Making Tags...

Making tags was the challenge on Splitcoast today. Here's the one I did, fairly quickly using the new Brocade Borders die from Our Daily Bread designs.

Never Thirst is colored with Prismas, with the background being colored with Copics. I did the "orange" Flower Frames layer with Copics too.

Don't forget.. 3rd year blogaversary week this week! Something special coming....!

Thanks for stopping!

Dawn

A Special Thanks...and a Sneak Peek!

The Lord Bless You and Keep You

If you remember back to some of the graduation pictures, you'd see one with the choir director, Mr. Wilbur...this is for him!

For as long as I can remember he's had the kids sing this song at their final concerts, graduations, and the kids themselves always got together in the hallway at the end of the musical, held hands and sang it. It always brings a tear to see the seniors all holding hands as they sing one last time together at graduation before heading out into the big old world!

So, my choice of stamps was a no brainer! Our Daily Bread designs From Me to You, God Loves You and Scripture Series I.

I used a shipping tag, Tim Holtz style. You know.. drop some reinkers on a craft mat, spritz with water and drag your tag through it. Then I embossed the verse, using Distress Black Soot and clear ep.

I also stamped the flowers with Black Soot and embossed them, colored with Copics and fussy cut with my craft knife.
I sandwiched the cording between the tag and a piece of cardstock cut to fit.

 

Two of the larger, popped up flowers are from the God Loves You set.
The edges are sponged with Distress Pumice Stone.

When it was all done, I gave it a good spritz of Glimmer Mist, Pearl and Honey Dew.

Thank YOU Mr. Wilbur for your dedication and wonderful song choices throughout the years!

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Now, for the peek!

Tomorrow, Innovative Stamp Creations, will be releasing some fabulous sets! I'm tickled Betsy asked me a while back if I'd do some freelance for her. (shhhh....I even have several ISC being published in a book, due out in Aug!! shhhhh)

Today's sketch challenge on Splitcoast was perfect for Take Flight.

It's colored with Copics, cut out of the box and sponged with Distress inks in the background. I gave the butterflies a little pizzazz with some Shimmerz. I used Martha Stewart's Garden Trellis deep punch back to back for the horizontal panel.

For once I started out with my paper to guide me my colors! Usually I color away THEN pick my DP! LOL! This is SEI Jocelyn.

 

Enjoy your day...it promises to be HOT & HUMID here today..ugh!

Thanks for stopping!

Dawn

A Christmas Party Needs Table Decorations-Angels Landing

My last post as part of the Angels Landing DT...it's been great working with Judi's wonderful digital images, Judi, and the rest of the team!

We're going to a Christmas party on Saturday so I thought I'd help with the table decor and make these tag boxes.

I just love these cute penguins!

Start by cutting a piece of cardstock 4x7 and score as shown.
Cut notches as shown. Set aside.

It's very easy to "clone" your images if you need to have a number of them printed at once. (at least in Photoshop Elements 7)

Make a new document 8.5 x 11 and pull your image onto it and size it. With your cursor over the image, hold down the Alt key while dragging the image over. Keep doing this until you have the desired number. Easy!

On these I used DCWV Christmas 12x12 stack, cut 3x6. The shipping tags are just over 3 x 6.25 inches, so I just added some white acrylic paint by Ranger.
Since I cut the paper at 6 inches (was easy to make the most out of the 12x12), it leaves just a little tag showing, so I tore white cardstock to resemble snowdrifts and added them to the bottom of the tag.

   Can you see the shimmer?!
Each was given a spritz of Pearl Glimmer Mist

  and the colors used

Cut some more patterned paper 2x4 and apply as shown. I used red liner tape here so you could see where to apply your tape, glue or whatever adhesive you use.

You're going to attach your tags like this.

 This is how the inside will go together.

10 inches of ribbon is all you need to tie up this sweet treat box!

Hope you've enjoyed this little tutorial, I enjoyed putting it together for you! Be sure to see what the rest of the Design Team did.

Thanks for stopping!

Dawn

Psalm 91...Inspired?....Maybe

It's 3:18AM as I sit here writing this blog post. What am I doing up?! Well, an idea that kept dancing around in my head and a nagging tickle in my throat that set off a coughing fit! Might as well get up and at least put the idea to paper and see if it turns out!


As I walked into my stamp room all of a sudden the coyotes started singing...kinda cool! Has nothing to do with what I'm stamping....lol...just eerily cool!


A friend of ours drove up from West Virginia yesterday to spend the weekend. He related a story of what happened at work Wednesday. He was up on some scaffolding, pulling up a long plank...as he was walking backwards he somehow stepped off the edge! Below him were blocks and construction stuff, but somehow he didn't fall onto it, he got caught on something which broke his fall. Everyone around was amazed that he walked away with a couple scratches and a bruise! He said he was thankful that his guardian angel kept him from something that could have been serious!


