Paper Sweeties October Release Rewind!

Time for a Paper Sweeties Rewind, where we mix new release stamps and dies with older ones. Abigail and Jake stamps and dies were perfect, paired with the Do You See What I See and Reason for the Season stamps sets.

I used a mix of Dylusions Ink Sprays and Distress Ink to create the background on a Manila tag. Then, I heat embossed the sentiment, first with a gold mirror embossing powder, then again, offset slightly, with a light brown ep. Jake, Abigail, and baby Jesus were colored with Copic markers, and the outfits were paper pieced. Abigail is popped up slightly, but I wanted to keep the tag as flat as possible in case it ended up being used as a bookmark. The edges of the tag were heat embossed with two different Fran-tage embossing powders, and I finished the tag off with several Paper Sweeties seam bindings and baker's twines.

Be sure to visit my teamies' blogs, too!

Angel Johns 
Cheryl Lea

Debbie Marcinkiewicz – Paper Sweeties
Emily Frasier 
Jill Norwood 

Kathy Schweinfurth

Larissa Heskett
Mackie Robertson

Maria Patrick

Michelle Bala
Mynnette Kitchen

Nancy Penir

You still have time to enter this month's Inspiration Challenge!

And, be sure to check out the October Kit of the Month, too.

Thanks so much for your visit, and enjoy your weekend!

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

TCP Tuesday Challenge TCPTUES301: Anything Goes
Penny Black October Challenge: Warm Autumn Colours
House of Cards October Challenge: Add Texture &/or Color Inspiration

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Faux Metal Art

Hello Blog Friends! Hope you, in the U.S., are enjoying your Memorial Day today! This is going to be a quick post--short on words, long on pics. 

If you are in the Atlanta area, you may have seen this Faux Metal Box in the Impressive Ideas store in Roswell. I've been teaching it as a class there for a few weeks. It's been a really fun class.

Here's a look at the entire project. (There is only one box in the project--I used two for the photo so you could see the inside and outside of the box.)

The entire box is covered in panels that have the look of forged metal, and colored are with various mediums.

The patterned paper on the inside has a distressed look to go with the "aged" metal on the outside of the box.

A few tags give everyone a chance to practice their metal coloring techniques.

We even stitched up a little notebook!

And, a set of four gift cards are decorated with metal butterflies.

My next class is a cute boxed card set. I'll have pics of it in a few days, and you'll be able to see it at the Impressive Ideas store, too!

Thanks for stopping by, and have a wonderful week!

I'm entering this project in the following challenges:
TCP Tuesday 266: Anything Goes
613 Avenue Create #73: Anything Goes w/optional twist to use Metal (feel better Chana!!!)

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Happy "Bee" Day

I had so much fun making this little project today! You're probably thinking this is for a birthday, and it could be, but it's not. A friend's son is in a spelling bee next week, so I made a tag for her to use on a bee-themed gift package that she put together for him.

I embossed a Honeycomb background stamp with Distress embossing powder, then spritzed with several colors of Dylusions Ink Spray. After drying the ink with my heat gun, I spritzed gold Perfect Pearls Mist over it so it would glisten like honey. "Happy" was stamped with the Inside & Out Happy stamp set from Flourishes, using Versamark Ink, then heat embossed with black ep, and the letters in "day" are die cuts. The bee was made by punching out yellow and black circles, folding them in half, and gluing them together. The bee face (stamped on cs and colored with a Copic marker) and wings (stamped on vellum and coated with Diamond Stickles) were stamped with a Recollections stamp set called Don't Bug Me, and fussy cut. A strip of Washi tape and some ribbons and jute finished it off. (I thought about adding more, but since it's for a boy, I figured less IS more!) I didn't take a pic of the back, but it is white with the honeycomb bg stamped in Scattered Straw Distress Ink. My friend has plenty of room to personalize it.

Thanks for stopping by, and have a great weekend!

I'm entering this tag in the following challenges:

Simon Says Monday Challenge: Anything Goes

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge: Emboss It

613 Avenue Create Challenge #54: Anything goes

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Thinking of You with a Tag

Hi Friends! I'll only be a second! Here's a card I made for a few challenges.

As it's a "thinking of you" card, I wanted it to look a little bit doodled on, so I stamped a lot of random stamps on the blue text cs, and added lots of Pearl Pen dots on the flags. I turned the partial circle layer into a tag. I layered two different digi papers to create the purple paper for the flags.

I turned the Viva la Verve sketch upside down, and used the CR84FN60 color challenge for my palette, even though I'm not entering that particular challenge since I'm entering more than two other challenges. :(

Here's a shot of the tag partially out of the pocket. To keep the tag from sliding behind the "thinking of you" sentiment layer, I glued down the entire left side of the upper panel, and only glued the right and bottom edges of the right side. To keep the tag from catching on the twine that is wrapped around the layer, I glued a strip of kraft cs over the twine on the backside.

And, this is what the entire tag looks like. The leaves stamp on the tag looks smeared on purpose. I stamped it twice. The first time I spritzed water on my stamp after inking it up. Then I re-stamped it without water to give it more definition. I colored the "O" of the tag sentiment with a Copic marker.

Thanks for stopping by, and have a wonderful week!

I'd like to enter this card in the following challenges:

Viva la Verve August 2012 Week 2 (VLVAug2012)

Simon Says...Let's Play Bingo! (Buttons, Die Cut, Ribbon)

Cute Card Thursday Challenge #229: Tag You're It!

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Stamps: Tag Time, Kind Words, Bloom & Grow (Verve); Under Lock & Key, Vintage Traveler (Our Craft Lounge); Summer Afternoon, Vintage Dreamer (Taylored Expressions); Avignon (7 Gypsies)
Paper: Breeze (My Mind's Eye); Reflections (Prima); kraft; Kim's Scrappin' Color Purple digi paper; Grungy Tile digi paper (Lost & Taken) 
Ink: Distress Ink; Memento; Colorbox; Copic markers
Dies: Nested Lacey Pennants, Ribbon Tag Trio Two (Spellbinders); Brackets (Tim Holtz-Sizzix); Tagged Rectangle, Elegant Leaves (Verve)
Accessories: Woodgrain embossing folder (Sizzix); ribbon (Offray); twine; pearls; mini round gems; eyelet; buttons; Liquid Pearls; Pearl Pen; corner chomper; sewing thread; foam dots
Size: A2 (5.5" x 4.25")

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