Grandma's Needlepoint Garden

Deb here with my last post for August - another Art Journal page. I chose to use the Susan K Weckesser stamp set Grandma's Needlepoint since it has always been one of my favorites. I embroidered as a child and then as a teenager. I was quite the hippie and embroidered all over my blue jeans !! My mother and her mother were both excellent seamstresses, so this set also reminds me of them.

To start the page, I swiped inks onto an acrylic block - Ice and Fresh, both from Susan's collection of Clearsnap Colorbox Color POP ink pads. I then applied the inks to my journal page using an ink blending tool and a stencil. The  Tim Holtz Doily stencil has a pattern reminiscent of the doilies on the arms of the chairs at my parent's and grandparent's houses.

The silver pattern on the Left side of the page was created with the Doodle stencil by Susan and modeling paste by Art-C. Inside each circle are flowers that I stamped, colored and fussy-cut. They are from Journal Doodles With A Heart and each are popped up with a dimensional. They are just SO cute !!

Art-C Silver modeling paste

Doodle Stencil by Susan K Weckesser

At the upper and lower corners of the Right side, I used some rub-ons that I have had for many years by  Fancy Pants Designs. The images of the girl, birds, butterflies and sewing stitches were all stamped in Mystery / Colorbox Color POP ink and colored with a variety of Distress Markers, Stabilos and Stampin' Up markers.

For the tag, I used an American Crafts Newspaper Tag and my old friend, Mod Podge / Gloss . I printed the words to the Monet quote, cut them out, then adhered them to the tag with a few coats of Mod Podge. I placed the tag on the journal page with Dimensionals. I hope that you like my last post for August. Art Journaling is out of my comfort zone but I really had fun creating this page. Stay tuned for a new theme in September from Susan's team !!

Stamp Set Used :

Grandma's Needlepoint

Journal Doodles With a Heart

Debra Davison

Susan K Weckesser Creative Team

Easter Eggs Layout

Hello scrappy friends!  It's Lee-Anne here and today I am sharing an Easter layout for Susan K. Weckesser using some of her fabulous papers from the Live In Color Collection as well as Susan's stencil.

For this layout I started with a piece of white card stock and used a toilet paper roll and sprayed through the roll with Heidi Swapp's Colorshine Mists in Peach, Blush and Seafoam and then went ahead and cut some eggs with my Silhouette Cameo.  I also made a basket with strips of paper from Susan's Live In Color Collection and used my envelope punch board to create the bow.

 I then went ahead and assembled the basket of eggs and used some foam dimensional squares to pop up the eggs and then outlined the eggs and basket with a black archival ink pen.  I had a pleated velvet ribbon in my stash that I thought would be perfect for the basket handle.  I added some sheer ribbon on the handle and tied a bow.

For the title I used some Tim Holtz Distress Paint in Spun Sugar and painted two stipes and then added my chipboard title.

For the grass, I used Susan K. Weckesser's stencil and dabbed it with the Tim Holtz Distress Paint in Mowed Lawn.  I then painted some flowers and "stencilled" them with an extra egg die cut that I had previously cut with my Cameo in white card stock.  One of the flowers I "stamped" with the already stencilled die cut.  Finally I went around with edge of my layout with a large rubber dot stamp dabbing it with a yellow paint dabber, then a green one, a pink one and a blue one.

I hope you enjoyed my Easter Eggs layout.  Have a wonderful, creative day!

Supplies Used:

Adhesive - Beacon 3 In 1 Glue
Cardstock - American Crafts
Chipboard Letters - Basic Grey
Distress Paints - Tim Holtz (Mowed Lawn and Spun Sugar)
Envelope Punch Board (We R Memory Keepers)
Patterned Papers - Susan K. Weckesser Live In Color Collection
Mists - Heidi Swapp Colorshine (Blush, Peach, Seafoam)
Paints - Ranger Adirondack Paint Dabbers (Sailboat Blue and Sunshine Yellow)
Pen - Marvy Uchida
Ribbon - American Crafts (Sheer Yellow) May Arts (Pleated Velvet)
Rubber Stamp - Inkadinkado
Silhouette Cameo

mixed media layout wih Anita

hi everyone,

Wow mixed media month who doesn't like a splash of paint or mist and stamping or maybe you love texture well today I wanted to share a layout using 

