Archangel-DT Card for The Corrosive Challenge Blog

Hello my darlings!

I'm glad you've found me here.
Grab a cuppa, and linger for awhile.
Today I'm sharing the DT card I made for the new challenge at, The Corrosive Challenge Blog.
I'm the blog hostess for the challenge this time, so check it out, and leave some love for me there!
As the hostess, I get to choose the theme, so our challenge this fortnight is, "Things With Wings"
Create a project incorporating something "Winged"

We're delighted to be sponsored by
artby Miran

Anime/Manga Illustration and Digi stamps

I chose to work with the beautiful and detailed image, Archangel.
You can find more inspiration on the artby miran fb here, and the artby Miran blog here.

As this is my first time as a blog hostess, I was a little anxious; I wanted to start my card early so I would enjoy creating it.
That worked out well because I had time to play with  some of the mixed media stash I've been hording collecting.
 I usually feel too rushed to dabble with things that take more than two minutes to dry.
I keep seeing these beautiful cards on the interwebs, which have corrugated cardboard integrated into them.  I've been wanting to use the corrugated carboard I've had in my stash for decades. It's vintage. 
I'm sure it's about 20 years ago, that I picked up a few packages. I was going to use it to wrap around pillar candles and add fun things like twine, and pine cones, and do something wonderfully rustic with it.
 That's not happening...but hey,I'm glad I have a new plan for it now!

Once I had this detailed angel colored, and had my cardboard all white washed, and pasted up with gel, and beads, the card just kind of came together, and began to tell a story.
I have so many diecuts that never seem to get used, so I decided to use a ton on this card.
You can't really see it anymore, but I started with dp from this fabulous paper pack, I picked up by Maja Design. 
I've never paid $20 for a 6x6 pack of paper before, but I think it's worth every shekel.
It's just like that beautiful Pion paper that I love to use so much!
I  added cheesecloth, lace, and pearls.
 First I edged the diecuts with pumice stone Distress ink. Then embossed all 14 die cut pieces with Frantage Shabby White.
I love to glue fine diecuts and chipboard onto my cards with Tombo Mono Multi  glue(just in case you were wondering).
I should have used white Gesso to do the white wash on my cardboard piece, but I thought it would be quicker to just use Picket Fence Distress Paint.
 That dried in about a minute. Then I used Liquitex Glass Beads Texture Gel.
I believe I'm starting to understand some mixed media lingo. If it's a gel, it's going to dry clear, if it's a paste, it will dry opaque. 
Does that sound about right?
 I used a heat tool on it, and was happily surprised at how fast the gel dried.
Good to know...I will be experimenting with more of that.
I applied just a touch of Viva Gold here, and there, which really gave my card a vintage feel to it.
The sentiment, "Angels sent from up above, please protect the ones we love!" is from a Kraftin Kimmie stamp.
I believe prayer is a key that can open doors so I of course added a key!
I just started watching Dr. Who,(I know right!!) and I guess I was inspired by the Doctor, because I thought my altered piece of cardboard could be a door to another dimension!
 And I just picked up that awesome, two piece, screw on, door knob(does that even sound a little bit normal,haha)?! Well, you can unscrew the knob if you want to.
I thought I would have hoarded that little, metal trinket for a little longer, but it didn't hurt so badly to use it up because I bought two.
A couple of weeks ago, I broke a very ornate Fabergee egg that was given to me years ago, by a very dear friend who is no longer in my life. The goose egg was covered in these beautiful, gold laden, rhinestone circles. It was one of my favorite "things". 
I saved every one of those rhinestone circles and liberally sprinkled some of them throughout the card. I think there's probably 100 more of them but I have to pry them off of the shattered pieces of shell. 
Whenever something would break, my other
mother in law would always say, "good things come from broken shards". It was some kind of Dutch saying. She had a ton of those clever synonyms.
I'll have to keep this card and display it where I can see it everyday. That way I'll still have a little piece of that wonderful gift, which brings my dear friend to mind.
I still might alter this card and turn it into a canvas.


