Wednesday Stamper

I'm still on the text page and vellum craze. So I used those two things for my Wednesday Stamper challenge today to use purple and green. Since purple is one of my favorite colors I was surprised to see how little purple paper I have. My last trip to Archivers I looked for some nice purple patterned paper -- and came up empty!

I stamped my two little girls from PaperBag Studios on cream cardstock and then laid my purple and green vellum over that. The sentiment stamp is from PSX -- an oldie but goodie!

Since DH has the day off and has agreed to accompany me to a fabulous stamp store about an hour away, I'll have to check out all the other submissions when we return.

You can see them here: http://wednesdaystamper.wordpress.com/

Tag Tuesday -- Week 2

Welcome to my second Tag Tuesday challenge! This week is going to take a bit of thought. My theme for this week is "directions." You can interpret this any way you wish -- up, down, north, south, arrows, finger pointing, signs or through quotes or sentiments. Should be fun to see what we come up with.

Since we are still in our infancy here, I have another RAK this week. It will be two stamps from Stampsmith (photostamps, unmounted/rubber only.) I think you'll like them! You can play along all week if you'd like, but to be eligible for the RAK you must comment and add a link to your tag by Wednesday at midnight CST.

For my tag I used stamps by Paperbag Studios. I applied distress ink to my tag first. I then added a grungeboard arrow.

Stampers Sampler

Both of these cards were included in the new Stampers Sampler (Feb/March) that is just coming out. I submitted them for their challenge to use coin envelopes on a card.

The main images on both of them are by Paperbag Studios.

Wednesday Stamper

This is my card for Wednesday Stamper's "Snowflake Kisses" challenge. Don't you just love that theme? You must see Wil's inspiration piece -- it will take your breath away!

I'd like to say this piece didn't scan that well and it looks better IRL, but I was a little disappointed with it. I just couldn't achieve exactly the look of snow I wanted on my piece and the glitter doesn't quite show up like I hoped.

The window stamp is from Serendipity Stamps. The girl image is from Paperbag Studios. The little bird is from Crafty Secrets.

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Well, it's a good mail day when a complementary Stampers Sampler appears in your mailbox.
It's even greater when you see more than one of your submissions published.

I was thrilled to see the one-page Different Point of View feature.




I also had six of my houses accepted for their house template.
The bottom two on each of the following pages are mine.







Oh, and did you notice that it is one of my houses that appears on the cover of the magazine?Look closely at the third piece on the cover.
Like I said, it was a good mail day!

Wednesday Stamper

Wednesday Stamper's challenge today is to show your favorite altered object. I just bought a pile of thse chipboard boxes to alter and worked on two last night. One did not have much stamping on it, but this one contains stamps from Paperbag Studios, Inkadinkado, Art Impressions and others.

The box itself is covered with layers of gesso, distress inks, walnut stain and, finally, distress varnish.

I made this for my nephew whose name happens to be "LJ."

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There was a new challenge posted yesterday at the Vintage Veranda. This one also has a fabulous Vintage Veranda Fun Pack that will go to one random winner, so check it out

here!

Arty Girl Challenge

This is the top of a box I altered. Unfortunately, there's not enough light to photograph the whole thing this morning, but I can scan the top of it. This is for today's Arty Girlz challenge to create something using numbers. Which I have done on my measuring tape and on my clock.

The collage stamp is by Paperbag Studios -- one of my favorite "male" stamps.

Altered Photo Album

A few days ago I had on a brown pair of pants with a robin's egg blue shirt. I really liked the color combination and thought to myself I'd have to use it to create something. Today's challenge at Wednesday Stamper calls for brown and another color. So this combo came to mind as I altered the front of this photo album.

Stamps by Paperbag Studios, Cloud 9 Designs and Art Impressions.

It's a similar design to one I did previously as I'm creating an inventory of art to sell. These photo albums make the perfect canvas.

Only two more days until a new vintage forum opens! On Friday, October 10th Vintage Veranda will make its debut.

You can click on the blinkie on the left hand side of my blog to get there and see all the details!

Friends Album

I wanted to start work on this little friendship book, and today's challenge at Thank God It's Friday gave me the inspiration of using a slide frame. It was just what I need to add to the front.

I painted it with Tim Holtz distress crackle paint and then added some Opaque Staz-On to it. I decided to leave it at that given all the patterns going on behind it.

The image is a stamp by Paperbag Studios.

Theme Thursday

This is my first time participating in the challenge at Theme Thursday.

Flowers was the theme this week.

I made this card using watercolors and

a butterfly stamp from Paperbag Studios. The sentiment is a stamp from

Studio G.

TMTA

My submission for today's ATC challenge at Think Monday, Think ATC.

