Romans 8:28 mixed media layered easel card

This was made for the MIX53 challenge to have layers of mixed media.

I did faux barn board. I am loving this technique. I am also entering this in the Word Art Wednesday challenge.

Weirdest crafting media

Ok, I love to create. It brings me such joy and satisfaction. I love all my stamping and crafting supplies.But if those were to all disappear, I would still find a way to craft. I saw a photo today of a man who drew designs in the sand. I think I would be like that guy crafting with what I had. The other day my stamping friend Lydia, stamped with milk. She posted a photo on facebook and asked people to guess what she used. There were some really weird answers, like crushed bugs. Well, I am always up for trying something new. I looked at what was on my desk and decided to craft with it. Look closely at my flower. Can you guess how I colored it? and how the center of the flower was done? ...ketchup. Yep, I said ketchup. I had a package of Heinz ketchup. I put some on a lid and used my finger to spread it all over the flower. It gave it a rich orange color. It also smelled good and made me hungry. I then took the last little bit of ketchup and poured it into a puddle in the center of the flower and I let it dry overnight. It was an interesting experiment to say the least. When it was dry I traced the puddle with a gold marker and added some gold dots to the center.

 
Other interesting things that I used on my card... white glue, shoe polish, ink, twine, paper brads, drywall tape, quilled strips from an old encyclopedia page.

What is the craziest thing you have ever crafted with?
I am entering this card in the Word Art Wednesday challenge.

Violets

I used the post card image from Diane's Daydream Designs set called SENDING YOU LOVE.. I had to use cool colors because the Ways to Use it challenge WT 463  for Splitcoast Stampers was to use warm colors if the temperature was above freezing and cool colors if below. Since it was -4 I had no choice.... COLD COLORS. I made the violets by dying typing paper. A year ago I bought store made stamens for flowers. I have only used them a couple of times because they are white. Today I painted them yellow so that they would be great for the centers of the violets. I did ink spray smash technique onto a page from an encyclopedia. I embossed and tea dyed the top heart.

I am entering this in the following challenges:
WT463
CCEE1404
Word Art Wednesday #116
Miriram's Crafting Blog 8th Monthly Challenge- Flowers

Don't Worry

Today I was blessed to get to play around in my craft room. I combined two challenges, The Mojo Monday (329 sketch challenge) and the Our Daily Bread Designs (inspiration challenge).

I was thinking the the circle on the sketch could be looking down on the ball jar, so I made it blue. I cut a circle out of gray textured cardstock. I embossed it in my cuttlebug using a spiral embossing folder. I then painted it with blue and turquoise paint. I then covered the circle with white school glue. When the glue was still tacky, I painted with white paint in some areas. When that was dry I used versamark ink and gold embossing powder to finish the circle. 

Looking at the inspiration photo, I like that the jar was sitting on what made me think of white washed wood. I tried to get that same look with my background. I took the same gray textured cardstock that I used for the circle. I painted it with cream acrylic paint. Then I covered the cream paint with white school glue. I used my heat gun to get the glue to a tacky state quickly. Then I with white paint over the glue. What was fun was I didn't use a paint brush for any of this painting. I did it finger painting. I started out using a brush but it put too much paint on at a time I wanted it more rustic and I found that I got that rustic look better when I used my finger.

The part about this card that I like and is definitely the most "MIXED MEDIA" about my card is the flowers. I punched them out of typing paper. I used ink spray smash technique to dye them. I then wet them and crumpled them up into a ball. Then I used a heat gun to dry them. The stem for my flowers was made with twine, masking tape, shoe polish, and a woodgrain embossing folder. I started with a length of twine. I wrapped the twine with the masking tape. I then put that into my cuttlebug using a woodgrain embossing folder. When it came out it had a really neat wood texture. It was flat after going through the cuttlebug and a little thick, so I took my scissors and cut it into 3 strips. I glued the flowers to the stems and for the centers of the flowers, I glued little styrofoam balls. The styrofoam balls were part of a floral filler that I bought at Hobby Lobby over a year ago.

