Snowflake Card: Day 4: Unruly Paper Arts 12 Days of Christmas Link Up Party

Hello everyone.  So glad you stopped by today, because I want to share another fast but elegant Christmas card with you for Day 4 of the Unruly Paper Arts 12 Days of Christmas Link Up Party.

I would also like to enter this into the Cheery Lynn Designs Challenge #161 - 'Tis the Season.

Make 4-3/4" x 6" side folded card from cream sparkle card stock.

Die cut blue metallic card stock with Cathedral Lace Frame. Adhere to card front.

Die cut chipboard with snowflake, emboss with matching embossing folder.

Paint snowflake white, then lightly sponge on weathered wood.  Spread a very light coat of Crystal Stickles over all.  Let dry.

Adhere snowflake, flowers, and butterflies to card front.

Supplies:

Cheery Lynn die:  Cathedral Lace Frame
Sizzix/Tim Holtz die:  Layered Snowflake w/matching embossing folder
Card stock:  Blue metallic, cream sparkle
Chipboard
Distress Paints:  Snow Cap, Weathered Wood
Crystal Stickles glitter glue
Embellishments:  Roses (Kaisercraft)(Recollections); Butterflies (Recollections)

I hope you enjoyed my quick card today.  Thanks for stopping by, and have a wonderful day!

Barbara

A Lunar Steampunk Card

Hello all!  Today's post is a sneak peek at my project over on the Altered Pages blog today with our partner this month, IMAGINE Crafts/Tsukineko.   I hope you will take a minute to visit and see more how-tos and photos.

Altered Pages is also doing a GIVEAWAY for the month of June to celebrate our Partnership with IMAGINE Crafts/Tsukineko.  
You can win by leaving comments!   We will draw a winning name July 1.

Receive: 15 x 18 inch heavy weight AlteredPages canvas tote with 4 StazOn midi Inks, Shimmer Mist, Alice in Wonderland Stamp Set, 5 assorted Tags, 5 large glassine envelopes and Washi Tape ~ WOW!

Supplies used:

Kaisercraft Check In 6-1/2"x 6-1/2" paper pad
Cream card stock (cut 7"x10" to make 5"x7" folded card)
Moon Tags
Dyeable Seam Binding
IMAGINE Crafts/Tsukineko:  Goosebumps Clear Texture Spray; Memento Luxe Peanut Brittle, Rhubarb Stalk, StazOn midi Orange Zest, Blue Hawaii, Spiced Chai; GlazOn; Ink Blushers; Vertigo translucent film: Breeze, Prism
Circle die
Compass embossing folder
Metal sticker sheet (4" x 5-1/4")
Miscellaneous metal embellishments

Thanks for stopping by.  Be sure to follow along the rest of this month as both design teams share creations on the Altered Pages blog, as well as on the IMAGINE Crafts blog.  And don't forget to pop on over to leave lots of comments on the Altered Pages blog to enter our GIVEAWAY.

Good luck, and have wonderful, inky week!!

Barbara

Christmas Triptych with Altered Pages Instructions

Hi everyone, Barbara here with one of my favorite art forms, the triptych.  With the Christmas holidays fast approaching, I wanted to make a Christmas triptych.  If you missed my post earlier this week, I did not give any instructions for how I made this.  So, I thought I would post them for you here today.  I hope you enjoy it and are inspired to give these beautiful art forms a try.

So,  some of you have asked, what is a triptych?  Wikipedia defines it:  

A triptych (/ˈtrɪptɪk/ trip-tik; from the Greek adjective τρίπτυχον ("three-fold"), from tri, i.e. "three" and ptysso, i.e. "to fold" or ptyx, i.e. "fold")^[1][2] is a work of art (usually a panel painting) that is divided into three sections, or three carved panels which are hinged together and can be folded shut or displayed open. It is therefore a type of polyptych, the term for all multi-panel works. The middle panel is typically the largest and it is flanked by two smaller related works, although there are triptychs of equal-sized panels.

Side 1 - Vintage Christmas

Side 2 - Traditional Christmas

Supplies used:

Altered Pages collage sheets:  Happy Holidays (AP-505), Holiday Postcards (AP-1155), Ivory Angels (AP 2090), 
Christmas Emporium 8x8 paper pad (Graphic 45)
Graphic 45 Coredinations Cardstock
Vintage Text Paper
Faber-Castell Big Brush Pen (Brown)
German Scrap
4x6 chipboard pennants (Paper Accents) (3)
Hinges (Tim Holtz)
Distress Stain:  Old Paper (Tim Holtz)
Copper Metallic acrylic paint
Ink Pads:  Dark Moss Chalk (Colorbox)
Doily die (My Favorite Things)
Ornate Frame die (Tim Holtz)
Mini Rosettes die (Tim Holtz)
Botanicals, decorative brads, bling

Directions:

Cover one side of three pieces.  This will be the front side of the triptych.