That planted the seed in my head and this is what I came up with.
This Guardian Angel Prayer from Our Daily Bread designs was perfect for this manilla tag. I wanted it to have a masculine feel to it and thought the eagle from On Eagle's Wings, also from ODB was just right! The pines is a stamp I've had for ages from PSX that I repeated several times.

A quick coloring with Copics, masking the eagle, sponging with Distress inks and the tag was done! Oh, to whiten the white of the eagle I used a Prismacolor pencil.

He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.
Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.
He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler.
Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day;
Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.
A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.
Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked.
Because thou hast made the LORD, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation;
There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.
For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.
They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.
Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.
Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.
He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him.
With long life will I satisfy him, and show him my salvation.
Psalm 91

I'll give this to Daniel in a few hours..................think I can sleep now?!

Thanks for stopping!

Making Your Own Variegated Ink Pad

Do you ever reach for a variegated ink pad only to find you just don't have the colors you really want? You can make your own custom pad and you can make it for specific images too!

I did this tutorial for Cornish Heritage Farms this week. Here are a couple of the examples using the custom pad.

Cornish Heritage Farms:
Sept Stamp Of The Month-Leaf and Acorns, Giving Thanks

Ink:
Adirondack Reinkers (custom pad)
Scattered Straw, Shabby Shutters, Worn Lipstick, Vintage Photo, Walnut Stain

Paper:
Prism Butter Cream

Other:
Shipping Tag
Shimmer Mist (dried marigold/copper perfect pearls)
Ribbon
Distressing tool
Buttons

Cornish Heritage Farms:
Sept Stamp Of The Month-Leaf and Acorns, Giving Thanks
Aged Sheet Music Scrapblock™

Paper:
Prism Sunflowers dk, Suede Brown dk
My Mind's Eye
Georgia Pacific white

Ink:
Adirondack reinkers (custom pad)
Adirondack Latte
Scattered Straw, Mustard Seed, Peeled Paint, Shabby Shutters, Dried Marigold, Worn Lipstick, Vintage Photo, Walnut Stain

Other:
Spellbinders Nestabilities-ellenhutson.com
Daubers
Cuttlebug/folders
Brads
Dimensionals

Thanks for stopping!

Distressing We Will Go...

The CHF Challenge Chicks are using Ranger Distress Inks today. And they're on SALE at CHF through the 17th too!
(the inks, silly! not the Chicks)

Julia tells about them in the Product Spotlight, check it out. And be sure to drop by the other Chicks in this challenge...Julia, Lisa, Kim, Kristine, Sherrie, Alli, Julie, Lori, Lisa Strahl, Lesley, Val


It's also Julia's BIRTHDAY today, so wish her a happy day!!!
Feel free to join us!! Here's the forum link.

With all that said, here's mine. I decided to go with a scene on a shipping tag. Can you guess how many different stamps were used to make it? No skipping to the end to find out!!

I also have to tell you that this was one of those "can't sleep-get up-stamp till 4:30AM" projects!

I started out by stamping the Friendship Lighthouse (only inking the lighthouse/rocks with Black Soot and not the sentiment that is with it) and masked it. Then I inked up the circle out of Cardmaker's Shapes with Mustard Seed, rocked about 1/3 of it in Scattered Straw and rocked the edge only in Dried Marigold. This I stamped over the masked lighthouse. The sun was also masked at this point.

Are you counting? That's 2

The Ocean Scene was stamped next followed by Palm Trees. There was a space needed filling under the rocks, so I stamped just a part of the Ocean Scene again. Small Cloud was stamped randomly across the sky, some rightside up, some upside down.

Still counting?

Now the fun of coloring and sponging! The only coloring done was the lighthouse, ocean, driftwood and shells (with copic markers). After coloring the masks were put back.

I tore a piece of copy paper and started sponging off the edge using jumbo daubers and small daubers. Starting with the lightest colors first. Ooh, before I started the sky, I used a small dauber to put color on the palm trees. I just kept sponging till I got the 'look' I wanted.

Still with me this far? Still counting? IF you are still with me, you're probably wondering why the hole with the sentiment peeking through. OR if you're not wondering, I guess you'll find out anyway!

Remember when I said I stamped part of the Ocean Scene again to fill in? Well, I didn't have it positioned perfectly so there was this HUGE Conch shell at the base of the lighthouse rocks! It looked like one of those old Japanese films where the sea monster drags itself out of the ocean and starts devouring everything in it's path! I'd gone to too much work to file it in the 'round' file...and remember it's the wee hours of the morning and DADGUMMIT, I'm finishing this thing!!!

