out of the box mushrooms

I've gone back to my journal and back to some Dylusions goodness!

I used one of the mushroom stamps to make potted flowers and a flying mushroom, I used one of the hats for the banner across the top, just for fun!

All of the pieces were colored using Dylusion spray inks in a water pen. 

I have several of the pens filled with Dylusion inks just for coloring.

Supplies: stamps - dylusions doolally dorris, say what you mean, su! retired speckle stamp. paper - white cardstock. ink - dylusions ink sprays in londen blue, cut grass, white linen, pure sunshine, bubblegum pink. archival pads in jet black, fern green, dandelion. distress pad in vintage photo. acces. - gesso, tissue tape, stickles in waterfall, distress stickles in worn lipstick and rock candy. 3 white eyelets. tools - dylusions bubbles  and luscious leaves stencils. water brush pens, crop-a-dile, small flower punches, blending tool.

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Have you uploaded your creation to the Inspiration Journal this month?
You've got 3 more days to get it in!
Don't forget you can always use my discount code ieirisgarden over at Inspiration Emporium.
Some of Tim Holtz's new goodness is trickling in.....ohhhhh yeah!
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Can you believe it's almost August?
The summer is flying by too fast!
School is about to start, this weekend is a tax free weekend on school clothes and supplies, which is good.
Halloween goodness is filling up the isles, which is good.
I just wish summer time would hang around awhile longer!

faith is the bird

 Hello friends!

The Inspiration Journal challenge this month is summer fun, create a summer themed project.

I decided to make a bird themed journal page, bird watching is summer fun, right?

 I got the quote from Pinterest, as usual.

I can't believe I had the nerve to stamp it directly on the page! I did real well until I got to the a, and, it's kinda upside down lol. It could have been worse, believe me!

 I got one of Tim Holtzs worn covers, I wanted to make a small journal out of it and make single pages to add to it. 

 It was kinda unnerving punching hole in my page!

 When I closed it this happened.
I think I need to get the bigger worn cover journal and use this one for tags.

Supplies: stamps - artful flight, su! rough edges alpha, date stamp. paper - white cardstock, scrap pattern paper. ink - archival jet black, coffee and forget-me-not, versamark. acces. - white and gold embossing powder, white embossing paste, distress stain in tumbled glass, gold eyelet, composition worn covers, ring binder, label letters glossy accents. tools - doily and bubble stencils, corner punch, handheld circle punch, sizzix borders die, tracing wheel, crop-a-dile, heat tool.

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Here's a project I did not long ago.

Finding the plates and cups at flea markets is half the fun!

 Wouldn't these make perfect gifts filled with cookies or cupcakes?

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Get started on your challenge project, you have until the end of July to upload it at Inspiration Journal.

You can find the goods at Inspiration Emporium, use my discount code ieirisgarden for a discount on your purchase!
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Have a great day!

whisper a wish

Hello!

I've got more journal pages to show you today.

This months challenge at the Inspiration Journal is to use some of your fave supplies. 

I love using stencils, they really add the perfect touch for backgrounds in journals and mixed media. 

To start I glued down some paper from the Vintage Shabby paper stack and then I did stamping using the butterfly stamp from the Attic Treasures stamp set and the flower bouquet from the Framed Silhouettes Framelits Die Set using Archival cornflower blue and forget me not inks. I stamped the Hero Arts doily stamp with VersaMark ink and embossed it with white embossing powder and added my eyelets in the center. Next, I got out my Tim Holtz stencils, the rays, lattice work  and doily and used them with the Archival inks. I used the bubbles stencil and white embossing paste in the centers of the rays.

I die cut the butterflies with the mini butterflies die from white doily paper edging that I got from D. Bluemchen years ago. I put a Kaiser rhinestone on each butterfly.

 

I found the quote on Pinterest, my fave quote source!

I used my old SU! rough edges alpha stamp set for the quote with black archival ink.

That's it!

You still have a week or so to make your creation and up load it to the Inspiration Journal.

You can use my discount code ieirisgarden for 10% off your order at Inspiration Emporium.

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Have a great day!

friendliest flower

Hello!

The new Dina Wakley stencils are in the house!

That's all I used for these journal pages.

I love these stencils, the leaves are gorgeous, the basic's can be used in so many different ways so can the faces! The Affirmations is a great background stencil, I love the quote.

The plan was to have a daisy, sunflower and a purple cone flower.

That all changed when I found the quote on Pinterest. 

Now they are daisies, friendly daisies. 

Don't they look like friendly daisies with their cute faces? ;)

On the background I used the Affirmations and Leaves stencils, I made the flowers with the half sun from The Basics stencil and the faces are from the Moon Faces stencil.

The light blue background started out Vibrant Turquoise, way too much, so I took it down with gesso.

