Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Weekly Challenge | Make the Cut!

It's time for a new challenge with Digital Delights by Louby Loo! This week at Delightful Challenges our challenge is Make the Cut--use die cuts, decorative scissors and punches! I used my favorite Festive Flamingo along with some fabulous Cheery Lynn doilies and snowflakes to create this fun festive holiday card! I LOVE how it turned out and I hope it brings you happiness too! Thank you for looking!| for this card  Digital...

Monday, August 26, 2013

Altered Pages' Two for Tuesday with Bombshell Stamps! | Cowgirl's Misbehaving!

Welcome to my stop on the Hop! This is leslierahye and I'm a proud part of the fantastic AlteredPages.com design team. This is the first opportunity I've had to create with these cheeky digital stamps and so I chose the Bucking Bronco stamp to create this tag "Save a Horse...Ride a Cowboy!"  I hope you enjoy my tag! Save a Horse Ride A Cowboy Supplies Used : Wanted Poster & Bucking Bronco from Bombshell Stamps Collage Sheet Vintage...

Saturday, August 24, 2013

Dreaming of Snow

August and September have me thinking of school but also dreaming of SNOW! In Texas these ARE the Dog Days of Summer and it is often miserably hot and humid. Even though I'm a Texas girl, I LOVE LOVE LOVE snowflake imagery in art!Today I am using one of my favorite Cheery Lynn Dies---the 4×4 Snowflake die. It has several intricate and different flakes that are beautiful and can be easily stacked to make cool 3-D images. ALSO I'm using the Felicity...

Tutorial with Digital Delights | Fancy Flap Card

Happy Saturday! On Tuesday I shared a tutorial on how to create this simple fancy fold that can be used to highlight a focal image! I hope you enjoy my tutorial! Thank you for looking~ For this project Jubbly Hippo Into the Wild Paper Pack ...

Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Be the Change ATC

Happy Friday everyone! Altered Pages has a number of metal sheets that are perfect to use with your emboss folders and markers to create stunning effects and embellishment. With your alcohol markers you can customize all of your charms and embossed bits to match any project. Alcohol inks/markers are not just Copics and Ranger inks but also Spectrum Noir, BIC Mark-its and Sharpies! Use 91% Isopropyl Alcohol for your...

Monday, August 19, 2013

Tutorial | Mixed Media Initial Canvas with Design Memory Craft Faber-Castell

Good evening everyone! leslierahye here to share with you this fun canvas that I made for my Samantha [aka Fancy Pants] with the beautiful Cheery Lynn Designs Dies and the scrumptious Faber-Castell Gelatos and Aquarelle Watercolor Pencils. We have been redoing the kids' room and the wall just screamed for some initial art! I hope you enjoy my project! To create your own initial canvas Faber-Castell Gelatos : Coconut, Watermelon, Margarita...

Saturday, August 17, 2013

Fun with Letters Challenge!

supplies used Build a Flower #2 Embellishment #2 Daisy Strip Felicity Tiny Doily Felicity Doily 8×10 canvas gesso Beacon Fast Finish Decoupage Faber-Castell Gelatos : Coconut, Watermelon, Margarita Mix and Snow Cone Faber-Castell Art Grip Aquarelle : 108, 156 Faber-Castell PITT Artist Pen Black S This week the challenge at Cheery Lynn Designs is Fun with Letters Here are the rules: You MUST follow the theme and use...

Friday, August 16, 2013

Altered Domino Fun with Altered Pages Challenges

 I've been wanting to play with altering dominoes and trying my hand with soldering. For my challenge project I decided to combine the two with the Green Challenge going on over at the Challenge Blog at Altered Pages. I began by marking the back of a domino where I wanted to drill holes. I began with my pointy file and drilled a shallow hole as a pilot for my hand drill.  Next I hand-drilled the 4 holes that I had marked...

Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Weekly Challenge | Anything But A Card

It's time for a new release and a new challenge with Digital Delights by Louby Loo! This week at Delightful Challenges our challenge is Anything But a Card! I chose to make a garden stake for my sunflowers with the precious Flower Power Sunflower! I hope you enjoy my project! Thank you for looking! Digital Delights Stamps : Flower Power Sunflower Card stock : Bazzill and...

Wednesday, August 7, 2013

Weekly Challenge | Make it Pop!

It's time for a new release and a new challenge with Digital Delights by Louby Loo! This week at Delightful Challenges our challenge is Make it Pop! You can add dimension with foam tape or some other substance or use layers. I have highlighted a few elements with my homemade flower fluff---if you've missed the tutorial it's linked in the list below the photo. I LOVE this months cupcake digi--Wendy has been making...

Tuesday, August 6, 2013

Bloom Obsession!!

Friday night on my Crafty Gig  I shared with you these awesome dies that I've added to my tools from Cheery Lynn Designs.They have a whole set of Build a Flower dies that when used together create fantastic handmade flowers. While creating these flowers, I experimented with a process for making a flower fluff product for use with my flowers that I had seen on Pinterest. I have since added a micrograter to my tools and perfected the process...

Thursday, August 1, 2013

Weekly Challenge & New Release | You're Super!

It's time for a new release and a new challenge with Digital Delights by Louby Loo! This week at Delightful Challenges our challenge is You're Super! The new release is just awesome--full of superheros of all kinds! I love it! They are also great for shaped cards. I love making shaped cards for kids. I did a tutorial a while back for the Tuesday Tutorial where I share how easy it is to make a mat for your shape with...