Easter tag journaled

Remember the tag I did on this post?

I said I'd probably start putting my not so bumpy, lumpy tags I make in my art journal?

this is it....

I tried out some new supplies I got recently, Tim's classis faves #6, around the border of the page (looks like Inspiration Emporium's out of stock right now, but, you can contact them to be added to the list), some faber-castell water color pencils and some liquitex molding paste, mixed media goodness I got at Hobby Lobby!

You can click the link above to see the supply list for the tag.

I glued the 7gypsies paper to the page with Claudine Hellmuth's multi-medium matte then I stamped the borders with Archival coffee ink on to white cardstock. Before I glued that down I got some molding paste and added a little bit of pink sherbet paint from the paint dabber and mixed it up, looks like strawberry icing! Then I got out my plastic doily I got at a thrift store, someone took a lot of time to crochet around them. I got 5 of these I think for cheap and a couple of them were tore so I used it for my stencil, worked like a charm!

I laid down the stencil and scraped the molding paste on with an old plastic card and lifted it up, then I heat set it with my heat tool. I love the dimension!

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I hope y'all have a beautiful Easter.
Were having a non-traditional Korean meal here, too bad my sister-in-law is not here to fix it for us, her cooking is just scrumptious!

 

IE challenge #2

I thought I'd sqeeze in another 3D project for the Inspiration Emporium March challenge before St. Pat's Day.

I was searching for jewelry for the big day and came across several necklaces that I knew I could recreate with my goods from Inspiration Emporium. 

I thought it was a great idea to have this to wear if you didn't have a green outfit.

I made my shamrocks from a heart in Dylusions Love Struck Lucy stamp set. I stamped them on shrink plastic with Archival jet black ink, I drew a stem with a black Copic marker and colored them with a green Copic. 

I spilled the little vial of glitter only once before I got smart and glued the cork in!

These corked vials do not have a bail on the cork for the chain to go through. So, I took a straight pin and stuck it through the bottom of the cork, I cut of the point off the pin and used my pliers to bend it around and make a bail.

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Supplies:

stamps - dylusions love struck lucy.

ink - archival jet black, copic markers black 100 and green yg17.

acces. - ideaology ball chain, corked vial, jump rings, pearl, green glitter, stick pin, shrink plastic.

tools -  heat tool, hole punch, jewelry pliers.

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Good News!

Online Card Classes' is having a new class, Pattern Play, and Inspiration Emporium is giving away 3 spots to this class, go over to Inspiration Journal and find out how to enter!

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Have fun creating your 3D master piece, upload it to the Inspiration Journal, you have until the end of March!

Have a great St. Patrick's Day, thanks for stopping by!

Inspiration Emporium March Challenge

I'm sooo happy it's March, I can't wait for warm weather, it just makes me happy!

I'm happy with this month's challenge at Inspiration Emporium too!

The challenge is to make something that's 3-D, anything, from pop-n-cuts to foam squares to Idea-ology Configurations!

This is my first altered configurations box, I know, I know, I'm slow :)

I love altering stuff like this, the hardest part was trying to get the pic of my grands printed off my phone, my pic software is a nightmare, uggggh.

Anyway, this was so much fun. I have to give prop's to HeyJack my cat, for finding the A & W rootbeer mug monkey, he was playing with it in the floor, and I spotted it, ah-ha, perfect! :)

I took a bunch of pic's so you can see it all up close.

I love, love, love the lantern!
 

I thought the red eyes were fitting for this feline, they do fit him well.

Thanks for finding the monkey, Jack!

It's your turn, go check out the challenge at the Inspiration Journal, make your project, upload it and see if you're this month's winner of the $50 in store goods, woohoo!

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Supplies:

ink - ranger distress walnut stain.

paper - pink paislee prairie hill 6 x 6 paper pack (for the backs of each box and to cover the sides of the big box).

acces. - cream acrylic paint, (for the inside and edges of the boxes), claudine hellmuth gesso (for distressing the metal pieces ), kaiser pearls (on butterfly body) barbara tombley's vintage glass glitter in indian summer (it's inside the tall vial), distress stickles antique linen (it's rubbed on the flower, leaves and butterfly), idea-ology findings - mini lantern, curio knob, frame, box feet, pen nib, corked vials (1is filled with glitter, the other is a vase for a tiny bouquet), fractured doll. chit chat stickers (for the sentiment), vintage game pieces, plastic monkey, vintage button card with tiny buttons, wooden spool and white string.

tools - claudine hellmuth multi-medium matte, glue gun, paint brush, blender tool, alterations mini butterflies and bow and mini tattered florals and regal crest die sets (for the leaves), crop-a-dile and awl (for making the holes in the back of the box for the lantern cord). 

