Wednesday, January 20, 2016

Tim's 12 Tags of 2016-January

 Hello, again!  It's time for Tim's January tag, and it's electrified! I found this month's tag to be a little intimidating at first, but once I got started it really was quite easy and so fun!


Tim's combining two of his older techniques and updating them--for this coming year, he is doing a "technique re-mix". Here is his tag using his chalkboard and industrious metal techniques. He provides full instructions on his blog, so I won't go into detail on mine. Thank you, Tim, for the amazing inspiration and instructions for your techniques!

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It even seems to light up in the dark, thanks to Stickles on each tip of the snowflake.


 I would like to enter my tag into the following inspiring challenges:
Stamps and Stencils Oh So Blue I hope I am following the theme closely enough.  Black and white are not considered colors and my only color on this is blue.
Emerald Creek Dares New I have Tim's foil tape, but Santa put a roll of 3M Metal Repair tape in my stocking that I wanted to give a try.
Paper Sweeties Inspirations# 39 January 2016 My inspirations comes from the silver balls on the icing, the aqua color and the snowflakes!
papersweeties-inspiration#39

Thank you for stopping by and for your encouraging comments.  I read and appreciate each and every one of them!
Hugs and Blessings!
Sara Emily
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Tuesday, January 19, 2016

Let It Snow (again!)

 Hello crafty friends! I wanted to play along with the talented Design Team at Stamps and Stencils this time, where the theme is Oh, So Blue.


Emerald Creek Dare's  New challenge is winding up, but I wanted to enter using my newly found technique using plastic wrap on my background as well as my new Distress sprays,Wilted Violet and Blueprint Sketch. I also used my new Soft Fallen Snow embossing powder on my focal snowflake. I just recently saw a blogger use plastic wrap over sprays, and I cannot for the life of me remember where I saw that. I'm so sorry I can't give credit where credit is due.  I'm not sure if  I did it the same as they did, either.  I applied gesso to my panel and dried it thoroughly.  Next I sprayed with Wilted Violet and Blueprint Sketch, misted with water and laid plastic wrap over top.  I scrunched the wrap, and left to dry overnight. When dry, it leaves this incredible frosted look; at least it did on this.





My Tim Holtz snowflake was made using the embossing folder only. I painted Picket Fence Distress paint with a brush into the recesses of the folder and embossed my panel.  I swiped on more Picket Fence once embossed and sprinkled and heat embossed with my new Soft Fallen Snow. This stuff is incredible, and truly looks as if a fresh sprinkling of snow has been left on your project.  It's quite sparkly, too, but like most glitters, it's quite camera shy!


Dies: Tim Holtz Layered Snowflake and Snowflake Duo (embossing folders only) Stamps:  Tim Holtz Mini Handwritten Holidays, Wordsworth (Pinebranch) Stencil: Tim Holtz Snowflakes  Paints/Inks/Sprays:  Distress ink: Broken China, Blueprint Sketch  Archival Cobalt Distress Spray stain: Wilted Violet, Blueprint Sketch  Distress paint: Picket Fence, Wilted Violet Embossing Powder: Emerald Creek Soft Fallen Snow

The back panel is embossed with Snowflake Duo embossing folder. I swiped with Wilted Violet, then  Picket Fence, and used the Snowflakes stencil and a pine branch stamp with Picket Fence. I photographed this indoors under my desk lighting, then outdoors in the sunshine and finally indoors with just the daylight from the window.  The color variation is quite remarkable!  This really IS blue with a touch of violet! I purposefully left my artwork without dimensional embellishments so I could easily send it through the mail.




I would like to enter my project into the following inspiring challenges:
Paper Sweeties Challenge Inspiration # 39 January 2016 My inspiration comes from the little balls on the icing, the snowflakes, and the lighter blue.
papersweeties-inspiration#39
Deep Ocean Challenge # 120 "Something New" New Distress stain sprays, new EC embossing powder, new technique.

Thank you for stopping by today and for all your amazing comments.  I read and appreciate each one.
Hugs and Blessings
Sara Emily

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Monday, January 18, 2016

Let It Snow!

 Hello again!  I hope you had a wonderful weekend!  We had rain, and then the temperature dropped like a rock! Just missed the snow, AGAIN!  So I decided to make snow for myself on this wall hanging. I used quite a few of my new products including  a new bottle of gesso, mica flakes, Distress and Tattered Angels sprays, a new chipboard sentiment and some new products from Emerald Creek.