Thanks for stopping in today!
 You can play along and link up with us at TCCB.
 The random winner will receive 3 art by miran images of your choice.
I'm looking forward to seeing what you've come up with! Be sure to check out the winged things my teamies have come up with.

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:
CardManiaChallenges-Add a little Red

Recipe: 
Skin:E000,E00,E11,E21,R20,E04
Dress: R22,R27, R46, BV23,BV20
Wings: B0000, FBG2,W0, BV23
Skirt/Shawl: E50, E71,BV23
Hair: E33,E35

Capricorn Portrait-DT Card for the Corrosive Challenge Blog

Hello my darlings!

Today I'm sharing the card I made for the new challenge at The Corrosive Challenge Blog.

Our theme this fortnight is Splash of color. Create a white on white project with a splash of color (skin and hair tones are allowed as well)

We're delighted to be sponsored by Sassy Design Studios.

If you're looking for classy,and sassy digis you have found them!

I've used this beautiful image called Capricorn Portrait.

 Isn't she lovely!

When I first received this image to work with, I thought Capricorn Portrait had wings, but at closer inspection I realized she had a mermaid tail.
 Say what?
 A zodiac sign with a mermaid tail?
 A hybrid! Half goat, half mermaid...How did I not know about this? I love Astronomy!

 Knowing that God named the stars, and placed them, (Psalm 147:4) has always made me interested and curious about the sun signs and the similar personality traits of those people all born under the same stars,

 Mankind  is always looking for signs...we just need to look up apparently.

   I of course googled Capricorn and found out that the ancient zodiac maps showed Capricorn as a Sea Goat.
Who knew? I had only seen Capricorn (December 22-January 29) as the modern mountain goat.
I love this artistic version of Capricorn.
My bestie is a Capricorn so she'll probably be the one to enjoy all this white on white with a splash of color card.
I used some white glitter cardstock for matting and a ton of white die cuts, layered with cheesecloth and lace.
The flowers had brown centers but I used gesso to white them out and then applied a little soft gel, and sprinkled clear beads here, and there.
The gold button moon and stars were also swiped with gesso and I couldn't resist adding some micro rhinestones into the grooves of the moon.
The sentiment,
 "What each of us becomes is fashioned from the stardust of our dreams"
is from a SU set called Stardust.
How perfect!

Be sure to link up, and play along with us and you could win 4 sassy images of your choice.
You can check out the sassy blog here, and the sassy fb page here.
You'll find lots of inspiration there, and more from my very talented teamies at TCCB.
And while you're checking out all the inspiration you might consider applying for the design team call we have going on right now.

Thanks for stopping in!

B-U-nique! Hugs!

Recipe:

Skin: V000, V01

Hair: V01, V04,V06,Y11

Tail and horns: BG10,BG45,BG49,BG78

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Sassy Studio Designs Keep it the same

Addicted to Stamps-Lots of layers 

Outlaws-Twisted Thursday 
That Craft Place Ltd-Anything goes 
Scrap and Craft Anything goes 
The Paper Shelter-Lots of Layers 
Simon Says Stamp Anything goes 
Tuesday Throwdown Facets for Crafting 
Craft Your Passion-Anything goes

 

Mermaid In A Jar-DT Card For The Corrosive Challenge Blog

 

Hello my darlings,
 today I'm sharing the card I made for the newest challenge at
 The Corrosive Challenge Blog.

Our theme this fortnight is,
 Winter Blues.

Create a wintry and/or blue project (note: does not have to be monochromatic but blue should be prominent).

Our sponsor for this challenge is A Day For Daisies

 

I've chosen to work with the adorable image, Mermaid In A Jar.

How precious!
 I've wanted to color up this image for a while now.

I love all of Tammy's images. They're all so fun and whimsical!

The background paper I used is vintage SandyLyon from my stash.

