Saturday, November 29, 2014

Nov. ARC

Again I looked through Media on Demand site to see on my wish list I wanted to read that was available to borrow, and not wait around for it to borrow it. I found this fun little read. "Classic Candy: America's Favorite sweets 50-80's by Darlene Lacy. I've read similar books to this one(Candy Freak by Steve Almond for one).  If your into nostalgia and pop culture this book is for you! The books has 5 chapters(not including introduction and further reading and places you can go). Covers Classic Chocolates, to and Classic Sweets, to fads and Trends(pop Rocks), Celebrates(Reggie Bar, E.T & Reese's Pieces) and Holiday Candies) From reading Candy Freak I knew a lot of the small company's were bought out by the big ones(Hershey, Mars, Nestle's). And I knew from reading (Veruca Salt) that Quaker was in the candy biz for a while (at least while they made the movie). But there were thins I didn't know and Candy I never knew that was made and now gone from was not selling or not P.C.

The pictures in the book were awesome! She had old ads of Candies through out the book. When I was reading the chapter of Holidays There was a picture of this little Halloween goodie bag that people could put candy in for the trick or treaters from I'm guessing the 60's.

 from the book

I saw it and was like "I have some bags similar to this that Rose gave me" So when I went downstairs to grab my stamps of candy for my art I grabbed one of them too for my journal page. :D





Monday, November 24, 2014

Christmas Cards 2014

A few weeks ago Susan of Amazing mold putty DT posted something on Facebook about a challenge over at Unruly paper arts for November. The prize is products from Amazing company. Makers of the Amazing Mold Putty, Amazing Mold Rubber, Amazing casting resin and such.


I already planned to make card using the Julie Nutting card set with the Santa outfit. I made some card bases using the Christmas Cardstock 6x6 pad by American Craft. But I had to stop for a bit waiting for decorative paper to be sent to me. Once I was delivered I finished the cards.



I stamped the girl and the bell on water color paper with  Black Stazon Ink pad. I colored her with Neo Color ii. The white I used diamond Stickles. The decorative paper is by Lawn Fawn Snow Day. I also used some decorative tape from Dollar Tree. I used Miracle Tape to attach the decorative paper and the Naughty or nice I used Aleen's Tacky to glue down the girl, the bell. 


I wanted to play with the new Julie Nutting stamps I stamped her on the same water color paper using the same ink and colored her skin and hair with Neo Color ii's. I thought that paper was so cute for her dress. Attacked the papers with Miracle tape and her with Aleen's Tacky glue to put her on the card.



Monday, November 17, 2014

back to basics

Yesterday was another art journaling class at The Crafting place. Taught by DeeDee Catron of UmWow studio and Viva Las VegaStamps! Last class we did transfers with laser printed images and heavy matte gel medium. Yesterday we learned how to use the heavy gel medium as an adhesive.

I had a hard time with taking a good picture of the page. Either it was too dark without the flash or too bright with the flash. sigh. But I managed to get a couple good ones.


The Bloom spray I used was the teal. The glitter I used was silver from the luminous set. The stencil is Netting mask by UmWow Studio.

After all the matte medium was dried I cut the page to fit in my journal.



Monday, November 10, 2014

NaNoJouMo days 4-9

Got around to take finish a couple pages and taking pictures. I can't wait to get a new place so I can have my camera tripod back. Then hopefully my pictures won't be so blurry and I won't have to take a zillion pictures to get 1 good picture. :/ Day 6 and day 7 are on tags. so hopefully I will have enough pages for the rest of the month. :)


Sorry for the blurry pic. I tried to get a decent pic. it wasn't happening. :(




Sunday, November 9, 2014

NaNoJouMo 2014

its that time a year again! and yes I'm doing NANoJoumo. It is a bit challengeing with no paint or sprays or stencils to use for my pages, but I am managing with using what I got. :) I can not wait til we find a place and get my stuff! Hope it is soon! :)  This year I'm using a book my friend Linda sent me (it also had some tags and goodies in the pockets, Its just enough pages if I only use 1 side of the book. Although I do have to use a couple of the tags to use for the prompts.

Right now I have days 1-3 pages of pictures. And I have days 4-7 done but no pics taken. day 8 is almost done.




Sunday, November 2, 2014

art journal class: transfers

So today was another art journal class over at the Crafting place taught by DeeDee Catron of Viva Las VegaStamps! and UmWow Studio. Today's lesson was all about Transfers with gel medium. I've done transfers before, but this was using images printed on a laser jet printer. I've done with magazine and inkjet.


the background is using stencils as stamps. We sprayed some homemade coffee spray onto the stencil. The one I'm using is the confetti heart stencil from UmWow. After spraying I carefully picked up the stencil and placed it onto the watercolor paper. After I dried it I took some Walnut stain distress spray and water on my craft mat. I took a cap from an old spray bottle and another circle from something and stamped it on the paper. They call it paper marking now, I still call it stamping. lol After everything dried I went outside to spray it with fixative. Definitely going to try and find SpectraFix Spray Fixative because you can spray it inside and not an spray paint  can like the other fixatives out there. Next I added some text paper and then did the transfer with the heavy matte gel medium. When I was taking the paper off some of the print was coming off too. I probably didn't add enough matte gel to the paper or the butterfly. I quit while I was ahead. I knew there was more white fuzz to take off but didnt want to risk taking taking any more off. When I came home I trimmed the sheet to size of the journal and attached with miracle tape. 




Saturday, November 1, 2014

Anything but A Card Challenge 41: anything goes

This month its anything goes for anything but a card challenge blog. And for the challenge I did an art journal page.

A couple weeks ago I was finally able to go to the Crafting Place to take a art journal class taught by DeeDee Catron. It was really fun. I got to play with the new Distress stain sprays to make the background. We also played with coffee spray spraying the book page die cuts and the canvas resist by Prima.

I chose Salted Ocean Distress Stain and the Picked Raspberry (Shocking I know! ) Distress stain spray. sprayed and dabbed on craft mat. Then sprayed water on them hen I dragged the water color paper to the craft mat. dried it with heat gun, then repeated for 3 more times. Then we glued on the dies and dollies on the bottom of the page.  doodled on the sides and top of the page. When I came home I did cut the paper to size to put in my journal. I had to doodle the top of the page again since it got cut off. Before we left I stamped the little girl wearing a crown from VLVS! on water color paper. I added her to the page when I got home. I used foam tabs to attach her. I added the sentiment from Ginger House Studio attached that with foam tabs too. I attached the watercolor paper to the art journal with Miracle tape.




Don't forget to check out the blog to see what the other design team members are doing and come play along! you can do what ever you want as long as its not a card!