SOS: word dies

Hello!  It' s Tuesday again... time for another challenge at Shopping Our Stash, where the focus is always on using those hoarded-- I mean lovingly stored-- items!  For me, this challenge gets me to use items I purchased but then don't want to use up... whattt?  That's crazy!  Shop your stash!  Use your stuff!

This week,  SOS is calling on the crafty corner of Blogland to shop our stashes and use word dies!

This was easy for me... I only have one word die!

Supplies and notes:

• "Joy" is a Taylored Expression word die, and it was the first die I owned-- I had it before Autumn sent me her trusty Cuttlebug... thanks again, homie!  The die came with a Grumpling stamp set.  Ironic that TE sent me the "joy" with the Grumplings... LOL
• The base is a library catalog card that was sitting on my desk as the recipient of some extra Teresa Collins modeling paste through an inky (read "dirty and old") Heidi Swapp paper stencil... which yielded the blues and greens on the grid
• Next,  I sprayed some pinkish Tattered Angels Glimmer Mister
• The jeweled trim was a sale item at Michael's, attached with Recollections brads which have been in the stash for years
• The mappy peony was created using diecuts from my stash, cut months ago using Tim's Tattered Florals, sprayed with the same Glimmer Mist as the base
• The center of the flower is a generic brass brad coated with Glossy Accents and topped with Antique Linen Distress Glitter
• For the peony leaves, I used more diecuts already in my stash (also Tim's die), sprayed first with Dylusions in Fresh Lime then White Linen
• The key is Recollections 
• The ribbon is from my stash
• In various places on the tag, I added Andrea Ockey-Parr's/Snapping Monsters droplet stamp inked with Vintage Photo Distress Ink 

That's pretty much it!  Do you have word dies in your stash?  Join me and the girls at SOS!  

JUGS Watercolor Week

I'm entering this simple card into the current Just Us Girls challenge,  which is to use watercoloring:

Here is the challenge graphic:

Supplies:

• The watercolor panel was done earlier this summer with Loew Cornell watercolors 
• The center panel is from the fairly new DCWV Watercolor paper pack 
• The studs are made by Recollections 

Th-th-that's all, folks!  Simple, and I used a panel I'd just left aside!

Inkspirational

I'm doing a semi-annual DP organizing/purge.

The catalyst for this is either lack of motivation or stress.  Today I think it was a little of both-- just fixating on something irritating in the craft shack today and so I just got busy cleaning.  One thing lead to another,  and the next thing I know: I'm in the house at the kitchen table with 75 pounds of DP, a full sized paper cutter, and a cocktail,  watching the Olympics with my family! Ahhh, all better!

So anyway...

This is a project that was built just prior to the purge:

Now that I've spent a few hours staring at paper, I'm all motivated to use up my stash!

The current challenge at Inkspirational is...

So there you have it!

Supplies:

• DP is Echo Park (both A and B sides)
• Doily stamp is by Tim Holtz with StampAnon, inked with Tim's MM pad: Hickory Smoke
• The rest of the stamps are Hero Arts, inked with Ranger Archival in Jet Black 
• The flowers were punched from an old book using a Fiskars punch then layered with Glossy Accents 
• Stickles in Icicle were added just for fun.  Looks like snow. 

Sketch Saturday #425

Another "long time, no play"... here is a project to enter with the current Sketch Saturday:

Just playing around,  but I love the look of this... hmmm...

I'm going through a little "sketchy phase" though... I have lots of DP and I love to use it.

Here's the sketch:

Supplies:

• Marion Smith and Simple Stories DPs
• The flower on the pennet is cut from some Marion Smith DP and the larger is popped up with dimensional tape 
• The black pearls are Viva Pearl Pen in Anthracite 
• I edged everything with Old Paper DI

That's it!

Wicked Wednesday #222

Been awhile since I played with Wicked Wednesday... this week's challenge is to use Sunshiny Yellow :)

Supplies:

• Library card base cut down to ATC size
• I daubed the entire card with Mustard Seed Distress Ink then used a triangle Heidi Swapp stencil over the top and sprayed with water to get a little pattern, but the card absorbed most of the water so the effect was very subtle.
• The image was from an oversized stamp by Stampendous
• The skull was painted with whte Liquitex gesso, and I used various Stickles for the features of the lovely skeleton girl
• The card was edged with Seedless Preserves Distress Paint, then I added some of my fave trim loosely... I always need my ATCs to have a displaying mechanism because I often give them to people who are not trading back!

Colour Q

I don't think I've played with Colour Q since early July.  I like that they get their color inspirations from things like catalogs... I get inspired in that way, too.

Here's my tag:

This is the palette and image:

Supplies:

• The tag is by 7 Gypsies.  I wiped up some excess black and white Liquitex gesso from my mat... actually did two tags because I had overestimated my gesso needs whilst painting a skull!
• The feather is from The Paper Studio
• The trim is ever so fun-- I believe it is from a BasicGrey ribbon pack from years ago... like at least five.  It actually is four rows of studs but that was too much, so I snipped off the last row
• The skeleton is by Tim
• The ribbon at the top is from my stash.
• The sentiment was typed with my typewriter and edged with Black Soot and Evergreen Bough DI

Fun and edgy, huh! 

Atlantic Hearts

I also haven't played with Atlantic Hearts in a while... geez... this family thing really cuts into my craft time!  Ha!

Here's my card:

This is the sketch:

Supplies:

• The heart panel was initially a piece of letterpress paper used to mop up the ink from another project, which resulted in a super-cool wrinkle-free distress effect
• Last week I was using the Dina Wakley hearts and this panel was lying there and so I used it to get rid of some excess ink on it... what a perfect grey-tone for the panel!  
• I outlined the heart with some Elmer's Craft Bond and added some Antique Linen Distress Glitter... then the panel sat there looking pretty for a few days...
• ...until I remembered the current AH challenge!
• I added a scrap of  1893 music paper that was on my desk, and tore a few pieces of 7 Gypsies masking tape to match the DIs
• The sentiment was written using Pebeo Relief Liner in Faux Lead

Voila!  I really love so many elements of this card and hope you do, too!