Showing posts with label Heidi Swapp. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Heidi Swapp. Show all posts

Creating With Joy Letters

 I am so happy to say that I am Creating with



Joy S.A. Embroidered Letters & Appliques for Wearables & Home Decor that is!

Joy S.A. is sponsoring a blog hop with Designer Crafts Connections so be sure to check out all the amazing projects from the other designers. Use the arrows beneath the logo in my sidebar to the right to navigate the web ring.  

I was so happy to be given this opportunity and equally happy to be working with such a wonderfully talented group of ladies. Here is my first project.

Back at CHA (Craft Hobby Association) Super Show in January I was so lucky to get in on a wonderful traveling Make N Take on opening day sponsored by American Crafts, Heidi Swapp, Bazzill Basics Paper, and a few other marvelous companies. I was given this canvas album, complete with page inserts, and lots of embellies to decorate it. It has been sitting on my shelf mocking me since then because I have not been able to decide what to do with it.

As soon as I received my letters from Joy this album came to mind. Perfect for the Princess, yes? The album came with the silver star on the front. Who doesn't need more silver sequins in their lives? It is a little hard to see but I gave the background on the left side a spray of Heidi Swapp Color Shine in Gold for a little contrast on the canvas.


To dye my letters, which came a bright white, I used ColorBox Spritzers Ink diluted with a little water. I mixed the ink/water on my craft mat and pushed the letters around in the solution for a bit, then dried with my heat gun. 
The super cute little stars are also from Joy and dyed using the same technique. I added ribbon from Decorative Trimmings and Maya Road, a few flowers, and buttons from Buttons Galore and More.

Don't forget to hop through the Designer Crafts Connections Web Ring and be sure to check out the Joy S.A. web page here to see all of their amazing products.


CHA Recap Part 1

Hi everyone, I had lots of fun and saw so many amazing things at the CHA (Craft Hobby Association) Convention in Anaheim last week. It is so exciting to be able to go and see the new products each year. Here are some of the photos I took while walking the show floor- these products are will be shipping soon! We ordered lots of them for The Crafty Scrapper so keep your eye out for all the goodness to come.

 Of course, my very first stop on the show floor was BAZZILL - because you know I love that paper!


Pink Paislee, Heidi Swapp, and Bazzill had a Make N Take going on the first morning of the show, and I was lucky enough to get in on it! I have a very cute canvas album to finish up- you can see it in the photo to the left here; the one with the silver star on the cover. And the star is all in sequins, which makes it even better!


Next up was the Faber-Castell® Design. Memory. Craft. Booth- they had some fabulous Mixed Media products to release this year and I can't wait to get my hands on them!



We R Memory Keepers has some really cute new albums - and you know I love their albums! And the new FUSE tool was one of the hits of the show. I can't wait until these ship so I can play with it! We will be having Demos at the store, so stay tuned.






Kaisercraft always has beautiful papers and embellishments and this year was no exception.






















I was lucky enough to be able to take a mini-class at Bo Bunny to play with some of their new products and I absolutely love the new Glitter Pastes! I have a couple that were released last year, but I am pretty sure I am going to need all of them!  They are also releasing some really pretty laser cut chipboard pieces that you will be seeing in my upcoming classes.


I don't know why I don't have more photos of the Authentique booth- because they really are on of my favorite paper companies! Somehow I came home with one photo of this really happy paper line.  I will be featuring this in an upcoming class for a home decor project.

 



Ruby Rock It had some really cute items for cardmakers.


 Wendy Vecchi had some fabulous stamps this time around, plus beautiful new colors of ink and embossing powders!





















 OK- for all the Disney scrapbookers out there- this is the best embellishment I have sen in a while! They are not shipping yet, but they will be on the way this spring. These are from Jesse James Beads/ Dress It Up Buttons and they are the cutest things EVER.  There are many more varieties and I can't wait to get my hands on them.



 Of course, stencils are right up there on my list of things to have and there were some great ones released this spring.

 


 I was so excited to see the new ADHESIVE ribbons at May Arts booth. You know you want some- who doesn't? There are lot's of these on the way to the store!


















If you are a Filofax fan- these new journals from Pink Paislee are the same size as a Filofax and they are so cute!  They have the most amazing accessories to go with them too - so if you are looking to streamline your everyday memories, this is a great way to go and we will be having some classes using these great books.





















