Playing with Sprays

Happy Friday everyone! I've been playing along with the Unity Stamp Co. Itty Bitty a Day Challenge on Facebook this week and decided to finish it all off by playing with my new Heidi Swapp template I snagged with a birthday certificate (thanks again, Kristen!!).

I wanted CAS, shimmery, and FAST. My first attempt is still drying (bit too much spray, perhaps too thin cardstock) but this one came out, I think, pretty cute.

Shimmer and shine in the early morning light

Little hexagons dancing across the front...hehe, with the edge of the template visible as well. I rolled with it, and made the mental note to cover areas I don't want glitzed better next time. The 'thanks' is an unpackaged Itty Bitty I have which is, well, awesomely versatile.

Pardon my iffy lighting, but the sun wasn't quite up yet when I was snapping these before work. Oops.

Top view to see the overall effect

The dots in the hexes are from my rolling a paper towel roll over the sprayed area to pick up the extras. It came out so neat!

Thank you everyone for your comments via the blog post & Facebook about my 'Not Quite Perfect...' card. I love the change-up ideas, and the ones that basically told me to lighten up. Sometimes we crafters just need to hear that!

I'm also linking up to Friends with Flair today! Happy Crafting!

Not Quite 'Perfect'...

Ever have one of those ideas/designs that look fantastic in your head, but when you put it to paper...well...not quite so fantastic? That's what happened to me last night.

I'm trying to get caught up on thank you cards and had the idea of using a kitchen-y Itty Bitty Unity stamp with some matching paper I had. Instead of stamping the image in black (like always), I decided to change it up and use gray. I colored, I layered, I threw more embellishments at it to make it better. After all, when in doubt, add more embellishments!

The result:

Perfect? Maybe not...

  My reaction to the result: meh. I've done better, I've done worse. It's perfectly usable, I'm just underwhelmed by the result.

Even Liquid Pearls didn't really help

I tried the border punch to give it some pizazz as it looked quite sad just sitting on the paper. But then the holes were lost, so I filled them in with Liquid Pearls for some pop. It needed some texture, so I chose the crocheted ribbon to hide the edges.

Side view - I'm thinking my towel looks like a scarf. :/

So I ask you, my loyal readers - how would YOU redo this card? Help a fellow crafter out!

Sew Lovely Card and a Giveaway!

Happy Wednesday everyone! I never got the card I made yesterday for the Itty Bitty Challenge up on the blog and posted it right to the Facebook group instead. So I made extra sure to get today's up. Ready??

Buttons and fibers and markers, oh my!

 I colored in my stamp with Distress Markers instead of ink pads, gave it a 'huff', then stamped away! I love how you can easily incorporate many different colors that way very easily. Since it's a sewing mannequin, I of course had to add in some twill ribbon with a sewing theme and some cute buttons threaded with twine. I really like how it came out!

Here's a look at the one I created for yesterday. Can you guess how many Itty Bitty stamps I used on it? :D

Love that wood grain embossing folder!

Still hanging in there for news about the giveaway? It's very simple; a fellow Out of the Box Sampler teammate of mine, Joie Joelle, is featuring my shop on her blog today! Head on over to learn more about me, my shop, and my design process then enter to win a lovely gift package.

Happy Crafting!

An Itty Bitty a Day Keeps the Boredom Away!

Happy Monday everyone! I decided to take a break from listing new items for the store and play along with a new Unity Challenge we have going on via Facebook; using one Itty Bitty stamp a day all week long! Seeing as I have a crap-ton few Itty Bitty stamps, I'm ready to play along! Today I wound up inking up my little gobbler with some seriously cute results:

Gobble Gobble!

Isn't he adorable? Some simple stamping and watercolor pencil work was all it took, finished off with some Distress Ink on the white panel and card base and some orange and yellow washi tape!

Of course, I couldn't stop at just one...especially since I have the Mabee Farm craft show coming up at the end of August.

No two tails are the same!

It's true, I colored each tail differently as I still simply cannot make perfectly identical cards. Nope, can't do it.

Hopefully I'll be back tomorrow with another fun card. Until then, Happy Crafting!