Currently… | June 2013

30 Sunday Jun 2013

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listening: to Darrell’s iPod – he has it set up in the kitchen so it’s our daily playlist

eating: lots of fruit and cottage cheese

drinking: still water and wine – a mix of Moscato and Pinot Grigio

wearing: summer clothes – sometimes – but finally!

feeling: happy that it’s getting warmer and sunnier

weather: getting sunnier, warmer, and more like summer

watching: So You Think You Can Dance, Master Chef, and The Facts of Life

reading: old Nora Roberts books, nothing new on the list this month.

wanting: some beach time – Salmon Cove weekends are planned!

needing: more time, more inspiration, more time…

thinking: about Canada Day tomorrow and hoping for beautiful weather at Terra Nova Park.

enjoying: doing ICAD again; I’m already behind but it’s so much fun!

wondering: how to fit in all the summer things I want to do

wishing: the summer would go by slowly and with fabulous sunny days

ICAD 2013 | June 23: infinity

29 Saturday Jun 2013

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A while back I made this card and said that the back was so cool I was going to make another one and use the back as the front.

So I did!

Once again I used the Aboriginal Stencil but I pulled out the 6×6 this time. I stuck with the Graphite Ferro and used different colours of mist. Here’s the back:

Yes. Gorgeous and yummy and sparkly, though you can’t see that very well in the pics. And here’s the front:

Isn’t that the coolest? Love how this technique works; I think it’s going to have to be part of a class sometime soon.

I printed the sentiment on Sticky Back Canvas then stapled it to the card, the texture is awesome:

Basically, you need molding paste, water reactive mist, and lots & lots of water. Another upside of this card? Fabulous paper towels to use on upcoming cards!

Paperie Card Kit | June: Part 3

28 Friday Jun 2013

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I have two LO’s left to share with you from the card kit, but I’ll only be posting one today. I have a couple of guest posts happening over on The Paperie blog through July and I’m holding onto one LO for those posts. I’ll let you know when to go check it out!

The card kit had a great sheet of pink cardstock in it that would make a fabulous card base but I couldn’t make it work for the picture I wanted to use, though I did want the pink. So I altered it to suit – in my mind, being able to change product to suit you is the number one best thing about mixed media!

I used matte multimedium to adhere some Ranger Tissue Wrap onto the cardstock. Over that I painted some layers of white gesso. Although gesso is normally used as a base and primer, one of my favourite ways to use it is to tone down colours and patterns.

I left some areas brighter, with less gesso, than others on purpose, like the title area:

I really wanted to focus to be the title and photo, so I grounded my pic with layered strips of Allison Kreft paper and some washi tape, with a bit of twine tied around the photo itself. I finished that section with a brad and a punched border, all to draw your eye into that area:

And overall, it’s pretty subtle, with just the right hint of pink for my girl and I:

This LO was about a conversation Molly and I had approximately three weeks before Gabe was born – see how I can’t get the bottom button of my coat fastened? – and she was only 20 months old. It was pretty easy to get her to promise to “always be my baby!”

YLA 2013 | June class

26 Wednesday Jun 2013

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Gel Medium Resist, Ranger Distress Paint, Simple Scrapper

A few days ago I showed you how I had an idea for these pages, went through an epic failure, and then found redemption on better and bigger paper.

Today, you get the final product!

The rainbow page is my favourite – I love the colours and the pictures so much:

I first sponged glossy gel medium through a stencil, then added puddles of Distress Paint to the edge. I misted until I ran out of water (that’s only a slight exaggeration!) and let the colours run down the page. The texture is from rolling paper towels over to blot up the excess water. How cool is that?!?!

This second page is based on a Simple Scrapper template from the July 2013 Premium Member templates:

Once again you start with glossy gel medium through a stencil, then add puddles of paint to the middle of the page. Mist with water and tip the paper to allow the paint to blend and then run in different directions.

The resist is fabulous and has a great shine in real life:

I used some Heidi Swapp fabric that I died with the paint and some new Studio Calico wood veneer to add dimension and layers to the top:

So there you have it – a class LO all the way from idea to final product, with a mini tutorial to boot! Hope you enjoyed, I’ll be back later this week with more ICAD’s and the final LO’s from the June/July Paperie Card Kit.

Paperie Card Kit | June: Part 2

25 Tuesday Jun 2013

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Sorry for the long absence – I was fighting a cold last week and then had yesterday off so the kiddos and I spent some fun time together – but now I’m back with more from the June/July Paperie card kit!

(Click on any pictures for a larger size)

Because there was so much amazing 6×6 patterned paper, I thought that a mini album wouldn’t go astray! I used almost all Authentique but there is a sheet of Allison Kreft thrown in there too. I didn’t want anything too complicated and since there’s a super cute birthday stamp from Unity Stamp Co. in the kit, I used that as my inspiration:

Birthday’s are something I normally hate scrapbooking but I always love getting pictures of the cake so I thought a mini dedicated to Molly and Gabe’s birthday cakes would be fun!

