12 Tags of 2013- March

Here is my attempt of the March tag. I am not super happy with how it turned out but I gave it a shot.

12 Tags of 2013- February

Here is my February tag. I used stamps from Cherry Pie, emobossing folder, distress stains, distress markers, tissue tape, and tag and bookplate die from Tim Holtz.

Halloween ATC

I made this ATC for a color swap I was in which was featuring colors purple and green. I used stamps from Cherry Pie along with Tim Holtz distress inks for the background colors.

Grungy Monday #39

I made these atcs for the Grungy Monday Challenge using Tim Holtz's technique for alcohol ink plaid background. When I first seen this technique I thought it looked pretty cool but when I went to try it myself I just couldn't get the plaid to turn out as good as he does it. I used Tim Holtz and Cherry Pie Stamps for these. Sorry the pics aren't the greatest, the glossy cardstock made it difficult to get a clear pic without too much glare.

http://studiol3.blogspot.com/2012/03/grungy-monday-39.html
http://timholtz.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/12/12-tags-of-christmasday-3.html
http://www.simonsaysstamp.com/

ATC swaps

Here are some atcs I made for swaps I was in.



Cherry Pie Yahoo group Burnt Sienna color swap. I loved how this one turned out, the picture really doesn't do it justice. I did a lot of embossing on this. For the background I took different Cherry Pie Key stamps and using clear embossing ink and powder, I randomly stamped them on the background. The ink well is also embossed along with the "To be or not to be" saying (which was stamped on a tag cut from the Tim Holtz Tiny tabs and tags die.) All stamps from Cherry Pie



Cherry Pie Yahoo group Sunset colors swap. All stamps from Cherry Pie




This was for the Cherry Pie Stamps Yahoo group which was an Edgar Allen Poe theme. All stamps from Cherry Pie



This one was for a color swap which was Pink and Red in the Stampers Anonymous Yahoo group. I used Tim Holtz stamps, masks, printed paper from DCWV Mariposa stack, and the Tag and Bookplate die for this one. I think it looks better in person, you can see the detail and colors better.

12 Tags of christmas day 9

The background was made using a stamp from Cherry Pie.
Thanks again goes to Shirley R. for sending me the lamppost and "25" diecuts I used for this tag. Tim Holtz 12 tags of Christmas 2011

New stamps in a spooky theme

I made these 2 cards using my new stamps from Cherry Pie. I am good at making scenes, just not coloring them but I think they turned out okay.

Even More Dominoes

Stamped and painted

This group is made using Cherry Pie Stamps

I was asked the share the techniques and supplies I used to make these dominoes so here it goes :-)

First I soak the dominoes in bleach overnight to get the shine off of them (I have tried sanding but didn’t like the finish it left when I stamped and painted.)

The ink I used was Stazon

Paints used:

-Jacquard Lumiere

-Car model paints (I used these the most and you can get them at places like Wal-Mart where they have the car models you can build.) They sell 2 different kinds of this paint and one being enamel which I didn’t use much because it did a number on my paint brushes.

I also have used Prisma Markers and even colored pencils but you need to spray the domino after you have stamped it with a workable fixative so the stamped image doesn’t smear when you color it with the markers or pencils.

This next tip is what really makes a lot of the dominoes look awesome. Say you have a stamp image that is of a person as the main focal point or if the main focal has a lot of details (i.e the Alfred Hitchcock domino) before you stamp the domino, paint the domino in a skin tone color and after the paint is dried stamp your image and viola! This helps keep the great details of the stamped image and then just paint around the rest of the image with another color to cover up the skin tone that doesn’t belong. I also did this with the Africa Postoid stamp with the elephants in another post; I painted the domino with grey paint and then stamped the image and painted in the other areas for the sky, grass, etc with the appropriate colors.

When you are done then just spray the dominoes with a clear coat. I hope this helps and if anyone has any more questions please feel free to ask.

Bird Cages

I made the following bird cages using the Tim Holtz Caged Bird die and heavy chipboard. They are decorated using paints, patterned papers, and Cherry Pie stamps. The White ones have a crackle look to them thanks to the cool crackle stamp from Cherry Pie. I hope you like them because I have been having fun making them.

Birthday card

This is a simple card I made for my mom. I also used a Cherry Pie Flourish stamp for the background of the place card that says Happy Birthday.

New stamps = New art

A couple things I made using my new Cherry Pie stamps. Just some simple cards.

ATCs

Here are three atcs using Cherry pie stamps.

Formica Tags

Cherry Pie stamps, Que Sera Sera paper, formica sample, and acrylic paint

Framed art

This was created using my new Cherry Pie stamp and the Que Sera Sera paper from K&CO. I stamped the image on a piece of the printed paper and then painted the face in with acrylic paints.

tag

Yet another tag :-)

Tags

These two tags I made using acrylic paints to decorate the background along with my new Cherry Pie stamps.

Spooky Scene

This spooky scene was made using my new Cherry Pie stamps and watercolors.

ATC

Here is an atc I made using 3 of my new Cherry Pie stamps and acrylic paints. For those of you who are not familiar with Cherry Pie stamps, make sure you check them out because Marina who is an amazing artist and the owner just added some awesome new images to the site recently.

Bookmarks

Here are some bookmarks I made with my Cherry Pie stamps and watercolors. Sorry for the blurry picture, it was the only one that didn’t have glare on the bookmarks because I laminated them with my Xyron.

Altered Glass Slides

I dug out some of my Tim Holtz stash and created some glass slides and here is what I came up with.