pre-school grad gift

Good Morning!

Today is graduation day for Jasmine, she's going to kindergarten next school year!

She's so excited to start school!

I made her a little gift filled with tags with pictures on them and we'll stuff some cash in there for her.

I used the new cd3 Creating with Vintage Typography from Crafty Secrets. See the little streamers hanging from the flower? I printed those from the CD and I printed all the tags too.

It so super simple to make a quick gift, like I did here.

I used some supplies that were already on my table, the Artsy Banners stamped book page, flower and lace. I love when it works out like that.

I can't remember where I got the bandaide tin, I've had it a long time.

Since I took these pictures, I've punched holes in each tag at the corner and put them through a binding ring. I thought she would keep up with the tags better that way.

I punched various pictures of her into 1 1/4" & 1 1/2" squares and adheared them to the tags, I distressed around each one with Distress Vintage Photo ink and a blending tool, then I added the ribbon and buttons, so easy!

See all the tags, they are gorgeous!

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Have a fun safe weekend!

It's already a mad house around our tiny town!!

flower challenge

Happy Tuesday, friends!

Inspiration Emporium's challenge this month is flowers, anything you want to do as long as there are flowers involved. That was an easy one for me since I've been doing an art journal and playing with Dylusion spray inks and stamps.

The background pages are sprayed with a water bottle and then sprayed with the Dylusion inks. I used bubblegum pink, vibrant turquoise, squeezed orange and london blue, I did my stamping with archival jet black ink and did the outlining with a white Gellyroll pen.

To make the flowers I used one of the hats in the Dylusions Love Struck Lucy stamp set. I stamped it in a circle and put a stamped circle that I had cut out to go in the middle. I did the same thing with the small flower, I used a small circle stamp. I watercolored the the flowers with the inks and Tim's new fine tip water brush. You fill it with water, spray some ink on your craft mat, dip the water brush in the ink and start coloring, super easy and fun, you don't have to be perfect.

I stamped the leaves along the top and sides, it's from the Furthur Round the Edge stamp set and highlighted them with the white pen. The flower stems and bottom edge are from the same set.
The cat is from the Bits and Bats set, I gave him some white polka dots with the pen, just for fun.
The dots on the background sort of magically appeared when I sprayed the pages with water, they came through from another page, pretty cool!
The cute sentiment is from the The Right Words set.

Now, it's your turn to make your flower masterpiece and upload it to the Inspiration Emporium blog. Remember to use my coupon code ieirisgarden for your 10% discount!!

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Have a great day!

Sing for Joy

Good Morning!

I have another journal project to show you today, are you getting tired of them? I sure hope not because that's all I want to do!

It's Linky Party time again, post any sample you have created with any of our products at our 2nd Linky Party starting this Monday, May 5th and it runs for a week. A random.org winner will be chosen from all the entries to win a $50.00 Crafty Secrets Gift Certificate.

That's a great prize and it's so easy, just post your sample at the Crafty Secrets blog!

 

 For these journal pages I wanted to use Crafty Secrets Sing for Joy stamp set. I LOVE it, there are SO many cute images to use. One thing about journaling you have room for tons of stamps if you want to use them.

The background was sprayed with water and then sprayed with Dylusions bubblegum pink, squeezed orange and vibrant turquoise spray inks, then dried with my heat tool. I used the 5x8 dotted flowers stencil and my snowcap paint dabber to go around the the edges. I used the same stencil and my aqua paint dabber here and there for the dots. I used my Archival Jet Black ink to do my stamping and my white Gelly Roll pen for the little dogwood flowers. I colored the images with the spray inks and my fine tip water pen.

There is baby blue and cotton candy stickles in the flower centers and on the black stamped edge.

I put Glossy Accents in the bird bath to look like water. 

That's it, I hope you play along in the Linky Party, you never know, you could be the winner!

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Have a great day, thanks for stopping by!

watercolor challenge

Happy Thursday friends!

I've got another art journal project to show you today.

This month Inspiration Emporium is doing a watercolor challenge, perfect for my Dylusions spray inks and my Ranger fine tip water pen!

I've discovered you don't need many supplies at all to do these pages. I aways write down my supplies as I'm working on them and I have very few, just the spray inks, Archival ink and a stamp set or 2! The only paper I use is cardstock if I want to stamp and cut something out. I haven't used any patterened paper yet, the horror, LOL! I did use some pink and cinnamon Stickles on her color and the other ones hair bow.

I sprayed the pages with water first and then sprayed on my inks to get them running, closed the pages to get the ink on both pages and then dabbed off the excess with a paper towel. I used one of Tim's tricks of spraying my fingers and flecking the pages to get the water splotches. I dry it all with my heat tool.