Attach hinges, as shown.  

 

Reverse side - brads holding hinges show

Cover the remaining sides of the three pieces, covering the brads that hold the hinges on.

Die cut ornate frame from Christmas Emporium red print paper and chipboard, adhere together.
Center holly flower girl (AP-1155) in center of frame and trim to fit inside opening.  Use brown big brush pen to finish off the frame edges.

Adhere to center panel with foam dots.  (see photo below)


Die cut one doily from Astroparche paper, distress edges with Vintage Photo, and cut in half.

Cut out two half circle poinsettia images (AP-505) and adhere to each half of the doily die.  

Adhere to both side panels, as shown.

Die cut two mini rosettes from vintage text paper.  Add a strip of washi tape to back of rosettes to give this fragile paper more strength.  

Form into rosettes following directions on die.

Stamp a "2" and a "5" onto a scrap piece of the vintage text paper with moss chalk ink.  Punch out with   1/2" circle punch, adhere each to center of rosettes.  Add 1/2" epoxy circle to center.

Add oval centers (removed from center of ornate frame die cut) and add to both outer panels, as shown.

Trim "Angels" image from AP-2090.  Adhere images to ovals, add botanicals and gem flourishes, as shown.  

close-up of decorative brad covering ends of botanicals

For reverse side, trim and distress edges of Climbing Santa, Merry Christmas Santa, and two ivy spray (AP-505-Happy Holidays), Santa with child  (AP-1155-Holiday Postcards).  Add Old Paper distress stain to edges and adhere to coredinations cardstock cut slightly larger than image.  Adhere to reverse side of triptych, as shown.

Adhere a strip of German scrap to the bottom of each panel.  If you want to tone down the bright gold color, you can apply a thin coat of a black metallic cream or black archival ink and wipe off excess.

A few close-ups of the botanicals and embellishments.

I hope you have enjoyed my Christmas Triptych and directions for making it.  These are very easy to make and are so beautiful as stand alone decorations for any occasion.

You can get all your supplies to make this at www.alteredpages.com.  And don't forget to stop by the Altered Pages Monthly Challenge Page to see all the inspiration from the design team, and go vote for your favorite in the side bar.

Thanks for stopping by.  Happy Thanksgiving to you all!

Barbara

Love Forevermore and Time Well Spent Cards

Hello everyone, and welcome to my blog.  This is a really exciting day for me.  I have the great honor and pleasure of sharing with you the first post as a member of the newly-formed design team for Sin City Scraps. Sin City Scraps has a beautiful selection of rubber stamps and accessories, and I hope you will take some time to visit their online store.  I guarantee you will love their products as much as I do.

Since Valentine's Day is just around the corner, I naturally chose to make a couple of Valentine's Day cards.   I call my first card "Love Forevermore".

1.  Adhere 4-1/2" x 6" piece of blueish green print paper to ivory card base.  Round corners.
2.  Use largest size of decorative labels eight die to cut green print paper.
3.  Use next to largest size of labels eight die to cut olive green print paper.
4.  Use largest scalloped heart die to cut off white print paper.
5.  Use largest classic heart die to cut pink polka dot paper.
6.  Ink scalloped heart edges with Brilliance lightning black ink.
7.  Distress edges of remaining papers with brushed corduroy distress ink.
8.  Adhere paper layers as shown in photo.

9.  Stamp mannequin tags 2 image onto a piece of green print paper using Brilliance lightning black ink.  Emboss with clear embossing powder.
10.  Color image using Distress Markers.
11.  Trim image and adhere to card with pop dots.

12.  Punch two sets of wings.  Remember to turn the paper over when punching the second set of wings.
13.  Stamp any small scroll image onto each wing using scattered straw distress ink.

14.  When dry, layer the wings and attach beneath the stamped mannequin image.

15.  Color off-white seam binding using Scattered Straw distress stain.  Bunch up and allow to dry to achieve the vintage, crinkled look.

