Polka Dog Dog Love

Hi and happy January. This will be my final post for the Roc Nicholas Design Team. I need to take a break. I may at some point, try again to be on a design team, but for now, I will not be doing any design work. I have enjoyed my time on Roc's Design Team. She has a great bunch of ladies who design for her using her stamps which I love and will continue to use.

For this tag, I went with a Valentine's Day theme. I've used Polka Dot Dog, Stacked Love and Heart Vine to create this tag. I went a wee bit crazy with the glitter , so the whole quote which is quite hard to read is "Love Rocks!"

 

Happy New Year (a few days early!)

December 26th means it's time for my final Design Team piece for 2016 and a feature on Roc's blog.

A few of her animals have gotten together for an early New Year's Party! I used a couple of mop-up pages in my small Dylusions journal for this party. I added a few of Tim's rub-ons that were laying on my craft table for some added interest along with some texture stamping. 

Stamps used are:
Ellie, Polka Dot Dog, Bunny, Dog, Flying Pig, Screaming Bunny, and Party Dog. Additionally I used, Stacked Boxes and Flying Heart.

These and ALL of Roc's stamps can be found at Stampotique.

Happy New Year, and we'll see you in 2017! Party on!!

 

Standing on LOVE

The 26th means it's once again my turn to be featured on Roc's blog as part of her Design Team!

Poor Dog is so sick of the fighting and arguing that is going on in the United States right now that he is Standing On LOVE!

Roc's stamps that I used for this tag are Corner Sun, Dog, Stacked Love and Flying Heart.

You can find all of Roc's stamps at Stampotique.

 

Caution!

Time for me once again on Roc's Blog. 

I've created a two page spread in my mini journal for Halloween. Bird Lady 
takes center stage only she's got a kitty in her pocket in place of her usual bird! Elly is out for a walk and she's picked up a kitty to travel with her as well! And Crooked House has a kitty sitting on the roof as well! I used Dot Leaf Border on the base as my "grass."

You can find all of Roc's stamps at Stampotique.

Good Day

The 26th and it's my day again to be featured on Roc's blog.

I started my postcard with a technique that Tim taught in Compendium of Curiosities 103 that I fell in love with. I can't share how I did the background, but it was done with Alcohol Inks. 

I reverse stamped Bird Lady. Then I stamped Flying Heart.  Finally,  I added a pop of Tim Holtz's Broken China Distress Ink to both. I heard the quote on a TV show and liked it, so I printed it out and added it. 

This postcard will be going to a player in Roc's Facebook swap group next month. There is still time to join!  https://www.facebook.com/groups/567598263326733/

All of Roc's stamps can be found at Stampotique. 

Now go have a good day!

 

Let's go!

It's the 26th, and that means it's my day to be the featured Design Team member on Roc's Blog!

Bunny and (retro 60's) Camper are off on a vacation! Destination unknown. Hopefully someplace cooler than it's been here in Florida! They don't call them the Dog Days of Summer for nothing!

I used Distress Inks to color my background, then used my Arrows stencil  and Splotches stencil for some visual interest. I reversed Bunny so he could pull Camper and used my PrismaColor pencils to color both.Hopefully they will send a postcard when they reach their final destination!

I will be giving this postcard to one lucky commenter from here and my Facebook post. All names will be thrown in the hat together. Just be sure I have a way to get in touch with you if I don't know who you are, please!

You Are My Sunshine

It's my turn again to be the featured Design Team member on Roc's blog.

My postcard will be doing double duty this month! It is also going to be my entry for the June/July postcard swap. I started with Roc's fabulous new stamp Corner Sun. And of course I had to use Screaming Bunny! Who wouldn't want him singing "You are my sunshine?!" Even one of Roc's cute Birds from Bird Border had to make an appearance! I had some sticky back canvas with a plaid design leftover from another project so I cut a few "flowers" as well.  This is a song that my dad sang to me when i was little, so it holds a special place in my heart. 

All of Roc's stamps can be found at Stampotique.

There is still time to join in on the June/July swap. Come check out Roc's Facebook page! https://www.facebook.com/groups/567598263326733/

Cardboard Roll Album

It's the 26th, so that means it's my day to be featured on Roc's blog 
as a member of her Design Team.

This is a picture heavy post, so grab a drink and enjoy!

I know a young lady who has anxiety issues. She also loves to make art. So I decided to make part of her gift and allow her to finish it as she wishes. I started with toilet paper tubes, flattened them, painted them, then used an old Graphic 45 paper pack and accessories, Botanical Garden to cover the tubes. Then I cut out 8 manilla tags using a Tim Holtz die and my Vagabond. Once they were cut, I used Dina Wakley Heavy Body Acrylic Paints and colored both sides and when that dried, I used Tim's Flourish stencil along with Dina's Gilt and Sterling paints thru the stencil. Then I stamped and cut out various Roc images and adhered them to the tags. Miss E can color the images as she chooses. Each tube holds two tags with images on both sides. 

Here are the stamps I used: Stacked Love, Screaming Bunny, Stand Tall, Polka Dot Dog, Crooked House, Ponytail, Flying Heart, Bunny, Flying Pig, Stacked Cups, Feline, Stacked Boxes, Ellie, Party Dog, Dog, Bird Lady, Heart Vine and last but not least Scalloped Lace Border.

Now, on to the pictures!

 I hope Miss E has as much fun coloring these images (plus a few others I will throw in for her to use however she wants) as I did making the mini album!

A Good Heart

The 26th of the month means it's my day to be featured on Roc's blog!

This month I've made a tag featuring Heart Vine and Polka Dot Dog. You can find these and all of Roc's stamps at Stampotique! And just between you and me, she's got some GREAT new stamp designs that just came out March 1!

I ran some Texture Paste thru a stencil for some background interest. I then colored my tag with Tim Holtz's Distress Crayons. I LOVE how new colors form when you blend the one that are side by side together with your fingers!  Then I used green embossing powder and embossed Heart Vine along one side. I used Tim's Lattice die and put it on the Heart Vine to climb on! I applied some Ranger Mercury Glass Stickles to the hearts on the vine for shimmer. Polka Dot Dog was colored using Dyan Reaveley Dylusions Inks. And he's not complete without a googly eye!!

 

Animal Mash-Up!

It's the 26th, and that means it's my day once again to be the featured Design Team member on Roc's blog.

I had an idea of what I wanted to do with this month's design. I stamped all of my animals and cut them out. But I had a little trouble with my scissors and I accidently cut their heads off! Oh well! I soldiered on best as I could. I got some of them mixed up. OK. I got ALL of them mixed up. I hope Roc doesn't mind that I made some new animals out of her stamp designs! ;)

I used every animal stamp of Roc's that I own. Ellie, Polka Dot Dog, PonyTail, Dog, Bunny, Feline, Screaming Bunny, and Party Dog. 
And I threw Scalloped Lace Border in for good measure! 

All of Roc's stamps can be found at Stampotique!