Winnie and Walter Share the Love Day 2 - Ombre

Day 2's Winnie & Walter Share the Love with Tim Holtz Distress inks challenge sees participants using an ombre technique and distress inks.  Again, I learned this distress ink stamping technique during Watercolour for Card Makers Class.  My first try during the class in May had some bleeding drips of colour as I had added too much water.  This time I got it working better and am quite pleased with the results.

Supplies: happy word cut file (Winnie and Walter), watercolour cardstock (Canson), Tim Holtz distress inks (Ranger), cardstock (Bazzill), pen (CTMH), sequins (Winnie and Walter purchase thanks pack)

I played with the W&W cut files that I got received when I purchased The Big, the Bold, and the Happy set.  I created a three tier happy with the one happy word.

On this one, I cropped the end tail to better fit the card.

Supplies: happy word cut file (Winnie and Walter), watercolour cardstock (Canson), Tim Holtz distress inks (Ranger), cardstock (Bazzill), pen (CTMH)

These are such bright and cheery backgrounds for the wonderful Happy sentiment. Thanks W&W for providing the impetus to try the technique again.

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Winnie & Walter Share the Love Day #1 - Watercolour

This past week, over on the Winnie & Walter blog, they are featuring a week of Share the Love for Tim Holtz Distress Inks by Rangers.  The first day's challenge was to create a project using watercolour. 

Supplies: stamps (Winnie and Walter), Tim Holtz watercolour cardstock and distress inks, and Archival ink (Ranger), glitter glue (Hampton Arts)

For my card, I used a watercolour stamp technique that I learned during the Watercolour for Card Makers Class and gave it a go with the W&W's Scenery Big Bang Confetti stamp. Love the outline and colour that it gets on the watercolour cardstock.

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Wonderfully White with Simon Says Stamp

I am loving my summer break and have been creating up a storm the last two days.  Today, I was tidying up when I had to decide what to do with a trial gesso stamped Magenta silhouette Bird & Branch from a previous Magenta project. I considered just putting it into my paper recycling bin when I put it against my craft mat and a card idea formed based on the colour combo that would fit wonderfully for the Simon Says Stamp Monday Blog Challenge for this week's challenge of using white.

Supplies: cardstock (Canadian Scrapbooker Super Stock), Bird and Branch stamp (Magenta), gesso (Golden), distress ink and gel medium (Ranger), flowers (Prima, Michaels), hello wood veneer (Studio Calico), flower wood veneers and mini pearls (CTMH), Silhouette cut quatrefoil stencil (Silhouette America), whipped spackle (Faber-Castell), tissue paper, cheesecloth, vellum, burlap (miscellaneous)

This card just flowed and it came together quickly. Love when that happens.

I used up some other scraps too. The background mat has white wrapping tissue added with gel medium for texture.  The top left flower is actually a distress inked piece of circular cut vellum from an experiment.  I scrunched it up, shaped it into a flower shape and adhered it. Then I used wood veneer flowers with super mini pearls as centres.  The burlap ribbon was part of a small scrap piece left from a previous cut and of course the cardboard was destined for recycling.  I reclaimed it from the bin just for this card.

This is what it looked like when I photographed it and decided I wanted to add to it.

I ended up topping the whole thing off with touches of gesso to bring it together.  Check out the other wonderful white concoctions others created on the blog here.


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Crop & Create Vicki Boutin Shadow Box Class

A while back I shared some cards in this post here that I had made with the leftovers from Vicki Boutin's Technique Shadow Box Class at Crop & Create Markham.  I couldn't share the actual shadow box that I had made at that time, because it was a gift for my sister-in-law. Well her birthday has passed and I am free to let the cat out of the bag.

Loaded with Heidi Swapp, Pink Paislee, and Maya Road products, this was the result:

When I saw the class sneak peek photos, I  knew it was perfect for my sister-in-law.  Lucky for me, there was still space the day before the event and I was able to get in the class. 

