Remember Inspiration

A friend at work asked me to create something for a friend of his who was going through a difficult time.  We worked together and thought of doing  an album.  We thought  of the quotes together.  This was my first ever album like this and it came out amazing.  I am so  proud at what I accomplished in 24 hours. I used the videos below for inspiration.

Remember Inspiration Mini Album

• Resource: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqZBK_LpbxA
• Resource: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ooz1KeAk8g

Cover Front/Back

·        Step 1: Take some distress ink pads (bundled sage, aged mahogany, peeled paint) and blending tools and blend some colors onto the chipboard piece.

·        Step 2: On the front cover, wipe down the background with an embossing buddy. Take a dot flourish stamp and ink up with versamark watermark ink pad and stamp the flourishes all over the background. Cover the images with metallic embossing powder.  Remove the excess powders and set with a heat tool.

·        Step 3: On the back cover, wipe down the background with an embossing buddy.  Take a heart mosaic stencil and apply using a versamark watermark ink pad.  Cover with clear embossing powder.  Remove the excess powder and set with a heat tool.

·        Step 4: On the front cover, I cut out a banner using chipboard.  I colored the using Queen of Hearts red Lindy’s spray and ponderosa pines olive Lindy’s spray.. I wrote the word “remember” using a silver sharpie marker.  I applied versamark watermark ink pad on the edges and covered with metallic embossing powder and set with a heat tool.

·        Step 5: On the front cover, I added some flowers.  I colored the flowers with queen of hearts red Lindy’s spray, homemade glimmer mists.  I colored the leaf with ponderosa pines olive Lindy’s spray.  I applied some platinum inka-gold with my finger to the edges of the flowers and leaf.

·        Step 6: I cut up some lace trim and colored with ponderosa pines olive Lindy’s spray, burnt umber Lindy’s spray, Danny Zukio Denim Lindy’s spray and Autumn Crimson red Lindy’s spray.  I added the lace to the top ring of the album.

Page 1-2 (Everything happens for a reason, we don’t always know what it is but we know we will get through it somehow)

·        Step 1: Take some distress ink pads (peeled paint, crushed olive, brushed corduroy, walnut stain, forest moss) and blending tools and blend some colors onto the chipboard piece.

·        Step 2: Take a honeycomb background stamp and ink up with distress ink pad walnut stain.  Stamp the image all over the chipboard pages.  Take some water in your hand and add some water splatters over the chipboard pages.

·        Step 3: Using my cricut cartridge accent essentials I cut out a frame and colored it with brushed corduroy distress crackle paint.  I added to the album page using dimensional dots.  I cut out a rectangle and colored it with crushed olive distress ink.  I stamped the box outline using jet black staz-on ink.  I added some rhinestones.  The saying I printed from the printer and I colored with brushed corduroy distress ink pad.  

·        Step 4: I took a burlap bow and colored with distress peeled paint stain and added some areas with gold inka-gold.  I colored the flowers using summer lovin yellow Lindy’s spray, wild honey distress stain, and honeycomb and lettuce alcohol inks.  I applied everything using either tacky glue or quickdry adhesive.

Page 3-4 (It always rains hardest on those that deserve the sun)

·        Step 1: Take some distress ink pads (mustard seed, rusty hinge, stormy sky, faded jeans) and blending tools and blend some colors onto the chipboard piece.

·        Step 2: Wipe down the background with an embossing buddy.  Take a Tim Holtz rays stencil and apply using versamark watermark ink pad.  Cover the image with clear embossing powder.  Remove the excess powder and set with a heat tool.

·        Step 3: Take some texture paste and mix some sterling silver acrylic paint to make a light gray color.  Take a cloud stencil and apply the stencils using the texture paste and don’t smooth out the paste and leave the texture so the clouds appear real and fluffy.

·        Step 4: I cut out the floral scroll design using my cricut and the accents essential cartridge.  I colored it using summer lovin and kissin kiniki Lindy’s spray.  I cut out the word banner using my computer and colored it using forever blue perfect pearls.

Page 5-6 (I cant change the direction of the wind but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination)

·        Step 1: Take some distress ink pads (faded jeans, tumbled glass, broken china) and blending tools and blend some colors onto the chipboard piece.

