Hey there crafty folks! I hope you had a great weekend. Can you believe it's Monday already? *sheesh* This week the design team is fluttering around with a "Wings" theme. As you know, our Beary Sweet challenge is going on right now with the very same "Wings" theme! What a coincidence... :)
Last week Patricia used Colorbox chalk ink on her Pink Paislee butterfly wood shape with
great success. For my project today I decided to get out the acrylic paints and see what would happen.
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Hee hee, I can't say I totally love it, but it's not bad. I painted the russet color then used a dry brush to swish the lighter, orange-y color on the center parts. The swirls are made from Ranger's Liquid Pearls and a not-so-steady hand. Honestly, I can't draw a stick figure standing straight. *sigh*
The paper is Pink Paislee's Butterfly Garden 12x12 sheet of "
Flower Blooms". I cut is specifically to show the bumble bee and clock along the right edge. One of the things I really like about these decorated 12x12's is how I can pick and choose what section to use. The inside layers are also from the same sheet, but different sections and different 'scenes'. I'll add photos of the inside once it's completed. As the card came together I ended up putting the seam binding/calendar grouping on the right instead of the planned left corner. It covered the bumble bee but made more sense with the other elements.
The Beary Scrap will have loads of seam binding on the shelves soon - I can't wait for all the yummy colors! It's all wrapped up with a button from My Mind's Eye/Lost & Found/Madison Avenue. The pin is made from my supplies. I spritzed some of the mulberry roses with Vanilla Breeze Glimmer Mist. The grungeboard swirls were colored with distress stain and then spritzed with the same Glimmer Mist.
The calendar is a digital print and interchangeable with other months - I didn't attach it because I'm not sure how it will be used. I'm partial to May, though, since I celebrate my birthday all month.
You think I'm kidding, don't you?
I wanted to show you the layering that can be done with Distress inks and a
Ranger Blending Tool. Here's a photo of the three blending stages:
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Ok, maybe it's really only two stages! First I used green Peeled Paint on the edge and toward the middle a little, then used Vintage Photo on the edge only. Adding the Vintage Photo gives it a little more depth and a vintage feel!
Card Recipe
Paper: Pink Paislee Butterfly Garden 12x12 -
Flower Blooms and
Botanical Gardens (pink middle layer);
Bazzill Basics
Medium:
Distress Inks in Peeled Paint, Vintage Photo, Tattered Rose;
Glimmer Mist Vanilla Breeze; Distress Stickles in
Peeled Paint; Stickles
Star Dust; acrylic paint; Distress Stain Vintage Photo
Embellishments: Button from MME
Madison Avenue;
Mulberry Paper Roses; seam binding (in the store soon!);
Kaisercraft Pearls
Adhesives:
1/4" Scor-Tape;
Fabri-Tac
Tools: Scor-Pal;
Ranger Blending Tool;
Honey Bee Scissors
That's it for me. Thanks for visiting today, and remember to enter your "Wings" project in our challenge
HERE by April 30th. Good luck!
Cheers,
Susan
I always love the sketches from the Beary Scrap, but I think it's fun to remember that this sketch is not only great for cards! Jaimie always does a fantastic job of using the sketch for layouts, but you can think smaller too - like this tag that I made. Sure, I took a little artistic license, but, hey, that's what it's all about. Here's the sketch - See how I just squished everything in a little?
I pulled out some of the My Minds Eye Lost and Found/ Market Street collection. I always forget how beautiful this paper is, until I bring it out. I cut the tag with the Tim Holtz Tag die, and covered the patterned paper with Golden's Acrylic Medium and put a layer of tissue paper. Then I inked over some of the wrinkles using Distress Ink in Pumice Stone. You can still see the lovely paper, but it just makes it a little dreamy. I inked all of the edges of my papers with Crushed Olive. The bird and borders were cut from the paper. For final embellies, I added mulberry paper roses, Kaisercraft rhinestones, and seam binding.
