Vintage Pink Paris ATC

Happy Friday! A few days off this week has allowed a bit of time for crafting. A little experimenting on this ATC on the background using a rubber stamp and texture magic from Delta. Texture magic is a dimensional paint that adds texture to any surface (...wonder if drywall compound would also work). It was in the dollar bin at our local store so I just had to try it! A thick layer of this gunky material was added to the ATC background, smoothed out with a craft knife and stamped. (Also wiped the stamp with baby oil so it would release from the texture magic.) A few sprays of Glimmer mist, along with vintage photo and walnut distress inks.

Hope your weekend is amazing!

Made with Hero Arts ...
CG244 Large Fabric Design (ATC background)
K5344 La Letter
CL325 Paris
baby oil
Green apple glimmer mist
vintage photo, walnut distress ink

Its been awhile...

It's been awhile since I have posted. Sometimes life gets in the way of the important things like stamping! Glad to be back, enjoying all the creativity out there.
Super quick card made with Hero Arts ...
S5435 grid background
CL434 Just find me
cl431 watercolor petals

Stamped with Tim Holtz distress inks.

Thanks so much for stopping in!

Speckled Bloom Card - PDCC#94

Made for the Playdate Cafe Colour Challenge #94 which incorporates Fudge, Goldenrod and Teal. It was fun playing with this colour combo, teal is such a beautiful tone of blue.
This flower is made up of three parts with an added pop dot in the center. Along with a tiny bit of white acrylic paint for some added texture.

Made with Hero Arts...
cl401 speckled ornaments
CL434 Just find me
H5481 classic bloom
white paint
tim holtz distress vintage photo, tumbled glass, scattered straw, wild honey

Thank you soooo much for stopping by! :)

Summer's Garden Card

Happy Friday! Been playing around with this big flower called Classic Bloom & a little masking to give the flowers a layered look. This flower is great for creating Summery cards, I can also see making some flowery designs in Fall colours too!
Made for the Hero Arts project challenge at 2P's Thanks for stopping by today, hope your weekend is full of BBQ's and Sunshine!

Made with Hero Arts
H5481 classic bloom
cl444 sending smiles
e3374 summer memories
s5507 envie pattern
Tim Holt Distress Inks
White embossing powder
versamark clear ink
Kraft cardstock
plain white ribbon

Butterfly Flowers

Needing a little card therapy after a busy day! Quick and simple design coloured with Prismacolour pencils. Loved inking up this butterfly flowers stamp, it reminds me of a wonderful mix of flowers in the garden.

Thanks for stopping by!

Made with Hero Arts
H5489 Butterfly flower
CL434 Just find me
Martha Stewart Butterflies
Prismacolor Pencils

Christmas in July - Completed 90 minute scramble

The 90 minute scramble took place on Sunday and I had so much fun hosting. (The card above is one of the sample cards made for the scramble.) A few Gals even had time to make two cards, in the 90 minute time frame! Really hope I have another chance to host again in the future, it was tons of fun :)
Check out all the amazing creations here from the talented ladies on the Hero Arts flickr group!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

The next 90 minute scramble on Sunday!

I am very excited to be hosting the next 90 minute scramble on the Hero Arts Flickr group!
Here are the details...
Date: Sunday July 24th
Start time: 11am Pacific/1pm Central/2pm Eastern in US
Please see all the details here

If this is the first you've heard of the scramble here are some more details :) First you will need to have a flickr account so you can post your creation.
I will post a new thread on the Hero Arts Flickr Group announcing the start of the challenge.
Basically you will have 90 minutes to create a card based on a theme to be announced at the start of the challenge. You must use at least one Hero Arts stamp on your card and have fun! :)

Hero Arts has generously donated a digital kit prize and I will also be offering a prize (shown above). Both giveaways will be by random drawing at the end of the scramble.

If you're new to posting I can help. Just email me through flickr :)

Everyone is welcome to join, hope to see you there :)


I made the card above at the last scramble hosted by Dana!

