Splashes of Watercolor

You Are My Sunshine!

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I made this simple and fun card for my youngest grandson.  I just adore the sentiment.  My Mom used to sing that song to us ALL the time and it brings back so many wonderful memories!  Now I sing it to her whenever I see her!

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I didn't have to embellish very much since this Beach Babe paper is so fun on it's own!  And that sunshine image from the Our Craft Lounge stamp set Sunshine Cheer is one of my most favorite stamp images EVER!

Thanks for stopping by.  Have a great week!

• Stamps: Sunshine Cheer (Our Craft Lounge) 
• Paper: cream, espresso, Beach Babe paper (Fancy Pants) 
• Ink: Memento - rich cocoa, Ranger Archival - coffee, Copic markers: Y13, Y32, Y35, Y38
• Tools used on every card: Fiskars 9" trimmer, Scor-Buddy, Tim Holtz scissors, Ranger non-stick craft sheet, Rock-a-blocks
• Other: Lemon Bar fabric tape (Taylored Expressions), brad, foam mounting tape  

It's Better with Color - Part 5: Distress Stains

So it's time for another E-Team blog hop!  Are you ready??

Daisy has challenged the team to show you how we use Ranger Distress Stains this time! 

Now, I have to confess I'd never used this product until I pulled out my 2 bottles to play around and decide what I would do for this challenge.  We'll talk more about that in a minute!  First let's take care of the blog hop business:

• Visit each blog and leave a comment for a chance to win 1 of 4 prizes.
• 3 winners will be randomly selected from the E-Team blogs to each win a $20 eclectic Paperie Gift Voucher.
• 1 winner will be selected from the eP blog to win a small assortment  of Distress Stains and some more surprises!
• Comments will be taken Friday, July 29, to Sunday, July 31. 1 comment per blog, please.  Winners will be posted Monday, August 1, on the eP blog.
• All Distress Stains at eclectic Paperie are 10% off!!

Ok, so let's see what I came up with.

First I followed the instructions to shake the bottle and then I swiped the color onto some white and some kraft cardstock scraps.  Wow!  I LOVE the smoothness of the application and the beautiful saturation of the color.

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At the bottom of the white cardstock, you can see where I swiped the Peeled Paint ink pad over the paper for comparison.  See the difference?

I immediately thought it would be great to swipe over some patterned paper or other inked applications and use as a base for a sentiment. 

Well, I had planned on making a framed layout for my friend Karen's birthday, so I decided it would be a great project to try out the Distressed Stains on.  I started with a 12 x 12 piece of pale aqua cardstock.  I spritzed it with Timberline and Bronze Tattered Angels Glimmer Mists.  I clear embossed some small butterflies, stenciled a larger butterfly with dimensional paint and spritzed it all with a couple of colors of Ranger Distress reinkers mixed with water.  I stamped a few other butterflies, words, and backgrounds too.  Then I decided that I wanted the larger effortless beauty sentiment to be highlighted and used to "anchor" the layout.  That's where I used the Peeled Paint Distress Stain to swipe a couple of times across the bottom left corner.

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I really love how the stain pops against all the softer glimmery colors, while still allowing some of the glimmer to show through.  (Click on the photo to see it larger.)  And it provides a smooth, even base over those colors for the sentiment.

Next I started my process of building the layers to create my cluster surrounding my photo, literally using several scraps from my stash.   Speaking of which, after I took the first photo below, I couldn't find my photo!!  I almost panicked until I turned the page over.  Ha!  There's my photo!  How did it get stuck there?

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Here's a closeup of my flower arrangement.

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And here's the finished page.  I used the Peeled Paint Distress Stain to color the grungeboard alpha letters too.

I did want to point out that I wanted to highlight that effortless beauty sentiment even more, so I stamped it again on a piece of the white cardstock swiped with Peeled Paint Distress Stain and popped it up over the original stamped sentiment.

