Tweet Family Easter Basket

HI - Today's post is one that is also seen on the Stampavie Blog as well as the Letraset Blog! So you know I had to make sure that it was here as well. Thankfully this project I worked on for a few nights in a row and finished up the night before I hurt my hand. Would have crushed me to not get it finished and able to share on my days on the other two blogs.

So here it is -

Easter is coming! And for my project today I wanted to show you a cute little Easter Basket I made, decorated with the new Stampavie Penny Johnson image "Tweet Family".  I love this image, perfect for a little basket, and I love how rich the colors are when colored with my Letraset Pro Markers!

Colors Used: Blush, Buttercup, Ivory, Lemon, Apricot, Dusky Rose, Tan, Caramel, Burnt Sienna, Marsh Green,  Pear Green and Powder Blue.  I tend to layer my colors. I let it dry and then color again,  I just love how deep and rich these markers are and how beautifully they blend for shading. 

Tutorials for this basket can be found all over the Internet, I found mine HERE.   It is a lot of fun to fold together! But even more fun is adding all the pretty flowers, ribbons and pearls!

Supplies Used: My Minds Eye Papers, Heartfelt Creations Window Die, Spellbinders Oval Die, Circle Die and Lacey Circle Die. EK Success Jumbo Heart Punch, Martha Stewart Branch Punch, Adhesive Pearls, Vintage Satin Seam binding,  And lots of Wild Orchid Mulberry Roses. 

I loved making this basket, and will be doing another one soon I am sure - 

Hope this did pop on this morning as I have it scheduled.... Today I am at the hospital with my family. My Mom is having back surgery - prayers are appreciated, we are all a bit nervous. I am sure she is going to come out of it just fine. And hopefully the pain she has had to live with the past year will be gone. 

Thanks so much  - HUGS and

Tina Wenke Mice Under the Mistletoe - and Aquamakers

Just in case you didn't get a chance to see my Stampavie DT Blog post on Saturday - I wanted to post it here on my personal blog. :0) Couldn't bump Animal Crackers right?

For my post I wanted to play with one of Tina Wenke’s new images Mice Under the Mistletoe – I adore her mice :0)  I had no clue where I was going with the image, just having fun with the image and Letraset Aquamarkers . Have you had a chance to see these markers? They are just too cool for words. I love the water color looks – and these markers make it oh so much easier for me… well with practice.

Probably need more practice, but I am having fun with them! I cut out the image in a circle, and then cut the bottom portion off – kind of different.

My card went pretty vintage looking – love the papers from My Minds Eye Lost and Found Christmas collection. OH and that sentiment – don’t you love that too? That is one of the Tina Wenke new Christmas sentiments, it is so wonderful to have those in the Stampavie collection!
Hope you like my card – lovin’ the new Christmas images!

Have a fabulous Monday! I am cleaning house today! YEA! (... total fake enthusiasm there but I am trying to make myself feel better about it ok? I have some Crafting ideas in my head and I won't let myself play until the house is clean... so YEA!)

Hugs -

Christmas Delivery with Letraset Aquamarkers!

I finally found my watercolor paper! I had "miss-placed" it in my room and while moving stuff around the other day suddenly there it was! So I pulled out my Aquamarkers for the first time in a while and played just to play. Man I still need a lot of practice... watercoloring is hard!

 I decided to use Stampavie's Christmas Delivery from the Laurence Collection. Is this an adorable image or what? Love it! Now as I said I still need lots of practice with the watercolor markers, but this one wasn't too bad. It actually looks better in person, really it does, The gold items have a bit of sparkle to them and then I added dimensional glaze to all the lights, christmas ornaments and of course the windshield. Really looks neat. I think how much water to use is my issue... practice need more practices. :0 )

Then I went through my scraps and found some cute Christmas papers. I for the life of me cannot come up with the brand of papers. And couldn't find a name anywhere! But they are cute papers, and the shades of colors seemed to match the image pretty well. I layered them up and sewed them together. Used some strips of adhesive pearls and lace for the band. And that makes this one ok to submit this one to the Stampavie and More Challenge! Bonus!

The sentiment is cut out of a piece of the pattern paper, and then attached to an oval chipboard piece and stickled.

Hope you like my Christmas Delivery! Have you tried the new Aquamarkers? They are too awesome! And even more awesome is that now Stampavie is going to be carrying them, so tell the store that carries your Stampavie Stamps to stock up on Letraset too from Stampavie!! You can see the Letraset Products HERE on the Stampavie website. YEA!

Have a great day - HUGS!

Hedgehog Reading Desk Lamp

I love this Letraset Safmat stuff!! LOL really – soon I will be decorating all surfaces of my house. Right now I have been in the lamp mode. This is my second. After making the first I found this cute desk lamp at Target for only $5.99…. I had to buy it and decorate it right?
Simple project, took less than an hour to do.

