Adornit - Mountain Plains Crafters Blog Hop

Welcome to the Adornit and

 Mountain Plains Crafters Blog Hop!

We're featuring the brand new 

Art Play Paintables

which include themes for Halloween, Christmas, Adventure, Critters, Faith and more; 18 brand new pages to color with multiple images on each sheet. They're perfect for watercoloring, markers, colored pencils and more. Use them in multiple ways - cardmaking, scrapbooking, treat boxes, tags..... you're only limited by your imagination!

IT'S a lot of fun to sit and color. My favorite way to color is to use crayola markers. However I don't use markers the way most people do.  IT'S a lot more fun to do it the way I do it. I take an acetate folder and I scribble on the folder with the markers. I spray a puddle of water onto the the folder and I paint with the marker's inks. IT'S cheap and it gives me quite a lot of colors to start with. By painting with the marker ink IT'S easy to blend the colors.

My first project was from the
RAINBOWS PAINTABLE sheet.

Here is a photo showing the marker scribbles, the water and the paint brush I used. 

I colored the backgrounds first and let them dry before I painted the inside images.

When coloring the backgrounds I used a color wheel and kept in my mind the color that I wanted the images to be and tried to use complimentary colors.

You can see a couple of places where the color tried to escape the lines. This was partly due to the fact that my puppy dog jumped into my lap while I was coloring. Silly puppy. I wasn't too concerned about that because I knew I wanted to add some copper and gold to my card.

Both of these products are very similar. They add such a cool metallic look. I just dipped my paint brush in water and then into the metallic rubs and painted with the copper and gold.

Here  you can see the gold metallic rub that I put between the rectangles as well as accents on the heart.

I used a bamboo skewer to dip into white acrylic paint to add dots.

I added glue and glitter. to make it sparkle. You can see the sparkle here:

Here is the finished card. I made it into an easel card.

Here are 2 more cards that I made.

For this card I used the FAITH PAINTABLE sheet

For this card I used  the

 TODAY IS THE BEST PAINTABLE sheet

I used this week's mojo sketch for this card.

If you  are playing along with the hop you need to collect words along the way. IT'S not hard to figure out what my word is. However, if you really need a clue my word is actually a contraction of 2 words-
It and Is.

Thanks for reading my long post.

Next stop on the hop is my friend


Pam.

Latte Love tags Thank you VERVE.

Had to play one more time for the Fall Coffee Lover's Blog Hop.
I used the free digi images from VERVE.( Thank you VERVE)

I made two tags to go on a bag of coffee that I'm going to send to my daughter who is away at school.

HOPE

Started and Ended my week off with COFFEE. One last card for the Fall Coffee Lover's Blog Hop
it is also for this week's mixed media challenge on Splitcoaststampers.com. Mix-ability Challenge 140 

I started by stamping leaves with versamark ink and embossing them with gold embossing powder.

Then I did ink spray smash technique to add some color. I used mostly cool colors for this part.

Then I water colored the leaves using warm colors. mostly yellows and reds

 

After that I sprayed the whole card with gold shimmer spray. I stamped with black stazon ink in the corners. I stamped Unity stamps (distressed criss/cross) and (classified newsprint). I used MFP set called Java Time for the cup as well as the coffee rings. I stamped the rings with versamark and stamped it on the background. The cup I stamped with black stazon ink and water colored it. I cut it out and put it with rhinestones for steam. I added the ribbon at the top with scrabble letters I made from a pizza box. I rubbed gold metallic lustre on the letters. I made my card an easel card. I added ribbon roses and lace to the inside. I used the gold shimmer spray on the white ribbon roses to make it match the card. 

Now the word HOPE is used a lot in October in relationship to breast cancer. I "hope" that some day - ALL cancer is a thing of the past. Having said that, my card has HOPE on it for a different reason. Owning and running a business in a small town is really hard these days. A year ago a small coffee shop-art gallery-art supply shop opened in our town. Yesterday they celebrated being in business for 1 year.  Now for those who live in big cities with lots of choices for getting your coffee, I'm happy for you. This is the ONLY coffee shop in our town. If you want anyone else to make your coffee it will be McDonalds. So I HOPE -"THE LOST CANVAS"-coffee shop-gallery and art supply shop will be in business for a long time to come. I plan to go this afternoon and give the owner this card.

Monday ... need coffee to start my week

 I wanted to make a tall and skinny easel card for this week's Mojo Monday Sketch 417,.

It is also for the Coffee Lovers Fall Blog Hop.

Last week I made a card with stacked cups with gold leaves. To make it fit on my card I cut the top cup off. It was sitting on my desk this morning when I started crafting. I used white and tan cardstock for this card. The colorful background was done with markers, water and gold acrylic paint. I used gold metallic rub around the edges and on the gold panel. 

