Alphabet Mixed Media

Hello, my friends! Today I want to share with you an Alphabet Mixed Media project. There is a challenge in a Facebook group I'm in where you take either the first initial of your first or last name. I chose to do the initial of my last name. I don't know if you can tell that it started out as an E, however! But, nonetheless, here it is! I had a lot of fun doing it. I LOVE mixed media art. It's my favorite thing to do, but I've not done too much of it lately. It felt good to get back into it. 

So of course, I started out with a chipboard letter. I painted it with Gesso to prepare the surface. I then painted it with DecoArt metallic paint called Peacock Pearl. If you look very closely, you'll see that there's a peacock among the flowers (purchased from Wild Orchard Craft). I put a lace trim around the center of the letter I got from Cindy's laces. You can't see too much of it there, but it really helped to fill in the gaps. I had a butterfly applique I got from Kimberly of KPKre8ations, so to make it pop out on my project, I watered down the same color of acrylic paint and soaked her in it, and then dried her. The other butterflies, silverware, and little round embellishments (don't you like my terminology?) came from Reneabouquets where I had won a contest she had. I LOVE all these ladies and the wonderful products they sell/make. 

I hope you enjoyed my project!

Blessings, Jeanie Ellis - Scrapbookingmamaw

I am entering this project into the following challenges (It's been a while since I've entered challenges):

A Beautiful Mess - Anything Goes

Creative Fingers Challenges - Anything Goes

Creative Corner Challenges - Shabby 

Creative Artiste Mixed Media - Anything Goes

Mixed Media Monthly - #23 Dimensions

The Scrapoholic Candy Shop

Hello, crafty peeps! Jeanie, DT here, to share with you another project from the candy shop! For today, I used the Selfie digital stamp; it was something different. Here it is:

I started with a black pearl glossy paper from Paper Temptress for the base of the card. I used my Prismacolors for the camera, added some gemstone balloons, pearl embellishments, and rhinestone ribbon on the side of the card. The sentiments are also a part of the digital stamp, so it's a 2-in-1 stamp! 

Please come share with us your projects! We can't wait to see!

Blessings, Jeanie Ellis, DT

Crafty Gals Corner

This week the challenge is Pop of COLOR! So fun!!

Use neutral tones plus a pop of color

Our sponsors this week are:

Rick St. Dennis

Prize: 2 Digital Images

"Rick St,dennis MFA has been an artist, designer, stage designer and instructor for over 45 years, you can find his full Bio here. His digital stamp images can be found on Zibbet or Etsy . Inspiration projects from the Rick St.dennis Elite

 Design Team can be found on the Sparkle and Glitter blog, or for the darker images on the Airless Chambers blog.

Rick also has a personal blog  and on Facebook there is the Rick St.dennis Digi fans and friends group, showcase your cards and other projects using RSD images there to be eligible to win prizes."

The Paper Temptress

Prize: $25 Gift Certificate

Today I want to share with you the image I used for my card. Here she is:

First off, I printed my Ascot Hat image by Rick St. Dennis onto the Heavenly White 120# paper and colored her in with the Prismacolor pencils. I then mounted her onto the Dark Red Basis paper and then on the Black Basis Paper.  I then mounted the mats onto the card foundation using the Silver Lustre paper....GORGEOUS paper and very easy to ink and emboss on! I wanted to keep this pretty simple, so as to focus on the image. So I just cut out 3 flowers on my Big Shotz and layered them, adding a rhinestone in the center of each flower. And then she was done!

I love this image! And the black, red, and white was perfect for her. Thanks for stopping by! Jeanie Ellis, DT

Outlawz Color Challenge!

It's time for another Outlawz Color Challenge! Our sponsor for the month of June is Pickled PotPourri Designs! Yay!!

The prize is $15 gift voucher to spend in store!

Pickled Potpourri Designs (www.PickledPotpourri.com) began in 2013 as an offshoot of Red Rubber Designs (www.RedRubberDesigns.com), a rubber stamp company. But not all images are destined to become  rubber stamps, so Pickled Potpourri was created to offer quality digital papers, printables and stamp designs to inspire and enable everyone to create art!