·        Step 2: Wipe down the chipboard pages with the embossing buddy. Take some versamark watermark ink pad and the cloud stencil and apply some clouds in some areas.  Take the white UTEE powder and cover the images.  Remove the excess powder and set with a heat tool. Take some white acrylic paint and a cloud stencil and apply the stencil in some areas of the chipboard pages. 

·        Step 3: I have a frame die-cut from a kit and colored it using faded jeans, broken china and tumbled glass distress ink pad.  I added some pearls and stuck the frame on using dimensional dots so a picture can fit underneath.  I printed the word banner and distressed the edges with faded jeans distress ink pad.   I apply it using tacky glue.

Page 7-8 (friends are like stars they may be hard to find but they are always there AND you might be one person to the world but to one person you are the world)

·        Step 1: Take some distress ink pads (faded jeans, black soot, weathered wood) and blending tools and blend some colors onto the chipboard piece.

·        Step 2: Wipe down the chipboard pages with the embossing buddy.  Take some versamark watermark ink pad and ink up a stars stamp.  Stamp some stars onto the background.  Cover with silver embossing powder.  Remove excess powder and set with a heat tool.

·        Step 3: I cut out some accents using my cricut and the accent essentials cartridge.  Some of them were colored in dove grey staz-on ink pad.  Others were colored using platinum ink gold and platinum stickles.  I also colored some with pure silver and silver sterling acrylic paint.  I printed out the word banner using my computer and colored using forever blue perfect pearls.

Page 9-10 (it is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light)

·        Step 1: Take a distress ink pad (black soot) and blending tool and blend some color onto the chipboard piece.  Take a distress stain (picket fence) and add some color to the chipboard piece.  Take some distress crackle paint (picket fence) and add some paint to areas of the chipboard piece.

·        Step 2: Take some gesso and apply to the craft mat.  Take a distressed background stamp and ink up with the gesso and apply all over the background. Let dry.  Take some scintillating silver lindy’s spray and spray all over the background. Let dry.  Take some distress crackle paint in rock candy and spread all over the background. Let dry.

·        Step 3: I took a zig zag border from a previous kit and colored it using silver sterling acrylic paint and black distress crackle paint.  I added the word banner that I printed from my computer.  I also using e6000 glue and glued the metal lock and key onto the page. I colored these pieces with slate alcohol ink.  I also added a Tim Holtz metal banner accent with e6000 glue. 

·        Step 4: I took a piece of white cardstock and ran through the Cuttlebug  using Coolio folder.  I took the black soot distress ink pad and rubbed it over the paper to color the raised image. I also took a metal bottle cap which I colored in slate alcohol ink and attached on top of the embossed paper using e6000 glue.

Page 11-12 (don’t ever let anyone ever dull your sparkle AND life isn’t about finding yourself its about creating yourself)

·        Step 1: Take a distress ink pad (black soot) and blend all over the chipboard pages.

·        Step 2: Take some homemade glimmers mists (1, 2, 3, and 6) and spray all over the background.

·        Step 3: I cut out some butterflies using the cricut serenade cartridge in black, bright green, bright pink, bright blue cardstock.  I glued all the butterflies together only in the body area and bent all the wings forward to make it look like the butterfly is flying and adhered to the background using tacky glue.  I added some small pearls to the body.  I made a trail of gemstones for a path of the butterfly flying.  I also using a white gel pen. 

·        Step 4: I printed the word banners from the computer and colored using perfect pink, perfect purple, perfect green and perfect blue perfect pearls and adhered using tacky glue.

Page 13-14 (my greatest blessings call me momma)

·        Step 1: Take some distress ink pads (broken china, weathered wood, worn lipstick, spun sugar) and blending tools and blend some colors onto the chipboard piece.

·        Step 2: On the blue page, take the squares stencil and double columns stencil and apply using faded jeans and stormy sky distress ink pads.

·        Step 3: On the pink page, take the flowers and hearts/dots stencil and apply using tattered rose and Victorian velvet distress ink pads.

·        Step 4: I took some circle die-cuts from a previous kit.  The pink one I colored using pink ladies and frenchs pink Lindy’s spray and the blue one was colored using Azure Seas asters and Delphinium turquoise blue Lindy’s spray.

·        Step 5: I added some flowers and a bird sticker to the project.

·        Step 6: I cut out the word banners using my computer.  I colored one with shabby shutters distress ink pad and I colored the other words using milled lavender distressed ink pad.

