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Happy Sunday bloggers!

I've got another journal page for you and some junkin' finds!

I did some double stenciling on this page and paper pieced the clothes on this Dylusional couture couple after I drew on some heads, LOL!

See the huge flowers in the background? I used the Oh Christmas Tree 5x8 stencil and the tree in the stencil for each petal and colored them with paint dabbers, each flower is a different color.


After it dried, for this pink flower I laid down the Christmas tree stencil back over the pink petal and laid The Crafter's Workshop Mini Spring Fling stencil over that and dabbed on white paint.
I really love the look!

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Supplies:
stamps - dylusions love struck lucy (the circles around the border), dylusions basic backgrounds, dylusions man about town & night at the opera, date stamp.
paper - tissue wrap (in center of the page), dylusions art journal, mme fiddlesticks 6x6 pad, fancy pants park bench 6x6 pad.
ink - dylusions vibrant turquoise, pure sunshine, archival rose madder, aquamarine, jet black, distress vintage photo, sakura micron 08 black & gelly roll white pens.
acces. - red pepper, pitch black, aqua, pink sherbet acrylic paint dabbers, acrylic antique white, yellow & aqua paint, kaiser pearl, chit chat verbages. 
tools - dylusions 5x8 oh christmas tree & 5x8 dotted flowers stencil, tcw mini spring fling 6x6 & chickenwire stencils, fine tip water brush, blending tool.
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I did some junkin' this past weekend and I scored some fun things.
I've always liked the glasses Miss Vicki buys on her junk trips and thought it was a fun idea to use them too, not just put them on display.
I've discovered they are harder to find around here than I thought. I want the heavy ones that still have the painted stuff on them and are in good shape. I have something new to be on the look-out for, that's always fun!

I found this plastic doily, another stencil to add to my stash!

The little girl head wall pocket, she's so cute! I have crates and crates full of wall pockets. I started collecting them years ago. I hung them everywhere, when we painted for the first time and I had to take them down I decided I didn't want to hang them all back up, now I have a few of my faves up. The only time I'll buy one is if I don't have it and its cheap. I really need to have a wall pocket sale!

I got this little awl, love it, I use a lot in my crafting, you'd be surprised how handy they are. The small trowel, I'm going to use it for molding paste, gesso etc. It has a good feel in my hand, I think I'll like using it. I've never seen one this narrow. 

I picked up this yearbook to use for an art journal, I like to use the small ones for smaller stamps, there's not so much blank space to try and fill.

The first few pages are written in. Seems this man was trying to eat better for high blood pressure and his Dr. must have given him a recipe for a "magic oil".

I'm not going to cover the few pages he's written in, I love finding stuff like this.

If he only knew I was reading his book :)

Don't forget you can upload your creation using stencils or masks until the end of April at the Inspiration Journal for your chance to win $50 in goodies from the store.

It's always fun being a winner!

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Thanks for looking!

 

conquer the world

Good morning bloggers!

Today I have a second Inspiration Emporium April project to show you.

This month is all about stencils and masks, which I always use on my journal pages.

On this close up picture you can see 2 of the stencils I used, TCW mini spring fling for the flowers and Dylusions Oh Christmas tree 5x8 stencil on top of that for the little skulls on the border. The turquoise stars on the left and the star border at the bottom is from the Dylusions Starry, Starry Night 5x8 stencil.

Notice her head? I drew a head for her when I stamped her. I've heard when designers draw their fashion sketches they don't concentrate on body parts just the clothes, but, I like her with a head! :)   

I hope you get inspired to drag out your stencils and get crackin' on a project for the Inspiration Emporium April challenge, you could be the winner!

Supplies:

Stamps - dylusions couture collection night at the opera & quintessential quotes, art gone wild happy birthday yummy, hero arts starburst lace.

Ink - dylusions black marble, cherry pie, vibrant turquoise and white linen ink sprays, sakura micron black 08 & 03 pens (for the skull faces), distress marker worn lipstick (for the flower on each skull), archival jet black (for stamping the girl and her clothes), copic marker e57 brown & 100 black (for her hair and to outline her head), distress frayed burlap (hero arts stamp), faber-castell big brush pen (for outlining). Paper - white cardstock, my minds eye miss caroline 6x6 paper pad ( i paper pieced her dress), dylusions art journal. Acces. - claudine hellmuth gesso, white enamel accents, liquitex molding paste (for the star border on the bottom), 1/2 paper doily, tissue tape, prima flowers, claudine hellmuth multi medium matte , yellow acrylic paint. Tools - paint brush, dylusion stencils starry, starry night 5x8, oh christmas tree 5x8, the crafters workshop mini spring fling 6x6, blending tool, tiny attacher, heart & star punches.  

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Hope you have a beautiful day, thanks for stopping by! 

 

do you remember?

Good Tuesday morning!

The Inspiration Emporium monthly challenge is here again.

