Terrific Tuesday

Greetings and welcome fellow crafters,

I hope everyone had a great Memorial Day weekend.  Unfortunately I had to work Saturday and Monday, but I sure enjoyed my Sunday off.

So I've decided the delve into my drawer of "Ongoing" projects...

 Inside this drawer are new stuff that I've bought, not exactly recently, and have not yet processed.  By this I mean not put away in their spots.

So each week I'm gonna give you all a little peek into how I organize my supplies or new projects that I've finally got around to making.  This week the latter is true.

Here is the finished card, which I'm thrilled with.  If I had known it was gonna turn out so great I would have finished it ages ago lol

Below is a background I created when I attended a fun workshop at The Stamproom.  I stamped the background with Versamark, then used Pan Pastels to create the background.  I haven't quite mastered these pastels yet, but they can give some spectacular results...

So next I stamped elements for the card using Chocolate Baroque rubberstamps set Butterfly Poppy Collage, this stamp set was also in the aforementioned drawer lol.

Graycie really liked the butterfly...

I fussy cut the elements out, pop dotted a few of them up, then using an old stamp I had from Hero Arts, I stamped the saying onto the front using Distress Ink then heat embossed it with clear powder,

So after I added my bling and doo dads, once again here is the finished card, along with the inside.

I hope you enjoy the rest of your week, take care and happy crafting...

Jodie - The Caffeinated Crafter!

Watercoloring Stamping

Salutations Fellow Crafters,

I hope everyone is having a safe and fun Memorial Day weekend.  I just want to start off by thanking all the visitors I had to my blog during the recent Operation Write Home blog hop.  The comments were wonderful.

Here is a quick video - about 10 minutes long - about how to do watercolor stamping, using both water soluble markers plus Copic markers.  Yup you read right, I said Copic markers.

This is the project where I used one of the samples that I made. 

I added Wink of Stella Glitter Pen to parts of the flower, added Class A Peel stickers for the photo corners, and used a Tim Holtz rubberstamp set for the sentiment.  If you have any other questions just fire me off an email!
Here is the link to the watercolor video, enjoy and happy crafting!
Watercoloring Stamping

Operation Write Home Blog Hop

Greetings fellow crafters,

Here is the annual Memorial Day BlogHop from Operation Write Home.  I am just one of the many participants on this amazing hop Memorial Day BlogHop
Here is my contribution using one of their Sketches, #9 to be exact...

The stamp is from Memory Box, colored in with Copic markers and of course I had to add my bling in the center of each flower.  I also wanted to jazz up the inside so...

I partially put the insert into an embossing folder in order to get the embossing at the bottom.  Thanks for stopping by and a special thank you to all our military men and women.  Have a wonderful day!

Another Visitor

Bonjour my fellow crafters,

Not too much is happening at the moment.  I'm going to be participating in a blog hop from Operation Write Home tomorrow, so I've been making my contribution to that, which you will be able to see tomorrow.

It looks like it's going to be a somewhat large event, at least 100 folks are participating, so be sure and drop by again tomorrow. 

I also wanted to leave you with a look at one of our other fur babies, Tabitha.  She's our eldest, but that doesn't stop her from trying to get a look at what I'm doing.

I hope everyone has a wonderful Memorial Day Weekend.  Take care and happy crafting!

Finished Watercolor Project

Welcome Fellow Crafters!

I hope everyone is enjoying their week so far, of course we are only 2 days in so hopefully nothing too catastrophic has occurred yet.  I just wanted to post the final project that I demoed on the video that I posted last week...

I finished coloring in the flowers, then used one of the Spellbinder dies to cut it out.  I put foam tape behind the image to pop it off the card.  The butterfly and gold trim and all embellishments from Paper Artsy and are made of lightweight paper.  I just love them.

Hopefully I have inspired a few of you to give watercolor a try.  See what you have in your stash, any medium that is water soluble will work, and invest in a small amount of watercolor paper.  This will make you a lot happier with your efforts.

Have a wonderful evening and I'm off to watch the finale of Dancing With the Stars - go Meryl and Max!

Distress Glitter - CCC Challenge #2

Greetings Fellow Crafters,

I hope everyone had a great weekend, they just seem to go by so quickly.  Here is the latest challenge from Tim Holtz's latest book, Studio L3.

Of course, no matter how hard I try, I just can't seem to get Graycie to stop photobombing me lol!  Below I'm gonna give a bit of the "behind the scenes" process.  As always, I'm not gonna give an exact step by step instruction, you should check out Tim's book for that!

First off, I had to get me some of the Distress Glitter.  As some of you may be aware, I love me all things glittery, so I had to decide which colors I wanted to start with.  I chose grunge pieces and glittered them up.

Next I stamped and image using a set by Paper Artsy, then added glitter wings behind her, and used my Wink Of Stella pen to add a bit more pizzazz.  I also colored her skin in with copic markers.  I wasn't too concerned about going outside the lines, because I knew I was going to cut her out.

Next I created the background using Distress Paints, a stencil and the foam from the Ink Blending Tool.  I decided to use the foam because applying the paint directly to the stencil and paper made the paint seem under the stencil hence making the image muddy.

Since I had the stencils out, I made another background just for the heck of it.  With this one I used molding paste and glitter from Art Institute.  I just used a couple of stencils, applied the paste with a palette knife, applied the glitter while the paste was still wet and washed my stencils immediately.

Then I applied the Distress Paint, with water in order for the paints to blend.  I'm quite happy with the results and I'm gonna use this one for some upcoming project...

So here is the final project using the Distress Glitter.  The stamping was done with Archival Ink, since the background now had a coating.  I again used the Wink of Stella glitter pen for a bit of added punch!

I hope you all have a great week, and happy crafting!

Watercolor with Tombows

Happy Hump Day Y'all!!
OK, so a friend of mine kind of gave me a creative kick in the butt and I've started to do instructional videos.

This first one is about watercoloring with Tombow markers. They are a great marker plus are water soluble, so for the novice watercolor artist like myself, these markers lend themselves beautifully to achieving the desired results. Cause let's face it, who wants to invest a ton of cash into a medium that we find we can't work with and don't like!

If you have any other questions, just fire me off an email in cyberspace. Now don't expect Ron Howard quality movies. These videos are me, as I am, teaching as I would teach a live class.
I also seem to be having problems uploading them to the blog directly, so here is the YouTube link to the video, Tombow Watercoloring

Enjoy and happy crafting!