Dreams

Good Morning!  This week the Tombow Design Team has been sharing you some amazing creations using products from Canvas Corp.  I can tell you, I did not know where to start.  The folks at Canvas Corp were so generous I am sure I will be sharing more projects using the rest of the goodies that were in my DT pack.  

First, I chose the 4 x 6 Natural Canvas and tinted the edges by scribbling some Tombow Dual Brush pens onto a craft sheet and then lightly spritzing with water.  You want just enough water to allow the ink to pool up on the craft sheet.

  Drag the canvas through the ink repeating the process until you get the desired color.  I used #925 Scarlet, #933 Orange, #946 Gold Ochre and a bit of #947 Burnt Sienna.

 After the canvas was dry I added some print paper from my stash to create the base of my canvas piece. I used Tombow Mono Multi to adhere the paper to the canvas. 

 I used some Tombow Mono Aqua adhesive on the back of the vine die cuts.  This adhesive dries very quickly and nice and clear which makes it the perfect adhesive for these fine die cuts.

 In our DT pack was a package of canvas trim which I used to create the flower.  

To create the flower, I created a running stitch down one edge of the canvas trim and gently gathered it to create the rolled flower.  I dyed the flower in the same manner as the edges of the canvas. (see above for instructions).  I added a Tombow Power Tab to the middle of the flower to attach the button/twine embellishment and also on the bottom of the flower to secure it to the canvas.  

Vintage Beauty

Hi there, I hope 2012 is getting off to a good start for you.  I am diving into 2012 head first and look forward to each and every day.

This week the Tombow Design Team has been creating projects that use the Pantone 2012    "in" color.  This year the color is Tangerine Tango.  Tombow's Dual Brush Pen #855 is a perfect match.  

I inked up the Every Season Plain Jane from Verve with the Tombow marker and stamped it onto cream cardstock.  I created the flower using 3 sizes of Nestabilities Classic Scallop Circle Dies.  Each of the circles was spritzed with pearl shimmer spray and scrunched into little balls and set aside to dry.  Once they were dry, I stacked them an added a cute little dotted brad in the middle.  The pearls were a light peach color and I wanted them a tad darker so I gave them a little extra color with the Dual Brush pen. 

Gotta run, see you soon! 

Twisted Thursday-Anything Goes

Whew, what a week!  I have been crazy busy working on tons of stuff for January 2012.  Can you believe it is almost 2012?  I can't, this year really did fly by.  

This week the Outlawz Twisted Thursday challenge is an Anything Goes with a twist.  The twist is to use stripes.

Since I have been so busy, I decided to share one of my favorite cards from January 2011.  

I had created this card for week 1 of the Jan 2011 Viva la Verve challenge. You can check out all of the details here.  Something about this little boat just makes me happy.  Thanks for letting me re-cap today.  I will be back next Thursday for a brand new Outlawz Twisted Thursday project, I hope you will come back and check it out.

It's your birthday...

Just a quick little post as I am playing catch up this week. My laptop is about 6-7 years old and is starting to have quite the mind of it's own lately. I am hoping it will limp along for a little longer, maybe Santa will put a new one under the tree, that would be mighty nice if I do say so myself :)

 The card I am sharing with you today is for this weeks Viva la Verve Week 4 sketch challenge.  This sketch was created by Laurie Schmidlin and I have to say I wasn't sure how I was going to handle the diagonal stripes.  All in all, I really like how this one turned out.  I used stamps from Verve's Tag Time and Big Wish sets and the Verve A Cut Above Leafy Sprig die set and 

Because of these pretty prints from My Mind's Eye's A Happy Heart 6 x 6 pad I was forced  to use colors that I wouldn't normally put together.  I did a little faux stitching around the edge of the pink print and the cream/gold stripes.  The pretty little flower is from Prima's sugar blooms collection.  

Have a great day!

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Thank You

Good Monday morning!  

Today, I am sharing a card that I created for the Viva la Verve Sept Week 3 sketch challenge.  The sketch was created by my pal Tosha Leyendekker and  I think  it is just fab!

I had recently picked up several of the new My Mind's Eye's 6  x 6 pads from my favorite store, The Cat's Meow.   After looking at them all over and over, I finally just closed my eyes and picked one.  All of the print papers used were from the Paris & Co. pad.  I really like how soft and pretty the colors are.  The decorative element and sentiment were from the Verve Thankful Accents set.  The adorable butterfly is Verve's Flutterby die. 

Well, it's off to work  for me.  See  you soon! 

Flutterby	Thankful Accents	MME-Paris & Co.	Standard Circles Small	Classic Scalloped Circles Small	Classic Petal Edgeabilities
Ironwork Motifs Die Templates	Kaisercraft Pearls-Pearl	Tombow Foam Tabs	Stamp Runner Permanent	Mono Multi Liquid Glue

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Every Season

Hi there!  I hope you are having a relaxing weekend.  I sure am.  Earlier today, I met up with my friend Holly and her sweeeeet daughter Rachel and we went to the thrift stores in town.  I didn't find any treasures.  Maybe next time.  :)

I'm sharing a card with you that I created for the Verve Get Your Diva On contest for September.  You can real all about it here.

