distress paint background

Hi friends.   My second post today.  I have another card for another challenge for Outlaw Women Artists Emporium group on facebook.  This challenge is to use orange and blue. 

I started by putting some distress paint on my craft mat - salty ocean, rusty hinge, and seedless preserves.  After spritzing the paint with water, I swiped my card stock in the paint and dried it.  I glued it to a black card base. 

Then I used salty ocean to color some card stock and die cut some mini butterflies.  I stamped one with a Donna Salazar script stamp.  I layered them together with dimensional foam tape underneath the wings of the top butterfly. 

I made two orange chevron strips to fit across the lower portion of the card. 

The sentiment is from SU's Refuge & Strength, punched with a scallop oval punch and sponged with salty ocean. 

Then I added some faux brads with a black marker. 

Thanks for stopping by. 

girl in pink

Hi friends.  Today I made a card for the monthly challenge at OWSE Yahoo group - Little Girls and their Curls.  The challenge was to use a little girl on your project.  So I pulled out an old SU stamp set called Summer by the Sea. 

I stamped the little girl with tuxedo black memento ink on white, and colored the image with copic markers.  Although I don't often use pink, this image just seemed to be calling for it.  Layering is pretty in pink, black, and some Basic Grey paper. 

The sentiment is from Teeny Tiny Wishes (SU), punched with a word window punch and backed with a modern label punch.  Both pieces were edged with black marker. 

The image and sentiment are both raised on dimensional foam tape. 

Thanks so much for stopping by today. 

friday feature - possibilities

Hello my friends.  It's time for another Friday feature on the OWSE blog.  Today I made a card with some new toys I got... anniversary, mother's day, and birthday all fall within the same week. 

Step by step instructions can be found over on the OWSE blog.  Be sure to stop over there. 

Thanks for stopping by. 

friday feature - big little things

Hi everybody.  It's time for my Friday feature over on the OWSE blog. 

Step by step instructions are available at Crafting with OWSE. 

Thanks for stopping by. 

a contest - win a prize!

Hi friends.  Robyn is having a contest on the Crafting with OWSE blog, where you might win a prize.  Be sure to stop over there and check it out. 

Have a wonderful day!

friday feature - making stencils.

Hi friends.  It's time for another Friday Feature over on the OWSE blog.  I never seem to have enough stencils, so I've made some of my own.  I explain how on the Friday Feature this week. 

Here's a card I made using one of the stencils I made. 

This card is also made for the mix-ability challenge on SCS.  Thanks so much for stopping by.  Have a great weekend. 

bell flowers

Hi friends.  I think maybe my mojo is sneaking back.  I sat down to create this morning and it happened!

Robyn over at OWSE Yahoo group presented us with a quick fire challenge this morning to create something with either birds or bees.  I decided to make another page to go in the journal I started in January (21 cards) for Motley Soul Mixed Media Art. 

The page is 4"x6" made from cereal box chipboard, covered with coffee filters, gesso and paint.  The background was already done, and I chose to just work with it as is. 

I found the chipboard vine (Sizzix) in my stash and covered it with vintage photo distress ink. 

Then I die cut a bunch of the tiniest flower on the tattered florals die (Tim Holtz) from a blue card stock and sponged the petals with seedless preserves distress ink.  I snipped into the center between two of the petals and then used a stylus and my fingers to form the flowers into a bell shape.  I glued them onto the vine and added some highlights on the petals with a white gel pen.  A black sharpie was used to make the stamen.  The flowers look really flat in the photo, but they are actually very dimensional and stand out about 1/4" from the page. 

The bird from caged bird (Tim Holtz) was die cut from the same blue card stock, embossed with tiny mosaic embossing folder and sponged with seedless preserves.  I attached the bird with dimensional tape. 

The sentiment was hand written with a sharpie marker. 

I'm also entering this in the mix-ability challenge #13 and the free for all challenge #166 on SCS. 

Thanks so much for stopping by.  Have a great week.