Wicked Wednesday and it's Time for Tea

That's right!  It's Wicked Wednesday and time for another challenge at Wicked Wednesday ATC Blog Challenges!  This week our sponsor is Time for Tea.  I absolutely love this little Hula Girl, she's about as cute as they come!  Here's my ATC:

Here's a little video to show her "dancing!"

Here's what I used to create this project:

Time for Tea Hula Girl

Neenah Classic Crest

Bazzill Cardstock

Copic Markers

Artist's Loft Watercolors

Action Wobble

Zip Dry

Here's how I created this project:

Print off image and color with markers, cut out

Watercolor background piece with a beach scene

Adhere background to Bazzill

Attach Hula Girl to ATC

That's it for me today!  I hope you like her and will play along with our weekly challenge!  Thanks for stopping by!

Hugs,

Lea

ICE, ICE, BABY!

So, is the song running through your head?  You know the one!  It runs through mine every time I create a project using ICE Resin®.  It drives me nuts!


We're so glad you could join us this weekend for the Stampendous® Stamps, ICE Resin® and Imagine Crafts®/Tsukineko® Blog Hop! We've seen some amazing projects so far, and there is a lot more to come today! If you missed Thursday's post you can find it HERE, Friday's post is HERE, Saturday's post is HERE.   I've created a couple of projects for you.  Here's my first project I've created:

This project uses the medium scrolled heart from RUE ROMANTIQUE!  It's designed to use it as a pendant, however, I've added ribbon that was included with the bezel and added a pin back to it to wear it as a pin.  I love the vintage feel of it.

Here's what I used to create this project:

ICE Resin®
ICE Resin® RUE ROMANTIQUE❤️ Medium Scrolled Heart Bezel
Stampendous® Stamps Vintage Ladies Perfectly Clear Stamps™ Set (Rose)
Stampendous® Stamps Royal Heart Quotes Perfectly Clear Stamps™ Set (Love)
Stampendous® Stamps Fran•táge™Red Crushed Glass Glitter
Imagine Crafts® / Tsukineko® Memento™ Tuxedo Black
Imagine Crafts® / Tsukineko® StazOn™ Jet Black
Copic® Markers - R33, 35, 37, YG93, 95
Neenah® Classic Crest™ Natural White
Beacon Adhesive® Fast Finish™

I also created this this fun keychain (which could easily be transformed into a fun pendant)!  I recently did a canvas and used the larger version of the paintbrush stamp and dripping paint.  I decided to use the smaller version in this heart bezel and drip even more paint.  I love how the paint pooled into the bottom of the heart!  I scattered the fragments around to add more color and stuck to using primary colors.

Here's what I used to create this project:

ICE Resin®
ICE Resin® Mixed Metal Hobnail Heart Bezel, Antique Linen
Stampendous® Stamps Charmed Art Perfect Clear Stamps™ Set
Stampendous® Stamps Royal Heart Quotes Perfectly Clear Stamps™ Set
Stampendous® Stamps Fran•táge™ Color Fragments in Purple
Stampendous® Stamps Fran•táge™ Color Fragments in Canary
Stampendous® Stamps Fran•táge™ Color Fragments in Leaf Green
Stampendous® Stamps Fran•táge™ Color Fragments in Scarlet
Stampendous® Stamps Fran•táge™ Color Fragments in Marine Blue
Imagine Crafts® / Tsukineko® Memento™ Tuxedo Black
Imagine Crafts® / Tsukineko® StazOn™ Jet Black
DecoArt® Paint
Copic® Markers in E23, 25; R35; C0, 1
Neenah® Classic Crest™ Solar White
Beacon Adhesive® Fast Finish™

We know you are going to love making your own jewelry, and to make that easy we're offering a nice prize package this week!  Three lucky winners will receive a package with:

• 2 - Stampendous Perfectly Clear Stamp™ sets with designs sized for jewelry or small project making

• 2 - StazOn™ permanent ink pads by Tsukineko® courtesy of Imagine Crafts® - yummy Ganache and the must-have Jet Black

• 1 - 30ml package of ICE Resin Jeweler's Grade Self-Doming resin

• 1 - pkg Suzan Lenart Kazmer Art Mechanique Silhouettes in Heart Shape

• 1 - pkg Kristen Robinson Rue Romatique bezel(s) (styles vary). WOW!! You'll be crafting some awesome jewelry in no time!

