I Love It Art Journal Page selected by Frilly and Funkie blog

Very excited that this art journal page was selected as a top three for the Frilly and Funkie I love it challenge . This was the second time – I’m really trying to up my game by studying mixed media artists.

Ordinary Moments

Ordinary days, ordinary moments. I made this tag to remind me life isn't always about "big adventures" -- the day to day moments make up the building blocks of our lives.

I used a variety of TM dies, chitchat stickers and distress inks. The background is a resist technique using picket fence distress paint.

Happy Spring Greetings!

Happy Spring! To celebrate I'm sharing a birthday card for my daughter. Her birthday was in April but I wanted to wait to share until after I sent it to her! I used TH funkie flower dies, distress inks and a collage of old dictionary pages for the background.

I'm entering this in the Frilly and Funkie challenge: Spring is in Full Bloom

http://frillyandfunkie.blogspot.com/2019/04/spring-is-in-full-bloom-challenge.html

Celebrate 2019 and New Possibilities

To celebrate the new year I created this oversize tag using Distress Inks, Tim Holtz stamps, stencils and die cut letters.

To get started, I cut a piece of mixed media card stock 5 x 9 1/2 leaving the bottom torn holes in place. Then I used the spritz and smoosh technique to color the panel with Squeezed Lemonade and Carved Pumpkin Distress Oxide.

Next up I added some circles using a stencil I had on hand with Carved Pumpkin.

To give a more celebratory mood, I added stars with texture paste through the stars stencil and sprinkled lightly with white glitter dust while still wet.

For the letters, first I stamped a leftover strip of paper with a script stamp, embossed with fine white embossing powder and inked up the strip with Candied Apple, lightly wiping across the script.

 I die cut the letters twice using Alphanumeric Cutout letters and doubled them up to give a bit of extra depth.

I stamped the sentiment in Candied Apple on white card stock and added it along with the script in black soot randomly to create extra texture. To finish it up, I added some washi tape in various places restamped the clock and smudged the edges all around with Black Soot before finally mounting on black card stock. In retrospect, I think the "2019" would have been better also mounted on white, but its a learning process!

Let me know what you think. Happy days to you all.

I'm submitting this to the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge -- Party Time!

https://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/mondaychallenge/?p=14747

Poinsettia card

Christmas cards are all in the mail including this one to my sister made from Tim Holtz Sissix dies, paper and distress inks. 

A Christmas Birdie Bag

What could be more fun than a little holiday birdie? A little birdie on a bag just big enough for a gift card!

This started out just playing and exploring with the new Tim Holtz Mint shifter stencil. At first I found it confusing then realized it's designed to leave blank or white lines in between the thick and thin lines of color.

I used Distress Oxides in Twisted Citron and Candied Apple on mixed media paper.

Then I used a pattern found by a Google search for a gift bag to cut and score the sheet to make a small gift bag.

The finished bag is only 4 inches tall.

Then for a bit of holiday whimsy, I colored this little guy from the Tim Holtz Bird Crazy stamps using Distress markers.

I had previously spent a very productive few hours die cutting an assortment of festive greens, rustic trees and snowflakes, which then came together quickly for a background.

All I had to do was add a bit of embossing powder for a bit of sparkle and voila! Done!

Thanks for visiting!

Snowflake Joy

Got on a roll today, and put this card together in less than 30 minutes! Of course, the snowflakes were already covered in glitter and die cut -- left over from another project. But I'm learning to cut multiple items at once and then have quick access when I want them.

The blue panel was colored with Distress Oxide in Faded Jeans, Salty Ocean and Black Soot. Then spritzed lightly with water and stamped with Faded Jeans snowflakes.

Next I assembled the elements I wanted to use -- glittered snowflakes, die cut JOY, red and white butcher string from my stash and red snowflake pattern paper from the 2018 Tim Holtz Christmas paper collection. Plus dusty blue card stock for the actual card.

Everything got trimmed, tied and layered. Easy peasy.

The final product -- now I just have to decide who to send it to -- that's if I can part with it myself! I have a habit of collecting these things. :)

Cheers!

Oh, I'm also entering this in the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge:  Let It Snow