I kept it super easy and really basic with just a cake pic, another small photo of them or a closeup of the cake, and the date. I also added their initial and age they were at the time. As an aside, all the alpha stickers I used for four LO titles and an entire mini came from the one sheet included in the kit!

I left room so I can do pages for each of them up to their 6th birthday. The nice thing is that if I want to continue on after that, this is easy peasy to duplicate and small enough not to take up any of my precious little storage space!

I’ll be back later this week with the last two LO’s I did, but if you want to see them in person, the Paperie will have them up in their new location a week from today – I can’t wait to have fun in the new space!

ICAD 2013 | June 22: boom!

23 Sunday Jun 2013

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This card was the outcome of a total creative blank. I seriously looked at the card and had no clue where to even start. So I grabbed the first thing on my craft island – gold chevron washi tape – and stuck it down to cover the card. It’s always better when the space staring back at you isn’t plain white!

A mist with new colours of Dylusions Ink Spray was next. And that was actually pretty cool because they resisted the gold chevron in the washi but not the white part in between. I added some molding paste over a stencil but didn’t like it so I scraped it off, making it purple as it picked up the ink beneath. I tried again over the circle explosion stencil and liked it a lot better.

Then I blanked again. So I left the card, did another one instead with the leftover molding paste, and when I finally came back to this one I decided to go with the explosion idea of the stencil. I pulled out my Idea-ology Alpha Parts, covered some letters with Rose Inka Gold and stuck them on. I finished it off by doodling with my trusty Pitt Pens.

Pretty blah, but they can’t all be masterpieces.

As always, I do love the shine in the Inka Gold:

At least it’s shiny blah, right? 🙂

ICAD 2013 | June 21: go your own way

22 Saturday Jun 2013

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This started out with a scrap of paper I had left from the Paperie June/July card kit. Trust me when I say I loved all the paper so much that there wasn’t a whole lot leftover See my LO’s here, here, and here)! And this piece had to be used – it’s by Allison Kreft for Webster’s Pages and it’s really just too cute.

I adhered it to an index card with matte medium, and added a piece of Studio Calico Fabrips that I had lying around – another scrap from designing with the kit, it was the binding of my mini album. I then scraped used molding paste (hence the purple colour) over the Chevron Arrow stencil and put it aside.

I wasn’t a big fan of this card, was really just trying not to throw away my scraps, so I had no idea where to go with it. Coming back to it a while later, these lyrics popped into my head – that’s what my mind saw with the mix of arrows and birds, I guess.

Anyway, I printed them on kraft sticky labels, stuck them down and doodled with my Pitt pen. A little Graphite Inka Gold around the edges and I called it done.

A weird mix for me but that’s what I like about this project – anything and everything goes, even the weird stuff!

ICAD 2013 | June 20: adore you

21 Friday Jun 2013

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So this was a test run with an idea I had for the Year Long Album class. It was an epic failure. But… I thought that with the right paper and more room I might be able to make it work – and I did!

So today you’re getting a bit of the process from idea to completed teaching pages!

Here’s the card:

The resist and the Distress Paint idea didn’t work at all the way I wanted but the drywall mesh:

and the areas where I took off the mesh:

are pretty cool.

Then I moved on to my Dylusions Art Journal to test it out again and voila! That’s what I was looking for!

The resist worked great and so did the paint. The rainbow page was the technique I attempted on the index card:

and the texture that came about is yummy!

I then tried out something a little different:

and love how it ended up as well, with its fun drywall mesh pattern:

And when I moved onto the paper we would be using in class, it still worked – big sigh of relief here! I’ll share those pages after the class takes place on Sunday so keep an eye out for them.

And if you haven’t played with Distress Paint yet, what are you waiting for? Seriously, it’s so much fun the way it moves and reacts with water – go get some and I’ll see you back here with the mini tutorial for these pages in a few days!

ICAD 2013 | June 19: yesterday

20 Thursday Jun 2013

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I guess I’ve moved onto the feather stencil but I promise it won’t be on the next dozen cards!

I put down a strip of drywall mesh, misted with bronze Perfect Pearls mist, sprayed some Mister Huey’s and peeled off the mesh – I love the texture it gives without the dimension!

I then rubbed Inca Gold over the peacock feather stencil, blending the Old Silver and the Rose – this card has a ton of shimmer!

Another Donna Downey stamp and some distressing on the edges finished it off.

I’ll do my best not to use that stencil tomorrow – I have an idea for the Yearlong class I want to try out so wish me luck!

ICAD 2013 | June 18: everything’s perfect

19 Wednesday Jun 2013

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I’m sorry. It’s another paper towel one but I promise to move on after this one. For a while, anyway!

The sentiment was stamped on a previously ruined index card (I keep them for sentiments) and I highlighted the word “perfect” by stamping that word with some larger alpha stamps and then outlined everything with my Pitt pens: