drive by posting.........Pezzy's first masterpiece!

hi all! a quick post for you today - seems i just have too much to do right now but i wanted to get this card up for you to see:

i really love this one for a couple reasons. first of all how CUTE is charlotte with her kitty?? this is another image from whiff of joy - dubbed whiffies by a couple friends *waves to suzanne and susanna* - colored with copics and then i used doodlebug flock on her muff and hat - sticks really well with glossy accents. the second reason i love this one is the background - created by my little 2 year old Pezzy!! yep she loves to paint and "do stampies" so i set her up and let her go to town. for this one i gave her my foam ink blending tool first with brilliance crimson reinker and then brilliance cottage ivy reinker. next i gave her some inkadinkado stamps and the same color ink pads and let her stamp. she does not produce very good images for the most part but i think that just makes this background better!

now off to work for me! have a great day!

TH tags #9 & 10 plus a tutorial on making "snow" t!m holtz style

WARNING - pic heavy post today!!






This first gift set has focal images based on t!m's tag # 9 tutorial and is done for Jen's Saturday Sketch For You To Try challenge:

sorry for the awful pics - the light has been really bad here lately! here are some close ups:





i cut the image piece with my new nesties. stamped with black archival ink and then smudged in pine needle and fired brick distress inks with the ink blending tool. tree is stamped with peeled paint distress ink and the sentiment with fired brick. the grungeboard pieces are painted with the silver paint dabber. instead of tiny brads i used a drop of mushroom dimensional pearls in each hole of the grungeboard and it dried in this weird cool way so it looks like old beat up brads! stamps are inkadinkado and sentiments are studio G. All items available at Pezadoodles!

next set up was done using MJ's sketch from last week (yea yea i know i am late EEK!) and t!m's tag 10 tutorial:

Check out that 3D SNOW!! directions below. I did not have any pattern paper i liked with these so i made my own - stamped and clear embossed some snowflakes on white cardstocke. mixed up two pearl mists using the same reinkers as the paint dabbers used on the tag - cloudy blue with pearl perfect pearls and pool with perfect pewter. i sprayed over the whole page. when dry i stamped more snowflakes in cloudy blue and pool and then wiped all the inks off the embossed snowflakes. perfectly matching shimmery paper! Again check out Pezadoodles for supplies! and now on to the snow...

gather your supplies: clear UTEE, white UTEE, holographic embossing powder and glossy accents. you will also need a small palstic container and mixing stick and something to measure with - i used a cap from a mini mister - i never put them back on anyway (organization is hopelessly beyond my reach).

your measuring tool doesn't need marks or anything - it is 3 parts clear UTEE and 1 part white UTEE - so here i used 3 capfuls of clear and 1 capful of white. add 2-3 pinches of holographic EP.




next squirt some glossy accents into the powders and mix it in really well. keep adding glossy accents until you get a mixture the consistency of cookie dough.


spread it on your project, embed charms or other items into it and let dry!

don't want 8 ounces (and $17) of UTEE just for a little snow on your cards? get a premixed jar of powder with or without the glossy accents here. Remember t!m's 12 tags kits are also available.

how cool is that! now go have fun!!

blog tart winner & more tags...(yep MORE tags)...

OK so i am a day late with my blog tart winner - SO SORRY!!! the answer to the question was the green button and the two "skittles" on either side of the #25. great guesses everyone!!!! i really wanted to demonstrate how handy alcohol inks can be for custom matchng when you need it!! and now for the winner....

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and the winner is....retiredheather!!!! send me your addy so i can send you the new grungeboard book to play with!!

now onto more tags - these are not t!m tutorial specific - just playing around:

this one is a grungeboard tag cut with a sizzix die in my cuttlebug. i covered it in peeled paint distress ink, embossed it with the tree folder in the cuttlebug and then rubbed over it lightly with brilliance galaxy gold ink. i also embossed the holly piece from the seasonal grungeboard set and painted it gold with a ranger paint dabber. i used peeled paint and fired brick distress stickles to accent and the sentiment is studio G!

this coaster tag is painted with tattered rose crackle paint, stamped with an image from inkadinkado's holiday classics in black soot distress ink and then rubbed with pine needles and fired brick distress inks and the ranger foam blender. i distressed the edges and then went over them with vintage photo distress ink. the swirl is from debbie's die cuts and is painted with espresso and gold ranger paint dabbers. i hung a fragment charm backed with patterned paper to finish it off.

