Beyond Paper

 

Make It Monday

 

 

I mounted my tin foil onto a piece of cardstock with  gel medium before sending it through my cuttlebug. This gave it a little more rigidity and made it easier to work with.  I decided to deboss rather then emboss so that I could color in the impression with copics.

 

 

 

I tried all of my embossing folders and they all looked cool!

I'm sure I'll be using these pieces on other projects.

 

Things With Wings

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

Cardstock: PTI Raspberry Fizz, Harvest Gold, Vellum
Stamps: PTI Beautiful Butterflies
Ink: Versafine Onyx
Dies: PTI Beautiful Butterflies
Other: Heavy Duty Tin Foil, Copics, Clear Embossing Powder, Cuttlebug Embossing Folder

ColourQ Challenge #188

 

It's time for another ColourQ!

This week's colors inspired me to create a garden of wildflowers.

I did a lot of generational stamping to get the look of flowers in the foreground, background, and everywhere in between.

 

I thought it would make the perfect mother's day card for my cousin.

This will be her first mother's day!

ColourQ #188

 

I hope you'll join us again this week!

Cardstock: PTI Harvest Gold, White
Stamps: PTI Life, WMS Spring Baskets
Ink: PTI Harvest Gold, Sweet Blush, Berry Sorbet, Spring Moss, Versafine Onyx
Other: Hole Punch, Twine

Happy Birthday, Joyce

 

Happy Birthday, Joyce!

Today we have a very special blog hop just for you!

 

I hope you have a wonderful day full of birthday surprises!

 

 

Don't forget to hop around to see wishes from all of your friends!

 

Cathy

Darnell

Jeanne

Joyce

Kara

Kim

Marybeth

Renee

Tracey

Sharron
Kelly

 

 

Cardstock: PTI White, Plum Pudding
Stamps: PTI Chicken Wire, Beautiful Butterflies, Peaceful Garden
Ink: PTI Plum Pudding, Lavendar Moon, Winter Wisteria, Royal Velvet, Spring Moss
Dies: PTI Fabulous Frames

Blown Watercolor Butterfly Garden

 

 

Hi!

Just popping in quickly to post a card for this week's Make It Monday.

Instead of blown ink I have blown water color paint droplets.

 

I've been cleaning all day and also preparing these

 delicious southwestern egg rolls to bring to a friend's tonight as an appetizer. I found them on

Pinterest and made them last summer. They are delicious and so easy to make.

 I get them all ready here and then pop them into my friend's oven for 15 minutes.

So good!!

 

Make It Monday #114

 

 

Have a great day!

 

Cardstock: PTI Pure Poppy
Paper: Strathmore Watercolor Paper
Stamps: PTI Beautiful Butterflies
Ink: Versafine Onyx, Versamark Ink
Other: Artist's Loft Watercolors, PTI Black Satin Ribbon, Tim Holtz Black Embossing Powder

Friday Inspiration File #115

 

Last Saturday's adventure with my parents started with a trip to Pearl Paint.

It's a store I had been to a long time ago;

 two floors of colorful art supplies.

We planned to go again, but found it had moved quite a distance away. 

We decided it was worth the hour trip.....take a ride, get some lunch.

This location was much smaller,

 but seemed to be packed with just about as much stuff as the old location. 

 I picked up some modeling paste {so much fun to work with I've discovered},

some spray fixative, a few pens, small linoleum blocks {to carve my own stamps}, and some watercolor postcards. 

 My mom picked up some of the prettiest handmade papers from all over the world.

When we got home, she cut the large sheets in half so she could share them with me. 

So sweet!

 

 

Then, as I mentioned yesterday,

we stumbled on Ikea and couldn't pass up the opportunity to check it out!

I snapped a few pictures of patterns that caught my eye, but the lighting in there was lousy for photos.

 

I picked up a few things for my craft room.

This fun wall mounted rod with buckets for odds and ends will go above my work table.

I also got this cute clip display.  Not sure where in my room it's going, but I'll let you know.

 

This is the bedding that inspired yesterday's card.

 

Cute birds, huh?

Maybe I'll carve a bird like this into one of my linoleum blocks!

 

Thanks for stopping by!

I really just came to let you know that the File has been updated and there are some really great projects in there.

Take a look.

Have a great weekend!

 

{Ikea} Bedding Inspired

 

Last weekend my parents and I took a trip up to Paramus, NJ {about an hour away} to go to a cool art supply store called Pearl Paint.  I had a few special supplies on my list for use in my art journal.  As we were getting very close I saw a sign for Ikea Drive.  Hmmmm....do they mean Ikea...the store??  I looked to my left and there it was IKEA!  I have wanted to go to Ikea forever, but didn't know where one was and here we had stumbled on it.  Luckily my parents were just as excited to check it out.

So much to look at in that store.  I picked up a few organizational items for my craft room.

While there, I saw this bedding and knew I could recreate it with Wplus9's Lacey Layers!

 

 

I'm not a huge purple fan, but loved the way it looked on that bedding.

 

Tomorrow, along with the Friday Inspiration File,

 I'll share a few iPhone pics from our trip to the art store and Ikea.

 

Thanks for stopping by:)

 

 

Cardstock: PTI Vintage Cream, Royal Velvet
Stamps: WP9 Lacey Layers, PTI SS Birthday
Ink: Royal Velvet, Plum Pudding, Lavender Moon
Other: PTI Linen Impression Plate

Monday Mood Board #11

Wplus9 Monday Mood Board #11

 

This week's mood board is all about neutrals.

I took inspiration from the colors, the hearts, and the wooden elements

 to make one of my favorite kind of cards...

......love!

 

Thanks for stopping by today!

 

 

See you later:)

 

 

Cardstock: PTI Vintage Cream, Kraft
Stamps: WP9 Folk Art Florals, PTI Love Lives Here
Ink: PTI Kraft, Fine Linen, Versafine Onyx
Dies: WP9 Hearts and Clouds
Other: Little Yellow Bicycle Wood Stick Pins, Heidi Swap Color Shine Spray Gold