Simply Grateful

 Hello Crafty Friends

Are you ready for a new challenge?

 Today starts the new challenge on the Frilly and Funkie blog. The challenge theme is "Fall Gratitude".

I went with a simple fall gratitude card. 

Supplies Used:

Tim Holtz small talk sticker "occasions"

3D embossing folder-  Tim Holtz Foliage

Tim Holtz Thinlits- Funky Nature 665215

Mummy Cloth

Distress Oxide inks-Vintage Photo, Forest Moss, 

(random others used on the flowers, but these came from my extra cuts stash). 

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!

I can't believe it's 2020 already!

(Y2K was only yesterday wasn't it?!)

Ok, since today is January 1st it's time to share a little inspiration with the 1st release of new stamps from Stampotique Originals for 2020!

See all new stamps HERE

Let's start of with an art journal spread... I love how Arthur looks to be sneaking out the back door... HAHA

(Veggie Boo may be in over her heels here, meanwhile I think someone else may be crushing on her... what do you think?)



sneaky, sneaky...

Don't look so sad Spongul, she'll figure it out...

Next, I want to share a special card using my new robot design!!! 

(I named him "Free Hugs")

Doesn't he look so perfect with Arwen's gears?

Now for some holiday celebrations with Asian lanterns!

(You know that's needed for every goon New Years party, Right?!)

Arthur can't wait on his guest to arrive!!

Last, but not least, I have been itching to try my hand at a Kassa style ATC, and this pretty new "Agatha Kitty" looked like she would be perfect! 

(I have actually colored her 4 different ways I loved her so much... shhh.. I'll have to share the others later... hehe!)

Anyhow, I can't completely get the viberant colors and textures like Kassa, but I had a ton of fun playing! (and that's what it's really all about!)

I may try a Milo style ATC next... 

(although not sure I can pull that one off even close...)

So... do you have a favorite of the new release stamps?
I don't know if I can decide, at first with was Agatha Kitty, but Arthur grew on me with his mischief...
now that I've colored them all and played with them I love them all too much to pick!

Did you make a new years resolution?

This year I'm not doing a resolution, but I will be daydreaming of getting our home paid off so that we can buy property in North Carolina some day.

Who doesn't love to day dream?

(Dreaming of building a home with a craft studio I can teach from keeps me extra energized and looking forward to 2020)

Do you have a daydream for this year?

Flower Power

Hello Crafty Friends!

Today starts week 1 of a new Stampotique challenge "Flower Power". 

For this challenge you can take it however you choose, you can do something flower based, or based of the flower power era.

Naturally, I chose to create one of my favorite things:
That's right... Mail Art!

Stamps Used:
Dirtball witch
Flos
Salutations 2

In addition to using the stamps listed above, I also used distress ink, memento ink in rose bud, various markers,  and a layering stencil.

I hope you enjoy it too!

Beautiful Blues

Hello Crafty Friends!

Today starts week 1 of a new Stampotique challenge "Monochromatic". 

For this challenge they want you to stamp in a color other than black or white. 

I chose blue as my color for my project. I stamped "Flos" in archival ink cornflower blue.

I used faded jeans, blueprint sketch, and weathered wood Distress oxide inks for the rest of my details.  I added "script background" for added detail.

I hope you like this card as much as I do. I love the layers on this.

(and this flower stamps is just so freaking pretty!)

Have a wonderful rest of your week!

You're an Unusual little flower ♡

Hello fabulous crafty friends!

It's Wednesday so that means it's time for a little challenge inspiration for the Stampotique Originals designers challenge. 

Today is the 2nd week of the "Unusual Flower" challenge.

(On a 2nd post I'm also sharing extra special new releases all designed by me!!!)

Challenge blog can be found HERE

Stamps 

Lacy vine

Head cube 1

Head cube 2

Potted cactus

Phrase cube 4

I hope you enjoy this funny little card.

Thank you for visiting today!!

New stamps

Hello friends!

