Tag You're It - Cupcake

Today I have a tag to share that I made for the Tag You're It challenge - Nancy Penir has made this sweet tag to inspire us!

 I was inspired by the sweet cupcake and bright colors - and here is the tag I created.

I used stamps from the wonderful Coffee Set by Waltzingmouse and also the coordinating die set. This set has SO many fun images and sentiments on the coffee theme!  The Stitched tag die is also from WMS.  I added red rhinestones and popped the cup cakes up on foam dots.  This tag would look so cute attached to a coffee or cupcake gift given to a friend!

Stamps:  Coffee Set - Waltzingmouse
Paper:  White - PTI
Ink:  Aqua Mist, Hibiscus Burst, Classic Kraft, Harvest Gold, True Black - PTI
Accessories:  Coffee Set Dies, Stitched Tags Die set - Waltzingmouse, rhinestones - Kaiser, wrinkled seam tape - Prairie Bird Boutique Etsy Shop.

Make Art for Christmas

I have another Christmas Card to share today - using lots of Wendy Vecchi products.

Here are a few photos of how I made my background panel using a technique Wendy taught at a class I took with her about a year ago.  I put some drops of WV Archival Cornflower Blue and Tiger Lily reinkers along with a splash of Rubbing Alcohol onto my craft mat.  I swirled them together with a pallet knife.

Then I dragged the Ranger Specialty paper panel through the mix - letting it drip down the panel - adding more Rubbing Alcohol until I got the look I wanted.  I made all these pieces using my little puddle!

I stamped the frame from Holiday Art and the lace stamp from Beauty of Art onto the panel with WV Archival Watering Can Ink.  I stamped Ornate Dots Background in Tree Branch.  I used WV Black Embossing Paste with the Merry Christmas stencil from SASI For the Holidays.

I stamped the tree from Holiday Art in Fern Green and Script Background stamp in Watering Can onto a piece of Newsprint that I had adhered to a sheet of Clearly for Art Modeling Film.  I fussy cut the tree and hit it with my heat tool so it would bend a little (the Clearly for Art will soften when heated).  I made the stars by embossing a piece of white card stock with WV Tree Branch Embossing powder and cutting them with the star die from  Tim Holtz Thinlit Shape Strips.

I embossed the Mat Minis Flower Pot with WV Red Geranium embossing powder and adhered it and the tree to the panel with foam dots.

I'm linking my card to:

Wendy Vecchi's Make Art Challenge  -  New Product Inspiration from Wendy's blog - 

here is what inspired my card

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge - Festive Tree or greenery

Christmas Stampin' All Year Long - Anything Goes

Jingle Belles - Shopping our Jingly Stash

use at least one supply that is a year old

The re-inkers, Ornate Dots background and lace stamp I used on my background are more than a year old.

Shopping Our Stash

(same as Jingle Belles above!)

Stamps:  Holiday Art, Script Background, Ornate Dots Background, Stamp It Stencil It For the Holidays - Wendy Vecchi Stampers Anonymous.
Paper:  Ranger Specialty Paper, Newsprint Paper - Wendy Vecchi Stampers Anonymous, Art Parts Clearly for Art - Stampers Anonymous.
Ink:  Wendy Vecchi Archival Re-inkers Tiger Lily and Cornflower Blue, Wendy Vecchi Archival Ink Tree Branch, Fern Green, Watering Can, Archival Jet Black.
Accessories:  Wendy Vecchi Black Embossing Paste, Thinlit Shape Strips - Tim Holtz, foam dots, Rubbing Alcohol, Craft Mat, Heat Tool, Mat Minis Flower Pots.

Tim Holtz 12 Tags of 2015 - September

I missed Tim's August Tag -I just couldn't get the techniques he used to work for me - so I was really happy to see his September tag.  I liked each step and technique and so I knew I could get something done!  You will find all the details of Tim's tag here and here it is below:

Mine looks quite different from his because I did a Halloween theme and so used orange, black and brown inks - but most of the techniques are there!  I used stamps from Half Tone Halloween instead of butterflies and I added some Curiosities Remnant Rubs. 