Page 15-16 (nothing is impossible the word itself says im possible AND believe you can and youre halfway there)

·        Step 1: Take some distress ink pads (work lipstick, ripe persimmon, mowed lawn) and blending tools and blend some colors onto the chipboard piece.

·        Step 2: Take the embossing buddy and wipe over the background.  Take a flourish corner stamp and ink up with versamark watermark ink pad.  Cover with vintage photo embossing powder.  Remove the excess powder and set with a heat tool.

·        Step 3: Take a flourish dot stamp set and ink up with worn lipstick and stamp.  Repeat using ripe persimmon and mowed lawn.

·        Step 4: Take some leaves stamps from the blissful botanicals stamp set and ink up with forest moss distress ink pad and stamp on the background.

·        Step 5: I took some flowers and colored using pink ladies, kissin kenicki, summer lovin Lindys sprays.

·        Step 6: I cut out a frame from the accent essentials cartridge and found a label die-cut from a previous kit.  I colored one frame using aged mahogany distress ink pad.  I colored a accent from the accent essentials kit using wild honey.  I also colored one of the square backgrounds using brushed corduroy ink pad and covered with tarnished brass distress crackle paint. I cut out the scroll design and colored with peeled paint distress ink and covered with rock candy distress crackle paint.

·        Step 7: I took a burlap bow and colored with champagne gold acrylic paint.  I took the word banners and covered with wild honey stain and brushed corduroy distress ink pad.

Page 17-18 (the measure of who we are is what we do with what we have)

·        Step 1: Take some distress ink pads (peeled paint, walnut stain, mowed lawn, vintage photo) and blending tools and blend some colors onto the chipboard piece.

·        Step 2: Wipe the background with the embossing buddy.  Take the manuscripts stamp and ink up with versamark watermark ink pad and stamp all over the background.  Cover with copper embossing powder.  Remove the excess powder and set with a heat tool.

·        Step 3: I took some borders from a K&Company border kit and added to the project.  I also took a floral vellum die-cut and some prima flowers and added to the project.

·        Step 4: I cut out the word banner that was printed from my computer and colored it using antique linen distress ink pad.

Hanging Hearts Tree Card

This is the card I made my fiance Chris for Valentines Day.

·        Need: cardstock (white), Darice branches w/ leaves Cuttlebug folder, accent essentials Cricut cartridge, stickles (platinum), foam dimensional’s, distress ink pads (barn door, broken china, peeled paint, mustard seed, ripe persimmon), embossing powder (blue, green tinsel, red tinsel), versamark watermark ink pad

·        Resource : https://www.pinterest.com/pin/492933121690543399/

·        Step 1: Take a white piece of cardstock and cut to the size of the card.  Take a piece of white cardstock and run through the Cuttlebug using the folder Darice branches w/ leaves. 

·        Step 2: Cut out some hearts out of white cardstock using the accent essentials Cricut cartridge.  Color the hearts using ripe persimmon, broken china and mustard seed distress ink pads.  Color the other three hearts using versamark watermark ink pad and emboss using blue, green tinsel, and red tinsel embossing powders and set with a heat tool.

·        Step 3: Add the flowers to the trees using foam dimensional’s. Add some platinum stickles to look like the hearts are hanging from the tree.

·        Step 4: Create a banner by cutting a piece of white cardstock and coloring using distress ink pads barn door, broken china, peeled paint and mustard seed. Write a saying using a black pigment pen.  Add the banner to the bottom of the card using foam dimensional’s.

Spring Flags Sign Canvas

My favorite season is the spring and this year spring started late and it was cold.  Many of my flowers in the yard bloomed late.  I needed to do an art project to lift my spirits and get me in the spring mood.  The inspiration for this canvas was from the video below.

• Resource: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvADpCGnqb4

Spring Flags Sign Canvas

·        Need: canvas, acrylic paint (blue, green), texture paste, glitter, twine, Cricut cartridge celebrations, Cricut cartridge accent essentials, clothespins, pattern cardstock (greens), cardstock (white), distress ink pads (shaded lilac, barn door, ripe persimmon, mustard seed, worn lipstick, broken china, peeled paint), jewels, tacky glue, cloud stencil, mod podge

·        Step 1: I colored the background of the canvas and created a sky using blue ocean reef acrylic paint.  I took my clouds stencil and some texture paste and created the clouds.  Before the paint dried I added some blue glitter.

·        Step 2: Cut some green pattern cardstock and using mod podge apply to the bottom half of the canvas. Add some areas with green acrylic paint.