The stamps I used for this card were from 2 different MFP sets.

OH BEANS and JAVA TIME.

 I used versamark ink to make the coffee stains on the card using the rings images from JAVA TIME.

Fall Coffee Lovers Blog Hop

Here is my second card for the

FALL COFFEE LOVERS BLOG HOP

I had a lot of fun making this card. When I started the only non white part was the piece of tan cardstock. The rest of my card started out with white cardstock. I ink spray smashed the background. I sprayed with gold shimmer spray. Then I stamped MFP-AUTUMN GLORY stamp with versamark and heat embossed gold embossing powder. Then I watercolored the leaves. I did the same thing with the coffee cups.They are from MFP-OH BEANS stamp set. I really like how this card turned out. As I was making it I was thinking about the last time my daughter and I went out for coffee. We met a friend from church and we went to the local coffee shop, where they had coconut creme pie that had just come out of the oven. That just somehow made that coffee taste all the better.

MFP Everything Fall Blog Hop Day 4 - WORKING 9-5 -COFFEE BREAK

WELCOME TO MFP STAMP SHOP

 

EVERYTHING FALL BLOG HOP

JOIN US EACH DAY, SEPT. 22-25 FOR AUTUMN TIME FUN. WE'LL HAVE  TUTORIALS AND DT INSPIRATION. THERE WILL BE PRIZES FOR LEAVING COMMENTS ON THE DESIGN TEAM'S BLOGS AND PRIZES FOR TRYING OUR TUTORIALS.  YOU WILL HAVE 2 WEEKS TO ADD YOUR PROJECT to the SEPT 25 POST FOR US TO SEE SO THERE IS NO EXCUSE NOT TO JOIN IN THE FUN. 

Please Hop along with us!! 
 You could win one of the MFP Stamp Shop FALL STAMP SETS Just comment on the following blogs ( don't forget this one ) each day for more chances to win! ( You do NOT need to comment on on all the blogs each day! The names are drawn randomly.) Try one of the tutorials shown during the Hop and add your photo to the Inlinkz at the bottom of the post. The winners will be announced on Oct. 10, 2015 right here on the MFP Stamp Shop 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 and posting pics of your projects is Friday Oct. 9, 2015 at 10:00 PM EST.

Tutorials
SEPT. 22- MAKING ATC CARDS
SEPT. 24- MAKING FALL DP

Let's get started !!

Here's the Design Team

Jane

 Karen
Kren
Lois  
Marilynn

Pat
Pam
Sandy 

Sue

Toni

Vickie

MFP Stamp Shop 

Enjoy the Hop. Come back each day for more Fall Time fun. We hope to inspire you to start your own Fall projects.  Get to work on the tutorials, show us what you made by Oct. 9 and check back on Oct. 10, 2015 to see if you are a winner.  

(Close up of easel base)

(close up of coffee cups)

The stamp sets that I used for this FALL card are called:

AUTUMN GLORY

and 

JAVA TIME 

The mixed media challenge for splitcoaststampers this week was to use products around the work place on card WORKING 9-5 

I tried really hard to use 9 things from work place.

1.Base of card was a file folder.

2. I used a report folder to do ink spray smash.

3. I used drywall tape. 

4. I used scotch tape.

5. I used staples

6 I used twine.

7. I used paper clips.

8 The base of my easel was done using rubberbands.

9. I used a regular hole punch.

and I added  5 of the little rhinestones.

This is also for the coffee-lovers fall blog hop.

MFP Everything Fall hop day 3

WELCOME TO MFP STAMP SHOP

 

EVERYTHING FALL BLOG HOP

JOIN US EACH DAY, SEPT. 22-25 FOR AUTUMN TIME FUN. WE'LL HAVE  TUTORIALS AND DT INSPIRATION. THERE WILL BE PRIZES FOR LEAVING COMMENTS ON THE DESIGN TEAM'S BLOGS AND PRIZES FOR TRYING OUR TUTORIALS.  YOU WILL HAVE 2 WEEKS TO ADD YOUR PROJECT to the SEPT 25 POST FOR US TO SEE SO THERE IS NO EXCUSE NOT TO JOIN IN THE FUN. 

Please Hop along with us!! 
 You could win one of the MFP Stamp Shop FALL STAMP SETS Just comment on the following blogs ( don't forget this one ) each day for more chances to win! ( You do NOT need to comment on on all the blogs each day! The names are drawn randomly.) Try one of the tutorials shown during the Hop and add your photo to the Inlinkz at the bottom of the post. The winners will be announced on Oct. 10, 2015 right here on the MFP Stamp Shop 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 and posting pics of your projects is Friday Oct. 9, 2015 at 10:00 PM EST.

Tutorials
SEPT. 22- MAKING ATC CARDS
SEPT. 24- MAKING FALL DP

Let's get started !!

