"Blessed" Mixed Media Wall Hanging for Little Birdie Crafts

Welcome to my creative space! 

Spring is in the air and today I'm sharing a spring inspired mixed media wall hanging featuring the gorgeous Little Birdie Crafts Celebrate Life Collection and Primed Chipboard. 

I hope you'll hop on over to the Little Birdie Crafts blog for a full photo tutorial showing how I put the wall hanging together and to leave a comment letting me know what you think. You can find that post HERE.

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I've also used Tinted Metallic Paints to color this fabulous resin bee created with a Zuri Designs mold. This is one of their new releases which include this fabulous bee paired with a gorgeous butterfly and another set with two fantastic beetles which you will be seeing in upcoming projects. I've recently discovered these molds with amazing and intricate details which can be found HERE.

Little Birdie Crafts Supplies

Celebrate Life 12x12" Paper Pack

Celebrate Life 6x6" Paper Pack

Celebrate Life Flowers Kimberley

Celebrate Life Flowers Marisa

Celebrate Life Flowers Wendy

Beaded Pollen 

Primed Chipboard Flora Hoops

Primed Chipboard Think Positive

Stencil - Feathers 18.5 x 24.5 Cm

Clear Stamps - Melody

Acrylic Gesso - White

Acrylic Soft Gel Medium Matte

Color Splash - Ocean Mist, 50ml

Tinted Metallic Paint - Golden Glaze

Tinted Metallic Paint - Caribbean Teal

Tinted Metallic Paint - Blue Waltz

Tinted Metallic Paint - Golden Plum

Metallic Wax - Rich Gold

Metallic Wax - Copper Blaze

Grainy Texture Paste

Metal Microbeads - Deep Marine

Other Products

Zuri Designs ~ Silicone Mold - Wings of Beauty

BoBunny ~ Chipboard Mini Album Page

May Arts ~ Silky Crush Ribbon - White

USArtqust ~ Mini Prills - Minnie Pearls

Hemptique ~ Bamboo Cord, 20lb

FolkArt ~ Acrylic Paint - Metallic Sequin Black

Tsukineko ~ Versafine Ink Pad - Onyx Black

Whispers ~ Embossing Powder - Baby Blue

Stampendous ~ Embossing Enamel ~ Aged Teal

Sparkle-N-Sprinkle ~ Embossing Powder - Seafoam

Ranger ~ Emboss It Dabber

Amazing Casting Resin - White

Helmar 450 Quick Dry Adhesive

Wonder Tape ~ Foam Tape

Wagner ~ HT 400 Heat Gun

Thanks for stopping by! I treasure your comments.

~ Blessings ~

Christmas Ornament Tags for the Leaky Shed Studio/BoBunny Product Swap

Leaky Shed and BoBunny are teaming up all December long to inspire you with fabulous projects and products!

For my second swap project, I've created Christmas ornament tags combining the gorgeous products from Leaky Shed Studio and BoBunny. It's become a tradition for me to create special handcrafted ornaments for each of our children for Christmas. This year, I have decorated fabulous Leaky Shed ornaments and attached them to tags created with beautiful BoBunny products. They can be used as a decor piece or the ornaments can be removed to hang on the tree.

Tips & Techniques

This tree isn't really meant to be an ornament, however, decorated and backed with lovely BoBunny paper, it turned out to be a darling one. I painted the chipboard white, then heat embossed with sparkly holographic embossing powder. I edged parts of the tree with a snow marker, then added more sparkle with dabs of BoBunny Gold Glitter Paste and Mocha Gems. The music paper backing the tree was spritzed with green Glimmer Mist. I cut the little packages from BoBunny paper and wrapped the tree trunk and packages with jute twine.

I cut this snowflake from corrugated cardboard, dry brushed with white gesso, sprinkled with silver glitter mix, dabbed with Gold Glitter Paste, and finished off by centering with a Mocha gem.

This tag is for our son, and I wanted to have a masculine feel. I changed up the BoBunny Chipboard stickers by arranging the "JOY" letters onto the ruler piece and inked the edges.

I painted this Snowflake Scroll Ornament using gold on the rim and white for the snowflake, leaving the scrollwork bare. The scrollwork is brushed with BoBunny Copper Glitter Paste and the snowflake with Silver Glitter Paste. The tag is splattered with white drawing ink for a snowy effect.

