Beauty

Afternoon all:
Prima is having a DT call for the month of June...DT Call.  So I thought I'd throw my hat in the ring.

  This is an ATC that I did for our swap group about a month ago.  It's using Prima Princess Stamp, Maia.  The stamp itself measures about 4 x 6, so I only used her face.

I colored her in with Copic markers and added a touch of glitter with pearls.

Just because you have large stamps, doesn't mean you can't use them for smaller projects.  Try only using a portion of the stamp!  This only means less coloring for those afraid to wade into the sea of colors, lol!

Hope you have a great rest of your weekend and happy crafting!

Jodie, aka The Caffeinated Crafter

Latest Creation

Hi everyone,
I hope everyone is having a great week so far.  My weekend started off a bit bumpy but life sure has a way of balancing things out.
I managed to create a few things, below is one of them...

The image is from a company called Stamp Annie Thing.  They have a lot of great images, that you should definitely check out.

I also decorated the inside with a few flowers. The paper is from Hobby Lobby and I colored her in with Copic markers.

Then I added some glitter to her shirt & hair using Wink of Stella, plus the paper already had wonderful glitter on it.

I hope everyone's week continues to be great and happy crafting!!

OMG, I can't believe that it's been since July 2015 since my last post.  Time sure does fly.  I have to say, most of my time has been taken up with easing into my new job.
Yup, that's right, I am now the Administrative Assistant to the District Manager at Hobby Lobby.  There are times when I still can't believe how fortunate me and my family are.

But the real reason I'm back is that now that my schedule has evened out a bit, I have begun teaching classes again.  Even though I am now working at the Mandarin location, I teach out at the Beach Blvd. store since it is right around the corner from my house.

My first class is a card making class...
 You will make these three cards in the class.

The one after that is going to be a scrapbooking class...
 This is a 2 page 12x12 layout.

All you need to do is bring your basic tool kit.  The card class is $12 and the scrapbook class is $15.

Just email me and let me know if you are interested, and the registration closes on Thursday, Feb 4, this is so I have time to prepare the kits.

Hope everyone is having a fabulous weekend.

Happy Crafting
Jodie AKA Caffeinated Crafter

Hi everyone,
Can't believe it's been almost a year since my last post...where does the time go?  I hope you've been busy creating fun and fabulous projects or at least making amazing memories with loved ones.

Today I posted a quick 4 minute video on how to customize your plain, white embellishments,

http://youtu.be/k5UTFqHhLDE

Just click on the link above, and watch the video.  If you have any questions, just give me a holler, otherwise, enjoy.

Happy crafting,

Jodie, The Caffeinated Crafter

Julie Nutting Dolls

Bonjour my fellow crafters,

I hope everyone has been enjoying their summer.  Hard to believe that we are mid-August already.  I got back last week from a weekend scrapbooking retreat and it was a blast.

Just slept, ate and crafted for 2 1/2 solid days!  Awesome!!!  I'm going to start posting a few of the projects that I worked on while I was there.  Here is the first one using Julie Nutting Dolls by Prima...

I made a carry case from a tutorial video that I found on YouTube Mini Doll Cases Here is what the case looks like closed.  I haven't finished decorating the outside yet, so it's kind of underwhelming...

Here is what you see when you open up the case...

I was originally going to make her steampunk, but I was using the Graphic 45 Steampunk Spells paper and the halloween theme seemed to work better.  The drawers on the right are faux drawers, and here is a close up of the elements...

The gear is a sticker, the vial of "potion" is from Tim Holtz, filled with glitter while the clock is a charm I had lying around, now...

I free handed the hat, the flowers are from Prima while the word charms are Tim Holtz.

Now finally the cat is an old charm I've had for about 100 years and the hour glass is also a sticker.  These dolls are great to play with, I'm gonna try a beach themed one next also maybe play with a Christmas type carrying case.

Thanks for visiting and happy crafting,

Take care from Jodie - AKA The Caffinated Crafter!

Yes I'm Back

Good Day my fellow crafters,

Well, as you are all aware, life can certainly cut into your crafting time, and that is what has happened to me.  I couldn't believe that a month had gone by since my last post, but I hope to make amends with the inspiration of my lastest creation...

I've been working with the Julie Nutting girl stamps, even joined a challenge group for the stamps!  I paper pieced her outfit using "Collecting Moments" by Fancy Pants, then colored in her skin and hair using the following Copic Markers...

Skin - E000, E00, E02, E11 & BV02

Hair - E11, YR24, E37, E47

 

The dolls are great to work with, lots of space for coloring & paper piecing, I'll try to post more in the upcoming weeks, but here is Graycie helping me out with the presentation.  She wouldn't move, so what was I to do lol...

 

 

I hope everyone has a wonderful day, take care & happy crafting...

 

Jodie - AKA the Caffeinated Crafter!



Pigment Powders & Sprays

Bonjour my fellow crafters,

What is better to do on a rainy day than play indoors with your crafting supplies, of course while sipping on coffee goodness.
Today I decided to try out making my own shimmer sprays.  I have a ton and I mean a ton of colors of pigment powders so I decided today was the day. 
Here is the video outlining my exploits...

Making Your own Sprays

So just in case it's not clear in the video, the reason you must add the glue is that pigment powders have no binder elements in them.  If you just mix the powders with water, once the water evaporates, the powders will cease to adhere to the page.  The ONLY ones that will work by just adding water are PERFECT PEARLS, made by Ranger because they have a binder agent already in them.  Perfect Pearls are easy to use but a bit limited in their color choices.
Here are some samples of the pages that I did in my art journal using the sprays I made with the pigment powders...

Watch the video and see how easy it is to make your own sprays.

Hope everyone has a great day, take care and happy crafting!

Jodie - AKA The Caffeinated Crafter