On Your MARKers! with Love

On your MARKers! What a clever title, right? It is a challenge coming up with things to start off with, but this time it was easy. The phrase is actually the title of my latest hosting gig on Splitcoaststampers.

I'm currently slowly working on organizing my art supplies in the re-remodeled room from last year's water leak catastrophe. That means that I've got to go easy on pulling out my supplies. Honestly, it's still a scavenger hunt every time I need a main supply like, let's say, Mono Liquid glue. 

Okay, so on to my card and link to go join in on the challenge.

Play along in the challenge, MIX524: On Your MARKers! over on Splitcoaststampers Mix-Ability Challenge Forum.

Supplies: I provide some product links that are through my Amazon Affiliate, and that means when clicked and purchased in the same session a few pennies are sent my way at no cost to you.

Featured Product(s):

• Crayola Markers (AZ)

Plus:

• Cardstock (white - AZ and choice of 2nd color or AZ)
• Water Brush Pen (AZ)
• Tonic Studios Glitter Marker (Couldn't find but I also use Wink Of Stella for this purpose - AZ)
• STAEDTLER Triplus Liner Marker Set (Couldn't find but I also use Wink Of Stella for this purpose - AZ)
• Tonic Studios Glitter Crystal Drops (AZ)
• Echo Park Love Die Set (Retired sadly, but a great option is Lawn Fawn Scripty Love - AZ)
• Copic Multiliner 0.03 (AZ)
• Memento London Fog Ink Pad (AZ)
• Heart Row Stamp (mine are about 1/8-inch tall)

Instructions:

1. Use or make a heart stencil. I made three hearts of different sizes and shapes with copy paper.
2. Grab your favorite colors in Crayola markers and start overlapping 2-3 hearts on white cardstock.
3. Go back to each heart and wet the inside edge of the marker heart with a water brush pen. dilute it towards the center to fill the heart with a tint of color.
4. Continue with steps 2-3 until you have covered the cardstock size of your choosing. My cardstock was about 4 inches by 3 inches.
5. Grab a light-colored gray pen from the Triplus set and shadow all the bottom-right sides of the hearts only on the outside. Add some fading dots if desired.
6. Go back over the shadow lines with the Silver Glitter marker.
7. Glue heart cardstock onto a colored cardstock layer or directly onto the card base.
8. Trace each heart with a multi-liner black pen giving the effect that some are in front of other hearts. Add tiny hearts around for more detail.
9. Die-cut the word love and glue on onto the card base. Highlight with white gel pen.
10. Start adding iridescent crystal drops from the top-right to the bottom-left across the card.
11. Optional: Add a row of stamped hearts across the bottom of the card, I chose London Fog ink.

I'm a maker who receives goodies chosen by myself for design teamwork. To see a list of these companies just scroll to the bottom of my blog under FTC Declaration.

Peace and Serene for a Challenge

It's a weird feeling to say it is December and weeks away from 2023. And even more to look back and see just how few posts I've done. My health is doing better, and my crafting space is almost ready to be moved into for the second time (a long story that I may or may not have mentioned in previous posts).

Aside from all of that, I'm glad to be able to say I'm still hosting in Splitcoaststampers Mix-Ability challenge and today is my challenge. It always seems like I'm trying to find a quiet and serene place to recharge during the last three months of the year, so I decided to make it part of the challenge. 

MIX516: It's Snow Quiet

I did a search for winter sky watercolor and did a tutorial which came out really not good, so I searched again and found this tutorial by Projects with Kids, and it was E.A.S.Y. easy. Give it a try!

Mix-Ability Forum

Supplies: I provide some product links that are through my Amazon Affiliate, and that means when clicked and purchased in the same session, a few pennies are sent my way at no cost to you.

Featured Product(s):

• Avery Elle: Let It Snow (FS)
• Reverse Confetti: The Best Gift of All (FS, EH)

Plus:

• Deco Art Acrylic Paint: Winter Blue, Blue Harbor, Sapphire, Ultramarine Blue, Titanium White) Amazon links
• Brush (AZ)
• MISTI Stamp Tool (AZ)
• 3D Foam Square Adhesives (AZ)
• Excel Craft Knife (AZ)

Now for how I put together my card for today. 

I grabbed some old linen texture cardstock and traced around the bottom of a paint bottle for the moon. I used that as my guide to making the blue shade of rings, slightly blending the transitions. Then a quick spattering of watered-down white paint over the moon sky and set it aside to dry. I stamped the trees twice from Let It Snow and cut them out with scissors and a craft knife. The sentiment is from The Best Gift of All originally as a 3-line sentiment, but with the help of scrap paper for masks and my MISTI tool, I turned it into a 1-line sentiment. 

That's about it. Enjoy your crafting time, and we'll see you again... probably for the next Mix-Ability challenge! 

I'm a maker who receives goodies chosen by myself for design teamwork. To see a list of these companies, just scroll to the bottom of my blog under FTC Declaration.

Choose Joy

It's fall in my area, and I'm struggling between the fun bright colors of summer and the brilliant shades of fall, but somehow I managed to grab a set of muted pastels for today's project, and it came out better than I had wished!

I'm sharing this project with a celebration of a crafting company that has decided to close its doors after 10 amazing years of products and community! Reverse Confetti's Choose Joy and coordinating Confetti Cuts are front and center on my card and it was so much fun to put together!

This card is a challenge card for Splitcoaststampers Mix-Ability Forum, and it starts on Friday with MIX508 Common Thread or Knot!

Supplies: I provide some product links that are through my Amazon Affiliate, and that means when clicked and purchased in the same session, a few pennies are sent my way at no cost to you.

Featured Product(s):

• Choose Joy by Reverse Confetti (FS)
• Choose Joy Confetti Cuts (FS)

Plus:

• White Cardstock (AZ)
• Kraft Cardstock (AZ)
• Evergreen Bough Distress Ink (AZ)
• Victorian Velvet Oxide Ink (AZ)
• Shabby Shutters Distress Ink (AZ)
• Angel Pink Memento Ink (AZ)
• Summer Sky Memento Ink (AZ)
• Winter Blue Paint (AZ)
• Cotton Candy (AZ)
• Light Sage (AZ)
• white thread (AZ)
• Colored Pencils

I'm a maker who receives goodies chosen by myself for design teamwork. To see a list of these companies, just scroll to the bottom of my blog under FTC Declaration.

Find the 5-0-0 in the Latest Challenge!

Hooray! It's Friday! And it's a new Mix-Ability challenge on Splitcoaststampers! Lots of exclamations so far in this post because it is a BIG deal! The challenge has hit its 500th challenge, and we are celebrating with the 5-0-0 up all over the gallery and internet!

A post from all of the Mix-Ability hostess can be read here. It’s so interesting to read how each of us decided to lead a challenge. 

I have two cards to share today. The first one has some of my very favorite monoprinted and freestyle background paper. The sentiment is made with Lawn Fawn's Giant Hooray die on cardstock painted with metallic gold paint.  Pretty much a party on a card! 

The other card is a lot of fun because I started with a printer printout background and added paint layers. The sentiment is from a super sweet photopolymer set by Jane's Doodles called "You've Got This." By this posting, it is sold out, bummer, but there are a ton more adorable and fun options on their website.

Come on over to Splitcoaststampers and join in any challenge for a super fun crafty community at any time.

I'm a maker who receives goodies chosen by myself for design teamwork. To see a list of these companies, scroll to the bottom of my blog under FTC Declaration.