·        Step 3:  Add some twine to the top part of the canvas.

·        Step 4: Cut out some flags using the celebrations cartridge from white cardstock.  Color each flag with distress inks (broken china, mustard seed, worn lipstick, peeled paint, ripe persimmon).  Spell out the word spring using the same colors with distress markers.  Add each flag using a clothespin.

·        Step 5:  Cut out flowers using the accent essentials cartridge.  Color the flowers with distress ink pads (broken china, mustard seed, worn lipstick, peeled paint, ripe persimmon).   Add some jewels or draw a smiley face on the flowers.  Cut out some leaves and color with peeled paint distress ink pad.  Take a distress marker and draw on stems.  Apply using tacky glue.

Birthday Card – Yay Happy Birthday Birdie

My mother's goddaughter Myshanna and basically my sister has a son Ethan.  for his birthday I made him this card.  His favorite color is green and he loves art.  I decided to use different techniques for his card.  The inspiration for this was from this video.

·        Resource: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyY4IuOfHl0

·        Need: cardstock (white, green, lime green, pale green, dark green), glossy cardstock, Tim Holtz rays stencil, lawn fawn a birdie told me clear stamp set, Staz-on ink pad (jet black), honeycomb background stamp, clear embossing powder, distress ink pads (peeled paint, crushed olive), perfect pearls (sour apple, forever green), diamond plate Cuttlebug folder, lindys sprays (ponderosa pines olive, cathedral pines green), alcohol inks (meadow, lettuce, willow, botanical), present stamp, Tim Holtz simple sayings cling stamps, Inka-gold (jade), crackle paint (brushed corduroy), Tim Holtz splatter stencil, double rectangle background stamp, versamark watermark ink pad, tacky glue, distress markers (peeled paint, crushed olive)

Step 1: Create the tri folder shutter card, cut a piece of cardstock to 12” x 5 ½”. 
Step 2: With the 12” side aligned at the top of the scoreboard, score at 2”, 4”, 8”, and 10”. 
Step 3: Take a paper trimmer and align the paper at 1 ½”.  Cut from the 2” score line down to the 10” score line.  
Step 4:  Move the cardstock over to the 4” mark.  Cut from the 2” score line down to the 10” score line.

Step 5: At the first score line on the left fold the paper over.  At the second score line fold the paper towards the back.  With the third score line fold the paper towards the left.  With the last score line fold it towards the right.
Step 6: When the card is closed take the middle flap and fold it the opposite way.
Step 7: Cut the panels for the card (2- very end vertical panels) 1-3/4 x 5-1/2, (4 corner squares) 1-3/4 x 1-1/4, (1- center panel) 3-3/4 x 2-1/4, (2 middle panels) 1-3/4 x 2-1/4, (2 center rectangle panels) 3-3/4 x 1-1/4

Step 8: Take the first end vertical panel and add the rays stencil using texture paste.  I colored the texture paste with sour apple perfect pearls. Take the last end vertical panel and color texture paste with forever green perfect pearls.  Apply the splatters stencil using the texture paste.

·        Step 9: Take the top left corner square in white cardstock and a honeycomb background stamp.  Ink up with versamark watermark ink pad.  Cover with clear embossing powder and set with a heat tool.  Add some peeled paint and crushed olive distress ink pads.

·        Step 10: Take the bottom left corner square in pale green cardstock and crinkle up the paper.  Add some peeled paint and crushed olive distress ink to the paper by using a direct pad contact technique.  Spritz the paper with a bit of water from a mister to get the colors to run.

·        Step 11: Take the top right corner square in white cardstock and color with cracked pistachio and crushed olive distress ink pads.  Outline the edges with jade Inka-gold.

·        Step 12: Take the bottom right corner square in white cardstock and color with peeled paint and shabby shutters distress ink pad.  Take a double rectangle background stamp and brushed corduroy crackle paint and apply the stencil to the background.

·        Step 13: Take the two rectangle center panels in dark green cardstock and run through a Cuttlebug using a diamond plate Cuttlebug folder. Take some jet black Staz-on ink and rub onto the cardstock using a direct pad technique.  Spray one piece of cardstock with ponderosa pines olive and the other with cathedral pines green lindy’s sprays.

