Art Journaling with some Mischievous Monkeys for Unscripted Sketches #244

Happy Thursday! My apologies for not posting quite so much lately. Yes I am still creating... just at a more leisurely pace. I'm also taking some classes and learning some new things. These first two months have flown past and it's already time for the annual street painting festival I participate in this weekend.

Today I'm sharing my Sketch-It Saturday project featuring Unscripted Sketches #244... a UFO that I started last year at a workshop I attended taught by Dyan Reaveley {CLICK HERE to see my previous pages}. WOW - that was nearly a year ago now. But in my Dylusions journal I have many pages started and some new pages made in a workshop with Dina Wakley.

This art journal page was already sprayed with several colors of Dylusions Sprays and stamped with some of Dyan's stamps using stazon ink... a nice starting point. When I saw this week's sketch I knew it was time to break in my swinging monkeys stamp {I've had it for years and it's never been kissed}. This worked out perfectly. I stamped my monkeys and then created faux branches using some torn strips of crumpled black cardstock. I started off tracing letters using an old-school letter stencil and a blue gelli stardust pen for my quote that I thought was a perfect match for my mischievous monkey clan. By the time I got to "disorderly" I ran out of space and I had to freehand the rest... and I ran out of room for "discoveries" {it is there underneath some gelatos and painted book paper with the word printed out from my label maker}. Works like a charm and my word is equally accented to go with "disorderly".

For the remaining accent on the sketch, I stamped a tree frog onto green mulberry paper; mounted it on aluminum tape for stability and added some color with pens and markers. I added some depth to the forest with my new friends - GELATOS - and the scene just came to life. The lime margarita is my favorite color, just translucent enough to let the dylusions spray shine right through.

What is Sketch it Saturdays at Unscripted Sketches? Every Saturday morning a new sketch is posted for the week. Flip the sketch, rotate it… create a card, a scrapbook page, a wall hanging, digital, paper, fabric, paint, anything your imagination comes up with! There is no right or wrong way, as long as you are using the Unscripted sketch as the inspiration for your creation! And everyone is invited to join in the fun... and post your creation on their page via inlinkz for all the world to see!

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Thanks for dropping by today... have a wonderful day!  Sb :)

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Happy Valentine's Day!

Sending everyone some happy hearts and big crafty hugs today!
Enjoy :) Sb

Lips Like SUGAR... SUGAR Kisses...

Happy Thursday Everyone! I have a super fun Valentine's Day project featured today over at the Amazing Mold Putty Blog. I'm re-using my heart-shaped chocolate mold I made last year for my Shamrock Lucky Jar {CLICK HERE to view}.

How do you SHAPE your sugar...

CLICK HERE to see the HOW-TO.

Also - the folks over at Amazing Crafting Products are having a crafting contest... and anyone can play for a chance to win one of each of their products {Amazing Mold Putty, Amazing Mold Rubber, Amazing Casting Resin and Amazing Clear Cast Resin}. Share your "For the LOVE Of..." project here via inLinkz to be entered to win. All the details are here. Hope you enter and WIN!

Have a great afternoon!  Sb :)

My LOVE for Greencrafting SHINES for Week 2 of Anything But a Card Challenges No. 32

Good Morning Everyone! Today begins week two of Challenge Number 32 at Anything But a Card Challenges. CLICK HERE to jump over to the challenge intro and where to LINK UP your creations. Today my work is featured with a few of the other designers... CLICK HERE to check out the other design team projects today for some amazing inspiration!

The Challenge... Anything But a Card Challenge #32 - Tic...Tac...LOVE!! Our fabulous team of creatives put our heads together to put a visual twist on a Tic-Tac-Toe challenge. The concept is the same... take your pick of three in a row!

Please choose your Tic-Tac-Toe row
 to use as your creative mojo!
{either straight across, down or diagonal}

Choose your direction and follow
the key below for square descriptions:

1.) Red
2.) Recycling
3.) Glitter {can be loose or liquid type like Stickles}
4.) Bling it ON! {beads, gems, buttons, sequins and baubles - the sparkly bits}
5.) Heart
6.) Sprays and Mists
7.) Ribbons, Fibers and Trims... oh MY!
8.) Black
9.) Lace

Please share any current project you have created and JUST REMEMBER... create anything EXCEPT a card for this challenge. Please mention and LINK BACK to this challenge. ALSO - Please new projects only {no-backlinking}. :)

**A REMINDER** This Challenge will go through midnight February 22nd giving you 2 weeks to play along and ENJOY the creative process!

 

I am all about greencrafting - so it's obvious that I would choose that option. I have an Altoid Tin sanded and ready to alter which would be a perfect place to stash those special little love notes! To start - I pounced on a variety of reds and black Ranger Alcohol inks to cover the printing on the box and giving a hammered metal texture to the box. I rubbed some metal hardware to match and attached as a closure and raised feet {feet are Ideology Hitch Fasteners}.

