Promise Me... (Journal Page)

 

Today's journal page features a Stampotique image.  I decided to play along with the Stampotique Designer's Challenge #128 - Anything Goes.  It is always easy to play along with such easy challenges. 

 

My page started out being totally covered by gloss varnish.  I wanted to see if having such a smooth surface would allow paint to move across it in an interesting way.  Turned out fun but not quite how I had imagined. 

 

I used black, white, and turquoise acrylic homemade sprays.  Then I added some red accents. I love this cute image available at Stampotique. 

 

 

 

Here is a close up of the awesome layers of paint on the background.

 

 

Off to create another art journal page.

Donelda

 

My Buddy (scrapbooking)

Hello!  I have a new scrapbook page to share with you today! 

 

This page came together for a challenge from 2 peas.  Dear Lizzy challenged us to use a painted ombre technique.  If ombre is new to you, it means "dark to light" and is very popular right now in the scrapbooking world.  I love it! 

 

For my ombre, I pulled out my twinkling H2Os.  Love them.  I used watercolour paper and cut it into 4 strips.  Painted the colours being sure to make them dark at one end and light at the other.  This became the bottom portion of my layout.

 

 

Then I added my 3 black and white photos (isn't he the cutest!) and a whole bunch of black and white embellishments!  I really like that swirly flourish at the bottome - it is from the For the Record sticker sheet (Lilly Bee). 

 

 Why don't you give ombre a try?!  Either use one of the many products already out there with this effect (papers, stickers, tags, brads, etc.)... or create your own like I did!  If you do, I'd love to see it!  Leave me a link.

 

Thanks for dropping by,

Donelda

 

PaperCrafts Magazine CASE - Lindsey's choice 2

Hello again!  Glad to see you back.  Today's card is choosen by Lindsey.  Check out that beauty.  I too almost picked it so was totally pumped to see that Lindsey had.  That ribbon behind the element is awesome!!  (see pg 26 by Vivian Masket)

So I kept to the overall layout, changing the colours and card theme.

This great flower is from a sticker sheet (BasicGrey).  The ribbon is Stampin' Up! and the sentiment is Papertrey Ink. 

Okay, now off to see what Lindsey created with this awesome card.  I know she had a particular ribbon she was going to use on this card.

Hope you enjoyed this CASEing fun. 

Donelda

PaperCrafts Magazine CASE - Lindsey's choice 1

Lindsey and I decided to have some fun again CASEing cards from the March/April 2012 PaperCrafts Magazing. 

Today is Lindsey's choice (see page 29 by Angeline Yong Jeet Leen)

I focused on the general layout....

These apple stickers are from the Picadilly paper pack (BasicGrey), which I ADORE!!!  Very little stamping, just the lovely sentiment (from Autumn Abundance, Papertrey Ink).

Now you need to head over to Lindsey's blog to see what she did with this inspiration card. 

And, don't forget to drop back in tomorrow for my CASE choice. 

Donelda

Beach Foam Stickers

A friend of mine sent me some Foam Stickers that were "beach themed" (thanks Leslie!).  I decided to use them on a few cards.

Here is card #1 - great flower and leaf combo with seniment made from Fresh Alphabet (Papertrey Ink).  So clean and simple.

Card #2 was more involved ... used lots of distress inks and sponging.  The sun burst is from Bitty Grunge (Tim Holtz) and sentiment made using Fresh Alphabet again (Papertrey Ink).  I would love to be sitting on that beach right now!!

Thanks again Leslie for the fun foam stickers!

Donelda 

Birthday Wishes

I'm not one to use stickers all that much but for some reason, I had bought a bunch at a local stamping store.  So, I decided it was high time to pull them out and use them.

This is all grey, white, and silver - awesome color combo!  The leaves are silver (a little hard to tell in this photo - maybe click on it to get it larger?).  The background is a the Hero Arts decorative woodgrain background stamp but I colored over it with a silver marker and it turned out looking awesome. 

Hope you are having a great day!
Donelda

Take 3 Challenge - Susan's Sketch - take 3

Hello!  I am assuming you are here for my third take of my Take 3 Challenge where I used one of Susan's sketches seen HERE to create 3 different cards. 

This time I wanted to try something different so I pulled out my gesso, grabbed some dark cardstock and got creating!!  The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink.  The dimensional stickers are from my local Dollar Store! 

My son thought this one was cute!  He liked the idea of a zebra being "one of a kind"!!  Cute!

Well, that is it, all 3 takes using this sketch!  I tell you, I just can't get enough of this sketch so you know you will see more cards using it in the future! 

Thanks for dropping by my corner of the www!!  Enjoy the rest of your day!
Donelda