This is a fall tag I made for Kim over at ECLECTIC PAPERIE. It was a lot of fun to make and I plan on attaching it to a gift I've giving someone over Thansgiving. ECLECTIC PAPERIE has some great products. For this tag I used: the Inkssentials #8 Tag in Manila, I used the Buttons Galore in Kiwi Fruit & Lemon Tart, I also used the Twinery in Honey Dew, Lemon Drop and Mandarin Orange (don't those names just sound like Fall?), also on the tag is a Maya Road Felt Pearl Posie in Cream. The paper used was a 6x6 pad by Simple Stories titled "Harvest Lane". Now I love, love, love Simple Stories paper and in the past I've always used the 12x12 paper from them, but after using this 6x6 pad, I think now I'll be using that size more often. The little quotes and paper embellishments that you can cut out of the Simple Stories paper (that they are known for) is better in the 6x6 pad because it's sized better for a tag or an ATC, and I tend to work in smaller areas. I cut the background paper for the tag into strips and then I weaved them together. Once it was done I covered it in the Claudine Hellmuth Studio Multi-Medium Gloss so that it would stay together. I used the convenient .5 fl oz size of the Gloss Medium. Happy Fall Days everyone!!!

Eclectic Paperie Goodies

I was fortunate enough to be asked to make a few items this month for Kim over at Eclectic Paperie. She recently took the business over from Daisy and now she's the new owner of this great little on-line shop. I get to make a few samples/projects for her this month and I'm so very, very excited about it. This ATC is my first little sample/project. I have to admit, it's been awhile since I've made an ATC and I had a lot of fun doing it, I forgot how much fun they can be. To make this ATC I used the following products from ECLECTIC PAPERIE: 1.) 6x6 Paper Pad from Echo Park "For the Record 2". I cut the little doilies out to put around the inner border of the ATC. 2.) Ranger Inkssentials Natural Sticky Back Canvas ATC size. 3.) Claudine Hellmuth Studio Mini Acrylic Paint Sets in Urban, Contemporary & Metropolitan (I just had to get all three. They are wonderful! The size is great and the colors are so vibrant.) This is what I used to paint the background of the ATC on the sticky back canvas. I put a dab of each color on the ATC and then I used an old credit card to run it across the entire ATC. 4.) Claudine Hellmuth Studio Gesso in both the White and the Black. As you can see, I used these two Gesso colors to do the border around the ATC. 5.) Wendy Vecchi Studio 490 Stamp Set "A Form of Art". This is obviously the set I used to stamp the sentiment on the ATC. 6.) I just used a regular black felt tip pen to draw different sized dots on top of the painted colors on the ATC. Unfortunately some of that black felt tip pen of mine smudged a bit in a couple areas. Oh well, a couple mishaps always makes the project that much more interesting in my opinion. I hope you like it? Be sure to check out ECLECTIC PAPERIE when you get a chance, it's well worth the visit. Lots of inspirational projects over there.

This is the fourth piece I have made using the new LYNNE PERRELLA stamps from PAPER ARTSY. There are actually seven new stamp sets now from Lynne that I have on order but have not yet received. As soon as they arrive you can bet I'll be playing with them. Check out PAPER ARTSY to see them if you haven't already. Hope you like this newest pieces I made.

Have a wondreful stress-free day!!

Here is another one of the pieces I made using the new and oh so wonderful LYNNE PERRELLA stamps from the equally as great PAPER ARTSY. On all of these I have stamped in black and then as I mentioned in the previous post, I embossed using Ranger's Ultra Thick Embossing Enamel.
I used Alcohol Inks to color in the embossed areas and I used colored pens to the other areas. The backgrounds are acrylic paints, Twinkling H20's, black and white rub-ons for added interest and some miscellaneous doodling with a black felt Sharpie pen. The flowers on this one were great fun to make. The actually flower stamp is from a Pink Paislee clear stamp set. But the fun was in using the new SILKS Acrylic Glaze paints from the same makers of the Twinkling H20's. I have to tell you that these paints are amazing!!!! Do yourself a favor and rush over to www.DreamingColor.com and buy some. They are more of a glaze than a traditional acrylic paint, so when you do layers of colors, all the colors shine through in a stunning way. I used a couple different blues and teals on the flowers and they turned out so well. Unfortunately, the pictures didn't completely pick up the depth in the colored flowers. The seeds in the middle of the flowers were made using Rangers black enamel accents.

Thanks so much for visiting my blog, I appreciate each and every visitor. If you have time and want to comment, I would love to hear from you. Take care one and all as we head into fall.

