TEAPOT TUESDAY - Off to Kansas

This week, our card is off to Debbie in KS. She is experiencing Liver failure - and has never been a drinker. Really stinks when you think you are doing everything right and something like this comes along. We're hoping our cards can cheer her up.

Here's the details:

I am trying to use of stash. Back in 2011, I was enticed into an Inspiration Kit Swap group by my bestie, Soni from Soni's Front Porch. She wanted to encourage me to play so she sent me a kit like she had sent out to the group that month.

Here is the note she included:

I am in belief that not only bad things come in threes, so let's see if we can prove that!

I am sending the same images in 3 different colors or way, with directions to do each differently. I hope you have fun. 

1 - One card in soft and pretty design and colors.
2 - One card to show me a color to show off the Groovy Guava (the designer DP she included)
3 - One card to be as different as you like - BUT please use "3". These can be 3 brads/ 3 different colors, 3 layers, etc. 

The 3 things that MUST be a part of each card:
Best creative imagination
Dig into your supplies. 
Smile

On the back she said:
Can you use 3 Tools/ 3 layouts/ 3 layers
Let's TRIPLE the FUN!

I used the tea pot and cups she had stamped in Memento Black on Very Vanilla. I layered that with the Groovy Guava (retired SU) she included with Pear Pizazz (retired SU). I gave the corners a wrought iron decorative with an EK success corner punch and added metal dots from Colorbok.

I colored the cups and tea pot with colored pencils. I used a light touch so they would be soft to coordinate with the card stock color. I also brushed the edge of the image mat with SU Blushing Bride (I did not have Groovy Guava ink)

Creative Blessings!
Kelly

MIXED MEDIA MONDAY - Tim Holtz February 2016 Tag

I'm a bit behind getting this tag posted but the February tag became a revelation for me. While Tim encourages us to do our own thing with his challenge, I make an attempt to stay within his colors - something that is not the norm for me. However, I just could not get this tag to play nice in that vein. So after the second attempt I decided to use his techniques when possible but to play within my own color pallet. For me, that is a soft, Victorian style most of the time.

This is how my tag finished out. Third time really is the charm:

MY SUPPLIES:

Manilla Tag Base

SU ink - Real Red & Pink Pirouette

Sizzix die cut heart - Heart #2

Book Pages

Prima and The Paper Studio papers

Fineabair Stencil

Royal Longnickel rub on

Lace remnant

SU Mini scallop punch

mini heart punch (to create stencil)

Valentine pin

TIM Items:

Small Talk sticker

Ephemera - Thrift Shop

Photo Booth

I used his background technique with a stencil from Fineabair. The hearts were a stencil that I made with my small heart punch and the texture paste/ gold emboss LOVE was done using an ABC stencil from Plaid.

I distressed the tag all over with SU Pink Pirouette then stenciled with SU Real Red. The flowers were punched from book pages and a sheet of floral paper from The Paper Studios (Vintage Amore). 

First, I distressed the scrip sheet with Pink Pirouette then I punched all the flower layers with the SU Mini Scallop. Then I alternated a book sheet with the Vintage Amore flowers and secured with a jewel brad to create the 3 flowers. 

The heart was punched from a script sheet out of the Prima 6x6 pad (Printery). I distressed the sheet with Pink Pirouette and edged it with Real Red. Then I heat set the ink before adding Dimensional Glaze and let this dry over night.  I also applied the glaze to the '14' paper bingo chip from Tim's Ephemera Thrift Shop pack.  The little label tag is from Tim Holtz. I added a rub-on of a Feb. 14 xoxo postage seal from Royal LongNickel rub ons. 

The sentiment - 'I'm happiest when I'm with you' is from TH Small Talk and truly expresses how I feel about my Valentine. The charm on the end is a pin I've had in my stash for a long time...

okay, not the best pick but it was 5:30 a.m - without coffee ;-)

Once I stepped into my favorite color pallet this tag came together pretty fast except for the drying time. 

Happy Valentine's Day!

NEEDLE & THREAD THURSDAY - Sympathy

I bet you are wondering why I'm showing a card on Needle & Thread Thursday... a card with not a stitch on it anywhere.

