Posted on Thursday, March 16, 2017

My Redeemer Blog Hop and Contest

Welcome to My Redeemer Blog Hop and Contest event with Joy Clair! It is a special event showcasing the new Color By Faith Collection – My Redeemer.

The Joy Clair Design Team share their projects using the My Redeemer stamp set. This blog hop starts at Joy Clair blog , where you also will find the full list of blog hop participant, just in case you got lost. You should arrive from Lindsay’s blog. This blog hop is not only just regular blog hop, it is also a contest for you to have a chance to win a $25 Gift Card from Joy Clair Store.

For My Redeemer Contest, PLEASE READ all through the end to find THE KEY WORD from my post.

I created a mixed media wood sign using Color By Faith Collection – My Redeemer. I got a Small Rectangle Plaid Wood blank plaque at store. Then I covered it with scrap patterned papers using gel medium, sort of creating collage of papers on it. Once the gel medium dried, I added some white gesso on it.

I set it aside to dry white I was working on the cross. I stamped the cross with the Memento Lux ink on a white cardstock then added some brown gelato with my finger. Then I stamped cross again on a monoprint scrap paper that I have in my stash and fussy cut out the heart. I added the heart in the middle on the cross with 3D foam tape for extra dimension.

Next is adding colors on the background. My wood plaque was not quite dry yet so I used my craft heater to speed up the drying process.

Using blue green and brown gelatos, I added the colors on in. Gelatos blend smoothly on a primed surface. I used my finger and damp baby wipes to blend the colors. I added more pigment on around for darker shading.

Once I was happy with the background, I heat set it again with my craft heater. I added some gel medium on top of the background to seal the pigment, then dried it again with craft heater.

And next step I stamped the sentiments on it with the Memento Lux ink pad. The surface will be a bit slippery for stamping, so once you add your inked stamp on the surface, do no wiggle it too much, just firmly press down for couple seconds to make sure the ink transfer well on the primed background.

Here are the close ups of the stamping on it:

You can let the ink air dry, or you can use craft heater to dry it. I just let it sit on the frame stand and let it air dry. So that’s my mixed media wood sign 🙂 I hope you all be inspired and create your own Easter wood sign!

THE CONTEST!

Each of the design team will post a KEY WORD on our blog post and you need to create a sentence with these words. Once you have all the words, you will need to send me the sentence to my email — gulletthm at yahoo dot com — by March 19th, 11:59 PM EST. And one lucky winner will be chosen and posted on March 31st at Joy Clair Blog.

My key word is CLAIR

Your next stop is my team buddy… LeeAnn to see what she has created for you! And here are the designer’s blogs that you can visit to see more inspirations:

Joy Clair Blog

Martha Lucia Gomez

Donna Idlet

Kerry Urbatch

Steph Ackerman

Lori Kobular

Linday Andreon

Helen Gullet

LeeAnn McKinney

Jessica Pascarella

Thank You so much for stopping by my blog today. You all have a fabulous blessed day!!!

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Challenge #274 – #275

Posted on Tuesday, March 14, 2017

Three Calvary Crosses

Good morning everyone… The winter is not totally gone away yet… it came back this morning. I hope you all stay warm and be safe.

Today, I am sharing an Easter – CAS card with some watercolor painting and die cutting on it.

I painted the background with Gansai Tambi watercolor paint. I found several inspiration pictures on Pinterest and this is my first time painting the evening sunset sky 😀 Totally love watching how the colors blending together and change colors with the paint.

And I use the Three Calvary Crosses Die Cut Set from A Jillian Vance Design on this card too. I am sharing more pictures and details how I created this card is at A Jillian Vance Design blog.

I hope you all will visit me there and enjoy the post. THANK YOU so much for stopping by today!

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Posted on Tuesday, March 7, 2017

The Lord Is Risen: CAS Easter Card Set

Hello everyone… Today, I have a happy news to share with you! Starting this month, I am officially part of A Jillian Vance Design – Design Team! Super excited and thankful for the offer from Bunny and Jillian to stay after being a guest designer for 2 months.

