Month: July 2017

Christmas Cards Set!

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Getting a head start with my Christmas Cards!

Just because it’s 110 degrees outside doesn’t mean I can’t do Christmas! After all, in the Southern Hemisphere of this big blue marble we call home, Christmas is a summer holiday!

Used my Silhouette Curio to write & fill in the greeting!

That gold bow came in the Fuse (Gold? I think) Kit!

Cute little deer, glitter paper, and twine!

Love the retro Santa paper and “Swell Christmas” stamp set from Simon Says Stamp! (I fussy cut Santa out of watercolor paper after stamping & embossing!)

Product List:

  • All of the card stock, printed papers (except the paper for the red & white deer), and glitter paper came from the Simon Says Stamp Limited Edition 2016 Holiday Card Kit, as did the deer die (“Retro Deer”) and the stamp set (“Swell Christmas”).
  • The paper for the red & white deer is from Me & My Big Ideas, and it’s so old I couldn’t even find it using the UPC code!!
  • Ranger Enchanted Gold Embossing Powder
  • Tim Holtz Mini Snips, Distress Embossing Ink, Distress Ink: Festive Berries, Antique Linen, and Tattered Rose, Distress Oxide: Fired Brick, and Vintage Photo
  • We R Memory Keepers: Fuse Tool & Gold Kit (I think!)
  • Martha Stewart Twine
  • Green & Gold Ribbon: Unknown
  • Sizzix Big Shot (Blue & Teal Starter Kit – for the label dies)
  • My Minds Eye: Christmas on Market Street Puffy Stickers
  • Silhouette Curio

Christmas Gift Tags Set #2

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Set #2 of my Christmas Gift Tags

My second set of Christmas Gift Tags, which, like the first set, was set in motion by AZAmy’s & Sizzix’s “Christmas In July Challenge” over at scrapbook.com. Like the first set, the tags, and most of the patterened paper came from the Simon Says Stamp Limited Edition 2016 Holiday Card kit.

The stamp set used, “Swell Christmas,” is from Simon Says Stamp, and came in the Limited Edition 2016 Holiday Card Kit. The gold embossing powder is also from Simon Says Stamp, and I think it also came in the kit.

I just started laying bits and pieces on for this tag! The ornament stamps are also in the “Swell Christmas” set.
I like the idea of making a vintage-ish tag, and decided to use my trusty Tim Holtz tree from my “Happy Everything Blueprints” set! To color in the tree, I used a water brush and Distress Oxides, then to top it off I used the “Christmas Day” stamp from American Crafts! (To splatter the background I used a paint brush and the Distress Oxides)
Once again, I used stamps from the “Swell Christmas” set! Simon Says Stamp gold embossing powder, some Heidi Swapp Color Shine in Bronze, some Distress Oxides, and some Prima Watercolors!

Products Used:

  • Simon Says Stamp “Swell Christmas” Stamp Set, gold embossing powder, tags, papers from “Limited Edition 2016 Holiday Card Kit,
  • Tim Holtz “Blueprint Tree” from Happy Everything Blueprints Set & Tiny Attacher
  • American Crafts “Christmas Day” Stamp
  • Simple Stories “December Documented” 6 x 6 paper pad.
  • Ranger Water Brush & Black Archival Ink
  • Distress Marker: Candied Apple
  • Distress Oxides: Fossilized Amber, Iced Spruce, Broken China, Walnut Stain, & Fired Brick
  • Distress Ink: Festive Berries & Tattered Rose
  • Distress Embossing Ink Pad
  • a la mode clear embossing powder
  • Prima Watercolor Confections: Decadent Pies
  • My Minds Eye “Christmas On Market Street” Puffy Stickers
  • Martha Stewart “Scallop Dot” edge punch & red twine
  • Heidi Swapp Color Shine: Bronze
  • Stickles “Joyful”
  • Basic Grey Juniper Berry Embellishment Pack
  • We R Memory Keepers Crop-A-Dile

Red, White, & Blue Pocket Letter

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Red, White, & Blue Pocket Letter!

I did this Pocket Letter for my partner, “bishsticks,” in the July Pocket Letter Swap hosted by “bonprof” over at Scrapbook.com! (My partner’s “real name” is on the tag, I covered it for privacy here). It also works out to go with Simon Says Stamp’s Monday Challenge! I really do love working on Pocket Letters, they’re like nine ATCs (especially since they are the same size, 2.5″ x 3.5″) all put together to form a bigger picture (AKA: Theme)! Then I get to decorate the card protector! In the swap hosted by “bonprof” themes are given (generally two + “choose your own”) and the assigned partners come to an agreement about which theme they will do!  Most importantly, this is a “pen pal” type deal! It’s what the founder/creator, Janette Lane, originally intended! And my little note (it doesn’t have to be a book!) will be going in the top left corner, and I will put little “goodies” behind each card!

Pocket Letter cards out of card protector.

Pocket Letter without pinwheel in photo.
Closer look at the rosette! (Cut file from Silhouette Store)

Closer look at left edge!

