Thursday, March 29, 2012

Challenge #16| Black, White and one color


if you are looking for my weekly challenge post for Delightful Challenges, click here.

This term's challenge at Crafty Ribbons Challenge Blog is a great opportunity to showcase some beautiful Crafty Ribbons ribbon while playing with my new favorite digital Collage images from Altered Pages. I hope you enjoy my fun Black/White and Orange tag!!

 
for this tag you will need:
Crafty Ribbons Black and Silver Satin Ribbon
Altered Pages White Collage Sheet AP-1714
Altered Pages Beautiful Butterflies Collage Sheet AP 1065
Coredinations White Wash Card stock
Bazzill Basics Black Card stock
Prima Eiffel Tower Bling

Black & White with one other colour
(You can use skin and hair tones but only the other three main colours)
This challenge will run from 8.30am 29th Mar until 6pm 11th Apr .....

spring ribbons
Thank you for looking!

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Weekly Challenge | Easter

It's time for a new challenge with Digital Delights by Louby Loo! This week at Delightful Challenges we are making projects for Easter!! Easter is such a fun holiday Wendy has some wonderful images to celebrate this holiday. Some of her images for other seasons with a a little color change can make their way into Easter. Mrs. Bugs for example was created for the Valentine's holiday but by changing her dress and accessories she becomes an Easter cutie! I hope you enjoy my card!
for this card you need:
Digital Stamps: Mrs Bugs and Eggstraspecial sentiment
Card Stock: Bazzill Basics
Markers: BIC Mark-Its
Accessories: foam tape, Sizzix Framelits and flower punches, rhinestones
This weeks challenge we would love to see to
Easter
You are not required to use a Digital Delights Image to join in on the fun
but if you do you can enter TWICE.
To enter twice you when using a Digital Delight image your
1st entry use your card link
2nd entry use your blog address and add 2nd entry after your name
This week we have a wonderful Sponsor this week
Joanna Sheen is offering a £10.00 store voucher


Thank you for looking!

Monday, March 26, 2012

Dragonfly Embellishment with Sakura Hobby Crafts



Today on the Sakura Hobby Crafts blog I posted a step-by-step how-to for creating this fun dragonfly embellishment using Creative Paper clay, Sakura 3D Crystal Lacquer and Terri Sproul's Mixers! Thank you for looking! I hope you enjoy my embellishment and take a moment to go over to the Sakura Hobby Crafts blog to check it out!

Sunday, March 25, 2012

Viva Las Vegastamps!

It's here...reveal day for the new Viva Las Vegastamps! design team. I have literally been hoppin' with excitement at my house. As soon as I learned I wanted to leap onto my blog and shout it from cyber space...But I've had to sit quietly on my lily pad for this one...thought I was going to croak. 
But now I get to ribbit out loud!!! 

I MADE THE VIVA LAS VEGASTAMPS! DESIGN TEAM!!!!
 
Check out the rest of the team on the Viva Las Vegastamps! blog

A special thanks to my blog friend and teammate Susan who not only encouraged me to try out for this design team but also sent me this super cute froggy die and frog background stamp from VLVS as part of a blog prize from a contest she hosted a few months ago!
Frog Background 3 1/2 x 4 1/2 

Thursday, March 22, 2012

Festive Friday #6 2♥12 | Dreaming of a Snowy Christmas


The Festive Friday Blog Hop is hosted by Terri Sproul. This bi-monthly blog hop features Holiday cards from many talented card crafters as we get our Christmas cards ready early this year. If you reached this stop from Terri's Blog Terri Sproul , then you are in the right spot--she is also the beginning of the blog!

For this card I used Viva Las Vegastamps!  and VLVS Ultra High Gloss Embossing Powder with Versamark to create the background. After embossing the snowflakes I stippled Close to my Heart Indian Corn Blue all over and wiped the melted embossing powder to reveal the white snowflakes. The sentiment and sleeping elf was stamped with Stewart Superior India Ink and colored using BIC Mark-Its. A little pompom was added to the elf hat for dimension. A sanded piece of Coredinations Cardstock matted the sentiment.
#17829 plate 1363
#17825 plate 1363
#10671 plate 1132
Thank you for stopping by!
The next stop on the hop is Chris! She always has great designs at Stinky Dog Designs!


weekly challenge | Easter Treats!

