Blast from the Past - previous AIR Submission

Hello friends, I have been doing a little 'housework' on the back of my Blog and come across some posts I have not shared (or at least I don't think I have!!)  This one being one of my submissions for the 2014 Artist in Residence for Imagine Crafts - my favourite ink company and it was a pleasure to be on their Team for nearly 3 years.

Imagine Crafts/ Tsukineko Supplies:

• IMAGINE Crafts®/Tsukineko® Memento™ Dye Ink in Dandelion
• IMAGINE Crafts®/Tsukineko® Memento™ Dye Ink in Tangerine
• IMAGINE Crafts®/Tsukineko® Memento™ Dye Ink in Summer Sky
• IMAGINE Crafts®/Tsukineko® Memento™ Dye Ink in Teal Zeal
• IMAGINE Crafts®/Tsukineko® Memento™ Dye Ink in Rich Cocoa
• IMAGINE Crafts®/Tsukineko® Memento Luxe™ Mixed Media Pigment Ink in Wedding Dress
• IMAGINE Crafts®/Tsukineko® StazOn® Solvent Inks in Jet Black
• IMAGINE Crafts® Embossing Powder™ in Clear 
• IMAGINE Crafts® Embossing Powder™ in White 
• IMAGINE Crafts®/Tsukineko® Sponge Daubers™  

Preferred Promotional Partners:

• GC-001 Spellbinders™ Grand Calibur Cutting Machine
• S6-001 5x7 Matting Basics A Spellbinders®  Nestabilities® Card Creator 
• S6-002 5x7 Matting Basics B Spellbinders®  Nestabilities® Card Creator 

Other:   Stamp-It image, Heat Gun, Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L® - E-Z Tape Runner, Foam Dots, Spritzer Bottle and water, white cardstock, jade cardstock, paper towels, Blue Moon Beads®
 Lost & Found Tag, yellow and white twine

Start by randomly sponging white card using IMAGINE Crafts®/Tsukineko® Memento™ Dye Ink in Dandelion and a IMAGINE Crafts®/Tsukineko® Sponge Daubers™  - bearing in mind where you will be stamping the Dandelion.  

1. Follow this with the IMAGINE Crafts®/Tsukineko® Memento™ Dye Ink in Tangerine in the center of the Dandelion.
2. Fill in the white areas using the IMAGINE Crafts®/Tsukineko® Memento™ Dye Ink in Summer Sky

NOTE: Using circular motion while sponging will help avoid uneven colour. 

Cover with the IMAGINE Crafts® Embossing Powder™ in Clear and set with  Heat Gun. 

Once the embossing has cooled, repeat the process, using white embossing powder instead of clear.  You can see in the photos below the definition the white embossing gives.

Once the embossing has cooled, sponge the blue areas using IMAGINE Crafts®/Tsukineko® Memento™ Dye Ink in Teal Zeal and a IMAGINE Crafts®/Tsukineko® Sponge Dauber™, next lightly sponge IMAGINE Crafts®/Tsukineko® Memento™ Dye Ink in Rich Cocoa to the center of the dandelions to add some depth.

Lightly spritz the inked images with water, dabbing dry with a  paper towel to remove excess water.

Cut out using the Grand Calibur Cutting Machine and the 5x7 Matting Basics A Spellbinders®  Nestabilities® Card Creator Die #5 (remembering #1 is the smallest Die.)

Layer the image onto white card , cut using the 5x7 Matting Basics B Spellbinders®  Nestabilities® Card Creator Die #5, using foam tape.

Adhere this to the jade card base, cut using 5x7 Matting Basics A Spellbinders®  Nestabilities® Card Creator Die #6.
Using IMAGINE Crafts®/Tsukineko® StazOn® Solvent Inks in Jet Black and a IMAGINE Crafts®/Tsukineko® Sponge Daubers™ to ink the sentiment on the Blue Moon Beads® Lost & Found Ta.  Wipe the excess ink off the tag, leaving it in the lettering as shown in the photo below.

