FFF - Clouds

Woohoo it's Friday! Here is today's Farm Fresh Friday Challenge over at The Greeting Farm Blog. I'm hosting today and the theme is Clouds. As long as there's clouds in your project, you can enter.

I used the new Alice Bean stamp. This is a Limited Edition, so once they are gone, they are GONE. She's so cute and easy to color. My clouds element on my card were cut from the Mini Clouds w/Die stamp set. 

I added some faux stitching on the clouds with a white & black pen. The background I created using Lindy's Stamp Gang sprays and just some scrap pieces of paper that I used to create a mask for the diagonal stripes. I was trying to create sun beams =).

The sentiment is from a dollar stamp from Michael's. So there is my card for this FFF. If you crafting this weekend, come on over and play along this challenge. 

Thanks for stopping by! Have a crafty weekend!

TGF Stamps (Links provided): 

Alice Bean (Limited Edition)

Mini Clouds w/Die Stamp Set

Other Supplies:

Neenah Solar White CS, Memento Tuxedo Black Ink, Copics (Skin) E00/E11/E93/BV00/YG03 (Clothes) B0000/B00/C5/R27/R29 (Hair) C3/C5/C7/C9, Black CS, DP Scraps, Black Pen, Red Glitter, Glue Pad, Lindy's Stamp Gang Winter Jasmine Gold/Summer Lovin' Sun, Heat Gun, White Gel Pen, Stickles Crystal, Misc Dollar Stamp "Let's Do Lunch"

Winner Winner!

Check it out, the winner of the I Am Roses "Spring has Sprung" Blog Hop is announced.

Did you win???

**WINNER**

Good Luck!

DTT - Pink/Yellow/Turquoise

Hey Tuesday! It's a Double-Take Tuesday color challenge over at The Greeting Farm Blog.

Pink, Yellow and Turquoise

Here's my card using this color scheme. The image used is Queen Bean. She's colored with my Copics and jazzed up with Stickles for some added sparkle.

The sentiment "Smile" is from the Delicate Words Die, layered over vellum that is embossed with some polka dots. I added some faux stitching with a turquoise Sharpie marker inside of the white circle. 

This color combo was fun, can't wait to see what you guys come up with for this challenge. Thanks for stopping by and GOOD LUCK!

TGF Stamps (Links provided): 

Queen Bean (Limited Edition)

Delicate Words Die

Other Supplies:

Neenah Solar White CS, Memento Tuxedo Black Ink, Copics (Skin) E00/E11/E93/BV00 (Clothes) RV11/RV34/B00 (Hair) BG15/BG05/B00 (Crown) Y17/YR23/RV11/RV34/B00, Spellbinders Lacey Circles, 3" Circle Punch, Turquoise Sharpie Marker, Pink CS, Stickles Yellow/Crystal/Fruit Punch, White Gel Pen, Swiss Dots Embossing Folder, Yellow CS, Vellum Paper, OA Fly A Kite 8x8 Paper Pad

FFF - Bling It

Hello everyone! Yay it's Friday again =) This Farm Fresh Friday Challenge over at The Greeting Farm is "Bling It". I am using Queen Bean. I decided to use his photo as reference:

Inspiration Photo

Here's my card:

The base of my card is black cardstock. I used an embossing folder that had this dotted/line border. You can't see it, but there is an embossed image of a crown/wings in the center. I just wanted the border, so I covered it with this stamped image from Tim Holtz Book Covers. I sprayed some of my Lindy's Stamp Gang sprays in brown and edged it with Tea Dye/ Black Soot Distress Ink. I layered the TGF image on a Spellbinders Floral Motif Doily Die and punched out a circle out of book paper. I wanted the background to look like a book cover and that's why I used the book paper. To give the paper an aged look, I edged it with Tea Dye Distress Ink.

For my bling, I went Stickle crazy and drenched her in it LOL. It's on her crown, her hearts, earrings and her outfit/shoes. The "Hello" is from the Delicate Words Die and the paper I used is this red glitter paper. I cut a piece of black satin ribbon for the word to lay on.

So there's my card. I hope you guys are enjoying this Limited Edition release. They are just flying off the shelves. Please join us for this FFF Challenge.

GOOD LUCK!