The only stamping that I did on my card was the scripture Matthew 6:34. It is from an Our Daily Bread Designs set called  DON'T WORRY. I stamped it onto white cardstock. I did a water color wash with the turquoise paint that i used for the circle. Again trying to mimic the color of the mason jar.

The last part of how I was inspired by the photo is the paper lace behind the circle. I took the textured cardstock and painted it with just the cream acrylic paint, leaving it still mostly gray. I was inspired for the lace with the lace on the shelves of the china hutch in the photo on the left.

What a great reminder to not worry about tomorrow. This affirms what the Holy Spirit was saying to me on Sunday while I was studying with the small bible study group from our church.

I am also entering this in the Word Art Wednesday 115 challenge.

Daydream Designs Day 3

Join the Fun

—Day 3 - You still have  time to hop.

January 15 –January 19 Welcome to the Daydream Designs BLOG HOP! 
We have tons of inspiration for you and lots of FREEBIES and giveaways. 
You will visit 10 Dream Team designers’ blogs. 
Follow the linked list below to move through the blog hop in order, so you don’t miss one. 

**Three winners will win their choice of THREE FREE SETS** from our Daydream Designs Store. (Excludes KD-Kits) 

**One winner will win the BIG BLOG HOP CANDY** (see Diane’s blog for pictures) 

**EVERYONE WINS!** Collect FREE DIGIS as you go! There will be a free digi waiting on each designer’s blog! 1. Visit every blog on the list. 2. Leave a comment saying you were here. 3. For an extra chance to win, subscribe to our newsletter (Diane’s blog, first stop on the hop). 4. When you get to the last blog on the list, Jerusha’s blog, you will have the choice to end the hop or continue to Deedee Anderson’s blog to start another round with her team for more prizes and Freebies! Let’s get started!

Diane 
Elizabeth
Gail
Gemiel
Helen
Jill
Karen
MariLynn  (This is me)
Miesje
Jerusha
Deedee


For my project I used SENDING YOU LOVE OUTLINED
and  TWEETHEARTS OUTLINED

 Here is the free digi that I'm giving away. It is the one I used on my card and in my tutorial the other day.
Free Digi has expired.

DAY 2 of DAYDREAM DESIGNS BLOG HOP

(If you are looking for my Mark's Finest Papers blog post, scroll down to next post.)



Join the Fun

—SECOND DAY  You still have lots of time to hop.

January 15 –January 19 Welcome to the Daydream Designs BLOG HOP! 
We have tons of inspiration for you and lots of FREEBIES and giveaways. 
You will visit 10 Dream Team designers’ blogs. 
Follow the linked list below to move through the blog hop in order, so you don’t miss one. 

**Three winners will win their choice of THREE FREE SETS** from our Daydream Designs Store. (Excludes KD-Kits) 

**One winner will win the BIG BLOG HOP CANDY** (see Diane’s blog for pictures) 

**EVERYONE WINS!** Collect FREE DIGIS as you go! There will be a free digi waiting on each designer’s blog! 1. Visit every blog on the list. 2. Leave a comment saying you were here. 3. For an extra chance to win, subscribe to our newsletter (Diane’s blog, first stop on the hop). 4. When you get to the last blog on the list, Jerusha’s blog, you will have the choice to end the hop or continue to Deedee Anderson’s blog to start another round with her team for more prizes and Freebies! Let’s get started!

Diane 
Elizabeth
Gail
Gemiel
Helen
Jill
Karen
MariLynn  (This is me)
Miesje
Jerusha
Deedee


For my project I used SENDING YOU LOVE COLORED 
and SNOWBABY LOVE COLORED

 Here is the free digi that I'm giving away. It is the one I used yesterday on my card and in my tutorial.
Free Digi has expired.

Mark's Finest Papers Blog Hop Day 3 Yikes a Mouse

WELCOME BACK!!!