16.  Tie ribbon around one edge of the pink polka dot heart and tie in a bow.

17.  Attach the "Forevermore" metal tag to the bow using a mini safety pin.


18.  Stamp "Love" onto another scrap of printed paper and cut out.  Trim one edge into points and distress the paper.
19.  Adhere beneath the mannequin image.

20.  Add two clear dew drops to mannequin image, and add a layer of 3D crystal lacquer to moth body only.

Supplies used:
Sin City Scraps Rubber Stamp Plate mannequin tags 2 (mannequin tag) (Love)
MME 6x6 paper pad - Market
Ivory Card folded in half to measure 5" x 6-1/2"
Tim Holtz Idea-ology mini safety pin and Forevermore metal tag
Distress Ink (Old Paper, Scattered Straw, Brushed Corduroy)
Distress Stains (Scattered Straw, Shabby Shutters)
Distress Markers (Pumice Stone, Spun Sugar, Weathered Wood, Old Paper, Scattered Straw, Picket Fence, Tattered Rose, Tumbled Glass, Bundled Sage, Shabby Shutters)
Brilliance Lightning Black ink pad
Spellbinders Decorative Labels Eight (largest size)
Spellbinders Labels Eight (next to largest size)
McGill Punch - Angel Wings
Sakura 3-D Crystal Lacquer
Any scroll image rubber stamp
Off-White 1/2" seam binding
Foam pop dots

My second card is entitled, "Time Spent With You".  I plan on giving this one to my sweet husband.

1.  Cut 5" x 6-1/2" printed paper from Timeless Type paper pad to cover front of ivory folded card.

2.  Stamp "IV" and "X" from Clockworks Inspired by Terrri Sproul stamp plate, as shown, with Versamark ink.  Emboss with Pearl Gold Lustre embossing powder.  

3.  Adhere to ivory folded card front.

4.  Use largest scalloped heart die to cut off white print paper from MME Market pad.
5.  Use largest classic heart die to cut pink music background paper from MME Market pad.
6.  Ink scalloped heart edges with Brilliance lightning black ink.
7.  Distress edges of remaining papers with brushed corduroy distress ink.
8.  Adhere heart layers as shown in photo.

9.  Stamp clock face image from  Clocks and Birds stamp plate onto white card stock using Archival black ink pad.

10.  Color image using Distress markers.  Blend colors with a water brush.

11. Cut pocket watch using Spellbinders die several times onto thin chipboard and gold hammered card stock.  Glue pieces together for dimension.

12.  Cut out a template using 1-3/4" circle punch.  Place over center of pocket watch and line up punch with template to punch out center.

13.  Adhere pocket watch over clock face.  Fill center with 3D Crystal Lacquer to give the appearance of glass.  

14.  Punch two sets of wings.  Remember to turn the paper over when punching the second set of wings.

15.  Mix Terri Sproul's Pearl Garnet Mixer with water in a mini mister bottle and spray the wings. 

16.  Allow wings to dry.  Layer wings and attach beneath pocket watch.
17.  Sprinkle a few Robin's Nest Soil dew drops for added interest.

I computer-generated the sentiment inside the card, as follows:

"Time spent with you is time well spent.  

Happy Valentine's Day!"

Supplies Used:
Sin City Scraps Rubber Stamp Plate Clockworks Inspired by Terrri Sproul (Roman Numerals - 14)
Sin City Scraps Rubber Stamp Plate Clocks and Birds (clock face)
DCWV Timeless Type 8x8 paper pad
MME 6x6 paper pad - Market
Robin's Nest Dew Drops - Soil
Distress Markers (Pumice Stone, Spun Sugar, Weathered Wood, Old Paper, Scattered Straw, Picket Fence, Tattered Rose, Tumbled Glass, Bundled Sage, Shabby Shutters)
Spellbinders Die - Pocket Watch
EK Success 1-3/4" circle punch
HOTP Gold Hammered Cardstock
Quickutz 4x12 double-sided adhesive chipboard
Ranger Archival Black ink pad
Versamark ink pad
Gold Pearl Lustre embossing powder

Well, I hope you enjoyed my project cards this week.  Thanks so much for stopping by, and please be sure to visit the Sin City Scraps blog to see what the other extremely talented design team members have prepared.  Inspiration awaits you.

Have a happy crafting week!

