New Elizabeth Craft Designs Release! "Beautiful" mixed media

Hello Crafty Friends!

What an exciting week: Elizabeth Craft Designs has introduced the new A Way With Words collection!

The first 11 items are Suzanne Cannon's designed dies while the next 7 are stencils...yay!

My first project using the new stencils was the "Beautiful" mixed media wall hanging.  From the bottom up it had a chipboard base, white corrugated board and a mixed media background.  The background was created using various green, blue and grey Dylusions sprays.  After drying the Swirly Flouris stencil and Faber-Castell's Glass Bead Glitter Gel were used.  It was cut to size and Distress Paint in Picket Fence applied along the edges.  The background was adhered to the corrugated board using strong liquid adhesive.

Next was the Beautiful die.  (Gorgeous!!)  It die cut 100 pound white card stock.  In the center of the die cut I adhered 1/4" thick double sided foam and along the outer edges of the die strong liquid adhesive.

Isn't the die lovely?

Two layers of sheer lacing was added to the bottom of the project.

Gem and frosted half pearls were added throughout.

Several pieces of ribbon were tied for the hanging and the project was complete.

Thanks for stopping by!  I hope you enjoyed seeing the new release collection and the project!

Have a happy, crafty day!
Big Hugs,
Kathy Jo

Weekly Inpiration 2- "Let it Snow"

Hello Crafty Friends!

Last week I shared the first weekly inspiration project.  This week my inspiration was snow as we had some beautiful snow on Wednesday and a wee bit on Thursday.  The snow was a perfect excuse to use Brett Weldele (of Stampers Anonymous) stamp set, Blizzy the Happy Snowman.  

Just like last week's project, I started with a large playing card.  

It was covered with two layers of white gesso and Faber-Castell's blue Gelatos was applied. Blizzy was stamped using Ranger's Archival ink in Jet Black:

Blizzy was colored using more Gelatos.  Next, Let It Snow was stamped and Faber-Castell's Big White Brush Pen was used to create small snowflakes all over the card:

Tim Holtz' Snowflakes stencil and Ranger's texture paste was used to add three large snowflakes.  The finishing touch was a dash-dot-dash frame using a fine tip black marker.

It will be interesting to go through all of the altered playing cards at the end of the year.  It is a fun project thus far as I can find inspiration from the week or from how I feel at the moment or whatever!  If you decide to do the project, please drop me a line as I would love to see your weekly creations, too!

Thank you for stopping by and have a happy crafty weekend!
Big Hugs,
Kathy Jo

This card is entered into the following challenges:
613 Avenue Create, AG
Word Art Wednesday, AG
Simon Says Stamp Monday, Stencil
Crafty Sentiments, Baby It's Cold Outside
Creative Fingers, AG
That's Crafty, Winter but not Christmas
Addicted to Stamps, AG
Little Red Wagon, Build a Snowman

CHA 2015 Recap- Faber Castell

Hello All!

I am popping in to share another product that I oogled over at CHA.  The oogling took place at the Faber-Castell booth over the new Gelatos colors.  

The four piece pastel set below caught my attention first.  The colors are soft and beautiful.  The colors would work well with romantic, vintage style project.  The set is called Macarons (colors are kiwi, fig, strawberry and elderberry):

A split second later I spied the set called Manhattan (gold champagne, silver ice, iced rose, and metallic icing).  Metallics were definitely popular at CHA and this set complimented the metallic style:

Can't forget this collection, Pastels.   The first row reminds me of spring and Easter colors.  Love that blue!

The Gelatos colors are so luscious!  If you have never tried Gelatos, it is worth buying a pack and playing.  My first pack was 50's Diner

I ended up purchasing a couple more packs and colored this stamped butterfly image (as an example):

I went with bold colors on the image but the background I watered down for a watercolor appearance.

Faber-Castell had a make and take in their booth and for the first time I used the Big Brush pens.  

It worked very well on a stamp and produced a nice image on my bright Gelato background.

Yes, the stamped heart may look like it did not stamp well but it was a grunge style stamp and that was the design.  Tres cool!  :)

Thanks for stopping by and checking out the Faber-Castell goodies!  My next post will be my last CHA post and will be a collection of products from various booths that grabbed my attention.

Have a good evening!

Hugs,

Kathy Jo