I cut this darling deer tag from BoBunny paper and distressed the edges before wrapping with twine. I backed it with burlap and white chicken wire. I created the background snowflake by misting through a stencil with BoBunny Sugar Glimmer Spray and when dry stenciled again with Silver Glitter paste.

This ornament is super easy to create. I painted the Leaky Shed Studio Snowflake Ornament with white gesso and when dry brushed lightly with BoBunny Silver Glitter Paste and centered with a BoBunny Pearl from the Powder Mountain Gems.

The tag is stamped randomly with the BoBunny It Is Written stamp, misted with BoBunny Gold Glimmer Spray, the splattered with white drawing ink.

There are so many beautiful elements and tags on the BoBunny papers. I've cut out some of them to finish off my tag. I've inked the edges and splattered with more of the white ink. The flower is layered with BoBunny Christmas Collage Petals and centered with a Mocha Gem. I had some overspray of Gold Glimmer spray on my craft mat and rubbed my flower through it to highlight the tips. I've punched layers of Christmas Collage paper for the bottom and edged them by brushing with Gold Glimmer Spray.

Check out this amazing prize package:

BoBunny has generously provided this fabulous give-away package for one of our fortunate followers. 

To be eligible to win you need to do the following:  

~ Leave a comment on each Leaky Shed Studio Facebook Page Post during the swap, December 9 to 31. You have until midnight EST on January 3rd to leave your comments. 

~ The randomly selected winner will be announced on January 5th, 2015.  Be sure to check out our links for more inspiration from our talented team.

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For a chance to win a fabulous Leaky Shed Studio chipboard prize package, stop on by the BoBunny blog for all the details.

Leaky Shed Studio Products

Snowflake Scroll Christmas Ornament

Merry Christmas Tree - Small

Snowflake Ornament

BoBunny Products

*** A special thanks to Juliana Michaels who shared her

BoBunny mixed media products with me. 

Christmas Collage ~ Decoupage

Christmas Collage ~ Glad Tidings

Christmas Collage ~ Caroling

Christmas Collage ~ Stamps

Christmas Collage ~ Comet 

Layered Chipboard ~ Christmas Collage

Christmas Collage – Petals

Double Dot – Jewels – Mocha 

Buttons – Mistletoe 

Jewels – Powder Mountain 

Stamps ~ It Is Written

Stamps ~ Holiday Wishes

Glitter Paste ~ Copper

Glitter Paste ~ Silver

Glitter Paste ~ Gold

DoubleDot ~ Sugar Glimmer Spray – Sugar

BoBunny ~ Double Dot – Glimmer Spray – Gold 

Other Products

We R Memory Keepers ~ Cardstock – Happy Campers Marshmallow

Ranger ~ Craft Tags - #8 Manila

Tim Holtz – idea-ology – Label Letters

May Arts ~ Metallic String Iridescent White (Really Reasonable Ribbon)

Snug Hug Seam Binding ~ White (Really Reasonable Ribbon)

Bead Landing ~ Hemp Cord with Metallic Twist

Jute Twine ~ Stash

Burlap ~ Stash

We R Memory Keepers ~ Cool Metal Eyelets - Wide

Darice ~ Berry Stems

Darice ~ Chicken Wire, White

Clearsnap by Donna Salazar ~ Mix’d Media Inx – Truffle, Jasmine

Clearsnap by Donna Salazar ~ Mix’d Media Inx CHOX – Sparrow

Ranger ~ Distress Ink – Brushed Corduroy, Gathered Twigs

Liquitex ~ Gesso – White; Extra Thick Gesso

Higgins ~ Drawing Ink - White

DecoArt ~ Dazzling Metallics Paint – Champagne Gold

Ranger ~ Embossing Powder – Holographic

Stampendous ~ Fran-tage – Silver Halo Glitter Mix

Tattered Angels ~ Glimmer Mist – Garden Fairy, Silver Bells

Marvy ~ Snow Marker

Martha Stewart ~ Punch – Eyelet Lace

Martha Stewart ~ Cake Stencils – Holiday 

Helmar ~ 450 Quick Dry Adhesive

Helmar ~ Premium Craft Glue

Helmar ~ ZapDots - 1/4" White

Zutter by Donna Salazar – Distrezz-it-All

Tim Holtz ~ Distress Tool

Karen Foster ~ Clickit

Liquitex ~ Splatter Brush

Thanks so much for stopping by. I treasure your comments!

