A Small Spring Collage

I am having so much fun using my Character Construction stamps by Catherine Moore! This girl is from the Timekeeper's Garden set.

I stamped the girl onto patterned script paper and fussy cut her out. Her legs, sleeve and pocket were stamped on light teal colored paper and then glued onto her body. The rest of her was chalked.

The collage was attached to a springy green piece of patterned paper (from my stash). The pink flowers (Jolee's), banner pieces (Stampin' Up punch), words (Splash of Color), flower, epoxy heart and butterfly wings were added to complete the collage.

I placed an order for more CC stamps - there are lots of different sets to choose from. I can hardly wait to make more collages!

Spring and a Happy Birthday card

Is it Spring? The calendar says so, but.... we had snow last night! It did melt today and the robins are out, so maybe this cold, snowy winter is almost over. Weatherman says it will be 60+ degrees on Monday - perfect timing for March to "go out like a lamb".

I'd like to share my Smashbook page for the Life in Details blog. We were to do a page about Spring or Fall, depending on which part of the world we live in.

Next up is a birthday card I made with the Party Day kit from Crate Paper. This is for the Speedy Scrappers store. I am a new design team member for Speedy Scrappers. Not only do they have an actual brick and mortar store in Troy, Illinois, but they have a wonderful online store too. Check out all the great paper kits and more!

Bunny Spools

I think it's fun to decorate spools! Here are two bunny spools I made for Gecko Galz

I sized the bunnies in Photoshop, cut them out and inked them with brown chalk ink. Chalk ink was used to color top ends of spools and edges. The spools were wrapped in papers from the Solarium paper pack. I glued the bunnies to small craft sticks and added flowers, decorative trim and ribbon.

Supplies: Solarium paper pack: The Greenhouse & Shadow of the Day

Hip Hop Easter papers #1 & #2

spools – JoAnn Fabrics

Colorbox Chalk inks

Prima flowers (yellow)

Blue flower, doily trim, craft sticks, ribbon from my stash

Gecko Galz/ Aurora Wings card

This month, the Gecko Galz design team is partnering with Aurora Wings. We were sent some of the beautiful digi images available in their Etsy shop. I made a card with paper pieced flowers.

I sized the digi image in Photoshop and then printed the flowers on Gecko papers. I cut the flowers out and glued them to my original image. I love paper piecing - it's like a puzzle - just remember to build from the bottom layer up!

I also made three St. Patrick's Day tags, featuring Gecko Galz images and papers. The kraft tag is stenciled with the Tim Holtz Harlequin stencil and Distress inks. Directions for these tags are in my dt gallery on the Gecko Galz blog.

My Little Valentine

This is my first Smash layout for the Life in Details challenge blog. February's challenge is to use pink and red on the page(s).

I worked in my pink Smash book. The title of the pink book is "Pretty Style" and so I am going to use it for my great-niece Aria.

Submit your own pink and red Smash book pages for a chance to win a digi pack. Smashing is such fun - grab a book and join us at Life in Details!

2 new collages

I am sharing two collages I made last week.

The first collage uses an image from Gecko Galz. I love the sweet face of this little girl!! She is part of the Darling Girls ephemera collection for February. All the papers are from Gecko.

The second collage features a lady chef. I stamped, chalked, cut out and assembled her, using stamps from Character Constructions. Her apron was stamped on patterned paper. The banner is LYB and the word flags and cooking pot are Jillibean Soup.

Art Journaling

I love working in my art journals, using my inks, paints, sprays, stencils and stamps! My favorite journal is a 9" by 9" spiral bound sketch book by Bee Paper Company. I also use the large journal by Dylusions.

Today I'd like to share four journal pages I've done. On the first page, I've used Distress inks by Tim Holtz, stamps, rub-ons and stencils. The image was purchased from Ingrid Djikers.

The next three pages are from my 9 x 9 journal. The first one is a bit Steampunk and on this page I used Tim Holtz Distress inks, rub-ons, stamps, washi tape, old ledger paper and other bits and pieces from my stash. The second page is done with a beautiful image from Gecko Galz. I used a doily to stencil in the top left corner and added more pieces of the doily and stamping behind the image. I tore bits of mulberry paper to represent seaweed. The third page makes me think of spring - I used soft pastel colors in paint and ink, along with dots stamped with bubble wrap for the background. The tags are dyed with Easter egg dyes.

It is so much fun to work in the journals!