Here is another mixed media piece I made using the very wonderful LYNNE PERRELLA stamps from PAPER ARTSY. In case anyone is wondering or wanting to know.......I embossed the main image using Ranger's Ultra Thick Embossing Enamel and then I colored the rest with Alcohol Inks. Once the whole image was colored, I added it to a painted background that I had previously made. The background has black and white rub-ons added to it and there is some black french writing that was stamped to the background as well. Using a border punch I gave it a scalloped edge and then added that to a corrugated cardboard piece. To the bottom of the corrugated cardboard piece I added some eyelets and then added some black/silver rosary chain to it. There is also black/silver rosary chain at the top for hanging.

I cannot say enough great things about these new LYNNE PERRELLA stamps. The price for them at PAPER ARTSY is very reasonable and there are now seven, yes that's right 7 new stamps on the website that I have got to get my hands on immediately. Check them out, you won't be sorry!!

These are a few pics of one mixed media piece I made using the absolutely fabulous LYNNE PERRELLA stamps that I got from PAPER ARTSY. She sells them already with the cushioned backing on them so you don't have to worry about doing that yourself. They are so much fun to play with and make some really fun mixed media pieces with. I think they have a real British look to them myself. What do you think?

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I realize this is very late in getting posted, but I did want to show it any way. I actually made this for my brother in law's Mom. He had asked me to make one for her the year before and I never did get it done for him. So this past Mother's Day I made this one for him so he could take it back to Minnesota with him when he went to visit her. Apparently she really liked it which is all that matters to me. Plus I'd do anything for my brother in law, he's a doll and I adore him. I'm so happy my sister found him.

Instead of doing regular "Birthday Cards" to my family and friends anymore, I've started covering a 10x8 canvas board with decorative scrapbooking paper and going from there. It makes the whole card thing a bit nicer for them (the card itself is a gift), and it's something they can hang or display for awhile and then I think most people save them instead of tossing them.

This first one was for my sister Stephanie and the second one above is for my Step-Dad's brother who I make one for every year now.

I was excited to be asked by the "Uber Talented" Mandy to host a theme over at Sunday Postcard Art. The theme I came up with was "Rusty Ole Barn".
I have no idea why I picked that topic, it just sounded good I guess. But after all was said and done, I was happy with my results.

I was honestly thrilled to be asked to host &/or pick a theme. I had fun making the postcard. I used Artistic Outpost stamps, and I also used Tim Holtz metal embellishments on the postcard as well including his new miniature gears for the tires on the truck. The background wood paper is from MME.

I'm pretty happy with the how it turned out. Let me know if you like it, I'd love to hear from you.

If you get a chance check out the Sunday Postcard site at:
http://sundaypostcardart.wordpress.com

or check out Mandy's blog where there is an endless amount of inspiration:
http://mandysmagicalworldofart.blogspot.com

This was a project I made for Stampington. I am lucky enough to be on their "On Call Artist Team" and when Dina Wakley and Stampington came out with those completely cool stamps, I was so excited to make some projects with them. In fact, I went crazy playing with them, I think they asked me to make five or six pieces using the Dina stamps and if I remember correctly I ended up making like 20 pieces. They are so, so much fun to use and you can do so many different things with them. They are on sale at Stampinngton.com of course if you want to get your hands on any of them.

Wow....... I have really been messing up where my blog duties are concerned haven't I???

Hello, hello, hello. I have to first say I did come across a few other blogs out there in "blog-land" where the person had also missed out on posting for quite awhile as well, and it actually made me feel better seeing those.

I'd first like to tell those of you who decided not to delete me off of your list....thank you so much from the bottom of my heart. I appreciate you keeping me around.

The holidays are always stressful to begin with, and then keeping up with posting and everything else......well something has to give. I also have an ailment that slows me down more and more as I get older. What are ya gonna do? You just deal with it all and move on..... right?

But I have made some items that I'd love to share with you. Hope you enjoy looking at them and thank you again for not deleting my blog.

The above piece I made using one of Lily's amazing stamps from Octopode.
I know everyone out there should be familiar with her art and how crazy talented she is, if your not I would say hurry, go straight to her blog and gaze upon her talent. Her website is: http://frillyunderwear.blogspot.com

I still do not have a new computer and now my high speed modem has died as well. I should have a new computer by next week. I'm going crazy without one, I feel like I haven't posted on my blog for a year. It's amazing how dependent you become to your computer. But boy o' boy, they sure are a pain in the bum sometimes aren't they? Looking forward to getting back to the blogging world and visiting all my favorite, inspirational blogs. I miss all of your blogs so much as well. See you soon!!