I started by adding gesso to my chipboard panel using the seal from the bottle as my applicator.  It had a lot of product on it, and I didn't want to waste it, so I dabbed it over my chipboard base.  It gave an interesting texture, so I covered the entire surface using this blotting technique.  While the gesso was still wet, I added my new mica flakes from Recollections. Once dry, I added texture paste through Tim Holtz Snowflakes stencil and sprinkled with my new Clear Matte Embossing Powder from Emerald Creek. I allowed the paste to dry, and then melted the powder with my heat gun.

I layered on lots of sprays including Tattered angels Bell Bottom Jeans and Electric Blue (my new color), my new Distress Blueprint Sketch spray stain, and  Perfect Pearl Turquiose spray mist. When thoroughly dry, I added some stamping and embossing using some tiny Stampin' Up, Tim Holtz and Hero Arts snowflake stamps, Watering Can Archival ink, Hickory Smoke Distress ink and Ranger Embossing Dabber and my new Soft Fallen Snow Embossing Powder from Emerald Creek. I also stamped Tim Holtz trees from his Merry Christmas set using Watering Can Archival ink.






My Tim Holtz Layered Snowflake was painted with Brushed Pewter and Black Soot Distress paints.  I heated the paint until it bubbled and then embossed with the accompanying embossing folder.  I cut one in black paper as well, to add as a shadow.

My new chipboard "Let It Snow" was embossed using Soft Fallen Snow.  I used my DecoArt snowwriter along the top and added more Soft Fallen Snow and heated with my heat gun. I love the gorgeous texture achieved with the Soft Fallen Snow, much like fresh fallen snow! And it glistens like fresh snow in sunshine!  Too bad Mr. I (my phone's camera) is not picking up the gorgeous sparkle!





I took this last shot on a white background so you can see I backed my panel with a chipboard panel painted with black gesso. Sad to say this is one of those projects that has to be seen in person to really appreciate.  It just does not photograph well.


 I would like to enter this into the following inspiring challenges:

Die Cut Divas New Technique, Die, Stamp, Colors New Color-electric Blue and Blueprint Sketch; new technique to add texture and glimmer to background, othe new products. Die: Tim Holtz  Layered Snowflake.
Happy Little Stampers January Mixed Media Challenge Stamps: Hero Arts, Tim Holtz, Stampin' Up Stencil: Tim Holtz
Paper Sweeties Inspiration # 30 January 2016 Inspiration comes from the softer blue the dark contrast of the cupcake bottom, the snowflake, and the glitter.
papersweeties-inspiration#39

Thank you for stopping in today and for all your amazing comments!  I read each one with great appreciation!
Hugs and Blessings!
Sara Emily
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Friday, January 15, 2016

Charming...Don't You Think???

Hello, crafty friends!  I have another altered casket for you...third time's a charm!


I went about painting the interior of my dollar store coffin in the same way as the last two.  This time I wanted to jazz the exterior up just a little and give it a little Halloween creepiness.  I know, it's not even CLOSE to the big day, but I just had to give my new Distress paints, Memory Box skeleton hand die and some of my flowers my sweet, talented friend Samra gifted me for my birthday a try!


Dies: Memory Box Skeleton Hand, Sizzix Spring Greenery;  Stencil:  Tim Holtz Gothic; Inks, Paints, Stains:  Distress ink, Peeled Paint, Broken China, Ground Expresso; Distress paint, Antique Linen, Ground Expresso, Vintage Photo, Wilted Violet;  Black and white Gesso; Distress stain spray, Wilted Violet, Twisted Citron Other: Golden Crackle texture paste, chipboard coffin, wonderful handmade flowers from Samra--white (I painted them in my crazy colors.)


Look how the Wilted violet turns a blue shade when in different light! Still just using my Ott light and regular incandescent light to photograph in.  No black lights, special lighting or camera filters used.







Here's what the unaltered coffin and ribbon looked like.




A special thank you to Samra  (Paper Talk With Samra) for the beautiful blossoms that inspired the top of my casket. And she made me a beautiful card!

I would like to enter my casket into the following inspiring challenges:
Emerald Creek Dares We Are on Our Way New Adventure I'm using my new skeleton hand die, my new Halloween Distress colors and my new gift from my friend. Also new alcohol splatter technique, but I've used it 3 times already for this challenge.
Scrapy Land Challenge # 33 Anything Goes I used 2 dies from the over 40 brands that Scrapy Land sells:  Sizzix and Memory Box.
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Simon Says: Ombre I used the ombre technique on my stenciling and on my ribbon, although it's hard to see the color transition on that.
Die Cut Divas New Technique, Die, Stamp or Colors New die, new colors, new technique was also used on my last entry.

