Little Bro Graduates + Lawn Fawn Card

Hi Friends,

 

So it has been a very busy week.

My little brother finally commenced from High School this week, my mother arranged a surprise bus limo to take us down. She also surprised him with some people 'pick up's' along the way.

 

I didn't get very many photos, but I'll share a couple with you that I did get. The school changed the order the way students walk across the stage. They started with those who had the last name starting with the letter Z. Well... Louie was still in the middle. To keep myself amused I ended up highlighting everyone who crossed the stage. SO many graduates.



 Here he is getting ready (third one from the stage)





 

Being that my brother is going to Capliano University for film I made him a graduation card using the new Lawn Fawn Blue Skies stamp set. I stuck some double sided Be Creative tape on some card stock and covered it with Glitter Ritz Microfine clear glitter. After I used my finger to varnish it in, I stamped the balloon and stars with Staz on Ink directly on to the glitter. I then used my Copics to colour them in. Once they were coloured I die cut the balloon and hand cut the stars.  I also Die cut some clouds from the leftover glitter paper.

 

 

I used a background stamp from Impression Obsession in Hero Arts Shadow Ink in the colour Soft Pool on a light blue note card. For the final touches, I curved the sentiment stamp on my acrylic block and stamped it around the balloon. I then adhered the balloon with pop dots to add some dimention. For the final, final touch I added a strip of black Washi tape it give it a more 'masculine' feel to it.

 

Here is a closer look at the glitter and copic colouring

 

 

 

 

I finally got some pictures with him after the graudation with the famil dinner! Isn't he cute wearing his Capillano t-shirt I got him?

 

 

 

Thanks for joining me today

xoxo

Tina

First Day of Summer + Fishy Birthday Cards

 Hello Friends!!

Happy first day of summer.

I'm not going to lie.... .it doesn't look like summer around here AT ALL. Sure we got a few nice days in June, but now it is cold, cold, COLD! I just got my winter tires taken off, and I'm not sure if I should have done that.

Things are slowly coming together for the wedding. The one thing I notice is how hard it is to make a final guest list. If I could have it my way I would invite everyone and anyone!  But..... money doesn't seem to have the same idea's as me.

I've started taking spin classes, and have been enjoying them immensely. I notice thought, that I hate it at the 15 minute mark where I can't breath anymore but then love the feeling I get after I finish conquering that "hill"!

I've somehow injured my ring finger. I couldn't tell if it was because I bruised it, broke it, or sprained it. So I had to make an emergency trip to the doctors this morning where he poked at it a bit and then sent me for x-rays. No phone call to let me know its broken, so that means no news is good news right? So now I'll just have my fingers taped together for awhile.

Anyways, enough blabbing. Today's card features some of Dyan Reaveley Stamps. The set that I used today is the "Under the Sea" stamp set. I used distress markers to colour in the fish and used my aqua brush to watercolour them.

For the Birthday Fishes, I used some pattern paper and letter stickers from a Simon Says Stamp Monthly Card Kit. I stamped the back with a Hero Arts Large Plaid Pattern background stamp and added some enamel dots to look like bubbles.

 

 

For the next two cards I used a strip of pattern paper from a month card kit from Simon Says Stamp, and the Apothecary Label and Stamp set from their STAMPtember collection. I then used a white gel pen to make the bubbles coming from the fish and crab white .

 

 

 

Aren't they kinda CUTE?!!

 

Thanks for joining me today! Have a great weekend, and may the weather finally warm up.

 

XOXO

Tina

 

Chrisopther's Graduation and Thank you Pinwheel's

Hello Friends!!!

How has everyone been over the last couple months?! I have been super super busy with coordinating triathlons, duathlons, 10K runs and my WEDDING!

Now that some things are settling down I get to finally have some time to put a blog posts up. Don't worry, during that time when I wasn't posting doesn't mean that I wasn’t playing. I have so much to share. So many new and wonderful products have come out.

So a little update....

My little brother is graduating this year *sniff* I couldn't be prouder of everything that he has accomplished. As we all well know, high school (or school in general) can be a real struggle. I'm proud of what he as achieved and that he's moving forward in life. He even got accepted in to Capilano University! Way to go bro~

If any of you know my mother, she loves, LOVES to throw surprise parties. I think it really should be her profession. So for my brothers graduation, what do you think she did?...You got it, she threw him a surprise party..

So at the chance of embarrassing my little brother, I'm going to post some pictures of his 'surprise' party (nice of me eh?)

 

 Here is everyone who attended! Great looking group eh!?!

Here is the family (and my soon to be husband) .... actually this is a pretty good photo..

My soon to be husband, Rob

Christopher and the guys

JUST for embarrassment, his high school grad photo ;)

So shall we get to the thank you card?

So I got to play with a stamp set called pinwheels2stamp from Stamps for Life, and I think its the best stamp set ever!! You get to create your own pinwheels with different colours and patterns! Below are some of the pinwheels that I created! Pretty cool eh?! I used Hero Arts shadow inks, I just love how smooth it becomes after you stamp it.

I used some foam squares to prop up the pinwheel after I cut it out. I punched a heart our and used Enamel Dots from my minds eye for the centre's of them.

I could make these all day! That's all I have for now for the update!! :) I promise for the next post to tell you more stuff about the wedding :)

Generation Stamping

Hello everyone!!

