Flower Card

#5

Today I made this simple card. I used a piece of kraft card stock by Stampin' Up (5 1/2 - 4 1/3 folded in half) I cut the flower out of the front side of a My Mind's Eye patterned paper and it is popped up on dimensional adhesive. The green paper is from the other side of the paper. I distressed the edges of both the green and kraft paper with walnut stain distress ink. The happy birthday stamp is from a Stampin' Up set called A Little Birthday Cheer.

Tree Art

#4

This picture doesn't really serve the piece justice, there's really a lot more colour in the background. Anyway so basically I used some distress inks to cover the whole piece of card stock. (broken china, peeled paint, walnut stain) Then with a wet paint brush I drew on some trees. When water comes in contact with the inks it pushes the colour away and leaves a ghostly looking image. Then I took a permanent marker and drew the tree and the doodles. It's all really simple but turned out really cool.

Mini Chocolate Box

#3

I had this mini box of chocolates from Christmas but since all the chocolates are gone now I thought I'd alter the box into something creative.

I painted the lid of the box with a thick coat of white paint then over dried it with a heat gun so it bubbled up and created a bit of texture. I then used a sponge to dab on two shades of green paint. I mixed some perfect pearls with water then painted it on the top to add some shine. I sprayed the flowers with a mixture of bronze perfect pearls, walnut stain distress ink and water. I used green coloured dew drops for the centers.

I kept the bottom simple or it wouldn't close. I just wrapped the base with some paper and used the same mixture I used on the flowers to distress it.

Paper Quilt

#2

So my winter break is coming to an end but this project it's just beginning. My Aunt came for Christmas and we made this really cool paper quilt thing. She also did a post on her blog (http://alteredbookstudio.blogspot.com/) You can check it out for more details.
Basically the piece consists of paper squares that form a sort of quilt. For a bit of embellishment we added some leaves that were cut from my cricut. There are also some gold leaf shapes that my Aunt cut from this mesh stuff. The whole piece has sort of a fall vibe and even though it's winter we put it up.

The 2011 Project

So it's been almost a year since I started this blog and I haven't really been posting much. I always say I'll try to post more but I've never really followed through with it. With it being the 1st day of 2011 I have decided that my new year's resolution is to post every single day. Will see how this works out....

Post #1: For Christmas I got Perfect Pearls and I made this tag above. I was just fooling around so I'm not really sure what I did but it sure is sparkly.

In real like this flower looks almost like metal, it's pretty cool.

This little butterfly charm was given to me by a friend. It was just silver before but I added some ink and made it look a bit distressed. On the background I mixed perfect pearls with water and painted on some shimmery doodles. when the water mixed with the distress inked background it did some pretty cool things.

... There, that wasn't so hard just 364 posts to go.

No Time For Anything In November

So it's November and for some people this is NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) If you don't know what it is you can google it. Anyway I'm kind of doing this but not really, I explain this more on my latest video on sawthatday youtube channel. www.youtube.com/user/sawthatday I'm Friday if you didn't see my last post. Anyway I don't have a have a lot of time for crafting. I did this little project in late October but I'm only getting around to sharing it now but better late than never. Here's how to do it.

I made these three little tiles, roughly 2" by 2". To make then you will need:

Card stock (i used white)

Distress inks (I used vintage photo and broken china)

Clear embossing powder

Heat gun

Chip board

Acrylic block

(Optional) Stamp

Here's a close up


By using the clear embossing powder you get a shiny glaze to the tile.

Step one: Directly on an acrylic block smoosh the ink.

It should looks something like this but can use any colour and apply the ink in any way you want.

Step two: Spray with water so the ink beads up, use as little or as much as you want.

Step three: On a piece of card stock the same size as your block press the block down to apply the ink.

Before the next step you can blot with a cloth to remove excess ink, heat set or air dry it, but you could start the next step without doing this.

Step four: Repeat step three as many times as you want.

I did three layers.

Step five: I decided to stamp this Butterfly onto mine but you can stamp whatever you want or just leave it blank. If your paper is a bit too big like mine is, it would be a good idea to cut off the excess now.

Step six: Coat the entire piece with embossing ink.

Step seven: Apply the clear embossing powder and heat set. I did this three times to get a thick glossy layer.

Step eight: Back with chip board to add some sturdiness.

And there you have it, a little tile. They look even cooler in person I just have no clue what to do with them now.

SORRY

I know I've been gone for a very long time and I'd like to say I have an excuse but it's kinda lame. Here goes nothing:
So sometime in June/July I made a scrapbook album for my grandmother.
Then I made a very large model from a song. (see last post)
Then I started school.
Then I started up a vlogging YouTube channel (see http://www.youtube.com/user/sawthatday I'm Friday)
Then I made a bunch of small crafts (none all that interesting to share on a blog)
And through all of this I never cleaned up the craft corner once.
The moral of this story is it's really hard to craft when your table is half a foot deep in things you did five months ago.

So now that we have the "excuse" out of the way, above is a picture of a card I made once I cleaned up. Nothing too special but when you haven't really done anything in a long time it can be impressive.
To make the greenish blueish piece I squirted some alcohol ink on a craft sheet as I smooshed a piece of glossy card stock into it. Yes it is very simple. Then I stamped the tree and the "with love" in black Stazon. Then I just folded some pink card stock, rounded the corners, tied on some ribbon, put on the green piece and called it done.
I have some posts planned already so hopefully I can get in the trend of posting regularly.