Parachute

This is another atc that came from my play time yesterday. I love this saying so decided to make a visual reminder to hang in my craft room. I stamped and embossed a script stamp using white embossing powder on white cardstock. Then Broken China Distress ink was applied over the top and buffed off the lettering. A crosshatch stamp was layered over that randomly and imperfectly for added texture.

I found a very old parachute image on the internet and thought it was cool because it reminded me of the TH stamps that label parts. I wanted it to appear old so I printed it on a blank front page from an old recycled book. The aged paper had yellowed and gone soft...hope you know what I mean. Once printed, the image was lightly coloured with Prismacolor pencils, fussy cut and Vintage Photo DI was applied. Stickles were dotted on where the strings joined the parachute.

The sentiment was computer generated and the edges were inked. The only other embellies added were the sequin stars and tiny black half pearls in the center of them. To frame up the atc and give the outside some weight, Walnut Stain Distress ink was applied before rubbing the edges with Versamark and embossing them with copper embossing powder from Stamp N Plus.

I was happy with this little piece of art. I think I captured the vintage look I was after so "Go me!" It doesn't always happen that way :) Thanks for visiting today.

Life is good; so is art.
Bonnie

ATC play

I've been making lots of cards for upcoming posts in the last few days so today I decided to have a play with something different...atcs. I love making atcs. They are great little canvases for experimenting. Atcs are 2 1/2" wide by 3 1/2" long and are fun to trade, use on a card, tag, or journal or just display. I have several little jute clotheslines across a bulletin board and also on the inside of my armoire door (which is always open). I frequently rotate the little art pieces on these, using mini clothespins to hang them.

One atc I created was an opportunity to use some of my new Paula Best stamps. I love the funkiness or quirkiness of her art. I used Scatttered Straw and Worn Lipstick Distress inks for the background and then gave it a couple of flicks with water. More Worn Lipstick was used to ink in a Dylusions stencil. The ART stamp is the bottom portion of Paula Best's art person stamp. The letters were coloured in with Distress markers and doodled with a Micron pen. Half pearls filled in the dots.

Tissue tape was adhered in the top right corner and along the bottom of the atc. The curly girl stamp was inked onto white cardstock and coloured with Prismacolor crayons,then fussy cut and adhered with foam tape. A TH grunge arrow was inked with Black Soot and then lined with white acrylic paint and a TH stamp was used for the splatter dots to the right of ART. The two final touches were the metal dream embellie and the thin black frame around the atc. I trimmed a tiny bit off the card before framing it with the black in order to keep the size the same.

I'll post some of the other atcs over the next couple of days. The styles are all very different from each other...I told you I wanted to play :)

Thanks for visiting today. I hope that you stay safe and that Sandy is finished with his nonsense. My heart goes out to those affected by his madness. We were fortunate to only get the tail end...lots of wind and rain but not too much destruction here.

Life is good; so is art.
Bonnie

Teeny weenie iris folding

I have never done iris folding on this small of a scale before so I was most interested to see if I could manage it. With a few adjustments it was as easy as larger iris fold designs I have made. I started by stamping this iris fold design, QIR075, from Stamp N Plus Scrap N twice on white cardstock. I stamped once for the entire design and once for the center circle which gave me the lines to follow.

After cutting out the center section, I coloured the entire design with Prismacolor pencils. I redotted the large dots with black acrylic paint and the smaller dots with Micron pen and set the piece aside to dry. In the meantime, I cut the center circle out from the second stamping, cutting outside of the lines to make the piece larger than the circle. When the coloured image was dry, I taped that piece face down over the circle section so that the lines showed through to the back of the main piece through the hole I had cut out. In other words, I had the right sdie of the center circle piece taped against the right side of the main image so that the lines showed through the hole.

Normally, I use folded pieces of thin paper for my layered strips. Because the opening was so small and the layered strips so thin, I chose to use unfolded 1/4" strips which I inked on one long edge. That served two purposes: the inking better shows the layers and the white edge of the paper was now black so it didn't look unfinished. Instead of using double sided or scotch tape for adhering each strip around the circle, I usedQuick-Dry glue just on either end, again reducing the bulk considerably. Then I just followed the lines round and round. It was completed in no time and I love how intricate the pattern looks.

I cut out the stamped and coloured design and adhered it to the turquoise rectangle made from the same paper as the iris folds. Then I just continued to layer up cardstock alternating colours and inking the edges with Distress Ink. Two little flat pearls anchor the lines from the design that extend beyond the coloured sections The sentiment was computer generated, cut out using an oval template. inked, matted, and dotted with more black paint.


I really kept the card design very clean and simple in order to let the colour palette and the strong and intricate pattern take center stage. It reminds me of a Navajo rug with the rich colours, graphic design, and punch of black. If you haven't tried iris folding yet, I urge you to give it a go. It's easy and pleasey...oh, you know what I mean :)

Thanks for visiting today. Happy Halloween...eat chocolate!

Life is good; so is art.
Bonnie

CYP Challenge 134 - Photo Inspiration

Another Monday has arrived and with it, another Craft Your Passion challenge. This one has a bit of a different twist because it's a photo inspiration challenge. I've never actually done this type of challenge before so it was pushing the envelope a little for me. Gotta say...it was fun!

Here's the photo:

And here's my take on it:

I took inspiration from the sun in the photo but switched it out to the moon which became the shape of the card. I cut it from two pieces of yellow cardstock. On the top layer, I printed this sweet A Day For Daisies image, Spooky tree, to mimic the tree in the photo. The bottom circle was scored a half inch from the top and then set aside to become the card back.

The image was coloured with Prismacolor pencils and the circle was inked around the outside edge with two colours of Distress ink. A doodled border was added over the ink. A tiny black witch silhouette was fussy cut and adhered over the moon and rub-on lettering created the sentiment.

