Listen to your Heart

Hi Everyone,
I'm up on the Blank Page Muge Blog today, sharing my take on this month's theme of Blue Heart and Time.

I started by cutting three small tags out on my Sidekick. I stamped and embossed the Heart with small Crackle.

I also stamped and embossed the Steampunk Pocket Watch. I didn't want the wings so I didn't really ink them. 

You can see both of these pieces look a little messy.  There's embossing powder residue on both pieces and I am ok with that.  I like the little speckles and spots the extra powder leaves behind.  My work often has powder randomly sprinkled on anyhow.  

Using a waterbrush I wet the heart and then sprinkled on watercolor powder.  I like using these powders since they aren't a solid color, but flecks of varying shades.  I used a crayon to color the outside and then spritzed a black marker to make the speckles.  

I added my watch tag between the two halves of the heart and colored it in a similar manner.  I glued them together and then added my sentiment stickers.  To finish the centerpiece I scribbled around the stickers and stamps using a black pen.  

I mounted the tags on top of a piece of distressed cardstock.  The distressed piece was adhered to the card base using a tiny stapler.  

I hope you enjoyed my step out for today.  

Don't forget to enter in the challenge.  You can do so right here.  

Jess

Make A Wish

Hi Everyone,

I have a full step by step tutorial for you over on the Blank Page Muses Blog today.  

I would love for you to pop over and check it out. 

Jess

Whisky teacup girl tutorial

Hey! If you pop by the Canvas Corp Blog you can get a full tutorial to make this snarky lady.

Jess

Try it On Tuesday Time for Tea Challenge

Snarky Clipboards

Hi Everyone,
I have joined a new design team.  This is my first project for Gypsy Soul Laser Cuts.  You must check out the blog for some crazy good inspiration.

I created some mini clipboards and they are super easy to make.

I started with my blank clipboard.  They come four to a package and you get the bases, the clips, and the clip cover.

I did a light messy layer of gesso on the base and clip cover.

Once my gesso was dry I started to layer on vintage papers.  I used a whole bunch of random bits.  I can't read dictation, but how perfect is this little bit for this project? I just ripped and layered until I covered the whole board.

I added some scraps of patterned paper, smudged on a bit of acrylic paint, and topped the whole thing off with a layer of collage medium.

Once the collage medium was dried I used Distress Crayons to grunge up the paper.

 The lovely lady was added and her quote.  I stuck these on with collage medium too.

While the collage medium dried I glued my clip to the clip cover.  I painted the clip cover, but decided that wasn't quite working.  Embossing powder was the answer to my problem.
A few scribbles were added around the lady and the quote.  Clipboard complete!

I made a second board using the same technique, but I added some stamps and washi tape to this one.

I hope you enjoyed my first project.  I can't wait to show you what I have up my sleeve for my next post.
Jess

Gypsy Soul Products Used:
mini clipboards

Other Products Used:
Acrylic Paint
Archival Ink-Jet Black
Collage medium
Distress Crayons
Embossing Powder
Gesso
Strong Adhesive
Various patterned papers and vintage papers
Washi Tape

Teacups with a touch of sass

Hi Everyone,

I am sure a bunch of you hit your local Joann a few weeks ago when they were clearancing out a bunch of their dies.  I scored some I had my eye on and a few I was indifferent to.  I am not a coffee or tea drinker, so the tea cup die from Tim Holtz and Sizzix was not a must own for me.  For $6 I can make anything work!

I had so much fun putting my sassy ladies in their snarky tea cups. *Warning a couple use some foul language*

My ladies are all from Lisa's Altered Art.

They all have a little remnant rub or phrase on their tag.  

The little cuts in the top of the cups are perfect for sliding the girls in.  

Using double sided paper made putting the cups together a breeze.  

Some of the girls have bling.

Some just let their expression and the quote say it all!

What would your snarky teacup say?

Jess 

Creative Artiste Mixed Media Anything Goes Challenge
More Mixed Media Anything Goes Challenge

Guest posting for Emerald Creek Designs

I am so excited to be guest posting for Emerald Creek Designs today.  Emerald Creek is an online store that specializes in embossing powders, stamps, and carries a ton of Ranger product. 

The current challenge they have running is Blast from the Past-Anything Goes. 

 I decided to take a piece I still love, but remake it using Emerald Creek Supplies and see what I could come up with.

