Cards (Guest Post from Isha Gupta)

Hello everyone! Isha here sharing my 3rd. post as guest designer for January. Today, I have 2 cards for you using the wonderful products from eclectic Paperie. I made these cards, which are totally different from each other.

For my first card, I want to tell you that you can create CAS cards using stencils. You don't only have to use the stencil for mix media or with spray mists only. You can use them as mask and sponge the inks for a wonderful soft feel.

So, I started with sponging the solid poppy stencil. I inked it using 2 green, red and orange Imagine Crafts/ Tsukineko Memento inks. I then put the outline only stencil and sponged using the dark ink. It gives a subtle definition to the image. To finish the center panel, I inked around the edges using Teal Zeal Memento ink. To finish, I just put some Delicata gold glitz ink and Memento Love Letter ink onto the acrylic block, added a bit of water and flicked.

For my 2nd. card, I went to no stamping again. It's fun to take different elements from the pattern paper itself. I used the Simple Stories Say Cheese collection. I used some Memento inks to edge the small tickets. I then added some washi tape and black flicks. Now this flair is from Fancy Pants Timbergrove, which gives this card an instant pop. Finally a touch of Glossy Accents on the heart on MAGIC :)

Hope you enjoy creating!

Supplies:
Card: 1
Cardstock: White; Stamp: Hero Arts (Everyday Sentiments); Stencil: TCW (Mini Poppies); Inks: Imagine Crafts/ Tsukineko (Memento: Black,Teal Zeal, Morocco, Love Letter, Pistachio, Olive Green; Delicata golden glitz, StazOn black); Vellum

Card: 2
Cardstock: White; Pattern Paper: Simple Stories (Say Cheese); Flair: Fancy Pants (Timbergrove); Ink: Imagine Crafts/ Tsukineko (Onyx Black)

Isha

Here are the links to the eclectic Paperie store for some of the products used above:

StazOn - Jet Black	Tsukineko - Memento Teal Zeal	Tsukineko - Memento Pistachio	Tsukineko - Memento Olive Grove
Tsukineko - Memento Morocco	Tsukineko - Memento Love Letter	Simple Stories - Say Cheese 6x6" Paper Pad	Fancy Pants - Timbergrove Flair
TCW 6x6 Template - Mini Poppies

In my heart forever . . . .

 Hellooo everyone, Tracy here today with my first attempt at using Gel Medium in my little old book. . . Gulp . . .showing bloopers and all!

Our lovely Julie picked Gel Medium for the eP Picks Challenge this month, I am soooo late getting around to mine but better late than never, right?

Best off all, you still have time to enter just click HERE for inspiration, a video tutorial by Julie and how to link up.

Here is a look at my photo transfer  halfway through { My Dad when he was younger}, so easy just watch Julie`s video on how to do this, you will love it . . . thank yoooou Julie.

  At this stage I did get impatient { who me! } and rubbed a little too much in some areas, but as I wanted a worn aged look to my journal pages it worked out just right in the end, phew!

See the patches on the left of the picture . . . that`s my bloopers, teach me to be impatient!

Heat tool to the rescue for that worn look I was after, a blast here and another here and voila the picture looked oldy worldy and as if it had been around forever.

Ooooh what`s that peeking out the side?

Wheeee, it`s the Tim Holtz Picture Wheel Bigz Die, it is soooo cute and I loooove it!

{ I can see a summer Picture Wheel mini book in my future makes . . . watch this space.}

Okay I love it so much here`s a closer look, the papers are from the

 24/7 6x6 collection pad from Simple Stories

 yet another love of mine and with the help of a little Glossy Accents so easy to fix in place in an instant.

A little dash of Walnut Stain and Black Soot Distress Ink pads gave it that lovely aged look.

A little message for my Dad who I love to the moon and back using more of the 24/7 paper to cut out a heart, a little handwritten journaling along with a Tim Holtz sentiment from the Remnant  Rubs -words.

Oooooh I almost forgot to mention that scrummy yummy tissue paper I used, hhmmmm ... when I get my stash from Kim it comes all wrapped up in this tissue paper, how luckeeee I am!!!!

Thank you so much for taking the time to check out my aged and worn journal pages for my Dad and I hope you will give Gel Medium a go too!

Till next time

Hugs

Tracy

Materials used from the eP Store, just click on the links :

Faber Castell Gel Medium

Simple Stories 24/7 6x6 paper pad

Inkssentials #8 Manilla Tags

Inkssentials Glossy Accents 

Distress Ink Pad - Walnut Stain 

                            Black Soot 

Distress Re - Inkers Brushed Corduroy

Idea-ology Tim Holtz Remnant rubs - Words

Tim Holtz Alterations - Bigz Die - Picture Wheel

Chalkboard Makeover with Simple Stories

 Hello everyone, it`s Tracy here today
{ waving madly at you all }
with a quick chalkboard makeover using -

Aha, are you liking my materials list,hmmmm . . .