Here is a list of the products I used!

  • Simple Stories “Stars & Stripes” papers for the majority of the Pocket Letter
  • Unknown for the rest of the papers!
  • Maya Road Chipboard Shipping Tag [Set]
  • Beads in a Bottle: Gold
  • Bic Mark-It: Rambunctios Red
  • My Mind’s Eye “My Story” Wood Veneer Pieces
  • My Mind’s Eye “Christmas On Market Street” Foam Stickers
  • My Mind’s Eye “on trend 2” Enamel Shapes
  • Jolee’s Bling Stickers: Gold Puffy Stars & Gems
  • Crate Paper “Cute Girl” Embellishments
  • Fancy Pants “Me-ology” Button Set, Small Decorative Tags, & Ephemera Pack
  • American Crafts: Amy Tangerine “Better Together” Rub-Ons
  • Jillibean Soup Adhesive Sequins: Navy Blueberry
  • Studio Calico: Blue chipboard stars
  • Tim Holtz Tiny Attacher
  • Distress Markers: tumbled glass & blueprint sketch
  • Ranger Water Brush – Nib
  • Tim Holtz Small Circle Punch
  • Tim Holtz Swivel Clasp
  • Glitz “Black & White” Alphabets & Words, and Titles & Accents sticker sheets
  • Ranger Glossy Accents
  • Scotch Quick Dry Glue & ATG (Advanced Tape Glider)
  • Elmer’s Glue Dots
  • Queen & Co. Red & White twine
  • Martha Stewart Red twine
  • We R Memory Keepers Fuse Tool Kit – Aqua
  • Unknown: Gold sequins, red & white washi tape, red, white, & blue washi tape, all the ribbons, all the beads, the eyelets, the red “lace,” the star charm, and the brad

Christmas Gift Tags Set #1

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Christmas Gift Tags Set #1

Over at scrapbook.com “AZAmy & Sizzix are hosting a “Christmas In July Challenge”! And since I have an overwhelming amount of Christmas supplies I decided I would partake with some gift tags (to start)!!

Rather simple tag, the deer came from a sheet in the SSS Limited Edition 2016 Kit, and I dug out my Fuse to make a little flip (the next card just has spots for “To” and “From”
This one went together super fast! I just fringed the red cardstock, layered it up with some printed paper, put the “Joy” sticker on, and added my eyelet and twine! Very quick and easy, but it’s one of my faves!

I fussy cut that ticket & circle cluster from a sheet of the Simple Stories paper, layered the washi from the Basic Grey Juniper Berry Embellishment kit, and slapped them on top of some red cardstock and some printed paper from Simon Says Stamp!

Simple layering. The background paper is from Simon Says Stamp, and the rest was fussy cut from a sheet of the Simple Stories! (I really love my Tiny Attacher by the way!)

Product List:

  • The tags, and some of the papers came from the Simon Says Stamp Limited Edition 2016 Holiday Card kit. (The MME stickers might have come from the kit too, not real sure…) 
  • The eyelets I’ve had forever
  • Tim Holtz Tiny Atacher
  • Martha Stewart Fringe Scissors & Bakers Twine
  • Basic Grey “Juniper Berry” Christmas Embellishment Pack
  • My Mind’s Eye “Christmas On Market Street” Puffy Stickers
  • Simple Stories “December Documented” 6 x 6 Paper Pad
  • We R Memory Keepers Crop-A-Dile and Fuse Tool Kit (Aqua)

Red, White, & Blue ATCs!

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Red, White, & Blue ATCs

Putting these ATCs together was something else! I had an original idea in mind inspired by the July Challenge over at Creative Embellishments. I really loved the way the elements in the inspiration photo overlapped each other, and I really love how “shiny” the image seemed. Creative Embellishments July Challenge fit quite nicely with Simon Says Stamp’s Monday Challenge of “Red, White, & Blue”, and I thought it would be a good idea to try and create a shiny, red, white & blue, element overlapping ATC for the challenges, and for MarciLB’s ATC Swap over at scrapbook.com. Things didn’t go quite according to plan.

My initial background was too embossed! I didn’t want it to be quite like that! But, if nothing else, I’m persistent, so I decided to see what I could do with it!

Initial Background. Thick watercolor paper, coated with white acrylic paint, embossed using Tim Holtz’s “Cracked,” striped with Tim Holtz’s “Stripes” stencil & Distress Oxide Fired Brick, and colored with Distress Oxide Faded Jeans for the blue.

I decided to get Mixed Media crazy! I added Candied Apple Distress Paint stripes, I threw down a layer of Mod Podge, which “intensified” the Distress Oxides underneath, I added some Prima Snowflake Paste for those rays using Tim Holtz’s “Ray” stencil, and colored them with Shimmerz Vibez “Glorious Day.” If that wasn’t enough, for the “stars” I used Shimmerz Dazzlerz “Spun Sugar” and Echo Park’s “Beach Towel” stencil. About now I was thinking I should give up and start over! But, as I said, I’m persistent (some may say overly stubborn, but they’re wrong! LOL). Anyhow, I decided that I should cover some of my “flag” with a firework (as so originally inspired by the July Challenge at Creative Embellishments) and I dug out my glitter. (I have a great dislike for glitter, but I was getting desperate!)

