Listen Canvas for Lindy's Stamp Gang June Challenge

I've have recently discovered Lindy's Stamp Gang (LSG) products and I love them.  They have shimmery, two tone sprays in non-clog bottles, two tone embossing powers, and magical powder paints.  So I used my new stash of LSG products to make a canvas for the June 2014 LSG color challenge.  For more information on the LSG challenge go Here.

The background canvas is covered with book text & matte medium.  Then colored with LSG Starburst Spray.  The main background was made with embossing paste and stencils.  Then it was colored several colors of LSG Starburst sprays.  In a few locations I added some LSG embossing powers to add a bit more texture.  The clouds are vellum with highlights is LSG embossing power.  I adhered the vellum to the canvas with embossing paste making the white part of the cloud.  The lighter grass and leaves were colored Magical mica powder.  The flowers were colored with LSG Starburst Spray. "Listen" was stamped on a scrap from Gelli printing.  The boarder was stamped randomly with a sheet music stamp in amethyst hybrid ink.  Selected areas were distressed with Distress Ink Brushed Corduroy & Pitt big brush pen Walnut Brown.  

I painted gesso on leftover Tim Holtz Laboratory paper that I then colored them with LSG Starburst sprays.  The bird and branch is a Sizzix alternations die; the flowers are from a Stampin Up punch.  I used two die cuts of the bird and branch. I made a recessed location for the bottom layer by using a scrap paper die cut when applying embossing paste.  On the top layer I included Glossy Accents over the bird's body.  The flowers have brass mini-brad centers.  The small leaves were creative use of extra paper towels used to catch over spray.  They were so richly colored that I just had to use them.

List of Lindy's Stamp Gang Supplies:

• Starburst Sprays 
• Ramblin' Rose Pink
• California Poppy Gold
• Magnolia Magenta Gold
• Sweet Violet Purple Teal
• Shabby Turbine Teal
• Hydrangea Blue
• Cocoa Bean Copper
• Magical 
• Mermaid Shells - Sea Mint Green
• Embossing Power
• Silver Moon Turquoise
• Angel Wing Peacock
• Merci Beaucaup Mint
• C'est la via Cerise
• Bonjour Butter

 Thank you for reading my post and your comments are always appreciated.

Happy Creating,
Debby

Picnic Origami Cards

Welcome to the Club Scrap Picnic Collection Blog Hop! To return to the start of the hop here.

I'll admit it when I first saw the Picnic collection, as beautiful as it is, I wondered what I could do for the blog hop.  I don’t want to seem like a Goth girl, but all the pink, bright colors, and the crisp retro images, are just not "me".   So I trusted and remembered this is Club Scrap.  So I knew the collection pieces would all work together and my job was to stretch my style. As a result I had a lot of fun with the kit and decided that it was "some what me" after all.

The collection made me think of 50's dresses and pastel clothes at picnics. So my first resource was the Club Scrap Blog.  So I took the Dungarees Origami dress shirts and turned them into retro picnic shirts.  I used text weight paper to make Gelli Plate prints for the origami.  The first ones used distress ink and then with fluid acrylics with of course CS stencils. 

Then I looked up Origami Dress for something retro for the ladies.  I had fun adding embellishments and even making a little girls dress as a variation.

Then I used the Picnic digital kit to make plaid for the wardrobe because what is a retro picnic without pastel plaid clothing. 

And here is one last I made based on a Pinterest post. 

I hope you enjoy the cards. Your next stop is with the talented Janet from Dishing with Janet and the beginning of the hop is at Club Scrap Creates here.

Thank you for reading my post,

Happy Creating,

Debby H

Doorway Journal Cover - Tim’s Compendium III Challenge #5

So here is my 5th Tim Holtz Compendium of Curiosities Volume III challenge entry. The challenge is hosted by L3 Studios, learn more about the "CC3C" challenge here. To play along you need the book for the technique. Below is my challenge element - 39. Distressed Watercoloring - Part 1. This was my first time doing this technique and it was lots of fun!  The doorway stamp and quote are from Club Stamp.

Once I finished the watercolor I needed something to put it on, so I used it to cover a composition notebook and I'll use the pages to art journal and for additional CC3C challenges. 

Here is a list of supplies used:

• Composition Notebook
• Hero Arts black ink
• Club Scrap Doorway Stamp
• 140 lb Mixed Media Paper
• Distress Markers
• Club Scrap Quote Stamp
• Distress Ink
• Club Scrap Cardstock
• Club Scrap Geometry Collection Stencil
• Stencil Girl Boarder Stencil
• Inktense Pencils
• Pearls
• Martha Stewart Punch

Thank you so much for stopping by my blog and your comments are greatly appreciated. 

Happy Creating,

Debby

Thankful for the Rain - Tim’s Compendium III Challenge #4

So here is my 4th Tim Holtz Compendium of Curiosities Volume III challenge. The challenge is hosted by L3 Studios, learn more about the "CC3C" challenge here. To play along you need the book for the technique. Below is my entry for the challenge - 49. Layering Stencil: Texture Paste. I love the way the inks absorbed and flowed around the embossing paste.

 

My project for this time started with a Prima Paper Doll Stamp and my new Peerless watercolor paints used to color in the stamp.  After that I spent a long time looking at the page before I came up with a design to frame her.  I wanted to use flowers, so after finding the quote, "Give Thanks for the rain in your life, which waters the flowers of your soul - Jonathan Lockwood Huie," I went for the grey rainy background.  

Here is a list of supplies used:

• Hero Arts black ink
• Prima Paper Doll Stamp
• Peerless Watercolors
• Masking fluid
• Light Molding Paste
• Cubist Stencil
• Lindy Stamp Gang Starburst sprays
• Sizzix Alternations -Tattered Flower Garland 
• Marion Smith Flower Tool
• Martha Stewart Hydrangea Punch
• Pearls
• Distress Markers

Thank you so much for stopping by my blog and your comments are greatly appreciated. 

Happy Crafting,

Debby

“Be” Note Board for Tim’s Compendium III Challenge #3

I recently went to a scrapbook retreat with 15 of my craftiest girlfriends.  This was the perfect time to try out a new technique, better yet a Tim Holtz technique.  So here is my 3^rd Tim Holtz Compendium of Curiosities Volume III challenge.  The challenge is hosted by L3 Studios, learn more about the "CC3C" challenge here. To play along you need the book for the technique. Below is my entry week 3 of the challenge - 65. Faux Tea Roses.  

The organizer, Rebeca, generously gave us each a plain white IKEA wet erase memo board to decorate. This is the perfect project for adding those Tim's beautiful dimensional tea roses.  I was also able to use my new Stampers Autonomous classic stamp #5.  And since it is not done until the back is finished…..

Here is a list of supplies used:

• Stampin Up bee stamp and die “Back Yard Basics”
• Distress ink – Frayed Burlap
• Club Scrap Geometrics collection paper and ribbon
• Club Scrap Serenity stamp and Club Scrap Fuchsia and Lagoon Hybrid Inks
• Simon Says Stamps – Expressions of “be” stamp set and die
• Lindy Stamp Gang Starburst spay – Magnolia Magenta Gold
• Inktense Pencils
• Tim Holtz Laboratory paper
• Tim Holtz Filmstrip Ribbon
• Spellbinders die
• Gems

All the final note board were wonderful

Thank you so much for stopping by my blog and your comments are greatly appreciated. 

Happy Crafting,

Debby