies from my stash.

Finished size: 4” x 8”

Supplies:

Cuttlebug heart embossing folder

Vagabond

Base Camp Font Cartridge

Cricut Electronic cutter

Zutter Bind-it-All

Zutter Red Owires; ¾”

Zutter Wire cutter

Perfect Pearl pigment powder

Perfect Medium pad

Detail and dusting brush

Red, black and white cardstock

White copy paper

Paper flower punch

Paper trimmer

Clear Gel tacky glue

 Instructions:

1)    This small booklet comes together using four separate sections. Each letter has its on white pages. 

2)    Cut 8 precise pieces of red cardstock

a)    2 - 2 x 4,”

b)    2 – 4 x 4,”

c)     2 – 6 x 4,” 

d)    2 – 8 x 4.”

3)    Cut white pages slightly small for each 4 sets of red cardstock. I used 10 pages for each section.

4)    Emboss front sections of each red cardstock with heart embossing folder. 

Designers Note: Emboss the red front sections V and E twice.

5)    Use detail brush to apply Perfect Pearl pigment powder to each embossed red cardstock. Use dusting brush to remove excess powder.

Designers Note: Perfect Pearls come in many fabulous colors; I used Perfect Pearl color for this project. Its luster was perfect for this project and doesn’t rub off because it has a binder in it.

6) Arrange red embossed front, white paper and red cardstock for each section.

7) Use Bind-it-All tool to cut holes in each section per instructions of this tool.

8) Use wire cutter to cut desired Owires. Apply per instructions of Owires to bind the booklet.

9) Cricut electronic machine and Base Camp font cartridge was used to cut the word “LOVE” 2 ½.” Adhere the L to the 2 x 4” piece, O to 4 x 4,” V to 6 x 4” and E to 8 x 4” piece. These can be straight across or graduated as I did on this project.

10) Use white cardstock to punch 3 flowers. Adhere to the letter O.

11) I hope you’ll enjoy making this project. Other words and names could be made with a little adjustment.

She Loves Flowers

When I placed my paper doll image on the tag, I didn't like the floral background paper around her face, I was pleasantly surprised how well it looked when I turned the tag upside down!

I used 3D dots to add my Julie Nutting stamped image to my tag. She was stamped on 140 lb.  Strathmore watercolor paper, painted with Niji watercolor crayons, cut out and then dressed in scrapbook paper from my stash; the background portion of tag was made with Prima paper. The sticker flourish is from Prima, flower embellishment from Michaels and tissue tape from Paper Studio. 

Oh, I forgot, I used a water brush with watercolor crayons to color the flowers and leaves on Prima paper. 

Comments appreciated and always read! 

Life Is Good

Here is another tag using one of the fabulous stamp images by Julie Nutting, papers, flower and trim all by Prima. 

Tim Holtz "life is good" from #155 was inked and added to trim. 

Archival black ink by Ranger was used on all stamped images. 

The finished tag 4 x 8.5" 

Wishing the dress didn't look so pale, it's a lovely green.

Enjoy!

Life Moments

My tag was made with one of the cute little girl stamps from Julie Nutting, two of Tim's strip die cuts and one of his stamps. Other images from Prima 6x6" paper pads. Julie Nutting image was stamped on watercolor paper using Archival black ink. Scrapbook paper from my stash was used for her dress. 

Thanks for Looking and have a nice day!

12 Tags of 2014 ~ January ~ Happy Birthday Tim

Happy Birthday Tim! 

I used many of Tim's supplies on my January tag. 

After viewing Tim's blog post I proceeded making my tag. I had the texture fade embossing folder Tim used but chose to use another texture fade embossing folder. 

Vintage Photo stain was used on background since I didn't have pumice stone. I used mini clip to hold my type charm with the number 7 cut from tickets for Tim's Birthday. 
 Archival black ink was used with image from /CMS#132 on fabric trimming from my sewing stash. 

Click on this link to view Tim's blog post: http://timholtz.com/12-tags-of-2014-january/

Supplies:
distress paint/black soot, distress stain/vintage photo. distress ink/black soot, ink blending tool, metal foil tape, archival ink/jet black. glossy accents, craft sheet, heat tool, grungeboard, chit chat stickers, tiny attacher, sanding grip, scissors, journaling tickets, type charm, sprocket gear, mini paper clip, stamp/CMS#132 and CMS#058, bigs die/pocket watch frame, movers & shapers die/sized circles, vagabond, #8 manila tag made with bookplate die.

