5 for 5 Thanksgiving Day 3: Sentiments Only

Welcome to Day 3 of our 5 for 5 Thanksgiving Blog Event. Today our theme is "Sentiments Only". We are all sharing a project where we used with the focus on sentiments. Each day our 5 Designers will post a Thanksgiving Inspired Project based on a theme. Some of us are offering prizes, so be sure to visit all the links below and leave comments.

For my card today made my own subway art panel with sentiments and a couple of filler graphics. The sentiments come from so many companies like Unity, Papertrey Ink, Lawn Fawn, Impression Obsession, Hero Arts, Altenew, Denami Designs and Mama Elephant. I used Ranger Archival inks and my MISTI to help me line things up. I adhered the panel to a piece of DCWV colored cork. Thanks for stopping by and be sure to check out all the designers blogs below for more Thanksgiving Inspiration.

Donna Bowman (me)
Rachel Kleinman
Lynn Kopas
Karen Crossen
Kris Lancaster

5 for 5 Thanksgiving Day 2: Pumpkin

Welcome to Day 2 of our 5 for 5 Thanksgiving Blog Event. Today our theme is "Pumpkin". We are all sharing a project with a pumpkin focus. Each day our 5 Designers will post a Thanksgiving Inspired Project based on a theme. Some of us are offering prizes, so be sure to visit all the links below and leave comments.

For my project I used a piece of wood. I painted it with a light brown acrylic paint. I stamped the pumpkin with Archival Ink and colored it with colored pencils. The pumpkin stamp is from Just For Fun Rubber Stamps. I inked the edges of the pumpkin and block with a Faber Castell Design Memory Craft Big Brush Pen. Finally, I adhered the pumpkin to the block with DecoArt decoupage. Thanks for stopping by and be sure to check out all the designers blogs below for more Thanksgiving Inspiration.

Donna Bowman (me)
Rachel Kleinman
Lynn Kopas
Karen Crossen
Kris Lancaster

5 for 5 Thanksgiving Day 1: Watercolor

Welcome to Day 1 of our 5 for 5 Thanksgiving Blog Event. Today our theme is "Watercolor". We are all sharing a project where we used watercolors. Each day our 5 Designers will post a Thanksgiving Inspired Project based on a theme. Some of us are offering prizes, so be sure to visit all the links below and leave comments.

For my card I used Avery Elle Stamps. I water colored a piece of card stock with Koi Water Colors and cut it down to fit around the acorn. I stamped the acorn on Kraft card stock and then brushed it with a light brown water color to make it fit the water color look better. I colored the leaf with green distress inks. I added some Tim Holtz Hemp twine on the bottom. The square stitched die is from Lawn Fawn. Thanks for stopping by and be sure to check out all the designers blogs below for more Thanksgiving Inspiration.

Donna Bowman (me)
Rachel Kleinman
Lynn Kopas
Karen Crossen
Kris Lancaster

Christmas Card Challenges #49

It's time for this week's challenge over at Christmas Card Challenges. This week our Challenge theme is everybody's favorite again - "Anything Goes". Get a head start on your Christmas cards and come join us this week. Thanks for stopping by!

For my card I used the new Brett Weldele stamps from Stampers Anonymous. This snowman and sentiment is from the set called Blizzy the Happy Snowman. I just couldn't resist this cute guy. I made the background from Ken Oliver Color Bursts. Then I used the Brett Weldele stencil called Creepy Trees on the background. I sprayed the stencil with Dylusions White Linen Spray. I colored the snowman with Copic markers and stamped the sentiment with Black Ranger Archival Ink. To finish it off I added some snowflakes using a Viva Clear Glitter pen.

Mixed Media Monthly Challenge #18 - Texture

It's time for a new challenge over at the Mixed Media Monthly Challenge. This month our theme is "Texture." Just make a project using some texture - easy peasy.

Our sponsor is the amazing online craft retailer IndigoBlu. They have given us a FAB prize package to give our random winner. Trust me, this is the month you want to play!! IndigoBlu was also kind enough to send the members of our design team an amazing box of goodies to play with. I have used many of them on my project today.

I made a Christmas plaque in non-traditional colors on a piece of MDF covered with burlap.

It took me awhile to get to the finished product and as can happen, things didn't go exactly according to plan. I took a few pictures along the way.

I started with the plain board and painted it with IndigoBlu white Gesso. 

 Then I used some IndigoBlu Christmas Stamps from the "Looks like Rain, Deer" 

Stamp set to start my background. 

Then I used a brayer to add some acrylic paint to my IndigoBlu Merry Christmas Sentiment stamps. I used IndigoBlu English Cottage Artist Acrylic Paint in Wimberry Pie.

After stamping the sentiment I decided to add some more texture by using the IndigoBlu Texture Stencil with modeling paste that I colored with the same paint. Then I used the left over paste to make a frame around the edge, something I really like to do. 

 

At this point, things began to go downhill. I decided I wanted the sentiment to be darker so I got a very thin paint brush and  began going over the letters. When I got to the "m" it all ran together and I could not figure out how to salvage it. 

Meanwhile, I had painted some paper with the English Cottage Paints in the Wimberry Pie and Townhouse Teal. I had stamped the leaf from the "Big Holly" Clear stamp set on Townhouse Teal and Wimberry Pie. I fussy cut the Holly in the Townhouse Teal and the berries in the Wimberry Pie and paper pieced them together.

This is when I quit taking pictures. Let me explain how I got the final product. I covered the entire front of the panel with a coat of the white Gesso working around the textured areas so the inside is lighter than the outside. Once it dried you could still see some of the purple sentiment through it, but I felt like it looked a little like a shadow so I didn't add any more Gesso. I stamped the sentiment again and made sure to press hard. Then I added some glitter to my holly and berries and all around the textured edges. Finally, I decoupaged the holly berries over the sentiment. I kind of like the final product - it's a little messy, but kind of pretty and very sparkly. 

I hope you will join us this month. I can't wait to see what amazingly textured projects everyone will create!! Thanks for stopping by!