A Little Bit Of..

Texture goes a long way...This stuff is great, no more adding colour to gesso or white texture gel, it does what it says on the tin! On this tag I used the Gummy Berry Bear mixed with Tidy Widy.... only because I didn't clean the stencil between colours... how lazy is that but I love the colour.

The images are from Artchix.. you can find them here..

I used a chevron stencil on this tag with the Jelly Bean Green and the Artchix house image sheet

Houses again with Gummy Berry Bear. through a dotty stencil.

Rose ribbon trim

Julie: Chipboard heart wall art

Hello there.

For the next 6 weeks over on my own blog I'm running Going Postal: a postal-themed blog series and so ... it was only natural that my design team project for today featured something a little bit post-inspired too! And here's what I made ...

How to create a similar simple-but-striking piece of wall art:

1. Take one of the bare chipboard hearts from the pack of 24 from Collections Elements;
2. Run a glue stick over the heart;
3. Cover it with a selection of postage stamps, in the same colour;
4. Turn the heart over and carefully trim away any excess from around the edge;
5. Mount the finished postal-heart on to cream cardstock using 3D foam pads;
6. Spell out a greeting with alphabet stickers beneath the heart [or leave blank if you want the heart to speak for itself!];
7. Add a pre-cut card mount [eg. Wilkinson's stores sell very affordable card mounts] to add a professional finishing touch and then ...
8. Frame it and put it on the wall ... or, if you can bear to ... send it to someone you love!

Here's a close-up:

If you don't have any vintage-style stamps or if, like me, you just have a soft-spot for creating with postage-themed items then you might find yourself swooning over these two new additions to the 3DJean shop this month - both of which are part of a larger Art Chix re-stock ...

 

Here's the Art Chix  'Faux Postage' sheet: in 'Peace, Tranquility, Harmony':

 And there's a festive version of the 'Faux Postage' with this 'Christmas 'sheet:

If you've already bought these sheets ... and you'd like to take part in my Going Postal series, then simply blog your projects made from these [or indeed any] postal themed supplies.

 

Then drop by my blog for details on how to link up your post so you can share your project with lots of fellow postal-fans! 

 

Wishing you a month of Happy Mail!

 

Julie :-)

Look what's new in

DAZZLERZ  & TEXTUREZ are both textural paste type paints.

DAZZLERZ are smooth and incredibly shimmery and come in 10 super bright colors.

TEXTUREZ are shimmery, but have added texture to them. They come in 8 rich, vintage colors.

Both products come in large 2 oz jars, so you'll have plenty of product for all those mixed media and art projects. And. . . of course. . . .both work beautifully with the whole Shimmerz Paints line of products
Dazzlerz and Texturez work beautifully with stencils and templates or on their own....You can BRUSH them on like paint, use a SPATULA to spread them or BUILD THEM UP to give  a m a z i n g  depth and t e x t u r e to your projects.

3 Weeks at once.....

... 25,47 and 50...that is Close Up, Something New and Feet in the Grass..
How's this for the inside of a humongous squash....

This is my new machine..it's less than a week old....I don't have a good track record with new machines and this is no exception.. the needle threader has fallen off.... goodness knows where, so it's back to the retailer

One broken toe...all the fault of piles of stash everywhere during the craftroom makeover... which is done...only now I can't find anything

What misconception we have about ourselves.....I always though my feet looked OK....until I saw this picture......how wrong can you be! 

Effie

Julie: Collage style card - lime green with gold

Hello again.

 

Time and again when I sit down to get crafty - without knowing in advance what it is I want to make - it's  the colours of my supplies that inspire me to start pulling various bits and pieces together. And with this project it all began with the fresh, zesty, lime green Lily Bee 12x12 papers in 'Trinket' and 'Whimsy' which eventually led to this freestyle, collage-y, layered card: 

In between layers of the two different lime green prints I added a band of stamping using the Lost Coast Designs Zebra Stripe border stamp:

And .. as I was feeling in the citrus mood ... I stamped the same design elsewhere on the card only this time using a lemon yellow ink pad:

My sentiment [wording snipped from an old children's story] was added on top of two Collections Elements tickets which I highlighted with a strip of the fabulous Faux Diamante Mesh in gold: 

I just loved the way the gold tone brought some sophistication to the bright green backing, while in return the green really livened up a colour that's often only used in very 'traditional' style cards and projects.

 

I'll definitely be looking for more ways to mix gold with vivid colours in future casual scrappy style cards!

 

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Hopefully my next Design Team project will feature my '52 Weeks of Photos' album. I've been keeping up by taking a photo each week all month ... so now I just need to print them .. and decide how to present them!

 

How are you joining in? Let us know in the comments or on the 3DJean Facebook page.

 

If you haven't heard of the 3DJean DT's year long photography + crafty project - then just click here for all of the details. Everyone's welcome!

 

Catch you next time.

 

Julie :-)

Number 4... Something Green

...and they're very green, no sign of turning red..

Green tomato chutney anyone?

Fresh and clean looking

No inked edges or a card with lots of elements , just a clean and fresh looking card. That's what I think these two cards look like that I have made.   

 I used an embossing folder and then some of the lovely Rose Organza ribbons , we have it in stock at the moment in red and black. A pack of rhinestones and pearls from the Hobby House range we stock to bling them up just a bit.

 Then on the black one i've used the Purple Onion Designs HAPPY BIRTHDAY strip stamp and the good new is that this stamp is now back in stock.