A Tag Full of Fun

 I wanted to share a quick post to give you some ideas for the holidays...

An important aspect these tags have in common is Dylusions.  I really love Dylusions, especially the color sprays.  They react with water, so spraying the paper before or after you use the sprays causes different effects and some really fun stuff.

Dylusions Postbox Red

Dylusions Calypso Teal

Dylusions London Blue

Dylusions Fresh Lime

Dylusions Bordering on the Edge Stamp Set

Dylusions Stars Stencil 

Enjoy and check these out!  Enjoy your crafting and let me know what you think or what products you love!

Another visit

Sometimes things deserve another visit.  That's this guy. 

And that includes a crafty wishlist.  Something on my wishlist? A Cricut 3.

And to remind you of some great products, the same picture below of the beginnins g my underpaper shwong an amazing supply, is Dylusions Calypso Teal, a delicious color if I do say so myself.  And I do.

 What's on your wishlist?

Deck the Halls

Hi friends! How's your weekend going?  It always goes by so quickly right?  That's what I find bittersweet about the weekends.  They're brief, but usually very enjoyable.

I also realized that I don't have a ton of art creations for the Christmas season.  So I'm hoping to change that.  And I'm doing pretty good so far.  In that vein, I have an ATC for Christmas that I gave a sneak peek of a day or two ago.

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I'm also entering my tag into the following challenge:

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge

 

I used an Octopode Factory girl in Christmas gear, and grabbed an ATC the play with.  I added a file label, some ribbon and red thread, letter stickers, a button and brad from my stash, along with a little bit of punchinella.  You could say I grabbed a bunch of my stash and round out this ATC.

Something else in the background that I did was an experiment.  I mixed Liquitex Gesso, Liquitex Bright Aqua Green, and Ranger Gel Medium and pushed the mixture through my Dylusions Trees stencil. 

I also added a bright green paper clip as well.

ATCs may be small, but they are mighty!  Please let me know what you think in the comments!

Fa la la la

Hey everyone!  Happy Saturday, for a little longer anyway.  I have a really cool tag to share with you for the holiday season.

There's quite a bit going on with this tag, and it's really cool.  I had been experimenting with my supplies and used the tag as a mop up page of sorts.  Then I added another layer and got stuck.  It can be difficult, even when playing, to do a step, then not know the direction you want to go in.  That was where I was.  I liked certain parts and didn't want to cover those up, but I still needed to do something.  Have you ever had that happen, when creating art or in real life?

I'm also entering my tag into the following challenge:

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge

 

 

I also have to remember I have a LOT of supplies.  So there's no wrong answer, it's more about how you're feeling.  So the tag had some Dylusions Calypso Teal and Postbox Red smeared on it, then I used some of a mixture of Liquitex Gesso, Liquitex Bright Aqua Green, and Ranger Gel Medium and pushed through my Dylusions Trees stencil. 

I used Archival black ink with a Dylusions corner arrow stamp.  The left side scallop border is from a gelli print done long ago.  Then I grabbed other goodies to add to my tag.  Some legs from a Dylusions stamp set that I colored with Tombow and Artist's Loft markers.  Alphabet stickers, a wood chip, a yellow chipboard star and two star stickers later my tag seemed to be ready.  I did raid my ribbon collection for trims that would work well with this tag.  I think I found some nice ones!

Please let me know what you think in the comments!

Sneak peek

A quick peek at my next project...and there's even a lot of stuff in this little peek, but I'll save the rest for later.

Just know that even in this sneak, I used a combination of paint, gesso, and gel medium, whew!

I've included affiliate links to many of the products I've used or similar products, which means if you use the links to make a purchase, I make a small commission with no price increase for you.  I really appreciate your support.

 

I hope you like the little peek!  Please feel free to let me know in the comments!

Beginnings...

It's that time of year again...Christmas and Hanukkah time.  Forgive any mispellings since I celebrate Christmas myself.  The holidays are an interesting time.  Now whether you love this holiday season or find it challenging for any number of reasons, the season is definitely everywhere.  Music, decorations, purchasing gifts for people you care about.

I will fully admit I have a crafty wishlist.  A couple items on there that I have coveted for a long time are a We R Memory Keepers typewriter in blue and a Cricut machine.  One of the newest versions, if not the newest, is the Cricut 3.

I also wanted to share the beginnings of my newest underpaper.  It starts out white, and gradually collects marks, scribbles, paint, and everything else.  It's always really fun to see how it starts.  The spray is Dylusions Calypso Teal, a delicious color if I do say so myself.  And I do.

What does this time begin for you?  Are you interested in a new beginning?  What's on your wishlist?

One of Those Butterfly Days

Ever have one of those days?  You can't quite put your finger on it, maybe you can't put a name to it, but you just have this feeling.  Maybe it's an off day.  Maybe it's a good day where you forgot about everything for a little bit.  Maybe it's a day when something unexpected happened.  There's so many different aspects that can be covered.  And that's how life is at time.

I didn't love this ATC or the batch, and when you do batch work, that happens.  Even if you like the whole group or get a whole group done, one or two might not work out exactly how you like and you have to adjust them.  

In this case, I grabbed some kraft paper that I had used as underpaper for previous projects and ripped a section that I glued to the ATC and trimmed off the excess to give a new background.  This background has spots of paint as well as ghost images from stamps and leftover gesso from cleaning a stencil.  I don't clean my stencils when I use paint with them.  So many of my stencils are a riot of color from being used often with different shades of paint over the years.  Gesso, however, is artist's primer, and like other mediums, like clear gel or texture paste, gets cleaned off stencils right away so the stencil can continue to be used.

In this case I used a white water-based Sharpie paint marker for most of the doodling.  I also used a Uni Posca Paint Marker in Emerald Green and a Molotow One4All Shock Blue paint marker.  And for some fun, I added a piece of washi tape and a couple heart stickers made into a butterfly.

 

I'm entering my ATC into the following challenges:

Krafty Chicks Challenge

Creative Fingers Challenge

I've included affiliate links to many of the products I've used or similar products, which means if you use the links to make a purchase, I make a small commission with no price increase for you.  I really appreciate your support.

 

Do you ever have one of those days?  A day you just want to head off the rails and do something fun and different?  Please feel free to let me know in the comments!