find all the goodies you need to make these and more here!

i hope you like them and CONGRATS to heather!!

another set of cuppies and a new stamp line out!!

first the new stamps - a little cutie named Mimi has made her debut over at Pink Gem Designs! check them out here!

and now one last installment of christmas cuppies - another gift set based on this weeks cupcake challenge sketch from Taylor:

andclose ups of each item:
the main panel is ranger glossy paper colored with alcohol inks in bottle and meadow with gold mixative. i stamped the greeting in staz on - just got a BUNCH of colors in to play with.



the cuppies are colored with copics and accented with spica glitter pens and "iced" with stickles - no sun again today so i couldn't really capture the sparkle....

had a WONDERFUL time with Christine and Suzanne today - thanks for hosting suzanne!!!!!

more t!m inspired playtime!

two more t!m tags today! these are SO much fun!! this first one is Tag #8 from last years 12 tags of christmas tutorials:

this next one was the november technique challenge on t!m's blog:i will be hanging out with a couple of my stamping friends tomorrow,melissa, suzanne and christine - can't wait! it's always fun!

don't forget to enter my blog tart drawing for a bracket grungeboard book.

more of t!m's 12 tags......6 & 7 today!

i have been having so much fun working my way through t!m's 12 tags of christmas. today i have 2 using tag 6 tutorial and on using tag 7! i do not have ribbons on them yet because they are the front covers of tag book ornaments.


i made my own masks with transparency sheets, my cricut and the new christmas solutions cart. after cutting i ran it thru my xyron with repositionable adhesive. i attached the mask to my coaster tag (cut from a coaster using a sizzix die in my cuttlebug) and then sprayed lightly with perfect pearls mist. i also sprayed some grungeboard pieces from the seasonal set and minis set. once the tags were dry i peeled up the mask and then rubbed more distress inks on. stamped my sentiments in black soot, distressed and inked the tag edges, attached my grungeboard and highlighted several pieces with distress stickles. i also added a bit of the german scrap i now carry to the reindeer card - i inked it with copper mixative to change it from silver.

these close ups show the glimmer and the distress stickles a bit better....

tag 7 is one of my fave techniques tho i have not used it in quite awhile. i inked up my tag with distress ink, poured on clear embossing powder and then flicked the back hard to make the powder come off in spots. melted it and then smooshed in some darker distress ink. the sentiment is inked in several different colors of distress inks and then clear embossed. the key is painted with copper paint dabber and i added more german scrap.

remember these tag kits are available to purchase in my webstore!

and now i am off to do some cleaning because boy do we need it!!!!!!!

have a fun day!!

More cuppies!!!!!!!!! and an alcohol mixative did-you-know....

hi!!

a little business first:
the first of three huge ranger orders arrived yesterday - i expect the others in a few days. so i have most of the back orders EXCEPT distress stickles packed and shipping today!!!! if you love tim holtz's projects and challenges be sure to check out the kits i have been putting together for last years 12 tags of christmas

distress stickles should be here friday.

i have all three sets of studio G inks in stock if anyone missed those!

ok now some more adorable little cuppies - 2 more gift sets this time all acetate!!

i LOVE making acetate cards!!! they just look so cool!!!
here are some close ups for you:







the images are all stamped with black memento ink (full size pads are FINALLY back in stock now) and colored with copics. accented with liquid pearls and stickles. the aqua set has snowflakes (from the cuppies set) stamped in white stazon on the acetate. the dark blue set led me to a cool "discovery" - i use that term loosely since i doubt i am the first to do this.....i wanted silver snowflakes but there is no silver staxon. it occurred to me that maybe i could use alcohol ink mixative to stamp with......so after a few trial and error attempts here is what i came up with - try it!!


supplies - alcohol ink mixative, alcohol ink, craft sheet. stamp and acetate.

make a small puddle of mixative on your craft sheet. ad a bit of colored ink to if you want.

now take your stampand sort of stamp it around to sprea and thin out the puddle. to stamp on the acetate a few tips to prevent the ink from doing it's natural "spread":

• stamp off on the side of your puddle a couple times so you don't have too much ink on your stamp
• let the stamp dry a few seconds and get sticky before stamping onto the acetate.
• helps if your thin puddle starts getting sticky too
• you can also stamp and quickly blow to dry it fast

the mixatives seem to work better than the alcohol inks themselves since they are thicker.

i hope you like my little tip!

and now off for more coffee!!!!

hugs and happy stamping!!!