Clear Scraps project for Ink, Paint, Stamp!

For those of you that haven't heard, I'm now working as the manager at a new store in High Point called Ink, Paint, Stamp!  We'll be open for business the beginning of April, but in the meantime we've been busy ordering and laying out the new store.  I did get a chance to put together a mini album the other day:

We received a huge shipment from Clear Scraps and they were generous enough to send us a few samples to play with including this adorable Lacey mixables album.

It came as a kit with precut papers and embellishments, but I changed it up with some different products that we'll be carrying in the store.

The paper line is called Art of Life collection from Kaisercraft.  I also used black Staz-on, some Tim Holtz stamps, and some flowers from Petaloo.

Ithink it turned out super fun, sorry for the bad pics though, they were taken at work.  I'm still trying to get my craft room together after the move, LOL

I am so thrilled that we'll be carrying a huge variety of Clear Scraps products, I've alway loved their albums and acrylic shapes and I'm totally excited to work with their  new mascils and more!

Hope you have a fabulous Monday!

Dreamweaver Sneak Peek

Its Challenge day at Dreamweaver Stencils and this month has been all about loosing weight, or keeping your cards clean and simple.  I'm sharing a peek at a new stencil today called Crusade Background.  This is one of my new absolute favs!

I used the double glitter technique so its not totally simple.  The technique can be quite easy but I picked a detailed stencil so it was a bit more of a challenge, LOL, but the final result is still clean with not many layers.

I used Tim Holtz's Stickles Dry glitter along with Double sided mounting paper for this technique.  The sentiment was created the same way with the Merci Stencil.

Here's a list of everyone from the Dream Team who's posting today:

Dream It Up!

Louise Healy

Cyndi Bundy

Terrece Siddoway

Cherylynn Moser

Lyn Bernatovich

Pam Hornschu

Lea Kimmel

A bit of Stampendous style Mixed Media

Welcome back to sneak peek week for Stampendous! Fran designed some really gorgeous Mixed Media Stamps this round including the new Mixed Media Dress Form stamp set.  Below is a snippet from one of the journal pages that I sent in for the January catalog using Dress Form plus a few other new stamps.

I began with my Creative Palette and some Tim Holtz Distress Paints, brayered them on and lifted a print using templates from the new Mixed Media sets.  I continued to add more paint and more layers with the templates as well as the background from Dress Form as well as stamps from some of the new Stack Art rubber stamp kits.

The Dress Form I stamped last using Versamark Ink and Vintage Mahogany Embossing Tinsel.

Here's a closer shot of how part of the background turned out:

Be sure to keep checking out the Stampendous blog for more peeks this week!

Dreamweaver Stencils with Tim Holtz Distress Paint

Good morning!  Today is the first Thursday of the month and time for a new challenge at Dreamweaver Stencils.  Its all about Holiday gift giving this month.  AND this week we are partnering with Ranger Ink using Tim Hotlz's Distress Paints.  We are also partnering with Beacon all this month.

Today I upcycled a Tazo Tea tin for a ready made gift box.  I painted the top of the tin with the Distress paint then set that aside to dry while I worked on the rest of the tin.

I pulled out my Gelli plate and brayered some Distress paint across that, laid down some stencils and transfered the monoprint onto sticky back canvas.

The ornament die was cut from Tim Holtz tissue paper that was adhered t mixed media paper using Fast Finish from Beacon then painted.

I added part of the Joyeux Noel stencil on top, stenciled onto painted canvas with Red Label paste.  This was then added to the front of the tin after tying some Tim Holtz Crinkle ribbon around the top of the ornament.

Supplies:

Joyeux Noel, Large Flourish, Big Dots stencils (Dreamweaver Stencils)
Red Label embossing Paste (Dreamweaver)

Mowed Lawn, Evergreen Bough, Pine Needles, Picked Raspberry, Festive Berries, Aged Mahogany Distress Paint (Ranger)

Claudine Helmuth Sticky back canvas (Ranger)

Tim Holtz Carved Ornaments die (Sizzix)

Gelli plate

Brayer

Tazo tea tin

Here's who's playing today, so be sure to go leave some love:

Dream It Up!

