Eyelet Outlet Gnome 2 Brads and Girl Gnomes make any occasion more fun and more colorful. Here they are moving into an adorable gnome home, with sweet Rabbit and Mini Bee Brad neighbors, under a cheerful Sun and Cloud Brad sky.
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Cleaning up my worktable, I found a few small panels of cardstock that I had tinted with Ranger's Old Glory Blue Archival Ink; one was semi-solid and the other had lots of tones and highlights, so they seemed like the perfect ingredients for a mandala and a mat... which is how I used them.
How many layering stencils can you comfortably fit on one journal spread? Well, I suppose it depends on the size of both the journal and the stencils; but to save time, I will reveal, that in this case, it's FOUR. How many Archival Ink colors can you use with four Simon Hurley layering Stencil Sets? Again, I think that could vary considerably; but for this spread, it was eight... and since I still had the three new sets of MINI Archivals (Kits #5, 6 & 7) sitting on my work table, I chose to use those.
This has become one of my "go-to" journal ideas, for when I have new stencils and/or no plan. Because sometimes you just want to use ALL THE THINGS, am I right? I personally enjoy mixing patterns, playing with scale, and seeing how many colors I can use on a page; so this "patchwork" type of grid is fun, easy and super-flexible; but you could fill strips, borders, shapes or just random patches with your favorite patterns.
Would you like specifics? All the stencils are Simon Hurley create Layering Sets: Diamonds (Sun Dazed, Sea Grass) and Whimsy Flowers (Aquamarine and Emerald) are pretty new; Leopard (Sand Castle and Aubergine) and Very Berry (Sweet Treat, Cayenne and Emerald) came out earlier this year. Spread across two pages of my Dina Wakley MEdia Watercolor Journal, with doodles and outlining via Letter It Fineliners.
At Jingle Belles, one of our favorite things about a big Thanksgiving dinner, is the fact that there will be leftovers! (Turkey, stuffing and cranberry sauce sandwich anyone?) So this fortnight we're celebrating Holiday Leftovers! What does that mean? We're asking you to make a card using paper scraps, offcuts, an image you colored or diecut or fussy-cut but never used, a small piece of ribbon too pretty to toss away, the last sticker in the packet or... whatever "leftover" bits and bobs you have laying around. Of course you can mix in new stuff too. Oh and be sure to tell us what your leftovers are so we can marvel at your cleverness!
Here's my card:
I had some random skate pieces and pale grey embroidery floss leftover from making and photographing the instructions for the Paper Anthology Ice Ice Baby Holiday Jumpstart kit last week; and since the Tim Holtz/Sizzix Ice Skates die is one of my favorites, anyway, of course I knew I wanted to use them up. In addition, I found this already- cut- to-size piece of 49 and Market holiday paper AND a bunch of glittery dimensional flowers I must've made several years ago and which I just unearthed again. Actually, I think only the red mat and the white 5.5" cardbase are new; this is a small but satisfying triumph of leftover usage!
JB2623: Holiday Leftovers runs until the evening of Wednesday, November 18th. Link your cards featuring Holiday Leftovers at Jingle Belles today!
Time for a brand new challenge at Shopping Our Stash, and this fortnight the brief is to make something related to Thanksgiving, OR being grateful, OR add a "Thank You" somewhere on your project. Guess which one I chose:
One of my favorite ways to use Ranger's Perfect Pearls is to add them to an eye dropper full of water in a small palette and then PAINT with them... especially... on a deep dark background of Tim Holtz's Distress Black Heavystock. So that's what I did this week, using the new colors which released on Friday: Fire & Ice, Cherry Bomb, Snow Globe, Dragonfly, Evening Gown and Fairy Frost. If you think they look fun and super-shimmery in the photo, I assure you they are WAY more intense, irl... you need to try this at home! ♥
