More cards from the Crafty Weekend - It's all About the Girls...

 More coloring from the crafty weekend that turned into cards... YAY ME!!

 

 I was SOOOO pleased with my Copic coloring on these ladies. Unity Angie Girls called "Shine Bright". My first purchase but NOT my first time coloring an Angie girl. The sentiment is one we received last year at Junkie Fest, made by Heffy Doodle. I added Glossy Accents to the rim and tassel of their hats and confetti sequins around the sentiment. I made color matching envelopes with acrylic paints on my Gelli-plate, which are almost visible in the lower right corner of the above picture...

 

Deb taught us again (first learned at a Cozy Crop in 2016, I think) how to make a background on a cereal box. We used ripped up paper, sewing patterns, stamps, acrylic paints and stencils with modeling paste. Wicked fun result!!  I've had these Dyan Reaveley images for quite awhile but another one makes it on a card. Four more backgrounds were made as seen in first photo but it'll take awhile before they become cards. I'm a putz that way. The sentiment is borrowed, I think it's a My Favorite Things die...

 

So, adding these five to the previous seven... I've got twelve completed cards. Am I cooking with gas, or what?!!

 

What I did on World Card Making Day...

Yesterday, on World Card Making Day, I spent eleven hours at my friend Susan's house, making all kinds of a mess... :)

 

 The first thing I accomplished was replenishing my envelope stash that has been depleted since June.  I made eighty.  Not all are seen here because they wouldn't fit in the picture.  All the orange and black ones will be used for those twenty Halloween cards I made two days ago...

 

THIS, was a major accomplishment!  Susan, a Mixed Media Artist, helped me do my first ever Mixed Media page in my Dylusions Creative Journal.  OMG!!  What fun, fun, fun that was to do!  I've been admiring it all day.  There are so many layers and details of which to look.  I cannot wait to do my second page... :)

And this is a CASE of a card Susan received.  The "Crazy Bird" was colored with my brand new Zig Clean Color Pens that arrived from Japan on Friday.  They are so easy and fun to use!

 

So, I'll happily say, World Card Making Day was incredibly successful for me... :)

Paying it Forward...

 

I'm trying out a new group on Facebook called "Card Swaps for Card Addicts" that matches you to a partner once a month and you swap that months "themed" card.  Before I was matched up with my partner however, I received a "Pay it Forward" card from a women in the group.   The idea is that once I receive the card from her, I post it, people like and comment and I pick two "winners" to continue the game.  These are the two cards I made to send to my two winners.  I was very pleased with them as they're using up the flowers I make from
the Mixed Media monoprints that I enjoy doing...

I was so pleased with the "Pay it Forward" idea that I introduced it to Seongsook's Stampers.  This is SOOOOO fun that I can only hope I will be picked again to play the "Pay it Forward" game.  What a fun, fun, concept... :)



All in a day's work...

Working with acrylic paints and Staz-on inks yesterday at my friend Susan's, I created several sheets of paper with mixed media designs on them.  This morning, I cut some of them down to create these cards.  The one in the middle, I used handmade stamps that Susan had received in a swap AND one I made myself out of her stash.  The one on the right is done on a ripped out page of a book.  I thought by mounting it on black helped to "pull" the words out.  The one on the left seems very cheerful with the yellow in it.  All of these fulfill the current ODBD (Our Daily Bread Designs) Challenge.  All of the sentiments are from a RAK I received from my friend Sherry a few months ago...

A closer look...

 

Patriotic maybe?

 

Up close and personal...



Mixed Media again...

I seem to be making the same layout over and over but I'm really, really liking this mixed media stuff.  Thanks Susan!  This is wicked fun!  On this one, I was trying to work with "fall" colors on my gelli-plate and maybe partially accomplished that? What do you think?  I used Staz-on Saddle Brown for the Salamander and a pre-printed sentiment that comes on a sheet.  Who makes them is alluding me at the moment... do you know?



Another Mixed media card...

I had been playing around with Mixed Media last week that I had learned while spending the day with Susan a couple weeks back (see post HERE) and had made this card.  On it, I used one of the many sentiments that Sherry had sent me a month ago (see post HERE).  In order to make the sentiment "fit in" with the rest of the card, I inked the edges with the same ink I had used on the piece.  Then, I used the "punchinella" that Susan gave me, both on the piece AND the sentiment.  For those who don't know, punchinella is the plastic ribbon that is leftover after sequins are punched out, it looks like this...

 

I used my Staz-on red and a dauber and randomly inked around the card and over the sentiment.  Neat effect, eh?!!  I then added the sentiment and popped it with dimensionals...

 

I decided to send the card to Sherry so she could actually see and feel what a Mixed media card looks like AND so I could send her some of the flowers I had learned to make.  Sherry is a HUGE fan of flowers and I can't wait to show her how we made these.  I had done Mixed media on a few envelopes while at Susan's too but when I put the envelope thru my printer to do the address, the ink smudged.  I printed the address on another piece of paper, layered it and adhered it with glue.  I really, really like mixed media on the envelope too but I think I'll put the addresses on first BEFORE I play around with a design on the envelope.  In my haste to get this in the mail, I never took a picture of it... my bad. 

 

But Sherry did!!  Woot, woot!!  So, why not blog about it, right?!!



Creating with Mixed Media...

I spent an entire day with my friend Susan last week, playing with Mixed Media.  And when I say entire day, I mean ENTIRE day.  We played for ten hours!  What wicked fun!!!  Then on the weekend, Ernie and I had a wedding to attend of which I had not made a card yet.  On the fly, I used some of the papers we had made to create this.  I am sooooo LOVING it...