the winner is....

...MB Isaac

Love the mixed elements! beautiful..... I am new to stamping and having a blast - glad there are blogs like yours to visit for motivation and inspiration.

Congtrats MB, I'll be emailing you shortly for you mailing address.

I'm going to add a couple more Crafty Secrets goodies in addition to your American Beauty stamp set, have fun and thanks for visiting my blog!

Crafty Secrets American Beauty and a give-away!

Just think, in less than a month it'll be time to celebrate the 4th of July!

Now would be the perfect time to get started on those BBQ invites and cards. 

Sandy at Crafty Secrets has the cutest new set called American Beauty. 

There are so many stamps on this set including my fave little Campbells soup kid!

I used 10 of the stamps on my journal pages and I used the Artsy Banner set for the banners along the top and bottom, I stamped them with Archival Jet Black ink on an old book page and cut them out. I stamped the inside of the top banner with one of the star stamps with Archival Vermillion ink, then I put Fired Brick Distress Stickles in the center of the stars. 

The page backgrounds are made with Dylusions spray inks in postbox red, london blue and a spray water bottle. I used my new Distress Markers, L  O  V  E these markers, to do my coloring on the

Campbells kid, flags around the borders and the lady. 

I was looking at the pages later and decided I wanted to try some doodling and out lining like I see on so many journal pages people make. I didn't do much, but, I thought it really added to the pages. I used my Gelly Roll white pen and a black fine tip pen.

The white-ish circles are made with Dylusions 5x8 Dotted Flowers stencil. I layed it on the page and sprayed water on it, blotted the excess water and dried it with my heat tool.

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It just so happens I have an extra American Beauty stamp set and I'm going to give it away to one of my readers! All you need to do is leave a comment on this post for your chance to win, I may throw in an extra item or 2 or 3!

I'll pick the winner Monday, June 18th.

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Have a great day, thanks for stopping by!!

journey in the sun ~ inspiration emporium

Good Morning!

It's challenge time again at Inspiration Emporiam.

This month the theme is sunshine/beach.

I got out all of my Dylusion stamp sets and spray inks and made this scene.

I used the houses from the Right Up Your Street set, the sail boats (hats) from Doolally Dorris set, the small circles on the sun from the Love Struck Lucy set, the sunrays (hat) from the Bits and Bats set, Journey from the Word Love set. The "in the" stickers are from idea-ology chitchat verbiages tablet.

I wrote the "sun" with a black Copic marker.

To begin, I sprayed my pages in my journal with water, then I used my spray inks and and sprayed Pure Sunshine for the sun, Londen Blue for the sky and Vibrant Turquoise for the ocean. I wiped off the excess with paper towels. I dried the inks with my heat tool and then I stamped everything with Ranger Archival Jet Black ink. I did my coloring with the inks sprayed on my craft sheet and my fine tipped water brush. I used my GellyRoll white pen for accents.

The beach is Muddpuddles Malibu Beach that I got at CHA a few years ago. It's sticky, I guess it has glue in it. I spread it across the pages and after it dried I added Distress Stickles in Antique Linen across it with my finger for some sparkle. I put Rock Candy on the sun.

I hope you can play along this month, don't forget to use my coupon code ieirisgarden if you order for your discount at check out!

If you don't own any sun/beach stamps, just use what you have and use your imagination like I did!  Go check out all the details at the Inspiration Emporium blog, you never know, you might be a winner!

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I hope you have a great day, thanks for stopping by! 

pre-school grad gift

Good Morning!

Today is graduation day for Jasmine, she's going to kindergarten next school year!

She's so excited to start school!

I made her a little gift filled with tags with pictures on them and we'll stuff some cash in there for her.

I used the new cd3 Creating with Vintage Typography from Crafty Secrets. See the little streamers hanging from the flower? I printed those from the CD and I printed all the tags too.

It so super simple to make a quick gift, like I did here.