·        Step 14: Take the center panel in white cardstock and stamp using jet black Staz-on ink the present stamp.  Color in the present with crushed olive and peeled paint distress markers.  Stamp a happy birthday stamp from Tim Holtz with jet black Staz-on ink pad.

·        Step 15: Take the middle outside panels that are cut with glossy cardstock and use the alcohol inks and create a blended background.

·        Step 16: Cut out two ovals one bigger than the other by a ½”. On the lime green add some dots using peeled paint distress marker.  On the pale green stamp a word bubble, yay saying, and a birdie from the birdie told me stamp set in jet black Staz-on ink pad.

·        Step 17: Glue all panels where they belong using tacky glue and apply the ovals using foam dimensional’s.

Birds Nest Wall Art

I saw this video and here is my attempt.

Resource: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_huEfSOpbI

Birds Nest Canvas

·        Need: acrylic paint (Folkart – linen, classic green, nutmeg, Americana – light avocado, Delta – ocean reef blue, MStudio – golden brown), stencils (double rectangle background), bubble wrap, brown suede, twine, linen embroidery thread (black), lawn fawn blissful botanicals stamp, Staz on ink pad (olive green), distress markers (walnut stain, picket fence, peeled paint, mowed lawn) what’s the buzz insect stickers by Nicole Crafts, Best of K& Company cardstock, mod podge.

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·        Step 1:  Color the background with some acrylic paint.  I used classic green, light avocado, ocean reef blue and nutmeg. 

·        Step 2:  I took some golden brown paint and applied to my craft mat.  I pushed some large bubble wrap into the paint and added to my background.

·        Step 3:  Take some background stencils and add to the canvas with acrylic paint. I used the double rectangles background stencil and used linen acrylic paint.  I flipped the stencil over when I was done and pushed into the canvas to get an outline stencil effect. 

·        Step 3:  Take some twine, embroidery threads and strings and create a bird’s nest.  Add a pile of mod podge.

·        Step 4: I took some brown suede from an old belt and created the tree branches.  Adhere with mod podge. 

·        Step 5:  I took some olive green Staz-on ink and stamped some leaf branches from a stamp from the blissful botanicals set. I colored in the white areas using distress markers peeled paint and mowed lawn. 

·        Step 6: Using a die-cutting machine, cut out a bird or find an image online.  Adhere the bird to the page with mod podge.  I outlined the bird in black soot and picket fence distress markers and added a wing using walnut stain distress marker. 

·        Step 7:  I added some stickers from the Nicole crafts what’s the buzz collection. 

Owl Canvas with Gelato's

I saw this video and wanted to give it a try.

·        Resource: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ewb0Q8EXQs

Owl Canvas

·          Need: canvas, gelatos (lemon, green tea, guava, bubble gum, cotton candy, gold, red cherry, coconut), Cricut cartridges (accent essentials), stencils (squares background), stamps (Blissful botanicals), cardstock (Best of K&Company 360 sheets paper stack), Distress markers (gathered twigs, frayed burlap, mustard seed, black soot), Lindys spray (golden doubloons), mod podge, heat tool, scissors, pencil

·          Step 1:  Take your canvas and add some color with gelatos.  You can add a bit of water with a small paint brush to help blend the colors. I colored the background with lemon, green tea, guava, bubble gum and cotton candy.

·          Step 2: Using the accent essentials Cricut cartridge I cut out some accents on tan cardstock.  I rubbed some gold gelatos over the accents.  I adhered to the canvas with mod podge.

·          Step 3: Take a squares background stencil and apply using a gold gelato.  You can wet your finger and get the color of the gelato and apply with your finger tip. 

·          Step 4: Use stamps and gelatos and stamp some images over the canvas.  Put gelatos on a stamp spray with water add a bit gelatos and stamp. I used the leaf vine stamp from the Lawn Fawn blissful botanicals stamp set and green tea gelato.

·          Step 5: I found some cardstock from the K&Company best of collection and sketched out an owl image and cut it out using scissors.  Glue the papers down in the center of the canvas with some mod podge.  Set with a heat tool. 

·          Step 6: Draw a branch on the canvas with gathered twigs distress marker for the owl to be sitting on. 

·          Step 7: Create the eyes of the owl and color and highlight the owl with gathered twigs, frayed burlap, mustard seed, black soot distress markers and gold, red cherry, and coconut gelatos.

·          Step 8: I took lindys sprays golden doubloons and sprayed a layer over the canvas to add a gold shimmer.