Sneak Peek - Vintage Travel by Eileen Hull

Welcome back to the blog. Today I am showcasing a project that I did for the fabulous Eileen Hull 

Eileen is at CHA as we speak and she will be unveiling a new line of Sizzix dies called "Vintage Travel"

Eileen had asked her Inspiration team to make some samples to display at CHA and I was on that list as well

Today I wanted to show you her new Passport Book and a few other samples that I did

For the passport book I wanted to make it into an Art Journal

I stapled a piece of elastic to the back of the book and added a knob to the front so that I could close the book easily

I also added some ribbon and a Tim Holtz word token to the side of the book. This gives it a fun altered look

I used various Dies, stencils and stamps to create this wonderful journal. The journal has three pages inside (the one die makes the entire book)

I think this die is so versatile and can be used for so many wonderful things like a photo album, baby photos, brag book (perfect size to carry in a purse or car) Art Journal, the possibilities are endless

A few of the other dies I got to play with were the Luggage Tag and also the Travel Trailer

For the luggage tag I created a gift card holder, this die is the perfect size to use for that purpose

The Vintage Travel Trailer is my favorite, it is one of the cutest dies I've ever seen and it was so fun to work with 

I think everyone on the Inspiration team made one so Eileen has a wonderful caravan to display at CHA

Check out other projects by the rest of the Inspiration Team

Shelly Hickox

Michelle Zerull

Pam Bray

Tracy Evans

Lisa Hoel
Diana Hetherington
Nicole

Thanks for coming by and I hope you have enjoyed the sneak peek!!

Roc Nicholas Design Team

Welcome, welcome! This is my very first post for the Roc Nicholas design team and I'm so excited about it.

You can find Roc's fabulous stamps on the Stampotique Originals site

HERE

Roc's Stamps are so fun to work with, they come together so well and make for the most interesting creations

For my first post I decided to work in my art journal. My New Years Resolution is to work in my art journals a lot more this year and really concentrate on finishing at least one of them. For this one I am working in a 6x8 spiral bound journal

I got started with my gelli plate, I bought a new 5x7 gelli plate before Christmas and I haven't had a chance to use it, I figured this was a perfect time

I also grabbed a few of the new stencils I got

I started out with acrylic paint in a light pink and light green color and also used the larger stencil

This is how my print turned out

I liked it but it was a little plain so I did another round on the gelli plate, this time using turquoise and yellow paint and the smaller stencil

I figured it looked good, I went with this one

I added some burgundy paint with a old gift card, I just scraped it on here and there

After all had dried I stamped Roc's Squiggle Arms stamp at the top of my page

I also used white and turquoise paint to color in the squiggles to make them stand out more

I added a piece of black paper with white circles to the bottom portion of my page

a closer look at my squiggles

Lastly I used Roc's stamps..  Bunny, Learning to fly and Crooked House and stamped them all onto separate white card stock, heat embossed them and then colored them all with copic markers. 

I then cut them all out and added them to my page

I also added some black painted dots and a strip of doodled paper under the house

Here is my finished page:

Roc's stamps bring the page together nicely

Again, here are Roc's stamps I used on this page

Squiggle Arms 

Bunny

Learning to fly

Crooked House

I hope you like my journal page, it sure was fun to create

 I will be posting for the design team on the 7th each month so I hope you will join me again in February!

Make sure to check Roc's blog for more design team inspirations!!

Stampotique New Year

Hello all and welcome back to the blog. Today marks the first challenge of 2015 for Stampotique and I am so excited because this is my first time hosting!

I chose to do a "New Years Resolution" theme 

"Most of us always have a New Years Resolution at the beginning of the new year. For the first challenge of 2015 try your hand at making something with your new years resolution in mind"

My New Years Resolution is two fold - To Art Journal More Often and also to step outside my comfort zone

The Stampotique team has decided to merge and all of the Designer's Blog girls and the Designer's Challenge girls have all moved over to the Stampotique Designer's Challenge Blog

The Designer's Blog has closed down and there will be no more posts there. It will remain open so you can always look back at what we had done for inspiration.

