Just because

Hello friends! Happy Wednesday to all of you. I have a fun card for you today, using a die-cut as a stencil and some other fun accessories, all dies are from Top Dog Dies.

Here are the details:

• Die-cut a Top Dog Die Bella Doily die. Set aside to use as a stencil.
• Then, make a sandwich with your cardstock, rubber mat and die and embossed a piece of Ivory Cardstock. After that, use the stencil to cover the embossed area, then spray the piece of cardstock with Sangria and Sunflower Sparkle mists. Set aside to dry.
• After the piece is dried, used your stencil, position it over the embossed area and add embossing paste, set aside to dry.
• Die-cut a Top Dog Die Wildflower, paint piece with Carmine Red Metallic paint and set aside to dry.
• Die-cut a tag from Top Dog Dies Alexa Frames die in Ivory Cardstock. Stamp sentiment from Mini Tags and sentiments set.
• After embossing paste is dried, add clear glitter and heat set.
• Mat the piece with a red piece, add stitches.
• Add Wildflower, tags and pink twine to panel.
• Add piece to card with dimensionals.

 

 

Hope you like it!

Have a great day!

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Just because

Happy birthday card + Picture Tutorial

Hello friends!! Hope you are having a great Monday! Today, I want to share a card I made for my daughter's birthday, she is 10 now!!  She is still extremely excited about being 10, looks like 2 -digit age is a big deal, LOL.


So, here are the details  for this project:

• Start with a piece of Tim Holtz Watercolor paper (4.5" x 4.5"), mount a stencil "Mini Fish Scales". I added few pieces of washi tape to avoid moving my piece.

 

• Apply Versamark Watermark ink to watercolor paper.

 

• Remove stencil, add White Embossing powder and heat set.



 

 

• Add color by sponging piece with Tumbled Glass, Broken China and Mustard Seed Distress Inks.

 

• Your piece will look like this :)

 

• Using a Mini Mister, mist your piece with water to give it a more watercolor look. 

 

 

• Then, mist your piece with Sunflower Sparkle Perfect Pearls Mists.

 

 

• Using the stencil, use the small flower and stencil it on the panel with Barn Door Distress ink. I used Melted Chocolate spray and added a bit to the corner of panel.

 

• I used a Petaloo fabric flower and added a drop of  Faded Jeans reinker, then spray the piece with Sunflower Sparkle and Sangria mists, added copper shimmer twine. I stamped the sentiment on a white piece of white cardstock and voila!!  

 

 

Submitting this card to:

• Runway Inspired Challenge: ric#56 Alice + Olivia. I got inspired by the pretty bright colors and patterns.

 

• The Card Concept: Create a Birthday card 

Hope you like it!!

Have a great day!!

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Happy birthday card + Picture Tutorial

Love, always and forever.

Hello friends! Sharing with you a card I made for eclectic Paperie, most of the time I make Mixed media projects, this time I decided to make a card and I really love how this turned out.
I used the sketch and color combo from the Fusion Challenge.

Here are the details:

• Make your card base from White Cardstock. This one is A2 size.
• Take a piece of Tim Holtz Watercolor paper, mist your cardstock. Add bit of Distress Inks to a acrylic block or sheet, I used Mustard Seed, Peeled Paint, Broken China and Tumbled Glass. Spray acrylic block and add the ink to your cardstock with a water brush.
• After your watercolor piece dried, cut out panel to 3.75" x 5", then cut the bottom part.
• Stamp Fancy Florals background image on Vellum cardstock in Versamark ink, then add White Embossing powder and heat set.
• Die-cut a circle to you watercolor piece, cut a piece of the vellum piece and adhere it behind it. Add the circle from the watercolor panel behind the vellum.
• Create a circle window from Blue cardstock and adhere it to panel with dimensionals.
• Spray panel covering the vellum piece with Sunflower Sparkle Mist
• Add lace and copper shimmer twine, glue a blue Prima flower.
• Add sentiment using Tim Holtz Remnant Rubs

Close-up of the embossed image, check out the pretty Sunflower Sparkle Mist.

Close-up of the rub-on.

 

Submitting this project also to:

• Virginia's View Challenge: Watercoloring

 

Hope you like it!