Linda Neff (GD)

Cyndi Bundy

Lyn Bernatovich

Terrece Siddoway

Wendy Jordan

Heidi Erickson

Cherylynn Moser

Laura Drahozal

Louise Healy

Stacey Rumsby

Pam Hornschu

Lea Kimmel

Gelli Printing with Tim Holtz Distress Paints

Good morning!  I'm up today on Paper Craft Planet with a tutorial for you using my Gelli plate and the new Tim Holtz Distress paint colors.  Here's the finished journal page that I did in my Dylusions Mini Journal:

First you need to gather your supplies.  I used my Gelli plate, Tim Holtz Distress Paint, Tim Holtz's new layering stencils,  and a brayer.

Even though the Distress Paints have a dauber on top its easier for this technique to open the lid and pour out a few drops.  Be careful, the distress paint is more fluid than most paints you would usually use for Gelli-printing so it pours out quickly!

Next brayer the paint into a thin coat, slightly mixing the colors but not too much.  You still want to see the variegation.  After I brayered it out I used a spatula (that I cut grooves into) to create some texture.

Place your journal or other paper onto the Gelli plate and rub.

Next I cleaned the rest of the greens off and brayered some reds. I added a stencil on top then pressed my page over the gelli again.

This is what it looked like at this point:

Next I added darker greens and a new stencil and transfered that to my page:

Then it looked like this:

I added some background stamping an inked y edges with the dark green paint:

Finally I added some Dylusions images that I stamped on watercolor paper and colored with a waterbrush and distress paint:

Supplies:

Gelli plate (Gelli Arts)

Brayer (Ranger)

Aged Mahogany, Festive Berries, Evergreen Bough, Pine Needles, Bundled Sage Distress Paint (Ranger)

Black Archival pad (Ranger)

Christmas Backgrounds, Christmas Borders, Christmas Words, Day of the Heads Dylusions stamps (Ranger)

Distress Watercolor paper (Ranger)

Dylusions small journal (Ranger)

Copic multi liner

Do you have a gelli plate that you bought and then stashed away?  Pull it out and try it!

Shattered Circles Flowers

A couple of weeks ago I taught my first Pan Pastels class at Betty's.  It was an all day affair and tons of fun.  After we worked in our Visual Journals learning new techniques we put some of those techniques to use in creating this small canvas.

The flowers were created with Julie Fei-Fan Balzer's Shattered Circles stencils from The Crafter's Workshop.  The larger ones were done with the 12x12 version using Molding Paste and then painted over with the Pan Pastels. The smaller ones were done with the same stencil in the 6x6 version and we painted directly through the stencil.

Inside circles are book text punched out.  Stems were free painted and the leaves were stenciled with Dyan Reaveley's newest Leaf Flourish stencil.

The sentiment on the tag is from a relatively new Tim Holtz set called Way with Words.

Here's a few pics from the class:

I had a fun crowd this day, Lynn, Kathy, Sharon, Judy, Peggy, and Dow.  

That's a lot of Pan Pastel love going on!

If you'd like to schedule a Pan Pastel class, leave me a comment and we'll schedule one on the store.  I can also travel to you if you are in the Carolinas area but not local and can gather some friends.

Dreamweaver Stencils and Ranger Team Up!

Collaborations are always fun, and when you get to partner with Ranger its a blast!  The Dreamweaver Stencils DT is thrilled to be sponsored by Ranger this month and using the Stickles Dry Glitter in our creations this week.

Today I have a layout for you that utilizes two different ways to incorporate glitter into your stenciling.   On a #10 Ranger Tag I spritzed Blue Martini Memories mist and then when that was dry I stenciled the Stars onto the tag in White Glossy paste.  While that was still wet I sprinkled on Stardust Stickles dry glitter.

