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

Oh the windy city is mighty pretty . . .

 Hi everyone, Tracy here today and I`m sooo excited to be sharing a journal page with you all using the

road to the city stamp

 from the

 Purpose Of Art stamp set 

that Susan designed for Studio 12 which is available in the UK from Polkadoodles, woohoo!

So I was sitting in my shed thinking about my youngest, who has just moved to the big City to live, to attend University when I SPIED this stamp and my brain started to tick, tick, tick . . . .

 . . . it`s as if it was just sitting waiting on this day to arrive!

Out came my old second hand book, a few paints and Distress Stains and I was off . . .

. . . okay I admit I got carried away so no step by steps, but it is soooo easy to re create!

Just ink up the stamp with an Archival ink pad, stamp straight onto your chosen journal and again on a loose sheet of paper.

 I used a mixture of watercolors and Distress Stains to color the background and images before splattering with a little water and Distress Stains.

 To add a little dimension I snipped out a few buildings from the extra sheet, before fixing in place with foam pads.

Now if you know me, you will know by now I looove to scribble and doodle doodle dooo

 . . .soooo . . .

 . . . out with a fine black liner pen and away I went adding a little along the way.

Here`s a look at the opposite page which I looove to use to keep a record of all the products.

 Well that`s all from me today.
Thank you for looking.

Till next time

Happy crafting friends!!

Tracy Easson

Susan K Weckesser Design Team Member

Birds of a feather with Susan K Weckesser/Studio 12

 Hi everyone, Tracy here today to share a quick project using 

one of the stamp sets that Susan K Weckesser designed for Studio 12 over at Polkadoodles and is available in the UK, woohoo!

It`s a cutie.

I will apologise in advance as I don`t have any step by step pictures today, but this is super easy to recreate, promise.

 Just start with a quick layer of Gesso over an off cut of wood, leave to dry or if you are impatient like me ... then blast it with your heat tool.

 Get out your Pan Pastels in 2 colors and apply all over the block of wood, apply some white Pan Pastel next and finish with a little Black Pan Pastel around the edges.

 Time to ink up the stamp using an Archival ink pad and color with Watercolor paints. To add more definition I went around the outline with a black liner pen, adding a few doodles along the way.

 Stamp the little birdie a second time and cut out the wing to make it look more 3D.

 Next I stamped the sentiment onto card, chopped it up and applied a little Walnut Stain Distress Ink with a blending tool around the edges.

I fixed them in place with a hot glue gun and added a few more doodles.

Can you see the text on the left . . . I applied Pan Pastel to a script stamp that I won from  

Unity Stamp Co recently { woohoo}and  randomly stamped it over the block of wood.

To finish a touch of a Clear Embossing pad followed by some Cosmic Shimmer Embossing powder for a little touch of texture.

Thank you so much for taking the time to look.

Till next time

Happy Crafting

Tracy Easson

Susan K Weckesser Design Team Member