 I started with a quick coat of white Acrylic paint and being the impatient type . . . blasted it with my heat tool, I love how it bubbles up and adds texture.

I kinda like the shabby look so out came my Walnut Stain Distress Ink pad and blending tool for a quick rub all around the frame.

Chopped up some pretty papers and fixed in place with a glue stick.

What I adore about Simple Stories collections is the beautiful Teeny tiny bingo cards and page

elements

 which I chopped up and added a few staples too. . .

 . . . next it was time to distress the seam binding with Distress Stain and attaching it in place along with the red rope using my ever trusty glue gun.

I wanted the deeeeelish elements to pop slightly sooooo  . . . I added a little chipboard circle behind a few.

The Maya Road wooden circles I have had in my stash forever and thought it was about time I actually put them to use! 

How cool are those Tim Holtz Idea - Ology Remnant rubs!

They worked like a dream on the painted, distressed wood and added that extra little something to this project.

If you haven`t tried them then you neeeed toooo they are AMAZING!!

  If only you could see this in real life . . . sadly my picture taking skills ain`t that great  . . . SORRY!

Well that`s it for me today.

Thank yooou so much for taking the time to look.

Catch you next time around.

Happy crafting

Tracy

xoxox

Materials from eP Store -

Simple Stories 24/Seven 6x6 Paper Pad

Tim Holtz Idea - Ology Remnant Rubs - Words

Tim Holtz Distress Stain - Tumbled Glass

Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Walnut Stain 

 Inkssentials Glue Sticks

Inkssentials Foam Blending Tool

The shop does carry

Maya Road wooden Bingo numbers 

which would work just as great as the one`s Iused.

Getting ready for Mother's Day

With Mother's Day fast approaching, and time running out, I thought I would scratch 'making cards' off my list.  This card can easily be re-created multiple times for any mother in your life.  Here I used Simple Stories - Vintage Bliss 6x6 paper pad.

If you take a close look, you can see that I dug out my chalks from many moons ago and lightly created a 'polka dotty' look with the Wendy Vecchi - Studio 490's art stencil.  With Scotch foam tape, I elevated my stripped paper for dimension.  I created a pocket by machine sewing silver thread to accent my Platinum Shimmer twine from The Twinery.  I layered an old button with paper, wrapped the twine and topped it with A Flair For Button tin.  For a tad more bling, I inserted a crystal Maya Road Trinket Pin  and a blue My Mind's Eye pin.  The Idea-ology Tiny Attacher is perfect for attaching fine detailing  like "happy."  I also distressed all of my papers to help tone down the raw edges and help pop the gray with Graphite Black ink pad from Brilliance.

My mother is an avid, no, obsessive tea drinker and she will  be delighted to receive this card!  It will accompany her large pink (another obsession) tea cup plant pot , blooming with pink flowers!  

Happy Mother's Day to you.

Be Kind

Hey there! Thanks for popping in to the eP blog today.   This morning as I look out the studio window, we've got snow!  Whoooot....the first snow and it is oh so very pretty! 

I've got a cute and super easy canvas for you. When I saw the Ruby Rainbow set from Dyan Reaveley I just knew it was going to be fun and it did not disappoint!  I stamped Ruby and the wings from the set on Summer Fresh designer papers from Simple Stories. 

 

Using a 5x7 canvas board, I first covered with tissue paper for a bit of texture.  The stamp on the tissue paper is from Dyan’s Basic Backgrounds.  I used Archival Ink in black.  I also added a little edge around the board with scraps from the left over designer paper.  Then used Further Around the Edge to add more interest to the border.  I’m almost out of my Glue N Seal which I still love by the way and must order more.  I toned everything down using Ranger Distress Ink in Scattered Straw and Walnut Stain with the Inkssentials Blending Tool. 

For just a bit of detail I colored Ruby’s crazy and happy hair with Distress Ink Fired Brick and her eyes with Distress Ink Weathered Wood using a water brush.  I printed out the words “be kind” on some blank book paper and added some buttons to her little coat.

Hope you like her and was inspired just a bit.  Have a great day and see you again soon!

Hello Fall Tag (Guest Post from Shannon Sawyer)

Hi there!  Shannon here again this week with another great fall tag, created with products from eclectic Paperie!

This week I made the larger tag (Ranger Kraft Tags #8) and I created a little pocket on that tag to be able to hold the wooden tag set I also made. I did put a heavier bookboard tag behind the large tag so that it could hold the weight of the wooden tag set. These wooden tags from Maya Road were a lot of fun to play with. I have not used them before and I highly recommend them.