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Have a great day!
 

IE Easter tag

Here comes Peter Cottontail...

Every Easter my family and my brothers family would head to mom and dad's for a visit and the Easter egg hunt. Mom would always have the eggs colored and ready to go, happy memories! This year I'm getting the grands a mini Scentsy Buddy instead of all that candy, oh, I might get a few things :)

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I got out my Alterations mini bunny die for this tag, he's perfect for all the Easter cards, tags and gifts.

I've decided to put my tags I make in my art journal as long as they're pretty flat, I can make a background and glue the tag on the page. I have them hanging on a big binder ring and I think this will be a better way to display them. So the next time you see this tag it will probably be on a journal page.

Supplies:

paper - 7 gypsies,pattern paper and ranger adirondack distress cardstock.

stamps - su! rough edges alpha (for the sentiment) and splatter stamp for the background.

ink - ranger distress broken china, walnut stain, distress stain in bundled sage and antique linen (to color the crinkle ribbon) weathered wood.

acces. - tag, crinkle ribbon, brown twine, may arts ribbon, little white pom-pom, kaiser pearls, heidi grace rub ons - retired.

tools - alterations mini bunny and bow, regal crest and mini tattered florals die sets, 1 1/4" circle punch (for the flower center), corner punch, blending tool and tiny attacher.

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Inspiration Emporium has new releases coming in everyday, you need to check it out!

This months challenge is to do a 3-D project or anything to make your work pop!

Head on over the IE Journal to see the challenge. Have you met the new IE designers, they are some talented ladies! You can read up on them on the blog too. 

That's it, thanks for stopping by!

   

Inspiration Emporium St.Pat's journal page

Hi!

I've been all inky again, I love being all inky lately!

I'm on pins and needles waiting for my goods to arrive from Inspiration Emporium.

I've got Dyan Reaveley's new couture stamps coming, and some of Prima's new stamps, paper, flowers, etc. on pre-order, I can't hardly wait!!

March is the time for shamrocks, leprechaun's, Easter bunnies and Spring, awwww Spring!

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I used some Dylusion's stamps, inks and stencils for this journal page

 along with some other goodies.

 While I was making this I was thinking about the Lucky Charms commercial, "they are magically delicious". I haven't had that cereal in forever, I always loved it. I need to buy a box and bring back some yummy memories :)

Keep your eyes peeled over at Inspiration Emporium, the new releases will be here before we know it!
You can pre-order some of them to get your name in the pot first!
Don't forget my coupon code ieirisgarden for your discount, woohoo!!

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Supplies
stamps - dylusions love struck lucy, (i used the heart to make the shamrocks and 4 leaf clover) traveling travis, date stamper (from office supply).
paper - white cs (for the stamped images), dylusions art journal, ideaology tissue wrap (for the page background),ep holly jolly christmas 6x6 paper pad (for the banner), sewing pattern tissue & book pages (punched for the flowers).
ink - dylusions cut grass, fresh lime, white linen, vibrant turquoise, melted chocolate spray inks, archival olive, gelly roll white and black pens (outlining & doodling)
acces. - ideaology vial labels (for sentiment), claudine hellmuth gesso (used with the stencil for the border around the page), martha ribbon (for the bow), may arts rick rack, daisy d's rubons, retired (the letters in luck on the banner), black enamel accents (for travis's finger nails), black faber castell artist pen (i outlined and then rubbed with my finger around the shamrocks and banner for dimension), kaiser rhinestones & pearls, buttons, washi tape (behind the flowers), prima flowers & leaves.
 tools - dylusions leaves & dotted flowers 5x8 stencils and let it snow 9x12 stencil, fine tip water brush (filled with dylusion spray inks for coloring), glue gun, marvy scalloped circle punch (for the flowers).
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That's it, hope you like my page.
Have a great day!