Such a simple little card. I am amazed that I actually only have one layer as the front of my card. Don't think I've ever done that before either...at least since I was a kid. To put the front and back of the card together, glue was added to the top half inch of the back above the score line. This allows the card to open without creasing the front.

Thanks for visiting today. Be sure to visit the Craft Your Passion Challenges blog for more inspiration from our design team. I can't wait to see how you interpret this photo in your design. It's a wide open challenge.

I am entering this card in the following challenges::
So Artful Challenges ~ Harvest Moon Challenge
Scrappy Frogs Challenge ~ Fall or Halloween
Sentimental Sundays ~ Challenge 126 Pumpkins
2 Sisters Challenge ~ Challenge 115 Halloween or Fall Colours
Crafty Mess Challenge Blog ~ Challenge 20  Halloween


Life is good; so is art.

Bonnie

AWNB and RRR Halloween challenge Week 4

I'm doing the twofer again...two projects for one post :) We are continuing our Halloween challenges at Art With No Boundaries and Recycle, Re-Purpose & Re-Invent. We've all had so much fun with this theme and these images that we'll hate to see it end.

For the Art With No Boundaries challenge, I decided to be brave and work on the first page of my brand new 9x12 journal. Usually, I do other pages first and then come back to the first page once I'm warmed up. This time, I just went for it :) I actually like this size journal because sometimes I want more room to play. I started by gessoing the page and then adhering dictionary page pieces with gel medium. Then I did my usual make-a-mess-and-create-lots-of layers background. I used things like spray and regular inks, stencils, gesso on my finger, some stamps, Pitt pen, FC Big Brush pens, Neocolor II crayons, punchinella, acrylic paint, etc.

Next I shaded the edges of the fun and funky CS Designs striped forest tree which was printed on kraft paper, and cut it out.  A little gel medium and the background was ready for the fruit :) The Shrunken Head 1 image from CS Designs was printed numerous times in different sizes (I love my digis) and each was coloured with Prismacolor pencils and fussy cut. They were mounted to black punched circles and "hung" on the tree with baker's twine. A sparkly sun, lots of doodling, a stencilled and cutout raven, drywall tape, and a crazy sentiment that made me laugh were all added. The whole page is a little weird but definitely fun.

The RRR project is an 8x8 canvas starring the lovely Raven Digital stamp from CS Designs. Neocolor II watercolour crayons were used for the background colour and then many of the same things listed above were used to add texture. The additional items used  to stamp on this piece were a piece of flipflop sole smeared with paint and piece of bubble wrap inked. Anything that makes a mark is fair game. I freehanded a tree shape on kraft paper, cut it out, crumpled it into a ball, and then inked the  daylights out of it before adhering it to the canvas.

Raven was coloured with Prismacolor pencils and then fussy cut. A purple rhinestone heart was added to her waist. Then Raven and I made her a nest out of recycled burlap, reclaimed feathers, leftover paper branches from another project, a piece of yarn on my closet floor, an old button, and a pearl stuck to my desktop. Raven was happy to stand in her nest while I added her name in foam letters, a canvas banner, and a TH keyhole plate. Doodling finished this canvas off.

These pieces were created with pure play....very little thinking, planning, and no second guessing. Try it - it's addictive. For lots more inspiration check out the two blogs to see what the DT and our guest designer, BlackDragon, have created. Love, love, love!

Thanks for visiting us today...and for reading this big, long post. I appreciate it!

Life is good; so is art.
Bonnie

SNP Dog-gone Halloween....the Sequel :D

I couldn't resist playing with this  Stamp N Plus Scrap N Peter Pup stamp, PP13, for another Halloween card. Once again I coloured Peter with Prismacolor pencils. I cut him out using a Spellbinders die which I also used to trace the black mat. The die the next size down was traced in Black Micron pen and then thickened to make a doodled type of frame. It just adds a little more interest to the image.

The background comes from my favourite DCWV Midnight Spell matstack layered on black cardstock for added visual weight. Orange grosgrain ribbon was adhered to the background on either side of the image and black spider stickers were placed on top of the ribbon. Two black threaded buttons were the final embellies for this CAS card.

Easy-peasy and fun to colour. Gotta love it!

Thanks for visiting Peter and me. We always appreciate your visits and your comments.

Life is good; so is art.
Bonnie

CYP Challenge #133 ~ Fairies and Fantasy

 We have a fun theme for our challenge this week at Craft Your Passion Challenges...Fairies and Fantasy. I chose to play with this fabulous image from Delicious Doodles called Fairy Fae. She's a beauty and those butterflies are so sweet.

I coloured Fae and her friends with Prismacolor pencils adding a smear of Stickles to her wings for extra magic. I printed the image twice but only coloured the butterflies on the second image so they could be fussy cut and adhered to the other ones just in the center. This allowed their wings to be free and created additional dimension.

Papers from Graphic 45's Once Upon a Springtime collection were used both for the background and for the semicircular element to the right of Fae. A doodled border and some simple cream matting gave it additional weight. A die cut lacy border with half pearls added was used to trim the left side of the card and add contrast to the vibrant colours. More pearls accent a doodled corner and gold buttons finish off the lower right corner..

Fae is only one of a huge collection of gorgeous images found at Delicious Doodles. To see more inspiration using other images, check out the Craft Your Passion Challenges blog. Fabulous projects by the CYP design team again this week!

Thanks for dropping by to meet Fae. I look forward to seeing what you create for this challenge theme. Bring on the magic!

I am entering this card in the following challenges:
Eureka Stamps #11 ~ Things With Wings
Make It Monday ~ Anything Goes
Challenges 4 Everybody ~ Anything Goes

Life is good; so is art.
Bonnie