Summery Flower

It's been a while since I have posted. Yep a little break was in order to restore my craftyness! Just a little card to celebrate the beautiful Summer weather and gardening.

Hope you are doing well and enjoying great weather :)

Thanks for Stopping By!
Made with Hero Arts ...
CL218 Love That
CL444 Sending Smiles
CL375 Big flower Pattern
Sew Easy Tool (for the stem)
Sew Easy floss
Copic y21 y17 bg10 bg15 bd23 yroo yr02 yr04
Sizzix embossing folder

Lisa's Photo tutorial part two

Been playing around with ISO, aperture, and shutter speeds for the second part of Lisa's photo tutorial. Knowing how to make adjustments to the camera settings really helps!
These sweet tea cups are available at Creature Comforts, they were so much fun to water color!
Thanks for stopping by, have a great day! :)

ATC and a card

Just a quick post tonight of an ATC made earlier in the week and a card recently sent to a friend.

I love making ATC (Artist Trading Cards) which are old, worn, stained & vintage paired with something that sparkles or a bit of texture.

ATC is made with ....
Hero Arts K5329 Lace Frame
LP195 silhouettes
cg244 large fabric design
k5354 French post.
crackle accents
MS butterflies
craft feathers

The card below was sent to Great in Oregon which was just received by her this week. Still love using this dogwood stamp I think it's one of my favorites!
Made with ...
s5363 HA Dogwood
CL156 Clear design Treasure
Forest moss Tim Holtz distress ink
Victorian Velvet Tim Holtz distress ink
Tim Holtz Heirloom Gold shimmer spray

Have a great evening, thanks for stopping by!

Lisa's card photo turorial - part1

Taking photos of cards is not an easy task. There is nothing more frustrating that having a nice big shadow on the face of your card. Most of my pictures are taken at night after work and to add to the darkness is the lighting in the house. There have been many evenings where I have tried to balance a lamp basically on my head while trying to take a photo. Sounds funny I know.... it's true! I now have a light box that works really good and cuts down on the frustrating moments but it would be really nice to take a quick and easy photo with natural light and let the camera do all the work!
Lisa's is providing a tutorial over on her blog . The first part which is filled with great tips is on white balance. These photos were taken at about 8pm and we have basically had no sunlight and a lot of rain this week. Really shocked on how slight adjustments to the cameras settings make a big difference.

Check out Lisa's tutorial, she provides a card to download and detailed information on white balance.

The white balance selections are per programed so I changed the auto white balance on the camera to Incandescent. Also I found a scene selection which allows you to choose the scene such as food, beach snow, fireworks and high sensivity. I changed the scene to the High Sensivity selection and it's to shoot without flash in low light

Spare Bedroom South facing window

Master Bedroom north facing window

Thanks so much for stopping by, have a great evening! :)

Lucky number 13!

Its been one lucky Friday the 13th. I had misplaced my gold necklace Christmas Eve and gave up searching for it months ago. Came home for lunch and found it sitting in an old pyrex bowl ........so happy :) My Italian grandmother would say the number 13 is a good luck number in Italy, I now believe her!

Here are a few vintage ATC I have been working on. I love this Hero Arts dogwood stamp, it has a beautiful old world charm.
This little set of three is embellished with micro glass beads, stamped in Victorian velvet,vintage photo and sage distress inks. Victorian velvet is a really neat ink, when its first stamped its more of a bold colour and as it dries it has a real soft look to it. This may be my new favorite distress ink! The combination of sage & vintage photo seem to give an old patina look which is great when creating vintage. Also created a little ATC pocket to hold and display these cards!

Made with a mix of Hero Arts stamps & sprayed with Ranger perfect pearls Heirloom Gold mist.
Dogwood Flower - s5363 Dogwood stamp, cg197 old letter & cl156 treasure the moment.
Vintage Bird - S5501 Musical Collage, CL555 Sending Smiles.
Memories -- CL1156 Treasure the moment, K5376 Hydrangea, CG190 Variety and Quality