And I am sharing a clean-and-simple (CAS) Easter card set with Simply Said: He Is Risen stamp set at the AJVD Blog. I hope you all will visit me there and enjoy the project.

THANK YOU for stopping by! Have fabulous blessed day!

Posted on Monday, March 6, 2017

March Art Journal: Spring Evening

Hello everyone… I start creating art journal since January and my goal is to learn new mixed media technique or try it every month. I am so thankful for those who share tutorials on YouTube 😀

So today, I am back today with the March Art Journal. I am inspired by Spring and lately the evenings have been wonderful here where we live 🙂

First, I created the night background with some Blue, Purple, Yellow, Turquoise/Teal and Pink acrylic paints plus some Black Soot Distress Ink. Once the background was done, I added some white splatters with white acrylic paint and brush.

One thing I learn when creating this background is that using baby wipe is better way to blend the Distress Ink on top of the acrylic paint. I tried to use my finger but it did not give me even blended background. And since the distress ink react with any kind of liquid, I would suggest to seal it before you add other medium on it.

Next, I added the clouds on the page with my new Clouds ARTplorations Stencil from STAMPlorations and some Ranger Texture Paste using my palette knife. I like how the clouds show the colors from the background when they dried. It is actually something new I found out, too, with using the texture paste. But I think it create the night clouds as I image 😀

And for the flowers I created them with some old book pages and stamp set I used is Blossom Stamp Set from Precious Remembrance Shop.

First I stamped the images on the old book pages with Ranger Archival Ink Pad. Then I fussy cut them with micro-tip scissors.

I added them on the page with some gel medium and let them dried well. You can always speed up the drying process with craft heater, that’s what I did only because I cannot wait.. LOL 😀

Then, the fun part is to color the flowers with Distress Crayons. I used the red, pink, yellow, orange and green from the set 1 and set 7. Just scribble a little bit on the image, and blend with finger. The colors are easily blended with the gel medium already covered the flowers.

That’s my March Art Journal. It is simple and I had fun time mixing mediums on this page 🙂 I hope you all will like it and will try to create something beautiful inspired by Spring flowers and colors around you.

THANK YOU for visiting me and have a fabulous day!

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Posted on Friday, March 3, 2017

It’s You Day

Hello everyone… March is here already. I am so looking forward to see more colorful Spring flowers everywhere 🙂 I hope you all are as excited as I am!

Today, I am joining STAMPlorations Theme & Sketch Challenge as their Guest Designer. This March Challenge theme is all about Stamp & Spring.

And here is the March sketch:

My card today is inspired by the March Theme and a bit of mixed media on it: watercolor pigment powder, stamping, colored pencils, archival ink, glitter and pearl gems.

First, I created the background with Color Burst powder and water. I added the pigment powder on my craft mat and spray with some water, then I smooshed the watercolor paper in it. I dried one layer at the time to create the depth of the the colors on top of each other. It is watercolor pigment powder so it always reacts with water. I also sprinkle some water on it and dabbed it of with paper towel for the extra dots texture on it. Then I run the panel through my die cutting machine with the the largest die from Crazy Double Running Stitch Rectangle Nesting Die – CUTplorations.

This is my first time to try the no-line watercoloring 🙂 and I LOVE IT!!! I stamped the Lily flower from the Smile Stamp – Dee’s Artsy Impressions with Antique Linen Distress Ink and I colored them with Prismacolor Premier Colored Pencils. I blended the color with the Prismacolor Colorless Blender Pencil.

And then I added some glitter on the colored flowers with Spectrum Nior Sparkle Glitter Brush Pen to give them some shine… Oh I love to put it under the light and enjoy the glittery and shiny flowers 😀

I stamped the sentiment from the same stamp set with archival ink pad on a white cardstock stripe and cut the banner tail with non-stick micro-tip scissors.

Last step is to put them together on the card. First I added the watercolored and die cut panel on the card base with lots of glue 😀 Then I added the flower with some liquid glue. And then I added the sentiment banner on the card with 3D foam tape. And I finished my card with some pearl gems on it.

That’s my card today. I hope you all like it and be inspired to create Spring themed projects this season 🙂 THANKS A BUNCH for visiting me today and you all have a fabulous day weekend!

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