TGF Stamps (Links provided): 

Queen Bean (Limited Edition)

Delicate Words Die

Other Supplies:

Neenah Solar White CS, Memento Tuxedo Black Ink, Copics (Skin) E00/E11/E93/BV00 (Clothes) R27/R29/C3/C5/C7/C9/B00/Y17 (Hair) C3/C5/C7/C9 (Crown) Y17/YR23/R27/R29/C5, Spellbinders Floral Motif Dies, 3" Circle Punch, Book Page, Red Glitter CS, Stickles Yellow/Crystal/Xmas Red, Stampendous Heart Sparklers Red Stickers, White Gel Pen, Black Satin Ribbon, Tim Holtz Book Covers, Misc. Embossing Folder, Distress Ink Tea Dye/Black Soot, Lindy's Stamp Gang Starburst Golden Sleigh Bells/Flat Fabio Sandra Dee Sepia, Ranger Jet Black Archival Ink

DTT - Sketch

Happy Double-Take Tuesday over at The Greeting Farm Blog!

 It's a sketch today.

Here's my card using the NEW Limited Edition Alice Bean.

Cuteness! I went for the classic Alice in Wonderland outfit  I had to double check what color her bow was. I first colored it blue but then I Googled an image and it was black lol. So i just colored the bow black separately and paper pieced it over the blue bow. That works for me!

I stamped the vellum paper with clock images and embossed it in white embossing powder. The sentiment is from a Tim Holtz stamp set. I included an image of a tea cup and tied a black satin ribbon at the top to mimic Alice's bow.

Oh and I added Stickles to her apron. Pretty simple card. Easy sketch, come and play and enter to win this fab stamp over at the TGF Blog.

GOOD LUCK!

TGF Stamps (Links provided): 

Alice Bean (Limited Edition)

Other Supplies:

Neenah Solar White CS, Memento Tuxedo Black Ink, Copics (Skin) E00/E11/E93/BV00 (Clothes) B29/B32/B0000/C3/C5/C7/C9 (Hair) YR20/YR21/Y17, Cosmo Cricket Circa 1934 6x6 Paper Pad, Vellum Paper, White Embossing Powder, Black Satin Ribbon, Black CS, Hero Hues Snow Chalk Ink, Unity Stamp Dec. Kit SSK-005, Kelly Panacci Time Flies Stamp Set, Heat Gun, White Gel Pen, Stickles Crystal

IAR "Journal Me This" April Challenge

*(Click HERE for the TGF "April in Wonderland" Blog Hop or Scroll down)

Hi it's me again with another Monday post for you. This time it is for the 

 I Am Roses APRIL Blog Challenge.  Head on over to the IAR Challenge Blog to get all the details on how you can enter to win some fabulous IAR flowers. Also we have a new addition to the IAR Design Team, Welcome Donna Smith!

So the title is "Journal Me This" and the challenge is to use flat flowers/petals. You can interpret this any way you want. Some of the DT gals made layouts and some made Journals. This is truly the first time that I made any real effort in Mix Media, so I made this journal cover. I am happy with the way it turned out. I've watched so many inspiring YouTube videos on Mix Media and thought "why the heck not, I'll give it a go"...even though I hate getting messy LOL.

Anywhoo...so here is the before of my cover. It's a page that I already started when I first played with my Gelli Arts Plate (Video here).

BEFORE

and here is the...

AFTER

Ta da! Hehehe. This thing took me the whole afternoon to complete. I really didn't know what look I was going for, dark or light...and dark it is! 

The page was already painted and had some designs from previous stencils. So I started out with some stamping in the background. Then began pulling out embellishments from my stash, laid them out on the page.  Some of the embellishments didn't go with the color scheme so I had to prep them with black acrylic paint, then I coated them with my sprays. While they were still wet, I sprinkled a metallic embossing powder then I set with my heat gun.

I chose four colors of  Lindy's Stamp Gang sprays and sprayed like there was no tomorrow. It was fun seeing how the colors mixed with each other and it pulled everything together. The edge of the cover was inked first with Black Soot Distress Ink then I took some black acrylic paint and went over the edges with  a foam brush.

I used the I Am Roses Small Daisy Petal Flowers and the Mini Hydrangea Flowers. I layered two together and added a clear rhinestone flower center, that I covered with black paint and the metallic embossing powder, topped with a small black rhinestone. I used hot glue for the paper flowers and glossy accents to adhere the metal elements to my page.

