First Finished Mixed Media Canvas With Loads of Idea'ology Part 2

Well this weeks challenge for the purple team at Eclectic Ellapu is It's a Mans World . . . So I finally pulled out all the bits and pieces I have been collecting plus a few more (like the buttons) and sat down and finished my first mixed media canvas.

I started this a while ago, here's the link to the original post for the base. I played and played and just couldn't get it to gel the way I wanted an packed everything up. But I needed something manly for this weeks challenge and as I haven't been feeling the best I was a bit short on ideas . . .

So grabbed this and decided tonight was the night it got finished! As you can see there are Tim Holtz Ideo'logy pieces by the boatload, wings, accoutrements, game spinners, cogs and gears, mini cogs and gears, the lock and key, word band and muse token. Oh and of course the mini film strip, it's the first project I have used it on and was one of the first things I knew was going on this canvas. Love that stuff :)

The playing cards are from Kaisercrafts Sears & Son range. A poker chip I coloured with a brown Sharpie. There is a domino and mini word (dream) that I inked with brown alcohol inks. There is some Hampton Art twine in brown tying on the word band. I am not sure where the time word came from I just know although it's thick it is super light (have a set of words like this?) and a random playing card charm.

I made this for my man who happens to like playing poker, hence the playing cards and poker chip. He also like steam punky type things (good thing I like steam punk and have been collecting). It was supposed to be finished a long time ago but better late then never right?

All dies are Sizzix Tim Holtz dies, weathered clock, cogs and gears, mini cogs and the cog boarder and have all been cut with either grungepaper or grungeboard. Around the edges you can also see some well inked tissue tape :)
I hope you enjoyed my first canvas.
Happy Scrappin'
Purple

Valentines For My Boyfriend

So I wanted to make a card using svg's from a lovely lady who makes and distributes free ones. But I couldn't find the cord for my Ecraft :( So I had to think on the fly . . .

What I came up with was a pretty simple card to make and for a change I used another square base :) I started by cutting the red Heart Doily die from Lifestyle Crafts, then cut a 24cm x 12cm piece of white cs for the base. I then cut a piece of Grungeboard using the Sizzix Locket Heart die and used a keyhole mover and shaper in the centre, I then covered it with Picket Fence Distress Crackle Paint.

I glued the heart down with tiny dots of Glossy Accents and then started working out what embellishments I wanted to use. I picked a set of wings from Regal Adornments and a key from Locket Keys and glued these on with more glossy. I used foam tape to lift the heart and allow the wings to slide under :)

I used a stamp from The Paper Company's Our Wedding set and stamped it in vermillion Archival. I stamped the inside with the John Keats Quote "Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one." from the Fiskars Just Married Quotes stamp set.

A nice easy card that didn't take me hours to make and that the recipient thought looked good :)
Hope you had a great Valentine's day!
Happy Scrappin'
Purple

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Make It Monday - Anything Goes
Challenges 4 Everybody - Anything Goes

Creative Chemistry 101 Day Eight Finished Projects

I have two projects for day 8. One is bright and cheery the other is in more earthy tonesof brown and orange. A nice Autumn card considering it is Autumn in Australia right now :) maybe that's why I keep reaching for the orange. Could also be all the Harmony day learning the kids have been doing at school lol.

My Autumn colours card with a grungeboard flower. The leaves were cut with my ecraft from book pages and distressed.

The butterflys have had some triple thick painted over the top. It did react with the inks of course but I likes it :) The sentiment is from the Fiskars Butterfly Dreams set. "Butterfly kisses and birthday wishes"

And yes . . .  More Bling lol. Can there ever be too much?
Happy Scrappin'
Purple

Entered at Simon Says Stamp - anything goes.

12 Tags of 2012... March and... More Orange?

Hi all, slipping into my class blogs is my march tag/card. I figured I best get it done lol. Busy busy month so far and it's only going to get worse haha. I decided on flowers this month as I always do butterfly's! lol

I took my tattered florals die and punched 3 of the second smallest flower out of grungeboard. I should have used grungepaper as the board is not very malleable. . . Next Time! I cut itty bitty bits of three colourful papers (making sure to get the bright image in mmy bits) that to be honest I didn't really like. . . and used them for my mosaics. I used Hampton Art embossing powders from the brights in yellow, purple and red as my mosaic grout then covered the itty papers with glossy.

From the same tattered florals die I cut the smallest flower with a cut up soft drink can. I inked these with various alcohol inks then shaped into a more 3d shape. I glued them in the middle with glossy accents. I added some pearls I coloured with the same colours of inks to the centres of the flowers.