The theme was nostalgia.

Inside my Memory Book

The memory book I showed in the previous post had ten pages to it.

Here's how I altered the pages.

Memory Book

This is the front cover of a small Memory Book I've been working on this week. I took some pictures along the way showing how I made the outside.




This is the blank chipboard album I started with.




The first thing I did was to cover both the front and then the back with purple distress crackle paint from Ranger. This is really fun stuff. I love that the brush is attached to the cap of the bottle so you never have to worry about where to place it or have to clean it!

It took about an hour to an hour and a half to dry and to really start to see the crackling effect.

When it was dry I swiped my Staz-On Opaque ink across the surfaces I had applied the paint to on both the top and bottom of my album.

I next used a darker shade of purple to ink up the edges of the chipboard and lightly applied a little across the top of the cover.

My first stamp was this stamp from Paperbag Studios. I stamped it with brown Staz-On. Because of the crackle paint it didn't come out very dark, but I liked the muted effect.

I then stamped this harlequin design from Paperbag Studios with orange Staz-on. I was not really happy with how that looked, seemed a bit too bright. So I stamped over it with Staz-on opaque white. I liked that look much better.

My third stamp was this border stamp from Paperbag Studios which I stamped along the edge of my album giving it a faux bound look.

I missed a few pictures at this point but basically I stamped the bleeding heart flower stamp (Studio G) up at the top with the orange Staz-On.

I added my Memories (Studio G) across the center of the cover with black Staz-On.

I then stamped the Postmark stamp (Paperbag Studios) twice near the bottom again using black Staz-On.

I also took my brown Copic marker and colored in her dress a bit.

The final step was adding this metal and leather tag (just a scrap I had lying around). I also added a metal heart on my tag.

And that was it!

Here's a little peek into the inside.

Wednesday Stamper

Brown and ivory are the two colors I used for the two-tone challenge at Wednesday Stamper.

I used stamps by Paperbag Studios, Tim Holtz, and Studio G.

Embossing on Mulberry Paper

I made this birthday card for a young lady I know who is having a birthday next week. I stamped my script on mulberry paper and then embossed it in white. I don't know why this never occurred to me before, possibly because I thought the mulberry paper was too fragile. Anyway, it worked just fine and the effect is quite nice. I then wet the edges and tore them.

My stamping on this card was probably inspired by Jacqueline. It seems like something she would create. I wonder whether she'll agree:)
Of course my little girl is by Paperbag Studios as is the butterfly. The flowers are by Paper Inspirations. Script by Hero Arts. Birds by Studio G.

Paperbag Studios and another Challenge

Can I say that I really, really like this card? I like the colors, the design, the image from Paperbag Studios. I really like the three tags I punched to place on the side. What I don't like is those buttons. When I placed the tags there I realized I had no idea what to put on them.
So, anybody have any ideas? I'm open to any and all suggestions. Or do you think the buttons work?
I used the sketch that they are showing at Arty Girlz this week. What a great, versatile sketch.
The definition stamp is by Rubber Stampede. The paper is by Making Memories.

Delight

The main image here is, surprise, Paperbag Studios. The small flowers are by Hero Arts.

Two For Friday

This butterfly collage is another one of the Paperbag Studio stamps I recently purchased.

On the first one I embossed it in red and then burned the edges. The second one is stamped in Black Onyx Versafine ink.

More Paperbag Studios

I've got a lot more stamps from Paperbag Studios to ink up seeing that I bought two sheets, so here is another one.

Over the weekend I organized much of my ephemera that was just heaped up in a box into a binder using ATC holders. Because of that I quickly found this transparent bottle which I had had forever. I'm sure it would not have found its way onto this card had I not organized things so I could see them easily. It was a big undertaking, but now all I have to do is page through the binder and I can easily see what I have.

I stamped a sentiment from Cloud Nine Design on it and added some flower rub-ons. I then added a ribbon at top. I like the effect!

Paperbag Studios

I got some fabulous new sheets of stamps from Paperbag Studios and I've been having quite a time playing around with them. The cards seem to make themselves with these stamps. In addiiton to the one I showed yesterday, this image is from Paperbag Studios as well.

I created the tag with stamps from PBS and Studio G. The quote is from Cloud Nine Design. The flower is an RAK from my friend Pam.

Arty Girlz Challenge

Minus the flowers, I made this card last night. When I checked the challenge for Arty Girlz this morning, I was amazed. They have a sketch challenge this week (a great sketch), and it looks like I made my card from it.

I think the card can go with or without the flowers, but I really like that sketch and think I'll fool around with it some more.

Stamps by Paperbag Studios. Paper is by Making Memories.