Monday, November 2, 2015

Inspiration Journal – Mission Embossable!

A new month means that a new challenge is upon us! For November, the new Inspiration Journal theme is Mission Embossable! We want to see your projects incorporating embossing whether it is with paste, powder or folders. Just link up your project in the challenge post and you will be in the running to win a prize from Inspiration Emporium. I went a little crazy with embossing folders for my project, a set of nine steampunk ATCs.


My steampunk motto is if one gear is good then two, three, four or five gears must be better! The background cards and chipboard numbers were all dry embossed and then I assembled them with all the chipboard gears. To get the faux rusty look I used DecoArt Media products and followed the technique shared by Andy Skinner in this video. In retrospect, I think I should have added another final coat of Ultra Matte Varnish – they still seem a bit on the shiny side.

Detail 1

Detail 2
Be sure to check out the inspiration from the other design team members in the challenge post. You won't be sorry! We would really love to see your creativity, please share your projects with us.

I am also going to enter this ATC set in two other challenges:

The Mixed Media Monthly Texture Challenge and…

the SanDee&amelie's Steampunk Challenge blog's Winter 'Anything Goes' challenge.

Thanks for stopping by! The supplies I used for this project can be found at Sizzix, Inspiration Emporium or Amazon. Follow the links below and use my code JUICE at Inspiration Emporium to save 10% if you go shopping there. I will also point out that US shipping is always $5 and international shipping is just $10 at IE. ;-)



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Thursday, October 29, 2015

Tim Holtz Tags of 2015 – October

Well, I'm sliding in under the wire again. Nothing like waiting until nearly the last minute. This month Tim featured his dimensional monster dies for the October tag. Appropriately festive for October to be sure. I made my own version featuring a festive… St. Nick?? Ha ha, I didn't have any of the monster dies so I jumped right over to Christmas themes and made do with the layered St. Nick die.


I should have taken an angled shot to show the layering; I curved the beard base shape, popped up the mustache and holly, and also popped up part of the hat. He ended up on the decidedly dimensional side! I also got to try out one of Eileen Hull's new Stitchlits dies down at the bottom of the tag. This particular die will cut patterned holes that you can then "stitch" to create a tactile border. I used wool embroidery floss here and it really adds a homey warmth to my cozy little Santa tag. You will be seeing a lot more to come with this collection! ;-)

Thanks for stopping by! The supplies I used for this project can be found at Sizzix, Inspiration Emporium or Amazon. Follow the links below and use my code JUICE at Inspiration Emporium to save 10% if you go shopping there. I will also point out that US shipping is always $5 and international shipping is just $10 at IE. ;-)


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Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Guest Post at the AJVD Blog

Hello everyone! Today I posted a fall themed thank you card I made over on the A Jillian Vance Design blog. I'm sharing a versatile resist technique for the background so head on over to check out the details. ;-)


Thanks for stopping by and have a great week!
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Thursday, October 22, 2015

BOO! – Halloween Decor

Hello there! I can't believe how quickly October is slipping by. Halloween is next weekend! Now that is scary. At least I got these done in time to enjoy them. I created a trio of little Halloween decor pieces using giant wooden spools (picked up at a rummage sale, score!) for the bases. These were a lot of fun to make! I love "shopping my stash". ;-)


Most of the dies and embellishments are from Tim Holtz with a few things from my local craft store thrown in. The good news is I still have four spools left! You'll be seeing those soon all decked out for Christmas. Now, how about some closeups of each one:



Crackle paint and glitter add lots of texture to this spool.


This one is sewing themed Halloween style. I was happy to find the Witch brand pins card in the Frightful Ephemera pack. I had some wee little skull beads and I glued one on the head of the pin too.


This black cat is covered in Black Soot Crackle Paint which gives it a great texture. A fun trick to alter Letterpress letters is to rub the letters with archival ink and sprinkle them with embossing powder (and emboss it of course!) It gives it an enameled look.

Thanks for stopping by to check out my latest projects! I'm going to be entering these into three challenges:


The Mixed Media Monthly Word Search Challenge. The words I used to inspire my project are Bat, Cat, Skull, Boo and Ghost.



I'm also entering the Anything But Cute "31 Days of Halloween" Challenge. Projects need to include the number 31 of which I have two.

AND, the Frilly and Funkie Something Wicked Challenge. I don't do really wicked projects so hopefully slightly spooky will suffice lol.

Thanks for stopping by! The supplies I used for this project can be found at Sizzix, Inspiration Emporium or Amazon. Follow the links below and use my code JUICE at Inspiration Emporium to save 10% if you go shopping there. I will also point out that US shipping is always $5 and international shipping is just $10 at IE. ;-)



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