Fall Brilliance

I can't believe the weekend is over. I had a great weekend. I went to an image transfer class yesterday and below is my finish product.

We used a birch panel covered with printed paper (music sheets/text from a book). It was attached to the canvas with matte medium. Next step was we painted our panel with a light coat of Gesso. Then apply matte medium to the panel and apply the image transfer. Let the panel with image dry completely. Next, spray with water and remove the paper. Wha la the image is transferred to your canvas. I then painted my canvas with acrylic paints and water color crayon. I used a few stencils - butterfly, oak leaves with acorn (bottom right), Tim Holtz spider web and small dots for the centers of the flowers.

It was so fun and relaxing I can't wait to do the next one. We did some remodeling in our kitchen, once it's painted I will hang in the kitchen.

I hope you are inspired to create a project!

One more peek:

I am entering my project in the following challenges:
Frilly and Funkie - Colors of Autumn
Scribble and Scrap - #3 Always Anything Goes
Creative Corner - Anything but a Card
DRS - #91 Inspired by Autumn

Nothing like candy to make you smile

Happy Saturday,

I hope your weekend is going well. I took an awesome class today which was an image transfer. It was so fun to work with mixed media.

But today we start a new challenge over at CMC today "Anything Goes". Our sponsor this week is Bugaboo Stamps. I chose the Candy Jar which I thought was just too adorable.
I created by my bag with Tim Holtz Die. I stamped my image with Tuxedo Black Memento Ink and colored it with B02, B06, Bg000, Y13, Y15, R37, R39, G21, G40, V00, V01, R81, R83, E44, E47, YR18, YR24, C00C01. I added white Shabby Frantage to give it  a festive look.

Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to sign up for my "HALLOWEEN CANDY"!

A closer view:

I am entering my treat bag in the following challenges:
Inkspirational -  #41 Anything Goes Inkspirational
Brown Sugar - #63 Anything Goes
4 Krafty Girlz - #3 Anything Goes
Southern Girls - Sing, Sing a Song, Sing out loud - Candy Man by Sammy Davis Jr.
The Sisterhood of Crafters - It's Anything Goes Time!
Crafty Boots - Sweet Treats

Halloween Masquerade Ball and Some Halloween Candy

Happy Wednesday,

Welcome to 7 Kids College Fund Vintage Challenge. For Halloween I thought for the girls in the office I would make them tags. Since they are getting a Halloween treat I felt that it was only fair to all of you my faithful followers that one of you receive a treat. Yes, on October 31st one lucky person will win at $10.00 gift card to 7 Kids College Fund. For a chance to win see the details below:

1. Become a follower if you are not already.

2. Leave a comment with the name of your favorite tag.

3. Post the first photo below on the side bar of your blog.

Good Luck!

 Doll with Swing Dress

Riley

 Phoebe 

 Doll with Ruffle Dress

Doll with Peasant Dress

Doll with Strapless Dress

Karen 

Cryogen Paper

Tuxedo Black Memento

Copic Markers

1/4" Scor-Tape

Riley Mixed Media Doll Cling Stamp from Prima

Phoebe Mixed Media Doll Cling Stamp from Prima

Doll with Ruffle Dress Mixed Media Doll Cling Stamp from Prima

Doll with Strapless Dress Mixed Media Doll Cling Stamp from Prima

Doll with Peasant Dress Mixed Media Doll Cling Stamp from Prima

Doll with Swing Dress Mixed Media Doll Cling Stamp from Prima

Tag Mixed Media Doll Cling from Prima

Transparent Film Strip Ribbon

Tim Holtz Weathered Clock Die

  Tim Holtz Black Soot Distress Ink

Graphic 45 French Country 6 x6 paper pad

Graphic 45 Steampunk Spells 12 x 12 paper pad

I am entering my tags in the following challenges:
City Crafter Challenge - #180 Trick or Treat
PPT #141 -Pumpkins
TTCRD Oct. 8th - Anything Goes
The Cheerful Stamp Pad - #70 Tags
Prima - October's PPP
Lady Ann's - #7 Autumn/Fall
HobbyCutz - #19 Halloween

Sea Shells by the Seashore

Happy Monday,

Did everyone have a great weekend? I did I actually got cleaning, cooking and crafting into my weekend.  Still raining today but it look like the sun will be out the rest of the week. Yahoo!

Today I would like to share a card with you showcasing one of my new stamps – Sea Shell Tilda. She is just so sweet and precious. And of course I love the ocean and seashells!