It's time for a new challenge with Digital Delights by Louby Loo! This week at Delightful Challenges we are making projects for Easter Treats!! Easter is such a fun holiday and I love this little SVG cut file for the Chick Box. If you are like me and do not have an electronic die cut machine, never fear, Wendy includes a pdf of all of the cut files so you can do it by hand if need be.

for this box you will need:
DD Cut File: Chick Box
Card Stock: Close To My Heart
Colors: Craf-T Chalks, white Sakura of America Gel Pen
Accessories: foam Squares
This weeks challenge we would love to see to
Easter Treats!!
You are not required to use a Digital Delights Image to join in on the fun
but if you do you can enter TWICE.
To enter twice you when using a Digital Delight image your
1st entry use your card link
2nd entry use your blog address and add 2nd entry after your name
We have a wonderful Sponsor this week
3 sets from The Cutting Cafe'!!!

Friday, March 16, 2012

Resin Bookmarks from Molded Dominoes



The "domino" side of Sam's bookmark and the photo side of Will's

Today I bring you my last post as part of the 1st design team for Amazing Mold Putty. After a great deal of consideration--as I LOVE Amazing Mold Products--I decided not to reapply and give others the awesome opportunity to work for this team and experiment and craft with a truly exciting product!!  I will still on my own blog post crafts featuring the putty and resins from time to time but for my last post here I made Domino Bookmarks. 
Some things you look at and think, that's gonna be simple to cast...and then it comes time to do it. Let me tell you, dominoes is not under the easy to cast project. 
I thought I would simply press the dominoes into the putty,
let it set up and voila! domino molds.
WRONG. The air gets trapped in the little divots an you don't
get a perfect domino mold.
So, I concentrated on getting the perfect divots molded first. Next I built the rest
of the mold around the proper divots. If I found one of the bumps too imperfect,
I could cut it off of my mold with a craft knife an add a new one. The putty is very
forgiving of such treatment and will easily stick onto itself as you build up a mold.

Finally a near perfect mold...there are still imperfections in this
that can be sanded out...the hardest part the divots are awesome
and will be perfect for my project. 

I fill the molds with the Amazing Casting Resin which is almost instant
gratification, setting up in 10 minutes!

I pulled the dominoes out of the mold and the imperfections
of the casts become very clear...but they are easy to remedy.
In the 12 domino you can even see where I cut off some of the
divots and added new ones!
A little sanding with some sandpaper produces quick effects making the
cast dominoes look almost ready to play with!
I colored the divots in using BIC Mark-its. In hind site I might
not do that again as when i dipped them into the UTEE it smeared
a bit. not something I would normally expect from an alcohol ink.
The nice thing about the resin pieces is that when I colored outside the lines
of the divot, it was easily sanded clean!
I printed on white card stock fun photos of Sam and Will that will fit on the
back of the dominoes. I dipped the dominoes into the hot UTEE to give
them that finished look and I dipped the photos as well giving them a glossy
finish. I did these separately as I was planning on sandwiching the ribbon
between the photo and the cast domino.

pretty shots of my new melting pot as the UTEE heats up!  


I adhered the ribbon and the photo to the back of the domino with red line
tape--I wanted the ribbon sandwiched between the photo and the domino.
these are now ready to dangle in my books as I read about crafting and such.
For fun, I molded the double 3 for Sam's age and the double 6 for Will's. 
 Thank you for looking! I hope you enjoyed my project!! Thank you for letting me serve you on the Amazing Mold Putty Team! It has been an extreme pleasure!

Thursday, March 15, 2012

Crafty Ribbons Challenge #15 | BIRTHDAY!!

if you are looking for my weekly challenge post for Delightful Challenges, click here.
Inspired by a ribbon/button bracelet that I found while patrolling flickr, I knew that for this Birthday themed challenge at Crafty Ribbons Challenge Blog I wanted to make a Birthday Flower Bracelet out of ribbons and felt. The flowers are built on a punched circle base and then layered with embroidery trimmed felt to form the centers. They are then attached with hot glue to the base --a grosgrain polka dotted ribbon and another felt circle is glued to the back of each flower. The bracelet can be tied on your wrist...I would also make for a cute headband. Thank you for looking!