Attach to the card using yellow and white Twine and Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L® - Foam Dots on the tag.

Take card friends and Thank you for your comments and all of the support you give me - you make blogging such an amazing place to be!! Your encouragement is such a blessing for me - it makes my day! God bless you!

{{{Hugs}}}

Bee Happy

There is nothing like the sight of a Bumble Bee to make you smile.  As a child we loved watching them, they are so cute, fat and fuzzy.

 

These Penny Black®, Inc. Bumble Bees take me instantly to my childhood and just 'called my name' today - the fact that they are designed by my dear friend Laura Kirste just makes them even more of a favourite.

The bees have been coloured using IMAGINE Crafts®/Tsukineko® Memento™ Dye Ink Markers, then cut out by hand and had their wings popped up using foam dots.

The sentiment is from SRM Stickers and has been layered into a tag from the Framed Tags One Spellbinders® Shapeabilities® and been cut and embossed using the Spellbinders Grand Calibur® Machine.

This card is for the following challenges: 

Alota Rubber Stamps - Summer feeling 

Crafters Companion - Summer 

Creatalicious Challenges - All about Summer

Country View Crafts' Challenge - Die cuts 

One Crazy Stamper - Summer fun 

Delicious Doodles -  All Creatures Great and Small 

Sister Act Card Challenge - Always Anything Goes 

Stampin' For The Weekend - Cute

 365 Cards - Welcome Summer

 A.R.T. Card Challenge - Summertime

Thank you for your comments and all of the support you give me - you make blogging such an amazing place to be!! Your encouragement is such a blessing for me - it makes my day! God bless you!

{{{Hugs}}}

LOC Vintage Dress Form

I tell my husband that I am saving him a fortune by creating - therapy starts at $150.00 an hour...LOL anything to justify this addiction - or in some cases OBSESSION of ours!

I have used the Layers of Color Vintage Postcard cling art stamp, along with the Christmas Blessings clear art stamp set

Spellbinders Paper Arts Decorative Dress Form Die, illustrated for Spellbinders by Nina Brackett and Laura Kirste Campbell and the Elegant Posts Die, also illustrated by Nina Brackett

Finishing off with some Bakers Twine and a button, along with the mandatory pearls (LOL)!  Lots of  sponging and some gorgeous My Yellow Bicycle DP (left over from a card class)

This card is for the following challenges:

Cooking It Up With Katie - anything goes

Divas by Design - anything goes

Fab 'n' Funky - Anything goes

I Brake For Challenges - vintage

Paper Shelter Challenge - anything goes 

Your Next Stamp Challenge - die cuts

Partytime Tuesdays - Anything Goes

Bunny Zoe's Crafts - Anything Christmas with Pearls

Stamps & Fun = Creativity - Distressing

You can see more of my projects in my Layers of Color Gallery, while you are there make sure you check out the other Design Team galleries there is so much inspiration waiting to be discovered, we are thrilled that Layers of Color is a Spellbinders Preferred Product Partner.

You can also check out Layers of Color Art Stamps on our FACEBOOK GROUP and have a look at the Layers of Color Art Stamps FLICKR GROUP where you can upload your LOC artwork and be inspired by hundreds of fabulous LOC creations! You are going to LOVE it!!

Making your creative world more colorful with Layers of Color!

Thank you for your comments and all of the support you give me - you make blogging such an amazing place to be!! Your encouragement is such a blessing for me - it makes my day! God bless you!

{{{hugs}}}

LOC Sneak Peek #4 Postcard

The new release images from Layers of Color are so inspiring - I hope you are enjoying seeing them as much as we are enjoying creating with them.

This card is created using the Vintage Postcard cling art stamp - isnt it divine!   It makes a perfect tag too!

- I love the concept of postcard from The Angel Gabriel...