~ Blessings ~

Mixed Media Wedding Card for Helmar

Weddings are such special occasions. I created this card for our cousin who will be married in a couple weeks. I've used Helmar Fabric Glue to adhere layers of lace onto the card and show how I arranged and adhered the circle of lace beneath the flower.

Wedding Card

Tips and Techniques

In the past, I would have stitched the edge of the lace to gather before placing on the card. Instead, I've used Helmar Fabric Glue to arrange, position and adhere. I squeezed out some glue in the center of the doily as shown.

Next, I bunched the edge of the lace together with my fingers to form a half medallion and set it into the Helmar Fabric Glue. This adhesive works perfectly because it gives me time to work with the lace and position it just right, then sets within a minute or so to hold it in place. 

Before adhering the paper doily in place, I adhered a strip of lace across the card using Helmar Fabric Glue, just down the center of the lace where it would not be visible on the finished card. Then once the doily and lace medallion were in place, I adhered the smaller scalloped lace and ribbon roses using more of the Helmar Fabric Glue.

I've been working on cleaning out my scrappy area and had thrown some scraps of white cardstock into the trash. As I was designing this card, I decided to rescue those scraps to create my focal flower using the Sizzix Tattered Florals Die (Tim Holtz). I adhered the flower layers together using Helmar Super-Tac EVA Glue. If you're looking for stamens to use for handcrafted flower centers, check out the wedding floral department of your local craft store.

I know, I know - It looks like I've covered up most of that lace medallion I created; however, the layers add so much lovely dimension as seen here, and the card just wouldn't be the same without those details. 

Because I have created a mixed media background, most of my other elements such as the bow, flower, and die cut leaves are adhered with Helmar 450 Quick Dry Adhesive.

The base of my card front is a piece of patterned cardstock weight paper that I gessoed, painted. stenciled, stitched and distressed. After decorating I adhered it to my card base using Helmar Premium Craft Glue.

Helmar Products

Fabric Glue

Super-Tac EVA Glue

Premium Craft Glue

450 Quick Dry Adhesive

Other Products

GCD Studios by Donna Salazar ~ Spring in Bloom 12 x 12 pad

Cardstock, white

Glossy Cardstock ~ white

Petaloo ~ CMC Canterbery Spray, white

Stamen - can be found in the wedding floral department of your craft store

Hug Snug ~ Seam Binding, white (Really Reasonable Ribbon)

Lace and Vintage Lace ~ Stash

White Thread

Liquitex ~ Gesso, white, clear

Caran D'Ache ~ Neocolor II

Grumbacher ~ Academy Artists' Watercolors

Golden ~ Light Molding Paste

Martha Stewart Crafts ~ Stencils, Eyelet Lace

DCWV ~ Template, EM-011-000010

Sizzix by Tim Holtz ~ Tattered Florals Die

3 Tailed Chrysanthemum Cut File ~ Silhouette Store Image

Doily Cut file ~ Created from PixelScrapper Image
Zutter by Donna Salazar ~ Distrezz-it-All

Martha Stewart ~ Mini Score Board

Sizzix ~ Big Shot

Silhouette ~ Cameo

Darice ~ Heat Tool

Viking ~ Designer 1 Sewing Machine

Thanks for stopping by today! I treasure your comments.

~ Blessings ~

"Souls Have Dreams" Tag for Leaky Shed Studio and Altered Pages

If you haven't been to the Leaky Shed Studio blog this month, you really should hop over there for fabulous inspiration. Leaky Shed Studio is partnering with Altered Pages and our teams are creating projects using products from both companies. I've created this tag/wall hanging which would be great for a milestone or graduation and fits with our theme this month of "Flies."

"Souls Have Dreams"

Leaky Shed Studio Blog: HERE

Altered Pages Blog: HERE

Tips and Techniques

This is the Large Spring Butterfly by Leaky Shed Studio. In order to achieve the layering, I soaked the chipboard in warm water for a few moments until soaked through. Then I carefully pulled apart 4 layers from each wing. (Don't worry if your wings don't pull apart perfectly - mine tore in a couple places, but by the time it is gessoed and glittered, those little imperfections are never noticed.) I dried with a heat tool, shaping the wings as I dried. Once dry the layers hold their shape well. I then painted with Gesso and used a paint brush to apply stickles for some sweet sparkle. To finish it off, I colored the antennae with a Distress Marker and placed a couple small Prima flowers down the center. 