It's the 1st of the month... time for new stamp releases from Stampotique Originals. 

I am so on love with this release!  Remember how much I loved the scarecrows from July.... wait till you see this pair!! ♡ *swoon*

Ok, time to share my inspiration pieces... 

Sympathy card- Squares Background, Glass Vase, Sympathy

(Water colored with Distess ink and Distress oxides)

Any occasion card- Tilted Bow, Barcode Text

Colored with alcohol markers , Zig clean color markers, and Distress ink

Scrapbook paper with stripes is by Bo Bunny

Any occasion card-A Bouquet for you, Barcode Text

Colored with alcohol markers , Zig clean color markers, and Distress ink, Distress crayons

Scrapbook paper with stripes is by Bo Bunny

Art journal spread- Girlfriends, Quotes #2

Dylusions book base, dylusions paints, various stencils, water colored with distress inks, and Zig Clean color markers.

Thank you for stopping in!

If friends were flowers, I'd pick you!

Hello Again Everyone!

Today I want to share a card that I created for the Stampotique Originals Designers Challenge"Flowers" 

For this month we've teamed up with Eileen Hull to create something extra fun for you.
Today I want to show you the gift card basket I created.
(gift card not shown as I want it to be somewhat of a surprise to the recipient... but it will be slide down in the back)

Stamps Used:
Jillian
Smile
Mervynboy
Miguel has a gift
Newton
Texture Cube 1
Schmurfy
Spiral Daydream

Here you can see the pieces all die-cut 

(Super easy to put together!)

These are all of my base pieces inked... Now I forgot to take pictures of the next few steps
(you know how it is when you get into a project you are having fun with...)

Next I used a stencil for some added depth, and used texture cube 1 to add even more!
(love that cube! It's the one I used for most of the flowers also!!)

The flowers were inked and stamped with distress inks. I love how vibrant everything looks!
This is going to be a gift for someone special... and I want to add a gift card (or 2) behind the flowers in the basket...



Thank you for visiting my blog!
I hope you decide to play along with us for the challenge!!

Mail Art Monday with a grungy twist

Hello Again Everyone! 

It's me Tera, here again with another fun
 Mail Art Monday tutorial

For this piece I was inspired by this months inspiration board.
I just love the vintage, grungy feel of everything.  I hope you enjoy this piece as much as I do!

(and be shocked I actually remembered to take a picture at each step!!)

Stamps Used: 
Nature Collage by Cat Kerr 2 3/4 x 3 3/4
Wire Rings by Cat Kerr 2 3/4 x 2 1/4
Typewriter Keys by Cat Kerr 2 1/2 x 4
Mesh Texture 2 3/4 x 3
Writing Circles Background 1 3/4 x 4 1/2

Other Supplies: 

Black ink (Versafine Onyx Black)

Distress inks- Ground espresso, weathered wood, Iced Spruce, hickory smoke, pumice stone

distress ink blending tools

water (for droplet effect)

Distress Spray stain -Black Soot , white (picket fence)

Microns 

Begin by masking off where you want your address to be (I traced around this with my black micron).  Next I stamped my focal image to build around in black ink. 

 To start my layers for the background, and give this piece depth, I stamped the next two images in "Hickory Smoke" distress ink.  

Next, I wanted to add some more foreground/mid-ground layers so I went back to black and used some of my smaller stamps to partial stamp some of the spaces.

I liked how this step looked so I used distress inks to ink the background with my ink blending tools.  This pulls the piece together, but I wanted a little more grungy feel, so I added some water droplets, as well as drops and splatters from the 2 distress stains. 

(this is the 1st layer of ink)

I let everything dry then removed my mask to reveal the final piece. 

(Now to find the perfect postage stamp to go with it!) 

Mail Art Monday Card Collection

Hello Again Everyone! 

Welcome back for another mail art Monday! 

today I wanted to share something a little different than my usual envelopes... Today I want to share a set of 3 cards that I made using my new circle stamp designs.

