reschedule

I'm sorry to say this, but the tag for the month July
will be delayed. This because I have to do my DT assignments for
SWIRLYDOOS FIRST!!!
my kit got hold up in costums so I only have a few days to work with it.

I'm gonna reschedule my tag for this month at
July 10th.

I'm sorry if I let you girls down.

wishing you all a beautiful weekend.

hugs
Paulien

Swirlydoos Presents - CHA workshops on Ustream!!!!

Yes, you read that right!!! Unbelievable!!
Now is your opportunity to attend one or both of these classes via Ustream in the comfort of your home, or scraprooom!!
Just click HERE to find out how to purchase you tickets and kits for the class.

Have a lovely weekend.

***TODAY***

I can finally share my exciting news:

As of July, I am a new DT member of SWIRLYDOOS
I had to keep this secret for quit some month's, when all I wanted to do is
SHOUT IT OUT!!!!!
I'm sooo looking forward to recieve my first kit and getting started!! I can't wait!
I wanna thank Krissy for asking me to join the already AMAZING team!!
The members of Swirlydoos gave me such a warm welcome, and I wanna thank them sincerly, for doing so.
ANd..... I'm not alone.... also a new DT member is:........... Maiko Kosugi A SUPER talented girl!!!!!

There are so many things going on at Swirlydoos, Challenges, tutorials and they just had an amazing scrapbook retreat, in a BEAUTIFUL scrapbook cottage in the Rocky Mountains. Can you believe it?!!!!

Well Krissy (the owner of Swirlydoos) has a lot more in store for her members. Look at this:



Today is the last day to get your early bid special price for the tickets! This workshop is coming up on 7/22 and will be at CHA in Rosemont. This is a chance of a lifetime to take a class with these two incredibly talented women.

So please head over to Swirlydoos and grab your seat while they are still available.

I wish I could... If it were only in my dreams. I live way to far and besides, they don't wanna miss me at home for so long. lol

I'm gonna wish you all a good night.

hugs,
Paulien

June Tag

It has been a while since I posted on my blog. Let's just say that I've been Mia.
Not really... but my energy has been put in other things for the last couple of weeks. The school year is almost over here, and our youngest will be leaving her school. So we are very busy to find her that new school. It has to be a school where she will be in place and feels comfortable.
anyhow.... I didn't do much crafting these past weeks, but I wanted to do my monthly tag. so here we go:

Lets do some recycling!!!!!

my dear friend Tracey Jackson gave me this idea. She is having an ATC swap on her shop website, and I like the idea, so I thought I would do some recycling and creative thinking too.

supplies needed: Ranger craft tag - piece of cardboard or old box - exacto knife - Gesso - white and gold acrylic paint - Iridescent medium or glimmer mist - white Puffy Paint - spray bottle of water - ink blending tool - distress inks: Tattered Rose, Spun Sugar, Worn Lipstick, Frayed Burlap - Archival ink Jet Black and Coffee - script stamp - postcard stamp (the word that is) - chipboard or grungboard hingie - pearls & beads - lace - flowers - bubblewrap - double sided tape - sandpaper - twine - heatgun - hot gluegun - aluminium foil.


cut a heart shape from cardboard or from an old box.
height and width about 3 inches.

cut out the inside like this.

Paint the heart with some Gesso, let it dry or heat set it.
spritz lightly with water, let it absorb a bit, for a minute or 5 then sand it.
It will come out something like this.
Set it aside for later use.

now we are going to make our own distressed background stamp, by cuttin a piece of
bubble wrap ( 2.5 x 4.5#)

Get the backside covered with double sided adhesive

stick it to your acrylic block.

Get a needle out and try to create your pattern, by piercing into the bubbles you don't want to show. Press the air completely out.

get a piece of aluminium foil and add a blob of white acrylic paint in the middle of your foil.

fold the aluminium foil double and spread the paint between the layers, using your hand.

open it up and get your, just made, bubblewrap stamp. Wiggle a little through your paint and stamp on your tag.

I stamped mine at the top right and bottom left. let it dry or heat set it. The paint will resist the colors ink, which will be add, later on.

take a script stamp and stamp randomly some text on your tag, using Archival inks.
(archival inks are permanent, and allows you to ink right over it.

It will look something like this.

add some Tattered Rose distress ink using your ink blending tool.
I really love this color distress ink cause it has this lovely creamy teint

then add another layer pink, I used Spun Sugar for this layer. You will start to see the resisting of the paint.

you can even add a little Worn Lipstick to your tag for extra color. ( I always like to work with 3 shades of a color-group) It makes the white paint stand out a little more. When you feel you have add enough color, take a damp cloth and wipe it over your tag. Make sure the cloth is NOT WET just damp.


To give your tag a shimmer finish you can either use Glimmer mist, but I like to use some watered down Iridescent medium. Just bring it on with a brush and heat set it.

Look at all that shimmer..... love it!!!

Add some Frayed Burlap to the left top of your tag. Distress and ink your edges.

stamp some images ( I used the postcards stamps from Tim Holtz) at the right top and bottom, using Archival ink.

something like this.

Add some Puffy Paint in the white stamped background to bring extra interest.
let it dry for half an hour and heatset it.

Take your cardboard heart and add some puffy paint to it. after you heat set it, you can add some gold metallic paint and some distress ink to make it a little more grungy.

Take your chipboard or grungeboard hingie and paint it by mixing gold acrylic paint and Iridescent medium.

you might need 2 layers. This is a hingie from 3TailsCraft

Take 2 medium size flowers or make your own like I did. (tutorial for these flowers can be found here)
Stamp your calender tag or print one out. Distress the edges.