Sorry I didn't get around to posting last week. It was extremely busy. I had two concerts to go to.

1. Sarah Slean, who is an amazing singer/songwriter. I absolutely love her music. I even got to meet her after the concert! She is the most adorable person I have ever met. Here is a picture I managed to get with her.

and 2. Alicia Keys, who just killed it on the stage. She is an amazing performer. She played piano for most of her songs and just wowed everyone. Of course she played everyones favourite song "Girl on Fire". Can't get enough of it.

If you ever have the chance to see either of these artists performers, DO IT!

And to top off these amazing nights I ended up dog-gone sick with a nasty cold that still seems to be lingering and wont go away.

So the card that I am sharing with you today features Martha Stewart's Hydrangea punch, Impression Obsession - Cover a Card stamps and Tim Holtz distress stain.

I first punched out a bunch of hydrangeas from some some nice pink paper, glued two of them together and places a nice pearl in the middle.

After that I took the Distress Stains and dabbed them all over my background stamp, making sure that the colours didn't touch so that the inks wouldn't get contaminated. The colours I used where - Salty Oceans, Picked Raspberry and Peacock Feathers. I used my finger to blend the two colours together where they would meet.



I stamped it on some watercolour paper that I picked up from Micheal's. This paper has a vellum finish on it, so its a nice smooth paper. Its quite nice, I'm trying to find a watercolour paper that I really like.

After stamping it the first time, I decided to do generation stamping because the colours were so beautiful. I spritzed it with some water to get the ink wet again and then stamped it a second time. You can tell a difference of which one was stamped first (with the darker vibrant colours) and the second generation (nice light colours) I loved them both so much!

I trimmed the card stock down and adhered it the card front with some of the hydrangeas that I punched out and a sentiment from Hero Arts.

Here is another look at how soft and beautiful the colours are.  

Beautiful eh!? Thanks for stopping by!

STAY HEALTHY



Swatches



Hello everyone!

So excited to show you what I was up to this weekend.

This weekend I took the time to organize all of my Inks and stamp them on the swatches. I found these small tags at a paper store (they came in a pack of 25). After I stamped out all of my inks, I put them all through a ring and clipped them together. I love having all of my colours in one place with the ability to quickly look through all of them when I'm doing a project. It makes the project faster and easier when I know what supplies I have. I forgot how beautiful some colours were, and I even forgot that I had some of them.

When I was stamping out my Distress Inks, I would also take the Distress Markers and scribble by the stamped image with the brush tip and the plastic tip, that way I know what the colour looks like from the marker.

While I was stamping, I thought I would show you what some of the colours look like side by side.

Here are all of my browns put together.

Distress Ink: Vintage photo, Walnut Stain

Colorbox Chalk Ink: Chestnut brown

Stazon: Saddle Brown

Adirondack: Carmel

Hero Arts: Cup O' Joe

Stampin up: Close to Cocoa

Momento:  Rich Cocoa

Versafine: Vintage Sepia

And here are my Blacks:

Brilliance: Graphite Black

Distress Ink: Black Soot

Archival Ink: Jet Black

Stazon: Jet black

Colorbox Chalk Ink: Blackbird
Momento: Tuxedo Black
Versafine: Onyx Black

Thanks for stopping by!

I'll see you later



Dylusion Cards

So the other week I created a 'journal page' inspired by the techniques and videos that Shari Carroll did on the Simon Says Stamp blog using the Dylusion Spray Inks by Dyan Reaveley's. I finished the page with some stamping and white gel pen. I then cut it down to make 4 wonderful cards.

 Here is a look at some of the cards I made. I used foam dots to pop up the saying that the background page. The stamp set is from Simon Says Stamp kit of the month.

You can't see it in the photo, but I used a glitter gel pen in Stardust to outline some of the hearts and circles on the cards.

I also used the Air Vent Die from Simon Says Stamp to add a bit of interest to one of my cards.

I love the pink!!

Thanks so much for stoping by.

See you again soon.

Dylusion's Sprays

Blog Post time again. Need to play a bit of catch up. I've recently gotten a new job so its been a bit of a change of schedule for me.

So.... today I'm going to show you a little project I've been working on. Sheri Carroll has been doing a Journal page on Simon Says Stamp Blog each month, So it gave me an idea to start my own (Still haven't figured out the binding with dental floss) . I have been having fun playing with some Dylsusion Sprays by Dyan Reaveley. It sure is inky and thank goodness it washes off with just a bit of soap and water!

The first image here is just playing with her Dylusion Sprays and Stencils. I also sprayed some stencils with water and after I dabbed the water away you got a really cool shadow effect. The colours I used for the background were Bubble Gum Pink, Crushed Grapes, and then I used Vibrant Turquoise for the hand written stencil.

I then used a heart stencil and Gesso to paint on the hearts. I zapped them with the heat gun. I noticed that I had to use a couple layers to get this look, as the Gesso kept turning pink.

I wanted some of the hearts to stand out a bit more, so I let them really dry before taking a small paint brush and outlining some of them and creating smaller ones around it.

I'm thinking that I will add some stamping and cut them down to a standard size card and then add some glitter and ribbon. Hopefully I'll post the final picture soon.

My Mother and I are going to Scrap Arts this Saturday to take a card class called K.I.S.S (Keep it simple.... stamp) I'm looking forward to it. Maybe I'll even post some pictures of our wonderful creations!!

ta-ta for now!