It was a small class (about 10 of us) which made it all the more fun to sit around tables, craft, laugh, talk shop and get to know the other scrappers.  If you haven't had a chance to attend a class taught by Vicki, they are so fun.  I highly recommend it. Fast paced, fab product and you learn tons with beautiful results.

Here is the project photo as provided in the class instructions by Vicki.

As you can see, I gave it my own little twist.  I pulled apart the layers on the cardstock layered sticker piece and inking them all as well as outlining the "sweet" lettering in black. I also added a multi font title to go with the sepia photos of my darling nieces and nephew that I had taken this year and overall, I played down and did not include as much yellow.

As we were working away on the frames in the class, I had mentioned that I thought it would look really cool framed in black. Well, I did just that.  I got an inexpensive canvas from the dollar store, painted it matte black and hot glue mounted the finished shadow box to it.  Love the way it pops against that black!

It was fun getting to make something that was not my usual style and totally with someone else's taste in mind. I am thinking that my sister-in-law must have loved it because she has it proudly on display in her living room.  Thanks Vicki for your wonderful talent!


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Magenta Giveaway

Instead of a challenge this month, Magenta has an appreciation giveaway.

Magenta wants to say Thank You to all of its faithful followers

and at the same time give you a sneak peak
of the upcoming Collection which will be available soon!

You could win the prize shown above!

Simply follow Magenta on our Blog or Facebook and use the widget on the Give Away blog post by July 30th to enter!

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Magenta ATC Swap Reveal

Mariëtte, my wonderful fellow DT Member over at Magenta, was the impetus and organizer of the Second Magenta ATC Swap.  What a wonderful event and I was so excited to be a part of it. She posted the ATC Reveal on the Magenta Blog here and my goodness, there was such beautiful art work with a variety of styles and a vast array of Magenta stamps.

Here were the four that I traded in the swap:

This one was made stamping the Hola, Hello, and Bonjour speech bubble stamps with StazOn ink and then shading in the background with Distress ink on photo paper. Doodling, paint splatters and glitter finish it off.

For this one, again on satin photo paper and using a variety StazOn ink colours, I first stamped the Life is Art sentiment stamp in the centre.  Then, I masked off a section of the If Nothing Ever Changed stamp using Post-its so as to ink just the butterfly.  I coloured in the letters with the ink using a shaped cotton swab stick and created the speckled dots using the end of a toothpick as a stamping tool to transfer the ink colour.

This is the third one done on satin photo paper too. Love the bold, vivid colour that is created on the photo paper. Aren't those colours fabulous? and that feather stamp.... LOVE IT!  I used Tim Holtz Distress Ink colour Peacock Feather's and StazOn Ink in Lilac.  For the sentiment, I heat emboss stamped the Give Wings to Your Passion with white on black cardstock and then fussy cut around the words.

This one is very different from the others.  I stamped with Archival ink on to 140 lb cardstock and then coloured it in using Derwent watercolour pencil crayons and a water brush.  The bird is part of the To:/From: Bird stamp which I masked off again with post-its in loading it up with ink.

I actually started by stamping the bird and then used a masking gum product to paint over the stamped image. Then, I stamped the Dogwood Branch stamp.  Once dry, I simply used a gum eraser and removed the masking fluid.  It works amazingly.  Finishing it off was the stamped Think Happy Thoughts sentiment.

Next up, here are the watercolour beauties that Marianne, my swap partner from the Netherlands,  created:

Love the delicate nature of these.

Hoping that the ATC event happens again in the fall with even more artists joining in.:)

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Beach Diggin'

Yeah! A second just scrap it layout complete. I did this one a while ago but hadn't had a chance to share it.

Supplies: patterned papers, cardstock stickers, chipboard, flair badge (Simple Stories), umbrella chipboard (Magenta), gelatos (Faber-Castell), liquid glass, ink, and pen (CTMH), watercolour paint (Daler Rowney), Silhouette cut file font (Shoshoni brush)

I think this is one of my all time favourite summer pages for several reasons. I love that big ol' Magenta chipboard umbrella that I coloured with gelatos to match the paper...

... the layering...

... and clustering.

