Heart Journal - week 15

Can you believe I couldn't remember it is Thursday?  Yea, I messed up and forgot my Heart Journal.  This week is "Stickin' To It".  Hmmm, well, what to do?  I decided to do another Twilight inspired page.  I wanted a vintage feel with some wedding type momentos. 
The base is painted in Toffee, then a layer of Eggshell Creme with some Elmer's white glue mixed in.  I was hoping it would crack more, but still got a bit of a weathered look, so it's okay.  I sanded the edges, then stamped some flourishes in Timber Staz-On, adding some pearls to the design.  The characters, TGF's Wild Sprouts Edward and Camille, are also stamped in Timber on Very Vanilla, then colored in pencils.  I used the ticket corner punch and mounted on Chocolate Chip.  I used some Tim Holtz brand itmes - mini paper clip, sentiment tag, jounalling tags, tiny attacher, film strip ribbon, tissue tape, and date stickers, throughout the design.  The journalling tags have Bella & Edward's initials stamped from Studio g dollar acryllic stamps from Michael's.  Thanks for looking!  April

Meet Matilda!

Today is TGF's November release day!  Meet Wild Sprout Matilda...one of four new rubber stamps from The Greeting Farm!
The card design is inspired by Deconstructed Sketch #23 (I know, it's late, but better late than never!).  The base is Whisper White with layers of Brilliant Blue and Pawsitively Prints DSP.  Matilda is colored with copics and the corners notched with a ticket corner punch.  I used the scallop border punch from EK Success and Stampin' Up.  I added a couple of pearls to the top left.  The sentiment was printed on cardstock in Comic Sans font, punched with the word window punch, and mounted on a wide oval and decorative label punches.  I used some white twine to make the little bow before mounting with dimensionals. 
Be sure to check out the rest of the TGF Farm Fresh DT creations and head to the TGF Splendid Stamping blog to see the all the new November release!  Thanks for looking!  April

Monday Funday #5 - Halloween challenge

Happy Halloween!  It's another Monday Funday at TGF's Farm Fresh Challenge blog and we are, of course, celebrating Halloween!  Are you a creeper or too cute to spook? 
The base of this card is Old Olive with layers of sparkling spider web by Reminisce and Basic Black.  The grave yard is made by tearing brown cardstock to look like rough dirt.  The tombstones are curved by sliding a piece of cardstock into a curved punch to round the top.  The other stone is a cuttlebug die and emboss set.  The moon is punched with a circle in Very Vanilla, then embossed with Swiss Dots.  The clouds are torn vellum.  The gate is punched with Martha Stewarts spooky fence.  The sidewalk is drawn in with a gel pen.  The image is TGF's Hallo Bride digi colored with copic markers.  I also printed it in vellum, coloring some highlights on the back of the vellum, before tearing around the image to give it a ghostly glow.  The sentiment is printed using Twilight font, punched with a wide oval, and mounted on the decorative label punch.  I added a decorative staples on the corners.
Head on over to the FFC blog and play along!  Thanks for looking!  April

Friday Spyday with AbbyGrimaldi!

Happy Friday Spy-day!  Today's challenge features a card by Abby Grimaldi.  I am a super fan of the Oliver & Amelia line, so I pulled out my "Just for You" set and chose Oliver.  (She features the Amelia stamp.) 

abby's card

The base is Kraft with layers of Pumpkin Pie and Very Vanilla.  I hand stamped the background papers using Stampin' Up's Eat Chocolate set in Timber Brown Staz-On.  The base layer is wrapped in Early Espresso baker's twine then adhered to the card.  Oliver is colored in copic markers then cut out using the nestabilities die.  To make it narrower, I moved the image to the side, than ran it thorugh twice, then popped up on dimensionals.  The sentiment was stamped on a scrap piece of VV, then again on Whisper White.  The white one I cut and mounted on dimensionals to make the candy bar pop.  The layer behind the sentiment is cut using a lacy scalloped circle from nestabilities, the popped up on dimensionals.  Hop on over to the Farm Fresh Challenge blog and play along!  Thanks for looking!  April

Heart Journal - week 14

This week's Heart Journal is "Two-Toned."  Yea, not terribly inspired for this one...until...I was coloring some of my Wild Sprouts!  The Greeting Farm has the super cute, cheeky little guys and gals and some of them are Twilight inspired.  Of course, with the newest installment ready to head to the theaters, I couldn't resist!  These two are Summer and Paul and have been colored in copic markers.  Don't they make a cute Jessica Stanley and Michael Newton?  The base is watered down Sunny Yellow acryllic paint that has been spritzed with Gold Glow and Sea Breeze Blue Smooch Spritz.  The lettering is Cricut's Base Camp for the "Forks High".  The quotes for each character come directly for a copy of Twilight and I tried to give them signatures that seem like the character.  Thanks for looking!  April