Challenge #15 | Birthday
 
This challenge will run from 8.30am 15th March until 6pm 30th March

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Weekly Challenge | Someone Special

It's time for a new challenge with Digital Delights by Louby Loo! This week at Delightful Challenges we are making projects for Someone Special!!For me the military as a whole are special. They put their lives on the lines every day so that we can be free. I LOVE Wendy's Military digis and knew I wanted to used them for Operation Write Home cards and to celebrate the military folk in my life. I hope you enjoy my card.
Missing You ALOT! 
For this card you will need:

Markers: BIC Mark-Its
Accessories: Sakura 3D Crystal Lacquer, Sakura Colored Lacquer, Terri Sproul Mixers, foam dots, white Sakura pen, ball chain, dogtag punch

This weeks challenge we would love to see to
Someone Special
(To honour our UK Friends Mother's day)
You are not required to use a Digital Delights Image to join in on the fun
but if you do you can enter TWICE. 
To enter twice you when using a Digital Delight image your 
1st entry use your card link
 2nd entry use your blog address and add 2nd entry after your name
**Please be sure to follow the challenge theme or it will be removed
We have a wonderful NEW Sponsor this week
is offering a Spellbinders Compatible set!!!
Thank you for looking!

Sunday, March 11, 2012

A little color theory with Terri Sproul's Mixers


Today on the Sakura blog I share how to mix Terri Sproul's Mixers with Sakura Hobby Crafts 3D Crystal Lacquer to achieve a rainbow of colors!! I hope it inspires you to Mix it up a little and create some fun new colors for painting your images. I love how the Mixers with the Crystal Lacquer become a resist so that it is easy to make a wash over them as well with the Mixers in water and gum arabic. Thank you for looking! I hope you enjoyed my fun little card!

Ten on Ten Challenge | March 2♥12


This 10th day found me at home on a Saturday while the boys were off camping. My daughter and I spent much of the day in awe of the weather changes during the day and took the opportunity to break in a new pair of rubber boots!
Ten on Ten Challenge is a challenge that Rebekah runs on her blog A bit of Sunshine. Challenge yourself to take 1 day a month to document your day in photographs.

leslierahye--Ten on Ten--March 2012










Thank you for looking!

Thursday, March 8, 2012

Festive Friday #5 2♥12 | Blessed Greetings


The Festive Friday Blog Hop is hosted by Terri Sproul. This bi-monthly blog hop features Holiday cards from many talented card crafters as we get our Christmas cards ready early this year. If you reached this stop from Terri's Blog Terri Sproul , then you are in the right spot--she is also the beginning of the blog!

For this card I used Viva Las VegaStamps! and Sakura 3D Crystal Lacquer along with Terri Sproul's Mixers. I created the blessings stack with Grunge Board Mini's covering the entire base of the card with lacquer and golden star tissue paper. Once dry I brushed on bronze mixers and highlighted the blessings stack with red shimmer. Red Shimmer Mixers edged the face of the card. The angel sculpture stamp and the sentiment were stamped with Stewart Superior India Ink.The two pieces were mounted onto a black card stock background.

Thank you for stopping by!

The next stop on the hop is Chris! She always has great designs at Stinky Dog Designs!


Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Weekly Challenge | St. Patrick's Day Projects

It's time for a new challenge with Digital Delights by Louby Loo! This week at Delightful Challenges we are making St. Patrick's Day Projects --one of my favorite crafty holidays!! For this challenge I chose to combine two images using GIMP. I printed my completed image out on watercolor paper and painted the image with Sakura 3D Crystal Lacquer and Terri Sproul's Mixers (more on that in another post). I chose some of the yummy new Spring has Sprung Paper Pack for my background papers which match awesomely with last Spring's release of St. Patrick's Day Paper Pack. I hope you enjoy my card!
Happy St. Patrick's Day with Larry!

for this card you will need:
Card Stock: Bazzill Basics
Ink: SU River Rock
Accessories: Ribbon, silk flowers & premade butterfly, Watercolor Paper, Sakura Hobby Crafts 3D Crystal Lacquer and Terri Sproul's Mixers (Gold Shimmer, Gold Dust, Citrine Pearl, Tanzanite Pearl, Shimmer Red, Bronze) and Enhancer. 
Closeup: The Images were combined in GIMP and then
colored completely with  Mixers and Lacquer...Some mixers
were combined to make certain colors. Come back to my blog
next week for a tutorial on color theory with the Mixers!
Color swatch for my project notebook--whenever I experiment
with mixing colors of things, I always make a few notes so that
I can at a future date replicate a color or texture or such...
 This weeks challenge we would love to see you

St. Patrick's Day Projects

You are not required to use a Digital Delights Image to join in on the fun
but if you do you can enter TWICE. To enter twice you when using a Digital Delight image your  1st entry use your card link.  2nd entry use your blog address and add 2nd entry after your name

We have a wonderful NEW Sponsor this week


Scrapyland is offering a $20 Store Certificate
Thank you for stopping by!