Mixed Media Mojo DT Inspiration "Thanks" Card

Hi! Happy Wednesday!

Wow I was amazed how fast October flew by and now here we are, wrapping up November!

I made a card to share at Mixed Media Mojo, our November Challenge is to use "Thanks" in some way for your creation. There is still plenty of time to play, this card is fun to make and can be done with what you have on hand. I love using what is available, so I don't lose the mood to create by getting distracted :)

I used Core'dinations cardstock, love the texture and colors! The butterfly die is Tim Holtz Alterations Layered Butterfly. Love this die, it includes an embossing folder to add the texture and diecut it out perfectly.

I cut the butterfly out of a manila folder. Then I colored it using Distress Paints. To get the dark color in the valleys of the embossing, I used Distress Ink on the embossing folder before embossing. I made two die cut butterflies to layer them and make it pop up.

The butterfly is mounted on white Core'dinations. I added Distress Ink to the white edges.

The "Thanks" sentiment is stamped on a left over scrap from the butterfly cut. The sentiment is Newton's Nook "Falling Into Autumn" collection. The frame around it is Unity. The leaves and berries are the same Newton's Nook set, love it! 

By cutting multiples of your diecuts or even punches, it is a fun fast way to get depth and dimension.

Have fun with Fall colors and have a great day!

~kim

Also shared with Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge:Thanks/Thanksgiving

Compendium of Curiosities Vol 3 Challenge #11~CC3C #11~Dreams Wings

Hello!

Happy Thank-Goodness-It's-Friday!

No clue where the time has gone! LOL I am coming in just under the wire with my project for the 11th Challenge in Linda Ledbetter's playtime for the Compendium of Curiosities Volume 3. See all the fun-ness HERE. And WOW it is so close to the end of the month, yikes! So I am barely in time for Gauche Alchemy's Challenge Country Chic and Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Anything Goes! Mixed Media Monthly has a fun color theme inspiration, love the orange!

This Eleventh is sponsored by the Inspiration Emporium with a kind $50 shopping spree to one lucky random winner! Please do visit our most kindly sponsor HERE. bowties are cool
Likewise the ever talented and source of all creative goodness for this wonderful challenge, Mr. Tim Holtz has donated a wonder surprise pack for the Crew's Choice Award! Yay!

This creative prompt for this bit of fun is found on page 52, Effects Powders in the Compendium of Curiosities Volume 3. Please get a copy, it is such a wonderful investment!

Here we go. This was such fun and has led to a new addiction, these powders are addictive and a MUST HAVE! I have never played with them before, the first challenge was finding  a shop that had some in stock locally, always a great excuse to go shopping:) My shop had one color left, Tea Dye. And I love it!

Next challenge came in photographing the project. The light was not cooperating, was too flat to show off the yummy texture. ~Insert sad face~    then this morning, yes, just almost right now, I had left the tag on my art table in my fancy art- studio- that-was-my-kitchen. The sun was shining brilliantly across said difficult project and YES! perfect!

WARNING many pictures below :)

Click to see 'em bigger

The background to my tag is cut from a manila folder. I stamped the roses in Distress Paint Seedless Preserves using the bottom part of a celery bunch. I love the roses you can make with the celery!

All of the butterflies are coated in the Tea Dye powder, but I varied the underneath colors to see what would happen. The glossy one below was kinda an oops, I coated it with some Ranger Crackle Accents but it did not crackle. No clue why other than the bottle is really old. But I love the effect anyways and it is a nice contrast to the bumps on the rest:)

I stamped the key shape with Distress Ink then embossed it in clear. It came out with another fun texture.

No doubt the stars of this show are the butterflies and vine. They are lovely and I can't wait to get more powders to make more!

I think that is all, thank you SO much if you are still with me all the way down here:) 

~Hugs~

Have a great day!

~kim

Linking to:

The Compendium of Curiosities V3 Challenge 11

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Anything Goes

GaucheAlchemy September Theme: Country Chic Flower Board and Rustic-ness

Mixed Media Monthly September Challenge: Color, Orange and Pink

Altered Playing Card Challenge~APCC~Play Along! Week 2~SSS Wednesday

Hey There!

Thursday's to-do list is done: I finished my two altered playing cards for Claudine's Play along, week #2. Come play with us in this fun and casual environment! Super easy to do and easy to catch up. You can see all the details HERE . So many inspirational projects, it is a happy place!

This week's Simon Says Stamp Wednesday is all about Backgrounds, I think this project is an awesome fit!

For Claudine's Week 2, the basic suggested supplies were Dylusion Spray Inks. If you have not played with them I highly recommend it! They are so bright and fun! They are water reactive, so they are easy to lighten up if you feel they are too dark. Just take care when mixing colors so it doesn't get too muddy.