It has all this beautiful distressed silver around the edges.

I dyed the net (cheesecloth) with some of my purple and blue ink sprays.

After I colored the sand, I added Crystal Effects and gold beads and glitter, and then adhered some tiny sea shells to it. 

The sentiment, "get well wishes" is from a SU set.
I stamped and added the sentiment to a cut out from another piece of vintage paper that looked 3D. I added 2 glass beads over the 3D printed beads.

I also added some bling and beads to the card.

I did some dry  brushing on the lid of the jar with some Adirondack silver Mixative and a paintbrush.
That mixative is so awesome and I prefer it over a metallic marker. 
I added Stickles Stardust to the mermaid tail.

The bottom border is from a sticker sheet I picked up at the dollar store.

I realized, while making this card that I don't have a lot of blue paraphernalia so I guess I need to stock up on some blue schtuff! 

My local scrapbook store had a 50% sale off store wide for 2 weeks and I was able to stock up on some fun goodies! Funny how nothing blues found it's way into my shopping basket.

I made a visit to the store 3x so I think I'm good now until
 National Scrapbooking Day!

Here's a few pics of my haul.

 I mostly tried to hoard stock up on things I could use for all the Mixed Media projects I have planned. I've been slowly collecting mixed media for the last year or so.

That's how I roll...I like to gather all or as many supplies as I can before I actually start to create my vision projects.
I'm a collector, that's no surprise but I am a little surprised I thought I needed 30 Primary Elements Artist Pigment powders. You mix them with water in a spray bottle and you have beautiful metallic sprays. Or you can mix them with pastes or gels.
Fun, fun, fun!
Haha, we'll see how that all goes!

I'm hoping to do some Finnibair inspired art soon!

I was fortunate to have been able to take two of Anna's classes last Summer!

Are you just as surprised to see January slipping by? For weeks now I've been trying to get my craft room organized and instead of getting it done I just keep adding more supplies to the chaos!

Well tomorrow's another day!

So, lovies be sure to play along with us and link up at TCCB with your Winter,Blues creation and you could win a $12 gift certificate from A Day For Daisies.

Thanks for stopping in!

B-U-nique! Hugs!

Recipe:
Skin:E000,E00,E11,E21,R20
Hair: BG01,BG05,BG0000,FBG2
Jar: B0000,0, C0,C3,C5
Tail: V000,V01,V04,V06, 
Sand: E30,E31,E33,FY1

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:
Card Mania-Make it sparkle 
Emerald Faeries Challenge-All about the bling 

 ETA:

Steampunk Dark Angel-DT Card for The Corrosive Challenge Blog

 Hello my darlings!

Happy New Year!

I hope everyone is having a great 2015!

After 3 weeks of having the flu and feeling ick, I am finally on the mend!

Today I'm sharing the card I made for the new challenge happening at The Corrosive Challenge Blog.

Our theme this fortnight is Shiny and New.
 You can make a card for anything "new" (baby, marriage, etc), use something new, and/or use something shiny.

Or sponsor for this challenge is Aurora Wings.

 I love Mitzi's fantasy art work, and it was my pleasure to work with this awesome image,
"Steampunk Dark Angel".

As you can see I was all about the shiny!!

I used shiny silver paper to make the mirror in the ornate die cut frame.
If you look for it you can see the 5 tiny brass watch parts I incorporated into the wings. 

I also feeling a renewed creative drive
 and hope to make 2015 my most creative, productive year yet so I made this card to reflect some of that.

Be sure to link up your shiny new creation with us and you could win a $15 gift certificate and pick out some lovely Aurora Wing digis for your collection.

I also wanted to share a couple of pictures showing the aftermath of the creative holidayz I just went through.
 

I haven't made any dough art or had a craft show for the last 7 years, but decided I would  make a few dough art ornaments, and have a craft show in my house the last weekend before Christmas. I know! Who does that!?

