An artist's house

This is my little imaginary artist's house.  I imagine my mom living here (which is kind of appropriate now, since this house is nestled among all these succulents-- the craft shack is doubling as a greenhouse since we are back to 20-degree F weather...):

This is the split-complementary trio I used.

...and here are the three amigos.

Supplies:

• Cardboard house from Michael's
• Tissue paper from the package containing the stamps sent by Team Tim during the last year of his tag challenge. Mario sent the doily stamps and they were wrapped in this Distress tissue paper.  
• I sprayed the tissue paper with Dylusions in: After Midnight, Funky Fuchsia, and Lemon Zest  (shown above) to match the color wheel for split complementary colors.
• Flowers both hand-made and bought, all inked with Dylusions spray listed above, adhered with hot glue
• Andrea Ockey-Parr's stamps used exclusively, inked with Ranger Archival in Jet Black.
• Roof and trim painted with Behr house paint sample in Midnight.  I think this will be the color of my door and garage door this summer. 

I'd like to share this at the following challenges:

• Mixed Media Monthly:
  
• Country View Challenges: Pimp it up!  Re-use or alter something.  I re-used that tissue paper and altered the flowers.

SOS: Headed to the beach!

This week at Shopping Our Stash, I am your hostess and I chose the challenge theme:
Headed to the beach!

I want to see projects of any kind with a salty-ocean flavor!

Here's my stashy card:

Supplies:

• Focal picture and fab background paper is by Kaisercraft.  I bought it about 6 months ago but have passed it up numerous times... in my hoarding nature... so I definitely decided it was time to use it with the project.
• Focal picture coated with Finnabair crackle paste (still not my fave-- I am just trying to use it up so I can buy the Liquitex brand) and then some Pebeo natural sand paste (over 1.5 years old and the container is still full) and added some Mod Podge Dimensional Magic-- I keep saying this is the end of my Dimensional Magic (2010), but it just keeps going.  I think it's time to trash it-- see how funny the "water drops" are? 
• Edges of all Kaisercraft paper inked with Antique Linen DI
• "Miss you" painted with Finetec gold palette
• Ancient encylopedia pages in the background
• Pre-cut gold seaweed (shhh: it's really Tim's Mini Greenery dies but they double well as seaweed).  This is cut from Core'dinations metallic kraft-core.
• Shells left over from my best friend's wedding... 1.5 years ago, purchased by my sister for bachelorette festivities closer to 2 years ago...
• Ranger Glossy Accents added to shells as water droplets
• DecoArt Metallic Lustre in Gold Rush added to edges of background Kaisercraft DP.

I plan to send this to my beach-lovin' daughter while she is at summer camp (yes-- it's that time of year-- every spring I start loading my card stash with cards for my kids while they are away at camp!  And I'm definitely not a mom who just likes to get rid of her kids [well, most of the time...] I was a camper and then camp counselor when I was young at this camp, and I still have strong ties to it, so since my kids love it, too, I want them to be able to go! Bonus: they have to sing and act out silly rhymes for their mail, so it's a win-win!  Ha!)

See you over at SOS, my friends!

I'd like to also share this with Try It On Tuesday for their current Recycle Something challenge-- the encyclopedia pages are my recycled item.

Word, bird...

Two stamps I LOVE on one card!  Yayya!

Supplies:

• American Crafts/We R Memory Keepers/Crate Paper (phew) layering stamp
• Recollections "word" stamp
• Dark background paper is a scrap of Recollections cardstock

That's all. Love it.

I'll share this with the folks at:

• Creative With Stamps: CAS + sentiment
  
• Make My Monday: Things with wings
• House that Stamps Built: All creatures...
• Fashionable Stamping: Animals

Rubber band technique card...

Here is another card using by brayer with rubber bands:

Supplies:

• Strathmore watercolor paper inked with DOx 
• Stamp from Michael's $2- bin heat embossed with Recollections in black
• Brayer with rubber bands inked over Ranger Archival in Jet Black
• Generic embossed background panel

I'll share this at CAS Mix Up also:

Rubber band technique tag...

Here is a tag I made after being inspired by CAS Mix Up to use rubber bands:

Supplies:

• I used rubber bands on my brayer and inked them with Ranger Letter It embossing ink
• Hear embossed with Stampendous EP in a pearly-white
• Joy is a die cut from Taylored Expressions
• Tag inked with Broken China DI
• Flowers stamped with a generic stamp in Antique Linen DI
• Vintage seam binding

That's it.

I'll share this with the folks at CAS Mix Up:

Paper Players #387

Music!

Supplies:

• Library card base
• Bret Weldele stencil
• Teresa Collins modeling paste
• Distress Crayon
• Tim's paper doll colored with alcohol ink
• Yarn from stash
• Flower made using Tim's Tattered Florals 
• Snippet from tin
• Fiskars music note stamp inked with Ranger Archival in Vintage Photo

That's it!

I'll share that with Paper Players...

SOS: Black and White + one other color

This week at Shopping Our Stash, our hostess Alica would like to see projects using black and white plus one other color, which is a great challenge, right???  I mean, any color you add to black and white looks fantastic!  Oh-so-many possibilities!

As for stash-shopping, I used some old stash, some kinda-old stash, and some new stash which is very satisfying.

I went with copper as my additional color:

Supplies:

• The paper is multiple years old (at least 4, maybe 5?), and this was just a scrap, but I *think* it was made by Hambly. Lauren, you might know-- I feel like we follow the same brands.
• I cut the window from the scrap by tracing an acrylic block with a craft knife.
• I inked all edges with a new letter-it pad which, so far, is just like an embossing pad and I don't know why I bought it... oh, wait, I know: because it came with four awesome embossing powders!  I used the Copper Tinsel embossing powder for the first time.  
• The entire panel was popped up with lots of 3M tape.
• The llama stamp is new-- only been stamped three times before this. I inked it with Ranger Archival in Jet Black.
• I wrote the sentiment with an older Faber Castell Pitt. 
• The llama was accented with a copper gel pen I got from my sister for Christmas two years ago.  I'll mention this in the card as it is going to her.  She'll like that.
• The tassel trim was bought last summer from Michael's.
• The sequins are many years old, and among the first designer sequins I ever purchased.  

I hope you have time to join us this week at Shopping Our Stash.  I'll meet you over there to check out what the rest of the Design Team created for this challenge!