Susan K Weckesser paper and a mixture of American crafts paper

Stamps and texture paste with a splash of mist

I started with this 12x12 Susan K Weckesser paper and flipped it over as I had this pick of my cute kitty and loved the colour almost like a light kraft colour

Next I stamped a music note stamp randomly and used a stencil I cut with my cameo and applied texture paste and here is my finished layout

Susan K Weckesser paper

Susan K Weckesser stamps A Little Grunge Love

American crafts  paper

 fancy pants designs stickers

 ScrapFX  -Fish Bones chipboard

twine, cotton, machine stitching ,doily , texture paste

 prima stamp, sequins, mist, kaisercraft stamp, ink

Happy crafting

kitty love..

hi everyone ,
Anita here sharing a fun way to add mini tag and pocket to your page
using Susan K Weckesser paper

cut a tag at 3 x 2 1/2 inch snip the 2 top edges off
punch out a mini heart
cut a bit of twine for the top of your tag

cut a bit of patterned paper 4 x 2 inch

 glue the mini heart to the top center of your tag and punch
 a mini hole through the center of the heart and add your twine

 punch a butterfly on the left hand side of your patterned paper

fold in half and machine stitch bottom and left hand side
pop your tag in the pocket and add it to your layout or project 

if you wanted to you could add a note inside
here is my finished layout
my daughter eve and our cat loona she follows the girls around the yard when they are playing so you always know where she is just like a best friend

 here is a close up look

Susan K Weckesser paper

Susan K Weckesser stamps A Little Grunge Love

American crafts white cardstock and paper

 ScrapFX  -Photography Pack  chipboard

twine, cotton, water colours , flower, mini peg

Tickled Pink

When I saw the papers that Susan K. Weckesser designed I fell in love with them. Literately I saw the heart design on her papers and thought it would be perfect for a Love/Valentines Day card.

I went for mostly pink in this card, it really helps tie everything together, plus with it being a Valentines Day/Love card pink was just perfect.  I added in patterned and corrugated papers from Fancy Pants, they worked perfectly.  Covered parts of the papers with Snow Tex to give it texture, waited until it dried and then sprayed it with some pink Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist.  Added in some bling, chipboard, flowers, and some twine from May Arts Ribbon and poof you have a pink card!

I cut out the top right section of the "Live in Color Tags" paper that says "Tickled Pink" by Susan K. Weckesser.

Around the heard on the tag I used ClearSnap Smooch paint in molasses, let it dry, then added little dots of Ranger Distress Stickles in Tattered Rose.  To the words "Tickled Pink" I added a couple of little dots of light pink puff paint to each letter at random.  Using your Stickles, puffy paints, and Smooch paints are an easy way to spice up tags and paper.

Supplies Used

Cardstock -American Crafts

Patterned Paper - Fancy Pants

Corrugated paper - Fancy pants

Tag - Susan K. Weckesser

Paints/Glitter/Mist - ClearSnap, Ranger, Tattered Angels, and DuncanCrafts

Flowers - Prima

Twine - May Arts Ribbon

Crystals - Recollections

SnowTex - DecoArt

Brad - Spare Parts

Chipboard - BoBunny

Enjoy!

Scrapbooking with American Crafts

  

  


Recently I had some fun scrapbooking with some fun products from American Crafts. I am loving the colors that are out this season. Papers and embellishments are bursting with wonderful hues! It really make makes it  a joy to play with all these neat supplies! I had fun using American Crafts  foamy letters - THICKERS. I also used my circle punch to make some fun embellishments. AC paper really is fun, so I cut out a heart and used a little bit of paper glass finish from Folk Art to give it a dimensional finish. Oh...and don't forget hand journaling! I love to finish off a layout with a little bit of hand journaling! The great thing about about this seasons colors too is that they are so lovely that they really can be used for other seasons too!
                    Keep on Scrappin'                  
                                      Susie