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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Have a great day!

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!

Christmas garlands

I finished my garlands!

I've been enjoying the garlands I've been seeing on Pinterest and Instagram especially Christie Tomlinson's, she's the garland making queen! If you're on Instagram you really need to check her out!

I have a big pink McCoy planter on my desk that I use for a catch-all. Most of the stuff I used were extras I  already cut with dies or purchased and put in my planter.

It's always satisfying using up this and that in your work.

For this one I used burlap flags, a Tim Holtz tattered flower and pinecone greenery dies and a flower made from a tea stained coffee filter that I got at a flea market.
The flower and pinecones below are cut from the Tim Holtz Kraft Resist paper stash.

I made this one with the Tim Holtz snowflake rosette die and white cardstock, some glitter and buttons.

On this one I used Tim Holtz journaling tickets as the base - they're on sale right now :) pinecone and mini rosette dies, paper scraps, gesso, peeled paint Distress Stickles, Martha Stewart glitter and book paper punched with a scalloped circle punch and distressed with some Distress Gathered Twigs ink. and some mini pom-pom trim stapled on with my tiny attacher.

 I don't have a fireplace mantel, but, I do have a book shelf and I think it works! 

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You can get most of the materials I used at Inspiration Emporium. 

Use my discount code ieirisgarden for 10% off your order!
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I was so excited to see I made Tim Holtz's blog worthy link list again!
I'm in awe to be among the talented ladies he picked, it really makes me happy :)

Have a great day!

Christmas ornament

I got the idea to use Tim's 8x8 Seasonal Paper Stash and Fragments to cover this cardboard ornament I got from Hobby Lobby.

First I painted the ornament with gesso. 

I glued the Fragments on the paper with Glossy Accents, cut around the Fragments and glued them on the ornament.

Next, I painted on the Glossy Accents with a paint brush between the Fragments and sprinkled silver glitter on.

I used my Tattered Pinecone die for the pinecones and greenery. I cut them out with paper from the Kraft Resist Paper Stash. I lightly sprayed them with Dylusions melted chocolate ink spray. 

I used some of my vintage lace and tatting along with the pinecones and greenery to decorate the top. I adhered everything on top with my glue gun.

I took some close up pic's of each side outside in the natural light.

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Be sure and check out Inspiration Emporium and check out Tim Holtz's new Sizzix dies you can pre-order, they look amazing!

Remember to use my discount code ieirisgarden at check out for 10% off!

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We've been iced in around here since last Thursday. 

Hopefully, we can thaw out today!

I have places to go and things to do, lol!

Have a great day!

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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Have a great week and Happy Thanksgiving!

Be safe!

all is calm

I wanted to use my gingerbread man cookie cutters and this is what I ended up with.

I've had the cookie cutters for awhile, I got them at my fave flea market/antiques store to use in my journal. 

I had fun with these pages, I always do though.

I used a lot of paint, paper and rub on's.

The house, tree trunk, gingerbread men and clouds are hand cut.

The snowman and tree top are punches.

The sentiments are lines from Christmas songs.

After I took the pic's I realized I didn't put on my eyelets. I didn't put them on my last journal pages either so I went back and did that. I keep forgetting those!

Supplies: stamps - SU! speckled and rough edges alpha stamps. dylusions basic backgrounds. 

paper - book print, donna downey art journal, echo park holly jolly Christmas 6x6 paper pad. ink - archical jet black, faber-castell light cobalt turquoise 154, deep scarlet red 219, light phthalo green 162 and dark sephia 175 pitt big brush pens. acces. - claudine hellmuth classic teal studio paint, gesso, tim holtz numbers remnant rubs, heidi swapp rub on's, eyelets. tools - dylusions let it snow 9x12 stencil, marvy scalloped punch, tim holtz bubble stencil, 1 1/2 and 1 1/4" circle punches, crop-a-dile. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

That's it, I hope I gave you some inspiration today!

Don't forget, when you're shopping at Inspiration Emporium use my discount code ieirisgarden for 10% off at check out!

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Have a great day!

and the winner is.......

..... Sheri!

Congrats Sheri, you're the winner of my give-away! 

 Sheri said...

I think it is a great idea. In fact, I have often thought about how to run a "rent a stamp" store somewhere. Sometimes you buy a stamp and only can use it a very few times as it is specific, like Christmas card stamps. Once you have made them, you want to make something different the next year and then this years stamp sits and gathers dust. However, someone else could use it and pass it down from there. 

I'll be contacting you shortly, Sheri!

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I want to thank everyone for playing along.

I will be giving gently used stamps in my future give away's :)

I'm hoping to do these give away's more often, maybe in a few days, stay tuned!
 

shiny brite Christmas

I got into my Tim Holtz 8x8 seasonal paper stash and found the shiny brite paper.

I love shiny brite ornaments and other vintage Christmas ornaments. I have a collection I keep in my cabinet on display all year long, they make me happy!

Total inspiration for these art journal pages.

I had loads of fun using my stencils.

supplies: stamps - tim holtz numeric set. unity inspire words by donna downey. ink - archival vermillion, red geranium, olive, fern green, sephia. faber-castell black, chromium green opaque, deep scarlet red big brush pens. sakura micron 08 black pen. paper - donna downey art journal, tim holtz 8x8 seasonal paper pad, terminology tissue wrap, tissue tape, prima chalk board paper notecards. acces. - gesso, embossing paste, white sharpie paint marker fine tip, antique linen distress stickles. tools - tiny attacher, cosmetic sponges, star punch, tim holtz rays and bubbles stencils.dylusions 9x12 let it snow and 5x8 oh christmas tree stencils.

That's it, I hope you like the pages!

I'm feeling all Christmasy now, slowing getting in the spirit :)

Have you got your Christmas spirit on yet?

It'll be here before we know it!

Remember, when you're shopping at Inspiration Emporium use my coupon code ieirisgarden at check out for a 10% discount!

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Don't forget to comment on my give away here, you have until Monday the 11th to enter!

Have a great weekend!