Inspired by {Theme Rooms}

This week Julie has  the Inspiration Challenge heads to the Theme Room Blog. 

Where I found this fun post about Movie Rooms. (and lots of buy-able links haha.) 

 

 These stamps are from a Club Scrap set from August 2014 called Cinema, and I "had to have" it because, our son love movies. he has his entire life. and his birthday is coming up soon. So, the film projector. ( I studied this image so much trying to decide how it should sit on the card, I remember the ones they use to wheel into the classrooms when I was a kid and it seems to me both wheels were up like in a horizontal line, but the big flat part really looked like a standing base to me so, if its you know showing on its side here pretend I got it right ;) ) The film strip ribbon is from Tim Holtz as are the bitty staples. the projector was heat embossed with ranger super fine detail powder on some pale gray (scrap) cardstock. The houndstooth print is from Teresa Collins line, the corrugate is from Die Cuts with a View.

 On the inside ( left panel) the Clint Eastwood quote is also from the same club scrap set and that Ampersand is a Tim Holtz die cut and the Happy Birthday stamped on red is an old ( retired) one from Two Paper Divas. This card finished out at 6" square in real life. I am debating about trying to wiggle in the word "have" somehow between the ampersand and the have a happy birthday but, at the moment it looks like this.

A look at the pillows that inspired this card, Thanks for stopping by.

Acetate Inked blooms

Karen has a cool idea this week in the try a new technique challenge for using your water based ink on acetate to apply to the base. ( there are cool photos in the thread here)  I have never actually thought of bending it before so, I tried this a few times and once on some watercolor paper. the ones on this smooth Neenah cardstock ended up much softer and have more color flow on them than the watercolor paper did. This is broken china, cracked pistachio and wilted violets oxides. the flower is Awaken from Penny Black its heat embossed with some Stampin Up pewter powder over the top of the dried background and then I decided to fill in the petals and stems with some regular distress ink markers ( same colors) and traced along the under sides with a pale grey zig marker.  the sentiment is from the Altenew crafty friends set and reads my soul is fed with stamps and ink. and is up on foam pop dots over the base. This one is A6 in real life.

WOYWW #452 {Backgrounds & Ornaments}

Happy Desk Peeking Day! To play along and or see more

 this hop starts here at our hostess Miss Julia's Blog.

 If you had walked up the stairs after work on Tuesday, plopped down your coffee ( tall grey travel mug, well its got to be 5 am somewhere right?) and pulled your phone out of your pocket to take snap shots this is what you would have found.  I had spent some time Sunday and Monday afternoons heat embossing a few background stamps on some 140# Mixed Media paper and adding some color to the resist with distress oxide inks.

 a closer look to the left. I did jot down notes on the scrap edges of the sheets because, if it takes me a while to use these I will no longer remember the stamp name or ink colors. (true dat)

 and on the right. what you cannot see is how many background stamps that are piled up on the file cabinets to keep going with this project. ( but, the mess I hit my limit so, after these were shot I cleaned) and got a sample done for next weekends Inspiration challenge coming up and then remembered I promised to shoot the snow in the daylight.

 so I grabbed the tree off the coffee table. ( no more ornaments were made since last week but, I have 5 weeks to get this done and the stuffs wrapped)

 This is all three layers of the snowflake dies in an aqua blue shimmer paper with some neenah white.

This one is Neenah white with some silver glimmer paper (the glimmer papers are a pain to cut because, they have this like clear film between the glimmer part and the paper backing ( kind of like foil papers if you know what I mean) so, this one I did poke a lot of those holes in the silver die cut with a needle and sharp scissors. so, I probably wont use the glimmer paper for intricate dies anymore but, it does cut. the sentiment on this one is from Tim Holtz.
So, that's about it for me thanks for stopping by.

Dainty Tea Cup

 This is how that Sizzix Tea Cup 3-D die turns out ( on the right) The papers used here are from Authentique. the little cream resin flowers are from Tim Holtz The lace is vintage. This is not quite big enough to hold a gift card unless you tilt it catty corner inside of the cup. and even then it will not go all the way to the bottom of the cup because of the shape of it. ( that is OK) it is bit enough to hold say tea bags or little treats, earrings, cash. that kind of a thing.

on the card version of this that background was cut with a lil'inker designs leaf pattern coverup die. I did ink the edges of the teacup on the card with an antique linen distress oxide pad. The sentiment came in the Hero Arts November 2017 my hero kit. that tag was cut with a pinpoint mainstreet tag from Poppy Stamps. The tag on the tea cup handle is part of that sizzix die that makes the cup.

Embossing Resist notecards

 This week's featured stamper is Karen and has this neat card that I have admired for a long time in her gallery and I thought well why not... so, changes were the stamps, color and I moved the sentiment down the card and switched out the pearls/pop dots for sheer ribbon. ( all of these cards are A2 in real life. ) For this one I heat embossed the SU fern lace background on some 140# strathmore Mixed Media paper and then scribbled some oxide distress twisted citron and peeled paint over the top. I swiped it with a baby wipe trying to get the clear embossed parts "clearish" again and it felt like it was making the card very pale. The sentiment on this one is from Impression Obsession and has been laying on the table for a while now.

 Same background & embossing powder with some broken china and pistachio oxide inks topped off with an Inkadinkado kid quote sentiment. again just really simple. this one is more like the colors of Karen's card.

 And since the mess had already happened. I ended up making 4 more backgrounds which became these two cards with 2 for the someday pile. this one is Ocean tides with cracked pistachio oxides over the top of some Ranger Verdigris powder. The background on this one is also from SU called fine lace. The sentiment is from Two Lips stamps.

now this was the very last one I tried also with the fine lace background and after I had swiped on some Candied Apple and spiced Marmalade oxides, it really faded into the lawn fawn rose gold embossing powder... so I swiped more ink onto a craft mat and dunked and drug this through the puddles. and wiped it with a baby wipe. and you really cannot see the embossed pattern except when its tilted just right, it lost the contrast. so, I probably won't do it this way again. ( depends on how long it happens before I emboss a pile of backgrounds again, I tend to do a bunch at once and it's very possible I will forget I didn't like this one haha. ) It probably would have been just fine with clear powder. That sentiment is also from Two Lips Stamps.

Inspired by {Needlepoint.com }

So I have had this Unity Stamp set called the other side of fear for a while now and it has never been inked and when I started poking around in the Needlepoint  site I came across this fun Whale wearing a red Santa hat and I thought oh, if you do those flowers red... and it went from there. I  just rubbed some distress oxide inks onto the cardstock with foam pads, colored the whale and ship with markers and then added some shading over the top of it all with pencils and gel pens for sparkle and pop.

 A closer look at the whale, I did try to keep him that green-ish color and I added slashes of water to the "water" part of the card trying for that snowflake effect from the piece. the Bottom of the card is some aqua colored textured paper from Micheal's that kind of looks like some papers I had a long time ago from provo craft. it has an almost fabric feel to touch it. I cut it with a My Favorite Things Homespun stitched lines die and ( used scissors on the top edge to cut it, the die just makes stitching lines)

That's about it for me, we actually woke up to measure able snow this morning and ( it wont last its supposed to rain today) but, it all looks so white and magical at the moment and it's nice to have the time to enjoy it ( that it happened on a weekend) :) thanks for stopping by.