Thank you for dropping by today and for all your lovely comments!  I read and appreciate each and everyone.  I especially thank you for hanging in there with me through whatever finagling Google is doing with our followers.
Hugs and Blessings!
Sara Emily
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Monday, January 11, 2016

Twisted Citron with a Twist!

Hello again!  I have another bright project to share with you today!  Yes, it's another casket!  These things can be addicting! This time I used another brand new shopping goodie-- Twisted Citron Distress spray, some clearance aisle ribbon and some new bottles my daughter put in my stocking And I used my new alcohol technique. Love the results; each time unique and always very organic looking. I wanted to use my new things because Emerald Creek Dares has a "New Adventure" challenge--"We Are on Our Way!", and I completely missed with my last coffin, by posting it too early! So this one's for you, girls! As in my previous post, no special lighting or camera filters used--this is the amazing color of  Twisted Citron when paired with gesso! Fire it up!


Again, I was inspired by my Halloween crafty idol and bloggy friend, Nicole Wright with her Haunted Dwellings; in fact her inspiration led me to purchase these colors specifically for these Halloween projects.  I just couldn't wait 'til Halloween to crank them out! I say crank, because there will be more!

Of course, I had to link up to Pamellia's Holiday Hues challenge at Frilly and Funkie, because Halloween is my favorite holiday-- a tie with Christmas, but for completely different reasons. Halloween is fun-filled and crazy, while Christmas is reverent and full of tradition.



To see how I painted my coffin, please see my Halloween in January? post.  For my bottles, I used a variety of techniques, one being new to me. The long tall vial that hangs from the "ceiling" of the coffin is a reject from another project, but I used Tim's Faux Cracked Glass Technique to jazz it up to the next level. I believe I had tried coating the interior with alcohol ink in the past, so there is some blueish tint in there. I smeared some Black Soot paint on the cork and added an eye pin. I hung it with black thread because I wanted the illusion of the bottles floating as if by magic.








For the middle bottle, I tried something new to me.  I gave the exterior and cap a coat of Ranger Glue and Seal and let dry. Then I dabbed on some acrylic paint in River Rock and Distress paint in Vintage Photo and Black Soot; a lovely crusty, dirty hue for the holiday if I do say so myself. Inside I included some cheese cloth sprizted with Hickory Smoke Distress stain spray and some paper I found while taking a walk.  It had been run over numerous times, and I thought it would be perfect for a Halloween project some day! The skulls are a gift from a friend, and I spritzed them with my new Twisted Citron spray and tucked them in. Ghastly!




I think you can see how I made the middle bottle appear to be floating.  I made a little waste packaging shelf for it.  The brown bottle sitting on the "floor"  is also made with the Faux Cracked Glass technique and this time I used paint in Black Soot rather than stain. And I altered the process a teensy bit, so it looks good and thick and crusty. Isn't this the sweetest bottle...I wonder where Lauren got it? I used the Twisted Citron spray once more to color some cheese cloth and tucked it in the bottle for an appearance of gaseous vapor escaping. (???).


For the final detail, I added some of my new clearance ribbon to the lid and finished it off with some piping from my stash.  Doesn't it just make you want to curl up and have a nap???? Oh, that's macabre, I know!  Sorry for that!


This is what my ribbon and unaltered dollar store coffin looked like.  The white trim is what I used on my Wilted Violet coffin.

I would like to enter my casket into the following inspiring challenges:
Emerald Creek Dares We Are on Our Way New Adventure My new Christmas presents, purchases and techniques are listed in bold within my text.
Frilly and Funkie Holiday Hues
Country View Challenges #35 January 2016 Be Inspired By BOTTLES
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Something New My new items/techniques are listed in bold within my text.
Creative Artiste Challenge # 10 Mixed Media Anything Goes/ With a Twist to Use Chipboard My coffin box is chipboard.
As You Like It Anything Goes My favorite style is Grunge and to alter things, and here's some grunge on my  altered bottles!
Classy Cards n Such Challenge #119 Bright and Cheerful Ok, so a coffin isn't what you would consider "cheerful", but my color sure is!  And it IS bright!
One Stitch At a Time Challenge # 253 Anything Goes With Not Square or Rectangle
We Love to Create Challenge 27 Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes
Allosrts Challenge Week 345 Blog Ribbon and Lace

Thank you for stopping by today and for all your lovely comments!  I read each one and appreciate every one of them!
Hugs and Blessings!
Sara Emily
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