Get all your embellies out and start building your tag.

I dressed up my hingie by glue-ing down a little rose and a iridescent bead.

You can, of course, give the rose a little inking.

glue your pearls to your heart embellie, using your hot glue gun.

Glue a flower to your cardboard heart and finish it of with some tiny leaves and wrapped around twine.

Take your stamped calender and glue it down together with your second flower, at the bottom left of your tag. Glue a scrap of lace across the bottom. And glue your cardboard heart to your tag.

Glue your hingie, a little overlapping, down to your tag using hot glue gun.
glue some beads down. I glued mine down using hot glue but glossy accents will do the trick also. Add a little lace at the top and your are finished.

Here are some detail pics:



I hope you like to give this tag a try. If you have any questions
feel free to ask.

hugs,
Paulien

Using my flowers

Thank you all for your lovely comments, on yesterday's post.
It is so fun to read that you are gonna give those flowers a try yourself.
If you happen to have any questions about the tutorial, feel free to ask.

What I wanted to add... Is that the layer of Gesso... is to firm up the
petals. Your babywipe will be easier to cut, this way.

I used some of them on my next page

I first started with this lovely sheet of Pink Paislee, Parisian Anthology line,
which I gave a little white washing, with watered down Gesso.
I then stamped on in with my text stamp, using archival ink.
Then I painted a rectangle, with peeled paint crackle paint. On top of that I painted another rectangle with Gesso. Placed my picture and flowers.
Here are some close ups: (if you click on the pics they will show up much clearer)



I added some puffy paint to that lovely aqua Prima flower, and layered a handmade flower on it. The little rose was first sprayed with glimmermist and then I tipped it, with a little crackle paint.

The letters are white Thickers which I stamped on (lightly) and sprayed with glimmermist. also added a few spots of crackle paint, to blend in with the background.


For the big white flower.... it was actually a red, Prima, one... I added several layers of Gesso and heatset it up close... blow a few bubbles in it (I know that you normally shouldn't do that, but I liked it) the last layer I added diamond dust and some glitter in the wet Gesso, let it air dry.

That bubbly wire, is just regular wire (which you can find in the home department store)
I mixed puffy paint and peeled paint crackle paint together and brushed it on the wire. Got it all covered up and heat set it for the puffy paint to puff. Then shaped it, using my paint brush handle. (liked it a lot!!!)

These clear treasure's I got from Angelica when I bought something from her Etsy store. she added them as a little thank you gift. (thank you Ang!!)
I glued them on the lace using my hot glue gun.

Really... these flowers... I just love them. So I want to thank Romy, for mentioning them.

Hope you all enjoy your day.

hugs,
Paulien

Flower tutorial

How come, doing this tutorial:

A few friends and I were chatting away, when it was Romy who pointed us

at the new uploaded projects of Ingvild Bolme

and Romy esp pointed out, the flowers Ingvild used on her cards. Because she loves them to pieces!!! So... I went off to Ingvild her blog and started searching for these flowers, cause Romy said.... Ingvild had something to do with designing these Gorgeous Corine Collection flowers. Me.... who loves creating flowers, thought of using baby-wipes for the petals, and that is... how this tutorial came to life.

Anyway... here's what you need:

supplies needed: baby-wipes - aluminium foil - brayer - Gesso - distress inks (any color you want) - Puffy paint - crackle paint (I used peeled paint) - heatgun - thread (you might wanna use some waxcoated thread) - scraps of cardstock - hot glue gun - tweezer - black acrylic paint - glimmermist or iridescent medium.

Before you can get to work:

Take a baby wipe and let it dry completely, before you color it.

You can color it with distress inks or mists, what ever you want.

After coloring, let it airdry.

Take a piece of aluminium foil and add a medium layer of gesso to it

Get your colored babwipe and place it over the layer of Gesso.

Get another piece of aluminium foil and place it over it. Kinda like sandwich it between the layers of aluminium foil. Brayer it. (yes.... mine is not a fancy one...lol)

now get your 1 side coated baby wipe off of it and let it dry completely.

here comes the fun part:

You can now start cutting your petals.

I fold my baby wipe a couple of times, before cutting.

Get your puffy paint out and add it to your petals, let it air dry for an hour or so

Take your heatgun out and heatset the puffy paint.

You might want to use your tweezer to hold the petals. If you heat it just a LITTLE longer the petals will start shaping a bit. Don't heat it too long, or your petal will burn.

For the stamen I used regular thread, (wax coated is perfect for this) which I cut in pieces. Dip the ends

in a mix of puffypaint and, color of your choice, crackle paint. (I used peeled paint)

heatset the ends of your thread.

repeat this step for as many stamen you want ( I used 5 pieces of thread, which give me 10 tiny stamen)

Cut 2 small circles. don't need to be perfect. and punch a hole in one of them.

Get a couple stamen together, and stick them through a little circle of cardstock.

Glue the ends at the bottom

Place another little cardstock circle on top.

You have now created your base for you flower. (you may want to cut the ends, that are sticking out)

Now glue your petals to your base.

first layer:

second layer:

You can add some dimension... by glue-ing a row of pearl strand first to the base,

something like this:

You can give your flower a light shimmer by using glimmermist or like I did, using some Iridescent medium.

The little black spots on the petals:... I made, using my tweezer, dipping it in black acrylic paint.

and your done!! Aren't they cute??

Hope you have fun with them.

I'll be back tomorrow, to show you a layout on which I used these babies!!!

hugs,

Paulien