What I used

Rubber Moon stamp - Motley Crew
That's Crafty! White Gesso
That's Crafty! Multi Surface Paint Lavender
That's Crafty! Multi Surface Paint Grey
That's Crafty! Dinky Stencil - Lines
That's Crafty! Dinky Stenil - Burst
Catslife Press Stamp - Scaredy Cat
Tim Holtz Idea-ology - Mini Pumpkins
That's Crafty! Multi Surface Paints - Purple and Lime for the flowers
That's Crafty! Texture Sand Paste

(Extras: Little wooden houses, star sequins, turquoise string, wire, beads, alphabet stamp set, Tim Holtz Heirloom Roses and Crossbone Adornments).

Thanks so much for looking, I do hope you like it!

Wishing you a lovely day, Sam xx

Hello
I continue to play with the fabulous teabag paper, this week allowing me to decorate simple, kraft notebook/sketchbook covers.

Towards the end of this post, I share an alternative notebook/sketchbook cover, working with a smaller sized, A6 book and using the smaller Art Word Flower stamp.

Supplies

That's Crafty! Clear Stamp Set Lynne's Word Flowers Set 4
That's Crafty! Clear Stamp Set Lynne's Affirmations Set 12
That's Crafty! Walnut Ink Crystals and Teabag Paper Set Tea bag Paper also sold  Individually
That's Crafty! Lustre Gold Spray
Memento Ink Tuxedo Black
Extras: kraft cover notebook/sketchbook, sewing machine, black thread, button, handmade paper.

Instructions

Gather leftover pieces of walnut ink stained teabag paper or prepare by staining teabag paper. Once dry, tear into strips. Lay aside for the moment while the Art Word Flower (this is the larger sized stamp from the set), is stamped onto handmade paper.  Roughly plan placement of the papers. To do this, I placed the pieces on the notebook/sketchbook cover as this was a way for me to gauge the size I wanted the stitched panel to be, I wanted a Kraft cover border to remain. Take the panel to sewing machine or alternatively, begin to adhere with adhesive/medium and later you can include some stamped stitching/stencilled stitches or doodled.

Unscrew top from spray Lustre Gold and merely place the end of the spray tube onto select areas.  The paper will soak up the Lustre and once dry, those wee areas of Lustre Gold highlight the panel.

Adhere panel to cover with adhesive, finally embellishing cover with button.

For the inside, stamp "Be The Artist Who...." from Affirmations Set 12 onto scrap of walnut stained teabag paper.

Alternative Idea featuring smaller sized Art Word Flower stamp. When you build up a stash of walnut stained teabag paper, you have the freedom to play around with placement and a cover can be embellished in relatively little time.

Until next week,
Wishes
Lynne

What I did:


What I used:

That's Crafty! Clear Stamp Set - Hand Carved Nature
That's Crafty! Surfaces Tags
AALL & Create Stamp Set #135 - Quack the Duck
AALL & Create Stencil #26
AALL & Create Stamp Set #72 - Rocking Corns
Studiolight Art By Marlene Washi Tape #1
13 Arts 6" x 6" Paper Pack - Aqua Flora
PaperArtsy Infusions
PaperArtsy Cling Mounted Stamp Set - Elenazinski Art ZA26
PaperArtsy Zini's Cling Mounted Stamp - Elenazinski Art ZN23
Ranger Inkssentials Glossy Accents
Ranger Stickles Glitter Glue
Colouring Pencils

Hello! I have another mixed media tag to share this week featuring lots of the new products which made their debut at the last Hochanda show and I really loved doing this one in particular. It also has a trick that I used to correct something which actually became serendipity.

What I Did:

I chose the round topped long tag for my creation and used the new daisy head stencil with texture paste to add the floral images at the top and bottom of the surface.

I then misted the tag with a mix of flat matte and lustre sprays, using Sage and Blueberry Flat Matte Sprays with Green and Lilac Lustre Sprays.

Once the tag was dry, I painted the daisy heads with Buttercup, Green, Lavender, Mustard and White multi surface paints to make the flowers pop.


I next prepared my embellishment, using one of the greyboard atcoin circles which I first misted with the same shades as the background. Once it was fully dry, I heat embossed the circle with several layers of clear embossing powder.

This is where serendipity came into the mix as I keep my clear embossing powder in a plastic box as I used to get through quite a lot when I taught stamping classes. Unfortunately at one of classes one of the ladies accidentally put white embossing powder back in the clear and it seems to have worked its way into my box! I ended up with odd white specks on my embossed surface. Inspiration struck and I solved the issue by swiping the affected areas with embossing ink and sprinkling with sparkly crystal embossing powder. When heated, the white specks didn't show - result!

I then heated the embossing again and pressed the joy word flower inked up with black into the molten embossing powder. This gave a good impression.






As you can see, the sparkle adds beautifully to the effect. I glued the panel to my tag and finished off with some saffron recycled sari silk ribbon tied at the top.


Supplies:

That's Crafty! Clear Stamp Set - Lynne's Word Flowers Set 1
That's Crafty! Surfaces - Greyboard Long Tag (from a set of 18 with several different top shapes)
That's Crafty! Surfaces - Greyboard Rounds Pack (several different sizes included) 
That's Crafty! 8 x 8 Stencils - TC8049 Daisy Heads
That's Crafty! Mediums - Texture Paste
That's Crafty! Flat Matte Sprays - Blueberry, Sage
That's Crafty! Lustre Sprays - Green, Lilac
That's Crafty! Multi Surface Paints - Buttercup, Green, Lavender, White
Clear Embossing Powder
Sparkly Embossing Powder (with no white specks it still looks fab)
VersaFine Onyx Black Ink
Versamark Ink
Scrap of Toning Recycled Sari Silk Ribbon