A writer friend of mine is not a card maker but she enjoys crocheting and quilting. We've been friends on-line for almost twenty years but never met in person.  When her mom passed away in late January, I knew I needed to make her a card (though I've missed several sympathy cards the past few months).

I used the Love & Sympathy set from Stampin' Up.
After coloring the image with LePlume markers, I spritzed the stamp with water before stamping onto the cardstock. I used Recollections and GP white cardstock with Pale Plum ink.

WOYWW #349 - Creative Explosion!

For those of you who stopped by last week, this is how the raffle basket for the writer's banquet turned out. My theme was 'Celebrate!' A bottle of Merlot, two wine glasses filled with Hershey kisses, a Dark Chocolate bar and two party horns. I upcycled a box that 7x9 padded manila envelopes come in by cutting it down at an angle and covering in left-over monochromatic white wrapping paper. What isn't here is the Merlot colored ribbon around the neck bottle and as a belly band on the front of the box.

My worktable this week looks as if the high winds we had earlier in the week went through my studio. I've been working on my February Tim Holtz tag. After three attempts, I'm finally making progress. I hope to post that tomorrow.

tub of adhesives, drawers from my Tim Holtz storage cabinet, 6x6 pads of paper, tag bits and pieces as well as a little of everything else LOL

That's my desk? What's on yours? When you are done visiting me in the Ozarks, please hop on over to Stamping Ground where Miss Julia has a long list of other studios you can peek into. No standing on an up-turned milk pail to look in the window. We open the doors wide and welcome you. We won’t touch.. just look. J  I can't wait to peek but if Bob is home for I might be late again getting 'round. Please leave your number and you'll be first on my list.

TEAPOT TUESDAY #394 - Spring Kitten

This week's Teapot Tuesday card travels to Kay in Kansas. Kay has been experiencing a lot of health problems and the doctors are not giving her any answers. I know this must be very frustrating for her. She has lost a lot of weight and no longer gets out much.

Kay and her husband live in the country. She loves her kitties, her dog, Bear and the color blue... especially the SU - Baja Blue.

I had this stamped image in my stash from an old swap and thought it perfect for her. I used the textured Baja Breeze cardstock and added some eyelash fringe yarn. I used my Derwent watercolor pencils. 

WOYWW #348 & Tool Description

Time to visit creative folks from across the globe. You can pick up your road map at Julia's Stamping Ground and snoop a long. We'd love to see yours!

Little bit of change from last week. I have the supplies compiled for a gift basket for a writer's celebration dinner on Friday night. Celebration theme with Wine & Chocolate.

Also some John Deere tractor paper and a cut out of a John Deere tractor for the Tea Pot Tuesday card I did not get made for yesterday.

Some of you requested a peek at some of the earlier Tim Holtz tags I am doing. The post is HERE.

Now... last week a couple of people mentioned the 'egg sponges'. Took me a few minutes to figure out what y'all were seeing. Then it dawned on me. My home made blending tool. The more I looked at Tim's blending tool, the more uncomfortable the item just looked to work with. So I looked for something that might fit the palm better. 

This is what I came up with: 

This is a knob of some type that I found at the craft store in the wood section.

I attached a circle of Industrial Strength velcro to the bottom. The bottom measures 1"

I cut circles from white felt. These I cut by hand. Sometime in the future I am going to order the Originals Sizzix Circles die that has 4 circles - one is the 1"

This is comfortable in the hand, and easy to swirl inks onto my projects. 

TEAPOT TUESDAY - Mowing the Lawn

Thank you so much for your patience. For the first time in pretty much 'ever'  I could not get this card to come together in a timely fashion. I knew what I wanted and I had all the components but getting the verbiage to line up was fighting me.

Finally, after a pain-induced nap Wednesday following  a dental appointment, everything fell into place.

Bob in WI is our receipient this week. He recently had hip replacement surgery. He enjoys mowing his lawn on his riding mower and loves his companion Rufus - a Labradoodle. I knew I wanted to do something with the John Deere paper by Creative Imaginations. So this is what I came up with...

And as I post this, I see there is a typo. Grrr... Hope I can fix that before I pop it in the mail tomorrow.

The tractor is copied from the John Deere website. I cut it out, coated in Papier Glass Finish then popped the image up with pop dots when it had dried. 

Now.. to turn 'hope' into 'hoping'. 

Creative Blessings!