The back of my tag is a mix of Black Soot, Tea Dye and Wild Honey Distress Stain Sprays.  It came out really cool but most of it gets hidden by the front panel :(

 I didn't have the Alcohol Ink paper Tim used (I don't know if I've ever even seen that sold??!) so I used a specialty paper I had that I thought might work for the technique  - I swiped the panel through the following colors of Alcohol inks I put on my craft mat -  Butterscotch, Espresso, Ginger, Citrus and Silver Mixative Alcohol Ink as well as alcohol blending solution.  After it dried - I used Tim's Shatter Stencil along with Wendy Vecchi Translucent embossing paste over the panel.  Then you stamp the images on the panel and stamp them again on Acetate, cut them out and layer them over the stamped images.  Tim used Frosted and I just used clear acetate.  He also heated the butterflies and bent them  but I couldn't do that with the images I used so mine are flat.

I dropped Butterscotch Alcohol ink over the Exhibit A word band and the little jacko-lantern from Oddities/Adornments.  The greetings was cut with Holiday Words/Script.  The colored ribbon was a free gift with an order from Linda at Funkie Junkie Boutique!

So, I'm happy and relieved that I had success with Tim's September tag!

I hope everyone has a great weekend.  The town I live in is celebrating Founder's Day on Saturday with the center of town blocked off to traffic and lots of people selling things at booths and the school's run games and there's lots of great food!  Then on Sunday there is going to be a special Honoring the Military parade that's going to be about 2 hours long - with high school bands, Fife and drums, bagpipes, soldiers marching and lots of military vehicles - part of the town's 200th year celebration -  and I just have to walk to the end of my street to see the parade go by!

Holly Snow Globe

I was excited to see the latest Merry Monday Challenge - to Use Holly 

(aren't these beautiful table decorations??!!!)

My all time favorite holly stamp and dies are from Waltzingmouse -  Festive Foliage and Holly Sprig Die set.  And the beautiful inspiration photo with the holly in round water filled vases made me think of my Memory Box  Snow Globe die! (which may be retired as I could not find it on their site)
(Avery Elle has one here and MFT has one here -  or you could just punch a circle and cut your own base to make a snow globe)

I die cut the holly and berries, stamping them in two different shades of green.  I layered the berries over the holly with foam dots.  I adhered one of the holly flat onto the card base and I used foam dots on the 2nd holly to give the feeling of depth inside the globe.   I die cut the snow globe out of blue card stock and the base out of black, embossing the sentiment on the base with white embossing powder.  I die cut a circle of acetate using a circle Nestability slightly larger than the opening of the snow globe and glued it to the back of the opening.

 I layered the blue over the card base using thick foam dots so it held it above the raised holly. 

There are just a couple of days left for the Merry Monday Challenge so if you are inspired better get cracking!

I'm also linking this to the Happy Stampers September  Christmas Challenge -  Holly

 

Stamps:  Festive Foliage - Waltzingmouse
Paper:  White, True Black, Blueberry Sky - PTI,  clear acetate from stash
Ink:  Simply Chartreuse, Pure Poppy, New Leaf - PTI, Versamark
Accessories:  Holly Die Set - Waltzingmouse, Medium Snow Globe - Memory Box, Circle Nestability, white embossing powder, heat tool, foam dots, Scotch Quick Dry Adhesive.

NBUS - Fire House Under the Dome

Whoo hoo!   Darnell is having another NBUS challenge! 

and there are some wonderful prizes to be won!

Every month I've been purchasing the wonderful Petite Places stamps and dies from Papertrey Ink because I just LOVE miniature things - but then don't seem to find time to get them out and play with them!  

So the NBUS challenge was the perfect opportunity to get the City Station Stamps and Die set out and create this fun jar topper!

We were recently invited to my nieces in-laws cottage in NH and her father-in-law is a retired fireman so I made this as a thank you to them!  I filled the little 1/2 pint jar (from Joann's) with M&M's.  PTI sells the 3" ornament domes and I also found them at Joann's.  See the little black dog sitting outside the Fire station?!

I made the tag from a Stitched Tag Die from Waltzingmouse - the Thank You, car and Stop light  stamps are from the Main Street Petite Places set,   the road stamp is from City Scenes. 