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I did frame the layout and gave it to Karen last night.  She loved it!  Oh!  I found that if I used a 12 x 12 deep frame made to hold a t-shirt (from Michael's), it's a perfect fit and protects the dimension of the page as well.

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So then I wanted to give the Weathered Wood Distress Stain equal time!  I also wanted to see how well the stain worked over embossing.  I stamped and clear embossed this ferris wheel image on a piece of vintage looking text patterned paper, then swiped the Distress Stain over it.  After it dried, I swiped it a few more times to intensify the color.  Pretty cool!

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If I was going to make a vintage looking card I needed my seam binding to look vintage as well.  I laid the seam binding on my craft sheet and swiped the Distress Stain across it.  Great saturation and a beautiful complimentary shade of the blue!

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Here's my simple vintage inspired card using the Weathered Wood Distress Stain to highlight the image and to dye the seam binding.

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I have one more little tip. You may already be aware of this little trick but I thought I'd show you anyway!  When you have a sentiment that is too long to fit on a particular die cut like on the Sentiment Flag (from Lil' Inker Designs) above, you can mask off part of the sentiment using any kind of tape.  Cover the part you DON'T want to stamp with tape, ink your sentiment, REMOVE the piece of tape, and stamp!   That's what I did to make the one long sentiment fit on the flag above.  With tape, inked:

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I also played a little more with the embossing and Distress Stains.  I also stamped the ferris wheel after inking it with the Peeled Paint Distress Stain.  I see all kinds of projects using these Distress Stains in the future for me!!

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Now it's time for you to move along and see the beautiful and inspiring projects the rest of the E-Team have created for you!  Here's a list of those participating members:

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E-TEAM

Linda Ledbetter

Micki Harper

Sherry Cheever

Daisy Sparks (eP blog)

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Don't forget to leave one comment on each blog!  And thank you all for taking the time to stop by today!  See you next time!

BUTTERFLY LAYOUT

• Stamps: Vintage Butterflies, Large Polka Dot Backgrounder (CHF) 
• Paper: 12 x 12 pale aqua, old olive, kraft, Mariposa Stack (DCWV), Fine & Dandy True Blue (My Mind's Eye) 
• Ink: Ranger Distress reinkers - Tumbled Glass, Peeled Paint; Ranger Distress ink pads - Tumbled Glass, Peeled Paint, Antique Linen; Versamark; Versafine - onyx black; Timberline & Bronze Glimmer Mists (Tattered Angels)
  
• Tools used on every card: Fiskars 9" trimmer, Scor-Buddy, Tim Holtz scissors, Ranger non-stick craft sheet, Rock-a-blocks
• Other: Ranger mini-misters, ink blending tools, butterfly stencil, Texture Magic Dimensional Paint (Delta), Ranger clear embossing powder, Heat-It Craft Tool, leaf mask (Heidi Swapp), oval punch, Grand On The Vine border die (Spellbinders), Prima flowers, Damask Die (QuicKutz), ribbon, butterfly punch & iron gate border punch (Martha Stewart), label stickers (7 Gypsies), dry wall mesh tape, corner rounder punch, Zva Creative crystals, plain mixed minis grungeboard (Tim Holtz Idea-ology), ribbon for flower center, Scor-Tape, foam mounting tape, Glue Dots, Quickie Glue Pen, glitter  

FERRIS WHEEL CARD

• Stamps: ferris wheel (Michael's $1 bin), Pinwheels Stamp Set (Lil' Inker Designs with ag designs)
• Paper: kraft, black, Classic K Margo mat pad (K & Company) 
• Ink: Ranger Distress Stain - Weathered Wood; Versamark, Versafine - onyx black 
• Tools used on every card: Fiskars 9" trimmer, Scor-Buddy, Tim Holtz scissors, Ranger non-stick craft sheet, Rock-a-blocks
• Other: Ranger clear embossing powder, Heat-It Craft Tool, seam binding, vintage button, corner rounder punch, Sentiment Flag die (Lil' Inker Designs with ag designs), foam mounting tape 

I'm a Beachnut (with Sandy Toes)!