 The base idea for these cards was to use these circles as flowers. 

I hope you like these :D

Stamps Used:

Heart Pattern Circle by Tera Callihan 2 1/4 x 2 1/4

Circle Pattern Circle by Tera Callihan 2 1/2 x 2 1/2

Striped Pattern Circle by Tera Callihan 2 x 2

Doodle Leaf 1 1/2 x 2 1/2

Numbers Set 2 1/2 x 2

Fun with Flair!

Hello World! 

Today I am sharing a super fun idea for creating custom napkin rings just in time for Thanksgiving!

With Fall being my favorite time of year, I was beyond excited to see the new sunflower flair!

(not only did I love the design, but the super fun rich colors are so inspiring and wonderful to work with!)

 Here are all 8 beautiful designs perfect for thanksgiving or year round!

(Bonus they match my flowers!)

(I think this is my favorite one!)

you can get this fun Zappy Dots flair set for yourself HERE and let me tell you, you will love them! They are even prettier in person!!! You can also use these on scrapbook layouts, the Zappy Dots interchangeable magnetic Jewelry and more!!! <3

(full set view from ZappyDots.com) 

I'd rather be in Paris...

Hello Again!!!

As promised, today i'm sharing my 3d Shadow Box Card that I made yesterday.

 I absolutely love how it turned out!!! 

from the side here you can see that this card has tons of dimension.

Close up of "Carpe Diem" on the bow

I went with a Tim Holtz/Vintage feel but chose to challenge myself to use only Viva Las VegaStamps! (Which really wasn't much of a challenge since they have so many amazing images & sayings!!)
 As I'm sure you probably guessed I am loving my new vintage camera man stamp! 

Supplies Used: 

Victorian Cameraman 1 3/4 x 3 1/4

I'd Rather Be In Paris 1 x 1 1/2

Carpe The Hell 1 x 3 1/4

Parisien 1 x 2 1/4

Scrapbook Paper

Wild Orchard Roses

Various Tim Holtz bits

Black StaZon ink

WOYWW #221

Hello Everyone!

Wow its Wednesday again already!? 

Don't know why i'm showing you my mess? Hop over to Julia's to read more about our world wide tour of work desks every Wednesday.

Well my mess is still huge, everywhere and growing! I've had a busy week and it's only going to get worse! I go back to school Friday ...not looking forward to all day long micro-biology... But who knows I may love it.

  I'm still working on some custom order mini albums and have other orders to start.

Here is a close up of the tags (these are also all spoken for after having made the pink one a while ago i knew i had to make some other fun colors)


Another mess I'm working on is this layout... Hope to finish it soon!


I have been playing some more with my Silhouette Cameo this week and created the box below

Close up of the medallion


I also made some texture  paste, which you can see i tried out below

 Also now that I have the amazing paper for the sides of my box redo's I hope to start on those soon! (thanks to my pal Mandy for those! Check out her blog HERE ).

More Viva Las VegaStamps! August inspiration board fun!

Good Morning Everyone! 

It looks like it's going to be a beautiful Saturday, and thanks to my spoiled rotten dog barking at 6:20 am I've been awake for a while, so I decided to play some more with the Viva Las VegaStamps August's Inspiration Board Challenge.

Here is what the inspiration board looks like: 

I took inspiration from various Elements on the board, and also decided to do some scoring since i have been inspired by the blog hop between Viva and ScorePal all week :-)

I created a match box/mini gift box 

I started by cutting out a matchbox template with my Silhouette Cameo, and by stamping and coloring the Beautiful Mardi Gras Lady AKA "my Bird Lady", then cutting her out

Next I scored and folded my template. I also double checked that She fit nicely. 

After checking I drew some stitching on the edges using my micron pen, and stamped the bird tracks down the side panels. I glued everything in place, and finished embellishing. 

 Here are a few different angles, I hope you all enjoy!

(also you can see my pup doesn't feel guilty for waking me at all!)