T Stands For 41 Projects done in 7 Days

"Let my mouth be filled with thy praise and with thy honor all the day." Ps. 71:8

Hello!  I missed posting last week, because it was the week of our Dare To Get Dirty Challenges on SplitcoastStampers!  We had 6 challenges a day for 7 days, one day was only 5.  I actually made 42 projects.  I ended  up with 7 Christmas cards, a baby card, a wedding/anniversary card and several of each of birthday cards, Thinking of you, praying for you and hello cards.  Also, I made a piece of jewelry and a scrapbook page and a tag.  I have already mailed out 7 of the cards.

Remember the Drunken Acrylic Technique I showed you.  Above  is a card I made with the background.

This is a close up of my Scrap page of one of my morning walks.

And another close up of one of the  cards I made and  that is already in the mail.  And this will be my ticket for T Stands For Tuesday over a Altered Book Lover hosted by our lovely hostess, Elizabeth.

Thank you for stopping by.  Happy early T Day to the T Gang.  I wish everyone a great week!

T Stands For Another New Technique!

"Let my mouth be filled with thy praise and with thy honor all the day." Ps. 71:8

 Hello to all!  I am in my craft room playing and discovering another new technique  It all started with a challenge this morning on SplitcoastStampers to do a Carved Wood Background. I watched a Gina K tutorial.  For step one: We were supposed to run cardstock through our die cut machine with a stencil.  Hers made a lovely impression on her cardstock.  I couldn't find the right "sandwich" to make the stencil make an impression.  So, I reverted to running my cardstock through with a snowflake embossing folder, and got the same results she got.  For step two: we were to score  lines every half inch.  I scored the lines on the side so they were raised on the same side as the snowflakes were.   Step three: We swiped ink over the panel; I used two inks on the side I used.  You could use either side.  I used the side that was indented rather than raised.  I show you both sides that I did.

Above is raised side, but I turned over and used the other side.  For one thing, I decided to use a darker color, Soft Suede.

On the above I swiped with the Soft Suede ink pad and then the Faded Jeans Distress ink pad.  Doesn't it look like carved wood?

Above, shows the Score Pal I used and the Snowflake embossing folder

I finished the card by stamping a tree and sentiment from SU! Snow Much Fun set, backing all panels with Midnight Muse before mounting on a white base.  Instead of inking up the stamp, I colored the tree and birdie with markers, then used my Misti to stamp a couple of times.  I added little red stickers for ornaments.

What do you think of this technique?  I really liked it.  I took this  photo of the card by my glass for my drink related post for Elizabeth over at T Stands For Tuesday at Altered Book Lover. We invite you on over to check the others drink related posts.  It is for our T Party every Tuesday!

Thank you so much for stopping by!  I hope you have a wonderful T Day!

 

 

T Stands For Technique, Failed!

"Let my mouth be filled with thy praise and with thy honor all the day." Ps. 71:8

Hello readers, and T Gang!  I got dirty and inky today trying to do what Lydia or Understand Blue made look easy!  It is called Drunken Acrylic Reveal  Technique and here is the link to the video on SplitcoastStampers.  Maybe, if you try it, you will be more successful.  

The steps are:

1.  Use a thin watered down acrylic on watercolor paper

2.  Quickly, while wet drop alcohol drops on it

3.  Let that dry

4.  Repeat with different colors, several times.

For someone else this technique turns out real pretty, for a background.

I will make a card and show you next week.  

After first coat, the alcohol drops didn't show very well.  I decided I hadn't watered the acrylic paint enough.  So I let it dry so I could do the next coat of paint.

If only I had stopped here, but I didn't!  This is best.  But it is covered up now!

The next coat.

hmmm.

You can see the droplets of alcohol now, after four coats!  Yellow, pink, turquoise and purple!  This was still wet.

Dry, so not as defined after drying.

This is other panel, don't like it at all.

Maybe, I will Cut these up with dies or something, but I will use them! LOL

You saw my Starbucks cup of tea above, so I guess I am already for the tea party, as soon as I wash this paint off my hands!

