ICAD 2013 | June 11: I am perfect

12 Wednesday Jun 2013

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ICAD, Mixed media, The Crafter's Workshop

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!

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:

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

ICAD 2013 | June 10:creativity

11 Tuesday Jun 2013

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Distress Stain, ICAD, kidart, The Crafter's Workshop

This was a fun playing around, turned out better than I had hoped card.

I started with loads of Rock Candy Crackle Paint in the middle of the card. Once that finally dried I did layers of Distress Stain. Many, many layers!

Over that I smeared Viva Modeling Creme and had to wait again while that dried. I finally stamped the sentiment and walked away – too much waiting around for this one!

I love the texture of the crackle paint mixed with the shine of the crackle paint and the Modeling Creme:

Love the final product but, since I’m not the most patient person, the waiting made me crazy!

Molly did the best card ever today:

ICAD 2013 | June 9: life is celebration

10 Monday Jun 2013

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ICAD, Paper towel

This may be my favourite one so far this time around – it’s like a magic one!

I traced the shapes from the 6×6 Blazonry stencil and cut them out, then sprayed the card with Amethyst ColorShine. Once that was dry I adhered a layer of paper towel to the back. I love the colours!

I stamped a great sentiment from Ali Edwards:

Look at that awesome texture and shine!

And now the magic – when you hold the card up to the light, you get this amazing translucency!

Love! Plus, the ragged edges make me happy too. 🙂

ICAD 2013 | June 8: kapow!

09 Sunday Jun 2013

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Distress Stain, ICAD, Viva Ferro

Not sure why I went with the cartoon-like kapow! for this card but I like it! 🙂

I started with Viva Ferro in Graphite through the 12×12 Aboriginal stencil. Once that dried I pressed Distress Stain (Barn Door, Mustard Seed, Peacock Feathers) over it and misted the heck out of it with water to blend.

I sprayed Blizzard Mister Huey’s on another index card, sketched out the letters and cut them out, then adhered them to the card. Done, with an extra bit of shimmer to go with the Ferro sparkle.

The back of this card looks so cool that I think I’m going to do another one and use the back as the front – stay tuned for that one!

ICAD 2013 | June 7: meh

08 Saturday Jun 2013

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ICAD, Ranger

You know how with mixed media the rules are: don’t get attached because you’re going to cover it up, and don’t worry if you hate because you’re going to cover it up?

Yeah, well, the covering up and layers and extras just didn’t add up in this case.

I used Distress Paints and Distress Stain, then collaged on a piece of tissue wrap, then some pieces of paper towel. Some paint and modeling creme through stencils and punchinella. Really, I just threw everything at it.

And when I was finished all I could think was, “Meh.” So I stamped it everywhere in gold and black ink.

Oh well, at least it has a nice shimmer with the gold and the modeling paste!

Molly made a card again! Stamping, stickers, and glitter – what more could a girl ask for? 🙂

ICAD 2013 | June 6: there is no doubt

07 Friday Jun 2013

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ICAD, Luminarte, The Crafter's Wrokshop

Earlier this week a friend found out that she lost the very much wanted and already very much loved little peanut she was carrying.

It’s been a difficult time.

So this one is for her and her family:

There is no doubt the peanut was so loved and wanted.

There is no doubt they’re devastated right now.

And there is no doubt that their world has changed but will still be beautiful on the other side.

ICAD 2013 | June 5: humbug

07 Friday Jun 2013

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ICAD, Lego, Ranger

This one is a bit of a mess.

I had an awesome background of Dylusions Ink sprays and shimmer mist, and then added some stamping with Distress Paint – also awesome.

And then, well, I don’t know what happened. It all fell apart. Sigh.

After some covering and collaging and layering I finally threw my hands up and said, “Meh.” And then stamped “humbug” on the card:

It said it all about what I was thinking at that point!

I do like the texture of the cheesecloth and the staples and the fun holes:

And this lego man cracks me up:

So I guess there are *some* good points! 🙂

ICAD 2013 | June 4: meow

05 Wednesday Jun 2013

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ICAD, Luminarte, Stencils, The Crafter's Workshop, Twinkling H2O's

My brother was here from BC for a month and his girlfriend joined him this past week. But today they left to go home again. 😦

And for those of you who don’t know Canadian geography that well, Mount Pearl and Vancouver are about as far apart as you can possibly get. They’re waaaaaay over there on the west coast. Boo.

