Archive for June, 2008:
May I Have This Dance
Have you seen these Odd Bird Planet stamps? This series of old-fashion birds are my favourites. If you click on the photo you will see that I coloured the dresses with Prismacolor pencil crayons and then painted over top with Twinkling H2O’s. There are even some crystals decorating the dresses.
Don’t forget that there is a draw for some blog candy on July 4th. All you have to do is link me up to your one layer card.
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Subscribe to the comments for this postOne Layer Challenge and Blog Candy
Here is my second attempt at a one layer card. I challenge you to create a one layer card and link me up for a chance to win some blog candy. I will draw a name on Friday, July 4th.
Stamps: Odd Bird Planet
Fanciful Flowers
Happy Friday everyone!
Are you one-layer challenged like I am? Every now and again I attempt a simple, clean, one-layer card, and today I am sharing my attempt with you.
I would love to see your one-layer cards. If you link me up, I’ll post your cards on my blog.
Thank you for stopping by.
Stamps: Odd Bird Planet
Joseph’s Coat Inside Out
I was playing again with backgrounds. This is Joseph’s Coat With a Twist, from the TECHNIQUE JUNKIE NEWSLETTER. This is my favourite colour combo. It uses Adirondack’s Pool, Cranberry, Wild Plum and Lettuce.
Florish Stamp is Fancy Pants, and the flower is Inkadinkado.
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Blog Candy Giveaway
Oh my, don’t you just love this set? Lucky for me, it’s a blog giveaway over at Starving Artists, so I have the opportunity to win. All you have to do to enter, is visit their blog, post their blog candy, and link them up to your blog. That’s it.
Good-luck to everyone.
Proud Mom and Limetart News
are close?
Adam went to visit Sarah, who
is working in Toronto.
I love this picture so much
and just had to share.
As you know, I’m a scrapbooker. Now I am a very happy scrapbooker because Australia’s Limetart kits are now being sold at the Odd Bird Planet.
Tutorial Tuesday – Golden Gel Transfer
It’s Tutorial Tuesday, once again, at Sunflowers and Dragonflies. There are a couple of ladies on Splitcoast Stampers who are anxiously awaiting today’s Golden gel transfer tutorial. There is a wide range of pictures that can be used with this technique. Dover Publications has awesome copyright free images. If you sign up for their newsletter, you get free images sent along with each newsletter. You can use photos, images from the web, and even something printed off in Word.
I hope this tutorial leaves you filled with inspiration. If you do a transfer, link me up. I’d love to see what you did.
Supplies:
Image (shown here is a Dover book with coloured pictures)
sponge stick
Golden gel medium
Golden gel medium is used for this tutorial.
Photocopy your image on an ink jet printer.
Trim your edges to the size of your coaster. Another option is to tear the edges for a unique look.
Sponge on an even layer of Golden gel medium. Cover the entire surface of your picture. Let dry completely (approx 30 minutes) before adding layer 2. Once dry, ad layer 3.
Continue adding coats 3, 4 and 5. Dry between each coat. Let dry completely (about 3 hours)before moving to the next step.
Dip your fingers into water and gently rub off paper backing.
Continue to dip your fingers into the water and rub off the paper backing.
All the rubbing has been finished.
You can see from this photo that the gel transfer is paper thin.
Spread a layer of gel medium over your coaster and place the image on top.
Place your image on top of the coaster and brush one or two coats of gel medium on top. Once dry, spray protection over top.
This is a painting that I did. In the bottom right hand corner you will see a large area where I did a gel transfer. This demonstrates that no item is too large to make this transfer successful.
Close-up of my gel transfer. If you are going to do a transfer using words, you must transpose it backwards in your Word program prior to printing. If you do not, your words will end up backwards.
Inkadinkado Is At It Again
Good Monday morning folks!
Well, Inkadinkado is at it again. Look at these adorable birds.
Last week, while I was teaching my card class at Lasting Impressions, I saw the new arrival of the Inkadinkado special: Buy two get one free. Not being able to control myself, I quickly scooped up six. Yes, six stamps. No control I tell ya!
I coloured this image with Prismacolour pencil crayons and OMS. Next, I pulled out my Twinkling H2O’s and painted around the birds.
Background colour (Bazzill) was run through the cuttlebug and mounted onto Taken With Teal. Birds were mounted on Tempting Turquoise. The birds and scalloped edges were cut with my new Nestabilities. Finally, the white dots were placed around the edges with my Souflee pen.
Thank you for stopping by. Don’t forget to visit tomorrow. I have an interesting tutorial in store for you.
Holy Smokes
You should see Penny’s glitter card. Talk about a piece of art!!
Look at the blog candy I won from Kimmy. Holy smokes there is a lot of loot. Three stamp sets, Cards magazine, mini album, ribbon, clear stamps. Thanks Kimmy! Kimmy has weekly challenges going on and you might want to join in on the fun.
Technique Junkie BOGO sale
First, for paper:
Buy any two years: $27.00 (normally $36.00)
Buy any 4 years: $54.00 (normally: $72.00)
Buy all back issues from 10-02 to 12-07: 70.00 (normally $96.00)
Now, for the CDs
Here is the pricing for the CDs:
Buy any two: $22.40 (regularly $27.95 for subscribers)
Buy Four: $44.80 (regularly $54.00 for subscribers)
If you wanted all 5, I would offer them to you for they would be $55.75 (normally $66.00)
Full tututorial index can be viewed here
Pat accepts Paypal and personal cheques.
For further details, please see Pat’s blog post here.
Offer good until June 30th
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