Barbara

Sin City Scraps Design Team Application

Hello everyone, and welcome back to my blog.  Once again, I am throwing my hat in the ring and trying out for the Sin City Scraps Design Team.  I am so excited to be trying out for such a wonderful company because I truly love their stamps and all of their other products. Did you know that some of their stamps are designed to coordinate with select Lifestyle Crafts (aka Quickutz) dies?  Did you also know that Sin City stamps are designed, pressed, and packaged in-house, enabling them to charge less than their competitors.  Isn't that fantastic!  

So, without further adieu, here is the project I made, and how I made it.  It is one of my favorite forms of altered art, a Triptych.

Cut two strips of Tyvek from a postal envelope approximately 2" x 4-1/2" and glue between the three chipboard pennants, forming a hinge.

Leave a gap between the chipboard pennants to allow for hinge movement.

Paint all edges, including the hinges, with black and brown acrylic paint.

Cover each chipboard base with a 4" x 6" piece of the Prima printed paper.

Front side of Triptych

Reverse side of Triptych

Triptych Panel 1

Die cut chipboard dress form, paint with brown and black acrylic paint, then dry brush metallic olive paint over that.  Stamp mannequin onto manilla card stock, color with colored pencils.  Add 3D crystal lacquer to grass and butterfly images.  Let dry.  Attach stamped image to chipboard dress form.  Trim excess chipboard.  Add charms, as shown.

Dust a red velour metal flower with Red Pearl Mixer.  

Glue to Panel 1 over wing charms.  Add Prima Junkyard Findings zipper pull, as shown.

Stamp "Treasure" onto a piece of linen burlap trim.  Attach snap and charm, adhere to panel, as shown.

Triptych Panel 2

Paint a wooden doll house window with brown and black acrylic paint.  Adhere black plastic gutter guard to back of window.  Glue to center panel 2.  

Adhere Prima flower vine and metal bird nest charm, as shown above.

Stamp two bird images onto Specialty Stamping paper using black archival ink.  Add color using both distress inks and colored pencils.  

Cut out each bird and glue to window, as shown.  

Triptych Panel 3

Color wooden flourish with distress inks and glue to panel, as shown above.  Attach metal gear and flower charms to the flourish, as shown.  Mix a tiny amount of 3D crystal lacquer with a smidgen of Red Pearl Mixer to make a paint and apply to edges of metal flower.

Stamp small clock image onto manilla card stock.  Color with distress inks.  Coat with Crackle Accents and let dry.  Adhere to panel, as shown.

Stamp into Creative Paperclay that has been rolled out to approximately 1/4".  Trim around the image with a craft knife, and smooth edges with fingers, if needed.

Poke a hole in the center of the Paperclay, and apply Red Pearl Mixer (powder) to the Paperclay.  Allow the Paperclay to dry. You can use your heat tool, carefully, to speed up the process a bit.   However, the paperclay will probably take 24 hours or more to dry thoroughly.  Apply a coat of Luminarte Metallic Olive Green paint to the Paperclay, and wipe off excess paint with a wet wipe or wet paper towel.  Continue adding and removing paint until you like it. 

Stamp image again onto a piece of specialty stamping paper using black archival ink, dry ink with heat tool.  Add distress ink colors to the image and fussy cut the woman and tiny balloon images.

  

Adhere to the same areas in the Paperclay.  Insert a brad through the Prima clock hands and through the hole you made earlier in the center of the Paperclay.

Whew!  You're done.  In case you forgot what the finished piece looks like, here it is again.  

Finished triptych laying flat

Products Used:

Sin City Scraps sc5 - Mannequin Tags 2

Sin City Scraps sc3 - Clocks and Birds

Paper Accents Arched Chipboard Pennant

Wooden doll house window

Prima Romance Novel papers

Prima Flowers-Pixie Vine-Almanac

Prima Junkyard Findings 

Maya Road Linen Burlap Trim

Creative Paperclay

Terri Sproul Mixers (Red Pearl)

Sakura 3D Crystal Lacquer

Kaisercraft wooden flourishes

Ranger Crackle Accents

Luminart Metallic Olive Green Paint

Ranger Manilla card stock

Ranger Specialty Stamping Paper

Black Archival Ink

Sizzix Tim Holtz Alterations die - Sewing Room

Bead Landing Beads and Charms

Black plastic gutter guard

Black and brown acrylic paints

Distress Inks (various colors)

Lyra colored pencils

Tyvek postal envelope

I sure hope you enjoyed my project today.  I had an awful lot of fun making it, and I am very pleased how it turned out.  I absolutely love my stamps from Sin City Scraps, and I encourage you to check out their online store to see for yourself.  Thanks so much for stopping by today, and I hope you will visit often.