A Textured Mixed Media Project for Art and Soul Studio

Today is my turn to showcase what I made with taking inspiration 

from the January Mood Board over at

 Art and Soul Mixed Media Blog

As you can see I honed in on the Deer and Trees.

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I started my project by choosing the

Memory Box Garden Birch Landscape Stencil

then started sponging with Tim's Oxide Inks in

Faded Jeans/Spiced Marmalade/Fossilized Amber

Pealed Paint and Vintage Photo

Then with the stencil still in place

 inking my trees in a variety of colours with

Memento Pistachio/Olive Grove/MementoLuxe Northern Pine

Versafine Clair Fallen Leaves

Checking out to see where to place my Deer

This is part of the Tim Holtz Great Outdoors CMS321 set

I purchased from the Art and Soul Studio as are the trees above.

Removed the stencil then

I heat embossed him with Ranger Copper and a second time

with Ranger Potting Soil.

 

Next came texture to the trees with DecoArt Crackle Paint

allowing it to dry naturally.

More texture was added for the ground using

Artisan Powder in Parisan Rosewood

Tim's Distress Stain in Gathered Twigs 

and VersaFine Clair Fallen Leaves

mixed with DecoArt Texture Sand Paste.

and stenciled with Scratchy Stencil by Kaisercraft

Inked the edges then attached to a blue back.

Decided to add a backing with brown card stock

with a Stamperia Formato D (KSD282) stencil

using Nuvo Toasted Almond Mousse.

(Still not sure if I like it)

Added touches here and there for effect on the trees

and on the ground.

The trees were also coloured with an Antique Linen Pen.

Finished with distressing the background .

Main image is popped.

Sentiment is die cut from MFT Stitched Die

heat embossed in white.

A few close ups!

The Art and Soul Studio give away

$50 vouchers to their store for Australian Residents

as prizes and overseas contributors are

invited to be Guests. Why not come join in 

 our Soul Sister's Facebook Group

and add your creation Here

this month and you could be a lucky winner!

Products from Art and Soul Studio are

Tim Holtz Great Outdoors Stamp Set

Stamperia Stencil

Kaisercraft Scratchy Stencil

Artisan Parisan Rosewood Powder

DecoArt Texture Sand Paste

Nuvo Toasted Almond Mousse

VersaFine Clair Fallen Leaves.

Hope you liked my project.

Till next time Cherrio!

A Blooming Birthday

Hi there! I am back with the other card I was making for the

April CAS Mix Up Challenge using rubber bands.

I found another Brusho background in my 'bits box'

suitable for my card and went with it. 

Once more I decided to heat emboss this time using

  White from Stampendous

then die cut some flowers from Tim Holtz Wild Flowers

with white card stock. I cut the background from a 

stitched die then added my flowers.

My sentiment/die is from STAMPlorations Fluttery

inked with Memento Sweet Plum.

My Mix is Rubber Bands, Brusho's,

Stamping, Embossing and Die Cutting.

Once more I had fun with this technique

and have another idea swirling in my head.

It didn't quite work out first time round

but I will work on it and see how it pans out.

There may be Number 3 before the end of the month.

That's it for today so till next time - 

Cherrio from

Simply 'Hello'

Hello Fellow Crafters 

Today's post is for the new CUTplorations Challenge at

STAMPlorations and below is our 

Inspiration Photo for November. 

I must admit it took me a wee while to

figure out how I would incorporate my card from this photo.

I looked through my STAMPloration Stash only to find

I didn't have any leaves - which I thought I would go with. Alas!

However I decided to ink up some feathers 

from the STAMPlorations Trendy Feathers 2 

and my card was started.

I chose Memento Lulu Lavender & Dessert Sand which were

fussy cut. Now I needed a soft background so inked up

ARTplorations Foiled Again in the same colours cutting it with the

CUTplorations Double Running Stitch Rectangle Nesting Dies

This was backed with matching coloured cs.

My Simply is from STAMPlorations Bold Sentiments

 inked with Memento Sweet Plum.

The Hello Die is

CUTplorations Hello Word Die

I finished off with some purple cotton.

You have the whole month to play and I hope

you will come join us before the mad rush of December

catches us up all too quickly. 

