Foil Leaves and Acetate

Hello my friends.

I hope you are having a good day.

Here's another card for our CAS Mix Up Challenge.

My mixed media are stamping, acetate, tissue paper, foil, alcohol ink and die cuts

Susan is hosting this challenge and it's open until the 24th.

Our Design Team and Guest Designer, Cathy, have some awesome cards to inspire you.

This time I used alcohol ink to add color to the back of a piece of acetate.

After it dried, I added some crinkled tissue paper to the back with clear glue.

Since there was some gold mixative with the alcohol ink, I thought 

some foil leaves would look good with it.

The copper leaf had some tape on the back when I cut it to keep those 

little pieces from running off.

The sentiment doesn't show up as well as I would like, but

I didn't want to risk ruining the whole piece so I left it as is.

This will be good for one of the guys in the family.

I'm going to share this with

Craft Stamper Magazine Take It Make It Challenge

Where it's ANYTHING GOES as long as there's stamping on it.

Edited to add that I'm also adding this to the 

Heather's challenge at The Foiled Fox

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Persian Motifs (Alt)

Ink:   Timber Brown Stazon

Paper:   Thick Vanilla, Gold Foil, Copper Foil (SU)

Other:  Alcohol Ink, Acetate, Tissue Paper, Layering Leaves Die (C9), Stitched Rectangle Die (SSS)

Crocus

Hello friends.

Today I have a touch of spring to share.

Crocus are one of the earliest spring flowers although I think the daffodils

bloom earlier in my yard.

Both of these stamps are from my win at Serendipity Stamps.

I'm entering this in 

The Flower Challenge

Here's another project I made. This time I used the Serendipity Blackeyed Susan Alphabet stamp

and the PPP Scalloped Borders 2 die that came from Serendipity also.

I've enjoyed using it with the last two books I read by a NC author,

Donna Everhart.  It's always fun to have a new bookmark and find a new favorite author!

I'm having a wonderful time creating with these stamps.

Wish I had more creative time because I have a few more that I'm longing to play with.

Since I've used snippets for the bookmark, I'll take it over to

Pixies Snippet Playground.

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Crocus, Lilacs Cling Set (Serendipity)

Ink:   More Mustard, Ripe Persimmon, Peeled Paint, Mowed Lawn, Brushed Corduroy, Tumbled Glass (DI), Onyx Black (Versafine)

Paper:   Neena, Mixed Media

Other:  Stitched Square Die (SSS)

Bookmark Recipe

Stamps:  Blackeyed Susan Alphabet (Srndpty)

Ink:  Crushed Curry (SU)

Paper:  Naturals White, Chocolate Chip Textured (ret. SU)

Other: Scalloped Border 2 Die (PPP/Serendipity), Stitched Squares Die (SSS), Seam Binding

Violet Shaker

Hello and welcome.

I hope you are having a good weekend.

It's dreary and rainy here today.  A perfect day to stay inside and craft
or catch up a bit on blogging.

Last month I was playing with the Papertrey ink Year of Flowers violets.

You can see those cards here if you're interested or need a refresher.

This card came about because of an unwanted smudge on the flower piece.

I covered it with an aperture and because we're using acetate for CAS Mix Up

this month, I decided to make it into a shaker card.

I cut a matching aperture in a piece of fun foam and adhered it over the design piece.

The acetate was adhered behind the aperture cut in the front piece

that had been splattered and stamped with a sentiment.

I made sure to add adhesive close to the opening, added a few sequins and

micro beads, and very carefully adhered the pieces together.

(Those sequins are purple IRL not blue.  Silly camera!)

Challenges:

Craft Stamper Magazine Take it Make It Anything goes.

The Flower Challenge #18 Anything goes.

CAS Mix Up using stamping, acetate, heat embossing, watercolor, die cuts and shaker

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Year of Flowers Collection (PTI), Happy Snippets (PB)

Ink:   Encore Silver, Orchid Opulence (ret. SU), Distress Markers (Seedless Preserves, Tumbled Glass, Peeled Paint)

Paper:  Neena, Orchid Opulence (ret. SU), Mixed Media 

Other:  Silver EP (SU), Double Stitched Circle Die (LI), Foam, Acetate, Microbeads, Sequins

Lilacs for Serendipity Blog Hop

Hello dear friends.

Here's a little reminder that Spring is around the corner....

Today I'm participating in the Serendipity Blog Hop.

I was lucky enough to win a gift certificate to Serendipity for commenting on

the cards for the December Blog Hop.

Mary asked me if I would like to participate in a future blog hop and I was happy to agree.

Participants in the Blog Hop are:

                        Bonnie Klass (that's me)

Beth Chiu

    Julie Warner

           Marybeth Lopez

         Mariam Napier

        Vickie Zimmer

I've admired the Serendipity stamps for a while now and was delighted to get some.

They stamp beautifully!

I used my MISTI to stamp this design, inking small sections with Distress Markers, 

stamping and moving the ink around with a water brush.

The MISTI makes it possible to ink again and adding more or different colors.

I hope you'll visit others on this blog hop.  The Designers are a very talented group!

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Lilace, Quick Note Vertical (Serendipity)

Ink:   Spun Sugar, Victorian Velvet, Wilted Violet, Peeled Paint, Mowed Lawn, Forest Moss, Pine Needles, Mustard Seed, Dried Marigold (DM), Onyx Black (Versafine)

Paper:   Mixed Media (Strathmore), Neena

Other:  Water Brush, MISTI

Poinsettia for Merry Monday

Hello.

I'm slipping in just under the wire again for Merry Monday.

This week's host is my sweet friend JoAnn.

This beautiful poinsettia stamp was in my NBUS box.

I stamped and embossed the flower in white and watercolored using re-inkers and my water brush.

When it was dry, I masked the poinsettia, stamped the leaves and embossed.

Again I used re-inkers and my waterbrush to watercolor the leaves.

I popped it on an inlaid stitched square and frame. 

Then I added some gold microbeads to the center of the poinsettia, stamped

a sentiment and done.

Only one this time.

It's been super busy around here lately.  It's all good as we've got to spend lots

of time with our grandkids.  

Sorry I haven't been around to visit much.  I hope to catch up one of these days.

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Winter Flowers (SSS), Holiday Sayings (IA)

Ink:   Whisper White (SU), Encore Gold

Paper:   Neena, Mixed Media

Other:  White EP, Gold EP (SU), Re-inkers (Real Red, Garden Green), Water Brush, Stitched Square Die (SSS), Microbeads (Mikes)