A Mixed Media Birthday Card

I have a great little mixed media card to share today. I used Stampendous products along with acrylic craft paint, embossing enamel, stencils and fiber along with the traditional paper crafting supplies. Truly a fun mix of goodies.

Household items...?

Ankle tape! Well, in college sports of my day that's just what it's used for and called by but, the real name is cloth medical tape and it's just one of various from the tape family that have fueled my obsession with DIY washi tape. This obsession started about a month ago and now masking tape, paper tape and cloth tape have all relocated to the craft room. Don't worry, my family is still covered for their natural uses in our emergency kit and office supplies.

How I did my household item challenge from Moxie Fab World

All lined up on an indestructible craft mat, the tape got a good quick coat of acrylic paint from a brush that was first loaded with water and then dipped into the paint. A handy paper towel sponged up the excess so the tape only stayed damp and not soaked until I could heat set it with a heat tool. I waved it like crazy so it wouldn't burn the fabric or scorch the adhesive. Then with some paint dabbed onto my ring finger, I grazed the tape surface to get a random color pattern. The cameo and frame image from Stampendous Charm Collection, yes this is my favorite stamp set these days, was stamped with StazOn and various Craft ink pads from Stampin' Up. Then I added some stickles to glam it up. The best part is adding it to the project... I didn't have to put any glue on it before adhering it to my card. Nice.

The rest of my mixed media card...

I've brushed and stenciled acrylic paint on the main mat of the card and added some scissor and sponge distressing around the edges. Then the glammed up fabric tape was flanked on both sides with lacey elements and added to the mat before going on the card base. A stamped sentiment getting some paint grazed over the corners and a homemade fabric flower added with a stamped birthdate finish up this card.

 
Details: Card size - A2 (5 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches)
Stamps: Charm Collection (Stampendous), Birthday Assortment (Stampendous)
Paper: Coral Couture Mat Stack (DCWV), Cream (Wausau), Kraft (Wausau)
Ink: Sour Apple Chalk Ink (Mini Colorbox, Clearsnap), Saddle Brown (StazOn, Tsukineko), Versamark Watermark Pad (Tsukineko)
Accessories: Glitter Glue (Stickles, Ranger), Acrylic Paint (Liquitex), Pearl Pen (Deco Diva), edge punch (Martha Stewart, office date stamp (Staples house brand), rhinestone brad (Stampin' Up), stencil (Layers of Color), lace ribbon, Osnaburg fabric, bloom die cuts (Nestabilities, Spellbinders)

Happy New Year, With Love and a Moxie Fab Challenge

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It's halfway through the first month of 2011 and I'm just now making a post? I'm thinking its going to be a year of busy schedules with school events and activities for us!

Today I'm coming in to the year with love. Love for an image named Sonny with roses. He's ready to give out some flower powered love on the card I made and in such a sweet green argyled day along with a dreamy hillside below a blue cotton candy cloud.

Gray is the New Black Challenge is still on over at Moxie Fab World until January 24th. I was thinking of a unique way to use gray when I wanted to create a comic-book-like outline for the top note shape and cloud on this card.  It just seemed a unique opportunity to use gray where I would have grabbed from some black cardstock.
Hope your day is just the best!

Details:

Stamps: DSB Sonny with Roses, DSB Valentine Sentiments

Paper: blue, white and gray paper scraps, plaid DP from DCWV Flower Shower Spring Pack

Ink: Laser and ink jet, Prismacolor Markers and pencils, SU! pastels

Accessories: SU! Tasteful Trim Die Cut and Top Note, DMC embroidery floss,

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The words we say...

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I decided I would try a MoxieFab challenge with all the new sketches that are being shown from the new Go-To sketch magazine.

The sketch that I used is slightly changed. I had two different inspirations going on in my head where one sketch post talked about "stretching" a sketch by rotating and flipping it so I decided to "stretch" out the square sketch into an A6 size card to go along with my idea for the second sketch from MoxieFab here.

The cocktail dress is from InStyle Stamps. I colored the three dresses with Prismacolor Cool Grey markers (40%, 70% and a dab of 90%). I've found I love to color the skirts so I can make broad whispy strokes with my marker, LOL. I created some hangers and colored them with True Blue and Process Blue markers. All the images, even the printed sentiment, are outlined with Cream marker to match the mat behind the dresses.

  

I picked the colors from InStyle's Color Challenge for April here. The added elements in the sketch, well, I just completely did a boo-boo and started in on the wrong sketch, but I loved it so I kept it.

Layers and that handmade necklace embellie. Too cute! Now this is exactly when I can say, if I wasn't so sentimental about my crafting supplies and keep a ziplog bag of unfinished projects, I would not have been able to make this necklace. Some call it hoarding, some call it destiny. You choose.

Now how does the sentiment end?

 Oh, yeah...your dreams will come true.

Details:

Stamps: InStyle Stamps Cocktail Dress, Sentiment font "Love Ya Like A Sister" from kevinandamanda scrapbook fonts

Paper: LSS Citron, Basic Black, Astrobright Blue, LSS cream, Neenah Smooth White

Ink: LaserJet, Faber-Castell PITT black pen, Prismacolor Markers (color names in post)

Accessories: KaiserCraft black rhinestones, Antique glass beads, thread, Martha Stewart Photo Corner punch, Quickutz Retro Diamond EF

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