My Little Boxes Full Of Happy - By Lynne Mizera

Hello and Happy Halloween everyone!  Today for my second mixed media project for the Creative Team I thought I would share this little idea that has been germinating in my brain for about two years now ... I am calling these My Little Boxes of Happy!

The size of an old-fashioned match box, the outside is already delightful... but when you slide back the cover a complete three-dimensional scene is revealed that just makes you smile... hence My Little Boxes of Happy

I used the Tim Holtz Matchbox die; Sizzix BigzL #659447 and Susan Weckesser's lovely paper to create my matchboxes.  Susan's paper worked like a dream because it is so much heavier than regular card stock.

The Susan K. Weckesser/Unity Stamp sets I used are the perfect size for creating these tiny 1.75"x2.25" diorama's which, when coloured in and covered in Ranger's Stickles and Close To My Heart's Liquid Glass, look like wee jewels.  A delightful little surprise and so gift-worthy, don't you think?

So thank you for stopping by today to share in this little bit of happy and if you are interested in how these were made you can pop on over to my blog to see all the steps in my process...

Happy Halloween Everyone!

Lynne Mizera

for the Susan Weckesser Creative Team

Susan K. Wecckesser/Unity Stamp Sets Used:
Going Wild
Journal Doodles With A Heart
Granma's Needlepoint
In Circle Me
Create Your Day
Other Susan K. Weckesser Products Used:
Live In Colour Paper Line
ColorBox Mini Pop Inks
 

There is Always HOPE

October is Mixed Media month  here at { My Sweet Earth }..For this card, I used a piece of Susan's Live in Color paper as the background and her Doodle stencil to create the scallop design.. Colorbox Color Pop Premium Dye Inks in Ice and Kiss  were just swiped over the stencil that was  placed on top of the background paper. Tiny mushrooms from the Bunny Hugs were stamped, then punched out and placed in the scallops. A sentiment and flower from Journal Doodles With a Heart was stamped on cardstock then colored with a combination of Colorbox Color Pop inks in Kiss, Fresh and Ice and Clearsnap Smooch in Siren and Gold Lame'. I popped up the sentiment onto the background paper and also the stenciled background paper to the card base. A faux pearl was added to the flower center. 

These inks really lend themselves to a variety of techniques. I used the Colorbox Color Pop Dye inks in Kiss and Mystery directly on the stamps for the sentiment and flower.They can also be swiped   across an acrylic block and applied with a waterbrush, which is how I colored the flower and mushrooms.. And I also applied them directly to paper through a stencil.

I hope this card will encourage you to use your inks in "different" ways. The colors are so vibrant.And combined with some fabulous stamps by Susan K Weckesser, your projects will be absolutely amazing !!

Debra Davison

Susan K Weckesser Creative Team

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

A Bunny & My Backyard

Our theme for August is "Exploring our backyard - Art Journal Fun". I have had a Large Dylusions Creative Journal for almost a year and have not started the first page. I was waiting for the perfect idea to hit me or an ink/paint,stamp to catch my eye - but it hadn't happened yet. And I will admit that I was bit afraid that I would start a page and ruin it !! Anyone else feel the same way when you get a new journal ?  SO this theme was the push that I needed to create a page. I quickly thought of Susan's Bunny Hugs stamp set because we have had 2 cute rabbits living in the yard the past few months. The are no longer even afraid of me; just move over when I pull out of the driveway or walk up the sidewalk onto the front porch.

Bunny Hugs Stamp set

 I turned the journal on its side to use a "landscape" orientation for my page. I placed colorful strips of Recollections Watercolor Washi tape across the page starting at the top. I used all 8 designs and it reached about halfway down the page. The bottom half of the page was created using Recollections Pink Shimmer and Green Shimmer Spray Inks and a top coat of Tattered Angels Pearl Glimmer Mist.

I made a sleeve out of an 8 1/2 by 11 inch piece of cardstock by placing it horizontally and scoring it across at 2 1/4 and 6 3/4 inches.  You then fold the bottom up first, then the top down. I decorated the top flap on the outside with a floral stamp from Journal Doodles with a Heart. All images were stamped using Colorbox Color Pop Archival Dye Ink in Mystery. I cut a square of Color Burst paper and mounted the fussy-cut bunny from Bunny Hugs stamp set   on the square behind a doily and a few strips of glitter washi. The bunny was colored with Tim Holtz Distress markers and Stabilo Fineliners. You can adhere the top flap to the bottom flap and slide a note,pictures etc into the sleeve. Instead, I left it open and mounted the bunny square only to the top part of the flap so you can open the flap and look inside.

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I consider  the entire area that I love in to be my "backyard". Some call it Hampton Roads, others call it Tidewater. I cut out pictures of my "backyard" and adhered them inside the sleeve. They are pics of my actual yard, my new yard flag, the King Neptune statue at the Oceanfront in Virginia Beach, and a picture from The Sunset Grill in Norfolk and Brian ( my guy ) playing his guitar there on their deck. I also used a tag from the Live in Color paper from Susan's collection. It reflects what I do in my "backyard".. LIVE, LOVE & CREATE ...