What better way to adhere that glitter than with some Transparent Gloss Texture Paste from Ranger “squished” through a temporary stencil I made with some scrap card stock and a “starburst” cut file from Silhouette? In hindsight, there probably are better ways! Oh. My. Gosh. Now I just have too much everything!

Well, that’s just too much … EVERYTHING!

I actually threw the ATCs in the trash at this point, I just didn’t know what else to do! But, as I was sitting there thinking about what items to keep out for the next try I saw an old Tim Holtz Mask “Flourish” just hanging around collecting dust, and I had an idea! At first I was going to use the mask, but I hadn’t worked out what I would use to cover the undesirable areas. Then, as I sat there staring at the mask over the ATC next to my pile of scrap pieces of Simple Stories “Stars & Stripes” a firework went off in my mind! And the following picture is what that firework sparked!

Using my hot glue gun I stuck the cuts to the ATCs, used the sanding block to distress the edges, and inked them up with some Frayed Burlap Distress Ink! There was still a little too much “stuff” showing, and that’s when I decided to enlist the help of a little birdie!

Flourish cut file from the Silhouette Store!

Little Birdie (Tim Holtz’s Mini Bird Crazy & Things) to the rescue!
Persistence paid off!

Product List:

  • Silhouette Cameo: Used to cut the flourish which is from the Silhouette Store.
  • Sizzix Big Shot
  • Simple Stories: Stars & Stripes “Independence Day”
  • Tim Holtz: Mini Bird Crazy & Things Stamps & Dies
  • Tim Holtz Sanding Grip
  • Tim Holtz Distress Oxides: Faded Jeans, Broken China, Fired Brick
  • Tim Holtz Distress Ink: Frayed Burlap
  • Tim Holtz Distress Markers: Picket Fence, Ground Espresso, Candied Apple, & Carved Pumpkin
  • Tim Holtz Distress Paint: Candied Apple
  • Tim Holtz Distress Collage Medium: Crazing
  • Tim Holtz Stencils: Rays & Stripes
  • Echo Park Stencil: “Beach Towel”
  • White Acrylic Paint
  • Shimmerz Dazzlerz: Spun Sugar
  • Shimmerz Vibez: Glorious Day
  • Mod Podge Paper: Gloss
  • Prima Snowflake Paste
  • Ranger Texture Paste: Transparent Gloss; Black Archival Ink, Water Pen, & Glossy Accents
  • Martha Stewart Glitter: Crystal, Lapis Lazuli, & Tourmaline

Teal(ish) Flower ATCs

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Teal(ish) Flower ATCs

Over at scrapbook.com “MarciLB” hosts a monthly ATC swap with four categories. For July, “Flowers” was one of those categories, and these are the ATCs that popped into my little head! I’m also entering in the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday “Anything Goes” Challenge! The background is some thin, self-adhesive cork that I didn’t even remember owning until I went digging through my stash looking for inspiration! (I believe I bought it at Hobby Lobby)

That “fishnet” ribbon got a total make-over! I’ve had it for years, and had used the majority of it previously. It was originally a dark teal and green with glitter. I changed that. I could have worked with the dark teal piece, but I didn’t have enough for all four ATCs! I slapped on some Tim Holtz Distress Grit-Paste pressed the ribbon into it and used Tim Holtz’s Tiny Attacher to hold the ends in place. After it dried I started painting the background with white acrylic paint! I used paint instead of gesso because it is thicker, and I needed coverage! (As for the origins of the ribbon, I know I received it in one of my first kits from “Birds of a Feather,” and I received kits for close to 18 months I believe. Unfortunately as of February 2016 kits were no longer offered.)

Some old bits of fishnet “ribbon” that got a make-over!

The flowers are made up of a combination of Prima E-line flowers and flowers from Prima’s Wildflower Pillar Pack. The gems came in the same kit as the ribbon.

A closer look at the flower cluster!

Those two metal filigree pieces are even older that the ribbon and gems! After I added them I painted them with the white acrylic paint as well.

After everything was glued down and coated with some acrylic paint (The gems are the only parts I didn’t put paint on!) I started spritzing on some Heidi Swapp Color Shine in “Tinsel” and “Sweet Mint,” and some Shimmerz Vibez “Jeni B Bleu.”

List of Products:

  • White acrylic paint
  • Tim Holtz Distress Grit-Paste
  • Heidi Swapp Color Shine: Tinsel and Sweet Mint
  • Shimmerz Vibez: Jeni B Bleu
  • Prima Flowers: white E-line mix and Wildflower Pillar Pack
  • Unknown: Filigree, ribbon, gems
  • Cork Background: Probably from Hobby Lobby