Here's the Design Team

Jane

 Karen
Kren
Lois  
Marilynn

Pat
Pam
Sandy 

Sue

Toni

Vickie

MFP Stamp Shop 

Enjoy the Hop. Come back each day for more Fall Time fun. We hope to inspire you to start your own Fall projects.  Get to work on the tutorials, show us what you made by Oct. 9 and check back on Oct. 10, 2015 to see if you are a winner.  

 

The stamp set that I used for this FALL card is called:

JUST A NOTE

You might not think of music when you think of FALL, but I do. My kids have all been in marching band. I love sitting in the crisp fall air watching the marching band perform at home football games and at band competitions.

Fall Blog Hop MFP Day 2

WELCOME TO MFP STAMP SHOP

 

EVERYTHING FALL BLOG HOP

JOIN US EACH DAY, SEPT. 22-25 FOR AUTUMN TIME FUN. WE'LL HAVE  TUTORIALS AND DT INSPIRATION. THERE WILL BE PRIZES FOR LEAVING COMMENTS ON THE DESIGN TEAM'S BLOGS AND PRIZES FOR TRYING OUR TUTORIALS.  YOU WILL HAVE 2 WEEKS TO ADD YOUR PROJECT to the SEPT 25 POST FOR US TO SEE SO THERE IS NO EXCUSE NOT TO JOIN IN THE FUN. 

Please Hop along with us!! 
 You could win one of the MFP Stamp Shop FALL STAMP SETS Just comment on the following blogs ( don't forget this one ) each day for more chances to win! ( You do NOT need to comment on on all the blogs each day! The names are drawn randomly.) Try one of the tutorials shown during the Hop and add your photo to the Inlinkz at the bottom of the post. The winners will be announced on Oct. 10, 2015 right here on the MFP Stamp Shop 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 and posting pics of your projects is Friday Oct. 9, 2015 at 10:00 PM EST.

Tutorials
SEPT. 22- MAKING ATC CARDS
SEPT. 24- MAKING FALL DP

Let's get started !!

Here's the Design Team

Jane

 Karen
Kren
Lois  
Marilynn

Pat
Pam
Sandy 

Sue

Toni

Vickie

MFP Stamp Shop 

Enjoy the Hop. Come back each day for more Fall Time fun. We hope to inspire you to start your own Fall projects.  Get to work on the tutorials, show us what you made by Oct. 9 and check back on Oct. 10, 2015 to see if you are a winner.  

 I used set called: Chrysanthemum 

Techniques used:
 Ink spray smash
Heat embossing
Watercoloring

Fall Blog HOP MFP day 1

WELCOME TO MFP STAMP SHOP

 

EVERYTHING FALL BLOG HOP

JOIN US EACH DAY, SEPT. 22-25 FOR AUTUMN TIME FUN. WE'LL HAVE  TUTORIALS AND DT INSPIRATION. THERE WILL BE PRIZES FOR LEAVING COMMENTS ON THE DESIGN TEAM'S BLOGS AND PRIZES FOR TRYING OUR TUTORIALS.  YOU WILL HAVE 2 WEEKS TO ADD YOUR PROJECT to the SEPT 25 POST FOR US TO SEE SO THERE IS NO EXCUSE NOT TO JOIN IN THE FUN. 

Please Hop along with us!! 
 You could win one of the MFP Stamp Shop FALL STAMP SETS Just comment on the following blogs ( don't forget this one ) each day for more chances to win! ( You do NOT need to comment on on all the blogs each day! The names are drawn randomly.) Try one of the tutorials shown during the Hop and add your photo to the Inlinkz at the bottom of the post. The winners will be announced on Oct. 10, 2015 right here on the MFP Stamp Shop 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 and posting pics of your projects is Friday Oct. 9, 2015 at 10:00 PM EST.

Tutorials
SEPT. 22- MAKING ATC CARDS
SEPT. 24- MAKING FALL DP

Let's get started !!

Here's the Design Team

Jane

 Karen
Kren
Lois  
Marilynn

Pat
Pam
Sandy 

Sue

Toni

Vickie

MFP Stamp Shop 

Enjoy the Hop. Come back each day for more Fall Time fun. We hope to inspire you to start your own Fall projects.  Get to work on the tutorials, show us what you made by Oct. 9 and check back on Oct. 10, 2015 to see if you are a winner.  

 I used set called FALL APPLES

A journey into Bible Art Journaling

A new journey begins with the first step. I have been wanting to try Bible Art Journaling for awhile. but I had lots of excuses why not to start. 

1. Should I do art in my bible?

2. I don't have the right bible.

3. What if I mess up and make a mistake?

4. What if I don't have the right supplies?

5. Is my art good enough to put in my bible? 

I also felt the desire to have other ladies join me in this journey. Again more excuses.