So being as this is my first project on the Designer's Blog I am thrilled

I decided to do a Journal Page for this project and wanted to walk you through my process

To start I used some washi tape to one side of my page, the side where the perforated edge is, this will help reinforce my page and prevent it from tearing out of my book

Next I grabbed a bunch of misc printed paper and tissue paper and added that with glue

I then used some Tim Holtz distress paint to bring the colors together

I then applied another lighter color 

I used Stampotique Stamp French Journal Page By France Papillon 

here and there onto my background in a similar orange color

I used a diamond stencil and the lighter color of paint to create those diamonds

I used stampotique stamp Stacked Boxes - By Roc Nicholas

for the bottom portion of my page and then I colored those with paint

I didn't take a photo of this step but I stamped my girls head onto separate paper and colored her and then I paper pieced a dress together for her

This was Stampotique Stamp - Miss Snottie by artist Daniel Torrente

For my sentiment I used Stampotique Stamp - Comfort Zone - By France Papillon

I also used this same stamp for the edging but only used the words "comfort zone"

Here is my finished page

but I wasn't quite satisfied with how the dress didn't stand out on my girl so I added some more paint and finished with this

I like this much better!

Thanks so much for coming by and I really hope you will join in the challenge over at the Stampotique Blog, you have a chance to win a 30.00 gift certificate to the online store! 

Thanks for coming by, have a great day!

Altered Playing Card Challenge Week 17

Hello and welcome back to week 17 of this challenge. I am posting a day late because I couldn't get my stuff together last week and finish my cards! Can you believe it? I slip up too and get behind. haha!

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For this week I kind of just winged it and went with whatever I felt.. I knew I wanted to use Tim Holtz distress paints, I have a lot of them and I don't use them nearly enough

I picked out tow colors for my background (this works best if you have two or more colors) 

unfortunately I accidentally added way too much paint onto my craft sheet

I went with it...

I spritzed my paint with some water and also my APC

Then just run your card through the paint, it gives this marbling effect, I love it

The paint is so cool

I figured that since I had so much paint left over, why not just use it, I used the same color for my second altered playing card for this week too

So both backgrounds this week are going to be the same colors

I then used some Dylusions stamp sets for my images, this week was all about the Birds! haha!

Here is one set I used How Does Your Garden Grow and the other was Birds on a Wire

I stamped each image and heat embossed them with black embossing powder

I then colored my first bird with distress markers and used a water brush to "push" my color around my image

I used Copic Markers on my blue bird and distress markers on the other bird and hat

These will be my images

Next I picked out a stencil and only wanted a portion of it so I used sticky notes to section off the portion I wanted to use

I am going to use that flower in the upper lefthand corner 

I used Wendy Vecchi's black embossing paste here

I just love the pop of black against that background 
Set this aside to thoroughly dry, at least 45 minutes

While that card was drying

 I added a bit of washi tape here and there on my second APC

I also took a small lid and added some black acrylic paint around the rim to create some circles

I used a black marker to bring out my zig zag lines

and lastly I added some circles with my white gel pen

I then wrote my sentiment myself and cut it out and adhered everything

Last thing I did was draw some hearts in the upper corner of the card

(I ended up adding white ribbons to the hearts later, you will see this in the next photo)

Here is my first finished Altered Playing Card

For my second card, once the embossing paste was dry I cut out some skinny bird legs for my bird, these were cut out of some scrap printed paper

I adhered the bird and legs to my card

I don't know why I didn't take more photos of my steps for this card but as you can see

~ I added some black paint lines here and there with my credit card

~I also used a black marker to draw my grass and then went over that with white gel pen as well

~I added a few white gel pen dots to the center of my large flower

~ I wrote out my own sentiment and cut it out and adhered it.

~ I also ended up coloring my own white dots onto my birds legs

Sorry I didn't take photos for these steps, I will be more careful about that next week, I guess I just got into a rush

and here are my two week 17 cards together

This week was hectic for me but it's always fun to slow down and get crafty each week. I just love doing these cards, they are really fun and easy since they are smaller in size.

I think the theme for this week could either be "Birds" or "Blessings" or even "Pink and Red backgrounds" haha! What do you think?

Enjoy your week, I will see you back here next Monday and as always, remember to show me what you post or create!! 

CHEERS!!