The challenge is to create a monochromatic card.  Just my kind of challenge! The color inspiration for my card came from the print paper. It was a scrap that I had laying on my desk from a previous project. I think it is from Graphic 45  if I remember right.  I started going through my stash and pulling things together that I thought would work.  The flower was created by punching scalloped circles from a scrap of American Crafts Peachy Keen collection.  To get the perfect color of ink, I first inked up the image with Adirondack  Salmon ink and then added some Adirondack Mountain Rose ink before I stamped the image onto the paper.  The Salmon was too light and the Mountain Rose was  too bright, but the two of them together were perfect! Give it a try!  Just remember to ink up with your lightest color first, so that you don't taint your inkpad with dark ink.  Oh, that would be bad!  I finished off my card with some light yellow pearls that were on my desk from a previous project. I just went over them with a Copic marker that was just the right color.  Love that!

I've got another Verve card in the works using my pal Tosh's awesome sketch for the Viva la Verve week 3 challenge.  

See you soon,

Every Season

American Crafts Peachy Keen

Stamp Runner Permanent

Tombow Foam Tabs

Mono Multi Liquid Glue

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Gratitude

Hello and happy Wednesday!  

Today I am sharing a card I created for the Viva la Verve Week  2 sketch that was created by Amy Sheffer.  

I  really had alot of fun with this sketch as it allowed me tons of opportunity for layering. I love, love cards with lots of layers.  I started with a white card base and then added several prints from the Cosmo Cricket Odds & Ends 6 x 6 pad.  I used stamps from Verve's Tag Time and Beautiful You stamp sets. See that pretty eyelet border, it is from the Spellbinders Classic Petal Edgeabilities set.  Can't live without it? You can get  it and any of the other new Spellbinders die templates at The Cat's Meow.  Run, don't walk, they are selling like hotcakes!

Well, I am off to spruce up my house a bit and get caught up on laundry.  I swear, I don't know how 3 people can dirty so many towels in one week.  Sheesh!

Autumn Splendor

Good Monday Morning!  

I think fall is finally on it's way.  While it was still warm, we had all the elements of fall with a little rain, thunder and lightning this weekend. 

 I wanted to share a card I made for the September Viva la Verve Week 1 sketch challenge.  We were to use this awesome sketch created by Amber Hight. The size of this card is 3 1/2" x 6".    Since the weather was a little stormy here this weekend, I decided to go with an Autumn theme. I used stamps from Verve's Autumn Splendor set and paired it with yummy fall colored cardstocks.  I finished the card off with a little twine and bling.  

Recipe:

Stamps:  Autumn Splendor-Verve

Paper:  Fresh Asparagus-GKD, Prints-Jillibean Soup Dutch Mustard collection, White

Ink: Memento Rich Cocoa

Extras:  Twine, Rhinestones, Nesties, Glossy Accents, Glitter, EF , Tombow Stamp  Runner, Tombow Power Tabs

Let It Snow

I must be dreaming of a little cooler weather, although we have had pretty decent weather here in my part of California.  I just want  to give a little shout out to those who have not been so blessed by old Mother Nature.  I hope things will get better soon. If only we could tip the US just a bit and allow the flooding to run toward Texas some and give them a little relief from the horribly hot and now firey summer. 

I don't think I have ever played along with the Sketch For You ToTry (SFYTT) sketch challenge (although,  I check it out every month).  I decided it was about high time I gave Jen's awesome sketches a try so I jumped in with both feet and combined it with the yummy colors from the CR84FN37 challenge. 

As you can see, I took some creative liberties with the sketch.  The truth be told, I will usually print the sketch or take Mr. Lappy into the studio with  me, but not this time.  I was sure my oh so photograpic memory (not) would get me by.  Hmmm, maybe I should re-think that approach.  :)

Not alot of uber cool techniques going on with this card, however  I did use the beautiful Memory Box Bianca snowflake die to create a ghost effect on the kraft background by laying the die randomly on the card and tapping it here and there with Tea Dye distress ink.  I wasn't looking forward to adding bits and pieces of foam tape to the back of thes snowflake so I just sandwiched it between two turquoise buttons.  The smaller is the one you can see and underneath is one a bit bigger.  I did pull the twine between both of the buttons hoping this will hold the snowflake in place.  So far, so good.  The sentiment is from the Verve Holiday Phrases set.  Love the simple font Julee used in this little set. 

One last note, I added a "For Sale" page to my blog.  You can find it at the top left of my blog and I would love for you to check out my list.  I will be adding things often as I wade through my studio.

See you soon,