First you need to find an image – I chose Stampavie’s Tina Wenke “Hedgehog Reading” – perfect for a desk lamp. I colored with my ProMarkers (colors listed below)

Then gather up your supplies
Your colored image – desk lamp and Safmat – and whatever else you want to decorate with.
Scan in or photo your colored image. Then Size to the object you at attaching it to. For my shade I needed it to be 3.5 inches tall – And print out on a sheet of Safmat.

Cut out and stick down – pretty simple huh?

Then you can decorate with what ever you like – me I found some cute flower ribbon to attach around the top.

I kept it simple – small desk lamp so I didn’t want to over do it.
Looks really cool with the light on..

So simple – So Cute! Childs name – school mascot whatever could be put on this lamp and be very personal for not much money. Safmat really does add so much, so easy!
Hope you like my desk lamp… me I am not sure where this one will go. Wonder if one of my nieces would like it on their desk?
Have a wonderful Day -
HUGS
MichelleO
Promarkers Used : Powder Blue, Cobalt Blue, Marsh Green, Lime Green, Pear Green, Poppy, Antique Pink, Oatmeal, Blush, Ivory, Primrose, Putty, Warm Grey, Caramel, Burnt Sienna, Sandstone, Lavender, Bluebelle and Apricot.

Sarah Kay - Letraset Safmat Lamp!

Dust it off Sunday - well... I am just too excited and have to show off something that was on the Stampavie and Letraset Blog this weekend... so Dust it Off - is postponed today :0)

While shopping the other day I had a light bulb go off in my head. Literally... a light!  I found these simple pretty glass lamps at IKEA - and for some reason I saw Sarah Kay Images all around the shade. I got so excited, because I knew with the Letraset SafMat product I could easily make that happen!

So how did I make my lamp - Well first I colored up 5 Sarah Kay images with ProMarkers -

Colors Used : Oatmeal, Ivory, Blush, Sandstone, Carmel, Apricot, Blossom, Dusty Rose, Antique Pink, Pink Carnation, Blue Bell, Lavender, Buttercup, Meadow Green, Marsh Green,  Denim Blue, Powder Blue, Tan, Burnt Sienna, Poppy,  Ice Grey 1, Ice Grey 5, Pastel Beige, and Blender Pen

I then measured my lamp shade. To determine the height I want to print my images on the SafMat -

Then  Scan or Photo your  images, and then print them to the size needed to fit the lamp shade.

Then it is just a matter of spacing the images around the shade and sticking them in place.

To cover the seams - I used a wide dotted satin ribbon. This is for decoration embellishment as well as to cover the edges of all the SafeMat printed images. I used a clear craft glue to stick the ribbon.

My Lamp is a clear glass - open on the bottom. I filled the glass with Mulberry Roses and Flowers, then used a piece of scrap card stock cut in the same size circle opening and attached it to cover the hole. You could also fill it with buttons, shells, whatever your mind can come up with!

I am pretty happy how this came out - I could see this in a little girls room, nursery or such. But for now I am happy with it sitting in my craft room   - I have to say I have been looking at all kinds of lamps now! I have a totally different one in the works  right now! What a great personalized gift item! A child's desk lamp with their favorite character and their own name maybe - oh the ideas are endless!

Thanks so much for looking - hope you enjoyed my light bulb moment!

Michelle Oatman

Belinda and the Cardinal

Sorry for the second post today.... Blogger and I didn't get a long and instead of scheduling - it posted.... sometimes I just don't get along with that scheduler!!

Stampavie’s Belinda and the Cardinal

I am very excited to get to show off a brand new image released by Stampavie! This is Belinda and the Cardinal – isn’t she beautiful. 

 

 She is my first image colored with my new ProMarkers :0) Thanks so much Letraset ! I am really enjoying them - taking a little time to learn the smaller point instead of my brush end of the Copics. But the ink is wonderful... I am just going to need more colors now! But I am really looking forward to their new product at Letraset - Their new FlexMarkers - really interesting and I am looking forward to giving them a try as soon as they are available. Ok.. back to my card. The colors used will be listed below. 

One of my favorite things about this stamp is that the bird is separate, so you can place it where ever you want, and as many times as you want!

For the background of my card I chose 5 different pattern papers from My Minds Eye – Lost & Found Market Street Collection. One as the mat, then I cut the four other patterns into 1.5 inch squares, then sewed them all together with a zig zag stitch. My own quilted background. Love this look! My image was cut into an Oval – with my Nesties. The scroll work on the ends is a Spellbinders Fancy tag cut in half and put on the ends of the oval. This pretty girl needed lots of pearls. I cut a pearl flourish into pieces and then placed around the oval as if behind. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink, Wonderful Words with matching die cut words. 

 

ProMarkers Used: Dusky Rose, Pale Pink, Baby Pink, Blush, Caramel,Tan, Burnt Sienna, Ivory, Powder Blue, Sky Blue, Apricot, Warm Grey 3, Warm Grey 5, Blender 

 

Hope you enjoyed my card – Have a great day!