I had a month to prepare and thought I had lots of time but I ended up  getting a crazy cold and flu/fever the week of my craft show.

There were so many things I still wanted to get done...like make a face book page for my cards and ornaments...that's to come still.
Thanks to my kids, and sister, Anne, and bf,Jan for all the help you gave me! 
 

I have supplies everywhere, and everything just got put somewhere, and everywhere, while I was trying to clean up for Christmas.

Now to get everything organized so I can find what I'm looking for.

Thanks for stopping in!

B-Unique! Hugs!

No where on the floor to walk really

There's a desk top under there somewhere

Recipe:

Skin:E000,E00,E21,E11,R20

Hair: BG49,BG72

Wings:Y35,Y38,E15

Boots/Gloves:C3,C5,C7,100,R27

Dress:R81,R83,R85,RV69

Angelique Snowflake-DT card for The Corrosive Challenge Blog

Hi lovies!

 Today I'm sharing the card I made for the new challenge at The Corrosive Challenge Blog.

Our theme this fortnight is Happy Everything!

Our sponsor is Delicious Doodles.

  

I love working with Teri's images and I think her art is so awesome!
 I'm so sad that she'll be closing down her shop on December 31st of this year.

I've already got quite a list going of all the delicious images I still want to add to my digi collection!
Get yours before it's too late!
I've chosen to work with Angelique Snowflake.
I used the new Bo Bunny Altitude Collection  6x6 papers. These papers are so beautiful! I think I'm going to pick them up in the 12x12 as well.
I used a couple of the Tim Holtz die cuts to add some dimension and interest.
The sentiment,"Baby it's cold outside!" is from a discontinued Stampalicious stamp set.
I sprayed the Prima flower with Primary Elements in Orchid,to match my angel's hair, and then added some Martha Stewart Coarse glitter crystal.(I like the way this glitter sparkles the best)
I also added lots of Crystal Stickles to the wings and hair.
I added a dollar store decorative snowflake, a few foil stickers, Prima crystals, crystal snowflakes and a tuft of feather.
I loved this image and the colors so much that I decided to make three similar cards at once!
Now if I make three cards every time, I'll have a ton of cards made in no time!
I've got to get with the plan!
Thanks for stopping in today!
If you have any kind of holiday project be sure to link up with us at TCCB and you could win 4 DD digis of your choice!
B-Unique! Hugs!

Recipe:
Wings:C0,C3,C5,C7,C9
Skin: E000,E00,E21,E13,E04,R20
Hair:V00,V04,V06,V09
Dress: B000,BG13,BG49,FBG2

Rockabilly Rebel-DT Card for The Corrosive Challenge Blog

Hello lovies!

Today I'm sharing the card I made for the new challenge at The Corrosive Challenge Blog.

The theme this fortnight is Girly!

Our sponsor is The Stamping Chef.

I've chosen to work with this wonderful retro image, Rockabilly Rebel.

Funny, Quriky, and Smexy is an accurate description for these digi images!

Once again I've used Bo Bunny's discontinued paper, Enchanted as the background for my lovely retro diva.

I added some extra color with sticker borders, and flags, and tags from a  sticker sheet of Echo Park Happy Days.

I also added some Recollections black bling and some Jolee musical notes, a Tim Holtz skull and cross bones embellie, as well as a retro bird charm.

I thought the hair turned out too dark so I added some highlights with my fine Sharpie pen but I didn't like how that was looking so I covered over the white with my fluorescent FB2.

Fabulous! Now I love it with that touch of blue!

It's always been a dream of mine to travel Route 66 on the Harley.

Maybe one day I'll get my kicks on Route 66!

If you have a girly creations be sure to link up with us at TCCB and you could win 3 digis of your choice.

Thanks for stopping in today!

B-Unique! Hugs!

