Stencilled Thanks Card

Hello!  Hope you had a good week- we were so busy but in a good way :)  Almost done with school here and I have a feeling my days will only be getting busier once the girls are home for the summer!

I thought I'd pop on today and share a card I made recently.  I used a familiar color scheme and technique- it was fun and I love how it turned out:

I started out with a white card base and then used my hearts stencil and paste from Teresa Collins Design's Basically Essential line.  Once the paste was dry,  pulled out some of my favorite blue Stampin' Up! ink pads and watercolored over the paste with a wet paint brush.  I splattered a bit of my favorite blue, Pacific Point over it as well.
Next I pulled out the Basically Essential 'thanks' stencil and used black paint to stencil the word on to a transparency sheet.  I cut it into a banner flag and pulled out some fun embellishments to go along with it.
I layered everything where I wanted it and then sewed over all the embellishments to hold them in place.  I used a mixture of stitches for an interesting look.
I finished it all off with a bit of aqua baker's twine along the top edge.

I think this is my favorite color scheme right now!  It feels so summery and beachy!  Maybe I'll make a beach themed card with it next :)

I entered this into the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge this week- it's all about stencils!

I also wanted to say thank you to everyone who cheered me on through the Paper Crafts and Scrapbooking Magazine's Gallery Idol Contest.  I didn't make it through to the finals but I'm so happy to have been part of such a fun group of girls!  They are all truly talented and I can't wait to see who wins this year!

Well, I hope you're enjoying your day!  Thanks for stopping by!

Be Awesome Card for Gallery Idol Round 3!

Hi!  I am so happy to be playing along with Round 3 of Paper Crafts and Scrapbooking Magazine's Gallery Idol Contest!  This round is all about stencils!  I love playing with stencils and had lots of fun with this challenge!  I pulled out my all time favorite stencil sheet for this card:

I think the days of the week stencil from the Basically Essential stencil pack #2 by Teresa Collins Designs is so cute!  I was inspired to use it because of this fun sentiment by Mama Elephant.  It was sitting on my desk and I thought they'd be a perfect pair!

I used  the Basically Essential modeling paste by Teresa Collins Designs over my stencil and let it dry.  Next, I pulled out some of my Stampin' Up! ink pads and watercolored over the days of the week using 2 colors for each day.  The bright colors are so pretty and vivid in real life!  I love the way they look over the kraft card base.

I cut a piece of vellum into a circle and then stamped my sentiment using Staz On ink.  I added a scallop border along the bottom (Lawn Fawn paper and Reverse Confetti die) and then wrapped a bit of twine from SRM around it, ending in a bow.  I added a few epoxy hearts from We R Memory Keepers to embellish my sentiment.

It has been so fun playing along with the Gallery Idol contest this year!  Thanks again for all your votes and cheer leading!  I love reading the kind comments you've left here, at the contest page, and on Facebook- they really mean the world to me!

If you'd like to vote for me again this round, I'd love it! Pop over to the Gallery Idol Contest page to vote and to check out the rest of the entries!  Such beautiful work!!

Hope you have a great day!

Mix Ins for Modeling Paste

Hi!  It's Friday!!  Hope you are ready for the weekend- I am!  I just found out that I'll be making a card for the next round of Gallery Idol!!  :)  I'm so excited I made it through to the next round!!  And funny enough- my cards today would be perfect for the next challenge- stencils!!  I'm happy with the category, now to create something fun with them!!

I have a couple of cards I created this week for the Teresa Collins Design Team Blog to share with you today.  These were so fun to create!  I did a little experimenting with the Basically Essential Modeling Paste before I got started, testing out mix ins!  This first one features some beautiful gold glitter:

I scooped a little paste out and mixed in some of this awesome glitter by Stampendous.  It created an awesome texture but you couldn't see the sparkle very well.  To fix this, I sprinkled more glitter over the top of the paste after I spread it onto the star stencil.  The glitter sticks so well and I love the dimension it adds to the paste!  Here is a closer look:

This second card features the paste mixed with paint.  I used 2 drops of coral paint to get this look.  The color stays pretty vivid!  It was fun to play with:

I spread it over the hearts stencil in a messy fashion.  Sometimes a perfect mess is just what a card calls for!  And you don't have to worry about mistakes either! :)

 
As far as the embellishments go, I kept it simple to let the artsy elements shine through.  I used the photo overlays from the Something Wonderful collection for my sentiments and embellished with some gold twine from the Twinery along with gold star sequins and washi tapes from the Something Wonderful collection.  These were a little tricky to photograph because of the transparent overlays...

Well, I hope you have a great weekend!  I'll be pulling out my stencils again-- I can't wait!!

Thanks for popping by today!

Keep On Card

Hi!  Only one more day till I'll be cropping the night away at my favorite retreat!  I still have a few things to pack but I mostly know what I want to work on so it shouldn't take too long! :)  Hee!  I always have the tendency to pack everything!

I thought I'd share a card I created recently- I had a bunch of new goodies I wanted to play with and kind of mish mashed them together,  It's a little wacky but I kind of like it!

I started with a kraft card base and then added the days of the week from one of the Basically Essential stencils by Teresa Collins Designs.  After the modeling paste was dry, I splattered it with gold and teal mist.  I also used my spritzer and a kraft marker to add a fine mist to a few areas.   Next, I added some washi tape- the black and white stripes are from Teresa Collins Designs and the mini strips are from the new Amy Tangerine Collection- I had to have them!  The colors are so bright and happy!  The card I added my sentiment to and the patterned papers are also from the same collection.

The sentiment is from the Hustle stamp set by Mama Elephant.  I stamped it with black Memento and then colored inside the letters with a green Copic marker.  Once I added the sentiment card, I added a bit of twine and then used my new Stampin' Up! triangle punch to create the patterned paper triangles.  So glad I picked this up!

Well, I told you I mish mashed a bunch of goodies together! lol!  I did enjoy making it though! :)

In other news, I got a fun package in the mail yesterday:

Thanks again Xyron for the fun Teresa Collins products!  I've already started to put them to good use! :)

Hope you're having a great day!  Thanks for stopping by!
-tessa

Fun in the Sun

Hello!
Today is a snow day for us!  We only got an inch and a half of snow but it was enough to close the schools and let us play!  It has been so refreshing!  I love having my girls home with me! :)

I'm sharing a layout today!  And of course, since there is snow on the ground, I was thinking about summer! lol!  I scrapbooked some Instagrams from our 2012 summer vacation...

My nephew's spent part of the summer with us.  They were a little surprised by the heat here- they are from the Seattle area and summer isn't quite as hot there! :) We really did try nearly all the pools and waterparks in our area out while they were here!  It was so much fun!

During Summer CHA, I won these great stencil cards from Fancy Pants Designs.  I cut them into banner shapes, added some paint to the edges and patterned paper behind them.  They are lots of fun to use!  The patterned papers are all from the Everyday Eclectic line by Echo Park.  I gesso'd the hexagon print close to the pictures so the pictures would be what your eye went to first.  I really love how it turned out!

And, because I took a few pictures this morning, here are my girls and their little buddy Quincy ready to play in the snow!  They lasted about an hour before they got too cold and came in!  It's amazing to me what kind of magic a little bit of snow brings to children!

Well, I hope you are having a great day today!  Thanks for stopping by to see what I made!

-tessa