Also, while I have several summer collections from Simple Stories, this "I heart Summer" collection is my fave. Lucky or unlucky for me (depending how you look at it), I have lots of it to play with. LOL!

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Curiosity - Art Journal Page

Where would we be without a sense of curiosity? Since childhood, I have been a naturally curious person and persistently want to know the "why" and "how" of things.  Thankfully the internet makes feeding my need to know so easy to quench.

When I saw "curiosity" as an art journal emotions prompt idea on the Mixed Media Place blog a while back, it struck a chord with me and I sketched out a page idea for later use. I had an opportunity to play last evening and combined my sketched out page idea with the June Moodboard colours over at Scrap Around the World.

I went with a questioning science based take on curiosity and used a bunch of clip art images that fit the subject focus and reflect some of my interests.

Supplies: 400 Series Watercolor Hardbound 11" Art Journal (Strathmore),gesso (Golden), Tim Holtz tissue paper and distress paints, Dylusions numbers stencil, gel medium, Archival Ink (Ranger), whipped spackle and Pitt Artist Stamper's Big Brush pens (Faber-Castell), Specimen stencil (The Crafter's Workshop), question mark stamps (Kelly Panacci, CTMH, Making Memories), chipboard and fabric letters (Prima), sticker letters (BasicGrey), gelly roll pen (Sakura), clip art (misc.)

From the supplies list, you can see that I had a fun playtime using lots of techniques and media.  A few detailed close ups shots:

I would have to say that I went with a more masculine take on this beautiful SATW June Moodboard.

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Celebrating Father's Day

Yeah! I am finished my course this weekend and back to having some time to create.  First order of business, create a Father's Day card to celebrate the day.

I made this Father's Day card last night using some Magenta products that totally fit my design idea. I wanted a metallic mosaic look for the base with the embossed aluminum ties sticker as the focal point. I was going for a masculine retro metallic feel for this card.

Supplies: stencil, embossed metal, chipboard letters (Magenta), whipped spackle and gelatos (Faber-Castell), Tim Holtz distress paint and watercolour cardstock (Ranger), pen (CTMH)

I stencilled with a geometric design stencil using whipped spackle. Then once dry, I coloured the rectangles with colour combinations of gelatos (Chocolate and Brown) and metallic gelatos (Silver and Gold)using a waterbrush. It is hard to see in the photo but there is a frosted tile-like finish to the rectangles.  I outlined each one using a ultrafine 0.2 marker to make them pop.

I applied black Tim Holtz distress paint to the embossed metal ties sticker, let the paint set up a bit, and then buffed some way to highlight the ties detailing and give it a distressed metal look. Using the paint, it was super easy to colour the chipboard letters too due to the dabber design. I elected to leave the letter centres in, giving them a bolder look, so that they wouldn't get lost in the busy background.

Decided to play along with Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge with this card for the challenge is paint.


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School Year Coming to a Close - Magenta June Challenge

Less than a month and school is out and that is precisely the theme of Magenta's June Challenge.  My first thought with this challenge goes to all the thank yous that are in order whether it be teachers, office staff, custodial staff or the crossing guard. That calls for a lot of cards and I like to make them, so naturally I made a card for the challenge.

Supplies: patterned papers, stamps, fabric (Magenta), ink (Ranger), watercolour paint (Artist Loft), Baker's Twine (MME), white pen (Sakura), brown pen (Staedtler), Silhouette cut - font: Chunky Five

I went for a very scholarly theme here with the "abc" school tag stamp and the large fabric A+. I combined two stamps and masked out a part of the tag one to allow the "Thanks" stamp to flow through it. I coloured in the pencil and letters using watercolour paints matching colours in the patterned papers. For the A+, I cut the shape from a Magenta Canvas Sheet that colour coordinates with the colours in the alphabet paper.  I used the font "Chunky Five" and then inlined it with a white pen to give a collegiate look to the letter.  A perfect teacher card!

So whether it's a card, a gift, or gift packaging, make it with the School's Out theme using any one Magenta product and link up here for a chance to win.

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