How to Hop:

Each day we'll post the designers participating in the Blog Hop. Click on each one and check out their project. Leave a comment on their blog that lets them know you really looked at their project. We 'll draw three blogs at random from the four days, then randomly draw one commenter from each blog. You must have a U.S. mailing address to win, but we'd love for everyone to hop and comment! You can check out the Official Rules for all our contests if you have questions. We'll draw winners on Monday, May 5 and announce them Monday or Tuesday, so be sure to come back and check for your name!

So let's get hoppin! Here's who is posting today:

Stampendous

Lea Kimmel (me)

Kristine Reynolds

ICE Resin

Candy Rosenberg

Carol La Valley

Imagine Crafts

Naghma Husain

Baerbel Born

That's it for me today!  I hope you've enjoyed our hop and have commented along the way so you can win!  Thanks for stopping by and I'll see you again soon! 

Hugs,
Lea


***Blog Hop Hint - if you click on a link that takes you to a page saying something like, "Sorry this page cannot be found," just click on the header at the top of the blog (usually a picture, or the blog's name), and it will take you to that blog's most recent post. That post *should* be our hop. If not, you can probably scroll down a short way to find the hop post.

People Are Strange!

It's Desert Islands Crafters Challenge time again and we have such a fun itinerary for you!  Our image sponsor is The Stamping Boutique and here's the itinerary:

1.  Go Goth/Emo

2.  Black & White & One Other Color

3.  Use chipboard OR corrugated cardboard

4. Add text

5. Based on a song

6. Include an animal

7. Crowns or tiaras

8. Dry embossing

9. Use a stencil

10. Something funny/humor

Here's my card using Emo Alice and #'s 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9 and 10!

Now this was a fun card to create!  I typed up the lyrics for The Doors "People Are Strange" as my background and just repeated it to cover the amount of space needed.

Here's what I used to create this card:

The Stamping Boutique® - Emo Alice

Dreamweaver Stencils© Stencil LJ801 Splats

Bazzill® Cardstock

Neenah® Classic Crest™ Solar White

Scrap of Cardboard

Copic® Markers and Airbrush System

May Arts Ribbon® Puffy Bats

DecoArt® Gesso

Tim Holtz® idea-ology™ adornments

Beacon Adhesive® Zip Dry™

Foam Mounting Squares

Here's what I did to create this card:

Print out digital image and color with markers, trim with scissors

Adhere crown adornment to skull  

Type lyrics to song and print

Create card base with a tent fold

Trim and adhere lyrics to card base

Airbrush a few "Splats" over lyrics with red marker

Trim and gesso cardboard piece, use heat gun to speed drying process

Airbrush "Bite Me" with marker

Adhere cardboard piece to card base

Adhere bats

Using foam squares, attach Emo Alice

Doesn't it look like she's just spray-painted "Bite Me" on the side of a building.  She has that look on her face like "look what I just did!"  That's it for today!  I do hope you'll play along with our challenge, this will be a fun one!  Thanks for stopping by today!

Hugs,

Lea

It's a Jungle Out There!

The Dreamweaver Stencils© challenge for the month of May is "Flora and Fauna!"  For my take on this fun challenge I've used LG 756 Open Elephant and three of the new dies, DD003 Leafy Branch, DD002 Monstera Leaf and DM2001 Petite Fern.  It was fun putting this one together!