I stamped and cut out the mushrooms and girls and watercolored them with my Dylusional spray inks and the waterbrush filled with water. I outline things here and there with my white Gelly Roll pen.

The sets I used are Dylusionals The Right Words, Love Struck Lucy, Further Round the Edge and Doolally Dorris.

Now it's your to upload your watercolor project at the IE blog for a chance to win $50 IE bucks, WOOHOO, that's a great prize! Don't forget about my coupon code ieirisgarden for your 10% discount on your IE goodies!

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dahlias & sunflowers

I'm back with a couple more art journal pages, they make me happy :)

I felt like I was in such a rut until I took Tim's Creative Chemistry 101 class and happened on some videos by Dyan Reaveley. Something just clicked for me, learning to use ink in different ways!

Now, I'm an inky mess when I go to work every morning, LOL! 

I used the Crafty Secrets Sunflower and Dahlia stamps for my pages, they are so pretty watercolored!

I stamped them with Ranger Archival Jet Black ink and used my fine tip water brush and Dylusions spray inks for the coloring. The background pages were done by spraying them with water and the Dylusion inks and letting them run together and I dried them with my heat tool. The white leaves around the edge of the pages were made with the 5x8 Lucious Leaves stencil and the snowcap paint dabber, I outlined them with a black Sakura archival ink pen. I dabbed some Rock Candy Distress Stickles on the flowers, I wish you could see it better. 

If you haven't got all inky, I urge you to give it try! I love the idea of art journals, all your pretties in one place. You only have so much wall space and so many cards to send :)

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Have a great day, thanks for stopping by!

WARNING ~ grab your shades!

Are you ready for some vibrant inky color?!

Boy oh boy, did I ever have fun with this, maybe a little too much fun, lol!

I got a little ink happy here with Dyan Reaveley's Dylusions inks sprays, aren't they gorgeous?

I'm still in the learning process with the art journals, but, I'm having so much fun along the way!

The cute little lady is from Dylusions Love Struck Lucy stamp set. Dyan draws all of her stamps and they are so much fun, you can mix and match heads and bodies and wings etc. I water colored her with Dylusions ink sprays in bubblegum pink, squeezed orange, vibrant turquoise and melted chocolate. I used Tim's new watercolor detailer tip water brush. I sprayed my mat with the inks and put water in my brush, dabbed it in the ink and painted away. Lucy's wings are covered with pink Stickles.

The background is done with a spray water bottle and Distress stains. I sprayed my papers with water, I got it pretty wet and then I just rubbed my stains over the watered pages and dried it with my heat tool. I used the Dylusions Basic Backgrounds numbers stamp to stamp randomly on the pages with Archival ink in Vermillion, the hearts and word circles you see are from the Love Struck Lucy set stamped with Archival Jet Black. I added some chipboard hearts covered with Fruit Punch Stickles. I stamped the words from the Dylusions The Right Words set, cut them out and glued them on. After I was all done I sprayed both pages with Goosebumps clear texture spray, WHOA, that's where all the shine comes from, my glasses automatically went into shade mode, HA!

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I hope you try getting crazy with your inks, it sure is fun!

Have a great weekend and thanks for stopping by!

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the winner is.....

SuZeQ said...

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY! I thank my lucky stars every time I visit your blog - your work inspires the heck out of me. I have been seeing posts everywhere about Tim's on-line classes. I think it's about time I showed up to class! Thanks for this great giveaway - you're always so generous. I appreciate YOU.

Congrats SuzeQ, you're so sweet! I'll send you an email shortly for your address.

I want to thank everyone for visiting and commenting on my blog!
 

Art Journal & my anniversary give-away

Happy Tuesday!

I've got something to show you today that is totally different than my normal paper crafting.

I'm taking Tim's Creative Chemistry 101 online class and I have learned so much about the different Ranger inks and all the ways to use them.

I've also been watching Dyan Reaveley's videos from CHA on YouTube, I love her style of art! I was amazed by her art journals, just gorgeous! I was on a mission Saturday, going to flea markets looking for an old journal.and I found a small one with black suede covers, perfect! I spent most of the day Sunday trying my hand at a journal page, I have never been so inky in my life. One thing stuck in my head from Dyan, you never mess up, just go with it! This was really hard for me, usually everything has it's place and the ink has to be stamped perfectly, etc.

 

The background isdone with Ranger Distress Stains in Broken China, Spun Sugar, Sage Shadow, Peeled Paint & Fired Brick. I also used my Copic Opaque White and black & white Enamel Accents. Everything was stamped withArchival Jet Black ink. All of the stamps I used are by CraftySecrets, I used ABC Tophat for my letters, Flourishes, Mini Memories and Antique trims. SWEET Campells Soup painter girl is from a new set called All Dolled Up, Sandy said it will be available this Thursday in the store, I adore this set, it's a sweet paper doll set, ahhhh, the sweet memories of childhood! I thought she went perfect with the art journal theme!