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenge:
The Stamping Chef-Anything goes

Recipe:

Skin: E000,E00,E11,E21,R20

Red and lips: R35,R46,R59

Teal: BG11,BG13,BG15,BG49

Hair: C1,C3,C5,C7,C10,100, FB2
Tattoo: B00,B05,FYG2,FY1
Eyes: E55, E57,E59

Fairy Witch-DT card for The Corrosive Challenge Blog

Hello lovies!

Today I'm sharing the card I made for the new challenge at The Corrosive Challenge Blog.

Our theme this fortnight is Magic!

Create a project featuring something magical!  Fairies, witches, wizards, dragons, mermaids, or whatever suits your fantasy!

We have two wonderful sponsors for this challenge:

Sassy Studio Designs 

and Spellbinder's Stamps The Fantasy Art of Nikki Burnette

    

It was my pleasure to work with Nikki's Fairy Witch-Rowenia   

I love this digi! I especially love the pet dragon, and to be able to work with an image that has both dragon wings and fairy things within it is pretty magical!

I colored this up with some wonderful Copic Halloween hues and fussy cut it out.

I painted the panel with my Sennelier water colors, then stamped and embossed the background with a star dust stamp and some Aegean Sea ep.

It's very sparkly and looks super magical!

Somehow, I taped the panel down a little crooked and there was no way I could remove it. 

Well I could have used some Un-du but aint nobody got time for that, so I decided my best option was to camouflage it with a splattering of vintage stickers magical silver glitter spheres, and some Tim Holtz tinsel.

Ta-da! It's magic!

 Once again it's pleasing to the eye and doesn't make me squirm while looking at it.

The sentiment, "Make Magic Happen" 

is from the Kraftin' Kimmie Fairy Sentiments.

The moon face is cut out from a Graphic 45 paper pack-Happy Haunting.

The spiderweb key is from Martha Stewart.

I added a couple of bat brads, some diamond shaped rhinestones, and some fun sheer and net ribbons.

The wings were first covered in stickles, and when dry I added a coat of glossy accents.

I also added glossy accents to the sentiment piece, and sprinkled some dry glitter more magic on it.

Thanks for stopping by today! If you have a magical project be sure to link up with us at TCCB and you could win some new digis! 

Until next time...

 Be unique! Hugs!

Isabella as Draco

Halloween-Trixxie Treat-DT card for The Corrosive Challenge Blog

Hello my darlings!

Happy Thanksgiving to all my Canadian friends who are celebrating this weekend.

Today I'm sharing the card I made for the the new challenge at The Corrosive Challenge Blog.

Our theme this fortnight is Halloween! 

Our sponsor is the fabulous Kenny K!

  

I love getting to create with the Kenny K digis and for this challenge I got to play with Trixxie Treat!

Trixxie looks spooktacular with her tiny feather capped top hat and her pumpkin purse full of Halloween treats!

The man in the moon is smiling down with giddy approval!

I cut the moon from a sheet of Graphic 45 Sreampunk Spells. 

 I love playing with these ornamental die cuts! Especially the spiderweb gate die cut that I got from my fabulous friend, Glo! 

Last year Glo, and I did a  Halloween swap and sent each other a box full of scrapbooking/cardmaking schtuff!

We both enjoyed the exchange so much we decided to do it again this year.

(Glo you should be getting a package from me in the mail this week)

The sentiment I used is from Kraftin Kimmie stamp(Batty and Catty) and reads,

 "witchy,witchy

screamy, screamy

happy, happy

Halloweeneie!"

Too fun right?!

The paper is from Bo Bunny-Enchanted. It's discontinued but thankfully I have a pile of it!

I added some black and purple bling, a rosette net ribbon, cheesecloth, a couple of feathers and a little pumpkin button.

It's difficult to see but there is also a jeweled spider brad attached to the spider gate.

If you have a Halloween creation be sure to link up with us at TCCB!

B Unique! Hugs! 

Copics used:

C00,C0,C3,C5,C7,C9,110

V09,BV02,BV23,BV25,BV29

FYR1,YR09,R29,FRV1,FYG2,G09