Made a couple of birthday cards

Had a great time with this one.

Used the TH 3D embossing wave folder, 

used a stamped mermaid and used the crayons

to color her in, and variety of die cuts.

I did steal the envelop cover from someone 

I follow on IG.

I just happened to have a leftover piece that

worked perfectly on the flap.

Inside.

I have love those stamps.

I really enjoyed this card too.

I find I love to make scenes and this one

was fun to do.

Got to use dies I don't use much

and I don't know why. 

And the TH muttlings are a fav!

I found I did have a pet paper pad that I didn't

realize was for pets as I have none 

and the bones are a hoot for the sentiment.

And paw paper for the balloons.

 

Belated Birthday Card featuring Gertrude

 Another birthday card for my granddaughter who 

loves the color purple.

Would you believe I have like a gazillion pounds of paper

in my stash and NOOOO shade of purple in it.

Soooo....TH crayons to the rescue along with the 

TH die Gertrude. 

Not too many moving parts to Gertrude.

I like that.

I also jacked the sentiment "Be flamazing" that

originated from one of TH's makers.

LOVE IT.

And since I hail from FL - the flamingo is perfect.

My friend Brooke gave me the paper and

I have no clue the mfg. but I love it.

Also fussy cut some flowers for depth.

More flowers on the inside with some stickles going on

and homemade enamel dots with some black stickles.

Oh and I used my handwriting on the sentiments.

I had a good day with the penmanship.

Woohoo!

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.

 

There's a fine line between genius & crazy mini album - Made with Tim Holtz STUFF-mostly....

I don't normally order stuff on line but I was soooo

excited to get some TH stamps - called "Good Thoughts"

and there it is - one on the front cover.

In putting the album together, I picked out all the tags and

big stuff from one or two of his ephemera packs.

It laid around for awhile because I didn't know what I wanted to do.

In the meantime, since it was laying about - I took some

gesso and whitewashed the pages because they

needed to be mussed up a bit to hold stuff.

And it looked cool.

Once I got rolling it came together but I did have to remind

myself to not overthink things. 

Those stamps and envelops are from my Grandpop's collection

and it's soo cool that I have them throughout my 

albums.

I did use some of my handdrawn stuff and

a few other things that weren't gonna go anywhere else

found a home.

Love that pouch that my pal Holli die cut for me (I have 2 more)

which is a great spot for journaling or more photos.

I did leave some room for other embellies to join in 

because sometimes with titles you find you lack a photo to match.

Honestly I love this style and I used to do this shabby chic/ancestry look a lot.

Ii found it fun to match things up and they way things

are adhered, photos and such can be tucked under if necessary.

I also figured room for matting and I fussy cut the "love this" title from

an old project life card.

Fussy cutting and punches came in handy. 

I love the big finger pointing hand.

And that rooster, swoon.

Picked that stamp up from my LSS - and so far....yum.

I tried doing something on the back and it didn't quite work out

and my attempts at a cover up aren't 

working out either.

So I may need to resort in a heftier cover up. 

I'll keep ya posted.

 

This year's Christmas Cards

I had an opportunity to make some

cards for our Vets this year.

It was a lot of fun, using Ranger Oxides

and Crayons for the stamped images.

I bundled them up in

order to drop them off easily.

And for the grandkids I made them sort of

alike, yet different.

LOL.

Using a Sissix die cut that didn't

have a lot of moving parts which was

lovely.

Some nights I did one, up to 3 maybe

four so it didn't take but a couple

of days doing it that way.

I did all the card cards at once and the same,

but I wanted Santa to be somewhat different.

I  did the Santa's and all the die cut things

one-at-a-time and put them together as

they came off the die cut machine and then

added them to the cards and

finished it inside and out.

it was so much nicer and easier in

keeping all the parts together,

including the dies because the pieces didn't

get scattered and drive me nuts. 

 

Traveler's Notebook - Tags and Pages

Love the filler card - that is a stamp

on vellum using TH crayons.

I love coloring.

The next page Brooke and I met up at the s/b

shop before I left and bonus- sale!

The cup and spill the beans is a new stamp

I bought that I have been eyeing forEVER.

It's all about coffee.

You'll be seeing it a lot.

An eagle landed in our lake.

Like out our backyard.

It was soooo cool.

And you can't have an eagle page w/o flag,

red white and blue and star stencil background.

Holli and I had one last play date before I left,

and behind us is a sneak peek of PART of her stamp collection.

It's so much fun playing.

The coffee pot stamp belongs to Holli and before

I hit the road I stamp a few of them to

have on hand because 

A. they're so much fun to color

B. love it

C. see above 

LOL.

It's actually the journaling for the next page

which as you know if you've been following my blog 

(which I hope you do)

is the challenge page from my pal Brooke.

You can read about it here.

I love the page and it was so much fun to do.

Dear Lizzy

Tim Holtz

Quikutz

Hero Arts

Stencil

This album is getting kind of thick so I need to

be pondering on creating another one.