Somehow It Works!!

This is going to be a quickie post... I have so much to do for the move but I just had to stop organizing and cleaning in order to take part in the new challenges over at Stampotique Designers Challenge blog. This week they are challenging us to do some fabulous faux metal!
I am also entering this one into The Octopode Challenge blog - this time the challenge there is Slugs and Snails and Puppy Dog Tails and it's all about boys! 

These are two of my favorite stamps/digi stamps and it is just awesome to be able to use them together in one project.

I needed to work fast so I decided to do another 4x6 card for my 7Gypsies tray. 
I started with taping a few strips of metal tape onto scratch paper.

I then ran those through the Sizzix machine using a few Tim Holtz embossing folders.

I used alcohol inks to dab a few colors onto the embossed images and then went over them both with Archival black ink.

I used Tim Holtz distress paints in various colors. I just dabbed them onto my craft sheet, spritzed with water and ran the cardstock through. I also used a Tim Holtz stamp and Archival Brilliance ink to stamp onto the background. 

I tore my metal pieces into pieces and adhered them onto the background. Moving them around here and there.

I used a combo of two of my favorite companies for the images..

Octopode Factory and the designs of Lilly Chivers.. I used her Zombie boy and Zombie heart 

and also..

Stampotique Originals - designed by Daniel Torrent and  Jill Penney - I used their Top Knot girl

I colored all three images with copic markers and fussy cut them out

I added metal stitching to the zombie heart and

a little heart charm that I made. I simply wrote my phrase and cut it out. Edged it with Walnut Stain distress ink.

Here are some photos of my finished piece... (some photos look a different color because I took some outside and some inside.)

Thanks again for stopping by, I hope you have a super art-filled day!! 

I always love your comments and feedback, please don't  hesitate to comment :)

Butterfly Fly Away

I have a few things to share with you today. The first being that my family and I went over to Leesburg Virginia yesterday to The Old Luckets Store there. They were having a big hoorah and had hundreds of vendors there with loads of antiques. It was awesome and so fun to go over and check out all the wonderful goods. Here are a few photos..

this door was amazing, I wanted to buy it for my house haha!!  

talk about having a big head!!  

Wouldn't these be so cool to do in Tim's new fabric?!! I might have to buy me some old suitcases!! 

I had a fun time and came away with an old printers tray, some watch parts and typewriter keys. I also bought funnel cake and kettle pop-corn!! I was actually pretty good, I could have bought SO much more.

Onto crafts now.. for my project today I worked on a journal page. I'm entering this page into the following challenges...

The Octopode Factory Challenge - This time it's all about Music. I used the old Miley Cyrus Song in my page "Butterfly Fly Away"

Stampotique Designers Challenge - This week they are doing "Anything Goes" WOOT! I love anything goes. I only used one Stampotique stamp on this page, but it's one of my new favorites.

Our Creative Corner - This week they are also having "Anything Goes" Double YAY! They have revamped the site and are starting out fresh and new, led by the new owner Laura, be sure to check them out.

Simon Says Stamp Challenge - This week is all about "Flower Power", that's easy for me, I love flowers.

For starters I wanted to use this wonderful Gelli Print that I made a few weeks ago, I love that it has swirls and two big flowers right in the middle. I just love the contrast of color as well.

I used a little Tinkerbell girl from the Octopode Factory Shop

I colored her using a combo of watercolor pencils and chalks of various brands, I did the house the same way but I forgot to photograph it.

For the Butterfly I used three different colors of embossing powders and heat set

I then fussy cut the butterfly out and colored around the outside  with my wonderful Faber-Castell Pitt pen

I went around the entire outside of the page using Tim Holtz acrylic paint dauber

I used  my Memory marker to color the Seaweed Stampotique Stamp and then stamp it onto my page.. this stamp is by artist Jo Capper-Sandon.. this is a seaweed stamp but here I'm using parts of it for my butterfly swirls. 

I then used another marker (Zig) to go over it and make it stand out more and deeper black. I actually colored and stamped my seaweed twice here.  

