Berry Special

Hi everyone!

Time for a new challenge at the Dream Factory

Our movie for this month is:

Cleaner

This month, we're making it easy for you—or maybe not!? ;))🤔🤔

Well, for some of you, they’re a piece of cake; for others, a real challenge. 

We hope you fall into the first category! LOL 

We're talking about 

Clean & Simple cards

Using an acrylic block, I created a background with blue and green Distress Oxide inks.

I then stamped the ground and the sentiment. Cut out the mouse and strawberries from a picture book (Deco Time) and glued them on. Done!

Dream Factory - Movie Poster

Would be great to see you there... :)

Linked up with:

Inspiration Station - Inspiration Photo

Four Seasons - Anything Summer

Addicted to Stamps and More - Any Occasion (The card is for my auntie's birthday)

Crafts Galore Encore - Anything Goes

The Creative Crafters - Anything Goes

Pammie's Inky Pinkies - Anything Goes

A Place to Start - Anything Goes

I used:

Stamps: Ground (Katzelkraft); sentiment (composition of Stampin'Up and Yixuan stamps); 

Image: Strawberry plant and Mouse from a picture book (Deco Time);

Inks: Onyx Black (Versafine); Salty Ocean and Mowed Lawn (Distress Oxide);

Sardines à l'huile

Hi everyone!

Ready to go for a new challenge at The Little Things ?.......   GREAT!!!

This month's theme is: Anything Goes

Our challenge blog is all about little things—more specifically, little cards.

Such as ATCs,  ATC coins, tags, Memorydex cards, 

Mini Moo cards, bookmarks, inchies, etc.

We hope that the variety of card styles and sizes 

will give you plenty of room to create something that suits your personal taste.

Today, I’m sharing an ATC shaped like a can of sardines in oil. 

I love sardines in oil, and since I’ve seen several ATC's like this on Pinterest over the past few days, I thought, “Why not?”

I started by rounding the corners of a black ATC background, then glued a smaller, offset card onto it, which I colored with Cracked Olive and Speckled Egg (Distress Oxide) inks.  This gives the impression of a can of sardines in oil.

I glued on the stamped and cut-out fish, which I had brushed with Speckled Egg, Salty Ocean, and Chipped Sapphire (Distress Oxide). I cut off their tails and inserted them between the fish heads to form the opposite row.

To make the lid, I stenciled waves using cutouts. I stamped swirls, a fish, and the word “SARDINES.” -- “A L’HUILE” is handwritten.

I then rolled up the lid, just like on a real can of sardines, and glued it on. I’m pretty happy with the result. 

Linked up with:

FarmQuest Grocery - Anything Food or Drink Goes

Paper Rocks Scissors - Anything Goes using Paper and/or Scissors (the fish are cut out with scissors)

A Place to Start - Anything Goes

Tag-along (and ATC's) - Anything Goes

Love to Craft - Anything Goes

Crafter's Cafe - Anything Goes

I used:

Stamps: Fish (Stampin'Up); Swirls and small fish (Pinkpaislee); A L'HUILE (handwritten); SARDINES (Alphabet stamps (AVEC));

Inks: Onyx Black (Versafine); Speckled Egg, Cracked Olive, Salty Ocean, Chipped Sapphire and Fired Brick (Distress Oxide; 

Dies: Waves (AVEC);

Summer Vibes

Hi everyone!

Time for a new challenge at 613 Avenue Create! 

Anything Goes w: optional twist: Craft or Hobby

(create something featuring your favorite pastime)

One of my favorite hobbies is—or rather, was—watercolor painting. I say "was" because ever since I discovered stamping, I’ve taken to making cards instead. But there are moments when I return to my watercolors. 

Today I’m showing you a small painting I did a while back. 

It was exactly the size of a card, so I used it for that purpose. 

I called it "Summer Vibes".

I don't think so, but if I were to add a sentiment, 

I'd do it once I've decided who it's for and what the occasion is.

Hope to see you play along with 613 Avenue Create 

Linked up with:

Allsorts - Anything Goes from the Garden

Four Seasons - Anything Goes Summer

Crafting Happiness - Summer

If You Give a Crafter a Cookie - In the Garden

A Place to Start - Anything Goes

A Perfect Time to Craft - Anything Goes

Ally's Angels - Anything Goes

Crafts Galore Encore - Anything Goes

Love to Craft - Anything Goes

I used:

Watercolors (Winsor & Newton), watercolor paper,

Keep Swimming

Hi everyone!