Altered Pages sent me an amazing selection of gorgeous butterfly images.  I received a sticker sheet of gorgeous vinyl butterflies. I wanted them to be dimensional with gently curved wings, so I applied the stickers to white cardstock, and fussy cut around the images.

I have to share a funny story. I found this great quote, however, it said, "Birds have wings." I carefully wrote it out on the tag, then realized it did not go with the butterflies. I'm so thankful for gesso which I painted over my first sentiment before changing up the sentiment to go with my butterflies.

I fussy cut this transparency monarch image from Altered Pages. I also stamped sweet butterfly wings around the word "wings" in my sentiment. I needed to pop up the sentiment to layer it over the thicker velvet, so used 3D Foam tabs from Altered Pages. 

Across the bottom, I've layered a length of lace embellished with adhesive half pearls.

Here's a close-up of one of the vinyl butterfly stickers.

I used a variety of distressed fibers to tie my tag. 

The background is stenciled, misted and dry brushed with gesso.

I've layered in a doily, feathers, and chicken wire. 

Leaky Shed Studio Products

Large Spring Butterfly 

Altered Pages Products

Muse on a Wing Rubber Stamp Set

Wings and Things Transparency Sheet

Vinyl Butterfly Sticker Sheet

3D Foam Tabs

Other Products
BoBunny ~ Primrose - Bliss, Time Washed, Garden
BoBunny ~ Small Doilies
White Cardstock ~ Stash
May Arts ~ Netting 1.5" (Really Reasonable Ribbon)
MayArts ~ Crochet Lace 5/8", Pink (Really Reasonable Ribbon)
Hug Snug ~ Seam Binding 1/2", White (Really Reasonable Ribbon)
Hemptique ~ Bamboo Cord 20lb (Really Reasonable Ribbon)
Mauve Organza ~ Stash
Mauve Velvet Ribbon - Stash
Prima ~ Silverwood Rose - Cottage
Darice ~ Feathers, pink
Lace, white - Stash
Self-adhesive Pearls, Pink - Stash
Darice ~ Chicken Wire, White
Fountain Pen with Mauve Ink
Liquitex ~ Gesso, White
Beacon ~ Fast Finish Decoupage
Golden ~ Light Molding Paste
Ranger ~ Distress Stickles, Worn Lipstick
Heidi Swapp ~ Color Shine - Gold, Primrose
Ranger ~ Distress Marker - Old Paper
Clearsnap by Donna Salazar ~ Mix'd Media Inx - Chiffon
TCW ~ Art Is - 6x6" Stencil
Helmar ~ 450 Quick Dry Adhesive
Zutter by Donna Salazar ~ Distrezz-it-All
Tim Holtz ~ Grid Blocks
EK Success ~ Honey Bee Scissors
We R Memory Keepers ~ Crop-A-Dile

Thanks for stopping by Today! I treasure your comments.

~ Blessings ~

"Live the Life" Grungy Birthday Card for Donna Salazar

The trees are now bare and the cooler temperatures are settling in. We've not started a fire in our wood burner yet, but the wood is stacked next to the house ready to go. I know some of my dear followers in the Southern hemisphere are entering the hot days of summer-like weather as it cools off here.

I have created a grungy, masculine card with a steampunk edge featuring The Zutter Distrezz-it-All by Donna Salazar Designs and her Spellbinders Sprightly Sprockets dies.

"Live the Life"

Tips and Techniques

I cut these gears from thin chipboard using Donna's Spellbinders Sprightly Sprockets dies with the Spellbinders Artisan X-plorer. This machine has more pressure and cut the chipboard in just a couple passes. I swirled together some metallic copper and metallic back acrylic paint and brushed thickly across the gears. While wet, I used my heat tool to bubble and dry the paint to get this grungy, weathered texture. Then I randomly applied more metallic black paint and heated again. You could use any colors to get the effect needed for your particular project. 

Here's another view of the small gears. You can also see the grungy corrugated board in this shot. 