Have a fantastic day.

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Love, always and forever.

Altered Book/Journal

Welcome to eclectic Paperie’s ePlay Challenge – Push Your Boundaries!  We’re altering our challenges in 2014, creating one, month-long challenge, increasing the prize drawing, holding a design team blog hop, and including a product discount with each new challenge!  Check out the details below:

 

·         We’ve combined our two challenges into one, announced on the first Thursday of each month.  This gives the design team more flexibility with challenge topics and projects and allows you more time to enter! 

·         We’ll also feature a product each month, and during the first day of the challenge, you’ll receive a discount on the featured product….be sure to check for the special code! 

·         Our prize drawing is increasing from $15.00 to a $25.00 gift certificate and the winner of each challenge will be announced on the last Thursday of each month and will be featured on the eP blog. 

·         Each month we’ll hold a blog hop featuring the beautiful artwork from our design team…just scroll down to the bottom of the post for all of the links!  Talk about inspiration!!

 

Our challenges are about encouraging you to explore your creative journey and inspiring you to step outside of your comfort zone.  When you submit your artwork, share a unique card, scrapbook or journal page, a canvas, home décor project, or anything that you’re excited to share!  We’re looking forward to crafting with you!

 

Today’s special is on Liquitex Gesso and for one day only, you can save 10% on a bottle of gesso…perfect for all of your altered projects!  Simply use code GESSO03 when checking out.

 

This is what I created for this month's challenge "Altered Books".  I have to confess I was a little bit intimidated by this challenge, but I am feeling much more confident now. I had to go to Goodwill and get a book "any book", I just wanted one with a hardcover, after walking around and getting intoxicated by the "smell" (sorry, I have asthma and the old books and I are not a good pair), I picked this book, I have no idea what it's about and after reading a little bit, I decided this book is for a project, I will start altering the pages and sharing them with you, I am super excited!!

Let's get started with this fun challenge:

• Pick a book, any book, I think a hardcover works better. This is the one I picked up. 

 

• Remove the paper cover, add Gesso to the cover. My idea was just to paint the center part, I think I added a little bit too much, but I liked it. Set aside to let it dry. (It doesn't take too long).

 

• Pick a Petaloo Canvas flower and spray Art Anthology Sangria and then add Perfect Pearl Mists Sunflower Sparkle. 

 

• Spray the cover (I just wanted to match  the cover with the pretty flower), set aside to dry. After that, Add a couple of pieces of burlap. 

 

• I dyed White Crinkle ribbon with Spun Sugar Distress Ink, scrunch it, then set aside to dry or use your heat gun. Add Copper Shimmer Twine to the ribbon, then glue the big flower.

 

• Stencil the  upper part with Mini Gathered Flowers Stencil and Victorian Velvet Distress Ink.

 

• I added rub-ons from Tim Holtz Remnant Words set. I like the final look!

I hope you like it!
Have a great day!!

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Altered Book/Journal

Surprising Journey (Picture tutorial)

Hello friends! Hope you are having a fantastic day! Today, I am sharing with you a tutorial I made for eclectic Paperie, I used Twinkling H2O paints, but you can use any kind of paints you own.

Let's get started!

I started with a piece of Strathmore Mixed Media paper, cut the paper 9" x 9", then taped it to my mat with Blue Tape (painter's tape), the sides are 1" and the top/bottom are .75"

 

 Added a couple of coats of White Acrylic Gesso

 

 

 Then I started painted this piece with Luminarte Twinkling H2O African Jade, just one coat is enough.

 

 

 

 Then I added paint strokes of Luminarte Twinkling H2O Rich Cobalt

 

 

 More strokes of Luminarte Twinkling H2O Hot Cinnamon

 

 

 and some of Twinkling H2O Ginger Peach

 

 

and finally some of Twinkling H2O Olive Vine. 

 

 

I added some Embossing paste using the Mini Chicken Wire reversed Stencil, but honestly I didn't like it, I removed it immediately with a baby wipe, but it left a really cool impression, ha! The things you discover from your mistakes. Then added few dabs using Snow Cap Acrylic Paint Dabber

 

 

 

 I used an old stencil (no longer available, sorry) and White embossing paste in random places.