I used some supplies that were already on my table, the Artsy Banners stamped book page, flower and lace. I love when it works out like that.

I can't remember where I got the bandaide tin, I've had it a long time.

Since I took these pictures, I've punched holes in each tag at the corner and put them through a binding ring. I thought she would keep up with the tags better that way.

I punched various pictures of her into 1 1/4" & 1 1/2" squares and adheared them to the tags, I distressed around each one with Distress Vintage Photo ink and a blending tool, then I added the ribbon and buttons, so easy!

See all the tags, they are gorgeous!

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Have a fun safe weekend!

It's already a mad house around our tiny town!!

flower challenge

Happy Tuesday, friends!

Inspiration Emporium's challenge this month is flowers, anything you want to do as long as there are flowers involved. That was an easy one for me since I've been doing an art journal and playing with Dylusion spray inks and stamps.

The background pages are sprayed with a water bottle and then sprayed with the Dylusion inks. I used bubblegum pink, vibrant turquoise, squeezed orange and london blue, I did my stamping with archival jet black ink and did the outlining with a white Gellyroll pen.

To make the flowers I used one of the hats in the Dylusions Love Struck Lucy stamp set. I stamped it in a circle and put a stamped circle that I had cut out to go in the middle. I did the same thing with the small flower, I used a small circle stamp. I watercolored the the flowers with the inks and Tim's new fine tip water brush. You fill it with water, spray some ink on your craft mat, dip the water brush in the ink and start coloring, super easy and fun, you don't have to be perfect.

I stamped the leaves along the top and sides, it's from the Furthur Round the Edge stamp set and highlighted them with the white pen. The flower stems and bottom edge are from the same set.
The cat is from the Bits and Bats set, I gave him some white polka dots with the pen, just for fun.
The dots on the background sort of magically appeared when I sprayed the pages with water, they came through from another page, pretty cool!
The cute sentiment is from the The Right Words set.

Now, it's your turn to make your flower masterpiece and upload it to the Inspiration Emporium blog. Remember to use my coupon code ieirisgarden for your 10% discount!!

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Have a great day!

Sing for Joy

Good Morning!

I have another journal project to show you today, are you getting tired of them? I sure hope not because that's all I want to do!

It's Linky Party time again, post any sample you have created with any of our products at our 2nd Linky Party starting this Monday, May 5th and it runs for a week. A random.org winner will be chosen from all the entries to win a $50.00 Crafty Secrets Gift Certificate.

That's a great prize and it's so easy, just post your sample at the Crafty Secrets blog!

 

 For these journal pages I wanted to use Crafty Secrets Sing for Joy stamp set. I LOVE it, there are SO many cute images to use. One thing about journaling you have room for tons of stamps if you want to use them.

The background was sprayed with water and then sprayed with Dylusions bubblegum pink, squeezed orange and vibrant turquoise spray inks, then dried with my heat tool. I used the 5x8 dotted flowers stencil and my snowcap paint dabber to go around the the edges. I used the same stencil and my aqua paint dabber here and there for the dots. I used my Archival Jet Black ink to do my stamping and my white Gelly Roll pen for the little dogwood flowers. I colored the images with the spray inks and my fine tip water pen.

There is baby blue and cotton candy stickles in the flower centers and on the black stamped edge.

I put Glossy Accents in the bird bath to look like water. 

That's it, I hope you play along in the Linky Party, you never know, you could be the winner!

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Have a great day, thanks for stopping by!

watercolor challenge

Happy Thursday friends!

I've got another art journal project to show you today.

This month Inspiration Emporium is doing a watercolor challenge, perfect for my Dylusions spray inks and my Ranger fine tip water pen!

I've discovered you don't need many supplies at all to do these pages. I aways write down my supplies as I'm working on them and I have very few, just the spray inks, Archival ink and a stamp set or 2! The only paper I use is cardstock if I want to stamp and cut something out. I haven't used any patterened paper yet, the horror, LOL! I did use some pink and cinnamon Stickles on her color and the other ones hair bow.

