Thursday, May 25, 2017

Topflight Stamps…More Father's Day!

Hello, I'm back with another Father's Day card made with stamps from Topflight Stamps. Would you believe that I used the same Joy Crafts stamp set that I used for the Camping card I shared earlier in the month?



It is a different spin isn't it? ;-) I created a background with marbled Distress Paint and then did an image transfer over it using a beef diagram graphic I printed out. Together they set the perfect stage for the BBQ stamp elements and diecut.

Well, I have one more Father's Day card to make and then I'll be set. It's not even June yet! I love being ahead of the game lol. I hope you all have a great rest of the week!

The Topflight Stamps blog is getting off to a good start. Check it out to see designer projects and get store updates. New stamps are coming in all the time. Also, there is a huge sale this weekend on the new and improved website!





https://topflightstamps.com/


Most of the other supplies I used for this card can be found at Sizzix or Simon Says Stamp. Follow the links below and a shopping you may go! Some links are affiliate links and there will be no additional cost to you but they help support my art endeavor. Thanks!



Tuesday, May 23, 2017

Eileen Hull & Kunin Felt Journal

It's the perfect combo! Eileen's dies cut felt beautifully and those flowers and butterflies are fabulous in felt! I used the Mini Album die to make a cute little journal full of happiness:


AND I'm trying to get on the band wagon and figure out the best way to do a video flip through of a journal. I have some room for improvement I think but you get the idea. ;-)



AND here are a few still photos in case the video is a little too zippy. ;-)






BUT WAIT, there's more! I also have a little tutorial to share. All the patterned papers I have used come from Eileen's new Heartfelt Collection Paper Pad.

Step 1 – I adhered the patterned paper to the Sizzix matboard before cutting out the cover. I wanted to use elastic to bind the signatures in, so I punched my own holes into the spine with my Crop-o-dile tool.


Step 2 – I cut the pages out of the Heartfelt paper and made them 4.5 x 9 inches. I scored them down the middle with my scoring board which made it really easy. Some of the pages I embossed. When I was done I mixed and matched them into three piles to form my signatures.

Easy Peasy scoring!

I stitched the signatures together using a pamphlet stitch. Check out this video to see how.

Step 3 – Gather up the parts to assemble the journal. I used dry adhesive sheets to attach the felt cover square to the matboard. TIP! When you are cutting acrylic felt, it helps to use the Precision Base Plate and put a sheet of scrap copy paper underneath the felt. You will get a cleaner cut that way.


I had to double up my elastic in the center to get the ends of the elastic to end up inside the journal.


It's easy to slip the signatures underneath the elastic straps.


Step 4 – Have fun pulling out piles of ephemera and sticking it into your junk journal!

Glorious mess!
Be sure to check out all the Heartfelt projects that the Inspiration Team has been sharing over on Eileen's blog this month. Our collaboration with Kunin Felt has been very fruitful!

The supplies I used for this project can be found at Sizzix or Simon Says Stamp. Follow the links below and a shopping you may go. ;-) Some links are affiliate links and there will be no additional cost to you but they help support my art endeavor. Thanks!
 

Monday, May 22, 2017

AJVD Sneak Peek

Welcome to the second sneak peek of May for the AJVD blog. ;-) I made someone a very fun card for a special day. Head on over to the A Jillian Vance Design blog to see the whole thing!





Have a great week!!

My blog will be a lot busier this week so stay tuned for more art!

Thursday, May 11, 2017

Throwback Thursday! Finding Atlantis Passport Journal

Welcome to a Throwback Thursday project! Today for Eileen Hull's Facebook Live show she shared how to create a Junk Journal using the Passport Book Die. Some of us on the Inspiration Team thought it would be fun to share some of our past projects using the die. This is a project I made last spring and one of my all time favorites. =) It's a long post so I cut out the tutorial. (See here for the original post.)

Also, we've started an Eileen Hull Fan Club Facebook Group! If you'd like to be inspired, share tips and tricks and your projects then it's the place for you! Just request to join and someone will add you right away. Everyone is welcome.


front
The cover is made from embossed brown Paper Leather (two layers glued together) with black Inksheet details (Instructions following. The spine is also Paper Leather covered with copper foil.

back
The inner pages are all cut from white Paper Leather, colored with Tea Dye Distress Ink using the Wrinkle Free Distress technique, and then stamped using various brown and black Ranger Archival Inks. I thought about taking a photo of the enormous pile of stamps I had out for all these inner pages but figured this post was long enough already lol.


The octopus image is made using a die and white Inksheet! The Inksheets act like a resist on your substrate and allow you to use thin dies like stamps! Instructions following…


I also discovered you can use stencils with the Inksheets. On these pages I used the Bare Branches stencil and a gold Inksheet to impress the branches onto the page (plus it acts as a resist!)





I've added bits of "ephemera" into the journal, like the author clipped in letters, sketches, maps and specimens.



Almost done!





The supplies I used for this project can be found at Sizzix or Simon Says Stamp. Follow the links below and a shopping you may go. ;-) Some links are affiliate links and there will be no additional cost to you but they help support my art endeavor. Thanks!