So, in honour of “Uncle Grayma,” I made this ICAD:

Confused? Well, if I ever find it I’ll post a link to a YouTube video of Graham, serenading a friend of his with a composition of his own. I’m assuming it’s his own, I don’t think anyone else in the world would claim it.

He simply plays his guitar and sings, “Meow, meow, meow,” over and over. Hilariously funny to me, maybe not so funny to you all but I’m going to make you suffer through anyway. As soon as I find the link….

I used some new Twinks on this one because 1. they’re new, 2. they’re shimmery, and 3. green in Graham’s favourite colour. It actually runs in the family – Matthew (my other brother), Gabe, and I all claim green as ours as well. It must be genetic!

And since I can’t seem to do anything without some dimension, I added light molding paste through one of my fave stencils (thanks again, Julie! You make the best designs!)

Back tomorrow with another one!

Are you doing this challenge? Are you posting your ICAD’s anywhere? Leave me a link in the comments so I can check them out!

ICAD 2013 | June 3: unsupervised

04 Tuesday Jun 2013

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ICAD, kidart

Gabe saw Molly have so much fun painting with my mists the other day that he wanted a turn too – so today you get to see what he made during our crafty time yesterday!

He learned from her mistakes and didn’t try to make an actual picture – he just painted colours. He had a blast doing it, especially the date stamping part – he picked the date himself.

For mine, I took the paper towel we had been using the past few days for cleaning up and pasted it to the card.

After it dried, I smeared Glass Gel Beads through a stencil, heated them, and then coloured a few with mist (since it was out anyway!). I left the paper towel raggedy, I love the organic look of the edges that way:

The texture left by the paper towel is pretty cool so I tried not to cover it all up:

I finished by spraying a blank card with the same mist I painted the gel beads, stamped my sentiment, courtesy of Dyan Reaveley naturally, and cut it out to add to the card.

I am currently unsupervised, indeed!

Simple Scrapper Blog Hop and GIVEAWAY | June 2013

04 Tuesday Jun 2013

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Blog Hop, Giveaway, Simple Scrapper

The Simple Scrapper Team is back again with a brand new blog hop and chance to win! Use the Rafflecopter widget below to enter a giveaway for a one month trial membership at Simple Scrapper. There are three ways to enter and three winners will be selected. To be eligible, you must enter by 11:59pm CDT on Wednesday, June 5.

But first, welcome! You should have come from Van‘s blog if you’re following along.

NOTE: Suzette, if you’re reading this, STOP NOW! You’ll ruin your birthday present if you keep going! 🙂

Sorry all, had to warn off my best and oldest friend – hopefully she’ll take the hint and go away!

This month had some amazing templates to choose from and it was hard to pick one to work with – I wanted to try them all! I finally chose letter#1 and stretched it into a 12×12:I used the newest Paperie club kit along with some Studio Calico PL kit pieces and stamps. I’m still loving the punched borders!

Some shimmery modeling creme behind the photo to mimic the border punch:

And great letter stickers for the title finished it off:

Don’t you love all the butterfly pins? I stuck them into the paper and taped them down in the back with washi tape – thanks to Cathie for that great idea!

For my story starter this month I decided to do a canvas instead of a traditional LO:

Almost everything on this one came from a Studio Calico PL kit – don’t you love that big ampersand stamp? It looks amazing when embossed!

I also embossed the paper dolls (love the heart that their hands form) on the journaling tag:

I tucked the tag behind the photo because 1. it’s what I normally do, and 2. since this a display piece I felt it was better hidden. There’s nothing very secretive written down there, just funny memories I have of the two of us since we were 6!

I finished it off by stamping the sides of the canvas so they wouldn’t be so bare when it was hanging on the wall:

You really need to go check out the rest of the Design Team’s work if you haven’t already – they’ve done some beautiful work, as always!

Simple Scrapper (Jennifer Wilson)

Lisa Corbin-Polack

Ronnie Crowley

Holly Humbert

Margrethe Aas Johnson

Sara Case Strickland <– that’s me!

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