Below are the STAMPloration products I used here.

Do you like what you see here and would like to

purchase some of the fabulous products?

You can get a 20% off just by using my code

STAMPGIRLINA.

Thanks for dropping in today.

Hope to see you over at STAMPlorations this month.

I Scream You Scream...

It's the middle of the month and that means

A Reminder for the October CUTplorations Challenge

at STAMPlorations

I decided to go with Happy and chose

 STAMPlorations Sweet Cravings

and CUTplorations Matching Die for my focal point.

You know the old saying - 

I scream - you scream - we all scream for ice cream

A perfect Birthday Card. 

There are lots of yummies here - 

I decided to add a bit of interest with so many

party stamps and cut my card stock on an angle.

My ice cream cone was heat embossed with

Zing Brown Sugar then of course I had to add

toppings - Nuvo Drops in 

Violet Galaxy/Wisteria Purple/Pumpkin & Blue Lagoon

and you have to have sprinkles!

I let that dry and continued on adding

some stenciling from ARTplorations Square Dance

stamping from STAMPlorations Balloons & Banners

STAMPlorations Groovy Shoes

STAMPlorations Bold Sentiments

STAMPlorations Party Time

with CTMH Thistle, Memento Lulu Lavender

TH Carved Pumpkin 

and die cut CUTplorations Happy Die

So you see - so many fabulous party stamps/stencils/dies.

Hope you enjoyed licking your lips and drooling over

that yummy ice cream. It's certainly ice cream weather here in Oz.

Thanks for dropping in and hope you will go check out what

my Team Mates created Here and come join us.

You still have plenty of  time.

Till next time Cherrio from

Case-ing Therese Calvird

I had the pleasure of meeting the 

Outstandingly Creative Therese Calvird a few months ago

and just love her work and videos. They are always 

amazing and Therese is so easy to listen to

 and watch on YouTube.

I decided that I would case one of her cards as I have had the

Altenew Peony Stamp set for an age but have resisted inking it

up until now that I have bought the dies to go with it. 

You can find her beautiful card Here.

You will see I have case-ed it closely changing just a few things.

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This card was made for my BFF Carole and without her

I would maybe never have gone down the path I

am now glued to. Carole celebrates her birthday

a few days before mine and each year we spend

hours creating something special for each other.

So here are the products I used - 

Altenew Peony Bouquet Stamp/Die

(for my NBUS)

Altenew Red Cosmos

Memento New Sprout/Pistachio 

We R Memory Keepers Embossing Folder

Bazzill Card Stock (birthday present from Carole)

Sentiment is from STAMPlorations Fond Expression 2

(perfect for my special friend)

cut from MFT stitched die

Gems are SU

WOS on the centre flower. 

(See close up above)

Darnell has her 10 day NBUS Challenge 

up and running with amazing products

for the Lucky Ones to Win.

All the awesome schtuff is Here
I am dropping this card over there!

Thanks so much for popping in.

Till next time Cherrio from

You are 'SPECIAL'

Hello Crafty Ones. Where did January & February go?

I blinked and March was before my eyes.

That means the New CAS Challenge over at STAMPlorations

is up and this month the Optional Colour is Sky Blue.

Details - Here

I got out my favourite metallic paints and

inked up  STAMPlorations Large French Marigold

with shades of blue, green and yellow 

after heat embossing in white.

I then added some splatters with yellow acrylic paint.

Once that was dry I added my sentiment  

from Pocket Blooms

Finished this with 3 tiny blue hearts

and attaching to a blue background on white card stock.

This card came about after seeing this one made by

Karen Dunbrook Here. 

Don't forget there are prizes to be won - 
$10 Gift Certificate for the Winner and
$5 Gift Certificate to the Top Picks.
Players can link up to 3 CAS cards
Enter a CAS card with or without the optional twist
Non STAMPlorations products are okay too.
And there is a 20% to use for some
awesome products from STAMPlorations
by just using code STAMPGIRLINA.
How good is that?
Now that you have come to the end of my post
I hope you can join in this months challenge.
 You could be a Lucky Winner!
and start your own collection of great products.
Adding my card to the

Here
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