We feature old favorites from The Angel Company (which closed its doors in August 2011), as well as new, original designs. You'll find a potpourri of images in a wide range of styles to enhance your papercrafting, scrapbooking and other artsy projects at Pickled Potpourri! This week Jacqui would like you to make a monochrome project - you can use any colour it doesn't have to be blue (we just used blue as an example)!

You don't have to go with blue...any color, as long as it monochrome. Here is what I did for this project:

I used the Happy Birthday chicks. Aren't they adorable? I made them all in various colors of blue. I kept it pretty CAS. I even printed the sentiment and the birds on the same sheet of paper, and did my coloring directly on that piece. In turn, I just added layers of blue paper that I had in my stash, added embellishments, a rose I made, and a bird cage. 

I hope you come and join us at the Outlawz Color Challenge this week! We love seeing all the talent out there!

Blessings, Jeanie Ellis - Scrapbookingmamaw

Paper Temptress

Hello, crafty peeps! Today I want to share with you my project for Paper Temptress design team.

 First off, I printed my Ascot Hat image by Rick St. Dennis onto the Heavenly White 120# paper and colored her in with the Prismacolor pencils. I then mounted her onto the Dark Red Basis paper and then on the Black Basis Paper.  I then mounted the mats onto the card foundation using the Silver Lustre paper....GORGEOUS paper and very easy to ink and emboss on! I wanted to keep this pretty simple, so as to focus on the image. So I just cut out 3 flowers on my Big Shotz and layered them, adding a rhinestone in the center of each flower. And then she was done!

Here she is:

I love this image! And the black, red, and white was perfect for her. Thanks for stopping by! Jeanie Ellis, DT

The Scrapoholic Candy Shop Project

Hello, Crafty Peeps!

Today I want to share with you my tag using the "Kite Flying Girl" digital. She is so cute!! 

I love tags, and I love doing them! That's probably one of the reasons I joined a Tag Swapping Group on Facebook....I make so many, I needed to swap some so I can have some made by others! :-)  

I used my Prismacolors on the Cryogen Iridescent White by Paper Temptress. That's my paper of choice when I do my coloring with my pencils. I wasn't really sure how big I was going to make the tag, so I actually started "backwards", layering from the top down. I put her onto the blue cardstock, along with my sentiment. Then I made a red mat about a 1/4" bigger than the blue. I did the same thing with the white, and then ended up with another blue cardstock as the bottom layer, with an extension at the top just so I could fix the tag portion.

I took twine and "framed" the cardstock and added a few bows onto that. I used my crop-a-dile to make a hole at the top and slipped some twine into it and knotted it. I hot glued some rick rack at the top and some red ball ribbon on the bottom. 

I hope you stop by and visit us at our Facebook page, The Scrapoholic Candy Shop! Show us what you've got! 

Blessings, Jeanie Ellis - Scrapbookingmamaw

www.thescrapoholiccandyshop.com

Crafty Gals Challenge!

This week the challenge is Rays of Sunshine!

Use Yellows!

Our sponsor this week is:

MoonFlower Digi's

Prize: $10 Gift Certificate

For project this week, I chose the Ashlee Butterfly Wings. With it being the Rays of Sunshine, Use Yellows, I went almost totally yellow with Ashlee. I wanted to make her stand out, so I also used black. Here she is:

I used my Prismacolors to color her in, then I printed the sentiment on blue paper I had in my stash. I then adhered that mat to a yellow piece of cardstock, and added some white dots, lace and flowers on top of the lace and attached them to the mat. I used a butterfly paper punch from Creative Memories. The butterflies each have a little rhinestone on it's back. I added Glossy Accents in various places on Ashlee to give her  a little bit of a "pop". 

And there you have it! It is one of those CAS cards...Clean And Simple. But yet makes a statement! 

Please be sure to join us! And have a happy crafty day!

Blessings, Jeanie Ellis - Scrapbookingmamaw