OLW - Grateful

              "Insecurity is one of my imperfections I always deal. I always have a hard time to appreciate and believe in myself. It takes a lot of encouragement and support before I set my foot forward. I push myself to get out of my comfort zone and try new things. Enjoy, learn and have fun to develop my creativity. Meet new friends and enjoy with new company. And these help me a lot to overcome my insecurities. And I am GRATEFUL for this."  June 2013

"GRATEFUL" is my 2013 OLW (One Little Word) and for this month OLW Challenge at Scrappin' Peeps, Robyn added a recipe twist with the following ingredients (use atleast 4 or 5)

• laces or ribbons
• flowers
• patterned paper as a background
• blings
• strips of paper
• twines or floss

frame created using spray ink, click HERE

for more details



I embossed bird wooden veneer from Michaels

using my very first heat tool, WOO HOO!!!

Supplies :

• patterned paper - Crate Paper
• spray ink - Dylusion
• leaves - Dollarama
• wood veneer, gesso, lace - Michaels
• flowers - Michaels, Prima and from Heather M - thanks Heather!
• stencil - TCW mini chicken wire
• pens - Staedtler
• twine - American Crafts
• ink pads - Memento

Heart Doilies

Along with their June first Guest Designer, Tone-Lil, About A Girl (AAG) team inspire everyone to  create a page using doily or doilies in the background, June 1st - Doilies.

I got this heart doily particularly the red one from Dollarama last V-day, white one from Michaels. What a great excuse to use them for this challenge.

 

• patterned paper - Crate Paper
• stencil - TCW Hexagons
• doilies - red (Dollarama), white (Michaels)
• abaca fibers - from the Philippines, thanks Connie!
• journaling cards, tabs - Heidi Swapp
• wooden tag - K & Company
• pens - Staedtler
• feathers- ZFP, thanks Hope!
• flower - Prima
• others - gesso (Michaels)

Hit The Trail

Loving the sketches from LCOM (Let's Capture Our Memories). And here is my take for their Sketch #21. I had fun turning the sketch but still keep the design.

 

 

 

 

• patterned paper - Crate Paper , Story Teller
• sun accent - acetate from K & Company
• round element - recycle material from packing tape packaging
• chevron - Heidi Swapp stencil
• gesso - Michaels
• cardstock - DCWV
• "hit the trail" - Momenta

 

 

 

 

Doily Butteflies

Another fabulous  Friday Challenge at Frosted Designs - Sketch + Doilies, not only to dash your available doilies but also use this amazing sketch by Brenshevia

Sketch + Doilies

Frosted Designs

 

 

And here's my take

 

 

  use doilies as stencil, apply gesso, let it dry completely

 

  use spray ink to add interest

 

 fold in half

 

 use piece of patterned paper from stash to alter the 

                                                 clothespin

 Lace doily through the gap in the clothespin and gently

                                                 bunch up the remaining bit of doily to create the wings

 

• patterned paper - American Crafts and Colorbok
• doily - Wilton
• "you & me", flowers - K & Company
• kraft cardstock - Recollection
• trim - unknown
• clothespin, pearl - Dollar Shop
• butterflies - Heidi Swapp RAK from Hope
• crochet flower - made by Connie
• gesso - Michaels

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mixed Media Card

**Please visit My 1st Anniversary Giveway, Recipe Challenge and Card Challenge too, thanks!!" 

 

I used watercolor paper to create these cards.

 

For Club CK - Card Challenge April 14-20, 2013

  



 

Can someone please tell me how to call this paper? *embarrased* It's a kind of heavy tissue paper use to wrap flowers. A mulberry paper? I don't know, I'm not sure...Anyways, I used this paper to create this "Happy Bee Day" card.

 

 

Prepare your sheet.

 

 

Lay a mask/stencil on top.

 Mist with your favorite color spray ink.

 Let it dry completely.

 

• watercolor paper - Michaels
• stencil - TCW Hexagons
• string - American Crafts
• "Happy" - RAK from Laurie - Jenni Bowlin
• "bee" - altered BG chipboard letters. Just painted it with black and straw color from Ceramcoat by Delta
• "day" - American Crafts
• spray ink - Dylusions , cut grass color
• bee - cuttings from an old birthday card

 

 

 

 

Lay a mask/stencil on top.