The Flagpole is from the Petite Places School House stamp and die set - it's attached to a little picket fence but it got covered with the green foliage. The black base for the scene was cut using the  Scenic Basic Backer die with a white Nestability circle die piece cut in half layered over it.  I hand drew in the walk from the street to the door of the station. (this can also be made a gas station using other stamps in the City Station set)

 View from the back (It's impossible to photo these domes without glare!)

So what NBUS supplies will you get out and finally use to link up to Darnell's NBUS challenge??

Stamps:  Petite Places City Station,  Petite Places School, Petite Places Main St. - Papertrey Ink

Paper:  White, True Black, Sweet Blush - PTI

Ink:  Pure Poppy, Pure Black, Enchanted Evening - PTI

Accessories:  Foliage Clusters - Wee Scapes (from hobby shop), Scotch Quick Dry Adhesive, Copics, Glaze Pen - Sakura, Maraschino Twine - The Twinery, 3" diameter clear ornament dome - PTI (or Joanns),  City Station Die set, School Die Set, Main St. die set - PTI,  Stitched Tag Die - Waltzingmouse, 1/2 pint canning jar - Joanns, Scortape.

Cool Dude in the Shades

I have been waiting all summer for a challenge to come up where I could use these 'cool dude' sunglasses.  I cut them out of the cups my Starbucks Venti Matcha Iced Green Tea Lattes have been served in this summer!  There were four frame styles on each cup -  and I immediately thought "I can use these on a card someday!!!" 

and today's the day!!  Here's my card.  I adhered the sunglasses to the barn board patterned paper with foam dots. The stamps are from Free Spirit Sentiments by Waltzingmouse.  I layered the patterned paper to a slightly larger piece of mirrored gold card stock.

and here's the challenge inspiration I'm linking my card to:
Curtain Call - Shades

You can see - I went pretty literal with my card design!  

It was so nice of Starbucks to have the glasses on their cups in the perfect size for our cards, don't you think??!!

Stamps:  Free Spirit Sentiments - Waltzingmouse
Paper:  Rustic Cream - PTI, Mirror Gold - Joann's, DP - Country Batique/Fancy Pants Designs
Ink:  True Black - PTI
Accessories:  sunglasses from Starbucks cold drink cup, foam dots.

To Love and Be Loved is Everything

Today was my birthday -  Happy Birthday to Me!!  I had my hair cut, I bought two pair of shoes, 8 gently used books to read and, with Kent's help, cleaned up the house and deck to have my family over tomorrow for lunch to help me celebrate!   I also had quite a few " Happy Birthday" shout outs on facebook -  that was SO fun and made me feel all warm and fuzzy knowing my friends 'out there' were thinking of me today!

I also got to stamp today -  I wanted to make an anniversary card for our dear friends, Anne and Jay, whose anniversary is Tuesday.  Anne loves red - so my color was a given!

This lovely sentiment is from Happy Trails from PTI.  I embossed the little die cut heart with Wendy Vecchi Red Geranium Embossing Powder and layered it to a banner of chevron patterned paper.  I just cut a strip of the paper and then punched the ends on the corner of a square punch.  All the edges are sponged with Distress Tea Dye Ink.  I sanded the red Kraft Core Coredinations paper so some of the kraft showed through.

I'm linking my card to the following challenges:

 Freshly Made Sketches -  which was my design inspiration.

 Virginia's View Challenge - Geometric Patterns (on my banner)

We're having a long weekend here in the US - Labor Day is Monday - and the weather is like summer but with cool evenings reminding us Fall is just around the corner!

Stamps:  Happy Trails - PTI
Paper:  Kraft - PTI, Core-dinations Kraft core/Tim Holtz, DP from stash, matboard for heart - Sizzix.
Ink:  Wendy Vecchi Archival Tree Branch, Ranger Distress Tea Dye, True Black - PTI
Accessories:  foam dots, square punch, Wendy Vecchi Red Geranium Embossing Powder, Heart die - Movers and Shapers Tiny Shapes - Sizzix/Tim Holtz.