 

 

Then added White Gelatos in the center and a little bit around the edges,

 

 

Added Black Gelatos around the edges of the whole piece.

 

 

 

Then I took my Remant Rubs - Word (Tim Holtz), cut few pieces and added them on my piece.

 

 

Looks like this :) 

 

 

 

And this is the final piece, without the blue tape, the picture doesn't show how shimmery this piece is, it's really beautiful!! I think I will put it in a picture frame to decorate my craft room :)

  

I hope you like it!!
Have a wonderful day.

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Surprising Journey (Picture tutorial)

Hope canvas (Picture Tutorial)

Hello friends!  Hope you are having a fantastic day, I have been a bit quite around here, sorry about that. I am behind the scenes working on some new projects you will see very soon.
Today, I want to show you another picture tutorial I created for eclectic Paperie. I forgot to take few pictures and some didn't turn out good, but I hope you like this one and inspire you to create.

Here are the details (Sorry, I forgot to take few pictures)

• Start by covering your canvas with White Acrylic Gesso, set aside to dry, after it dries, paint your canvas with Pool Adirondack Acrylic Paint Dabber. I did it a couple of times, then set aside to dry.
• After it dries, takes your Mini Chicken Wire Reversed Stencil and your White Embossing paste and add them to the corners. Set aside to dry.
• While your canvas dries, cut circles from Red Corrugated Paper and leaves from Mint Corrugated Paper (Fancy Pants)

 

•  Paint the leaves and stems with Moss Green 3D Metallic Stamp Paint , this paint dries super quick.

•  Paint all the circles with Ginger Peach Twinkling H2O, set aside to dry, it will take few minutes. (Ohhh, I love this color!)

 

•  Take your Walnut Brown 3D Metallic Stamp Paint, use your fingers (if you don't mind) and add some paint to the edges and around the embossed parts. 

 

• Add your circles, leaves, stems to your canvas with seal glue. Take your Faber Castell Black Big Brush pen and define all edges, then add a button to each center flower, Iwent ahead and wrote "hope" with my black marker.

 

• Paint a Vintage Wood Bird with Copper 3D Stamp Paint and glue it to canvas.

 

This is final product!  I added Gold 3D Stamp Paint to some of the borders, I used my finger since I wanted a rough look.  



Hope you like it! I would love to read what do you think about this project.

Have a fantastic day!

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Hope canvas (Picture Tutorial)

Hello there (Picture tutorial)

Hello everyone! Hope you are having a great day! The germs have visited this residence and we are feeling a bit sick, so since I don't have anything new, I want to share a tutorial I made few weeks ago for eclectic Paperie. This technique is fun!!

Let's get started!

Start with a piece of Distress Watercolor, stamp Joy image (by Catherine Scanlon) in Versamark Watermark ink, apply Seafoam White embossing powder over image and heat set.

Add Blood Orange Gelato over flowers and spread them with the tip of your finger (or sponge)

Mix Acqua Dolce & Banana Gelatos to create a green color, spread all over the leaves, color the center of the image with Banana Gelato. With the help of a baby wipe, remove excess.

Add Gold Gelatos to all the image edges. After that, spray the whole piece with  Sunflower Sparkle Perfect Pearls Mists, set to dry, your piece will shimmer beautifully!

Create a dot background, apply White embossing paste using Fancy Pants Dots Stencil.

This is a very fun part! I wanted a match ribbon for my project, but any of the ribbon I own matched this project, so I decided to create my own!! Super easy!

You need Seam binding ribbon, Blood Orange Gelato and Sunflower Sparkle Perfect Pearls Mists

Color your ribbon with your Blood Orange Gelato, as much or as little you want, then spray your ribbon with Sunflower Sparkle Perfect Pearls Mist!

Click on the picture so you can see all the beautiful shimmery ribbon!!

This is the final result, I put all the pieces together, created a triple bow and added pearls to the flowers! I really love how vibrant these colors are together!

 

 

 

I am submitting this project to:

• Simon Says Monday Challenge: Anything goes
• Simons Says Wednesday Challenge: Emboss it.

 

Hope you like it and give it a try!

Have a beautiful day.

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Hello there (Picture tutorial)