Weekly Challenge | Distressed/Vintage Look

Welcome to another Delightful Challenges weekly challenge...this week we're going for that Distressed/Vintage Look! I love distressing things and have kinda gotten away from it for a while but welcomed the opportunity to rough up some edges, do some sanding and staining and crackling! oh my! 

I chose Wendy's Loving Cherub stamp and this super background from the Summer Time Fun Paper Pack that can be found at  Digital Delights by Louby Loo! I hope you enjoy my card!!

Digital Stamps: Loving Cherub
Digital Papers: Summer Time Fun Paper Pack
Card Stock: Bazzill Bling, Coredinations Basic Grey Whimsey Collection
Markers: BIC Mark-Its
Accessories: lace, Glimmer Mist, Raffia, Ranger Distressed Crackle Paint Clear, Alumilite Bronze Powder, Quickie Glue and Prismaglitter

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

Magnolia~licious is offering Sherwood Edwin and Tilda with apple mini's

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Crafty Gig 01.13.12 | crochet 101

Welcome to my bi monthly follow-up post on my ustream live show leslierahye's crafty gig.This past Friday we explored the craft of crochet! I went over the very basics of crochet and some introductory stitches and then shared with you a simple 5-petal flower that can be used in so many crafty applications. The link to find the pattern is here. I hope you enjoy this playback!

[note: I had mentioned that I would take some photos of the samples I made in this video--my *helper* took off with the samples and have hidden them from me. I will be doing some tutorials every couple of weeks on making more shapes and stitches and with the first tutorial post I will add in the re-made samples! sorry for any inconvenience!]

Coming this Friday the 20th, is my new show for 2♥12...

This is a monthly show on the 3rd Friday of the month focusing solely on the art of scrapbooking. I've been scrapbooking in one fashion or another since I was 9 years old and my parents bought me my first large scrapbook to hold my treasure. I hope you join me to explore this great hobby that helps you share your story to generations to come.

I will also be announcing the beginning of a new challenge so you won't want to miss it! See you Friday!! 8 CST/9 EST! Thank you for stopping by!

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Saturday Challenge #168 | Anything goes with blue and Susan's digi!

My teammate Susan Brown over at sbartist:painting in the dark shared a wonderful FREE digital stamp last week during the Festive Friday blog hop and I loved it so much that I had to snag it and make a card with it! Coincidentally this year one of my goals is to enter more challenges to broaden my creativity! I found the perfect challenge this weekend to pair with Susan's digi!!

This week is their challenge #168--Anything Goes with Blue

Wish me luck! Thank you for stopping by! 

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AJ's Digi Shoppe Post | Owl Love

Go by the AJ's Digi Shoppe blog to learn what fun papers and stamps I used from Amanda's great collection of digital products!! I just love these owls and papers! I hope you enjoy my card! Thank you for stopping by!

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The House Rules with Amazing Mold Products

Happy New Year! Yes, the new year began over 2 weeks ago but this is my first post of 2012 and that sentiment is pertinent to today's post! I have been admiring co-crafters' work lately and have found that several have created these signs for decor in their homes...a words to live by kind of thing. I think they're terrific and I have been mulling over in my mind for a while how I planned to do this! When I saw Nikki's digi on the MelonHeadzIllustration Blog. I knew I wanted to incorporate that some way into my sign. It was not until I found this broken piece of pottery from my friends' house that the entire project developed in my mind...so, for the New Year, I bring you 

The House Rules--A Wall Hanging

This Wall Hanging was built on a 12"×12" black foam core base.

I began by making my mold of the decoration on the pottery shard

The mold came out a bit dirty so I molded a very thin piece to
throw away to pick up all the dirt from the casting.

I then added Alumilite Metallic Powder in Bronze
to the mold and poured Amazing Casting Resin --white--
into the mold. Rather than pour the mold quickly, I
took my time so that I could control the flow and not
over-flow the bounds of my mold too quickly.

This is a gratuitous photo of the resin quickening--it always
amazes me how cool it looks when it does this!

I left the resin in the mold until it easily pulled away from the
mold, about 30 minutes. I pulled it off to this dullish bronze cast.