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I really am!  LOL!

I was rifling through one of my drawers of paper and came across some paint chips that I had thrown in there from when we repainted the craft room/office.  This Valspar "Beachnut" one caught my eye, of course.  It's the color of sand, right?

So I thought I'd try stamping on it with one of my MANY beach stamp sets!  This one is Sandy Sunsets from Our Craft Lounge. 

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Kinda cool, huh?  I thought so.

Thanks for stopping by today.  I'll see you tomorrow for the next E-Team blog hop!

• Stamps: Sandy Sunsets (Our Craft Lounge) 
• Paper: Valspar Signature Colors paint chip (Beachnut), kraft, Espresso, navy, Seaside 8x8 (October Afternoon)  
• Ink: Memento - rich cocoa, Ranger Distress - frayed burlap, vintage cream (PTI)
• Tools used on every card: Fiskars 9" trimmer, Scor-Buddy, Tim Holtz scissors, Ranger non-stick craft sheet, Rock-a-blocks
• Other: Glimmer Glam Glitter Paint - Ocean Spray (Tattered Angels), emory board, paint brush, ink blending tool, Ranger mini- misters, natural twine, Capuccino twine (Twinery), Sunshine die (MFT), seam binding, Dot Matrix Texture Fades (Tim Holtz Alterations), 1 3/8" circle punch, foam mounting tape 

Orchids for Color Throwdown #152

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How about another round of the Color Throwdown?!  Tammy is our summer hostess for this week and I just LOVE the color combo she chose.

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I had just been looking at some orchid photos on Pinterest, when I pulled these cardstock colors out and laid them on my desk. As I looked up, I saw my Orchids stamp set from Flourishes that had not yet been inked.  As they say, everything just fell into place!  Don't you just love when that happens?

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So do you wanna play with us?  We'd love to see what these colors bring to mind for you!  Just check out the details on how to enter at the Color Throwdown blog.  And now here's what the design team members came up with:

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Barbara * Carole * Danielle * Kristin * Laura 

LeAnne * Tammy * and special guest Keva

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Remember each of the designers is playing on a abbreviated schedule for the summer, so you may not find a new post at each of the blogs.  But I'm sure you'll want to stop in and say hi anyway!

That's it for me today!  I'll have another Our Craft Lounge card for you tomorrow, and on Friday we're having another E-Team blog hop!!  OHHH YEAHHHH!!  This time we're using Ranger Distress Stains.  It's my first time!  Wish me luck!

Thanks for visiting with me today!

 

• Stamps: Orchids (Flourishes) 
• Paper: river rock, soft suede, rose red, melon mambo, Sweet Threads 6x6 (Basic Grey) 
• Ink: Memento - rich cocoa, Ranger Distress - antique linen, Copic markers 
• Tools used on every card: Fiskars 9" trimmer, Scor-Buddy, Tim Holtz scissors, Ranger non-stick craft sheet, Rock-a-blocks
• Other: craft knife, Labels Ten Nestabilities, ink blending tool, Plaid embossing folder (Tim Holtz Alterations), foam tape, Raspberry Fizz satin ribbon (PTI)

Just Swingin' By!

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Hi there!  I've got another fun summer card for you today. 

I've used the tree and tire swing from the Swingin' By stamp set from Our Craft Lounge.  I just love this tree!  And I actually remember swinging on old tire swings like this when I was a kid.  Yes, I can remember back that far!!

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That's it for today!  I hope you all have a great week and come back tomorrow for another Color Throwdown challenge!  Stay cool!