First, I cut a piece of Donna's Want2Scrap Corrugated Board just a little larger than the finished size I wanted. I then spritzed with water and pressed on the corrugated ridges pushing them down in different directions to get a wavy, grungy look and dried. Once dry, I deeply distressed the edges in my Distrezz-it-All which distressed cardboard with ease.  

Then I spritzed again with water, then very lightly with Donna's Wood Stain Smooch Spritz by Clearsnap and splattered with her Caramel Latte Smooch. I added a couple more sprays of Wood Stain to the overspray on my craft mat along with a couple spritzes of water, then dragged the edges of the corrugated board through the watery mist to color and darken the edges. When there was just a small bit of mist left on the sheet, I put the corrugated board face down and rubbed across the rest of the mist to highlight the ridges. 

Here you can see the larger gear and all the grungy layers including: Donna's Want2Scrap Canvas fringed and inked, then layers of dark brown cardstock and Donna's Natural Beauty papers - all distrezzed with my Distrezz-it-All. As you can see I have distressed some of the papers lightly and some deeply to get a variety of textures. I've covered most of my stamping up, but have used some of Donna's Art Gone Wild stamps on the background. 

One final shot of the grungy texture and layers. 

Donna has now released her Distrezz-it-All V3.0.

For all the details and a demonstration of this handy machine, 

check out her Youtube video here.

Donna will be giving away a new Distrezz-it-All V3.0 when

her Distrezz-it-All Facebook page gets 2,000 likes.

For other ways to enter this drawing go here. 

Donna Salazar Designs Products

GCD Studios ~ Natural Beauty 6 x 6 pad and 12 x 12 collection

Clearsnap ~ Mix'd Media Inx: Black, Leather, Pewter, Honey, Stormy

Clearsnap ~ Mix'd Media Inx CHOX: Midnight, Sparrow

Clearsnap ~ Smooch Spritz: Caramel Latte, Wood Stain

Want2Scrap ~ 7" x 7" Canvas

Art Gone Wild Stamps ~ Binoculars

Art Gone Wild Stamps ~ Brass Corner

Art Gone Wild Stamps ~ Ruler

Spellbinders ~ Sprightly Sprockets

Zutter ~ Distrezz-it-All

Other Products

Thin Chipboard

Black Webbing ~ May Arts - Really Reasonable Ribbon

Jute Ribbon ~ Really Reasonable Ribbon

Visual Artistry ~ Tim Holtz - Life's Possibilities

Folk Art Acrylic ~ Metallic Sequin Black

DecoArt ~ Dazzling Metallics - Worn Penny

Helmar ~ 450 Quick Dry Adhesive

Helmar ~ Premium Craft Glue

Helmar ~ Fabric Glue

Spellbinders ~ Artisan X-plorer

Martha Stewart ~ Mini Score Board

Darice ~ Heat Tool

Thanks for stopping by! I treasure your comments.

~ Blessings ~

Treasured Memories for the October Really Reasonable Ribbon Blog Hop

Good morning and welcome to the Really Reasonable Ribbon October Blog Hop.

  

If you've just been inspired by Jeannie's fabulous work, you are in the right place. If not, you can join us for some autumn inspiration with the gorgeous October RRR Ribbon Club Assortment by hopping on over to the RRR Blog to start at the beginning. There you will find all the blog hop and prize details.

Just look at the gorgeous ribbons in this month's RRR Ribbon Club Assortment! It's time to start thinking about Christmas projects and cards. These holiday ribbons in nontraditional colors are perfect to get those holiday projects going!  Are you a Ribbon Club Subscriber? If not, you can sign up here and start receiving one of these gorgeous assortments each month. 

"Treasured Memories"

Yes, in my typical style, I decided "not" to create a Christmas project. Of course these collections are so versatile, they can be used a lot of different ways. This is an anniversary card for our son and his wife who will be celebrating their second anniversary soon. 

Tips and Techniques:

The October Ribbon Club Shimmer Turquoise ribbon was a little bright for these Donna Salazar Spring in Bloom papers, so I misted it with Cork Glimmer Mist. Here's a tip for transforming your ribbons with mist. Trim off a small piece of the ribbon and spritz it with mist, then allow to dry to see if you've achieved the desired color. I created this triple loop bow using Ginny's Double Loop Bow Tutorial found here. Bonnie is now selling the Zutter Bow-it-All which makes very fast work of gorgeous bows. 