I painted the tags using the Claudine Hellmuth Studio Mini Acrylic Paints. The paints come in three sets of Urban, Contemporary and Metropolitan.  I, of course, had to get all three!  The size on these paints are  great, they don't take up too much room, and the colors are so vibrant. Once the paint on the tags were dry, I went over each of them with the Claudine Hellmuth Mini Gloss Medium. I decorated the large tag and all of the smaller wooden tags using the 6x6 Simple Stories Harvest Lane pad.

As you can see there were lots of little quotes and goodies to cut out of those papers for me to embellish these tags with. In the past I've always bought the 12x12 Simple Stories pads, but I now really like the 6x6 size. The little paper goodies you can cut from this size pad (and for which they are known)is a great size when doing smaller projects. They'd be great for ATCs as well.

 I tied the wooden tags together using The Twinery twine in Lemon Drop. The little pocket for the wooden tags was just something I made really quick with some cardstock and I gave it some color using Distress Inks in: Broken China, Peeled Paint, Scattered Straw and Spiced Marmalade.

My sister is hosting Thanksgiving this year and I've made her a little gift to bring over, I'm going to tie these wooden tags to the top of the boxed gift, I thought they'd be a perfect little embellishment for the gift. That's about it, I hope you like it!

Next week is my last week to make a project for eclectic Paperie and I'll give you a hint...it just might be a Halloween themed project. If you get a chance check out the products and great prices at eP!

Apples for a Friend

Hello eP fans!

I had a customer recently request a card with apples I had listed for sale on my blog, and here I had sold it already and forgot to take it down!  So I contacted the customer and offered to make another as similar as I could to the original, and she said “just another apple card would be fine…” so this is what I came up with.  I hope she likes it!

The apple stamps I used here are from the Apple of My Eye stamp set from Flourishes, and I stamped and colored this with Copics from the eclectic Paperie store.  The papers used are Simple Stories “Harvest Lane”… just LOVE this line for Fall!  I embellished with various Nestabilities die-cuts, button, thread, pearls, tag, etc. and a seam binding bow hand-dyed with some Scattered Straw Ranger distress reinker.  My cardstock and paper edges were also sponged with Antique Linen distress ink, using the Inkssentials Foam Blending tool, and my Non-Stick Craft Sheet.


Happy stamping!

So Very Thankful (Guest Designer Shannon Sawyer Post)

Hi everyone!  Shannon here again sharing a fall tag I made for the eclectic Paperie blog. It was a lot of fun to make and I plan on attaching it to a gift I've giving someone over Thansgiving.

I used the following products on this tag:
Inkssentials #8 Tag in Manila
Buttons Galore in Kiwi Fruit & Lemon Tart
Twinery in Honey Dew, Lemon Drop and Mandarin Orange (don't those names just sound like Fall?), Maya Road Felt Pearl Posie in Cream.

The paper used was a 6x6 pad by Simple Stories titled "Harvest Lane".  Now I love, love, love Simple Stories paper and in the past I've always used the 12x12 paper from them, but after using this 6x6 pad, I think now I'll be using that size more often. The little quotes and paper embellishments that you can cut out of the Simple Stories paper (that they are known for) is better in the 6x6 pad because it's sized better for a tag or an ATC, and I tend to work in smaller areas.

I cut the background paper for the tag into strips that I wove together. Once it was done I covered it in the Claudine Hellmuth Studio Multi-Medium Gloss so that it would stay together. I used the convenient .5 fl oz size of the Gloss Medium.

Happy Fall Days everyone!!!

Our Home

Hello to you!  I'm wondering, have you ever created something and you just were not sure you REALLY liked it?  Well, that's what I've got for you today.  I did learn a few things along the way.   

I started with a gessoed 6X12 canvas.  With my fingers, I covered it with sky blue and white Claudine Hellmuth paint in the little squirt bottles.  They are super easy to use and great for control of where you place your paint and how much you use. 

Then I did a little paper piecing for my homes with Summer Fresh from Simple Stories.  LOVE this paper.  Preeeeetttty!!!  The colors totally rock and the designs are oh so yummy.

We recently moved to a beautiful townhouse so these represent our neighbor's homes too.  Once the houses were down with Matte Medium,  I used a bit of modeling paste to create my clouds with some joint compound tape.  Maybe just fluffy clouds with my fingers would have been a bit softer. 

I had some fun with my stamps (background 1, around the edge, basic backgrounds and background love).  I think what pushed me over the edge with this project were all the random rubons I used from my stash.  Oh well...live and learn!  I also did do a little antiquing with tinted Gloss Medium.   

Oh and I added the little heart, used a marker to free hand the word "love" and found some words in a vintage book for "our home".  I also did a little edging with book pages and painted them.  LOVE that look!

Overall, I had fun, got paint on my fingers (which is a daily goal of mine) and I learned some valuable lessons.  Hope you were inspired to get a tad bit of paint on your fingers.  Enjoy!