VBS Trifold

Hello Everybody!

The last week and a half I have been busy with a trifold for my church's Vacation Bible Study.  VBS isn't until the summer but we wanted to drum up some excitement early. :)

I bought the board at a big box retailer, and I just bought the cardboard one.  The theme of VBS is the Deep Sea Discovery.  And we are going to talk about Noah and Jonah and the whale.

So using my Silhouette I cutout the 3-D version of Noah's Ark.  All of the images that I used on the Silhouette are from the Silhouette store.  I painted the sky and for the sea I used clear plastic wrap.  To turn the clear wrap to blue I used Tim Holtz's alcohol inks.  Mostly the bright blue one.

I cut a couple of doves from sparkly white paper from Doodlebug.  I cut a banner and put in the letters from VBS2016.  I used the Ed Sweetpea font.  This rainbow is made from tissue paper.  Tissue paper can be a great medium! :)

Here is Noah.  

Here is the tri-fold all done.  I cut the clouds, whale, and fish using the Silhouette, also.  The net was from IKEA I think.  We had bought some decorative spheres and that is what they came in.

I couldn't have made this without my Silhouette machine.  I love that machine! :)

So I am entering this into the Silhouettes Challenges #34 Anything Goes.

Until next time my friends, keep crafting! :)

Yellow Yellow Yellow

Hello!

I just finished a tag for the Not So Mellow Yellow Challenge at Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge.

All of the designers have done a great job with their projects-it's really hard not to be inspired!

So I made this tag.  I glued a piece of Tim Holtz tissue paper down on the tag.  Once dried I painted mustard seed (yellow) distress paint over the top.  I spray it with white Dylusions to lighten it.  I used Tim's ruler stencil and once the light modeling paste dried I put weathered wood distress ink over it.

It's so funny how the tag can kind of take on a life of it's own.  So from there an architectural feel started happening.  I painted a spot of gesso so I could use a Wendi Vecchi stamp and it wouldn't keep as much with the background.  But I didn't get the stamp inked well.  :(  But it's ok.  Then I stamped the words above the house as to me those are all things that describe a home.

I glued a yellow dragonfly to the the bottom corner.  

Here's a closeup.

Thanks for stopping by!  Until next time my friends...Home is where the heart is.  :)

My Favorite Technique-I just can't stop!

Hello Everybody!

I have one more card to share with you tonight.  I made this card for a friend of ours who's birthday was this week.  I thought it would be great to submit it to the Simon Says Stamp and Show: Anything Goes-No Rules!

I bought some new tissue paper the other day and used it on this card.  This technique is from Tim Holtz's A Compendium of Curiosities Volume 2 on page 38.  It really is my favorite!  I almost have all of the steps memorized!

I embossed Happy Birthday (TPC Studio stamp) with gold embossing powder.

The world is a Jenni Bowlin stamp and the crown is a Tim Holtz grunge board piece.

I hope you like this card as much as I do!  Until next time my friends...happy crafting!  See you again real soon! :)