 So we all know I am a big fan of the Tsukineko brand of inks which is under the Imagine Crafts label and they had some great additions to the line up this year. There are several designed for mixed media art and you are going to love them!






The Delicata ink is a metallic ink that works on dark and light papers and is suitable for very detailed stamps. 








The StazOn Studio Glaze creates a Stained Glass effect on glass surfaces WITHOUT BAKING. It is available in all the StazOn colors and it is amazing stuff.
















The Amplify! Is very cool for adding dimension to your projects- use directly from the bottle and heat set to puff it up!







Of course, we have all been drooling over WRMK new rolling totes- with an optional cup holder no less! They are available in some yummy colors.









 That's it for today- I will have more later in the week, including all the photos from the Ranger booth!  Thanks for stopping by today.







Simple Pleasures- SNS

Hi everyone,, I hope you are having a wonderful Memorial Weekend!
To anyone associated with a service member- current or former- thank you for you service!

Today I have another project for Sparkle N Sprinkle to share
This is DD2 when she was a Girl Scout Camp Counselor- way back in the day! 
My papers are vintage ones from my stash, Heidi Swapp.
I started by stamping the new Travel Mixed Media stamp straight down the center of the page.

I used the Garden Silhouettes stamp set for my flowers. I heat embossed with Tuscan Sun, then covered the entire flower with VersaMark and embossed again using Stickum Powder. Finally I burnished with a mix of Daisy and Bubblegum glitters. 

Here it is from another angle, you can see how using the Stickum Powder allows the embossed edge to still show, even though the entire piece is covered in glitter. 

I applied a Super Adhesive Sheet to white cardstock,  die cut it with my Cameo in the heart shape, then burnished with Peruvian Lily GL. 

 The sentiment is from the Garden Silhouettes, I stamped with VersaMark and heat embossed using Detail Black EP, I wanted to show how amazingly crisp the Black Detail EP is - love the way is looks!

To see all the details on this layout and others, please visit My Gallery at Sparkle N Sprinkle. 

Thanks so much for stopping by today!
Have a great day tomorrow!


Here is a list of supplies used:
 
Travel Mixed Media #607
Garden Silhouette #600




Deconstructed Layout #4 Moments Like This

Hi everyone!
Today I have another project for
The Deconstructed Layout.


For today's project we are going to be working with the 
fabulous Lindy's Stamp Gang Magicals powders, which of course are
available in the Frosted Designs Store, so be sure to pick some up!


Here is a look at my project,,
I used the Prima Princess papers for this project, along with the new Heidi Swapp
Watercolor Tags, some UmWow chipboard, and Petaloo flowers.

I love this background I created with the Lindy's Nantucket Pearls Magicals 
Set- I have several sets, but this one is my favorite!

Here is how I did it,
I started by sprinkling the DRY powder onto my background paper, just a little bit 
then spread them around with my palette knife just a bit. . Here I used
the Cape Cod Coral- I love how these powders start white and change to such 
beautiful colors when wet! 

Give the powder a good mist of water, until the colors start to run. I did 
not use a paintbrush or anything else to mix them, I just sprayed with 
water and then picked my paper up and tilted it from side to side to let the 
water run around the page. 

Once you have moved the water around the page a big, use your heat gun to
dry the excess water. I held my paper up off the table while I did this so that
the water was still moving around the page- the heat gun will also blow it around a bit.
So it will get mixed up pretty well! Depending on how much water you sprayed
on, you may have to blot the last little bit of water off the page. 
You can add another layer of powder and repeat if you like. 

I am also loving the new Decorative Edge Chalk Tape from Fancy Pants. It is 
great to write on with your white Signo Pen. A couple of tips on that
#1- write slooowly- the ink really needs time to flow out
#2- set it aside to dry for a bit. Heat drying does not work on this- trust me. 

I sprayed my Heidi Swapp Watercolor Tag with silver ink, then stamped over it with
dye ink. I placed a bit of black cardstock behind to make the word stand out.

I am linking up at the following challenges:
Lindy's Stamp Gang April Color Challenge

City Crafters Challenge Blog - Paint It!
Southern Girls Challenge Blog - Earn Your Stripes


Well, there you have it!
I hope you give this background technique a try- it is so easy and fun.
You will be super impressed with the results!