Below are the goodies I used to create my card:

Magnolia Dies -Tea label Tags and View Master

Magnolia Stamps -Sea Shell Tilda and Oyster Map

Cherry Lynn Die – Small Flourish

Spellbinders Die

Majan Paper

Magnolia Paper

Cryogen Paper

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink

Flowers

Lace, Fancy Trim, Ribbon, Netting, Cheese Cloth

Shabby White Frantage

Copic Markers – skin- E000, E00, E11, R20; hair E25, E31, E50, Pail and Dress B63, B66; E40, E41, E42, E44

Charm and metal embellishment

Here are a couple of closer views of this sweet Tilda:

I am entering my card in the following challenges:

Bunny Zoe’s Crafts- Something Blue

Magnolia Down Under – #217 Blue, Brown,  and White Colour Combination

Simply Magnolia – Flowers and Lace

Craft Your Passion –  #183 Heavy Metal

Inspire Me Fridays  - #123 Anything Goes

Inky Impressions –#128 Blue as the Main Colour 

Trick or Treat Tag

Happy Saturday!

Welcome. I am on a new craze. I absolutely love these Prima Doll Stamps. I love creating their outfits. It reminds me of when I was a child and I had paper dolls. I used paper from Graphic 45 Steampunk, tissue tape from Tim Holtz and a stencil scene. I cut her clothes out and glued to the doll. I colored her hair with Copic Markers E25, E31, E50. For her headband and shoes I added orange glitter. Her tights have glow in the dark glitter. To finish off my design I added ribbon, metal trinkets, lace and Jolees embellishment.

I hope you feel inspired to create a fall or Halloween project. Thanks so much for stopping by!

Karen

Click the links below to purchase the items at 7 Kids College Fund

Cryogen Paper

Frayed Burlap Distress Ink

 Black Memento

Copic Markers

1/4" Scor-Tape

Doll with Pocket Dress Mixed Media Doll Cling Stamp from Prima
TAG PAD Mid Media Doll

Sprocket Gears from Tim Holtz Idea-ology

I am entering my card in the following challenges:
4 Crafty Chicks - #162 Fall/Autumn
4 Crafty Girlz - #3 Anything Goes
Crafty Ribbons - #64 Anything Goes with Ribbon
Craftin' Boutique - #10 Halloween Challenge
It's all abut Vintage - #53 Autumn Harvest
D.R.S. Designs - #90 Harvest Moon

Lili Playing with Leaves

Hello Inky Fans,

It’s been over a month since I posted an Inky card. I am so happy to be back! Today I would like to share how to make a card that is simple but elegant.

I was asked last week how I create my projects. For example do I plan my final project or do I design as I go. When I start my projects I do have a plan however as I begin working the project starts to take a life of it's own. Below are the products I chose for my initial design.  In my initial planning I was going to use more of the Graphic 45 paper but as my card was beginning to take shape I decided to keep my design simple.

First I stamped my image with black Memento ink on to Cryogen paper. Next I colored my image with Copic Markers.  Skin-E000, E00, R20; hair E50, E51, E53; pants and jacket E41, E42, E43; shirt, shoes headband R000, R01, R02, E44, Y21, Y38; leaves R35, R37, YG95,YG97, Y11, Y13, Y15, YR18, YR24, Y38, YR00, YR00. I used the Spellbinders die to cut out the image.

 Now how I applied the Frantage. First, I cut my image with the die, I chose Aged Scarlet Frantage for my design. I used a tiny spoon with a small amount of Frantage and gently dropped it on the background of the colored image. Warm up your heat gun. Then use the heat gun under the image. I move the heat gun around so it doesn’t burn the paper. You will be able to tell by looking as it melts. I recommend that you use a little at a time. If you want it heavier you can add more. I wanted to the viewer to get the illusion that the leaves were tossed in the air and I used Frantage to create the motion of particles falling.

I used Frayed Burlap distress ink on the edges of my designer paper and my die cut. I added a bow to my designer paper, attached the designer paper to the card.  And there you have it. A simple card with a touch of elegance.

Here are a few close up views of my card:

I hope you were inspired today. If you have any questions you can email me at k_l_gauthier@yahoo.com.  Enjoy your weekend!

All the best,

Karen

I am entering my card in the following challenges:
Simon Says - We're Going Dotty

Simply Create Too - #47 Fall/Autumn

Polkadoodles and Studio 12 - Week 40 Autumn Crafting

Sister Act Card - #27 Anything Goes

QKR Stampede - #59 Fall Colors

Crafty Catz - #201 Anything Goes

Challenges and Candies - #18 The Colors of Autumn

OWH Blog Hop

Hello Hopper! Thank you sooo much for coming by!

