Heading to the Sea

Hi crafty people.  I’m not exactly headed toward the sea shore, but I am headed to the coast…the left coast…you know the coast where CHA will be happening this weekend.  Yep, I’m excited to see my girls and all the new crafty stuff that will be on display.

While I’m away, I’m not sure if I’ll be posting or not because for the first time, I’m leaving my laptop at home, and traveling light with my iPad. I haven’t tried posting to my blog from my iPad before so I’m not sure how well it will work.  But, I couldn’t leave without sharing a little sneak peek of another wonderful stamp that will be revealed at the Stampendous booth beginning Sunday.

I began with a green card base and layered white beneath a layer of Garden Café Patterned paper by American Crafts which was a light blue color with this great white embossed pattern.  I added Mustard Seed and Peeled Paint inks to the patterned paper and the white resisted, leaving me with a great background for this fanciful mermaid that more closely matched the colors I wanted to use.

I stamped the Stampendous Mermaid (CRP157) onto white cardstock and colored her with Copic Markers

I used a Copic Multiliner pen to draw a base for the mermaid and then proceeded to add glitter, gold glitter glass and some of the Sage Fragments to the base.  You are going to love the new colors of Fragments that Stampendous has for you.

Here you can see the varied colors I used to shade the Mermaid.  To give the Mermaid tail a bit of shimmery shine I added some pearl colored Smooch.

To the sea floor I added lots of texture by adding, Fine Crystal Snow (GX901F) and Gold Glitter Glass in addition to the Sage colored Fragments.

For more embellishments I added a few self-adhesive pearls, jute twine, jute netting and three pearl brads.

That’s it for today.  I hope you are looking forward to seeing even more wonderful surprises that will be coming your way from Stampendous and CHA.

Thanks for stopping by.  Until next time, stay crafty and I’ll see you in Anaheim.

Copic Blending Cardstock by X-Press (pack of 12)	Bazzill Basics-Kraft 12 X 12	Bazzill Rainforest Green Cardstock	Creative Impressions Jute Twine	Tuxedo Black Ink Pad (Memento)	Ranger Mustard Seed Distress Ink
Ranger Peeled Paint Distress Ink	Smooch - Pearlized Accent Ink - Moonlight	Copic Markers	Quickie Glue Pen	Fine Crystal Snow Glitter	Stampendous Champagne Crushed Glass Glitter
Creative Impressions Pearl Mini Rounds - PF

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Torn Tile Mosaic Tutorial

Just a quick little heads up – I have a quick and easy technique tutorial posted on the Paper Craft Planet blog.  Head on over and take a quick peek!

Getting ready to go to CHA – lots to get done – and only 5 more sleeps for me!  Getting really excited, but right now I need to get ready to go to work, so I’ll catch you later.

Welcome to the Weekend

Hello crafty people. Today I’m sharing a sneak peek of a brand new set from Stampendous called Wonderland (SSC135).  This set is one of the new sets that will be revealed at CHA at the end of January.  It’s such a great vintage style and I couldn’t resist using this lovely Alice image.

I started out with a Razzelberry Dark cardstock by Bazzill for my base and layered on white and Mauve Ice before I added the paper doily.  I die cut the mat that Alice is stamped on using my Grand Labels 4 die by Spellbinders and while the white cardstock was still in the die, I sponged some Spun Sugar ink around the edges before stamping Alice.  I colored her with Copic Markers.

I used the same die cutting-sponging technique for the sentiment which was die cut from the standard Labels 4 Nestabilities.

Behind my sentiment I layered ribbon and some flowers by Zva Creative on top of a metal filigree piece that I had in my stash.  It matched well with the heart brads I used along the top.  I was pleased with how the card turned out.

BLOG CANDY ANNOUNCEMENT:  In Monday’s post I offered some Blog Candy in celebration of my birthday.  I just loved reading the responses that were posted about your favorite birthday memories.  It’s great to have those memories, and even better when you can share them.  Thanks so much for all who posted…I had the best time reading them.  So now I’d like to announce the winner of the blog candy I offered.  I used the random.org thingy and came up with the winner.  Drumroll please……

Congratulations to StampnInkLady a/k/a Lori Reinholz

Thanks Lori for taking part in my own birthday celebration.  Pop me an e-mail (follow the instructions to contact me in the side bar of my blog) and send me your snail mail address and I’ll get your goodies into the mail to you.

And thanks to everyone who took the time to comment.  I hope you have a wonderful weekend…I’m on my way to a brunch this morning with some of my sorority sisters.  FUN!  Until next time, stay crafty.

Grand Labels 4 Nestabilities	Labels 4 Nestabilities	Copic Markers	Tuxedo Black Ink Pad (Memento)	Ranger Spun Sugar Distress Ink	Color Box Sky Gray Ink
Bazzill Mauve Ice	Copic Blending Cardstock by X-Press (pack of 12)

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IHP’s January 2012 DT Blog Hop Challenge

If you are looking for my Waltzingmouse Stamps project for the WMS Blog Party, please scroll down to the next post.

Hello crafty people.  It’s the I{Heart}Papers monthly Design Team Blog Hop and we are happy to share with you our crafty projects.  This month our Challenge was to use one of several inspiration photos that our Challenge Coordinator, Deb Felts, found for us.  The inspiration photo I chose to use was this one.

Since Valentine Day is on the horizon, I took the opportunity to make a Valentine “laced” with lovely pinks gleaned from this inspiration photo.

Speaking of lace – I used some lovely 1-1/2” Fuchsia Lace from May Arts to create my background.  I ran my white cardstock front through my Xyron adhesive applicator creating a sticky layer on which to lay my 3 strips of lace, and then I trimmed off the excess.

My doily Lace Heart Circles by Spellbinders was die cut using Bubblegum Pink cardstock and patterned paper from the Be Mine patterned paper collection by Echo Park.  I mounted the stripped die cut onto the pink bottom layer using foam dimensional pop dots.

The “xoxo” strip was cut from the same Be Mine paper along with the “with Love” sticker.

I adorned the white heart with crystal bling from Zva Creative. To finish off my embellishments, I used a Copic Marker to color the red and white bakers twine, making it a matching fuchsia color.  I tied a bow and attached two small punched hearts to the ends. I positioned it on the right-hand side of the “xoxo” strip to balanced out the heart cluster on the left.

For more inspiration from supplies available at I{Heart}Papers, be sure to stop by the blogs of these talented Design Team Members:

Carolyn

Deb

Gretchen

Kate

Loretta

Lori

Tracy

Thanks for looking in.  Until next time – have a wonderful day!

Echo Park Be Mine 12X12 Collection	1-1/2" Lace Fuchsia Pink	Copic Blending Cardstock by X-Press (pack of 12)	Foam Dimensional Dots	Zyron 5" Creative Station	Zva Creative Crystal Bling
Copic Markers	Cherry Red Divine Twine	Spellbinders Doily Heart Circles

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