Brown, Cream and One ATC

I hosted this swap on Swap-Bot recently. I’ve seen lots of Black White and One, even hosted it before, but never this one. I, of course, went with pink for my other colour.

The base is cardstock covered in some really wide eyelet lace. It is actually much wider than you even see here, I cut off a big piece! Love that lace. The butterfly is a Cuttlebug embossing folder and die combo, well, they are two pieces. It is a set of 4 embossing folders and a matching die. Way cool. I sponged ink over the raised areas with Victorian Rose Distress ink. But once I added glitter, you really can’t see it, next time I will use white transparent glitter. The ribbon is from Miss Alayneeah on etsy. I love the variegated look she gets.

Ever wonder how to get a bow to look like that? All I do is tie a bow with extra long tails and pull the middle tight. Then I put a forceps clamp on the knot and tie another bow. Ta Da! A double bow!

Enjoy, Rebecca

RECIPE
Ink: Distress ink
Paper: chocolate CS-SU!, sweet blush-PTI
Accessories: buttons, white twine-PTI, Prima pearl flourish, seam binding ribbon-Miss Alayneeah, vintage lace, Pearl-Kaisesrcraft, Art Institute Glitter, Cuttlebug embossing folder and die, foam dots-jody Morrow, Krylon spray adhesive

Don’t Just Float through Life, Make Waves for Doodle Pantry and Skipping Stones Sketch

I am in love with anything to do with the beach or the ocean so this image really appealed to me.

 
I Googled seahorses and other than a bright yellow of some, they are mostly pretty boringly coloured so I decided to take artistic licence and go with some fun, ice cream-ish colours to go with my Kioshi DP. However, when I started looking through the pad, I realized that though the colours were perfect, the geometric nature of the prints wasn’t organic enough for this underwater scene. So I went with this cool ‘bubbley’ print from another Basic Grey DP pad, Pheobe. Just right!

I used a sketch by Skipping Stones Designs for this card. I flipped it then changed the partial circle shape into a rectangle, mimicked the scalloped edge with the scallops on my sentiment panel and added an extra shell to represent the circle on the sketch. I airbrushed the background with ‘waves’ of BG75 and B91 but you can’t really see the ‘waves’ because they are too subtle. Maybe next time they will show up better if I make them each wider. Overall, I like the look of the background though. The ‘seaweed’ is felt cut with the regular PTI rickrack die. It cuts though felt like buttah!

The sand is a cool product I picked up at CHA, sand mixed with glue that is spreadable on your card or project! Way cool! They had lots of colours that corresponded with the colours of sand on various beaches across the world. And they also had shells with glue on them too! It is such an easy product to use and not too expensive either at $5 for sand and $6 for shells. It seems to go a long was so it was well worth it. I’ve wanted an easy way to add sand to my projects for ages!

 Enjoy, Rebecca

RECIPE
Image: seahorse-Doodle Pantry
Paper: Pheobe DP-Basic Grey, baja CS-SU!, white CS-Taylored Expressions
Accessories: white gel pen, airbrush system, Copics Y21,35,38, E00,02,37,93, R20,22, YG03, G21,24, BG 72,75, B 91,95,97, felt-Etsy, PTI rickrack die, Perfect Pearls (painted on to coral), Liquid Pearls (painted on to shell), SU! scalloped edge punch, Mudd Puddles sand and shells

Cuddly Koala for Doodle Pantry

I have wanted to go to Australia long before the movie was ever even though of. In particular to see these little guys, as well as many other things of course. Apparently, there is a place where you can go and even cuddle them!

 
I had a huge challenge colouring this guy. First I was going to colour and shade him, then remove colour with colourless blender on a rag to mimic fur. Then I had a better idea! I did a light base coat, then APPLIED my colour with the rag rather than removing it! I used the twill-type band area of the washcloth rather than the terry part thinking it would give me a better fur texture and I also hoped it wouldn’t soak up as much ink thereby wasting it. I think it worked really, REALLY well; I am so happy with the results!

To make sure the colour didn’t get all over the rest of the paper, I put a sticky note over the image, then held it up to the light and traced the areas I wanted colour on. Then I cut it out saving the reverse, creating a reverse mask. Then I applied my colour. I hope you will try this technique soon. Just remember, you can still add shading with this technique. Just twist the tip of the washcloth quite small to get more accurate results and use more than one colour of marker just like you would to blend the colour.

Sketch by Mercy Kerrin. MTSC85 The background pattern on the blue CS was created by inking up a Tim Holtz foam blending tool and using it like a stamp to create a pattern of loose squares.

Be sure to visit Laurie’s blog, Clearly Delightful to read all about this month's challenge and see this month’s releases. Not only do you get a FREE image just for playing but you could win the ENTIRE month’s releases! WOOOHOOO!!! All you have to do is create a project using a tag of some kind (which I somehow managed to miss, sorry Laurie, stupid goof which happens when you are creating at 1AM!).

Enjoy, Rebecca

RECIPE
Image/sentiment: Doodle Pantry
Ink: Vintage photo, antique linen distress ink
Paper: Granola-Basic Grey, white CS-Taylored Expressions, blue, chocolate CS-SU!, kraft CS-CDS
Accessories: ribbon-May Arts, foam dots-Jody Morrow, Copics G24,28, W00,01,03,05,07, black100, E57,71,77, B41

Back from CHA!

I had a great time at the CHA Consumer Show. I didn’t get too many photos but I will show you the awesome make n takes a bit later. They were amazing with usually less than a 5 minute line! The PTI booth seemed to be the busiest, especially right after the show opened. Being about 10th in line, I could have gone to the make n take or the booth. I (unwisely) chose to do the make n take first thinking the lines would be as long as at the Creativ Festival in Toronto (difficult to get to make ANYTHING) but I should have hit the store first because 10 minutes after opening, I was stuck in the store for an HOUR!

I was a bit disappointed that few manufacturers stayed to show us the new stuff but a few did. I also missed checking out the eCraftwell die cutting machine. But overall, the shopping was awesome and I met so many lovely ladies I’ve only known from their blog posts. I sure hope you all get to go another year!

Rebecca

Giraffe Baby for Doodle Pantry

I love this giraffe, isn’t he cute? I just love Laurie’s animals.

He matches the colours in Basic Grey’s Max and Whiskers paper SOOOOOO perfectly! At first I was thinking more of a baby card but I couldn’t think of what paper to use. Next time, I think I will colour  it in pink and make a baby girl card. I used a sketch I downloaded from a blog I was reading and I have no idea who made it or for which challenge it was created so if anyone knows, please pass on the deets so I can link my card up!

I hope you will join me tomorrow for the Doodle Pantry release! I can’t wait to show you another fabulous cutie pie animal Laurie has drawn!

Enjoy, Rebecca

RECIPE
Image: giraffe-Doodle Pantry
Ink: vintage photo, antique linen Distress ink
Paper: white CS-Taylored Expressions, DP-Basic Grey, corrugated cardboard, kraft CS-CDS
Accessories: accent-Jesse James buttons, circle Nestabilities, Copics Y21, E31,37, R11, G21,24 C-1, B60