I added some Fusible Webbing mixed with some embossing powder to create another type of texture to my cover. Fusible Webbing is this type of dryer sheet-like material that when you apply a heat gun to it, it starts to melt and shrink to give this type of spidery texture/look on your project. If  you look at the bottom left corner and the right side of the oval frame, you can see where I applied it.

Another thing that I enjoyed doing on this project was using a texture paste (tutorial here) over a stencil to add even more dimension. I mixed some black acrylic paint to the mix because it was initially white. Then I used Tibetan Poppy Magical Mica from Lindy's Stamp Gang over it for some shimmery goodness.

I can't tell you how much fun I had playing with everything. This challenge really had me step outside of my comfort zone. I'm a pretty neat person, i think, and to get my hands messy and just try different techniques was a blast. So...I hope you guys can play along this IAR Challenge. You don't have to get all mix media'd out. You can create whatever you want and it just depends on how you interpret our title "Journal Me This".

Thanks for taking the time to read everything I wrote and I hope you enjoyed my post(s) for today.

Have a fab Monday!

I Am Roses Products (Links provided):

P70-15 White Small Daisy Paper Petal Flowers

P9-15 Mini White Hydrangea Scrapbooking Flowers

BF1-150 Small White Butterflies

BF2-150 Medium Butterflies White

Other Supplies:

Mix Media Journal Page, Black Acrylic Paint, Cheese Cloth, Pearl Spray, Melissa Frances Oval Frame, Distress Ink Black Soot, Tim Holtz Locket Keys/Game Spinners/Word Sticks/Boundless Flight Stamp Set, DIY Texture Paste, TA Glimmer Screen, Lindy’s Stamp Gang Flat Fabio - Wicked Witch Purple/Starburst Delphinium Turquoise/ Glitz Topaz Fire/Starburst Vavavavoom Violet/ Byzantine Bronze EP/ Tibetan Poppy Magical Mica/Fusible Webbing, Flower Rhinestones, Mini Black Rhinestones, Glossy Accents, Glue Gun, Heat Tool

It's APRIL in WONDERLAND at TGF

Hi guys, guess what today is??? April Fools Day! Well it is but this is no joke. We are excited to bring you the APRIL release, beginning with our LIMITED EDITION "Wonderland Beans" as well as our Delicate Words which will be available ongoing in the TGF STORE. 

We've had a few questions about this Limited Edition release. Rest assured we will re-stock as we need to during the month of April, but after that, they will be gone, so get them while the portal to Wonderland remains open! ;)

We also have some big news as far as releases go. As you may have read, TGF is thrilled to announce that starting NOW we are going back to MONTHLY releases (woot woot)...so there will be a lot of additional excitement here on the Farm!

Here is my card featuring Hatter Bean:

I embossed the card base and the vellum doily with a floral & dotted embossing folder. I kept everything white except for the ribbon and the image. She is colored with Copic markers. 

I love love her hat. I Stickled the crap out of it and some on her dress as well...hehehe. To add some dimension, glossy accents were used on the flowers and the hearts.

Ok, who wouldn't want to get their grubby little hands on her and the ENTIRE collection?!

Well, we know the moment you've been waiting for is just around the corner now that RELEASE DAY is upon us! Be sure to hop with us today, because one AMAZINGLY lucky winner will receive the ENITRE Wonderland Bean collection PLUS the new Delicate Words die! (GASP) In addition, a SECOND winner will be drawn to win a 2nd Delicate Words die, so be sure to hop and you all have until 11:30pm CST tonight to do so! If you are just starting out on my blog, be sure to go back to the beginning and start from there:

TGF BLOG

SUZANNE BIER

ROSEMARY BRIDGES

SANDIE DUNNE

MARIA THERESE HATLOY

ANITA MADDEN

PEGGY MCCURRY

RACHEL PARYS

ANDREA ROSENSTIEL

JODI STANISCH

JO THOMPSON

JONI WILSON

THANH VO

JESSICA DIEDRICH

Back to TGF BLOG to comment and let us know you've completed the hop!  (and how much you loved it, of course, should you feel inclined ;)

Thanks so much for visiting...and we hope you enjoy APRIL in  Wonderland!

GOOD LUCK!!