Additional supplies: gears from hardware, and fabric trim.  

Snowman 2

I had fun making another snowman today.

The blue background was made with a few stencils from Dyan Reaveley, paint and my Gelli Printing Plate. 

The snowman was made with my new Cameo, I love this new tool. The scarf, hat, nose were painted with Tim Holtz distress paint.

A piece of green card stock was added to brim on hat.

The eyes were made with a Copic .05 pen.

Coal was made with black card stock. 

The distress inked snow piles were made with white card stock and scissors.
 My Cameo digital tool was used to make the quote Let it Snow! 

Mom's Snowmen

This tag is similar to the one I made and shared a few days ago, this snowman was made with card stock.
The smaller snowman was made with chipboard, both were made with my Cameo and finished by my Mother, Jo.

Snowman Tag

 I used acrylic paint to color this sweet little snowman image made with my new tool the Cameo.  I used Tim's #8 bookplate die and snowflake die on this tag. Distress ink was used over Hero Arts stamped image. Star bling applied to tag using Glossy Accents. 

Paper Tree

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

 I saw the beautiful tree from Silhouette blog  

After purchasing the image today, it took about one hour to apply petals on an 8" styrofoam cone. 

Thank you for visiting my blog!

I would like to take this opportunity to tell everyone that visits my blog a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Santa Treat Box

I made these cute little Santa Treat Box to give to grandkids and great grandkids! From there, I had to make my hubby, mother, daughter and SIL, son and DIL and still have a few more to give away this week. 

They are filled with Kisses, Snickers and peanut butter cups. 

Those seen were made from red card stock.
While making these, I came up with an idea to add flocking powder on beards, brim and pompom. To do this, I swirled white glue and then added a pile of MS flocking powder, after 20 minutes the flocking was poured off and set aside to dry. One MS bottle of flocking powder was used on 25 Santa treat boxes. I've also made the Santa Treat Boxes with red plaid paper that seem to be a favorite.

The image is from SilhouetteAmerica.com

I used my new Cameo!

Finished size 5 1/4" tall. 

Love how these turned out. 

Cute Prima Dolls

I had a lot of fun making this journal page using two of those cute little girls stamped images from Prima.  I've added other stamps from my stash on the page. 

Merry Christmas Tag 12-12-13

A stencil from my new Cameo was used with Evergreen Bough distress ink on a white tag made with a Cricut. 

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Just letting you know I don't get paid to say anything about my tools/stamps/ink/die cutting tools. Just love sharing what I used on my projects! 

The tree blueprint image from Tim's CMS #135 was inked with Archival black ink on white matte card stock and heat set. I used distress markers to color tree and ornaments. Stickles were added to tree. 3D dots were used to apply stamped image to tag. 

 Mowed Lawn distress ink was used to stamp Tim's CMS #155 image, cut out and Archival black was used to stamp Merry Christmas from CMS #155 and then applied to tag. 

Distress ink was added around tag to finish.

I was making this tag last evening when one of our granddaughters came in, she saw the tag and was waiting until I finished it. She said, I want it for my tree.

Good thing I got a photo before it left my home. 

Season's Greetings

I used Tim's bookplate die to make a 14 pt. manila tag it was then covered with a free form holly and berries stencil I made with .005 film and my new Cameo.
Next, I used a foam applicator with peeled paint distress ink over the stencil.
With stencil still taped down add color to berries with fired brick distress paint.
Use Archival black ink to stamp image from CMS #119 Joyful Song on white tissue paper, trim and apply a thin film of Perfect Paper Adhesive (matte) and then adhere across tag.
If you like how the grid design looks on my tag, you can create it with something you may already have in your home, but you have to work quickly because the ink dries to fast. The design was made with plastic grid, I cut it the size of my tag with sharp scissors and then rubbed distress paint in Distress Paint Tarnished Brass on the grid and quickly press down on tag. You might have to practice on a scrap piece of paper before using on your tag.
Die cut one of Tim's carolers with white card stock. Paint with black soot distress stain or paint. Let dry. Apply to tag.
Stamp Season's Greetings using embossing ink followed by black embossing powder and heat set.
Use foam applicator to apply distress ink around tag to finish.