I taped my Heart Hands Mask from UmWowStudio down with blue painters tape to hold it down while fill in the stencil with PaperArtsy Grunge Paste. This stuff is fabulous!!! It gives me just the build up of relief with the stencil to transform my recycled box into something more sculptural.

When dry, I rubbed the raised Grunge Paste hands with Inka Gold Metallic Rub in Haematite {a beautiful steely-pewter grey}. I also went back with some black spray mist to fill in the crevices, buffed away and reapplied a second coat - giving a real metallic shine!

Then I needed some dimensional hearts! So I decided to experiment and play a little. I have this pot of Viva Decor Red Glitter-Paste which was the perfect shimmery color of red that will give contrast and "POP" on the box. I added some packing tape to the back of  the Heart Confetti Mask from UmWowStudio and burnished down with my bone folder. Then I dragged the glitter paste across the stencil using a recycled gift card {free tools are best}, and filled each heart with glittery goodness. The glitter-paste has little pearly beads in it so not only are the hearts red and shimmery, but they have a little dimension, too! I let this sit aside to dry all day while I was at work and that evening they were ready to pop out. Needless to say - I am still peeling the dried paste off of my stencil... though I have a million little glittery hearts for my crafting pleasure.

  

I have some pretty fiber wrapped chenille stems which I cut to wrap around the feet; then I twisted around some black fun fur for a finishing touch.

Using Diamond Glaze, I layered and adhered down my glittery hearts. Some are stacked two high, the center heart held in my metallic hands is four hearts stacked large to small.

A LOVE-ly Treasure Box...

Perfect to Hold Love Notes!

The finishing touch is a final coating of Amazing Clear Cast Resin {not pictured since it's hard to see and photograph} sealing this with a KISS and giving it a high gloss finish!

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Products used: Various Ranger Alcohol inks {including Cranberry, Currant, Red Pepper, and Pitch Black}; Ditto Glimmer Mist in Black; PaperArtsy Grunge Paste; Viva Decor Red Glitter-Paste; Heart Hands Mask from UmWowStudio, Heart Confetti Mask from UmWowStudio; Inka Gold Metallic Rub; Diamond Glaze Dimensional adhesive; misc brads from stash and Ideology Hitch Fasteners; black fun fur; fiber wrapped chenille stem; Amazing Clear Cast Resin and recycled Altoid Tin.

I'm entering this in the following challenges:

Shopping Our Stash Challenge #137 "Love Me Tender" CLICK HERE

Simon Says Stamp "Have a Heart" Challenge - CLICK HERE

Simon Says Stamp "Love Notes" Challenge - CLICK HERE

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Thanks for stopping by today! I hope you find a little time to play along. I look forward to seeing what you create {CLICK HERE to LINK UP your projects}.  :) Sb

Scrapbooked with Layers of LOVE for Unscripted Sketches #242

Happy Monday! Today I'm posting my Sketch-It Saturday project featuring Unscripted Sketches #242... and wouldn't you know it - I made a scrapbook page! It's not often I do these and I really "LOVE" how this one turned out.

I had a new photo from a party we attended a week ago and it's scrapbook worthy! So I printed it out on my Zink Happy printer and got out the mat scraps and got to layering.

Starting out with some leftover cranberry cardstock from a set of 12 handmade books I was hired to make for Christmas, I came across this 12" x 12" piece of vellum with words "your Love" overall... and my "ONE TOUCH RULE" kicked in.

This week's sketch really was a challenging one - but instead of a circle I thought my stash of paper doilies might be a nice variation... and because of the variety of heart sizes I needed to go BIG! So a scrapbook page it is!

  

My vellum had a 1/2" cut into it and torn away on one edge... what to do??? Patch over it. The book project had some torn strips leftover that were misted with an iridescent mist and this was perfect to conceal the missing section of paper. I learned way back when from my scrapbooking store that scrapbook pages don't have to be perfect {repeating to myself in the process} and I paid no mind to the torn strip I used to cover up the missing area. It works for me! To balance things I included a little bit of the same going off the right hand side, too!

The largest heart doily was red, but I really loved the varying texture of the backside so I put the red side down {plus the fact that I tore it trying to separate them - no waste}. I'm so thrilled to finally get this vellum out of the paper bin and used in a proper way! The layered Jenni Bowlin Studio tickets {yes also a hoarded item} went perfectly as an accent and to draw attention away from the patched area. 

What is Sketch it Saturdays at Unscripted Sketches? Every Saturday morning a new sketch is posted for the week. Flip the sketch, rotate it… create a card, a scrapbook page, a wall hanging, digital, paper, fabric, paint, anything your imagination comes up with! There is no right or wrong way, as long as you are using the Unscripted sketch as the inspiration for your creation! And everyone is invited to join in the fun... and post your creation on their page via inlinkz for all the world to see!

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Thanks for dropping by today... have a wonderful week!  Sb :)