We brought our creativity together in the hopes that we would inspire you to join us (DT members) in doing a good deed!



Most of you know our men and women from the armed forces are deployed all over the world. Sometimes these men and women are in places that make it very hard,or they’re far away from where they can pick up a sweet card to send a quick note home. Luckily,they have OPERATION WRITE HOME (OWH (http://www.operationwritehome.org/)). OWH is a non-profit organization that sends special boxes filled with cards to soldiers all over the world. How can you help OWH keep the good deed going? By creating cards!!! Yes! OWH angels receive tons of handmade cards from crafters all over the world,then they check and organize cards to be sent out to our soldiers. Take a look at some of their own words about OWH packs: (http://operationwritehome.org/heroblog/)

Now we would love for you to join us to help OWH. We thought it would be amazing fun to do a blog 

hop to inspire you! 
Design Teams from PaperTemptress(https://www.papertemptress.com/index.php),Oozak (http://www.oozak.com/index.php) and Color me Creative (http://scrapbitzcopics.ning.com/) Classroom have joined together in one amazing Card Drive HOP. The fun just gets better! You can join in by making as many cards as you possibly can..the more you create the better your chances are to win one or more prizes.  Here are the guidelines (http://www.papertemptress.com/owhquideline.pdf) on how to enter and win!  PLEASE remember that...IMPORTANT....OWH guidlines (http://operationwritehome.org/guidelines/) MUST be followed to be entered to win a prize.

Once you create as many cards as possible enter a picture of ONE of the cards you have created on the hop Inlinkz (at the end) then mail all the cards you created  to the address below. Send as many cards as you can create so you have the best chance possible to win one or more of the 14 fabulous prizes by November 7th.

YES!! You do a good deed and you also can win a sweet gift!!!

Please visit the Hero Blog (http://operationwritehome.org/heroblog/) to see how much they appreciate the cards. 

Thank you to our sponsors

 ♥ Paper Temptress ♥ Oozak ♥ Color me Creative Classes ♥

♥ Heartfelt Creations ♥ Gilli Stamps ♥ Bugaboo stamps ♥

♥ A day for daisies ♥ Through the Craft Door Room Magazine ♥

♥ Floppy Latte ♥ Sweet Pea Stamps ♥ Pizzaz Aplenty ♥

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Here are a few cards that I made for the Blog Hop. What a great reason to make so cards. I hope you will join us!

Such a sweet image from Sweet Pea Stamps. I printed my digital image on Cryogen paper. I colored my image with Copic Markers-Skin E000, E00, R20; hair E25, E31, E50; hat and pants V91, V93, V95; shirt and patches on shirt R81, R83, R85; wings B000, B01; flowers Y21, Y38, YR000, YR00, G21, G40, YG93,YG95. I used Prima paper and a little bit of lace.

This cute digital image is from A Day for Daisies.  I printed my digital image on Cryogen paper. I colored my image with Copic Markers-Skin E000, E00; hair E25, E31, E50; pants B91, B93; shirt R37, R39; pole  and worms E15, E18; bucket YG93,YG95; shoe C01, C03. 

This pretty digital image is from Floppy Latte.  I printed my digital image on Cryogen paper. I colored my image with Copic Markers- flowers V91, V93, V95; leaves G21, G40. 

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It’s time to HOP around. Leave little note as you pass by these lovely designers’ blogs! Don’t forget to add you project to the inlinkz at the end of the Hop! You will also find the address to mail your cards at the end of the hop. You can Hop throughout the month of October. This way everyone in their own time can hop and join in!

Blog Hop list directory

Anary
Sandy Allnock
Patricia St Martin
Steph Ackerman
Ann Fran
Dana Joy
Anita Autore
Danni Bindel
Lynne Haston
Monica Lowrance
Suzanne J Dean
Linda Payne
Amanda Reed
Nancy Jensen
Cathy Preissing
Vickie Kertz
Holley Barnhart
Karen Gauthier You are here
Samantha Casey
Christine Riley
Melanie
Paper Temptress

I would like to enter the 1st card in the line-up in the following challenges:

Challenge 4 Everybody - #30 Anything Goes

Scribble and Scrap - #2 Always Anything Goes

2 Sisters - #163 Anything Goes

Sweet Stampin' - Things with Wings

Digitally Sweet - #55 Anything Goes

Inspire Me Fridays - #122 Anything Goes