Gelli Plate 'Thanks'

Happy Monday, friends!  Christmas break is over (boooo), and it's back to a regular schedule in this house, but we are going to make the most of it and embrace it the best we can.  I think I was made for retirement, haha, and not even a lavish one ;)  For Christmas this year, I received a gift from my awesome father-in-law.  He picked my name in the family drawing, and he went above and beyond.  I had made up a 'wish list' on Amazon for my husband, but my FIL had peaked in on it.  He took an idea and ran with it!  I was so excited and proud of him for what he got me!  I ended up getting a couple different sizes of Gelli plates along with an idea book and a brayer!

As a 'thank you' to him I made this card using the Gelli plates, acrylic paints, a couple of stencils, and a paint brush.  Oh goodness, this is so fun, and I can see making so many great and unique backgrounds!  The die I used came from Taylored Expressions.

Thanks for checking in and having a look!  I hope you are finding new to challenge your art :)

Documented Life 2015: January 1, 2015

Happy New Year, everyone!  I hope your year is off to a great start!  We are fighting some sort of sinus bug in our house after traveling to California, but thankfully we are mostly on the mend. 

With a new year comes newness all around.  I'm going to be more intentional about sharing my mixed media projects, in the hopes that it will make me more accountable.  I started the Documented Life Project 2014 in the middle of the year, because that's just when I happened to find it.  I love trying new art mediums, but like with all things there have been some growing pains.  Most of my stuff is just 'unsharable' in my opinion, however, I love the process and like all things it will hopefully get better with time.  Once again, I am doing the Documented Life Project 2015 with the lovely ladies from Art to the 5th.  It's a great way to art journal your way through the year, and I encourage you to check it out!

Our first challenge was book paper and the January theme is the blank page and how to tackle it.  The journal prompt was 'Your own goal Keeper', and since I'm usually pretty private about that, I chose to hide mine under a black tag that I decorated.  

My main mediums were acrylic paints, although I did use some perfect pearls and water, which as you can see can make ink smear.  I don't care, because I like the look of it here.

Thanks for stopping in!

Taylored Expressions: Tag-a-Long Valentine

Happy Monday!  We are on the way home from a wonderful trip to CA to visit my in-laws, but I wanted to make sure a schedule this fun card to show you.  It uses some great new products from Taylored Expressions:  Tag-a-Long Valentine with the matching die and the Twirls & Swirls embossing folder.  I stayed fairly simply with this card so I could focus your attention on the great new products.

Thanks for stopping in today!  Check out all of the new products I used in the TE Store:

Tag-a-long Valentine	Tag-a-long Valentine Dies	Embossing Folder - Twirls & Swirls	Premium Cardstock - Sugar Cube	Premium Cardstock - Lollipop
*memento tuxedo black full pad	*copic markers	*foam tape - 1/16" thick

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Pixie Toppers

Happy Monday, peeps!  I'm hope you're all enjoying getting ready for the Holidays. . .reflecting on family & friends, togetherness, and the real reason for it all.  I've been working ahead on some Valentine's projects using some Taylored Expressions goodies, and these little guys will be a win with my kids and their friends for sure.  I used a couple of new little dies from the Little Bits die collection called Stamp of Approval and Light Bulb.

Both use the Pencil Topper die and the Skinny Mini Borders dies, which fit pixie sticks so perfectly.  The Stamp of Approval die was paired up with Big Bold Valentine.

The Light Bulb die was paired up with one of the past Petite sets called Light Up My Life.  These turned out great!

I'm off to get a few more Christmas things prepped.  Thanks for stopping in!

Check out the products in the TE Store:

Little Bits - Light Bulb	Little Bits - Stamp of Approval	Pencil Topper	Skinny Mini Borders	*light up my life with coordinating dies
*big bold valentine	*zing! embossing powder - white opaque

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Color Throwdown #323 -- Missing You

Happy Saturday!  I love that I've found a bit more time to craft lately!  I was inspired by this week's Color Throwdown challenge #323 and some new products from Taylored Expressions.  Serisously, have you checked out the NEW products from TE?  Great stuff, I tell ya ;)

This card is pretty simple.  I used the Pieces of My Heart with a Coordinating die along with a banner from Build a Tag 1 die.  The background was made by splattering some white paint with a toothbrush, and the heart was made with watercolor paper and distress inks.

Thanks for stopping in and checking my project out.  Here are the links to the products I used:

Pieces of my Heart with Coordinating Die	Build a Tag 1	*memento tuxedo black full pad	Premium Cardstock - Toffee	Premium Cardstock - Peapod
Tim Holtz Distress Ink - Mini Set 4	Tim Holtz Distress Ink - Mini Set 7

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December's Studio Calico Card Kit

Hey Everyone!  I hope you're having a wonderful Friday!  We have plans to make snacks and watch Christmas movies tonight with the kids.  It's something we look forward to every year. 

Yesterday I received my first Studio Calico Card Kit in the mail.  If you've been to my blog much, y'all know I love a good card kit.  This is a great one!  I came with a lot of wonderful supplies.  This particular kit is a bit on the pricey side once you add in the shipping, but the contents are very good.  This one came with a stamp set, 4 sheets of cardstock, a 6x6 pack of designer papers, 3 kraft treat bags in a vellum pouch, a sheet of green stickers, a pack of enamel dots,  a wood veneer taxi, a roll of Christmas washi tape, and some purple string.

I was inspired by the Deconstructed Sketch #181.  I used a couple of things outside of the kit, like versamark ink, Distress embossing powder, and a die from Taylored Expressions; Label Stacklets 9 die.  The think I like most about this set, is that I really have nothing like it, which was hard for my husband to believe ;)

All right, well I'm going to get moving on prepping some snacks for movie night!  Y'all have a great weekend, and thanks for stopping in!

Christmas Spirit

 

Hey there, friends!  I'm feeling so productive, because last night I spent a good amount of time organizing my craft space.  Since being on the crutches I've only really gone down there to make a few things when needed, because it was such a chore to physically get myself down there.  Once I was down there, I better be sure I didn't need anything upstairs because I wasn't going anywhere, haha.  However, I am getting around much better on the crutches and even put some weight on my leg.  It's amazing to me that after 8 weeks of no weight bearing how ridiculously weak my leg is.  Now I KNOW I'm not 16 anymore ;)

I rewarded myself after organizing by making several things.  I don't mind a creative mess, but mine was out of control and now I feel very encouraged and even inspired!  This card I made was inspired by the ColourQ along with the new Simon Says Winter Inspiration challenge.  I used a lot of great goodies from Taylored Expressions:  Tag Stacklets 2 die, Tag Reinforcements die, On Dasher On Dancer die. City Skyline die, Deck the Halls stamp, as well as TE Matched papers.  Because I didn't have the exact colors that the ColourQ asked for, I used some distress inks and sponges to try and make a match.  I'm super pleased with how it came out!

Not only did I make a card, but as I was snapping the pictures of it, I saw this cute little bird out our bird feeder just hanging out.  I couldn't help but snap a picture of it.  Notice our grass is still green. . .where is all of the Midwest snow that I was used to when growing up?!

Thanks for stopping in.  Here are the links to all of the fabulous products I used from the TE store:

Deck the Halls	On Dasher, On Dancer	*city skyline	*tag stacklets 2	*tag reinforcements
Premium Cardstock - Sugar Cube	Premium Cardstock - Toffee	*memento tuxedo black full pad	Tim Holtz Distress Ink - Mini Set 7	*tim holtz distress ink - mini set 2
Tim Holtz Distress Ink - Mini Set 4	*ranger mini ink blending tool	*foam tape - 1/16" thick

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