Thank you for stopping by.  I appreciate all my readers!  And, Happy T Day to the T Gang!

T Stands For Tag on Art Journaling

"I will love thee, O Lord, my strength.  The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower." Ps. 18:1-2

Welcome back to Foxy Stamping today!  I have been working on an Art Journaling Page for this month's theme of Pockets & Tags over at Art Journal Journey.  I really liked the theme, since I have the tags and pockets!  And, I found my art journal!  So here we go!

First, I played with my TH Distress inks, by sponging on my page different colors starting at the top right.  I sponged the color up to a piece of paper, then moved the paper and begun with another color.

Then I used a couple of stencils and sponged the ink over them in different places on the page.

Next, I added some stamping.  One of the stamps was a SU! dictionary stamp.  I forgot to include that in my photo of what I used.  I just did partcial stamping with that stamp, and then some word stamps.

I have no idea who the Art stamp is by, because someone sent it to me.

Then, since I don't really sew like Elizabeth, I added doodles all around the page.  

Then I did some of the same steps on my pocket and attached it with washi tape.  

Last I played with the TH oxides and embossing glaze on the tag.

Below is the journal I am using.  This is only the 8th page I have done in it.  I don't know if I have shared them all or not.  The tags and the pockets ( library book pockets, I believe) were garage sale finds, years and years ago!

And below most of what I used.  I forgot the VersaMark ink pad, and instead of the classics stamp set, I used the face on the other stamp set.  And also not shown SU! Dictionary Background stamp, and the Art quote.  

That is my project, now for my drink, below.  Elizabeth, we finally went to Bagatelle's.  We brought it home, so this is my photo of our sandwiches, our Fattouch salads, and my water.  We ordered something chocolate, too, since it was a bakery.  And because, I told them it was our first time and we had heard about them on a friend's blog, they gave us some delicious Lemon Almond Croissants!  Everything was  delicious!  Thanks Elizabeth.

If you don't know why I am posting a photo of a drink, that is what we do for T Stands For Tuesday, we include something drink related in our post and join Elizabeth and Bleubeard over at Altered Book Lover.

Thank you for stopping by!  Happy T Day to the T Gang!

T For TSFT Reveal & Another Tag Tuesday Tag

"Let my mouth be filled with thy praise and with thy honor all the day." Ps. 71:8


The weeks are sure flying by, even when we are not going much because of Covid.  Today is our great reveal of our ATC swap that we did to celebrate the 7th anniversary of Elizabeth & Bleubeard's Tea Stands For Tuesday over at Altered Book Lover!

So without further ado, here is the ATC and goodies from Karen.  Somehow she knew one of my favorite color combos is turquoise and brown!  I still remember a favorite dress in those colors, which I wore to one of my wedding showers.  Love the cute little tea charm, too. 

 Isn't it neat how she put it inside a card, oh, yes a card, too!  She used washi tape.  I need to start using some of that drawer full on washi tape.  What a good idea.  I have noticed people are using it to seal their envelopes, too, now instead of licking them, as she did. And she made the cutest  tiny envelope to put in this stash of canceled stamps to use on future projects!  

Her card below and a close up of her darling mini envelope and also so you can see the inside.

A big thank you to Karen.

Now a surprise from our hostess!

Thank you Elizabeth, Bleubeard and Squiggles for this wonderful memento of our 7th anniversary and the goodies.  You are the best hostesss!  Thanks for all your work to make our tea parties so enjoyable for 7 years!

I think there are a few items in above, tea charm and Bleubeard in teacup for my TSFT reference!

I did do another tag for Tag Tuesday sea theme that I would like to share.


Again, I was playing with my Tim Holtz Distress inks and TH Embossing Glaze.  Below, I stamped on a pre done tag,  from many years ago.  I used images from SU! and the sentiment is from Our Daily Bread.  I put the mat gel through the stencil.  Then I sprinkled the embossing glaze (two colors) on the paste, then heat embossed.  I watched a you tube demonstrating how to do this.  I am just loving these embossing glazes!