I dry-brushed over the cured cast with more bronze powder
and then highlighted it with Terri Sproul's Mixers in Red Satin.
Those colors together match the painting I do in a later step.

I also molded for this project a piece of crochet that I had done,
and cast it with the  Creative Paperclay® product DelightTM  . The
Delight casting was then brushed with Sakura Hobby Crafts
3D Crystal Lacquer mixed with the Alumilite Bronze Powder.
The flower was then dusted with some Terri Sproul's Mixers in
Red Satin to match the project.

The MelonHeadzIllustration Digital Stamp was enlarged
to 8"×7½" and printed on a piece of Basic Grey Card Stock.
It was then edged with Black ink and painted in using
Sakura 3D Crystal Lacquer, Bronze Powder from Alumilite 
and Terri Sproul's Mixers & Colored Crystal Lacquer. 

The edges of the black foam core were brushed with
Sakura 3D Crystal Lacquer mixed with Alumilite Bronze
Metallic Powder. The premade brown butterfly received the
same treatment to help him match the elements in the
project. The large casting was adhered to the foam
board with E6000--as was the lace leaves, Delight flower
and Butterfly. 

Thank you for looking! I hope you enjoyed my project!

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Nicolette's Valentine's Day Blog Hop | Day 2 : Crazy Cupid L♥ve!

Good morning! I am honored to be a part of Nicolette's Valentine's Day Blog Hop! Valentine's Day is one of my favorite holidays to celebrate and it is my pleasure to share some fun craft ideas with you!!
If you have arrived here by happenstance and would like to hop along with us then please click back to Nicolette's blog HERE or if you have arrived from Gill's blog then you are in the right place!

Welcome to DAY 2 of Nicolette's Valentine's Day Blog Hop! Today I wanted to share with you one of my very funny Valentine digital stamps--Hilarious Cupid from The Paper Shelter. I matched him with a Basic Grey paper pack and some fun punches to create this card. I hope you enjoy it!

For the card you will need
Digital Stamp : Hilarious Cupid
Stamp : Inkadinkado
Paper : Basic Grey Porcelain Collection
Inks : Ranger Distressed Ink Worn Lipstick, Ranger Archival Ink Jet Black
Markers : BIC Mark-Its
Accessories :  The Twinery Twine, Sakura Hobby Crafts 3D Crystal Lacquer, Foam tape, Fiskars Heart Punch and EK Success Heart Punch, Quickie Glue Pen and Prisma Glitter

Thank you for hopping by today and i hope you enjoyed looking at my project.

Your next stop on the hop is Pam! Pam has several wonderful Valentines to share with you!!!.

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Nicolette's Valentine's Day Blog Hop | Day 1 : Quick & Easy Treat Toppers

Good morning! I am honored to be a part of Nicolette's Valentine's Day Blog Hop! Valentine's Day is one of my favorite holidays to celebrate and it is my pleasure to share some fun craft ideas with you!!
If you have arrived here by happenstance and would like to hop along with us then please click back to Nicolette's blog HERE or if you have arrived from Gill's blog then you are in the right place!

Today's projects are quick and easy using colored digital images from Digital Delights by Louby Loo! Wendy just released these adorable digis in both color and outlines and they are perfect for card fronts or treat toppers! The watermark of the complete set can be viewed below.

I arranged the toppers in my publisher program with their sentiments. The Sweet Friend sentiment is from Digital Delights' Ice Cream Sentiment Set. The Some buggy loves you sentiment I made myself using a text box and layering it under Ladybug Lara's hands I colored the background of both sentiments by selecting the color tool to sample the colors in the digis to match. I highlighted both digital stamps with glitter and Sakura 3D Crystal Lacquer and attached a twine bow. My goodies were placed into a cello envelope and the topper was attached to the envelope with a tiny attacher from Tim Holtz. 

Thank you for hopping by today and i hope you enjoyed looking at my projects. Come back tomorrow for another fun Valentine project!

Your next stop on the hop is Pam! Pam has several wonderful Valentines to share with you!!!.

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