Impression Embossing

Here's a different way to use your embossing powders:

The Stephanie Bernard stamp set is called Hearts 2 Die For !

Making Jewelry with Paper supplies

Happy Monday everyone! I am in Ohio with my mother who has had surgery and have been away for 5 days. Here is a video I made for you in advance. I hope you will find some inspiration here!
Back to my regularly schceduled program next week!

Flip It Valentine

Happy Monday Everyone! Before we get into this weeks video, I want to share with you a beautiful tag created by Kathy Paglia. She made this tag after watching my alcohol ink video last week. Isn't it gorgeous!!! Be sure to leave Kathy some love!

Also here is an ATC card I painted for a swap:
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And now on to our regularly scheduled program:

Alcohol Ink Valentines

A fun way to apply alcohol inks!

My camera's battery died before I could show you that I used Picked Raspberry Distress Ink on the embossed areas as well as the entire surface. Then I applied Fired Brick Distress Ink around the border of the paper and finally Black Soot Distress Ink on the card edges and in a smaller area around the Fired Brick boarder to frame the design.
Here are some pictures:

Texture And Spray Inks

You can use this technique for framed wall art or for a scrapbook page...or more!

Have fun with this!

Tag Background Techniques

Once again, Tammy Tutterow has posted some great inspiration for backgrounds!

A Place in Time Graphic 45 Calendar

Merry Christmas and Happy Hannakuh!
Today I'm sharing a calendar gift with you. I had such fun making it. I used Vintage Photo Distress Ink on all the paper edges and on the December Page I combined that with Evergreen Bough Distress Ink. I used the design team for Graphic45's blog for my inspiration.

Argghhh....I cut off my head and wore a too tight shirt...please watch the calendar instead of me!!!

Here are the photos of each page:

Suburbia and Stamping Gear

Sharing some fun things today!

Some close ups of the stamping gear designs. Does anyone remember Spirograph???

Late Night Hanging Out!

You know that December can get rather crazy, especially for an artist/crafter. This past week I had several deadlines to meet, as well  two in-person classes, a Birthday Party and an Art Club meeting/ banquet to prepare for, shop for and cook for. Along with my full time shift work job, this makes for a marathon weekend when it all has to be finished by 9:00 AM Monday morning. Also that means I leave my house at 8:30 AM and don't go home until after Midnight Monday when my work shift is over. So Monday Musings has to be finished by 9:00 AM Monday too!

Therefore, I made this video at 3:00 AM, uploaded it by 4, and now I am at work and it's about to go live!
I'm a little fractured by that time after so much drive for days in a row, as you can see! It's ok to laugh at me!
Near the end, I am telling you about a donation our Art Club makes to Indianapolis Riley Children's Hospital every year and I couldn't recall the amount our club has donated in full. So counting the $3000 we presented to them today, our total over the years is a nice $78,324.48 ~ SWEET!!!
My art club is a Chapter of the Society of Decorative Painters, an international painting service organization. It's main charity focuses are Memory Boxes for families of newborns who pass away, and Treasure Boxes for seriously ill hospitalized children. Our chapter participates in these two charities as well as with the Quilt Raffle for Riley Hospital. The website is www.decorativepainters.org
My chapter's name is Indy Decorative Artists and it's blog website is http://indydecorativeartists.blogspot.com/

First the tiny little video and then:

Monochromatic Winter Bell Jar Card

This is a "cool" card to make! Please enjoy the creativity and expand on your own!
P.S. Late edition edit: The stamps are either TPC Studios, or Recollections brands. The first is from JoAnns and the 2nd from Michaels. The packaging is long gone!

Here are two photos of the finished card:

This is fun to make and very quickly goes together. Since it is flat, it mails nicely too!

Contact me for supplies if you do not have a local store to purchase from!

cindi3021@yahoo.com

A Christmas Tile Gift

This is a great gift because it's easy, fun and inexpensive to create. It's also very useful and can be adapted for any season or for everyday use! The sentiment stamp set used in the cards at the beginning is by Hero Arts!

 

 

Clean and Simple, Assemblage and Assembly Lines!

This time of year, we do a lot of homemade gift-giving. A lot of us make our own cards to send to friends and family. Here is a video showing how to do a claen and simple handmade card and how to do a more involved assemblage card. The Toy Soldier assembly card is designed by Tammy Tutterow and you can see her original card here: www.tammytutterow.com 

Here are the measurements for my  Clean and Simple Retro Santa Card.

 Clean and Simple Retro Santa Card.

Card Base 5 x 7 prefolded card or 10 x 7 inch cardstock folded in the center.

Red Cardstock    6 3/4 x 4 3/4 inches

White Cardstock   6 3/8 x 4 1/4 inches.

Jenny Bowlin Cough Syrup Ink

Archival Black Ink

Tim Holtz Christmas Time CMS141 Stamp Set


Tammy's Toy Soldier Card

Kraft Cardstock

Dark Green Kraft Core Cardstock

Music Style Embossing Folder

Sizzix Toy Soldier Die

Sizzix Tattered Banners Die

Walnut Stain Distress Ink

Distress Stains Fired Brick, Picket Fence, Tea Dye, Black Soot, Metallic Stain Antique Bronze.

Studio Multi Medium Matte

Crackled Accents

Stampabilities Vintage Type Lowercase Stamps Set

Some Christmas ideas and Tim HoltzWreath Die