Time to start on your new project for a chance to win the $50's in IE goodies!

This month it's all about using your stencils, that was super easy for me, I love stencils and have several in my stash.

Do you remember the View Master, that wonderful little plastic machine that let you look at pictures in 3D? They always looked so real and they always had a theme of some kind.

This die , the Alterations picture wheel looks just the slides I used to look at.

I love stuff like this that bring back sweet memories.

See the white flowers in the upper left? That is done with my Claudine Hellmuth gesso and my Crafters Workshop mini Spring Fling stencil, I use this stencil quite a bit, I love it!

This is a close up of the enamel accents, its dries dimensional, love this stuff.

Supplies:

Stamps - art gone wild happy birthday yummy, date stamper.

Paper - cream, black and brown cardstock, prima natures garden 6x6 paper stack, lost and found paper stack (for the film strip faces) dylusions art journal.

Ink - ranger archival coffee and jet black ink, dylusions black marble, distress stain in bundled sage, gelly roll white pen, micron black 08 (for doodling)

Acces. - tissue tape (down the center of the page for stability), washi tape (for accents), glossy accents (used on one of the picture wheels, the black parts), pink sherbet paint dabber (for some color here and there), distress markers (for coloring the little stars on the stamp in the center of the slides), white enamel accents, film strip ribbon (to frame the sentiment), prima flowers, heart stick pins, brads.

Tools - alterations picture wheel, film strip frames and chip block alpha dies, crafters workshop 6x6 mini spring fling stencil, claudine hellmuth gesso and matte multi medium, tiny attacher, water bottle. 

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I hope you have a great day, thanks for visiting!

 

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!

IE February Love

I'm baaaaaack!

Yep, can you believe it? I haven't blogged in so long, I haven't had the urge to do any paper crafting. 

I slowed down during CHA and it's been really hard for me to get back in the grove!

I've been holding out on my journaling for Dyan Reaveley's new couture stamps, but, Valentines day is almost here so I had to give it a go with her older stamps and stencils :)

Her stuff is always fun, I hope you like this page, my first in Dyan's new journal.

The Inspiration Emporium theme this month is love, sweet love.

I've decided starting this year, to use it up, use as many embellishments, ribbon, paper etc. on my projects as a I can. I have SO MUCH stuff, I really need to start using it. For instance, the red heart doilies and rhinestone hearts I've used here. I gave my granddaughters and niece tons of patterned paper that I've been hoarding, they'll put it to good use.

Now, it's your turn, go to the IE blog and upload your lovely creation for your chance to win $50 in goodies of your choice!

Remember to use my discount code ieiriegarden for 10% off your purchase!

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Supplies:

stamps - dyan's background basics (i used the dotted stamp on the background), word love, love struck lucy (i used the large and small heart stamps, I made the flowers using the heart stamps and the head, wings and legs and the circle stamps) su! rough edges alpha (for the sentiment) date stamp from an office supply store.

paper - dylusions journal 

ink - dylusions ink sprays in bubblegum pink, postbox red, melted chocolate, black and white pens, archival rose madder, monach orange, vermillion, jet black.

acces. - rock candy stickles, claudine hellmuth gesso, martha stewart pink ribbon, red paper valentine doilies, red heart rhinestones from Hobby Lobby, washi tape.

tools - paint brush, dylsions 5x8 dotted flower stencil (i used the stencil for the edges with gesso), spray water bottle, fine tip water brush(for painting the circles, hearts, wings, legs and face) I filled the pens with ink using the pipette.

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Thanks for stopping by!

I hope you have a sweet, sweet Valentine's Day!

 

New Year art journal

Good Morning and Happy New Year!

Well, the hustle & bustle is over and we are going into the new year, it's going to be a good year!

We got snow on Christmas day, in the news it said it was the 1st time in 86 years for Little Rock, it was pretty exciting. We got around 6 or 7"and we were house bound. Yes, around here that's a lot of snow, we have mountains hills and sharp curves to maneuver any direction we go and it makes me a nervous wreck driving on it. It's all gone now and we're getting back to normal, yay!

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Today I'm showing you my altered journal cover. It's Dyan Reaveley's new journal - looks like Inspiration Emporium is out of stock right now, but, you can contact them and ask when they'll be in.

I started with painting the cover with gesso, when that was dry I used my Ranger Adirondack paint dabbers in red pepper, pink sherbet, aqua, snow cap, citrus, pitch black and metallic silver. I did the white out lining and doodling with my Gelly Roll white pen. I used my SU! splatter stamp for the black splatters and Dyan's stamps, the dylusions basic background, doodle parts and word love.

The circle outlines are made with a paint dabber lid tapped on the paint dabber to pick up the paint. The circles are made by stamping with the dabber itself on the journal.

That's it, I hope you like what you see. Just have fun with it, believe me, it's so easy!

I can't wait to get started on the inside!

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Have a happy day!