I used Distress Paints for the flowers in Scattered Straw, Dusty Concord and Picket Fence. I punched the faces with a Marvy jumbo scalloped punch. I stamped the faces in Distress Vintage Photo on book text and distressed them with Vintage Photo and Archival Dandelion and Carnation Red on the cheeks. The leaves are Archival Fern Green.

Oh yeah, I used the French Script background stamp from SU! too, I'm sure it's retired now though.

I used it for some distressing, any script stamp would work.

As always I added 3 eyelets with my Crop-a-Dile.

I wrote the quote with a bronze Sharpie marker and outlined it with a Sakura Micron black 08 pen.

It's a line Meg Ryan used in 'You've Got Mail'.

Well, that's it!

This month at The Inspiration Journal the challenge is anything goes!

How fun is that, right? 

Remember, you can use my discount code ieirisgarden at checkout over at Inspiration Emporium!

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Have a great day!

love always

My goodness.

Seems like it's been forever since I've been here.

Totally uninspired. sick. weather. stress. ugh.

Things seem to be looking up, yay :)

 This months challenge at The Inspiration Journal is all about color!

A perfect time to try out Wendy Vecchi's new technique using her Archival reinkers.

you can  make beautiful, simple backgrounds or diecuts like I did!

For my journal background I started by applying some gesso, I dried that and put on tumbled glass distress stain, I painted it on and dried that and then I put on elements and symphony tissue tape small pieces to cover both pages. I painted on some more gesso to tone it down. Next I used the doily stencil and applied distress bundled sage ink over the pages. Last, I stamped some dots on with a Dylusions basic backgrounds stamp with forget me not ink.

I had some corner pieces of paper doilies that I had used on another project and glued one on each page and the inclusion. I cut a gold foil doily in half and put one piece on each side of the inclusion. I used a 5/8" circle punch and punched gold centers for the flowers.

 I used the Jumbo Tattered Florals die to make the flowers and leaves for the journal pages.

I used Archival reinkers in forget me not, orange blossom and carnation red. 

 The 'love always' is transparent diecuts by Studio Calico. I covered the words with Glossy Accents and sprinkled on turquoise glitter. After they dried I spayed a matt sealer on them to keep the glitter from coming off so much, it worked really well.

I sprayed the flowers with Goosebumps texture spray to give them a little texture. You can see it pretty good in this picture. I love that stuff!

That's it!

It's your turn to upload a colorful creation to The Inspiration Journal for your chance to win $50 to spend at Inspiration Emporium. You have until the end of the month, plenty of time!

Don't forget to use my discount code ieirisgarden at checkout for 10% off your order!

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Have a great day!

who are you

 Hello, hello!

I have another die/punch project for you today.

I've been picking up old photos here and there from flea markets knowing I wanted to do some art with them. I've always thought how sad it is to find these vintage photos in flea markets and not in their families possession. I always wonder, who are you? 

The song "Who Are You" by The Who always comes to mind when I'm thinking about doing this journal page, so, I found the picture to use for the sentiment. The babies dress is huge, a great space for my song title sentiment! I cut out the letters from the Tim Holtz 8x8 collage paper stash.  

 The background is paper from the Tim Holtz kraft resist paper stash and vintage pattern tissue. I cut and tore them in pieces and adhered them to the pages with mod podge. I punched the book page circles with a 11/2" circle punch. I drew around the circles and and pictures with a Faber-Castell PITT big brush pen sephia 175.

 Next came the dies. Tattered Florals for the burlap and felt flowers, mini butterflies for the cardboard butterflies, picture wheel, Spellbinders classic ovals for the oval behind the the flowers on the collage inclusion.

 I used some vintage photo corners that were gifted to me a while back from my friend Lisa Zappa.

(I sure miss you girly)

I used Kaiser pearls, film strip ribbon and crinkle ribbon that I colored with Antique Linen reinker, a giggle Adage Ticket.

I smeared gesso on the butterflies with my finger.

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I've been looking at the pictures from CHA 2014 and I was blown away when I saw that Tim Holtz has released Found Relatives, vintage photo cards, what timing, huh?! Who knew?!

If you don't have vintage photos on hand or don't do the flea market thing you can now have them in your stash!

Make sure you check out Inspiration Emporium for the latest CHA pre-ordering going up.

Remember to enter discount code ieirisgarden at check out for a 10% discount!

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home is where the heart is

Happy New Year, right?!

My first blog post for the new year, and I can tell you we are colder here than Anchorage, AK. right now, 11 degrees or something crazy like that! Taking these pic's out on the deck this morning was an experience I tell ya, boo-zeeee. We are SO not used to this around here!

Now, I can say I'm warm and cozy, writing this post, really dreading going to work in the morning!

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Inspiration Emporium's challenge this month is to use diecuts or punches in your project.

This is perfect for me because I normally use diecuts in my projects.

