Live in Color Birdhouse

Hi everyone, Steph Ackerman here today and I am thrilled to be the guest designer this month for Susan K. Weckesser.   When I first saw Susan's papers and stamps, I fell in love with them and knew I wanted to design with them.

I found this wood birdhouse and knew it would be perfect for the Live in Color Collection.

These papers are wonderful with their whimsical look and soft color palette.  I used different papers for each side of the birdhouse, cutting them slightly smaller than the birdhouse because I wanted the edges of the birdhouse to show. 

Each paper was inked with ColorBox Chalk Ink in Harvest before adhering to the birdhouse.

I used Mod Podge as the adhesive and since the papers are heavy stock, they adhered to the wood smoothly, with no wrinkles.

For the front and back roof lines of the birdhouse, I die cut several Spellbinders ovals and cut them in half.  Each was then inked and  added to the roof creating an over-hang. 

The overhang helped covered the areas where the paper was a little short since the birdhouse is about 14" high at the point.

The roof shingles were created from assorted papers using Spellbinders oval dies, inked with Harvest Chalk Ink and then adhered in layers to the roof.    I spritzed some water on the shingles to make them more realistic.

The birds are from the stamp set -  at Ground Level.  There were stamped in ColorBox Archival Ink in Mudslide, fussy cut, and placed atop some moss which I put inside the birdhouse.

This was an amazing project to create made that much better by the wonderful papers I was able to use. 

Thank you to Susan K. Weckesser, Inc. for giving me the opportunity to be a guest designer this month.  And thank you for stopping by today.


Steph

Time Capsule

I recently lost my grandmother, so I decided to create an art piece in her honor. I created a time capsule with an old photo of my grandmother with her two twin daughters my mom and my aunt.

I created it from a making tape roll that reminded me of a clock's shape. I covered it with SKW patterned papers on the inside and out and also created the backing of the capsule.
I stamped the little SKW house stamp on white cardstock with archival brown ink. Then I covered the roof with clock's parts to compliment the time capsule theme. I colored the rest of the house with colored pencils. I cut it out and attached it to the capsule with a folded piece of cardstock.

I added felt green trees and my grandmother's photo which I cut.

I created grass by using double sided tape and green flower soft. Then I added embellishments like the picket fence which was sprayed with a copper spray, chipboard bicycle and chipboard birds on the top. I finished the capsule with colorful flowers.

This was fun and sad to create but I'm really happy with the result.

Have fun creating!
Einat

"Inspire" a mixed media piece by guest designer Tatiana

Hello there. I am honored to be a guest designer for one of my favorite people, Susan Weckesser. One of the reasons I applied to be a guest designer is because I love how inspirational all of Susan's products are. It is for this reason I decided to start my piece with Susan's stamp "inspire" and go from there. This word led me to a quote I just love by John Quincy Adams which says "If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader."

Supplies:

• 12” x 12” canvas
• Susiebee Studios “Boquet” paper
• Susiebee Studios “Color Burst” paper
• Susiebee Studios “Live in Color” paper
• The Paper Company “Paisley Sunshine” paper
• Susan Weckesser & unity “Create your Day” stamps
• Susan Weckesser & unity “Painted Sentiments” stamps
• Ranger-Tim Holtz: Distress Paint-Black Soot
• Ranger-Tim Holtz: Distress Paint-Brushed Pewter
• Westcott: Scissor 6" Precision Titanium
• Golden: Gel Medium-Matte
• Raw canvas sheet
• black card-stock

Instructions:

1. Adhere “Paisley Sunshine” paper to canvas with Gel Medium.
2. Cut out sun circle and glue it onto the “Color Burst” paper.
3. Draw lines coming out of each sun ray that extend to edges of page.
4. Cut out every other sun ray and adhere the sun and rays to background.
5. Adhere a strip of “Boquet” paper to bottom of canvas as grass.
   
   
   
   
   
6. Stamp 5 birds onto black card-stock with Pewter Distress Paint.
7. Dab Black Distress Paint onto cloud stamp and press into raw canvas 3x.
8. Cut out all 5 birds without legs and clouds with Precision scissors.
9. Write out words onto white card-stock and cut them out in strips.
   
   
   
   
   
10. Stamp the word “inspire” onto background and add other words with paint.
11. Arange and then glue down birds, words and clouds with Gel Medium.
12. Embelish to your hearts desire with paint and ink, etc.
    
    
    

Wishing you smiles and sunshine,

Tatiana (A.K.A. Crafty Cutie), Susan K. Weckesser Guest Designer