VLVS! Tag/ATC Swap: Follow the red brick road

Back in Sept. I was in a Tag/ATC swap on the VLVS! forums. the theme was open, we could do anything we wanted. We just had to make sure the atc's and Tags go with one and another.

One thing I wanted to do flopped. so went another route. I was inspired by this one picture I saw on pintest. It was from the movie Wizard of Oz where Dorthy landed in Oz and she was going to start her journey down the yellow brick road and the caption of the picture was "Where do the red bricks go to?" And that got me thinking "What if Dorthy went down the red brick road."

I don't have the #8 tag die, but last year when I was visiting a friend, she had the tag die and i die cut a few. I also took the negatives from the die cuts. I traced the negative on manila file folders. I cut them out and then Gessoed them. I then did a layer of water downed craft paint in Magenta. I then painted it Raspberry craft paint that is a glossy craft paint.  I used a brick stencil that another friend made me and sprayed some Hottie pottie Hot Pink Starbust spray by Lindy's stamp Gang. With the same brick stencil and with Molding paste(In this Tag/ATC project I used Golden soft molding paste that was in the starter pack of mediums and the Blick's brand when I ran out of the golden stuff in the little jar.) With A pallet knife I scraped some of the molding paste on the stencil in various places on the tag. used the heat gun to dry it. After it was dried I spritzed some Golden yellow Tumble Dye spray on the craft mat and painted (yes painted!) all the bricks.  I put some water down black and white craft paints on a paint pallet and with a brush made some drips and splats. The background looks likes this.

I backed the tags on lightweight chipboard and painted the edges with black craft paint.

On white cardstock I stamped the Fat Fish in High Heels, Many armed clock person, and Wheeled man in black Memento ink pad. I painted them with Distress ink pads in Picked Raspberry, Mowed Lawn, Salty Ocean, Wild Honey, and antique Linen. The Silver in the wheel is Pearlesnt watercolor. Fussy cut them out. The fish and the man I used foam tape, the clock guy I used Miracle Tape and Glossy Accents. 

The sentiment on the tag I typed it up in Word. I tried to pick a good font to fit the Oz theme.  I then took some pink ribbon I had gotten at a thrift store and cut small pieces and out then trough the top of the tags and stapled them.

Next are the ATC's

They are also are on Manila folders and Gessoed. I wanted to use the opposite colors on the ATC's that I used on the Tags. So instead of the Pink in the background color I wanted the Yellow. I sprayed the Golden Yellow Tumble dye spray on the atc. Didn't like it. So after it dried. I painted the atcs with yellow craft paint. I then took a tire tread stencil that the same friend who made the brick stencil made me. (thanks Jean!) and molding paste. scraped some of that with the pallet  knife on the atc. Once that was dried, I painted them (call me crazy!) with the water down  magenta craft paint. I then made drips and splatters with the water down black, white and the magenta craft paints. (to have a bottle of water down craft paint. When the bottle of color craft paint is almost empty, just take it and fill it with water. and shake it a bit.) I backed the atc's in lightweight chipboard and painted the edges with black craft paint.

On white cardstock I stamped the Braids Lady and Sitting Bird. Colored them with distress ink pads in Picked Raspberry, and Salty ocean. I used peach water color for the girl's face. I used Glossy accents to the girl (the glossy accents help stick the girl more to the parts of the atc that had the molding paste on it) and foam tap for the bird. Again i typed the sentiment on Word with another font that I thought was OZ like. Glued the words on to the ATC. 

We had to put a pocket or envelope on the back of the tag, I had some atc sleeves that i had gotten from other swaps I was in. I used Miracle tape on one side of the sleeve and taped them to the back of the tag and slipped the atc in there..

Stamps used

Fat Fish in High Heels

Many armed clock person

Wheeled man

Braids lady

Sitting Bird

Items used

Manila folders

Gesso

Craft paints

stencils

Molding paste

pallet knife

tumble dye stray

Lindy's stamp gang Starburst spray

water down craft paints

foam tape

Miracle tape

glossy accents

white cardstock

Black Memento ink pad

picked raspberry distress ink pad

salted ocean distress ink pad

 mowed lawn distress ink pad

Wild Honey distress ink pad
water brush

peach watercolor

pearlesent watercolor

light weight chipboard

Aileen's tacky glue 

Secert Sister box swap goodies I made for my partner

Mid week last week I think it was we were all watching Laurel doing an impromptu ustream where she was altering a cricut cartage box. Some how along the way a secret sister box swap was born. I went back and for about joining, my deal was postage, but I dove in and joined the swap. it was a quick deadline to join the swap.

The details of the swap was to decorate a box ( you can either make a box or use one you have) and then fill it with handmade stuff or stuff in your stash. NO BUYING!

We got our swap partners on late Friday night. :P and of course the little over achiever that I am (funny i was never one in school LOL) I did most of my crafting all day Saturday and some on Sunday too. Some things in the box that were hand made were made way before this swap even excited, and needed a home. I mailed it off on Tuesday( I would of mailed if off Monday, but time got away from me. :P)and everyone is mad at me for finishing so fast. :P My partner got it today (as of this post writing its Thursday March 1st). So the video is uploading on you tube and I am writing this blog post. :) and everything is UIU!  =D

I did not make the box. It would not be pretty and frustrating if I did. lol The box is a candy box that is about 10 inches long and 5 inches wide. give or take a quarter inch. I used the breath paper collection by Prima. Top of the box I smashed some bottle caps and glued in 2 pics from back of a calender in them. The flourishes are grundge board elements dots. painted in 2 greens. The domino I made way before the swap.

I made a couple of domino's. One I turned into a pendant, the stamp I got as a freebie from custom crops. The other domino the stamp is by Stamp Clinic.

I made a tag. The paper is Retro Mod stack by DCWV. The images are by bugaboo digis. I added lace I had gotten from thrift store at the bottom. And the ribbon at top i got from Dar in a RAK and I colored it with Rudolf Nose Red and Bucket O Blood Red by Lindy's.

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I made 2 altered CD's. the first one I used the Retro Mod stack by DCWV and I used a digi stamp from Meljen's designs. The 2nd CD I just used some pages Restoration Hardware catalog and stamped some gears with gear dies cut from foam.

I made a little envelope mini useing the stack the deck binding. I made the envelopes with papers I got from Felicia in a rak and used the Create a lope envelope templates. I gave her 6 other envelopes in brown tones and made her another mini one in red that I did not take pictures of.

I made a 5 x 7 canvas. I did a base layer of red. added some music paper and tissue paper. then a layer of green craft paint. then more tissue paper, and some water down black craft paint. then I covered all the layers up with adding the images on it. lol. The baby is from a calender, the flower and licence plate is scrapbook paper scraps. The tree is a chipboard die cut resist from Hampton art that i used distress inks on it.

And the last thing I made was this book. I saw it in an old scrapbook magazine. I looked at it and was like I can do that. So I did. I used 8 coffee filers and sprayed them with various lindy sprays and other sprays. Papers for the covers are from Breath collection by Prima again. Also for the cover I used some lace that was dyed with dark chocolate truffle starburst stain by lindy's and a sticker lace. and I used some stickers that were in my sticker stash, that I stuck on card stock and cut out and used foam tape on them. Glued 2 coffee filters to each of the inside covers. Then a strip of glue in the middle of the filter.