Suszen

Suszen is my niece who just had surgery and I wanted to make a special card for her.

I had made a lot of prints using my monoprinting plate from Stampendous and have been itching to start using them. I pulled one out that I thought would make a beautiful butterfly along with my Swallowtail stamp from Stampin up. I stamped and embossed with marcasite opal embossing powder also from Stampendous.

Love how this turned out.

The background paper that I had mounted the swallowtail came from stampin up water color wonder series.

Here is the finished card

Have a great weekend everyone!
I am starting my vacation  as of 5:00  Friday!

Compendium of Curiosities 3 challenge #5

Here I am on challenge #5!

We are now working from page 39 Distress watercoloring from the Tim Holtz book Compendium of Curiosites 3!

Here is my tag using the technique found on page 39

The sponsor for this week challenge comes from an online store Inspiration Emporium
If you would like to join in on the challenges you can skip over to Studio L3 

just a little challenge

It's been raining almost everyday for the past week and yes the forecast is rain for this weekend, sigh.

Charlene thought it would be fun to send out a challenge for who ever would like to particapate.

Here is the link to the card sketch which comes from Freshly Made Sketches
Love this sketch.

Here is my version

Wishing you all sunshine!
Donna

Tim Holtz 12 tags of 2014 June

Here I am in mid June and I have my June tag finished!!

This month we are into blended watercolour. I love the look of watercolours so I was excited to play!

Once again I am using stencils. Love how versatile they have become for me well worth the money spent.

I also learned a new way to do the ribbon on the tag. Love this look!

Wishing you all a great week!

Donna

Earlier today I came across another challenge over at Simon Says Stamp wednesday's Challenge called "stencil it" so I thought I would share this tag with them :)

CC3C challenge #4

Compendium of Curiosities 3 challenge #4

Our challenge this week comes from page 49 Layering Stencil: Texture Paste

I enjoyed playing along in this challenge. This was the first time that I played with the texture paste in this way.
I even added some paint into my project. The lamp post was cut from a cereal box using the Tim Holtz holiday lamp post die. I then painted it black and edged with gold acrylic paint love that look.  I even snuck some of the gold paint onto the sunrays :)

If you are interested in joining in on the challenges Linda over at StudioL3 would love to have you join in!

Great News!
This week www.thefunkiejunkie.com will be sponsoring the challenge!

Have a great week!
Donna

Stampin Up May club

May's club
So sad this was our last month for this session.

Here are our last 3 projects that we made in our club night.

Our first project was the subway card which comes from Elizabeth's craft room  she also has a video called rusty alphabet card showing you this fun technique.

Our second project was the Faux Northern Lights which was case'd from Kay Kalthoff she also has a how to video

Our third and last project was the Chalk Marker on Peaceful Petals which was case'd from Brian King- thinking of you with happy watercolor.

and there you have our last 3 projects for the month of May.

Thank You Charlene for picking out such wonderful projects, techniques, tips, and tricks to teach and share with us. I really don't know how you do it but I am glad that you do!!

I will see you again in the fall for another round!
Donna

I WON !!!

I am so excited  that I won on Tim Holtz 12 tags of 2014 for the month of May

I won a 25.00 gift certificate to Inspiration Emporium and a badge to place on my blog !!

a BIG THANK YOU to Tim Holtz, Mario Rossi, and Joy!!

Wishing you all a great week!
Donna

Tim Holtz 12 tags of 2014 May

Whew!  I made the May tag during the month of May with minutes to spare  ha!

This tag was alot of fun to make.

I loved the idea of mounting each embellishment on its own frame to create a tiled tag! so here are a few of my favorite diecuts/embellishments and the lucky 13 :)

Hope you are having a great weekend!
Donna

CC3C #3

Compendium of Curiosities 3 challenge #3

Once again I have turned to another page in this great book and found  this next challenge. The challenge is to use Tim's Faux Tea Rose Technique
I can't tell you how I made my roses but I will say that I cut them down so they would be smaller and fit on the ole jalopy :) I cut the flowers from white cardstock and then sprayed them with a mix of fired brick distress ink mixed with perfect pearls love the glimmer they have.

I loved the first challenge so much that I wanted to give it another try. I was going for a sunset. I really do like this technique.

The following products were also used:
perfect pearls mists heirloom gold
Ranger foil cardstock
Tim Holtz's collage embossing folder
distress paints
distress inks
Tim Holtz old Jalopy sizzix die

Once again Inspiration Emporium will be sponsoring this challenge. One lucky winner will win a 50.00 gift certificate!!

If you are interested in joining in on the challenges Linda over at StudioL3 would love to have you join in!

All the best
Donna

Stampin' up April 2014 Club

I am back! did you miss me ? lol

Here we are with  another 3 beautiful projects

Project #1 - Multi layerd card  idea came from Deconstructed Sketch DS141
We embossed then coloured the flower.

Project #2 - Flash Embellishments using the Envelope punch board case'd from Deb Valder

this was so cool. Just love how it turned out!

Project #3 - One Flap Easel Card & Whitewash Idea from As The Ink Dries

I really liked this whitewash technique!

Whew those were alot of fun to make! THANKS Charlene!

I wasn't able to make a card for this months (April) card challenge so you won't see a post for that :(

Have a great weekend and I will be back soon!