My Etsy Shop is Open!

Hello Friends,

Happy to share with you that I've once again opened my Etsy shop!  This time I'm selling more altered items than cards.  (There are some cards, but not like before.)  I shared a sneak peak of some of the items I made for it on my last blog post that you can check out if you're interested.  And if you have some time, I hope you'll run over and browse my shop called "Itsapassion" on Etsy.  Tell your friends LOL!!  :)

In the mean time, I wanted to share the Pop-up card I made for my parent's anniversary recently.  It's made with a Karen Burniston for Sizzix die called "Zig Zag 3-D Pop-Up". Here is a link to her YouTube video so you can see it in action!

 

I love the way the pop-ups criss-cross each other when the card is opened!  It's adds a fun surprise twist to any pop-up card.  For my card, I designed it with two butterflies that would criss-cross when you open it.

My lead blog post photo shows the outside of the card.  There is no stamping on the outside.  I used brown cardstock for the card base and Mariposa by DCWV DP for the rest of the card.

The butterflies and flower images are all K&Company die cut pieces from the Susan Winget "SW Nature" collection.

I stamped "Happy Anniversary" on a die cut from the same collection for the inside of the card.

The only other embellishing I did was some line doodling around the yellow flowers (to make them pop a little more) and around the perimeter of the card layer, some Ranger Stardust Stickles to the center of the flowers, a beaded wire spray, and some brads to each corner where my doodled lines crossed. 

TFL, I'm so glad you stopped by!

Collage Style

Hi Friends,

I've found myself admiring the doodling and collage style of many of the artists I've been stalking over on Pinterest.  So I am testing the waters here... bare with me on this one!!

I'm guest hosting over on Splitcoast this weekend and the website I chose is called "Close 2 My Art".  "Michele" the artist of the pieces found on this website, is incredibly talented, with a very playful flare.  "Often, if something seems too perfect, I will skew it towards the unrealistic to capture the essence of a whim. Although the pieces I design are practical, my hope is that my art will never become so serious that I betray the uniqueness that inspires me."

I love her work!   I chose this fun "Bike Art Print" from her shop as my inspiration.

I started with a card base of Crumb Cake CS and partially covered it with a torn dictionary page from this old dictionary book I got from an antique store - $5.00.





I then stamped the bike (by PSX) onto another sheet from the dictionary, and dry-brush stippled over it with TH Worn Lipstick distress ink.  I then outlined the bike in a teal Copic shade.  Had to add Flower Soft to the basket!  I trimmed it down and then layered that onto dark brown cardstock.

The next part was very simple, I just mounted a sheet of patterned paper from the "Colorful Life" stack by DCWV (perfect for this project) onto dark blue cardstock, layered that onto the card base at an angle, then the bike layer over that.  I then added stitch marks all around my layers.  




Next I turned to some more Tim Holtz goodies for the fun part... I used an Adirondack Acrylic Paint Dabber in "Snow Cap" to smear some white paint over the layers to make a space for my sentiment.  I let it dry then stamped the sentiment from SUs "Happiness is a Journey" set on the white paint.  I layered a strip of acetate Film Strip Ribbon by TH over the top of all the pieces, and finished with some hearts that I doodled and cut out from the same DCWV paper.  Added a little more distressing to the edges of the card and it was done!

I know it's a little "amature-ish", but I really enjoyed dabbling in the collage realm!  Thanks for sticking with me on this one!  LOL!

TFL, I'm so glad you stopped by!

Thanks Set - Paper Piecing

This set is for my sister who asked me to make her some Thank You cards.  I really love the stamps I got from Purple Onion Designs designed by Stephanie Ackerman.  They are whimsical, easy to color and fun to paper piece, depending on my mood!  And they remind me of Judy, my sister who's going to get these! 

The stamps I used on these cards are "Hearts on a String", "Faith the Chicken", "Curly Bird" "Heart Flower" and "Pot-a-Flower".  (The "Thanks" sentiment is one of 3 freebies that came with my order!)  I stamped several different Basic Grey DP scraps with all the images so I would have a big selection to choose from when it came to assembling the cards. 


I made this set assembly-line style.  I first cut out my 6 main panels in white, doodled all the borders and then mounted them onto black CS.  Next I stamped my focal images onto the panels using Versafine Onyx Black ink.  Then, I just started cutting out the different matching pieces from the DP that I had stamped earlier and created the pieced images.  I popped up some of the pieces with dimensional tape.  On the big flowers, I added a K&Company bauble in the center just because they were the same fun, whimsical style as the images.  Once the focal image was done, I then selected some coordinating DP to layer under the finished panel, added another layer of black CS and finally, I mounted the whole thing onto a white CS base.

Here's pics of them individually:

 

 

 

 

The teeny hearts on all the "Thanks" sentiments and the teeny birdies like the one on this card are just some that I drew on DP and cut out and glued to the cards.


TFL, I'm so glad you stopped by!