Happy Birthday dad

John's dad has a birthday coming up this week. He was a car guy in his youth, so I pulled out CTMH Crusin' paper pack and the stamp set that accompanies the Workshop On The Go. The old car is embossed with black embossing powder and pop dotted to give some dimension. I used Wishes Lower Layers pattern and turned it on it's side.

Lucky

Combining challenges again today. Sneaking in just under the wire with Linda's challenge for the week. Based, as always on the works of t!m!.  This week sponsored by Simon Says Stamp. And also the OCC challenge which is Luck O' The Irish. I used to participate in the OCC challenge and kinda got away from it, but now my friend Anita is one of the design team members, so I'm thinking I'm gonna get back to doing that challenge again.  

Linda's challenge was to use alcohol inks and make a plaid design. And the OCC challenge was to use a BINGO card and green on your design. So I used Lettuce, Oregano, Stream and Pitch Black alcohol inks to make my plaid design. Then embossed with t!m's BINGO embossing folder. I used Gold Paint Dabber and Claudine Hellmuth Studio Charcoal Black Acrylic paint to highlight the numbers and lines on the BINGO card. Pinky helped out by cutting 4 hearts from my corregated paper using the CTMH AP cartridge to make my "shamrock" and I used some of the CTMH papers from the Crusin paper pack to spell out 'lucky" to use instead of BINGO chips. Finally a 17 from my number plaquettes and I've got one more card to add to Debbie's box for the walk/run coming up next month!

Green eggs and ham

With a nod to Dr. Suess on St. Patrick's Day. Green eggs from my Americauna chickens and one brown on from Penguin, the Black Australorp and breakfast ham slices. Yum, yum!

Where In The World

is my Vagabond? t!m's got a great post up Vagabond about where your Vagabond is. Mine is on my table ready at a moments notice to spring into action!

SheArt Art Journal

When I was at Posh Scraps last weekend, Michelle had gotten the initial shipment of Christy Tomlinson's new line for Pink Paislee called SheArt and it was flying off the shelves! And since I was the one who told Michelle she had to order this line, I had to buy my fair share of the new product! I got the doily stencil and the 6 x 6 paper pack with two each of the different papers and the rub-ons and the paper dolls bits and pieces with a bunch of different images that you punch out and use as you see fit. And I couldn't wait to play with all of it! I used Golden Molding Paste to get some dimension using the SheArt doily stencil and the circles stencil I picked up last week at Michael's. Let it dry mostly on it's own, but since I'm not known for my patience, I ended up hitting it with the heat gun towards the end and it bubbled up some, but it added to the overall dimension I was going for, so I left it alone! Then I dabbed some spun sugar, wild honey and victorian velvet Distress Stains on my Kraft sheet and spritzed both sides of the journal pages with water and drug them thru the stains. Grabbed my Dyan Travelling Travis stamp set (I have two new sets on order, so you won't have to keep looking at the same three heads for much longer!) and stamped the three heads onto white cardstock and went a little crazy with Stickles and Liquid Pearls on them! Once they dried, I finished coloring in the faces with PrismaColor pencils and odorless mineral spirits and a stub. Used one of the rub-ons (the green wire-mesh looking spot on the lower left second page) and doodled on both pages . Using a few of the 6 x 6 pages, I cut out a house and doodled around the edges of it as well, then used a pencil lead to darken around the edges of the house and soften it a bit by rubbing my finger around the edges. Used my AP cartridge to cut out 6 banner pieces (with holes already in them!) and used some common household twine to string them up. Grabbed a few buttons from the ones I got from mom's friend Ruth and added them to the mix! I also found a package of 5 different patterned fabric ribbon at Posh and I loved the patterns, so there's a piece of it on the lower right of the first page. The sun, bird and butterfly are all from the SheArt paper dolls bits and pieces pack, as are the 3 sentiments I used.

I am also entering this inthe  Simon Says challenge for Anything Goes week.

Susan's Spring/Summer Swap

I just realized I never shared my swap cards from Susan's team swap! So I will rectify that now. 

 First up. I used Pemeberley paper pack for this one. This quickly became my favorite of the new paper packs! I used some of our new Color Ready Seam Binding ribbon and in my best t!m fashion, smooshed CTMH inks on my Kraft mat and spritzed them with water then drug the also water spritzed ribbon thru the color and left it all wrinkled up as I dried it with my heat gun so that it would stay wrinkly. The flower is the new Wooden Shapes-Flowers and I used my markers to color them, then dried with the heat gun and added Stickles for bling. I cut out the card and flowered paper using the CTMH Art Philosphy cartridge.

 Next up is Crusin'. The tire tracks and gas pump, I used black embossing powder on to give some dimension. Did the same technique with the ribbon on this as I did with Pemberley. The bottle cap is an add-on for this paper pack.

Last but not least is Footloose. This was my favorite paper when I saw it in the Idea Book. I always order the Workshop On The Go because you get an exclusive stamp set and two different embellishments along with the paper pack. I decided to random stamp the Bamboo cardstock with every stamp in the stamp set, and that is the piece on the bottom. I used my wave blade in my cutter using the wavy blue paper in the pack and highlighted the wave edge with some Stickles. The seahorse is also covered in Stickles and I used some raffia from my stash because I thought it went better with the "beachy" paper than the Seam Binding Ribbon did.

A Year of Memories

Last Saturday I went to Posh Scraps to do this adorable Memories canvas and chipboard album. The album is Maya Road and comes with 4 chipboard and 2 canvas pages. All the papers are Lily Bee and embellies are from different companies and were provided with the cost of the class.

We were given three hours to complete our books. I got my cover done and all 4 of the chipboard pieces covered with paper and my two canvas pages colored with my watercolor crayons and stamped! And I don't work slow!  It's taken me three days on my own to finish it up. Granted, a lot of time was spent waiting around while Stickles dried! Stickles is notorious for taking days and weeks and months to dry on paper. It's worse on canvas! I talked about how easily canvas will burn when you use a heat gun in an earlier blog post. Pay special attention to the July page and you'll see what I mean! I was talking to Diane, the teacher and not paying attention to my drying and not keeping the heat gun moving and I burned my canvas! No matter! I just made it part of my design.