Playing around with stamps, oxides and crayons

When I'm in a creative mood and have no photos

to scrap and journaling to write

I like to keep the juices flowing by messing around.

I get a bunch of stamps and pull out whatever mediium 

that rocks my mojo and let'r rip.

So the leaves are a cling stamp and I used oxides.

I used a multitude of crayons and then rubbed vintage photo

distress ink over them. 

It covers a lot of sins and make things stand out.

I also traced the leaves with a graphite pencil and did a

scribble thing I saw on line only it looked way better when 

they did it. 

I'll probably fussy cut these leaves.

This flower stamp annoys me because no matter how

I stamp it just doesn't all come out.

I use a rubber mat, a brayer, and glass. 

Anyway, it looks really cool when using the oxides

by doing the tap and scrape method as

nothing is perfect.

Crayons on the stamped flowers.

I decided to not rub distress ink over these 

and I do love that method, but I can always add it.

My friend Holli is the proud owner of these stamps

and we get together and crop and swap so I

always stamp a few to take home with me, actually

I do several stamps mostly because the first

few don't come out right, but I have a stash because

if it really looks fun and cool why

not use them often.

These were done with the crayons.

As you can tell I love the crayons. 

They'll be used for journaling cards, embellishments, etc and the

bonus is they're premade. It'd be fun to build a page

around them. Just sayin...

I wish I could tell you the colors but I pull out all that I own

and after I use one I toss it on the pile and then...

well...no names of the crayons.

All was done on watercolor paper.

 

Birthday cards

 

Tim Holtz style.

I really love the how they turned out.

The doily is a new die cut I got from Mitzi's and I

do not remember the name because I have it

hanging in a magnetic storage folder.

Well, it's a perfect fit and size and there are

2 doily dies and the smaller one tucks in the middle of the

larger one but I didn't do that here.

I used a piece of tissue paper and that flower tucks in

quite perfectly.

TH Abandoned paper and I used his inks and oxides

to make the background for the doily.

I even got carried away and added some balloons to the

envelope and used ink to paint them.

And TH stamps.

Oh and that flower is covering a stamping boo boo.

 

My pal Holli made this Arthur - so much better than mine.

Especially in the gluing department.

His colors were perfect for that pre-made background,

Good tip from TH to make backgrounds to have 

in your stash.

Worked for me.

 

The internet is a wonderful thing and found 

"you are not getting older

you are getting upgraded" off the internet.

I can't believe I didn't photo the inside. Cool, fun and

funky stamped words ransom style.

I really enjoyed painting the balloons.

Tim Holtz

Oh and the birthday boys middle name is Arthur.

And OH, I drew the balloon lines and yes its a big deal to me.

because yes I could screw that up LOL.

We had a lovely birthday dinner at my sister-in-laws house

and had fun with the nieces and nephew,