I used my ecraft to cut leaves from the fundamentals 1 sd card using old book pages. I inked the leaves with various colours of distress stain and then crumpled them into a little ball like I did for the 12 cards of christmas. I then uncrumpled and dried them and went back with my blending tool and darker colours of distress ink.

The yellow flower is adhered with glossy, the purple with 1 foam square and the red flower with 2 stacked foam squares. The background was done using a tim holtz sizzix embossing folder, the movers and shapers ornamental die and ripe persimmon distress ink and then all placed onto a creamy yellow card base edged with mustard seed distress ink.

Thanks for stopping by.

Happy Scrappin'

Purple

PS The empty spaces top and bottom have been left so I can add a sentiment as required depending upon the occasion :)

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and the Moxie Fab World Challenge

12 Tags of 2012... Game on!

Hi everyone :)

Well I wasn't sure if I would participate this month as I have a bit going on at the moment. Study travel etc etc lol. I was also having a creative block when it came to this months techniques as I neither have honeycomb paper or a matching stamp and embossing folder.

So after thinking for over a week I decided I was going to use one of the butterfly movers and shapers for my card. Then last night I decided that dried marigold would be my colour of choice. But I didn't know how I was going to do the embossing technique....

First I tried various markers in embossing folders to see how that worked. I tried marvy markers, pitt big brush, pitt artist and zig. None worked as with large areas the colour starts to pull away from the recessed sides. So the best result I had gotten was with the Faber Castell Pitt Artist Markers so I decided to try again today... No go it just wouldn't work with the larger intricate design.

I have some more examples to show you what I ended up doing :). First I covered my white cardstock in distress stain. For my card I used Dried Marigold. Then I used my cuttlebug border folder on the edge. *Tip; if you are going to do this while cs is still damp from the stain use a full size folder! After I did this I took my Pitt Artist Marker in Orange Glaze #113 and carefully coloured over the raised flourish.

On this example I used tumbled glass as the background, the embossing folder is the cracked texture fade and the marker is Pthalo Blue #110. I have left the middle bare for now as I am not sure what kind of card I will make with this as yet :)

The next one is made with wild honey and am not sure of the name of the cuttlebug folder. It's a leafy flourish at any rate lol. I used Pitt Artist pen in Leaf Green #112. Again leaving the middle blank for embellishing.

The next two examples were done with differently. The first was done with dried marigold stain, embossed with the same folder as above and then I used my distress ink tool to add ripe persimmon ink to it. I them misted with shimmer mist.

This last one was done with aged mahogany stain, then I shimmer misted and blotted to activate the ink and tone down the colour a little. I then shimmer misted again and ran through my cuttlebug with the Cuttlebug Clockworks folder. I used my ink blending tool and the aged mahogany ink pad to swipe over the top of the embossing.  Absolutely Love this one :)

Back to the card lol. The flourish on the edge is an embossing folder from cuttlebug from the Organic Flourish set. So pretty! The background butterflies are from recollections and are stamped with a Big Brush Marker the same colour I coloured the flourish.

My butterfies are cut from the movers and shapers butterflies. I layered 7-8 pieces of paper and ran them through. I also cut each butterfly from grungeboard. I adhered a butterfly to each grungeboard piece with matte accents. I then folded each butterfly wing along the body so they were creased well. I used a small amount of matte accents along the body of each butterfly and layered them up. I waited til they were dry aand then fluffed them up lol.

Lastly I created my sentiment with Lifestyle Crafts Label dies. The back piece is coloured with the orange glaze big brush marker. The top coloured with dried marigold stain. I then used a Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous sentiment stamp from Mini Classics and my big brush marker in orange.  I layered the pieces together with foam tape and thats it Card done!! :) Just in time too. Sorry for the few pics, was scrap day at a friends and it was raining so my camera stayed at home! lol
Happy Scrappin'
Purple

12 Days of Tagmas T!m Style

So this isn't a crafty creation in the traditional sense.

I reworked the 12 Days of Christmas a la Tim Holtz...

