Mojo Monday 266

Hey all!

I'm here to share a fun little card I made based on a sketch from this week's Mojo Monday entry. I also used a few new sets of mine that are up in my Etsy shop.

Here is the sketch I used:

And here is my take on it:

The owls are from my "Snowy Owl" set which was another collaboration between my sister and I.

 I printed everything and then cut the pieces with my Silhouette. The snowflake paper and sentiment are from another owl set called "Winter Owls". The berries are glittered with diamond glaze and ArtC glitter my husband bought me as a stocking stuffer for Christmas last year (A man that buys me glitter? *swoon*). I added a rhinestone to the sentiment for a little sparkle and then finished it off with a dupioni silk ribbon bow. 

Here are the full sets that I used:

Also, I have been experimenting with printing on vintage book pages using some of my vintage flower and fruit illustrations and did these pieces for my boss to hang in her home.

Won't these be just gorgeous framed and hung side by side? It was super easy to do, I just taped the vintage book page in the middle of a piece of copy paper (make sure your tape isn't too sticky or it will tear the paper) and ran it through my inkjet printer.

Thats all for now, thanks for dropping by and be sure to enter this week's Mojo Monday contest!

Images/Sets used:

- little owls, branch: "Snowy Owls"
- sentiment, snowflake paper: "Winter Owls"
- vintage peaches printable art
- vintage pomegranate printable art
- vintage pear printable art.

Cricut Cartridge: Art Nouveau: Project #7

So today I tried glass etching for the first time! There is definitely a skill to it as far as getting the image to come out perfectly even but I was really excited by the results, imperfect though they may be. I have a collection of old candle jars that I use to hold various craft supplies so I decided to experiment on one of these and some armour etch that I recently picked up at Ben Franklin. This jar was perfect because its large and the front is relatively flat. I cut the moth image from Art Nouveau out in vinyl and then weeded the parts I wanted to etch. I used transfer tape to place the vinyl on the jar and then layered etching cream over it. Warning: when they say you need a thick layer over the whole thing, they really mean it. I had thinner areas and you can see how that changed the depth of the etch. In this case its better to have too much than too little : ).






~Here's to the creative journey

Cricut cartridge Art Nouveau #6

Snow Day!

Today was the first snow of the year and also the first snow that my husband and I have had since we got married. It was perfect because we were planning on taking down our Christmas tree today but being able to sit with the christmas lights on and snow falling softly outside was so magical. Our tree is a little trooper, we cut it down ourselves right after Thanksgiving and its still drinking water. I asked my husband to help me start taking it down and he gave me his best little boy puppy dog face and said "we can't throw it out when its still alive!" Oh well, I guess it will be here for another week.

The card I made for today is for my Mom. When I saw the calla lily image on the Art Nouveau cartridge, I was really excited because calla lilies are one of my mom's favorite flowers. My mom also likes simple, beautiful cards so I kept this one as simple as possible. The pieces were all printed and cut with my Imagine and then I painted on some iridescent medium onto the top flower layer and touched it all up with copics. The background was embossed with a Cuttlebug folder and the ribbon is Midori dupioni silk ribbon. I love, love, love this ribbon. It forms beautifully, although it is on the pricey side so I try to save it for my most special cards. Enjoy!





~Here's to the creative journey

Art Nouveau: #2 and Mojo Monday #222

Hello!

Today I was totally inspired by the new Mojo Monday sketch and had already put together this water lily from the Art Nouveau cartridge. The papers were all K&Company and the sentiment was Verve. I stamped it in Versamark ink on a Spellbinders die and added some pearls. The script pattern was two strips of Tim Holtz tissue tape (love, love, love that stuff). The lily itself was printed and cut with the imagine and then I touched it up with some copic markers and Stickles glitter. Easy Peasy!





~Here's to the creative journey

Art Nouveau: #1 (images currently down for publication)

We will be starting with my most favorite cartridge and one that I just got for Christmas: Art Nouveau. I am glad we are starting with this one because not only is it my favorite, I have had a very difficult time finding many projects that have been made using this cartridge. I'm hoping this will change that! If anyone has this cartridge and has used it, I would love to see pictures!

My first project is a card using the tulip image from the cartridge. I love the complexity of these images and have been totally intimidated by them before i had the Imagine, which allowed me to custom color the layers and print them all out on one sheet. Woot!


I glued togther the layers and put it on a tag from the lacy labels cartridge printed with the script from the Imagine cartridge called Lori's garden. The flowers are shaded with copic markers and covered in two coats of diamond glaze. Then I just popped it up with pop dots on some DCWV paper, and added some May Arts ribbon and a sentiment. voila!



A closeup on the flowers, I was really happy with how shiny and dimensional they turned out!

~ Here's to the creative journey