I just adore the sweet Wild Orchid Crafts Mulberry Flowers in the RRR Store. Here I've used a 25mm Cottage Rose in Mixed Purple/Lilac. I added a berry sprig and raffia from my stash. The sweet Catherine White Crochet Lace is part of the October Ribbon Club Assortment.

I also the Double Faced Light Silver Ribbon and White Lace from the October Ribbon Club Assortment as a border here on the inside of my card. I just adore how the silver ribbon plays off the other colors in the papers! 

I printed the Happy Anniversary sentiment using Chopin Script Font from the internet. I then stamped the heart flourish around the printed sentiment. (I did size the sentiment to fit the stamp.) 

A quick and easy sentiment using these K & Company metallic stickers that goes perfectly with the anniversary theme.

I was inspired by the beautiful work of Andrea Ewen.

Really Reasonable Products used:

October Ribbon Club Assortment

WOC 25mm Cottage Roses - Mixed Purple/Lilac

Scor-Tape ~ 6" x 6"

I hope you've been inspired to grab your October RRR Ribbon Club Assortment and start creating!

Your next stop on the RRR October Blog hop will take you to 

to some amazing inspiration from Cheryl. 

Thank you for hopping through the Really Reasonable Ribbon Blog Hop with us today.

Thanks for stopping by! I treasure your comments.

~ Blessings ~

"Smile" for Donna Salazar Designs

Oh these cooler fall days are so pleasant and the hints of color in the trees are becoming more robust. By next week, there should be lots of gorgeous color.

I decided to go fun and funky with this page of my sweet niece for Donna Salazar Designs. Doesn't she have a contagious smile? She was sitting outside on a retaining wall that beautiful sunny day, kind of like the one I created here. 

Of course I featured Donna's Fun & Funky paper collection by GCD Studios and lots of fun Clearsnap inks and mists.

"Smile"

Tips and Techniques:

I enjoy creating these sweet Bitty Blossoms roses. Here I used a mix of different GCD Studios paper collections designed by Donna along with a couple mulberry Bitty Blossoms created with her Mix'd Media Stax 2. 

I tied the sweet denim bow using the Zutter Bow-it-All and added a crystal flourish by Want2Scrap. 

Each of Donna's paper pads come with a sheet of embossed images. I cut my "Smile" title and stars from the Family Jeans sheet. I get so much mileage from my 6"x 6" paper pads. I cut this fun banner from one sheet out of my Fun & Funky pad and added a little doodling at the edges. 

I did a fair amount of fussy cutting for this layout, from the photo of my niece to this gorgeous flourish cut from the image sheet in my 6" x 6" Natural Beauty paper pad. A tutorial for my Twine Flower can be found here. I altered it by wrapping around the loom 4 times instead of 2 and then cut the ends to make a fuzzy daisy instead of loops. 

I created these bricks with Donna's Want2Scrap 8" x 10" Small Bricks Stencil and light molding paste. I mixed and watered down Donna's - Caramel Latte and Wood Stain Smooch Spritz and brushed it like a wash over the bricks allowing it to pool and drip between the bricks. 

The scrollwork piece is die cut with the Spellbinders Garden Weave die. More hand cutting to create the grass, which is all one piece with the base tucked behind the torn corrugated board. 

For the wispy sky, First I spread Super Heavy Gesso across the page with a credit card and allowed to dry. Then I used my finger to swirl molding paste above the bricks for the sky. After it dried, I added water to Donna's Sea Breeze Smooch Spritz and brushed it across the molding paste to color. 

I cut this sun from chipboard using a Spellbinder Blossom Two die. It's easy to transform a chipboard flower into a sun by adding texture and bling, Here I layered on gel medium mixed with gold micro marbles, dabs of Clearsnap gold reinker, and Gold Glow Smooch Spritz. Most of the color comes from Donna's Vintage Mix'd Media Inx and shimmer from her Pralines & Cream Fairy Dust Glitter. The sun rays are stitched, adding gold seed beads as I went. 