Completed Journal Page

I hope you like my first attempt at an Art Journal page. I meet up with a great group of art journalers from time to time and can't wait to show this to them and get started on a few other pages !! Explore your own backyards and let them inspire you to get creative ....

Stamp sets used :

Bunny Hugs

Journal Doodles with a Heart

Debra Davison

Susan K Weckesser Creative Team

Trash to Treasure

Hello it's Samantha today with a pretty and practical recycling project :)

I just can't bear to throw  away old tins and jars so they usually get decorated and used as something completely different. Susan's house stamps are PERFECT for this!

 I measured my tin from top to bottom of the area I wanted to cover and then measured the diameter and cut a piece of white card to size. I then stamped the designs using silver embossing powder as I wanted something a little different to usual black outlines.

I coloured using my Derwent watercolour pencils and adhered to my tin. String wrapped tightly around keeps it in place whilst the glue is drying!

When I removed the string it I added some flowers and sequin stars a word stamp and it looks like this:

Here it is being used on my desk. The tin next to it has also been decorated now too!!

Much better than throwing them in the trash!! It would make a great plant pot too!

The stamps I used are:

Tumbleweed Houses and they can be found {right here}

and Journal Doodles with a Heart and they can be found {right here}

 I do hope you like my tin and I've inspired you just a little.

Wishing you a lovely day.

Samantha Read

Susan K. Weckesser Design Team member

Positive Affirmation Note To Self

Hello! Happy Wednesday Crafters! Peggy here to show you my "Note To Self" card that I will be giving to a special friend who is battling pancreatic cancer right now. I thought a little note to sit on her desk is exactly what she could use right now and of course that will be sent with some nice chocolate yummies.. 

I started with a card base of heavy cardstock. 

Next I sprayed my background with orange, blue and pink. 

Then I added some dimension with stenciling using paints. 

I stamped my images in stazon ink and I painted the images and fussy cut them out. 

I recycled some acetate from packaging and stamped my "Strong" on the top of the acetate everything else is underneath. 

I glued the rest of the stamped images I had cut with liquid glue. 

The images I used today are: 

Journal Doodles With A Heart

 I hope you enjoyed today's card!

Warmly,

Peggy 

If Friends Were Flowers

Hello crafty friends. 

It's Samantha here with my first February make and it's a card for a friend :)

My card is ATC sized which is 2.5 inches by 3.5 inches. So it's quite small but it say's so much. 

Inside it says 'I'd pick you'.

I started this sweet card by die cutting some circle confetti from white card and gluing in diagonal corners. When that glue was dry I used some of my favourite colours and painted the background. To give the background more layers I stenciled some white circles and coordinating flowers. I then stamped the flower directly on the card and on a separate piece of white card as shown...

By stamping on the card I could then go around the outline with a charcoal pencil. This makes the flower 'pop' a little from the colourful background. I coloured the flower using Prismacolor pencils.

I stamped the text using a random alphabet stamp set. We all have those right?

For the flowers I used the Journal Doodles with a Heart stamp set which can be found right here.

I do hope you like my little card and that I have inspired you just a little.

Wishing you a lovely day.

Samantha Read

Susan K. Weckesser Design Team Member

Smootches for Valentine's

 Hello and Welcome!

Peggy here to show you my Valentine's Day card made exclusively with
Susan k Weckesser Inc. Stamps and Paper line.  

I layered my papers to fit a card base and taped them down with double sided tape. 

Stamps used today are colored with copic and tombow markers. 

Susan k Weckesser Inc.  Love Ya Whole Bunches Stamps set. 

Journal Doodles with a Heart Stamps set

Live Love Create paper 

Bouquet paper

I hope you enjoyed today's card!
Warmly,

Peggy Oliver 

How to Add Personality to Your Craft Bag!

Hello Wonderful World of Creative People! Lynne here today for my second design team post for January, where our theme for the month is Tags of Love, and I want to share with you these sweet little luggage tags I created for my crafting tool bag.  

I got the idea from these wonderful, self-laminating luggage tags I found in my LDS (Local Dollar Store) and I am going to use them on all my portable scrapping and crafting bags and totes.

I filled in the card provided with all my contact information and then stamped and colored a business card-sized piece of white cardstock for the front... that's it!  The sky is the limit... Anything Goes and what sweet little pops of color they create!

Here is my very favorite tool tote modeling my tags!  If you want to know more about this bag please do pop on over to my blog to get the in-depth review of this fabulous tote!

Cheers and have a Wonderful Day

Scrapbook Lynne Mizera

For the Susan Weckesser Design Team

Products used on this Project:
Susan Weckesser/Unity Stamps:
"Create Your Day"
 
"Journal Doodles with a Heart"
 
Susan Weckesser at Studio 12/Polka Doodle Stamps:
"I Am More Intelligent"
 
Mini Ranger Distress Inks
Ranger Archival Ink - Black
Sakura Gelly Roll Gel Pens
Ribbon
desk-Tech Self-Laminating Luggage Tags