ICAD 2013 – June 16: to travel hopefully

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This was done for father’s day because my dad has a sailboat and this is the quote he has on the wall:

“To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.” Robert Louis Stevenson

I adhered a layer of tinfoil then painted over it with Golden Fluid Acrylics. Once they were dry I sanded the surface to bring out the shine of the foil again. The blue looked like water and whitecaps to me so  adhered a wood veneer boat and the sentiment, then added gold Embossing Paste over a Dylusions stencil for the stars.

to travel hopefully

The embossing paste is interesting because it goes on really cloudy, then turns metallic once it’s dry:

to travel hopefully - wet embossing paste

And I love the idea of texture that came ffrom sanding the paint off the foil:

to travel hopefully - texture

It’s actually really smooth in real life.

Still working my way through and pretty much on track – and still loving this project!

S.

12 on Twelve | June 2013

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1. the lions, sunbathing in their sleeping bags (aka Gabe’s old winter hats)

2. construction on the new swimming pool/sportsplex – we can watch it all from our backyard

3. Gabe and L watching the cranes and trucks – a four-year-old boy’s favourite stuff!

4. a submission request for a holiday gift idea (Christmas already?!?!?!) that was in my inbox when I woke up

5. my Studio Calico KP kit and tags showed up today

6. working n a bunch of ICAD’s (index card a day) all at the same time

7. Molly playing along with ICAD too!

8. my usual monthly selfie

9. mailing the submission request off to Northridge Publishing

10. Gabe’s last gymnastics class for the year

11. playing a game with old lion – tossing him into a bucket from the top of the slide

12. tired of pictures; 12on12 makes the kiddies hate the camera!

S.

ICAD 2013 – June 15: we must dream

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This is the second card from the drywall mesh experiment. The first used the mesh that came off this card after it got wet. The awesome thing was the appearance of texture that was left behind:

we must dream - texture

I love those subtle little squares!

I simply coloured over the drywall mesh with Derwent Inktense Pencils, then misted heavily with water. I soaked up the excess water and colours with paper towels and when the mesh came off, this card was what I had left!

I added a rubon, the second half of the quote from yesterday, and drew in some little birds with my Faber Castell Pitt pin.

we must dream

Done – and I love the softness of colour! I have some fun ideas for these watercolour pencils, let’s hope a couple of them actually work out!

S.

Molly and her funny sayings…

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The other day I asked the kiddies if they wanted grilled cheese sandwiches or cheesy bread for supper (it was one of those days) and cheesy bread won the day.

Darrell then asked, “How do you make cheesy bread?” Well, Molly and I looked at him like he was crazy – how is it that he doesn’t know cheesy bread after all this time? I gave him the basic explanation – cheese on bread toasted in the oven. Molly got a little more creative:

cheesy bread1. take out the bread (hers is gluten free and in the freezer)

2. make the bread warm (in the microwave)

3. cut the cheese (things almost went horribly wrong here as Darrell started to grate the cheese – Molly was not impressed, her instructions were very specific; that’s a block, it’s not grated!)

4. make the bread warm again (on a baking sheet in the oven, this time.)

As Darrell went through each step he received a check mark and then at the end when he completed his task very well, he got the giant smiley face and check mark.

I’m sure I could have been more helpful during this process but watching him stumble through as Molly coached him was way too entertaining!

S.

 

ICAD 2013 – June 14: possible

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One of Molly’s today and the first of a two parter from me!

Molly drew a picture of a house, with a decoration on the door, and the people are Darrell and I when we were 5:

molly - house

Mine came from envying the texture Cathie got from drywall tape – I had to go buy some!

I stuck it unto my index card, rubbed Derwent Inktense pencils over it and misted to blend. Then the tape came off. Should have thought of that, hey? Anyway, while waiting for that card to dry, I stuck the tape to another card because it looked so pretty with all the colours on it.

To finish it off I simply adhered some Basic Grey rubons (thanks to Liz for the giant bagful!) and stamped the first part of a sentiment:

possible

Don’t  you love the texture of that drywall tape?!?!

possible - texture

The rubons are fabulous too – love that bird!

Ok, I’ll be back later with part two – the wet card that was left over!

S.