Product List:

Paper

GCD Studios ~ Donna Salazar Designs - Fun & Funky: 6" x 6" Paper Pad, Funky Flourish Front
GCD Studios ~ Donna Salazar Designs - Family Jeans: Image Sheet, Denim Stripe B, Family Clouds B, Houndstooth B, Heirloom B
GCD Studios ~ Donna Salazar Designs - Natural Beauty: 6" x 6" Paper Pad, Blue Fence A
GCD Studios ~ Donna Salazar Designs - Mix'd Media Stax 2

Chipboard

Want2Scrap 8" x 10" Corrugated Board

Colors/Inks/Mists

Clearsnap ~ Donna Salazar Designs - Mix'd Media Inx: Patina, Peridot, Truffle, Vintage
Clearsnap ~ Color Box Pigment Ink Refill: Gold
Clearsnap ~ Donna Salazar Designs - Smooch Spritz: Wood Stain, Caramel Latte, Sea Breeze
Clearsnap ~ Smooch Spritz: Gold Glow
Americana Acrylic Paint - Driftwood

Dies

Spellbinders ~ Donna Salazar Designs - Bitty Blossoms
Spellbinders ~ Blossom Two
Spellbinders ~ Garden Weave

Stencils

Want2Scrap ~ Donna Salazar Designs - 8" x 10" Small Bricks Stencil

Bling

Want2Scrap ~ Donna Salazar Designs - Say It with Bling Finesse Swirls: Clear Rhinestones

Embellishments

Darice TOHO Beads - Round Galvanized Gold

Ribbons/Fibers

Hemptique Baker's Twine ~ Blue/White
DMC Embroidery Floss ~ #726
Cheese Cloth

Mixed Media

Clearsnap ~ Donna Salazar Designs - Emboss Gloss
Clearsnap ~ Top Boss Clear Embossing Powder
Clearsnap ~ Donna Salazar Designs - Fairy Dust Glitter: Pralines & Cream
Gold Mini Marbles
Helmar ~ Crystal Kote Gloss Varnish Spray
Golden ~ Light Molding Paste
Liquitex Super Heavy Gesso
Liquitex Gesso

Tools

Zutter ~ Bow-it-All
Spellbinders Artisan X-Plorer
Bazzill In-Stitch'z Piercing Tool and Foam Mat
EK Success Honey Bee Scissors
Adhesives
Helmar ~ 450 Quick Drying Adhesive
Helmar ~ Premium Craft Glue
Helmar ~ Scrap Dots

If you have time, stop by Donna's Blog to leave a comment there. Thanks!!

Thanks for stopping by! I treasure your comments.

~ Blessings ~

"The Journey" Once Upon A...Sketch October Challenge

Hello everyone!! This is my second post of the day. If you would like to view my Grungy Jute Rope and Burlap Ribbon Flower Tutorials for Really Reasonable Ribbon go here.

Today I'm here to share my first layout for Once Upon A...Sketch. What a delight to be working on Nadia's team. This month's sketch and journaling challenge gave me the opportunity to create a page I've been wanting to put together for a couple years now. I knew what photos I wanted to use, but locating them was quite a challenge since they are from 2000 to 2008. One of them had been mailed to me and misplaced 5 years ago. I'm so excited that I was able to locate it. Do I have your curiosity up? Here's my page about our daughter, Grace, and her dog, Ellie.

"The Journey"

Journaling theme: "The Journey . . ."

You are free to interpret our theme ANY WAY you like. It is for your inspiration and this theme word DOES NOT need to be part of your title or journaling. But please make sure your layout is based on the sketch below and includes journaling (hidden journaling is fine). Acceptable journaling is MORE than just a sentence, or generic writing such as date/place etc. It need to be present and at least 3 lines long. Remember, hidden journaling is perfectly fine but please DO let us know in your post where your journaling is! 

The Once Upon A...Sketch Challenges are designed to encourage us to journal. Sometimes the most important pages we create are not those with the most beautiful photos, but those that document important life events. That's the case for the page I created this month. I shed tears as I wrote up my memories of the amazing journey traveled by Grace and Ellie, reflecting on their special relationship as they achieved some pretty remarkable accomplishments together. Since I provided transportation, I was there for much of the training and all the dog shows. Ellie is no longer with us, and Grace now has a new Border Collie pup, Breezy. God has given her an amazing gift to read and train dogs. She will be teaching her first dog obedience classed this fall. Those who take her classes are fortunate indeed. I can't wait to see the journey you document in your scrapbooking this month for Once Upon A...Sketch.