I also used my white gelli pen to highlight the swirls

I also used a Sizzix Die for the black flowers

Here is my final page, I really love how the gelli print fades into the background so nicely and the characters pop off the page. Gotta love those gelli prints!!! 

The reason I chose this song title is because it reminds me so much of my daughter and our relationship and make me think of the not so distant future, she will be graduating high school and flying away from home like a butterfly. She will flourish and be beautiful and do many wonderful things, I just know it.. 

Thanks for stopping by, have a super Sunday.

Mother Day Card

The season of Mother's Day is fast approaching and I have a few cards that I need to make for this. Sister and Sis-In-Laws cards, Mother In Law and My Mom, so I figured I'd better get a jump on it.
We are also prepping to move in June and I have a full few weeks coming up. I'm not sure how much crafting I will be able to get done. I just want you to know so that If I am scarce the next month or two then you all know why I'm not blogging as much.

I am entering this project into a few challenges:

The Octopode Factory Challenge - This time their challenge is all about flowers. Lilly (artist of Octopode Characters) also offered two free flower digi's for this challenge. You can get those HERE if you want. 

Two Creative Chicks - Their theme this month is Mother's Day.
They have a couple of sponsors giving away some great prizes too. 
I didn't do a huge tutorial for this one because this was a learning process for myself. I finally broke out my Sizzix  Accordian Flip Die, I've been dying to use this one for awhile. I watched a few youtube videos on how to do it and just went with it. It's not perfect but I think it came out ok.
I used craft core cardstock for the base of my card, in a sort of manilla color. I sanded and Distressed it with distress ink. I also used craft core cardstock for the pink, insert portion of my card as well. I used a cuddlebug embossing folder to emboss it, I sanded it and went over it with distress ink.

I love the way the fired brick distress ink makes that background pop. 

I used some Ocotopode Factory Characters for my card. The little girl and the flowers are both by Lilly Chivers. You can get to her online store HERE. She has some great characters. I colored both with distress stains by dabbing the color onto my craft sheet and using a paintbrush to color. I love the way Lilly's Characters just take on a life of their own.

Next I added some stamping to the background with some of Tim Holtz stamps. After that, I drew the letters M-O-M onto another piece of craft core paper and cut them out. Then I just put the entire thing together. Here is my finished card.

Thanks once again for coming by. If you happen to have this die, you should definitely take it out and have some fun with it, it's scrumptious!

Sunshine

For today's post, I have done a journal page featuring a character from The Octopode Factory (Lilly Chivers). This one is called The Strawberry Girl. She is super cute, love her!
I will be entering this page into two challenges this week:
Octopode Factory Challenge Blog - This week's challenge is "Going Green"
Simon Says Stamp and Show - This weeks challenge is "Water"
I used water on my page with the Dylusions Sprays and also to create the Ghost technique and also on the umbrella.

I started this page with Dylusions Sprays in the colors Lemon Zest, Dirty Martini and London Blue.. I also used water to make them run together. I then used the "ghosting" technique and a stencil in some areas. Once dry, I used stencils and Adirondak Inks in various matching colors to do more stenciling here and there. 

To create the sun I used Dina Wakley's sun stencil and the new Tim Holtz Distress Paint in the color Mustard Seed. Once it was dry I went over it with white gel pen. 

The Umbrella is a piece in Dylusions stamp set called Ruby Rainbow and is painted with Dyan's sprays. I used goosebumps spray over the top to create a "wet" look to it. I then drew drops dripping with white gel pen.

It's sort of hard to see the "wetness" of the umbrella but I tried to capture it here.

I love how the stenciling looks behind the Strawberry girl.

I used the Dylusions Alphabet stamp set for the words. Love this set, the letters are large and so cute.

Last but not least I added some clouds (just freehand cut those and edged with black), white gel pen doodles here and there and also added the black circle border with Distress ink, black soot. 

I'm pretty happy with my finished page. I love the character and the theme. 

Thanks for stopping by once again.