In Tim's class he taught how to use the  Ranger inks in so many different ways. For my background, I misted the page with water and then I went to town adding my stains everywhere, I sprayed on more water, wiped off the excess and dried it with my heat tool. Then I misted some water in my hand and flicked it on the page for the water marks and dried that. All of the stamping was done after I did the background. The little girl is paper pieced with paper from my Crafty Secrets Creating with Patterns CD.

Sandy showed me a video yesterday by Diane from New Zeland. She uses Tim's ticket die and Distress inks to make the coolest embellishments, you gotta check it out.

So, what do you think? Remember, it's my very first journal page, please be gentle :)

I've really been in a stamping slump lately, I feel so into it now with a new way of creating for me. Tim's Creative Chemistry 101 class and Dyan Reaveley work have opened a new door for me, I'm pretty darned excited about it!

I'm waiting on a HUGE order from Inspiration Emporium, oodles of Dyan's goodies and the Distress Markers.

If you place an order from Inspiration Emporium don't forget to use my coupon code ieirisgarden at check out for 10% off your order.

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I was going to put up this post yesterday on my 5th blogoversary, but, I had an emergency.

Terry was on his way to physical therapy and got sick, he made it to the ER in Heber Springs, I met him there and it turns out he has a kidney stone. I'm not working today, he hasn't passed it yet and he's still in pain, he's staying drugged up, poor guy.

Anyway, I'm doing a give-away for my blogoversary!

I've got 2 bottles of Glimmer Mist, 2 Crafty Secrets Image and Journal Booklets, 2 Copic markers, 3 pages of lace stickers by Crafty Secrets and a Creating with Vintage Patterns CD by Crafty Secrets.

Just leave me a comment and your contact info and I'll pick a winner  Monday April 2.

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I hope you have great day, see you Monday with my give-away winner.

Good Luck!

 

Flapper Fashions

Happy Friday!

I've got a flapper girl to show you today. This stamp set is by Artistic Outpost and it's called Flapper Fashions, I just checked over at Inspiration Emporium and it looks like they sold out right now. You can contact them to see when it's available again or head over to Artistic Outpost and find it there.

 I stamped the lady on cardstock with Ranger Archival Jet Black ink and stamped her again on paper from the MME Stella Rose 6x6 paper pad. I cut out her dress and paper pieced it on the girl. I colored her skin and hat with Copic markers.

I added Ranger Distress ink in Vintage Photo, Bundled sage, Broken China and Rusty Hinge to the tag with my blending tool. Then I used 2 stamps from the set, the flapper words and the flower border, I stamped the border 3 times on the bottom of the tag, I colored some tissue tape with Copic markers and put it on the side of the tag. I think it's so cool that you can color this tape any color you need with the Copic's!

I cut the Sizzix Alterations Mini Tattered Floral flower twice and added a black vintage button threaded with black twine to the center. I cut 2 hearts from the Mini Love Struck die and adhered them to the end of the tissue tape. I had a piece of the paper lace that I had cut with the Vintage Lace die and put it along the egde and added the Kaiser pearls on each scallop.

I adheared the girl to the tag, oh, I colored her necklace and bracelets with my Stardust Gellyroll pen and put a tiny Kaiser rhinestone on her ear for her earring.

I stamped and cut out the Jazz-Age and mounted it with foam dots.

I added the vintage photo corners to the bottom and some May Arts ribbon at the top of the tag. 

Remember to use my 10% off coupon code ieirisgarden at check out when you order your Inspiration Emporium goodies!

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I hope you have a great day and weekend!

Inspiration Emporium Pocket Watch

Hi friends!

I've got something fun to show you today.

The Inspiration Emporium team was challenged to use our Idea-ology pocket watches.

I LOVE these pocket watches, they are so fun to alter!

      You can add family photos or make a cute little shaker out of them. I turned mine into a fridge  magnet  by glueing magnets to the back, it's on my fridge now. It makes me smile.

The background is a piece I cut from the Lost & Found Paper Stack. The stamped love & no.9 are from the Little Labels stamp set. I added a tiny piece of tissue tape behind the key hole at the top. All of the embellishments in and on the watch are Idea-ology fasteners & findings. I added the red Kaiser rhinestones to give it a little pop of color. Everything is glued down with E6000.

Now, go check out the Inspiration Emporium blog to see the rest of the teams pocket watches, you'll be amazed! Be sure and use my discount code ieirisgarden for a 10% discount on your order!

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We are in for buckets and buckets of rain the next few days, HAPPY SPRING!