I also grabbed my Plaid stencil since I needed stars and stripes, right?  Using this stencil and double sided mounting paper I created a piece of cardstock with Christmas Red and Stardust stripes.

In the bottom corner I added the Umbrella man die cut from chipboard, but cut off his umbrella and added the flag from Mini Old Glory instead.

Also along the right border I sponged Fired Brick and Tumbled Glass Distress ink through my Stars stencil.

Dreamweaver Stencils products:

Stars Stencil

Plaid Stencil

Glossy White Embossing Paste

Blue Martini and Fruit Punch Memories Mist
Double Sided Mounting Paper

Ranger Products:

True Blue, Christmas Red and Stardust Stickles Dry Glitter

Fired Brick and Tumbled Glass Distress Ink

Archival Black ink

Glossy Accents

Other Tim Holtz Products:

Umbrella Man Bigz Sizzix Alterations die

Mini Old Glory Movers and Shapers Alterations die

Crinkle Ribbon 

So what about prizes for this week's hop?

Just visit everyone on the list below, and leave comments for everyone. Two winners* will be randomly selected and announced Thursday, July 4th...what a great day for a celebration! Each prize package includes a mix of five Ranger Stickles Dry Glitter, a mix of six Dreamweaver Stencils, and jar of Dreamweaver Translucent Paste, and a Palette Knife for spreading. If you want to add to the fun, play along with our Pinterest challenge and link your own creation to the linkytool on the Dream It Up! blog before July 1st for a chance to win this month's stencil prize. Here's the list of sparkly-Pinteresting players:

Dream It Up!

Cherylynn Moser

Leadonna Kimmel

Laura Drahozal

Louise Healy

Jessica Griffin

Caroline Duncan 

Stacey Rumsby

Pam Hornschu

Heidi Erickson

Cyndi Bundy

Terrece Siddoway

Lyn Bernatovich 

Jennifer Dove

The Ranger Blog

Dreamweaver Stencils meets Tim Holtz

I'm up again this week with another Dreamweaver Stencils Tutorial on the Paper Craft Planet blog!    Its also still our Spring Challenge at DWS so this week DWS meets some Tim Holtz Distress on an Easter tag!  Here's the tag that I created for you:

(Tag inspired by Tim's 12 Tags of 2013 March)

And here's a pic of the supplies that I used:

                                         

For the full tutorial on how I created this tag please visit Paper Craft Planet.

Here's a closeup of the eggs when they are layered together.

And finally an extra element that I couldn't resist adding to the tag is this Butterfly from Tim Holtz's Easter Blueprints stamp set.

I hope you enjoy!  Have a wonderful Thursday!

The Dream Team:

Pam Hornschu   

Laura Drahozal  

Louise Healy  

Wendy Jordan  

Terrece Siddoway 

Kristi Van Doren 

Georgia Sommers 

Lee Kellogg 

Liz Martin

 Cyndi Bundy 

Cherylynn Moser 

Ring me up

Are you ready for another edition of Love and Friendship from Dreamweaver Stencils?  What a fun and versatile challenge theme we have had this month!  Plus you still have one week to play along with our February challenge for a chance to win a new stencil!

My card today is a bit neon, but oh so my favorite colors...lime and teal!  And add a little black for some pop and you can never go wrong :)  This new adorable and retro Telephone stencil from DWS was the first of the newest stencils that I couldn't wait to play with!

I used the Double Glitter technique for this one with Tim Holtz Dry Stickles glitter in Turquoise, Lime Green, and Stardust.  I just happened to have some Best Creations Glitter paper that coordinated!

The cute little Hello from the Birthday Words stencil is the perfect companion for the phone!

Please visit my teammate's blogs this week and see what they've been up to!