Tips and Techniques:

My journaling says: "What started as a dream turned into an amazing journey just because you believed that you could accomplish great things with Ellie"

I have included this small amount of journaling below the photos, and wrote a "book" to include on the back:

I didn't include a close-up but the stamping in the corner says: To be all that is possible we must attempt the impossible. To be all that we can be we must dream of being more. A subtle reverence to this journey. 

A mix of Prima and Really Reasonable Ribbon Wild Orchid Crafts flowers. They were misted with glimmery lavender and gold. 

The clock in the background is a Tim Holtz, Sizzix die cut from chipboard. It was dry embossed with a crackle design, then painted and inked. 

I enjoy using jewelry findings on my LO's. This sweet butterfly charm was gessoed and then misted.

You can see some of the mixed media texture below the butterfly with sheetrock mesh, molding paste, and drippy mist. 

I laid out and penciled in my design, then stamped around the design as seen here. This prima clock face was gessoed and inked. 

A close-up of he prima Typo Bulb, flower and Dusty Attic chipboard border. You can also see a hint of the washi tape I layered onto the page. 

More stamping around these Prima metal findings. I applied gesso, mists, and rhinestones to these lovely pieces!

Here you can see more of my mixed medial texture achieved with Golden Glass Bead Gel applied through a Prima stencil. The Dusty Attic border was dabbed and painted with a mix of metallic paints using an ombre effect. 

I hope you'll play along with the OUAS October sketch challenge and create a page about a special journey in your life and document that journey in your journaling. Don't forget to share your layout on the OUAS Facebook Page.

Product List:

Paper

Maja Vintage Spring Basics ~ 1st of March, 2nd of April, 9th of April

Chipboard

Dusty Attic ~ French Garden Border 

Flowers

Really Reasonable Ribbon ~ Wild Orchid Crafts: 25mm Cottage Rose - Mixed Purple/Lilac

Really Reasonable Ribbon ~ Wild Orchid Crafts: Cosmos Daisy Stem Flowers - Purple/White

Really Reasonable Ribbon ~ Wild Orchid Crafts: Sweatheart Blossoms - White

Really Reasonable Ribbon ~ Wild Orchid Crafts: 20mm Open Roses ~ White

Prima ~ Troika, White #566869

Embellishments

Prima ~ Sunrise Sunset Vintage Trinkets #960278

Prima ~ Sunrise Sunset Vintage Trinkets #960346

Prima ~ Pebbles #655350

Recollections Resin #205888

Tim Holtz ~ Tissue Tape

K & Company ~ BW Neopolitan Adhesive Rhinestones

Butterfly Charm ~ Stash

Inks/Mists/Embossing Powder

Clearsnap ~ Donna Salazar Designs - Mix'd Media Inx: Berries

Clearsnap ~ Donna Salazar Designs - Mix'd Media Inx CHOX: Driftwood, Sparrow

Ranger Distress Ink ~ Shaded LIlac, Vintage Photo, Walnut Stain, Dusty Concord

Heidi Swapp ~ Color Shine: Gold

Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist ~ Purple Pansy, Blackberry Cordial

Zing ~ Clear Embossing Powder

Mixed Media

Golden ~ Light Molding Paste

Liquitex ~ Gesso

Liquitex ~ Glass Bead Gel

Lumiere Metallic Paint ~ Halo Violet Gold, Pearlescent White

DecoArt ~ Dazzling Metallics Paint: Splendid Gold

Stamps

Tim Holtz ~ Purely Random, Lost and Found, Flights of Fancy, Nature's Elements, Life's Possibilties

Stencils

Prima ~ Lattice #564766

The Crafter's Workshop ~ Ledger

Dies/Embossing Folders

Sizzix ~ Tim Holtz Clock Die, Gear

Darice ~ Crackle Embossing Folder

Adhesives

Helmar ~ 450 Quick Dry Adhesive

Helmar ~ Premium Craft Glue

Helmar ~ Zap Dots: 1/2" Square White

Helmar ~ Zap Dots: 1/4" Clear Square

Tools

Tim Holtz ~ Grid Blocks

Darice ~ Heat Tool

Thanks for stopping by! I treasure your comments.

~ Blessings ~