Butterfly Birthday

Here's a CAS card:

It was fun to make-- just busted it out in a few minutes!  Ahh... CAS is also an acronym for Convenient And Simple!

Supplies:

• Watercolor paper used to mop up extra Color Bursts, then cut into a strip a circle with a die from Autumn... thanks!  I never thought I would use these circle dies so much!  But you knew I would!
• Gold rub-on's by Heidi Swapp
• Birthday greeting written with a Zig Emboss Writer and embossed with Ranger EP in Princess Gold

I plan to share this at:

• Freshly Made Sketches:
  
• CAS Watercolor Challenge, July: Butterfly
  

Love Summer

This was a bit of fun:

Supplies:

• Tattered Angels doodled card, flip flops fussy-cut then colored with Sharpies
• Background panel a piece of thin watercolor paper used to mop-up excess Color Bursts on a separate project
• Writing done using a Sharpie, a Spectrum Noir grey pen, and a white Signo

I will share this at the following challenges:

• Simon Says Stamp on Wednesday: Summer Sunshine
• Happy Little Stampers Watercolor, July: AG + blue
  

Good Times:

This is the sister card to THIS ONE, both started almost a week ago and completed earlier this week:

Click to view crazing effect on the people!

Supplies:

• Library card base inked with Vintage Photo DOx and sprayed with Perfect Pearls in Heirloom Gold
• Background panel is Strathmore watercolor paper coated with Teresa Collins modeling paste through Tim's Roses stencil
• Panel inked with Peacock Feathers DI, Vintage Photo and Walnut Stain DOx, and then brayered with Walnut Stain Distress Paint
• Panel affixed with Recollections brads
• Bow is seam binding colored with Iced Spruce Distress Stain.  This was made last year for a project, then never got used. 
• Tim's Paper Dolls coated with a thin layer of Distress Collage Medium in Crazing; once dry, a Hickory Smoke Distress Crayon was drawn around the edges of the image and rubbed in.
• Quote from an old book coated with Distress Collage Medium in Matte
• Darice metallic hemp used as the hanging apparatus

I will share this at the following challenges:

• Try It On Tuesday: Tags
• Mixed Media Monthly: 

  

  Again, an old, dyed, unused bow is my altered embellishment.

• Mixed Media World: 

#imaf...ingartist

This is dedicated to my sister:

...not blacked out IRL...

She had used that hashtag in the past,  but when I just looked, I saw none of her stuff... though the gal who seems to post that hashtag could be my twin's twin, based on the posts...

Anyway... my sis loves lime/pea green, black, fish, The Cure, and that hashtag.  And she is a f><&ing artist, man!

Supplies:

• Large Ranger tag from Joan... thanks!
• Tag coated with Liquitex gesso then sprayed with Dylusions in Fresh Lime
• Hero Arts fish
• Lyrics scribbled with a Tombow dual tip (the only one I have)
• Stars scribbled with an 005 Micron
• Hashtag stamped using Amy Tangerine's alphabet
• Vintage rayon seam binding and non-vintage sequins from my stash
• Bulging fish eyeballs courtesy of Viva 
• Stickles in Mercury Glass accentuating the fish fins
• Edge of tag run over with Walnut Stain Distress Paint

I'll share this with the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers:

Good hunting

Here's a tag I started Friday-ish and finished yesterday:

Supplies:

• Library card inked with DOx in Vintage Photo then sprayed with Perfect Pearls Mist in Heirloom Gold* 
• The brown panel is Strathmore watercolor paper coated with Teresa Collins modeling paste through Tim's Florals stencil.  Once dry, I saturated it with Distress Stain in Vintage Photo and added Stampendous Aged Silver Frantage.  The panel was affixed using Recollections brads at the corners.
• The sweet lil' Annie Oakley was coated with a thin layer of Distress Collage Medium in Vintage and mounted with 3M dimensional tape.
• The quote, which was actually the jumping point for this project, was cut from an old school reader and coated with Distress Collage Medium in Vintage also.
• The bow was taken from an old Christmas tag made for my daughter.  The tag had rolled around the junk-drawer in our kitchen since, well, Christmas, and got kinda disassembled. I salvaged the bow and it found a home on this tag!  That is my altered embellishment.  It was already altered by being dyed for the original project.
• The trim at the bottom added a bit of wild-west elegance, I thought.  From my stash.
• The pin at the top is 7 Gypsies.

