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September Birthday Cards…

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010

Spent a couple hours last evening to make all the cards (ours & Mom’s) for the September birthdays. I also made a card for a friend I’ve been thinking about alot (not photographed as she reads my blog occasionally ).

I’m trying to only use scraps…..even the main part of the card was already cut & in my leftover class bits. Lots of stickers on this first one from a retired Scrappin’ kit or two actually.

This second one is all about scraps for sure. I don’t throw away strips, so have many of each colour…..even the sentiment label was sitting in the bottom of the pizza box of scraps waiting to used. I found some leftover satin ribbon perfect for this card.

This 3rd card (actually a 4th as well – exactly the same) was made using some paper I received a couple years ago, I forget the company as I ripped off the cover of the 8 X 8 pad & there is nothing on the back. The scraps just happen to work…..LOL!

When I was sorting some scraps, I found this embossed scrap. I will have to look through my blog archives to see what method was used as this was from one of my monthly classes back 3 or 4 years ago. Below is a close up.

The sentiment was stamped onto the BACK – YES, the back as the metal on front wasn’t allowing both words.

The organza ribbon was just long enough to do the wrap around 3 times, and I used a strong to tie on the tag. The dark cardstock around the embossed piece is really a dark purple – in the photo looks black.

Again, lots of leftovers…..the green cardstock card base, was the first picked, then the scraps. I found the black ribbon in the bottom of my ribbon scrap bag…..was about to iron when the power went out last night for 1/2 hour….pitch dark, I have a small flashlight in my studio, but to find it by feeling around would take a while….I knew I had another one in the bedroom down the hall – I thought it was on the night stand, but NOT, felt around on the dresser…..not there. I then thought I’d go back to my studio & check the place where I thought the studio one was…THEN, the power came back on.

So, I made sure the one in the studio is on my work table, and the one in the bedroom is back to the night stand (it was on the dresser, just hadn’t gone far enough when I was feeling around).

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Wordless Wednesday…

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

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What is Success?

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

Success means different things to different people. What is SUCCESS to you?

This is a journal page spread I did – I added my personal words of success all around the head of the woman after taking this photo.

I cut a woman picture from a magazine cover, and used the cut page as a stencil. I painted it with black acrylic paint, then used a pastel to colour in the dress. So, if you don’t have stencils – make your own from magazines. YES, they won’t last too long unless you transfer them onto stencil plastic, but you make do!

I also added a bird on a flower branch to the area over the dots….as I was writing my words of success, I felt it needed something more over in that corner.

Enjoying the cooler temperatures – I’m not a heat lover. Anything over 24 is TOO HOT! So, today the sunshine and 15C is perfect…..sun is shining in my studio window! PRICELESS!!!

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Sunday, August 29th, 2010

This summer a new community has been created…….I invite YOU to join me & 2300 members (bloggers) and 7000 blogs on Creating The Hive.

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Week 35 card & a journal page….

Sunday, August 29th, 2010

I have been playing for alot of different techniques this week in my art journal….between some quilting projects. I carried one over to this week’s card of the 52 Questions. The question for Week 35 is: What kind of Goddess am I?

For this week’s card I sanded then added a layer of Gesso. Then, I had some acrylic paint leftover from the project below (it was the bottom layer), so I painted it over the Gesso then quickly smooched some plastic food wrap onto it. I was told that you can’t do it with acrylic paints, that it had to be watercolour….well I did it!! It is coming into my favourite season of the year……so I painted some Lutradur with copper, gold & green Lumiere paints, even the back. When it was dry, I cut the leaves freehand and then sewed them onto the card. The tag was an oldie, I sprayed it with Olive green glimmer mist I made. Once dry, I first printed in pencil, then used a black Zig Millenium over top. I wasn’t sure if the zig marker would work straight onto the sprayed surface, so that is why I used pencil first.

This art journal page spread is before I wrote on it……I started with gesso, then painted acrylic paint before doing a rough image transfer method like Leslie Herger has in her video HERE. I used some old National Geographic magazines, then added Watercolor Wonder crayons( Stampin’ Up!), & Portfolio oil pastels, gessoed (one side not all over & the other side all over…..I like the left side better). I then rubbed some more Watercolor Wonder crayons and the last touch was my homemade glimmer mists. The final step once its all dry is to sand it so you can write on it.

YES, homemade glimmer mist…….I finally found some little misters at the dollar store this past week when we did the monthly shopping.

I filled the bottles with equal parts of water and rubbing alcohol, then I added some colour with SU dye re-inkers that I have on hand. Before add the pearl ex powders, spray the coloured solution, to see if its dark enough for you. Then, I added about 1/8 teaspoon of Pearl Ex powders in each bottle. Shake lightly making sure to mix all the Pearl Ex powders in.