Friday Lift and Tuesday Trio on Friday

Hmmm, it looks like I missed a week of blogging... Life is getting busy here, or should I be honest and just say - more chaotic? Let's play a little catch up - I am going to share my Tuesday Trio projects from the last two weeks. 

This week the challenge was to use something raised. I made a layered card with 4 layers of punched around the edges squares. It was my week to write a tutorial so you can see step-by-step photos on the Tuesday Trio blog.

 Supplies: cardstock (American Crafts), patterned paper (Martha Stewart), corner border punch (Fiskars), liquid pearls (Ranger), vintage button, twine, sticker

 

Last week challenge was to use lots of layers. I used one of the digital stamps from out sponsor - Crafty Sentiments Designs. I decided to leave the stamp uncolored and just added some color to the flowers with souffle pens. I used Cosmo Cricket Upcycle papers.

 

Supplies: patterned paper (Cosmo Cricket), sircker (Cosmo Cricket), digitla stamps (Crafty Sentiments), pens (Sakura), buttons (Foof-a-laa), circle punch (Fiskars)

And finally my Friday Lift for this week. I lifter Lisa Dickinson's layout from JBS December gallery. All products here except the letters and the raindots are from an old Jenni Bowlin kit.

 

Supplies: cardstock (unknown), patterned paper (Jenni Bowlin), border punch (Fiskars), big flower and circle punches (Fiskars), small flower punch (EK Success), raindots (Cloud 9), letters (Bella Blvd), paint

My scissors got a good workout. The cherries and the leaves were part of the patterned paper. The flowers are done with Fiskars lever punch and small EK Success flower punch.

I will sign off now because tomorrow I an going to a crop and I still have tons to do before. Can't wait to see my old friends and meet some new friends. It is going to be awesome!

Twisted Sketches #52 and #54

I am working on my last sketch for the Twisted Sketches and I realized that I never posted my last 4 layouts. Here is the layout based on sketch #52. The twist here was "chipboard". I had those Maya Road chipbaord knots for ages. They were perfect for this Irish themed layout. I sprayed them with blue and green paint to match the colors of the pictures and the papers.

Supplies: cardstock (unknown), patterned paper (Rusty Pickle), chipboard (Maya Road), jewels (Zva Creative), stamp (Scrappy Cat), flower (Petaloo), brad (K&Company), letter stickers (Scenic Route), blue pen (Sakura), paint (Honig, Plaid)

This layout is based on sketch #54 with the twist "bold". I decided to go with the bold colors.
I punched the flowers from the patterned paper, inked the edges with black ink and covered them with a layer of multi-meduim. As they dried the petals curled up. I made little balls from the pipe cleaners for the centers of 2 flowers - the same pipe cleaners that Eli holds in the picture.

Supplies: patterned paper (Crafting Jewish Style), circle tag (Crafting Jewish Style), flower punch (Fiskars), grungeboard letters (Tim Holtz), chipboard letters (Heidi Swapp), glimmer mist (Tattered Angles), ink (Brilliance), raindots (Cloud 9), glodd multi-medium (Claudine Helmuth), other (pipe cleaners)

2 more layouts to share tomorrow.

Plantable seed flowers

Another project that I did last week but didn't have time to share. This time for the Fiskateers message board. As some of you know (and if you are a fiskateer I certainly hope you do know) I am a co-chair of the Kids Craft Committee. Every month my partner Amy and myself are sharing simple craft project for kids. The theme for our May projects was flowers. I was thinking hard and long (so long that I missed my deadline) what cute project I can do with a flower punch but nothing original and doable came to my mind. One day I stumbled across this tutorial for plantable seeded paper flowers. It was exactly what I was looking for. Instead of rolling the flowers we can punch them out. Much easier for kiddos. So here it is.

1. Punch out flowers from the paper scraps
2. Make a mixture of flour and water and brush the mixture on to the flowers. Sprinkle flower seeds.
3. Let it dry. The flower petals with curl up
4. Punch a hole in the middle of the flowers and use pipe cleaners for stems. Twist the pipe cleaner to secure the flower.

You can see my post on Fiskateers message board here and still join the challenge.

Ah, melts my heart away.