RRR Bright Spring Colors Challenge is up

Happy Spring to all of you that have tiny flowers popping up where you live!  It's

been a funny weather season for us here in California but my spring bulbs are just

beginning to pop up and I think i will have some beautiful blooms to see soon.

Our challenge over on the Really Reasonable Ribbon blog this time is bright

spring colors and ribbons so i decided to make up a quick canvas with some

really pretty ribbons and papers that matched by Kaiser Kraft.

Sometimes you can find the perfect papers to create something and this one went

together in a snap just for that reason.  The papers had the words on it and lots of

fun layering already so i started with a black back round and then added bits of torn
and distressed paper to make the layers.  I also added my favorite Versa Mark
 inks from Tsukineko called Sea Breeze and Midnight Black.  They went perfect.

This was my perfect chance to use some of my favorite ribbons from the RRR

May Arts collection in this gorgeous shade of pink melon.  It ties the most
beautiful bows and has the prettiest lines in it.  It's called Textured two tone rose
and actually comes in lots of other colors that you can see here.

All these fun banners came with the sticker sheet so i used them up on the top

and attached some RRR bakers twine on it with lots of loops across it.

And here is a closeup of the stenciled dots and glitter paste that

i used from Deco art and Fab Scraps.  I love to add those fun layers of

texture on my projects to make it more fun!

Thanks so much for stopping over and be sure and join us on the 

challenge this month.  It's going to be lots of fun :)

Spellbinders and Canvas...

I love working on Canvas and painting and mixing lots of

different medias on them and today I want to share a fun one

i did in the Spellbinders Gallery! Yay!! They have these beautiful

mini dies out called Die Delights and they have the cutest fun

shapes to create with that you can see here...

  

To start my project I tore and inked some paper for the

backround and stamped some chain with a Bo Bunny

stamp I got.  I layered the Basic Grey papers and embossed

a piece to to layer over some lace.  The gate was my focus

so I actually cut 2 layers of it and glued it together and

them inked over it and embossed it with clear to make

it more shiny.  I wanted to create a tiny rose garden around

it so I fussy cut some flowers and added a die cut swirl

from the Flowers and Florishes die set and some extra 

little flowers to tuck in the sides.  I also added a little

flower from Bo Bunny in glitzy brown rhinestones to match

with the centers of the flowers .  It was really fun and I love

to make these to decorate my house with little sayings

that keep me cheerful and thinking amazing positive thoughts!       

This is another 6x6 canvas that I did a while back and 

it seems like a great time to share it with my other one.

It too uses lots of Spellbinders dies for the base and I used 

some Prima flowers and Zva bling for the rest.  This is

a great way to make gifts and decorate and use up

some of the odds and ends you have laying about your craft

room!  Still working on lots of things for Spellbinders so I have to go but

I hope you get inspired to make one up and thanks

as always for stopping in to see what's new :)

How I love flowers

It has been a busy week at the store and we are

getting swamped with lots of boxes filled with

fun product but of course that means I have

to find a place to put it too.  So there is

lots of moving and pricing and making fun

samples up.  Yay, my favorite part....

Today i am showing 2 things

I did quick since I have so many more things

to get out in the next couple of weeks.

We got in lots of canvas to create things to 

decorate with so I made this little gifty canvas

to put on an easel that you can give to a friend or

 put up in your own house.  I used the Prima mini

pad for the back round papers and added flowers

and layered some Spellbinders die shapes under

the sentiment.  If you click on the picture you can

probably see it better.  I have been messing around 

with taking pictures in natural light and it doesn't

always want to cooperate with my artsy vision - big smile :)

Sometimes I like to use the intricate papers as a back round

to save time and money.  I love doing intricate pages

like the sunflower one I did on my last post- so 

don't get me wrong- but sometimes you just need to get 

the pictures scrapped and in the book right?   So for

this page I cut a circle and made my own doily for the

back round with a corner punch and put the matted 

photo on a ledge with flowers and added the glistening

bit of pearls to the bottom.  These papers are pretty

neutral so I added some extra pink and green inks

to the back round with a blending sponge from Tim Holtz.

Total time was only about 20 mins.  Yay!!

Thanks for stopping by and I have lots to make for

this scrappy happy weekend and maybe a possible 

trip to San Diego Wild animal park.  It's almost time

for the butterflies and I am sure there is lots of new

animal babies everywhere to take pictures of.  

Lots of hugs,

Teresa