Yellow Submarine & The Gelli Plate

"We all live in a yellow submarine"...isn't this what you hear when you see this stamp?  LOL

I bought this stamp set from Fun Stampers Journey as part of my new coach package. I love it! I had fun making these cards over the weekend.

All products are Fun Stampers Journey (FSJ) except the added embellishments & sentiment stamps. Both backgrounds are gelli prints that I made using the gelli plate & Blue Lagoon, Cool Pool and Pineapple Smoothie acrylic paints. The first pull was the card on the left and then I added some pineapple smoothie over the top and it turned the paint greenish...obviously.

Oh, before I forget, I cut the white cardstock into 4x5.25 sheets and only pulled a small print each time.

Once those dried, I added the embellishments and submarines to finish the cards. The submarines were stamped on white cardstock, colored with Summer Days ink and then fussy cut.

Close Ups:

I'm going to focus a lot of FSJ products & gelli prints. I love using them as a starting point for cards. To purchase FSJ products, please enter my name, Dorlene Durham as your coach and shop at the Fun Stampers Journey website. I appreciate it!  http://www.funstampersjourney.com/pws/fsj/tabs/home.aspx

Embellishments:
Washi Tapes
Nuvo Drops
Black Thread
Twine (by FSJ)
Silver & Sparkle Color Silks (by FSJ)

Exciting Announcement!

I'm super excited to announce that I'm a new member of the Quick Quotes Design Team! I took a chance and applied for their DT and was selected!

I had to hold this secret for a week since they had to announce it on their site first, but am happy to spread the excitement now!

Read more about it HERE

Look for lots of Quick Quotes projects soon. I even have to so some video projects. LOL You know I can't shoot a video to save my life...but I'm gonna try!

If you haven't heard of Quick Quotes - ok, who am I kidding, everyone has heard of Quick Quotes - click on over to their website to get to know them a little more.

FCCB #317; Something New

 Happy Monday and welcome to another Monday challenge at the Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog (FCCB)! It's a new year so this challenge is to create something new.

Challenge #317-Something New
Make a project using a new cartridge, embellishiment, or image. But there has to be a least one cut from the Cricut Library!

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And the prize is-

A $10 coupon code for anything in the store.

To qualify for the prize, be sure to use at least 1 Cricut cut on your project and if it's not obvious, let us know what cartridge you used. If you use a Cricut Explore machine, at least one cut must be from the Cricut catalog of images.

If it isn't a card, you will get two entries into the drawing!

I'm using the Create-a-Critter cartridge which I have used before, but I'm using a new paper pad. This pad is called Little Explorers from Recollections (Michael's). It's so friggin' cute and perfect for an upcoming baby shower. My daughter's friend is having a baby boy and the theme is woodland. First of all, what?! My daughter's friend is having a baby! I know they are 24/25, but they seem so young! (I have to confess, by the time I was their age, I already had three baby boys - LOL)

I love making diaper cakes!

Be sure to link your cricut project to the FCCB challenge site!

TGIF; Thankful Friday #25

This has been a tough week. My sister-in-law lost her battle with ovarian cancer last Saturday. I't so thankful that we spent the day before with her. During that time, I had some time with her alone. I don't know if she heard or understood what I told her, but she would squeeze my hand and look over to me at all the right moments so I feel like she did.

There's a photo that a dear friend of ours send us when my mother-in-law passed away and I absolutely love it. It really does help when we lose a loved one.

I can see Beverly hugging the Lord and then soul-training her way into heaven with the angels and other loved ones surrounding her!  She loved to dance and that's how we'll remember her.

Hug your loved ones. Things can change in a blink of an eye. Cancer does suck!

Content

Content is the Bible Lesson on the Patter Cross blog. I haven't done any art for these lessons in a long time, but I felt the need to this time around.

Read the lesson HERE or click on the Glory Art badge on the right. I do feel that I am content in my life. Sometimes I think it's a burden but reading these scriptures, I know I'm on the right path. I need to continue my faith that God is leading me on the path I should be on and trust Him. I think everyone questions this in their lifetime.