The dies and punch I used are Tim Holtz Artful Dwellings for the houses and Mini Tattered Florals. I used a 3/4" square punch for the windows in the houses.

I used papers from the Tim Holtz 8x8 Seasonal Paper Stash for the houses and hand cut hearts and Terminology Tissue Wrap to cover the inclusion and for my flowers.

To start I painted gesso on the pages for a clean surface to start on. I painted on Distress Paint in Bundled Sage, a little Gathered Twigs and more gesso and wiped it off with baby wipes. Leaving enough paint to get the color I wanted.

  I colored the ABC Tissue Tape with Distress Bundled Sage ink and a blender tool.

The flower stems are made with Distress Markers.

The texture in the background is the plaid stamp from Wendy Vecchi's Be Inspired stamp set. 

I made the Bundled Sage polkadots on the background with the Distress Paint, I just stamped it on the page and I also swiped it on the tag after I had put Gathered Twigs Distress ink on over the Burlap Stencil.

My granddaughter Jayde was here and she stamped the sentiment for me, good job Jayde!

I traced all of the cutouts and diecuts with Faber-Castell PITT Big Brush Markers for shadowing.

I diecut the flowers and stapled them all together with the Tiny Attacher.

I wanted to lightly color them with Distress, I didn't want a vibrant color, so I made some little spray paint bottles with Distress Paint. I filled a Mini Mister about 1/3 full with the paint and filled  it up with water and shock it up, tah-dah!

 Now, it's your turn to create your diecut or punched project and upload it to the Inspiration Journal for your chance to win $50 to spend in the Inspiration Emporium store! (be watching, the post for the challenge should be up soon!)

Remember, you can always use my discount code ieirisgarden for 10% off your order!

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Have a great day, stay warm!

number journal spread

 I L O V E after Christmas, Christmas decor sales, don't you?

There's just something about seeing 50%, 70 and 80% off, right?

Ahh, gold glitter everywhere! 

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Ok, so I go out to take pic's of my journal pages and I go to the barn deck, kneel down to get the shot and then I'm on my back, just kind of  kneeled over. While I was there I thought I'd get a pic of the pretty blue sky above me, HA! 

Is that buds I see on the plum tree limbs?   

I've been wanting to do a number page. I decided to search for a number quote to get me started. I found out number quotes are not that easy to find. After I found this one and used it, I should of searched song lyrics, I can think of a few lyrics with numbers.

 I started by tearing some Tim Holtz 8x8 collage paper in pieces and gluing it to the pages and inserts.

I cut some flowers with the Tim Holtz tattered florals die out of the burlap ribbon I got on sale in my after Christmas decor stash. The stems are pieces of vintage cloth measuring tape and I cut the leaves from a vintage Bingo card.

I started pulling out numbers, white backed stickers from Lowes, Tim grunge board numbers, the Tim Numeric stamp set (one of my fave sets) stamped with Archival jet black, red geranium, coffee and cornflower blue ink, metal number 7 covered with tissue tape and numbers remnant rubs.

I stamped and embossed the the frame behind the 7 with gold embossing powder and VersaMark ink. I backed that with a white and a gold doilie.

I made shadows around some of the numbers with Faber-Castell PITT big brush pens in dark sephia 175 and black 199.

Here's the quote:

Never worry about numbers

Help one person at a time

and always start with

the person nearest you.

           ~ Mother Teresa

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Have a wonderful day and a Happy New Year!

Be safe in your celebrating!

young love

On these pages I wanted to do image transfers with the pic's of my mom and dad.

Well, that went south pretty quick. I think the problem was the setting I used to print the pic's. They turned out all different colors when I rubbed the paper away.

It was my first attempt at this, but I love the idea and I'll be trying again!

I printed the pic's again on copy paper and glued them down over my first attempt.

 I framed the pages with Crafty Secrets alpha stickers, I think they're retired but you could use any stickers. 

 Young love is in a song or song title, I don't know but, it popped in my head so I used it. My parents were pretty young in these pic's. Look at my dad's bold striped socks, so funny!

 I covered the inclusion with hearts I cut from the collage paper and trimmed around then.

Supplies: stamps - su! speckled stamp (retired). paper - tim holtz 8x8 collage paper stash, copy paper, donna downey art journal. ink - archival corn flower blue, red geranium, coffee. faber - castell dark sephia 175 pitt big brush pen. acces. - tim holtz bundled sage, peeled paint distress paint. crafty secrets alpha stickers (retired), embossing paste, multi matte medium, eyelets, jolee's boutique scrabble tile stickers, adage tickets, journaling tickets, prima wood flower embellishments and clock parts. tools - bubble and burlap stencils, crop-a-dile, tiny attacher, blending tool, heart cutter by creative memories, heat tool.

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Remember to use my discount code at Inspiration Emporium for 10% off your order!

Have a great week and Happy Thanksgiving!

Be safe!