ICAD 2013 – June 13: change for no one

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This started out as a test run for an upcoming class – it didn’t well especially well but I’m not discouraged; proper paper will probably make all the difference!

change for no one

I misted with my Dylusions again, threw down some mist spatters and made “Glitter Splats” – thanks to Cathie for that invention! Just tap splats of Goosebumps on your projects, sprinkle on some glitter (which I coloured myself with alcohol ink) and let it dry. Look at the awesome dimension and sparkle you get!

change for no one - glitter splats

The sentiment was stamped on leftover index cards from last year – note to self: make more sparkly paper for sentiments – and it’s specifically for my Molly. She’s been difficult lately but I keep telling myself that will hold her in good stead come the pressure filled teenage years. It will right? Someone out there tell me I’m not crazy and delusional! :)

I’m a day behind but I’m going to a friend’s house for a crafty night so I’m hoping to catch up!

S.

ICAD 2013 – June 12: Reach Up

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I love my Dylusions Ink Sprays. The colours, the water reactiveness, the fun. But how would they act on an index card?

Not the greatest! :) The card is just too thirsty and sucked up all the ink before I could even play – exactly what I expected so I wasn’t that disappointed, luckily. However, I made the card anyway:

reach up

Some mist, some water, a bit of stamping, then I tried the bleaching technique (major fail, as anticipated), some colouring, misting, more stamping. It’s done, another one under my belt, right?

I do love the movement from dark to light and the leaves growing up. And the shine from the silver ink is fabulous, of course!

reach up - shine

Back with another one soon!

S.

Paperie Card Kit | June & July: Part 1

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Have you seen the news? I’m designing for The Paperie Card Kit and I’m loving it! Wendy does amazing cards so I’m using the kit  to show how it can be used in other ways, like to do LO’s.

Since I love doing 8.5×11 LO’s, this kit was great fun to work on – plus the colours and papers were amazing, a great mix of Authentique and Allison Kreft. There was so much product in the kit that I was able to do 4 LO’s and a mini album with a bunch of supplies left over to use on other pieces.

Rather than overload you with images, I’m going to just show a couple of LO’s now and I’ll post the others in the next day or so.

These first two LO’s have pictures of Molly from way back when she was just a wee little one – two of my all-time faves of her.

Almost everything I used was from the kit, the only exceptions being a Crafter’s Workshop Stencil, Weathered Wood Distress Ink, and a bit of Custard Mister Huey’s Spray.

sugar & spice

I inked over the stencil to create a background for my photo, then layered lots of the patterned paper for a burst of colour:

sugar & spice - layers & stencil

I finished up with some spray droplets, washi tape, and a brad near the top:

sugar & spice - washi & brad

The second LO is Molly in a second-hand frog costume that she literally wore everywhere for months. It was her coat until she just couldn’t squeeze herself in any more!

froggie

The title was something she said as she was jumping in the puddles – I’m terrible at titles so this is a super easy way to get around that struggle!

Once again, I added very little to the kit – another stencil, Clay Mister Huey’s, and a border punch that mimicked the froggie spots. I lightly misted through the stencil to create some interest and a background and punched the circles to draw the eye down through the LO:

froggie - mist & punch

I punched half circle in the photo to nestle the “hi” button in and then added a couple more from the same pack. I also popped up the picture for some more dimension on the page:

froggie - buttons

As a side note, I try to upload everything to my Flickr account so if you ever want to see everything together, that’s the place to go. It’s also reasonably well-organized into sets too!

Back soon with another couple of LO’s – this is a limited kit so call The Paperie ASAP if you want one. They only do the card kit every other month and it’s well worth getting!

S.

Molly & Gabe and their funny sayings…

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So earlier today Gabe came up to me asking to hear “baby king.”

Huh?

I was at a loss unless he brought forth the DVD Uncle Greg sent – One Shoe Blues with B.B. King!

one shoe blues

Haha! I’m sure that legend isn’t called “baby” very often!

On another note, the first time we played the DVD Molly piped up and said, “I can play that too.”

“Oh really?” I said, “Where did you learn that?”

“Well, ” she said, “I watched that man and now I can do it too!”

Watch out B.B. apparently I have a prodigy here!

S.

ICAD 2013 – June 11: I am perfect

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I wanted to play with my Distress Paints a little and so had some fun blending, spraying, drying, adding – until I liked what I had. So then what?

I pulled out a stencil at random, an awesome Dina Wakley one, and smeared light molding paste over it. Since the paint had a couple of not-quite-dry spots, I ended up with this gorgeous tint in the paste. Much better than the stark white would have been!

perfect

A few flicks of a darker shade in mist and then I was stuck for a sentiment. As I looked around I found a scrap of sewing pattern tissue and that worked perfectly once it was adhered with multimedium. Just a hint of colour but still super translucent.

And the texture of the hearts once the molding paste dried is awesome sauce:

perfect - texture

Ah, molding paste, I really love you – I think you’ll be showing up on a lot of cards this year!

S.

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