Unbelievable how fast time flies!! It's the end of May and we're heading into the second half of our Dream Factory challenge.

 

Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken

The playground for this challenge is the 

Underwater world

Ocean, lake, or river—it doesn't matter. 

To create the background for the ATC card, I used blue and green acrylic paint. 

I applied the blue paint to an old credit card and then dragged it horizontally across the paper. After the paint had dried a bit, I repeated the process with the green paint—this time moving it vertically.

I let the paint dry completely—which doesn't take long with acrylics.

Next step was the jellyfish. I stamped it once in white and once, slightly offset, in light pink (using acrylics as well). I also outlined it with a black fineliner, which I didn’t think was that great in hindsight.

Now it was the small fish’s turn. I stamped them first with light gray acrylic paint and colored them with metallic paints after they dried.

I stamped the coral, two seaweeds, starfish, seahorse and turtle separately, colored them, cut them out, and glued them on. 

Finally, I stamped and heat-embossed the sentiment and added a few air bubbles above the fish.

I’m very happy with the result—what do you think?

Thanks for stopping by!

Linked up with:

Little Red Wagon - Create your own Background

We Love Stamping - Anything Goes

Allsorts - Anything Goes

Crafty Catz - Anything Goes

Creative Fingers - Anything Goes

I used:

Stamps: All stamps are (Stampin'Up); ...except for the sentiment (PaperArtsy)

Inks: Onyx Black (Versafine); 

Alcohol ink markers, acrylic paint, white embossing powder, metallic markers, acrylic markers, white Posca pen,

Leonardo da Vinci

Hi everyone!

We're heading into the second half of our challenge at

"The Little Things" 

The theme is: Famous People

The challenge blog focus on small card formats, 

such as ATCs, tags, Memorydex cards, Mini Moo cards, bookmarks etc.

This time I made a bookmark—inspired by Leonardo da Vinci.

First, I stamped Leonardo's portrait and his drawing onto a sheet of lightly stamped scrap paper, 

and then tore them along the outlines. 

Next, I stamped the wings onto gold-colored vellum and the mechanism onto paper, 

colored them, and cut them out. 

  

I lightly enhanced the colors of the illustration and Leonardo's face with Wild Honey (Distress Oxide). 

Glued everything onto the bookmark, a scrap of gel print 

onto which I had previously stamped a few numbers and symbols at the top.

As a final touch, I stamped and heat-embossed Leonardo’s name 

and attached a string to the bookmark.

From which famous person would you draw inspiration?

Linked up with:

Craft Rocket - Not Square 

Tag-along (and ATC's) - Anything Goes

Allsorts - Anything Goes

A Place to Start - Anything Goes

Crafty Catz - Anything Goes

Creative Fingers - Anything Goes

I used:

Stamps: All stamps are (Katzelkraft), except for the background stamp at the very top of the bookmark, which is from (Studio Light (Essentials by Marlene));

Inks: Onyx Black (Versafine); Wild Honey and Mermaid Lagoon (Distress Oxide); 

String from a package, leftover piece of gel prints, scrap paper, vellum,

who's a dishy fishy ?

Hi everyone!

Time for a new challenge at the Dream Factory

Our movie for this month is:

Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken

Our playground for this challenge is the 

Underwater world

Ocean, lake, or river—it doesn't matter.

Today, I really went all out with the colors. 

I must say, those fun stamps from Art by Marlene are just begging for it!!

I colored the two large fish, the crab, the trident, and the seashell with AM markers and cut them out.

The jellyfish, seaweed, and tiny fish were stamped directly onto the background. I intentionally didn’t color them too heavily so that they would remain clearly in the background.

Next, I added a narrow strip of washi tape to the bottom and finished the scene by gluing the elements in place. I heat-embossed the sentiment before sticking it on.

Dream Factory - Movie Poster

Would be great to see you there... :)

Linked up with:

Stamping Sensations - Cute Creatures

We Love Stamping - All Creatures Great and Small

Creative Knockouts - For the Kids

Cardz 4 Galz - Circles

A Place to Start - Anything Goes

Crafts Galore Encore - Anything Goes

Love To Craft - Anything Goes

I used:

Stamps: Colorful fish, shell and trident (Studio Light (Art by Marlene)); sentiment (Paper Artzy); Jellyfish and seaweed (Craft Sensations); tiny fish (Stampin'Up);

Inks: Onyx Black (Versafine);

Alcohol ink markers, Aqua markers, washi tape,