• Stamps: Swingin' By (Our Craft Lounge) 
• Paper: kraft, Kitschy Kitchen (Melissa Frances) 
• Ink: Memento - tuxedo black, Versafine - onyx black, Ranger Distress - frayed burlap, Copic markers: E41, E42, E43, YG61, YG63, YG67
• Tools used on every card: Fiskars 9" trimmer, Scor-Buddy, Tim Holtz scissors, Ranger non-stick craft sheet, Rock-a-blocks
• Other: ink blending tool, sewing machine, foam mounting tape 

Awesome Rainbows - Color Throwdown #151

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Yay!  It's time for another Color Throwdown challenge.  This week Kristin's our hostess and our challenge is to create a card with rainbow colors.  Pretty cool, huh?

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It was fun coming up with just the right shades of the rainbow colors.  I wanted mine to be a little more subdued than the basic primary shades.

I used our very own Laura's Rainbows & Clouds Dies & Sentiments stamp set (from Lil' Inker Designs) for the upside-down rainbow border.  The tiny flowers were ivory, but I spritzed them with a mixture of Ranger Distress Fired Brick reinker and water.

The paper I wanted to use was wider than my card, but I didn't want to cut either edge off, so I just pleated it in the middle.  Then I pleated the wired ribbon too.  You can hardly see it, but I stamped the PTI Mehndi Medallion image on the background paper, just behind the sentiment.

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The rainbows were die cut, then glued onto vanilla cardstock so I could overlap them and pop the middle one up on foam mounting tape.

I hope you'll play along with us this week!  This one should be really easy for everyone and anyone who wants to play!  Check out what the talented girls on our team have created for your inspiration:

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Barbara * Carole * Kristin * Laura 

LeAnne * Tammy * and special guest Keva

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Thanks so much for stopping by!!  Have a great week…or what's left of it!

• Stamps: Rainbows & Clouds Dies & Sentiments stamp set (Lil' Inker Designs with ag Designs), Mehndi Medallion (PTI)
• Paper: vanilla, blue bayou, scraps; Petite Papers (Webster's Pages)  
• Ink: Malted Milk (Jenni Bowlin), Versafine - onyx black, Ranger Distress - Fired Brick reinker
• Tools used on every card: Fiskars 9" trimmer, Scor-Buddy, Tim Holtz scissors, Ranger non-stick craft sheet, Rock-a-blocks
• Other: wired ribbon, flowers, mini-mister 

Warm Wishes Lighthouse - OCL74

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Hey, y'all!

I had some time today to make a card for the OCL blog challenge to use chipboard.

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I also wanted to play along with Tammy's Summer Stamping Challenge on Facebook.

I think this card using the Our Craft Lounge stamp set Coastal Wishes fits the bill for both challenges.  I used a Maya Road chipboard banner for my flag.  I brushed it with paint (just like the book page background), drew the black stitching on with a pen and then colored in the stripe with my R29 Copic marker.   A piece of Twinery maraschino twine is threaded through it and tied in a double bow.

The clouds and water are just swirled-on paint (obviously…it's pretty sloppy looking!).  But it's definitely a summer card.  Right, Tammy?

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Thanks so much for stopping by to take a look today.  Did you win a prize during the E-Team blog hop this past weekend?  You can check out who the winners are on the eP blog.  Someone who commented on my blog DID win!!  Yay!  And congratulations to the winners!

• Stamps: Coastal Wishes (Our Craft Lounge)
• Paper: white, real red 
• Ink/Paint: Memento - tuxedo black, Versafine - onyx black, Ranger Distress - weathered wood, Studio paint - blank canvas & sky blue (Claudine Hellmuth), Copic multiliner SP 0.2, Copic markers 
• Tools used on every card: Fiskars 9" trimmer, Scor-Buddy, Tim Holtz scissors, Ranger non-stick craft sheet, Rock-a-blocks
• Other: foam brush, book page, Mixed Scallop Mini Triangle Banner Chipboard Set (Maya Road), ink blending tool, Maraschino twine (Twinery), foam mounting tape
  

How would you like to be a designer for Our Craft Lounge?