I sprayed the pages with water first and then sprayed on my inks to get them running, closed the pages to get the ink on both pages and then dabbed off the excess with a paper towel. I used one of Tim's tricks of spraying my fingers and flecking the pages to get the water splotches. I dry it all with my heat tool.

I stamped and cut out the mushrooms and girls and watercolored them with my Dylusional spray inks and the waterbrush filled with water. I outline things here and there with my white Gelly Roll pen.

The sets I used are Dylusionals The Right Words, Love Struck Lucy, Further Round the Edge and Doolally Dorris.

Now it's your to upload your watercolor project at the IE blog for a chance to win $50 IE bucks, WOOHOO, that's a great prize! Don't forget about my coupon code ieirisgarden for your 10% discount on your IE goodies!

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dahlias & sunflowers

I'm back with a couple more art journal pages, they make me happy :)

I felt like I was in such a rut until I took Tim's Creative Chemistry 101 class and happened on some videos by Dyan Reaveley. Something just clicked for me, learning to use ink in different ways!

Now, I'm an inky mess when I go to work every morning, LOL! 

I used the Crafty Secrets Sunflower and Dahlia stamps for my pages, they are so pretty watercolored!

I stamped them with Ranger Archival Jet Black ink and used my fine tip water brush and Dylusions spray inks for the coloring. The background pages were done by spraying them with water and the Dylusion inks and letting them run together and I dried them with my heat tool. The white leaves around the edge of the pages were made with the 5x8 Lucious Leaves stencil and the snowcap paint dabber, I outlined them with a black Sakura archival ink pen. I dabbed some Rock Candy Distress Stickles on the flowers, I wish you could see it better. 

If you haven't got all inky, I urge you to give it try! I love the idea of art journals, all your pretties in one place. You only have so much wall space and so many cards to send :)

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Have a great day, thanks for stopping by!

WARNING ~ grab your shades!

Are you ready for some vibrant inky color?!

Boy oh boy, did I ever have fun with this, maybe a little too much fun, lol!

I got a little ink happy here with Dyan Reaveley's Dylusions inks sprays, aren't they gorgeous?

I'm still in the learning process with the art journals, but, I'm having so much fun along the way!

The cute little lady is from Dylusions Love Struck Lucy stamp set. Dyan draws all of her stamps and they are so much fun, you can mix and match heads and bodies and wings etc. I water colored her with Dylusions ink sprays in bubblegum pink, squeezed orange, vibrant turquoise and melted chocolate. I used Tim's new watercolor detailer tip water brush. I sprayed my mat with the inks and put water in my brush, dabbed it in the ink and painted away. Lucy's wings are covered with pink Stickles.

The background is done with a spray water bottle and Distress stains. I sprayed my papers with water, I got it pretty wet and then I just rubbed my stains over the watered pages and dried it with my heat tool. I used the Dylusions Basic Backgrounds numbers stamp to stamp randomly on the pages with Archival ink in Vermillion, the hearts and word circles you see are from the Love Struck Lucy set stamped with Archival Jet Black. I added some chipboard hearts covered with Fruit Punch Stickles. I stamped the words from the Dylusions The Right Words set, cut them out and glued them on. After I was all done I sprayed both pages with Goosebumps clear texture spray, WHOA, that's where all the shine comes from, my glasses automatically went into shade mode, HA!

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I hope you try getting crazy with your inks, it sure is fun!

Have a great weekend and thanks for stopping by!

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the winner is.....

SuZeQ said...

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY! I thank my lucky stars every time I visit your blog - your work inspires the heck out of me. I have been seeing posts everywhere about Tim's on-line classes. I think it's about time I showed up to class! Thanks for this great giveaway - you're always so generous. I appreciate YOU.

Congrats SuzeQ, you're so sweet! I'll send you an email shortly for your address.

I want to thank everyone for visiting and commenting on my blog!