12 Days of Tagmas

On the Twelfth day of Tagmas T!m gave to me
12 feet of Tissue Wrap

On the eleventh day of Tagmas T!m Gave to me
11 stampers stamping

On the tenth day of Tagmas T!m gave to me
10 Grungeboard pages

On the ninth day of Tagmas T!m gave to me
Nine Perfect Pearl pots

On the eighth day of Tagmas T!m gave to me
Eight Edge Distressers

On the seventh day of Tagmas T!m gave to me
Seven white Fractured Dolls

On the sixth day of Tagmas T!m gave to me
Six Distress Ink pads

On the fifth day of tagmas T!m gave to me
Five Sizzix dies

On the fourth day of Tagmas T!m gave to me
Four Distresss Reinkers

On the third day of Tagmas T!m gave to me
Three Pearl Mists

On the second day of Tagmas T!m gave to
Two Distress Stains

On the first day of Tagmas T!m gave to me
An Idea as inpirational as can be

Hope you like my crafty reworking of an old fave :)
Merry Christmas
Purple

12 Cards of Christmas T!m Holtz Style Card 2

Today in my endeavor to play catch up I started my card version of Tag 2. This was my inspiration...

Card 2


I chose some music note paper from the Kaisercraft Black and White Timeless 6.5"x6.5" paper pad.

I then coloured it with Evergreen Bough Distress Ink Pad by swiping it across the paper, to lighten the colour I spritzed with water and dabbed with paper towel, I then spritzed again with my home made pearl glimmer mist.

I dried this with my heat gun. then chose some Inkadinkado and some Recollections stamps. I used my Versamark pad and then Ranger Super Fine Embossing powder to create my own resist effect.

I used my Snow Cap Distress Stain all over the paper and then dabbed the embossed areas with a damp paper towel so these areas then became more visible.

I grabbed a sheet of Grungeboard and my Tim Holtz Sizzix On The Edge Bracket Die, I made sure to move the grungeboard a fair way onto the die without it touching the large bracket cutting area. I used tape to hold the grunge in place over the small bracket and then ran it through my Cuttlebug.

I used both the positive and the negative from the cut to create both a top and bottom border for my background, you can see in the pic how they fit back together. I painted both pieces with silver Adirondack Paint Dabber, waited for it to dry and then sanded with Heidi Swapp sand paper, paying close attention to the edges. I then swiped Festive Berries Distress Ink pad over both pieces.

Using my ecraft I cut an ornament svg I found for free on the net (thanks to whomevers svg it was, I have so many I have lost track of where they have come from lol) from the leftover music paper. I then coloured the ornament by tapping my Festive Berries Distress Ink pad on my Ranger Craft Sheet and spritzing with my homemade pearl mist. I then dragged the ornament through the pool of shimmery colour making sure to get an even coverage. The colour came out too light the first time so I repeated the process using less water.

I cut the same ornament again with my ecraft only this time I used heavy red cardstock. I glued the two pieces together using Multi-Medium Matte.

I coloured part of a plain sheet of cardstock with Evergreen Bough Distress Ink and mist and then dried very well. I used ecraft again to cut out a bird and flourish image. As you can see in the following image I cut the svg into two pieces.

Using Multi-Medium Matte I adhered these to the christmas Ornament. I then used a Crop - a - Dile to place a large star eyelet into the top of the ornament. The silver was a bit too bright so I painted over it with the silver dabber then painted a little around the edges of the ornament as well. I used a paint brush on the tight corners as the dabber couldn't get in there lol.

I found some eyelets and brads pretty close in colour to the whitewashed background. Using a ruler for the brads I measured 1cm in from each end of the piece of painted grunge I decided to use for my bottom border and pierced a hole with a paper piercer. I then measured the midway point and pierced another hole. I measured between the edge and centre hole on both sides and placed two more holes at the midway point on each side. I then inserted brads into each of these five holes. I then used multi medium again to glue this to the background (in hindsight I should have used glossy accents as I had to add extra glue and hold for a good while lol).

For the top border I used the grungeboard a guide, placing eyelets above the three points. one on each end and one in the middle.

I used the silver paint dabber again to dull down the brightness of some silver chain and jump rings.

I then used my beading tools, two jump rings, some of the chain and a lobster claw clasp I had also dabbed some silver paint onto, to secure the ornament through the middle eyelet of my top border. Thus creating a removable tree ornament :)

For the two end eyelets I made a string of Swarovski crytsal beads. Two red and one half dipped silver on each end. I again used my paint dabber on the chain and jump rings but forgot to do the head pins... Oops! lol. I tried gluing the border down with multi-medium but had no joy so I used trusty Glossy Accents instead!

I then stuck this to my card base using double sided tape :) Yay another completed Card.

As you can see in the next pic, even once the ornament is removed the recipient will still be left with a nice card :) So in effect it is a Christmas card and mini gift in one.

Hope you liked my take on T!m's second tag. If you have any questions please feel free to leave a comment and I will help any way I can :)
Happy Scrappin'
Purple