 
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That's right!

Our Craft Lounge is looking for a few good designers!

This is what our DT coordinator Kendra Wietstock has to tell you about it:

Hi There OCL Peeps!

Are you going to CHA?  Are you interested in designing for OCL?  Well if you said yes to both questions, stop by the OCL Booth this week and ask me for a Designer Packet!

We are searching the show for talented designers and I have made some specially designed packets of OCL Goodies to give out to the first 30 designers who come talk to me.  So if you are going to the show & are interested in applying for our team, stop by and chat with me!

See you in Chicago!

Kendra

Even if you're not going to CHA and you'd like to apply, you can contact Kendra or just let me know and I'll pass your name & contact information along to her.

Have a great weekend!

It's Better With Color - part 4 Blog Hop: Tattered Angels

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What fun to be able to play to my heart's content with Tattered Angels products!!  Daisy even has a limited quantity of some of the new products that haven't even been released yet, and they're on sale too - 10% off.  They'll debut at summer CHA, but we were able to play with them already!

Here are the Blog Hop details:

• Visit each blog and leave a comment for a chance to win 1 of 3 prizes
• 2 winners will be randomly selected from the E-Team blogs to each win a $25 eclectic Paperie Gift Voucher.
• 1 winner will be selected from the eP blog to win a new Tattered Angels mist assortment and more goodies
• Comments will be taken Friday, July 15, to Sunday, July 17th. 1 comment per blog, please.  Winners will be posted Monday, July 18, on the eP blog.

Now on to my project for today.

**Everything on my project is so shiny and shimmery IRL.  I hope you can tell somewhat from my photos, but they certainly don't do justice to the shimmer of the products.  Also, as always, you can click on any photo to see it larger.**

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I've had this Maya Road chipboard album for a little while and had been wondering what to do with it.  How perfect it was to try out all the Tattered Angels products!  So I thought I would use it as a little memory album to chronicle all the events taking place in my little world, as well as in the big wide, world this year.

I started by spritzing the cover with the new Fairway Chalkboard Glimmer Mist and Bronze regular Glimmer Mist.  I had started out on my desktop, but then moved it into a box to better control the spray.  (In other words, I was spraying everything!)  I also did the same with the scrap of cardboard I wanted to use.

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Then I took a wide paintbrush and painted strokes of the Ocean Spray Glimmer Glam Glitter Paint.  I used a lot of paint because I wanted it to drip down the cover when I stood the album up for it to dry.  I LOVE the beautiful clear drops it formed on the end of each drip!   Then I stamped the background from the Studio 490 Forever Art stamp set in a hybrid cream ink.  See the shimmer and shine??

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I cut a piece of Claudine Hellmuth Studio Sticky-Back canvas and spritzed it with the Bronze Glimmer Mist.  I applied 2 pieces of Idea-ology Symphony tissue tape, then painted the canvas with the same Glimmer Glam Glitter Paint, and spritzed it with Timberline Glimmer Mist (love, love, love this color!).

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I pulled a piece of scrap acrylic packaging  from my stash to see how the new Glimmer Glaze would work on it.  I stamped one side with the text stamp from the Reflections stamp set from Stampers Anonymous.  This stamp is meant to be stamped on the back side of acrylic when you want to apply color to the other side.  I randomly painted with the Island Spring Glimmer Glaze, and also just flicked some drops onto the acrylic.  Neat-o!!

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I wanted my butterfly to showcase the beautiful color of the Glimmer Glaze without it being absorbed into the chipboard.  So I first coated it with a thin layer of Claudine Hellmuth Studio matte Multi-Medium.  I stamped it just like I did the album cover with the background stamp.  When the ink was completely dry, I brushed a light coat of the Island Spring Glimmer Glaze onto it.  It's such a soft beautiful color!

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So finally, here is my finished project again.