So, I spritzed the backside with water, made a little slit with my craft knife and started opening it up. Did I sponge that rolled up part you ask? Nope! That's from stamping the scene the first time and it not working!! LOL Oh, you gotta love magic paper! Make a mistake and just flip it over and start again!

The sentiment is from Time To Stamp. Ok, how many is that?!

So all the Distress Inks used on this are: Black Soot, Mustard Seed, Scattered Straw, Dried Marigold, Frayed Burlap, Brushed Corduroy, Old Paper, Antique Linen, Broken China, and Faded Jeans.

Did you come up with 6 stamps?

I Can Dream Can't I?!

The ice makes for beautiful, interesting pictures! I *carefully* took camera in hand and went about looking for some good shots this morning.
To think the lilac bush will be covered in sweet smelling, beautiful flowers soon (provided we don't get a late freeze!) It was so crunchy walking on all the frozen blades of grass, wish I could put that sound with the slideshow!

The loan Maple leaf, was so cool (no pun intended!) with ice only on one side. And I don't think the grandkids are going to want to play on the teeter-totter today............no, wait...... no school today....yeah, they'd probably be here in a heartbeat and be on it!! LOL

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Tim Holtz has a cool March challenge (a variation from his 12 tags of Christmas). He explains it so well, I'm just going to let him do it! *wink*

Click on this link to see his tag and instructions.Since I don't have paint daubers yet, I just used white acrylic paint to stamp the birds.

I mixed Broken China with water and Scattered Straw with water, each in a small mister. In another mister I mixed Spiced Marigold, Copper Perfect Pearls, and water....and spritzed them on the tag.

While the tag was still very wet, I added a drop of Weathered Wood to the lower right corner and spritzed again with Broken China, then used my heat tool to move, blend and dry the colors.

The birds and how the colors turned out then inspired me to make the ocean scene......this is where the title comes in! *wink* If you looked at my slideshow of the ice we just had, it all makes sense!! lol

I added some white acrylic paint with my waterbrush to make it look like a crashing wave...it does, sort of... don't you think? Stamped the Palm Date Trees and colored them with copics. The sun is stamped in Mustard Seed, rock & rolled in Fired Brick. And the "Time" is stamped on another tag that didn't quite turn out! LOL!

That's what's great about stamping, right? Most of the time there are no mistakes, you just use the 'oops' in a different way! Flip it over, distress it, layer it.... the possibilities are endless!

All Stamps CHF:

Asela's Date Palm Tree

Mona Lisa's Cardmaker's Shapes

The Rummage Bin Time to Stamp

Ink:

Distress Reinkers by Ranger Dried Marigold, Scattered Straw, Broken China, Weathered Wood, Mustard Seed, Fired Brick, Black Soot

Accessories:

Shipping Tag

White Acrylic Paint

Perfect Pearls copper-Ranger

Copic Markers www.ellenhutson.com

Waterbrush-Niji

Misters-Ranger

Stapler

Distressing tool

Trying It Like Tim

If you've been following Tim Holtz's blog, you've been seeing some awesome tags with his "12 Tags of Christmas".

I thought I'd give it a try with what I had on hand. Here's my tag, Tim Holtz style.

I started with a plain manilla tag and drug my Adirondack Pitch Black ink pad over it, covering the entire tag. You can also start with black cardstock. Allow tag to dry...(I hurried it with the heat tool *wink*) Tim uses Paint Dabbers and I can see where they could sure come in handy and will definitely be on my next order!

Next I stamped my Rubbernecker images in versamark and gave them a coat of clear embossing powder.

Now the fun begins! Again, Tim uses paint dabbers here, I put 3 blobs of white acrylic paint on a plastic plate and three drops of Adirondack reinkers, raisin, cranberry, currant...one on each white blob. Stirred each up to mix then I used a sponge and applied it to the tag, totally covering it and adding a little more white toward the top. Oh, those dabbers would have been great here!!

So, now my 'black' tag with images is totally covered in paint! What to do! Well, I took a damp rag and wiped the color off the images! Voila! Resist!

I put some crystal Stickles on my finger and smeared it here and there. Had a foam snowflake (thanks Cindy *wink*) that I embossed with Ranger Halographic embossing powder. Heating the snowflake was cool as it kinda shrunk it and changed the appearance a little. (is that an oxymoron? heating the snowflake is cool?!) I also embossed the brad.

Distressed the edges and added some fibers......and there you have it!

Rubbernecker carries all the images shown and a large supply of Ranger products.