The tags are from the Christmas Blessings art stamp set

This card is for the following challenges:

Anything Goes Challenge -Vintage/Shabby Chic

Creative Stamp Friends - Card for Man

Crafting When We Can - Anything Goes

 Fashionable Stamping Challenges - Tags

 One Stitch At A Time - Anything Goes

Pile It On - Layer it

Sentimental Sundays - must include a Sentiment - Autumn/Fall

The Hybrid Chick Card Caravan - Use Twine 

Just Us Girls -Text

Creative Belli - string

Little Red Wagon - twine

Papercraft Star - anything goes

Simon Says Stamp - song or film title inspired  (The Letter)

We are now officially counting down

Our party will start with a BLOG HOP

with lots of GIVEAWAYS, including

the GRAND PRIZE Drawing to WIN

the entire September New Release!

Grab an Angelic Party Badge for you and your friends

and invite them to the party and to

www.facebook.com/layersofcolorartstamps !

If we reach 300 “likes” by September 20th

Laura will have a special drawing on Layers of Color Art Stamps Facebook page

that will automatically enter everyone who “likes”!

We’ll see you…

on Layers of Color Designer blogs and Facebook for sneak peeks

Thank you for stopping by today - it always makes my day to see you have been and to read your lovely comments - you make me smile!! Thank you too to everyone who has been an LIKED Layers of Color Australia on facebook - it is an exciting venture and we value your support!!  If you haven't been there yet - we would love you to come and say hello.

God bless you!

{{{hugs}}}

SSIC The Door

Can you believe it is Sunday already - that means it is time for this weeks Stampin' Sisters in Christ Challenge - it has been so inspiring seeing all of the cards that are being added to each weeks challenge.

This weeks challenges is brought to us by Rebekkah:

 “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.''  Mt. 7:7-8 7

Rebekkahs' challenge is  have a window or a door on your creation.

Which was easy when you own the Darkroom Door The Door image - I love this set and have coloured it using the Crayon Resist Technique and along with the Cracked Glass Technique.

I always have a little chuckle when I attempt the Cracked Glass Technique - the first time I did I I had seen that someone put it in the freezer once they had added the glaze - so I did that and an hour layer when I brought it out it was covered in frost and icicles - I did not know whether to cook it for dinner or throw it out!  LOL!  I have actually kept it and have it framed on my desk as a reminder....LOL!

This card is for the following challenges:

Drunken Stampers - Tell us what you did this Summer

Totally Gorjuss - Its a Man thing

Cards - Favorite Vacation Destination - The Rocks in Sydney

Crafty Ann's - something outside comfort zone - Cracked glass Technique

 Stamp Something - anything goes 

Do You Stack Up? - Texture

  Just For Fun - Vintage

You can read Rebecca's devotional over at the Stampin' Sisters in Christ Challenge.  Make sure you stop by the Designers Blogs are some amazing inspiration

* Chris * Grace* Kristine * MariLynn * Miejse * PeggySue * Rebecca * Traci M *

We are now officially counting down

Our party will start with a BLOG HOP

with lots of GIVEAWAYS, including
the GRAND PRIZE Drawing to WIN
the entire September New Release!
Grab an Angelic Party Badge for you and your friends
and invite them to the party and to
www.facebook.com/layersofcolorartstamps !
If we reach 300 “likes” by September 20th
Laura will have a special drawing on Layers of Color Art Stamps Facebook page
that will automatically enter everyone who “likes”!
We’ll see you…
on Layers of Color Designer blogs and Facebook for sneak peeks

You can see more of my projects in my Layers of Color Gallery, while you are there make sure you check out the other Design Team galleries there is so much inspiration waiting to be discovered, we are thrilled that Layers of Color is a Spellbinders Preferred Product Partner. 

You can also check out Layers of Color Art Stamps on our FACEBOOK GROUP  and  have a look at the Layers of Color Art Stamps FLICKR GROUP where you can upload your LOC artwork and be inspired by hundreds of fabulous LOC creations! You are going to LOVE it!!

Making your creative world more colorful with Layers of Color!

Thank you for your comments and all of the support you give me - you make blogging such an amazing place to be!!  Your encouragement is such a blessing for me  - it makes my day!  God bless you!

{{{hugs}}}