Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Weekly Challenge | Anything But a Card

It's time for a new challenge with Digital Delights by Louby Loo! This week at Delightful Challenges our challenge is Anything But a Card--Love Themed! I decided to create a bookmark for my son to share with his sweetie. I used my favorite Buttons the Clown and colored him in shades of pink and red. I mounted his image onto a folded piece of cardstock [8x3-3/4"] and then added thin magnet sheets cut into strips to the interior....

Tuesday, January 28, 2014

A Vintage Time Piece

 Happy Wednesday everyone! Today on the Globecraft Piccolo Blog I share necklace project! Globecraft and Piccolo has so many wonderful bezels and charms to alter into wonderful jewelry! The Vintage Clock Necklace set is FANTASTIC! I LOVE how this turned out!! I began by embossing the clock face and the "dangles" with the Victorian Bronze and the back of the clock with Micro Black. I embossed both sizes of the back of the clock a couple...

Tickled Pink with Cheery Lynn!

 Happy Tuesday everyone! Today on the Cheery Lynn Blog I am playing along with this week's challenge Tickled Pink! I created my card with shades of pink from a distressed paper pad. To add the green color to the vines and leaves, I used chalks. I bit of line work around the word "love"helps it to stand out against the background. I'm totally loving the paper bow among the flowers! Cheery Lynn Dies used Flourish Leaf Strip - B178 Miniature...

Monday, January 27, 2014

Le Pot de Papillon

Good morning! Today on the Altered Arts Magazine blog I am sharing an altered coaster : Le Pot de Papillon—the butterfly jar! As an artist one of my favorite things to do is to upcycle cardboard--coasters from restaurants are perfect! Many are about the size of a fat book (4×4") and make wonderful substrates for small art.  I covered this coaster with 2 layers of Kraft colored Tissue Stock from Canvas Corp using Nori Perfect...

Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Weekly Challenge | You Have My Heart!

It's time for a new challenge with Digital Delights by Louby Loo! This week at Delightful Challenges our challenge is You Have My Heart! You get to include hearts on your projects! I love Cuddle Bunny with this BIG heart and he is perfect for this challenge! ~I hope you enjoy my card! Thank you for stopping by! Cuddle Bunny Card stock : Bazzill Markers : Spectrum Noir [PP2, PP4, TN1, TN3, BT1] Now...

Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Kept Under Lock & Key

 Happy Wednesday everyone! Globecraft and Piccolo has so many wonderful bezels and charms to alter into wonderful jewelry! I created this piece with the Fancy Square Bezel. It's large size allows for many design options. I created a textured background by building up several layers of Vintage Copper Enamel Powder and while it was still hot I stamped my rubber stamp into the melted enamel. Rubbing the Adhesive Fluid over the rubber before...

Steampunk Tag Remake

 Happy Tuesday everyone! Today I am going to re-create a steampunk tag. Back in December I was gathering my Cheery Lynn projects together to send over to BJ in preparation for the Craft and Hobby Association Winter Show. I came across the tag below. I love that tag! I created it as part of my application for this design team! Since then Cheery Lynn Designs has released more steampunk inspired dies...and of course I have added them...

Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Weekly Challenge | BRRR

It's time for the first new challenge and new release of 2014 with Digital Delights by Louby Loo! This week at Delightful Challenges our challenge is BRR~Anything Winter!Today I die cut a fun snowflake and embossed it with some aged white embossing powder. I raised up my Snowflake Shelly with some foam tape and added glitter for a snowy sparkle!~I hope you enjoy my card! Thank you for stopping by!   Snowflake...

One Little Word

  Happy Wednesday everyone! Today on the Globecraft & Piccolo Craft Blog I share this magnet project! As part of my goal setting for the year, I am a fan of living Ali Edwards' "one little word." This year my word is THRIVE and I've created a little art piece to put on my file cabinet near my work space to remind me each day! I used the frame of the Daisy Floral Accents & Frame set to create my mini framed piece--final...

Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Fancy Flap Cards are Easy with Cheery Lynn Designs

 Happy Tuesday everyone! Today on the Cheery Lynn Blog I show you this simple technique to create a Fancy Flap on your card. The original intent of the Angel Wings that come with Cheery Lynn Dies was to create a neutral background upon which to adhere the intricate doilies to help them stand out! The fact that they are HALF the size of the doily make them perfect for this technique to achieve the fancy flap look! Cheery Lynn Dies...

Friday, January 10, 2014

Winter CHA Release at Cheery Lynn!

Today the New Release of dies is being featured at Winter CHA!!! How exciting! This release is full of amazing and beautiful new dies!! I have created a few cards here and there is tons of inspiration over on the Cheery Lynn Blog. Be sure to check out all of the creations by the Cheery Lynn designers!! I love the steampunk series of dies and this release has some fantastic dies including this fabulous emboss plate and a gear corner! The shoe...

Thursday, January 9, 2014

Weekly Challenge & New Release | Patterned Paper

It's time for the first new challenge and new release of 2014 with Digital Delights by Louby Loo! This week at Delightful Challenges our challenge is Patterned Paper! Of course I'm partial to any release with a dragon and Wendy created this super sweet You Stole My Heart Dragon! So cute!! The Cupid Quotes Sentiments are perfect for your Valentines and Sweetheart Correspondences! I hope you enjoy my card! Thank you for stopping by!   You...

Wednesday, January 8, 2014

A Steampunk Valentine

 Happy Wednesday everyone! Today I share my very first post as a designer for Globecraft & Picolo. For my project today I made a pendant with the Skinny Rectangle Bezel by layering on Steampunk gears and Hearts, keys and embellishments! I love how it turned out! It's it complemented by the Silk Cord Necklace that can also be found in the online shop! I began  by dabbing Enamel Powder Adhesive Fluid onto my bezel chipboard shape...

Tuesday, January 7, 2014

2 for Tuesday | Pink Persimmon

Good Morning everyone! Today my teammates from AlteredPages.com and I are hopping along sharing altered projects featuring stamps from  I used this fantastic set to create these fun Altered Trading Cards! Please hop along to my teammates projects as well! ._inlinkzLinkDiv{overflow:hidden; text-align:center;}._inlinkzI{}._inlinkzA{text-align:center;} Altered Pages Mel'odee Roni Lyneen Gia April Trisha Barbara Mel'odee Steph Danie Daniella leslierahye Altered...