I used tape to keep the stencil in place.

 

 

Apply ink.

 

 

For paint splatter, I mixed  paint with a little amount of water .

 Mix to get the water down consistency.

 

 

Splatter the paint down, tap your brush freely.

Let it dry completely.

• watercolor paper - Michaels
• stencil - Plaid Folk Art - Pebble design
• bicycle stamp - Recollection/Michaels
• "love you" sentiment - Hampton Art
• ink - Versa Magic , turquoise gem and tuxedo black from Memento
• patterned paper - Pebbles Seen and Noted
• wooden buttons - Dollar Daze
• embroidery floss - RAK from Laurie

 



 

Please check this link how to make the background, thanks.

 

 

Stamp images onto a vellum paper. Set the ink to dry.

 

 

Paint the back of the image.

You can use, colored pencil, ink, or even watercolor pencil.

Let it dry completely.

 

 

Fussycut them and you are ready.

 

• watercolor paper - Michaels
• pearls - Dollarama
• vellum - Recollection/Michaels
• punch - Fiskars
• friendship quote - DCWV
• ink -  tuxedo black, lilac posies and grape jelly from Memento
• cardstock - from sticker packaging

 

Thanks for looking!

 

 





 

 

Cake Holder 2

Don't worry about the greasy part of your cake holder.

  Remove the greasy part.

  Apply gesso with brush. You can use paints too.

  

Let it dry. Apply paints, mist or ink. I used paint, Craftsmart apple tart and pink blossom.

For Club CK - ISSUE Challenge #2 - Mar/Apr 2013

• frame - Recollection
• crocher flower - made by my friend Connie
• trim, rhinestones, flowers - Michaels
• brads - American Crafts
• swirl - Dollar Shop
• journaling card - Bo Bunny
• clear cut monogram - Little Yellow Bicycle

Cake Holder

Mixed media is not always something about working on canvas. Sometimes, you will be surprised to find out that your are doing it without knowing it. When you use different elements like paints, fabric, wood, metal or when you alter your embellishment to add texture, you are doing Mixed Media! Yey!

Like this one, I altered cake holder. Yes, cake holder from Aiden's birthday "ice cream" cake. And I think small cake holder (thick and hard) is also good for mini album with rings.

For Frosted Designs Scallops Challenge 

and Club CK - April Sketch It Out , twist - No patterned paper

Here's how :

 Apply thin, textured layer of gesso with palette knife or plastic card.

  Moist stamp lightly with water. I used crackle stamp from Stampin Up.

 

Press the stamp repeatedly into the wet gesso until you reach your desired design.

 Let it dry completely. Apply ink. Sometimes it requires a little practice to obtain good color combo, so try your ideas on scrap paper first.

 

I used fuchsia dye ink pad Craftsmart and Colorbox blue lagoon for purple look. Versa Magic turquoise gem and Colorbox yellow citrus for teal with yellow effect.

  I altered  Basic Grey chipboard letter using fuchsia dye ink Craftsmart and TPC Studio Violet ink. I used small paint brush to apply ink.

• journaling cards - Basic Grey
• wooden bird cage, ribbon, rhinestones, flowers, pearls - Michaels
• cardstock, chunky glitter - American Crafts
• pens - Sharpie
• font - Papyrus
• die cut ticket - Bo Bunny

Fabric Flowers

I am loving these fabric flowers lately. I started with few strips of burlap and one day Kim gave me more fabrics to work on (",). Here's how I made them :

Strip of fabric (I used burlap) about 5cm wide, cardstock circle (approximately bigger than you want the finished flower to be.

Twist the fabric.

 

Secure the twisted end of the fabric to the center of the cardstock cirlce with hot glue gun or fabric glue and press it. Continue to twist and coil the fabric around the center and use hot glue gun as needed to secure the fabric in place.

 

 

If you meet your desired size , trim off any excess cardstock or fabric. Insert the tail of the fabric under and secure with hot glue gun.

Mist, paint, ink the flower or leave it as plain.

 

 

 Add button, pearls, brads, rhinestones or other embellishment.

 

For another twist, I used longer strip of fabric, about 60cm, about 5cm wide.

 

 

Twist and fold and follow the same instructions above.

 

 

 

 

 Here are some of my page with fabric flower