Bird Crazy - You're How Old!?

Hello friends, I did warn you on my last post that I have a new addiction - the Bird Crazy craze!  I cannot stop colouring them and creating in different ways - I hope I don't drive you crazy!!

 I have coloured this image using Imagine Crafts 'featuring' Tsukineko Radiant Neon Inks and a sponge dauber - one of my favourite ways to colour.  The card base has been cut using A2 Curved Matting Basics B Spellbinders® Nestabilities Card Creator and the Platinum Die Cutting and Embossing Machine.

My card is held together by Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L. My bling is from Want2Scrap.  The background has been created using white cardstock,  Imagine Crafts ‘featuring’ Tsukineko Radiant Neon Ink and Sponge Daubers - 'daubing' randomly in the different colours.  The 'splats' have been created using irRESISTibles in Danube Blue.

This card is linked to the following challenges:
Crafting By Designs - Anything Goes
Crafty Gals Corner - Anything Goes
The Crafty Addicts - Anything Goes/ Celebration
WordArt Wednesdays -  Anything Goes
Lemon Shortbread - Always Anything Goes
Retarte - Anything Goes 
Use Your Stuff - Stamping

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}}} and happy crafting

LOC FAF Answered Prayers

Faith Art Friday - as it is so aptly called - is all about our faith.  This post on Layers of Color is not about selling product, but about Glorifying God -  and that is the statement that attracted me to Layers of Color  in the first place.

Today I have been inspired by this wonderful sentiment in one of the new release images - I love this set, it is just what it professes to be - encouraging!

 

So often we pray in a time of need or crisis, either for our own situation, or that of another.  We bring the need before God and ask Him to help in the situation.  It is such a blessing to be able to celebrate the answered prayer with them. So many times we pray for peoples needs and can overlook going back and thanking God .

I am always so touched by the story of the ten lepers...

'As He entered a village there, ten lepers stood at a distance,

crying out, "Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!"

He looked at them and said, "Go show yourselves to the priests." And as they went, they were cleansed of their leprosy.

One of them, when he saw that he was healed, came back to Jesus, shouting, "Praise God!" He fell to the ground at Jesus' feet, thanking Him for what He had done. This man was a Samaritan.

Jesus asked, "Didn't I heal ten men? Where are the other nine?

Has no one returned to give glory to God except this foreigner?"

And Jesus said to the man, "Stand up and go. Your faith has healed you. "

Luke 17: 12-17

What a beautiful reminder of a grateful heart!  I pray that as we come before God with our prayers and requests, we come back just as earnestly with grateful hearts and thank Him for His goodness to us!  That we would not come looking for the gift but come to the Giver, not for the healing but to the Healer - for as surely as we see the examples in scripture, as we come to God, for who He is and not for what He does - He will be glorified!

I have used most of my favourite things - Layers of Color Encouragement art stamp set (illustrated by Nina Brackett), Backyard Birds, Flowering Gems art stamp sets, Tim Holtz Birdcage Die, Stampin' Up Embossing Folder, Spellbinders Foliage Die
that has been cut with the Spellbinders Grand Calibur, Tim Holtz Distressing Ink - Walnut Stain, Distressed Stickles

This project is for the following challenges:

Art Impressions Stamp Challenge - Birds

Moving Along with the Times - Favourite Things

Paper Play - Things with Wings

The Rubber Cafe - Use Spellbinders Dies

Paper Pretties - Animal

Paper Shelter Challenge - Wings

Clear It Out - Wings

Crazy Amigo Challenge - Things that Fly

Jac-Inks Papercraft Challenges  - Die-cuts Plus Texture

Use It Tuesdays - must use hoarded supplies - Animals - my bling is hoarded - arghhhh! LOL!

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 Stenciled Flower Tutorial & A Winner

Hello and welcome!  I am excited to be showing you another project I have made with the Layers of Color New Release Art Stencils.  I will also be announcing a the winner of an Art Stencil set that was up for the winning on my Blog Hop post - I will keep you in suspense just that much longer - first - the tutorial!

  I brought the template for this fower while I was in New Zealand recently visiting my family - it was from the $2 Shop!  As soon as I saw it my mind started ticking...ticking...ticking... and this is what I came up with!

A flower for my DD2'a bedroom wall - yes, she is the 'girly girl!'

You will need the following:

LOC Art Stencils - Victorian Corner & Natural Flourish

3 different DPs of your choice

Circle Cutter

Distressing Ink (I have used Tim Holtz)

Scissors

Sponges or daubers - for sponging

Double sided tape

Embellishments - dew drops, buttons, anything with shimmer

Draw around the leaves on the stencil and cut out - I used 2 different DP's for variation.  Use your circle cutter to cut our the petals - leave the circles complete

Using your sponge or dauber and the stencil - lay the stencil onto the DP and gently dab the inked sponge onto the DP - careful NOT to overload the sponge - less is more - I always start lightly and add more - you have more control over the finished project that way!  You can always add more but you can't always remove!

I have placed the part of the Art Stencil pattern on the DP.  I have found it easy just to hold the stencil in place with my fingers....and have not had any slipping happen.

Place all of the stenciled pieces onto the template to finalise the placement of them

You can see with this one I have turned the images all the same way

I have added paper piercing around the circle, layering it with a scalloped circle, white circle and a fabulous large button with thin gingham ribbon threaded through!

As you can see I have added some dew drops to bling it up!  Here is the finished flower...

I hope this inspires you to try these Art Stencils and to think outside the box. 

To celebrate the new release, Layer of Colors is having a 15% store wide sale through to Friday, June 18th so make sure you don't miss out and pop over there NOW!

Okay - for those of you who have been waiting, the winner of the New Release Art Stencil from Layers of Color is....

drum roll please....(c'mon I had to say that - my DH is a drummer!LOL

the winner of an Art Stencil of her choice is...

Lagene!!

Congratulations Lagene, please email me with your details and your choice of Art Stencil  by midnight PST 18 June so we can get it posted out to you, otherwise I will be choosing another winner! 

Thank you for stopping by today and for your encouraging comments - you make my day!  I still have a couple of projects to show you - see you soon!  God bless you!

{{{hugs}}}