January Blog Hop! 

This month's New Stamp Set Releases are

 Featured Jan. 14

Swans

Featured Jan 15

Umbrellas and Fans

 Featured Jan 16

Yikes a Mouse

Please hop along with us! You have a chance to win one of the above stamp sets! Just comment on the following blogs (don't forget this one), each day for more chances to win! (You do NOT have to comment on all the blogs each day! The names are drawn randomly!) All three winners will be announced on Jan. 18,2014 on the Mark's Finest Papers blog. You can go back and comment if you missed a day. (HINT: The more you comment, the more chances you have to win and comments on the MFP blog count twice!) The deadline for 
commenting is 10 PM EST on Friday Jan. 17, 2014

I made my card a shaped card. I cut it in the shape of a camera.

Inside of the card

 

Here's the Design Team:

Patty

 Jane C

 Thrfity Stamper

Marilynn

 Bonnie 

Cathy C  

Sue W

An'Jenic

  Amy

Marks Finest Papers, a Heinrich Co.

Daydream Designs January Blog Hop day 1

(If you are looking for my Mark's Finest Papers blog post, scroll down to next post.)



Join the Fun

—It Begins Today! January 15 –January 19 Welcome to the Daydream Designs BLOG HOP! 
We have tons of inspiration for you and lots of FREEBIES and giveaways. 
You will visit 10 Dream Team designers’ blogs. 
Follow the linked list below to move through the blog hop in order, so you don’t miss one. 

**Three winners will win their choice of THREE FREE SETS** from our Daydream Designs Store. (Excludes KD-Kits) 

**One winner will win the BIG BLOG HOP CANDY** (see Diane’s blog for pictures) 

**EVERYONE WINS!** Collect FREE DIGIS as you go! There will be a free digi waiting on each designer’s blog! 1. Visit every blog on the list. 2. Leave a comment saying you were here. 3. For an extra chance to win, subscribe to our newsletter (Diane’s blog, first stop on the hop). 4. When you get to the last blog on the list, Jerusha’s blog, you will have the choice to end the hop or continue to Deedee Anderson’s blog to start another round with her team for more prizes and Freebies! Let’s get started!

Diane 
Elizabeth
Gail
Gemiel
Helen
Jill
Karen
MariLynn  (This is me)
Miesje
Jerusha
Deedee


For my project I used SENDING  YOU LOVE (COLORED AND OUTLINED)  as well as the SNOWBABY LOVE SENTIMENTS sets.

 This tutorial below showed how I printed the postcard using a regular black printer and got a vintage look.
 


 Here is the free digi that I'm giving away. It is the one I used on my card and in my tutorial.

Free Digi has expired.
I am sharing this card with WORD ART WEDNESDAY.

Blog hop Umbrellas and Fans

WELCOME BACK!!!


January Blog Hop! 

This month's New Stamp Set Releases are

 Featured Jan. 14

Swans

Featured Jan 15

Umbrellas and Fans

 Featured Jan 16

Yikes a Mouse

Please hop along with us! You have a chance to win one of the above stamp sets! Just comment on the following blogs (don't forget this one), each day for more chances to win! (You do NOT have to comment on all the blogs each day! The names are drawn randomly!) All three winners will be announced on Jan. 18,2014 on the Mark's Finest Papers blog. You can go back and comment if you missed a day. (HINT: The more you comment, the more chances you have to win and comments on the MFP blog count twice!) The deadline for 
commenting is 10 PM EST on Friday Jan. 17, 2014

I decided to stamp the fan and used a black marker to color it all in.
I added three quilled roses. I wanted it to tilt so I used a paper spring
underneath the back of the fan. I adhered the bottom with a black brad.

Here's the Design Team:

Patty

 Jane C

 Thrfity Stamper

Marilynn

 Bonnie 

Cathy C  

Sue W

An'Jenic

  Amy

Marks Finest Papers, a Heinrich Co.

Come on back tomorrow for more creativity.