Here is the original.  It's very soft and feminine.  I still have it hanging in my craft room.  

I wanted to have the remake be a little bit darker, kind of like her bad big sister. My more recent work has a much looser look.  I am loving splatters and drips.  I have been using my fingers to spread on inks, stains, and paints.  It doesn't look pretty when I have to go out, but it sure is fun.  

Her wings are so cool.  I used the Charred Gold embossing powder and this stuff rocks.  It's super chunky and you can layer it on really thick.  It moves around so you can create drips and waves. 

The flowers have some sprinkled in the centers too.  Some of the petals were dipped in the Soft Fallen Snow Embossing powder for an added layer.  The leaves were embossed with Vintage Ivy. The bottom corner has some Hammered Metal to mimic the metal corner I used in the original piece.  

Here's one more close up.  I hope you liked my redo.  

What have you been crafting? 

Jess

Emerald Creek Supplies I used:
Hammered Metal Embossing Powder
Charred Gold Embossing Powder
Soft Fallen Snow Embossing Powder
Vintage Ivy Embossing Powder
Sea Chest Stamp

Other products available on Emerald Creek:

Mowed Lawn Distress Stain
Broken China Distress Stain
Salty Ocean Distress Stain
Crushed Olive Distress Stain
Mowed Lawn Distress Ink
Broken China Distress Ink
Salty Ocean Distress Ink
Crushed Olive Distress Ink
Peacock Feathers Distress Crayon
Mermaid Lagoon Distress Crayon
Twisted Citron Distress Crayon
Black Soot Distress Crayon
Tim Holtz Craftcore Cardstock
Distress Markers

Other Products:

Sizzix Layered Wing Die
Sizzix Tattered Pinecone Die
Sizzix Tiny Tattered Floral Die
Cabinet Card
Found Relative Card
Archival Ink
Tissue Wrap
Acrylic Paint
Fude Ball Pen
Canvas Panel
EZ Steam II
Paper flowers
Foam Tape
Double Stick Tape
Hot glue

Altered Matchbook

Over the weekend I posted a sneak peek of this before I had my blog post ready to go.
Wow! I got a crazy response to this little matchbook when I posted it on Facebook and Instagram. Please excuse the wiggly camera.  I was shooting it myself and I also had terribly chippy nails I was trying to keep out of the shot.  

I followed this amazingly simple tutorial to make mine.  

Here are some better photos of my little matchbook!

I used manila to make my base and covered it with Distress Inks. Black acrylic ink was pounced through my stencil to complete the back.  The little book is just a light weight cardstock folded according to the tutorial instructions.  

All of the ladies are from Art Chix Studios.  

I hope you enjoy seeing some closer looks!

Jess

Creative Carte Blanche Blossoms and Book Pages

More Mixed Media Challenge Anything Goes

Fabric Elements Art Banner

I know I promised weeks ago to post this banner, but I got so excited about Creative Chemistry class that I forgot!  This is a smaller canvas piece than the last one I made.  This is about 7 inches long and the other panel was 12.  I really enjoyed working on the smaller size.  

I used some vintage German Scrap on the top.  It's such a wonderful heavy paper and there are a million shades of gold in there.  

The background is Tim Holtz tissue wrap ironed on to the canvas.  I colored the tissue using distress stains and inks.  I flicked black and white acrylic paint all over it.  Isn't this girl just lovely? I printed her on cardstock and fussy cut her out.  The butterfly wing is from a Dover clip art book.  Mirrored stars are colored with Mushroom alcohol ink for a vintage feel.  

Once all my pieces were glued down I went in with my fude ball pen and added some scribbles.  

Here is the completed banner one more time.  

What have you been crafting?

Jess

Anything but Cute-the birds and the bees challenge

Our Creative Corner- A beautiful mess

 Mixed Media Monthly 2nd anniversary challenge

Creative Carte Blanche- winged Things

A flashy upgrade

I love the bright and quirky projects that Andrea Ockey Parr creates.  She made some altered flashcards a while back and I was inspired to try it for myself.  It was so fun mixing ink, paint, stamps, and more.  I am not a huge math fan.  These cards made me enjoy math just a tad more.

I'd like to submit these to:

Our Creative Corner Gypsy Fayre

Happy Crafting!

Jess