I had to edit to show the two ATCs I made for the 7th anniversary of TSFT!

I made them playing with my Tim Holtz Embossing Glazes.  I stamped with SU! stamps, then dabbed with VersaMark ink, then  applied the different glazes then heat embossed.  One for Eileen and one for our hostess.  I bet you can tell which one went to our hostess!   I hope they liked them! 

Thank you so much for stopping by!  I enjoy sharing with you and then visiting some of you to see what you are doing.  Thank you Tag Tuesday for the challenge!  Happy T Day!  Have a great week!

T Stands For Tuesday and Tag Tuesday!

"Create in me a clean heart, God, , and renew a right spirit within me." Ps. 51:10

Happy T Day!  Well almost!  Last week when I visited Valerie, I read about the new Tag Tuesday challenge to make a tag with anything involving the sea.  I was inspired!  I usually don't make tags, but I did want to play with my TH embossing glaze.  So, decided play with it on tags.  Here is one of my tags.

 I love this technique!  I stamped my images with distress inks, then I dabbed VersaMark all over the tag.  Then I put different colors of embossing glaze over the tag, and heat embossed.  I added the starfish charm and the fiber, and the TH phrases. The embossing glaze is translucent, so you can see your stamping through it.
Love the shine!  Fun to play!

I thought you would be able to see the color of  embossing glaze, but you only see the price, which is not what I paid.  They were in fact  basically free.  The colors are Broken China, Weathered Wood, Tattered Rose.  The name of the stamp set is Seaside Chair by Stampendous.

That is my entry for Tag Tuesday!  Love the theme!

Now for the T Party this week over at Altered Book Lover where our hostess for TSFT is Elizabeth.  She hostesses this lovely party every Tuesday and we join her with a drink related post.  Although I got a wonderful ATC from Karen this week, for our swap to celebrate the TSFT 7th Anniversary, I think our reveal is next week!  Here is my tea that I am having while posting my blog.  I am drinking Bigelow Toasted Coconut Almond Bark.  It is one of my favorites, and I am drinking it out of one of my favorite cups

I took  a photo of it upside down so you could see who it was by,  before I made my tea! LOL.  I bought this in Canada,  several years ago on a cruise . Have a Happy Tag Tuesday and a Happy T Day!  Thanks for stopping by.  I appreciate it.

T Stands for New Techniques

"Create in me a clean heart, God, and renew a right spirit within me."  Ps. 51:10


Hello everyone!  I wanted to post today and join Elizabeth and Bleubeard to help T Stands For Tuesday celebrate the 7th year of the tea party!  So, check it out over at Altered Book Lover and see what TSFT is all about.  We all get together and share and also have a drink of some kind in our post.
If you look really close you will see my ticket to the tea party on my scrap page below.

I have been scrapping this week and joined in a couple of challenges over at Splitcoaststampers for the layout below. 

This is my page for my July Scrapbook Technique Challenge. This month my challenge was to use stitching or faux stitching on our layout. I also was inspired by a video by Maremi Smallart referred to me my Jayne/ Ozpom and challenged to do a similar mixed media project.  I even added some TH Paper Dolls! I am really trying to get some heritage pages done, so our kids can see their heritage in photos. Oh, I finally got my sewing machine threaded! Threw the stupid thread helper down and just threaded it myself. Now I hope I don't run out of thread for a while! I don't know if I can do it again! LOL I always forget to photograph the process! But here is a photo after stitching and putting wash tape and strips of paper, and then covering with gesso.

  

And next,  below is my finished layout, after the photo and other embellishments were added.  I am fairly new at this mixed media technique.  I did some more gesso and stencil work and added some more paper.  Then added panels for my photo and lace an buttons.  Also added a die cut flower and TH paper dolls from my stash.  I probably quit too soon; I always do, but my photo is supposed to be the star anyway.  I think heritage layouts work well with neutrals and mix media.

Thank you for letting me join the T Party this week!  Thank you for stopping by.  Happy 7th, Elizabeth!  Happy T Day to the rest of you.