My two cards for week 2:

Feel free to click for a better bigger picture :)

I covered both cards with white gesso. I was pretty sloppy/casual about it, leaving brush marks and adding swirls. I wanted to start creating texture:)

On top of the gesso I used Dylusions sprays. I sprayed them heavy and let the colors run.

I really liked how the backgrounds came out, the colors are so vibrant. I did not really want to cover them up! I remembered to take a photo of the purple one before I attached the surface pretties.

At first the purple and turquoise were a bit dark, so once it was dry, I spritzed it with water again and dabbed some off. I am happy it revealed more swirls. Once this was dry I applied some dots with Distress Paint using the eraser end of a pencil. The Distress Paint also reacts with the sprays and you can get some cool effects too.

Next I worked on coloring the stamped and embossed images. This is the first time I used markers to color stamps. I just used the Sharpies and Bics I already had on hand. I also used a colorless blender pen to pull off some of the marker ink. I colored inside the gears with a waterbrush using some more Distress Paint.

On Be Fearless I played with some white lines using a white jellyroll pen. It kinda blends on the Dylusions, too. Nice surprises along the way:) I stamped and embossed the la la la not sure if you can see it. I stamped it with white pigment ink and embossed with clear. 

Time does fly and this Challenge, Play along is super fun! I really hope you have a moment to leave a comment and then hop over and join up to play. You can find the details HERE

I am also linking to Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge:Backgrounds!

Have a lovely day!

~kim

Compendium of Curiosities Vol 3 Challenge #9~CC3C #9~Paris Pair

Back this Friday with the latest CC3 Challenge!

We are up to Challenge #9, it is odd numbered so our fabulous sponsor is Inspiration Emporium with a fabulous $50 shopping spree to a lucky winner! As always there is another fabulous prize package awarded by  the fabulous Curiosity Crew provided by our source of Inspiration, Tim Holtz and Mario Rossi! Thanks so much as always, everyone in this Challenge project is amazing!

This challenge takes up the clever Stamps and Framelits on page 63 of the Compendium of Curiosities Volume 3. Wonderful new toy for the stash! I have never used this amazing pair of tools before and I must say..... I never want to go back! It is soooooooo fun! Sooo many possibilities to further enjoy this journey:)

Here we go, I used the French Flight set.

Please feel free to click each image to get a larger view:)

I stamped the Eiffel Tower, Fleur De Lis with pigment ink then embossed them with Ranger Super Fine Powder in clear. The butterflies were stamped with Distress Embossing Ink and also embossed with Ranger Super Fine. 

The backgrounds were layered with Distress Paints and Inks. Over the butterflies I swiped the ink pad across the images, sprayed with water and wiped it away gently. Then used my fingers too much and they are still pretty inky:)

I cut out a photo from my Holtz paper stash and roughed it up a bit!

I am sure this pair had some fond memories to make such a happy photo!

All in all such a fun prompt and great tools to play with! A happy way to bring on this Labor Day Weekend! Be safe and enjoy your family this weekend!

All the best,

~kim

Fun places to play:

Linked to the Compendium of Curiosities Challenge hosted by the talented Linda Ledbetter and our fantastic sponsor Inspiration Emporium, click the linkys and check out the sites:)

Also linked to Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge:Anything Goes!

~Saturday August 16~Sunday Stampers 320~Discoveries Tag~SSS: Summer

Happy Saturday!

Yay, the weekend arrived! tooo fast I think after all!

I wanted to make a project for Hels Sheridan's Sunday Stampers Challenge, the theme this week, Natural Colours and Elements. Also while I was at it, the end result fits the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Summer. I played for a bit today and made some backgrounds on various tags I cut up from manila folders. The absolute most fun in making this tag project is I got to play with new toys!

I finally acquired an acrylic block big enough to use a magical bird from the Inkadinkado Morphic Birds set. I have always wanted to use this one and now I am so happy I did :) Also I got a couple of new (to me) Holtz dies, Tattered Flower Garland and Frameworks Lattice. Just starting with them and I am by no means done, so exciting!!

Anyways here is my naturally Summer tag, I hope my interpretation is ok :)

I Distress Inked the background with Wild Honey and Vintage Photo inks. Then, I used Distress Embossing Ink to stamp my bird and heat embossed with Ranger Super Fine Detail Embossing Powder in clear. 

I die cut the lattice and petals from book pages from The Odyssey. (It was a falling apart copy rescued from the certain doom it was sentenced to by one High School Lit Teacher) The petals and leaves were also inked with various Distress Inks.

I included these two photos as well. On one of my previous projects I found I reallllllly liked the see them backlit. The colors just POP and glow. I love how the paper flowers turned translucent. I think the embossing shines the best this way I believe :)

Thanks so much for reading along about my small Discoveries today!

Linked to Sunday Stamper #320: Natural Colors and Elements

                Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Summer

Please make the time to check out the fabulous blogs, they are amazing and so loaded with great inspiration!

Have a lovely day,

~kim