Sparkly Fun Friday -- big shiny glittery dots!

Sparkly Fun Fridays features a sparkly or glittery project using shimmer paints, embossing powders, glitters, rhinestones... anything shiny to welcome the weekend in a fun way!!!

Hi everyone,

Big juicy, glittery dots. I have to admit that I truly struggled to achieve somewhat of a balance on this card and I'm still not a 100% sure about it. But you know, it's humbling sometimes to put yourself out there with a project you're not completely satisfied with.

The starting point was a big felt flower I had in my "pick jar". I also had a whole bunch of punched out circles I was hoarding. So I added glue over the circle shapes and Dazzling Diamonds Glitter... hmmm... the effect was a little subdued. After I glued down my flower and added some bling, I was still not satisfied with it.

Out came the Crystal Effects! This stuff is so awesome. Talk about giving my circles new life! Here's the difference...

On the left, with Crystal Effect, and on the right just with the Dazzling Diamonds... I rest my case!

Have a nice stampin' day! CeeCee

Quickie Mini Punchy Sweet Treat Thursday !!

Sweet Treat Thursdays are all about food -- our other favorite topic -- and features ways to embellish/wrap/present something edible. CAUTION: May be hazardous to your waistline!

Hi everyone,

Quickie mini punchy sweet treat thursday, no joke, it took me 10 minutes. I didn't even use my paper cutter. Punches are so much time saving and what about my big shot...lov'em.

This little treat, could serve many purposes as shower gifts or as a place card on your next meal with friends.
Base was made from 2 tags in Pretty in Pink CS from the bigz die : 2 tags,1did score them @ 3/4"
Take a chocolate (nuggets from Hersey's) to see how much of an overlap you'll need, mine was 1/4 "
Punch a bunch of flower, from DSP and CS to built-your-own flower
pass the brad to the other side and open it flat.
Hid the back of the brad with a 1 3/8" piece on a DSP on stampin dimmensionnals
For the name, just stamp on a whisper white in old olive and punch with the small oval, mat it with a large ovale of old olive
Have a nice stampin' day

Gen

Whatever Challenge Wednesday -- Reach for the stars

Whatever Challenge Wednesdays features a challenge from the blogosphere, chosen randomly.
Here's our pick for this week:

Hi everyone,

Since I'm not home and this post is prescheduled, I chose an old sweet sunday sketch from june. Here's the sketch:

Here' s my take on this challenge: I went sideways and all about round instead of square.

I finally got to play a little bit of the sunny day Simply Scrappin' kit, it's just so gorgeous, I must play some more with it soon.

I colored the girafe with classic ink and a aquapainter on watercolor paper,so much fun.

Have a nice stampin' day

gen

Have a nice stampin' day!

Two 4 Tuesday: Watercolor Die-Cut Butterflies

Two for Tuesday features 2 projects that are similar in either color, theme, layout or embellishment but... with a different twist!

Hi everyone,

Today we're playing with lots of stuff and techniques. First, the butterflies. They're die-cut and embossed with Stampin' Up!'s Beautiful Wings Embosslits Die. Prior to die-cutting them, I rubbed my Old Olive and Taken With Teal Classic Ink pads across a heat-resistant craft sheet and spritzed the ink with water. This caused the ink to bead and mix. Then I laid a piece of Watercolor Paper over the ink to soak up the colors. The colors are quite vivid and fun.

For the background of my cards, I stamped the En Français and Woodgrain stamps with White Craft Ink to create fun backgrounds. Then I stamped an image from Kind & Caring Thoughts (a level 3 hostess stamp set) using Regal Rose and Old Olive markers to color the stamps.

That was so much fun to do. Each butterfly turned out different and I embellished them differently to give them character.

Have nice stampin' day! CeeCee

Quickie Mini Monday -- Happy birthday

Quickie Mini Mondays feature a 10 minute-or-less project -- something fast, fun and easy to reproduce and mass produce.

Hi everyone,

When you just don't have time to color your images, EMBOSS them. That'simply what I did here. So simple and you can switch paper to anything else, it's my GO-TO sketch for almost any stamp and any occasion.

Have a nice stampin' day

Gen

Sparkly Fun Friday -- Kraft with markers

Sparkly Fun Fridays features a sparkly or glittery project using shimmer paints, embossing powders, glitters, rhinestones... anything shiny to welcome the weekend in a fun way!!!

Hi everyone,
I wanted to try this technique since I saw what Catherine did here, coloring with Stampin' Up! markers on kraft paper. And I have just one word : AMAZING, I'm sooooooooooo in love with this technique it's almost magic. As I was looking for the perfect image to color, I happen to stumble in my "Christmas section" on this stamp that I had never used from the last mini...
I took off the "to: from: " and used a sentiment from sale-a-bration, happy birthday, just switched , red for taken with teal, and I just got a new stamp, yeah!!

Whenever I do a lot of coloring on an image, I like to keep the card quite simple, so that the focus stays on my hard work !!


I simply used creamy caramel and close to cocoa, tempting turquoise and taken with teal, certainely celery with old olive. Then I simply added some highlights with a white gel pen.

Since I needed one, I turned this card into a gift card format.

Have a nice stampin' weekend

Gen

Sweet Treat Thursday -- Glass Flower Candy Bag

Sweet Treat Thursdays are all about food -- our other favorite topic -- and features ways to embellish/wrap/present something edible. CAUTION: May be hazardous to your waistline!

Hi everyone,

Those who know are well aware that I'm a candy addict -- true enough! I'm blessed (or cursed) with having a Lindt Chocolates store near my place. For the spring/summer season, they brought in those wonderful Italian fruity candies. And believe it or not, the candy wrappers were my inspiration for today's project.

The wrappers look so vintage and I knew I had to try out yet another flower technique (I love 'em, love 'em). The candies were put in a Medium Cellophane Bag. I closed the bag with a piece of satin ribbon (sorry... not SU) that matched my flower. The tiny tag hanging from the flower is from the Tiny Tags Stamp Set and punched out with the Tiny Tag Punch.

Here's a close up of the flower. It really looks like it's made out of porcelain. The petals are punched with various punches and then molded and creased so that they look 3-D. Then each are dunked into a melting pot full of Glassy Glaze Enamel EP. The heat from the melting pot gives a transparency to the cardstock (here, I've used Ruby Red and Blush Blossom, two retiring SU colors come June 30th). They're a bit tricky to make and I'll have a video up on this technique when I return from vacation in a few week. I love the look and I can't wait to experiment with other colors and maybe add a bit of bling.

Have a nice stampin' day! CeeCee