Project of the week - upcycling for a masculine card

Hello, it's my turn to pick the project of the week and this go around I've decided to do a bit of upcycling.  So, here is the definition I found on the subject.

Upcycling:

Upcycling, also known as creative reuse, is the process of transforming by-products, waste materials, useless and/or unwanted products into new materials or products of better quality or for better environmental value.

I saved this paper bag and cut it down to use as a back drop on the card below.

To obtain additional texture on this, I crumbled up the paper bag, unrolled it and then used vintage photo distress ink direct to paper to bring out some of the creases. I then adhered it onto a piece of white cardstock using Distress Collage Medium in vintage. The sheet music stamp was used for the next layer. I tore the cardstock and distressed it a bit too, then painted on some more collage medium. The canvas heart was left over from last weeks card, so I stuck that on here with another die cut for added interest. The vertical "happy birthday" sentiment is stamped onto the back of the paper bag (plain side) and layered with dark brown cardstock. 

The collage medium in vintage brown was really fun to work with. Great glue to get all the bits and pieces onto the card. 

Thanks for stopping by!

Homespun heart banner

Hello everyone! The challenge over at Less is More is Homespun and this is what I came up with.

The banner and heart are cut out of a piece of canvas sheet that I picked up at Hobby Lobby. It was in the scrapbook paper area and there was one 12 x 12 piece in the package. I picked a few of them up when they were half price and have horded them for a while.

I used the banner and heart die from the Simon Says Stamp die set called stitched shapes. Here is the link. To color the heart I used the watermelon alcohol ink and then heat set it.

Used one of the rectangle stitched dies from Lil' Inkers to emboss on the kraft cardstock. The reason I used Kraft on this is so that my banner didn't fade into the background. When I used a white card base it all but disappeared. I have also thought that kraft, cream and red make a wonder color combo anyway.

Sentiment is from PTI. I added a piece of red bakers twine to the top so that it appears that it is a banner and then added a string bow to the heart. Kept this pretty clean and simple as it will most likely go to my DH for Valentines day.  Thanks for stopping by.

Canvas projects

Hi everyone! I wanted to show you two projects that I've completed using canvas. First up is a simple card.

Stamps are from Simon Says Stamp. The canvas is an Artist Trading Card piece of canvas from Canvas Corp. I used Fresh Ink from Impress Rubber Stamps in Pink lemonade and Limeade to stamp the flower. Versafine black in used to stamp the center of the flower, dragonfly and sentiment.

Designer paper is from DCWV. Green cardstock is from Bazzill and that gorgeous green satin ribbon is from Ribbons and Bows Oh My. 

Next up is a different type of canvas, but one that turned out pretty cool!

The canvas is sticky backed and comes from Claudine Hellmuth (Ranger) and is in a set of 5 12x12 sheets. It's kind of a soft ivory color, not as white as it looks in this photo. I took one and trimmed it down to 8 1/2 x 11 and then I created the established sign using Photoshop Elements 9.0, then just ran it through the printer.

The swirls at the bottom were hand stamped using the Fancy Flourishes stamp set from Papertrey, Ink.

I spray painted an old wooden frame black and inserted the canvas and TADA! Love how it came out!

Thanks for stopping by and Happy New Year!

Chalk board thank you!

Hello everyone! With the recent fascination with the chalk board technique, I'd thought I would give it a go. However, mine uses real chalk board paper!

I stamped the sentiment and the flowers in light yellow chalk ink onto chalk board paper that I picked up at my LSS. It's from Canvas Corp. and it came in a small artist trading card package. Stamps are from The stamps of life.

The designer paper is from Making Memories and the yellow cardstock is from Bazzill. I used dies from MFT for the long pennant, and the notebook die is from Papertrey.

The little yellow flowers are punched from a tiny punch bunch punch. I added some tiny white pearls for the flower centers. A white paint pen from Sharpie is used to add the white center in the stamped flowers on the chalk board.

Thanks for stopping by!

Chalkboard Birthday

Hi everyone! I found something recently at my local craft store and had to try them. It's called chalkstock which is made by Canvas Corp. and came in artist trading card size. It came 10 to a pack for $3.95 which is kind of spendy but fun to play around with! Here's what I did with it.

The daisy stamp is from TAC and the sentiment is from Papertrey Ink. Both are stamped in yellow chalk ink from Studio G. I did also experiment with writing on it with plain old fashioned chalk and it works wonderful. I just didn't like my handwriting!

I added a small self adhesive white pearl to the center of the flower, small enough that the black still shows through. Black gingham ribbon is tied to the yellow cardstock prior to it being adhered to the white card base.

Real clean and simple but doesn't it make a statement?