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The sentiment is also from the Studio 490 Forever Art stamp set.  The seam binding was spritzed with Timberline Glimmer Mist.  I have a feeling I'll be using that up very quickly!  It's LOVE, I tell you!

How about some closeups?

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I absolutely love how this turned out and can hardly wait to start inserting memorabilia.  I've already printed a couple of photos from my recent beach trip and I've also saved some newspaper articles (like from William & Kate's U.S. visit). 

So I hope you enjoyed the little trip through my Tattered Angels-adorned memory album creation process.  If you have any questions, please let me know what they are.  I'm always glad to help if I can, or at least point you in the right direction towards someone who can!

Now I know you're anxious to move on to see what my uber-talented fellow E-Team members have in store for you.  I'm sure their projects are just as amazing as always!  Don't forget to leave comments along the way for your chance to win some of these AWESOME Tattered Angels products!

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E-TEAM

Latrice Murphy

Linda Duke

Linda Ledbetter

Micki Harper

Sherry Cheever

Daisy Sparks (eP blog)

Starla Nelson (is having computer issues and may be posting later)

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Thank you all SO MUCH for visiting with me today.  You're the greatest!!

 

• Stamps: Reflections (Stampers Anonymous), background & sentiment from Forever Art (Studio 490)
• Paper: none
• Ink/Paint: Ranger Archival jet black; Ranger Distress - frayed burlap; Vintage Cream (PTI); from Tattered Angels: Glimmer Mist - Bronze & Timberline; Chalkboard Glimmer Mist - Fairway; Glimmer Glam Glitter Paint - Ocean Spray; Glimmer Glaze- Island Spring  
• Tools used on every card: Fiskars 9" trimmer, Scor-Buddy, Tim Holtz scissors, Ranger non-stick craft sheet, Rock-a-blocks
• Other: Maya Road chipboard 5 x 7 Binder Album, Claudine Hellmuth Studio - Sticky-Back Canvas & Matte Multi-Medium, cardboard and acrylic scraps, Idea-ology Tissue Tape - Symphony, chipboard butterfly & flower, seam binding, paintbrushes, ink blending tool, crop-a-dile, jumbo eyelets, flower, Want 2 Scrap Nestabling, Labels Ten Nestabilities, Scor-Tape
  

 

The Art of Nature - Color Throwdown #150

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Hello, everyone!  It's time for another Color Throwdown challenge.  Are you ready?

Laura's our hostess and has chosen a beautiful, versatile combo.

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I decided to use my The Art of Nature stamp set from Our Craft Lounge.  It's a beautiful set and I love this particular basket of flowers.  They're probably lavender but for the color combo's sake, I decided my lavender will be in shades of pink!

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So here is the list of DT participants for the week and we hope you'll play along with us as well.  You can find all the details on the Color Throwdown blog.

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Barbara * Carole * Kristin * Laura 

LeAnne * Tammy * and special guest Keva

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Thanks for dropping by today.  And thanks for all the beautiful birthday wishes from all of my special friends in blogland yesterday!

Please check back in with me on Friday when we're having our next E-Team blog hop.  It's another eclectic Paperie "It's Better With Color" edition.  This time we're using Tattered Angels products!  What fun!

Love you all!

• Stamps: The Art of Nature (Our Craft Lounge) 
• Paper: kraft (PTI), pretty in pink, Sweet Threads (Basic Grey) 
• Ink: Memento - tuxedo black, Copic markers 
• Tools used on every card: Fiskars 9" trimmer, Scor-Buddy, Tim Holtz scissors, Ranger non-stick craft sheet, Rock-a-blocks
• Other: paper doily, Mat Stack 2 die (PTI), Jumbo Ric Rac die (MFT), Little Leaves die (Sizzix/SU), Hibiscus Burst ribbon (PTI), sewing machine, Bling-It rhinestones (Basic Grey), Scor-Tape