*This is the actual Heirloom Gold Perfect Pearls mist-- not the subtle mix I often use that I made myself.  This is the bottom of the sprayer and thus very concentrated!  YUM.

This tag also has a sister-tag which I'll link later... once I find time to post it! :)

Ill share this with the following challenges:

• Try It On Tuesday: Tags
• Inkspirational:
  
• Mixed Media World: AG
  
• Mixed Media Monthly: 
  

Happy Anniversary

This was made for my parents' 30th wedding anniversary:

They have been together longer than that,  but tied the knot in 1987. They are truly best friends and can't be apart.  It's awesome.

Supplies:

• Strathmore watercolor paper 
• Tim's Florals stencil used with Teresa Collins modeling paste
• DIs in Mustard Seed, Barn Door, and Spiced Marmalade
• Stickles in Ice (this is like a chunky Mercury Glass... therefore it is my second fave)
• Tim's Paper Dolls coated with a layer of Distress Collage Medium in Vintage
• Quote from an old Hardy Boys book, coated with Distress Collage Medium in Vintage

I plan to share this with the following challenges:

• Stamps & Stencils: Words with meaning 
• Frilly & Funkie: With this ring (...mine is always more on the "funkie" side...)
• Simon Says Wednesday: AG (thanks!)

SOS: Flag Day!

This week at Shopping Our Stash, we are celebrating our flags!  July 1st is Canada Day, and July 4th is Independence Day in the USA... show us the colors of your flag!

I knew just what (or should I say who) I wanted to include in my piece:

As soon as I saw the challenge title, I knew I wanted to include this flag bearer!  She is taking her duty seriously!

Supplies and notes:

• Ranger tag base, purchased last summer
• DOx in Faded Jeans and Walnut Stain blended over the card
• My own mix of Heirloom Gold Perfect Pearls + water, then dipped a few time into the splats
• Tim's Ledger Script stamp and the flag blueprint stamp inked with Vintage Photo from Tim's Mixed Media palette.  I rarely use the blueprint stamps... had to have them... seldom use them.  I really need to "shop my stash" and use that set more often.
• Another stash item used on this are the straight-up Perfect Pearls.  I used the Perfect Medium through a Heidi Swapp star stencil, then blended the Blue Patina and Heirloom Gold Perfect Pearls across the top of the tag.
• Glossy Accents was added to the stripes of the flag stamp and the bottom of the tag, then Festive Berries Distress Glitter added (yet another stash item that doesn't get used nearly enough)
• Old seam binding from my stash... I'd been hoarding it since it's my last yard or so of navy... until I just found more navy at the thrift shop!  Yay!  So I can keep using it!  I wiped it in some DecoArt Metallic Lustre in Gold Rush.  This didn't work great, but it's a nice subtle effect.
• Tim's paper doll popped up on some 3M dimensional adhesive.  She's perfect on here!  I have to tell you guys: I really held out on buying these because I like to find my own people to cut out, but then I saw the packet in the store and was so impressed with the value for the price!  I mean, the pouch is just stuffed with diecut people!  I'd say well worth the money!
• I used some ribbon from my stash for the top-- I knew I wanted a hanging apparatus, but I didn't want it to take away from the tag.
• Red, white, and blue brads added from my stash last

Please join us!  Show us your patriotism, and if you need a little inspiration, visit the SOS challenge!

Let freedom ring!