For the art, I decided to create an art journal page. I am using a page in one of the junk journals I just made. I am so surprised that I actually took photos of each step that I took to get to the final product. I started the page with nothing specific in mind:

Here's how it looked in the beginning:

This sheet is a receipt from a charm purchase. It is pretty thin so I decided to add some scrap papers to make it more sturdy. I grabbed my pink scraps and just started attaching. I love how the words, "I Love You" are in the right had corner (I purchased the ASL I love you charm), so I wanted to keep that showing.

Here's what it looks like with some papers and gesso over the top. When I was rifling through the pink scraps, I came across a scrap piece of cut out crosses so I decided to use that as a stencil with some pink ink from CTMH.

I also added some teal, yellow and pink gelato all over. I also decided to stamp some "x's" with my new Illustrated Faith stamp set that I got for Christmas.

Put another layer of gesso over the entire page.

Then wrote a portion of Hebrews 13:5 in the center with black marker.

Stamped the flowers with a Fun Stampers Journey set and also added some Color Silk in pink & yellow also from FSJ. Then I added a frame using a Stabilo pencil & smeared a little with my wet finger. Date stamped at the bottom and done.

Here are all the supplies used:

I also feel that every piece of art needs a little yellow so that's why I added some yellow splashes before saying it was done.

Have a blessed day and 2018!

CWS #22 Snowflakes

Happy New Year! It's a new month and a new year and we've got another great challenge at the Creative With Stamps site. http://creativewithstampschallenge.blogspot.com January's challenge is Snowflake!

Click on over to see the DT inspiration cards. Don't forget to link your snowflake card to be eligible for the prize!

Here's my card:

This style of card is called a Dutch Door card. It was a lot of fun to make and I'm sure I'll make more. I used Close To My Heart (CTMH) snowflake stamps and an old sentiment from Stampin' Up! I love the pink/brown & white color combo and thought it made a great winter card.

Cutting dimensions for the card:
Base: 8 1/2 x 4 1/4 and score at 3" on the long side
Dutch Door: 8 1/2 x 2 1/2 and score at 2 1/4 and 6 1/2 on the long side
Attach the Dutch door to the center of the card base before attaching the inside piece.
Inside piece is: 5 1/4 x 4

Don't forget to make a card featuring snowflakes and link to the CWS site!  Good luck!

Junk Journal & USE YOUR PAPER #6

If you ever ask  yourself, what am I going to do with all these scraps, under paper, mistake pieces, unwanted scrapbook papers, and just random stuff, you don't need to wonder anymore...make a junk journal!

I've been drooling over the idea of a junk journal for sometime now but haven't had the chance to actually make one. I finally started this week.

*Check out my pile of "junk":

Photos of the finished signatures & some inside pages:

Since this is my first attempt, I wanted to make it pretty simple. I collected a good size amount of papers and then folded them in half. I have one of those long reach staples so I stapled the center seam & folded to create the signatures. I'm not sure if I'll put them under one cover as a large journal or use them individually. I guess I'll figure it out as I go.

So now what? I plan on using this for castoff photos. I always print so many and not all of them end up in the scrapbook. So instead of keeping them in the photo envelope, I'll create fun & funky pages using them. Keep a look out...I'm sure many of these pages will be posted soon...

If you are interested in making a junk journal, I suggest you start collecting papers first so when you're ready, you'll already have a good variation of "junk". I also recommend that you watch some Youtube videos first. There are so many and they all seem a little bit different. Each with great ideas on binding, embellishing, etc. I am happy that I did some research first. Why recreate the wheel?

I'm not sure if this qualifies as "use your paper" since these papers are mostly junk, but I did make sure to put in scrap papers and ugly papers in the journal too.

*Examples of "junk" that I used are lined paper, junk mail, catalogs, envelopes, envelope liners, newspapers, coloring pages, scrapbook paper, gelli prints, under paper, greeting cards, magazine & book pages, menus, brochures, etc.