Here's what I used to create this card:

Dreamweaver Stencils© Open Elephant

Dreamweaver Stencils© Die Leafy Branch

Dreamweaver Stencils© Die Monstera Leaf

Dreamweaver Stencils© Die Petite Fern

Dreamweaver Stencils© White Embossing Paste

Dreamweaver Stencils© Jackson Acrylic Paint - Payne's Gray

Sentiment - Pure Innocence™ Stamp Set

Martha Stewart® Grass Edge Punch

Bazzill® Cardstock

Neenah® Classic Crest™

Tim Holtz® Distress Ink™ - Antique Linen

Memento™ Tuxedo Black

Here how I created this card:

Tint a small amount of white embossing paste with gray paint

Tape down stencil and paste emboss, remove stencil and set aside to dry

While pasted piece is drying, create card base with a tent fold

Die cut all three dies with a few different green papers

Trim patterned paper for background

Punch grass edge and stamp sentiment

Trim pasted piece to desired size and ink with distress ink

Adhere all papers and die cuts as shown

This was such an easy card to create and I love how it turned out!  I hope you like it, too!  Here's the links for the rest of the team posting today.  We have some new members to the Dream Team so be sure to welcome them and leave them some love!

Dreamweaver Stencils

Lea Kimmel (me!)

Laura Drahozal

Louise Healy

Lynn Mercurio

Pam Hornschu

Jamie Martin

Thanks for stopping by today.  I do hope you'll come again soon!  Have a wonderful day!

Hugs,

Lea

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Wicked Wednesday Meets Taurus

Hey there!  Wicked Wednesday ATC Challenge time again!  This week our sponsor is Delicious Doodles and we're celebrating the Zodiac sign of Taurus.  Here's my ATC:

I just felt like she needed a little humor to go with those horns!  Heehee!  I thought she looked a little sassy!

Here's what I used to create this project:

Delicious Doodles Taurus

Copic Markers - E21, 23, 25, 27, 29, 30, 31, 33, 50, 51, 53, 93; R32, 35, 37, 39; RV42; C0,3; B14

Neenah Classic Crest Solar White Cover Stock

Bazzill Cardstock - Red

Sentiment - Created on laptop and printed

Beacon Adhesive Zip Dry

Here's what I did to create this project:

Print image and sentiment on cover stock

Color image with markers

Cut out image and sentiment

Trim Bazzill for background

Adhere image to cardstock

Adhere sentiment to image

This was an easy one but lots of fun!  I hope you'll play along with us here!  Thanks for stopping by and I hope to see you again soon!  Have a blessed day!

Hugs,

Lea

Get Hoppin' with Stampendous and Dreamweaver!

Wow!  What a "Dream-Pendous" week it has been!  Are you ready to hop with Dreamweaver Stencils and Stampendous Stamps?  Before you do, don't forget that there are three prize packages available but you must comment to be eligible to win. Each will have a great selection of Dreamweaver Stencils and Stampendous images and dies...one of which is the new "Blossom Beauty" face image as shown on the badge.  So on with the show!  

My project today is another canvas.  I had this idea in my head and, well, if you saw my post yesterday, you know what that's like!  I had to get it out!!  I recently saw a canvas that was done with joint compound.  I liked the look but didn't have any joint compound laying around, however, I did have embossing paste!  So, an idea was born.  My project, even with embossing paste in place of joint compound, is nothing like the canvas I saw originally.  It was a beautiful canvas but mine is more of a mixed media project.  Guess you could say it's a little more "artsy!"  I look forward to hearing what you think!

For some very odd reason, the bottom of my canvas photo keeps pulling into Blogger much darker than it actually is.  The bottom shading is actually like the top of the canvas.  I've never had this happen before so I'm not sure how to fix it.  One of the things I really love about this project is how the text from the Dream Text stamp still shows through the embossing paste.

Here's what I used to create this project:

Stampendous® Cling Blossom Beauty
Stampendous® Cling Lovely Garden
Stampendous® Regal Bird Quotes PC™S
Stampendous® Angel Wings Quotes PC™S
Stampendous® Royal Heart Quotes PC™S
Stampendous® Charmed Art PC™S
Stampendous® Artist Elements
Stampendous® Cling Jumbo Dress Form
Stampendous® Dream Text
Dreamweaver Stencils© White Embossing Paste
Liquitex® Ultra Matte Gel Medium
Ranger® Archival Ink™ - Jet Black
Tim Holtz® Distress Ink™ - Pumice Stone
Dixie® Deli Paper
Neenah® Classic Crest™
Artist's Loft™ Watercolors
DecoArt® Paints 

Artist's Loft™ Necessities™ 8 x 10 Canvas Board

Here's what I did to create this project:

Stamp Dream Text stamp over entire surface of canvas board
Cover surface of canvas with embossing paste and allow to dry
Stamp all images on deli paper and tear out close to edge of image
Use watercolors to color butterfly and eyes and lips on face
Apply images with gel medium
Add enough embossing paste around edge of images to blend into background
Brush on distress ink randomly around canvas
Stamp words on cardstock pieces and trim
Stipple distress ink on words
Apply words to canvas with gel medium

Squirt paint on ends of brushes, tilt up and allow paint to run down canvas

That's it for this one, I do hope you like it!  I had a good deal of fun putting this one together with the various images and words.  Enjoy the rest of the hop and I hope to see you back here soon!  Here's the complete hop list:

Stampendous Blog

Dream It Up! 

Rhea Weigand 

Jamie Martin 

Lynn Mercurio

Wendy Price

Alison Heikkila

Laura Drahozal

Lyn Bernatovich

Kristi Parker Van Doren

Terrece Siddoway

Kristine Fossmeyer 

Louise Healy

Cyndi Bundy

Leadonna Kimmel (me)

Kristine Reynolds 

Pam Hornschu

Jennifer Dove

Suzanne Czosek 

Asia King
Tenia Nelson 

Thanks again for stopping by!  Don't forget to comment if you want to be eligible to win a prize package.  Have a blessed day!

Hugs,

Lea

Geared Up For Fun!

Stampendous Stamps and Dreamweaver Stencils are at it again with another fun Dream-Pendous blog collaboration!  The Stampendous team and the Dreamweaver team are collaborating once again with all the fun toys in both team's arsenal. Of course, as usual, there will be great prizes available for those who comment throughout this week. In fact there will be three prize packages available to win. Each will have a great selection of Dreamweaver Stencils and Stampendous images and dies...one being the new "Blossom Beauty" face image as shown on the badge above.  Here is my creation for today:

Lately I've been on a canvas board kick, I can't seem to get enough of them!  I decided to create a canvas and use something a little different.  Sometimes when I'm in my craft dungeon or even doing something as simple as walking around Target, my gears start turning in my head and I can't wait to get home and get busy creating.  I feel like my head is going to explode if I don't get the ideas out!  So this canvas represents how I feel at those moments!  

Here's what I used to create this project:

Stampendous Cling Blossom Beauty
Stampendous Discover Today Perfectly Clear Stamps
Stampendous Live Creatively
Dreamweaver Stencil LJ 911 Gears
Dreamweaver Stencils Pearlescent Embossing Paste
Dreamweaver Stencils Metallic F/X - Amber Glow
Memento Desert Sand
Neenah Classic Crest Solar White
8x10 Canvas Board
Copic Marker V15 and 0 Colorless Blender
Spectrum Noir Markers: FS1, 2, 4, 9; CR 1, 2; PP3; TN4, 5, 7; DG2, 4; CG2; BG9; EB6
Ranger Archival Ink Jet Black
Solid Oak, Inc. Steampunk Gears
Liquitex Ultra Matte Gel

Foam Mounting Squares
Deli Paper

Here's how I created this project:

Stamp image on white cardstock, color with markers and cut out
Color canvas board, spritz with colorless blender
Mix paste with Metallic F/X and paste emboss gears onto canvas
With matte gel, apply gears and adhere head pieces
Stamp sentiments from Discover Today on deli paper, tear out and adhere with gel
Stamp Live Creatively sentiment on white cs, color, spritz with blender and adhere gears with gel
Adhere sentiment with foam squares in upper left corner of canvas

Please visit the team's players for today, and leave comments as you go!

Stampendous Blog

Dream It Up! 

Rhea Weigand 

Laura Drahozal 

Janelle Stollfus

Louise Healy

Leadonna Kimmel

Pam Hornschu

Cyndi Bundy
Asia King
Suzanne Czosek

Remember, if you don't comment, you can't win!  You know you want to win because the prize packs are AWESOME!  That's it from me today.  Be sure to come back tomorrow for the big blog hop!  Woohoo!  It's going to be great!  Have a blessed day!

Hugs,

Lea