Pam Hornschu   

Laura Drahozal  

Louise Healy  

Wendy Jordan  

Terrece Siddoway 

Kristi Van Doren 

Georgia Sommers 

Lee Kellogg 

Liz Martin

 Cyndi Bundy 

Cherylynn Moser 

Courage is being yourself...

Have you played with the new Tim Holtz Distress paints yet? Oooo.  And mixing them with Dylusions spray inks...fabby!  PLUS I ordered a lot of the newest stencils from The Crafter's Workshop and I am in serious love!  But I'm getting ahead of myself...

  I am mile high in Stampendous catalog samples for the new April catalog so I've been a tad busy the last few days.  But I have an Art Journal page that I created last week to share with you today.

My page uses lots of the new stencils from The Crafter's Workshop, mostly from Julie Fei-Fan Balzer.  I met her at CHA and she is a hoot!  Totally talented and so full of personality!

I began my page by playing around with my new Tim Holtz Distress Paints, and oh my goodness are they fun!  I simply used the dauber to create some large circles then sprayed on lots of water to see all kinds of fabulous dripage!!  Next (while that layer was still wet) I sprayed some Dylusions inks through a couple of TCW background stencils.

See???? Pretty fun colors and drips and mixing!  The dylusions and distress paints work beautifully together!!  After that was all dry I used the new Corn Flowers Stencil by Julie Fei-Fan Balzer from The Crafter's Workshop and applied Adirondack Pitch Black Acrylic Paint (its actually in a dauber bottle too but I just poured some out on my craft mat)  through the holes using a makeup sponge.  This stencil is just gorgeous.  I only got the 6x6 so far but now I need the 12x12 version of it too!  Did you know that all TCW stencils come in both sizes?

There's more of the Adirondack paint around the edges of the page then I sprayed new White Linen Dylusions Ink Spray through Tiny Circles over parts of the black.

This new sentiment from Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous set Way with Words was a perfect addition to my page.  These stamps aren't yet available in stores til next week, but I got lucky at CHA during a Facebook giveaway!

Well, as you can tell I had a blast working on this page.  In fact I will be doing a class at The Stamping and Scrapbooking Room in NC on art journaling.  It will be full of ideas on mixing in paint, gesso, embossing pastes and cremes with your sprays!  Email me if you're local for class details TBA.

Products used:

Tim Holtz Distress Paint: Picked Raspberry, Spiced Marmalade

Dylusions Ink Sprays: Funky Fuchsia, Squeezed Orange, White Linen

Adirondack Pitch Black Acrylic Paint Dauber

The Crafters Workshop stencils: Tiny Circles, Corn Flowers, Aboriginal, Layered Beads

Tim Holtz Way with Words stamp set

Sharpie White paint pen

Dylusions Art Journal

Love and Friendship...

I'm back with another round for the Dreamweaver Stencils Love and Friendship February Challenge!  I created this card for the DWS CHA booth using the new Leafless Tree Stencil and thought it would be a great friendship card.

I laid the stencil over my pattern paper and dabbed Ranger Watermark Resist Ink through the holes with a large dauber.  Next I poured on Vintage Photo Distress embossing Powder (after removing the stencil) and then heated it.  I used a small dauber to add leaves to the tree with Tim Holtz Peeled Paint Distress Ink.  The blossoms were simply dotted on with my Tim Holtz Barn Door Distress Marker.

The sentiment at the bottom is part of one of Tim Holtz's new (and not yet released) stamps that I got FREE and autographed at CHA!  I colored on the part I wanted with my Peeled Paint Distress Marker.

 I hope you will play along with our challenge this month!  And please hop over to the rest of the team's blogs and see what they created this week!

Pam Hornschu   

Laura Drahozal  

Louise Healy  

Wendy Jordan  

Terrece Siddoway 

Kristi Van Doren 

Georgia Sommers 

Lee Kellogg 

Liz Martin

 Cyndi Bundy 

Cherylynn Moser