6. Shouldn't I be an expert before I ask anyone else?

7. What if they are afraid of taking the first step too?

8. Are they even going to want to do it?

9. What if they think I'm crazy for asking?

10 And the biggest one- what if they all say "no"?

Then the other night I felt God answering those concerns.

1. I respect the bible as God's word. I know I'm not going to put something that would ever disrespect his word. I feel like he would rather I open my bible, meditate, reflect, and add my thoughts and art then to have a bible that looks the same as it did when it came from the publisher. 

2. While I would like to have a bible specific for journaling, someday. I felt God was telling me to use what I have now. I'm not guaranteed tomorrow, so start today.

3. This was a big one. I don't like making mistakes. With my crafting projects in the past if I made a mistake I could always find a way to "cover" it or throw it away completely but I wouldn't be able to do that in my bible. God reminded me that I am a work in progress. Mistakes remind me that I am not perfect only God is perfect and it is my pride that wants to be PERFECT.

4. I have a lot of art supplies, and I don't know which ones will work and those that won't. I decided that I would experiment with my supplies in an old book of poems.  So that is what I did. This is what I did using chalk, black stazon ink, colored pencils, white ink and white acrylic paint.

5. My art doesn't have to be good. That comes back to my pride issues. It doesn't HAVE to be good. It just has to have meaning to me, and it has to make contemplate on what God is saying to me at that time in his word. That isn't to say that I won't try to do my best, and hope to get better. One step at a time on this journey.

6. I was thinking that people won't want to join me in this journey if I don't know all the answers first.  Pride again? Probably. Then God reassured me by bringing to mind when my kids were little and I was homeschooling them. When I didn't know the answer, I would say "I don't know that, lets find that answer together."

7. If they are afraid of starting, I hope to share how God has encouraged me.

8.9.10. God encouraged me with the old song. "if none go with me still I will follow." I don't know what God has planned. I did ask several ladies at my church and they all seemed interested in at least finding out more.We are planing to meet this Friday evening.

I started this last Sunday, September 6, 2105 with two pages. One I simply wrote "Amazing Grace how sweet the sound" God is opposed to the proud but gives grace to the humble. Praying that God will not let my pride get in the way of what He wants me to do. I used Sharpie fine pen and colored pencils.

I made a more detailed entry with this drawing of a lion. Daniel could have let fear keep him from praying but he didn't. He put his faith in God and let God overcome his fear. When Daniel was in the lions' den, God shut the lions' mouth. Praying that I will step out in faith like Daniel.  I sketched the lion first with a pencil then I added Sharpie fine pen and colored pencils. When I finished, I was kinda critical of my lion. It didn't turn out how I had imagined it. But the more I looked at it. I kinda like it. My lion kinda looks confused. But if you had your mouthed closed by an angel that God sent, wouldn't you look confused too?

I am excited to see where this journey will lead.

Christmas in July Blog Hop Day 4

WELCOME TO MFP STAMP SHOP

CHRISTMAS IN JULY BLOG HOP

JOIN US EACH DAY, JULY 28-31 FOR CHRISTMAS FUN, TUTORIALS AND INSPIRATION. THERE WILL BE PRIZES FOR LEAVING COMMENTS ON THE DESIGN TEAM'S BLOGS AND PRIZES FOR TRYING OUR TUTORIALS.  YOU WILL HAVE 2 WEEKS TO ADD YOUR PROJECT FOR US TO SEE SO THERE IS NO EXCUSE NOT TO JOIN IN THE FUN. 

Please Hop along with us!! 
 You could win one of the MFP Stamp Shop Christmas stamp sets. Just comment on the following blogs ( don't forget this one ) each day for more chances to win! ( You do NOT need to comment on on all the blogs each day! The names are drawn randomly.) Try one of the 3 tutorials shown during the Hop and add your photo to the Inlinkz at the bottom of the post. The winners will be announced on AUG. 15, 2015 right here on the MFP Stamp Shop 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 and posting pics of your projects is Friday Aug. 14, 2015 at 10:00 PM EST.

Tutorials
July 28--Christmas Candy Nugget Cake by Lois
July 29-Micro wave popcorn package perfect for a stocking stuffer by Vickie
July 31--K-Cup holder by Lois

Let's get started !!

Here's the Design Team

Jane

 Karen
Kren
Lois  
MariLynn

Pat
Sandy 

Sue

Toni

Vickie

MFP Stamp Shop 

Enjoy the Hop. Come back each day for more Christmas fun. We hope to inspire you to start your Christmas cards and projects.  Get to work on the tutorials, show us what you made and check back on August 15 to see if you are a winner.  

MFP has so many great Christmas sets, it is hard choose which to use for this hop. The card I'm showing you today used this set:

'Tis the Season