Karen Burniston Designer Challenge - Day 2!

Hi all! Today I'm sharing my second project for Karen Burniston's Designer Challenge. This time I decided to do a summery tag with butterflies - another one of my favorite things about summer!

I just bought another set of Ranger's Distress crayons and thought it would be fun to create a pretty background using Elizabeth Craft Designs' Soft Finish Cardstock. I took a couple pics along the way to show you how I made it:

I started by cutting a tag using the tag die from ECD's Tags and More 1 set. I used Karen Burniston's Swirly Flourish stencil with texture paste to create the background. After it dried, I covered the whole tag with clear gesso. I wasn't sure how the cardstock would react to the crayons and I thought it would be a good idea to seal it.

 Next, I scribbled various colors over the tag.

I spritzed the tag lightly with water and used my finger to move the color around. I added more water in areas where I wanted to remove the color.

I wanted to tone down the color a bit and soften it, so I spritzed randomly with Picket Fence Distress Ink and rubbed a bit of white paint here and there. When it was dry, I added Chicken Wire die cuts that I'd embossed with silver embossing powder, and a bit of cheesecloth. I cut butterflies from ECD's Rosebud cardstock using dies from Karen's Butterfly Pivot Card and Butterfly Accessories sets, layered them together, sanded them lightly, then adhered them to the card. Finally, I stamped one of my favorite sentiments from Tim Holtz, cut it out, and added it to the card with foam dots.

I hope you enjoyed my quick tutorial! The supplies I used can be found at Elizabeth Crafts Designs and Simon Says Stamp via the links below. SSS is having a big sale on Tim Holtz products right now too! You can save 20% when you use the code TimRocks. It's a great time to stock up!

Karen Burniston Butterfly Pivot Card Karen Burniston Butterfly Accessories Dies Pop it Ups Chicken Wire Die Stage it Stencil - Swirly Flouris Elizabeth Craft Designs Tags and More 1 Soft Finish Cardstock 8.5" X 11" 270gr /100Lb 10 pack (PSF102) Soft Finish Cardstock, Rosebud Kaiser Scrapbook PEARL 50 Count Self Adhesive Pearls SB713 Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Crayons SET 1 TDBK47902 Tim Holtz Cling Rubber Stamps 2016 PONDERINGS CMS252 Tim Holtz 9 GRID ACRYLIC BLOCKS Set to Cling Stamps 521736 Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad PICKED RASPBERRY Ranger Summer TIM34995 Ranger Embossing Powder SILVER EPJ37361 Ranger Ultra Thick Embossing Powder CLEAR 1.5 Oz Jar EPL45700 Ranger Inkssentials MINI COLLAGE GLUE STICK Adhesive IWT44666 Beacon 3 IN 1 ADVANCED CRAFT GLUE Crystal Clear Instant Grab Fast Dry Glue 00210 Ranger TEXTURE PASTE 4oz INK44444 Dina Wakley Ranger CLEAR GESSO 4 OZ Jar Media MDM46424 Dina Wakley Ranger PALETTE KNIFE Media MDA41771 Tim Holtz Idea-ology SANDING GRIP Block Tool Sand TH92482 Kaiser Scrapbook PEARL 50 Count Self Adhesive Pearls SB713

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Speaking of butterflies - here's one of my faves that I spotted last week. The swallowtails are so gorgeous!

Thanks so much for stopping by today. Be sure and check out Karen's blog tomorrow. She has a super cool new card technique, plus tons of inspiration from the whole team!

Karen Burniston Designer Challenge - Summer Lovin'!

Hi all! It's time again for Karen Burniston's Designer Challenge. This month it's all about Summer Lovin' - whatever way the team wanted to interpret that. I decided to go with an ocean theme, because that's one of the best things to do in the summer!

I had picked up some gorgeous napkins at Tuesday Morning with the thought that I'd try the trick of adhering them to cardstock and using that as my background paper. Even though this technique has been around for years, I'd never tried it. Now, I'm hooked! Look how gorgeous that is! I used my Xyron laminator to apply adhesive to white cardstock, then peeled the layers of napkin apart until I had just the top layer, then adhered it to the cardstock, smoothing the wrinkles as I went. After I had my panels done, I used Karen's Fancy Label Accordion die to cut three card panels.

I used the trellis style die from Karen's Fancy Frame Edges to cut a pretty frame from the front. All the embellishments were cut from extra pieces of laminated napkin. I love these super detailed napkins - so much to fussy cut!

After decorating the outer two panels, I stamped a sentiment using Karen's Just a Note stamp set on cream cardstock, then layered it to a red panel - both cut with the dies from the accordion set. Finally, I added a couple of shells that were cut from the napkin paper using the little shell from the Rocky the Crab die set. Just perfect!

The supplies I used can be found at Elizabeth Craft Designs, Simon Says Stamp, and Amazon via the links below.

Karen Burniston Accordion Fancy Label Fancy Frame Edges Just a Note Clear Stamps Rocky the Crab Soft Finish Cardstock 8.5" X 11" 270gr /100Lb 10 pack (PSF102) *Ranger Wendy Vecchi Archival RED GERANIUM Ink Pad AID38993 EK Success CUTTER BEE Scissors EKCB01 Sticky Thumb ADHESIVE FOAM DOTS American Crafts 340272 Xyron XRN500EN 5 Inch Create-a-Sticker Machine Dritz Cheesecloth, 36-Inch by 6-Yard

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Grungy Distress Crayon Tag

I'm probably the last person to get ahold of Tim Holtz's new Distress Crayons, but I finally got some this past weekend and couldn't wait to try them out! I've really been missing my studio time lately and decided that this is going to be my 'Summer of Art', so I grabbed my crayons, a few stamps, a big tag, and sat down to play. Here's my first experiment - I hope you enjoy it!

I started by stamping the image onto a piece of scrap paper and tearing it out. I needed a mask so that my texture paste didn't get in the way of my stamping. I applied the texture paste, then removed the mask. BTW, this is one of Ranger's #10 tags. It looks like they are discontinuing this size, but I found some in stock at Stampers Anonymous if you want to grab some while you still can.

After my texture paste dried, I glued torn strips of French text to my tag, then stamped randomly with the new Rings background stamp. When everything was dry, I covered it with Dina Wakley's Clear Gesso. This allows the crayon to move smoothly over the surface without soaking into the paper (that was my theory, anyway!).

After the Clear Gesso dried, I scribbled various colors over the tag. This was my first time using these, so I had no idea what I was doing, but thought it was smart to start with a bit, then add if I needed more.

Since I'd heard Tim say the crayons reacted with water, I spritzed the whole tag and then spread it around with my finger. I had no idea how loose the colors would be when mixed with water and I probably should have used less, but I loved how they blended!

I dried the tag with my heat tool, then added a bit more crayon to amplify the colors. When they dried, I used the new Plus stencil to remove some color, using a dampened paper towel.

Next, I stamped one of my favorite new images from the Evolution stamp set.

I wanted to add some text, but I didn't want it to be super contrast-y. I was like....hmmm...let's try the new plain Tissue Wrap! After stamping the quote (one of my faves!) with Jet Black Archival ink, I cut the parts I wanted to use and adhered the strips with matte medium. I love that it is translucent, but doesn't totally disappear. So cool!

After my tag was done, I went back and highlighted some of the stenciled numbers with Ground Espresso Distress ink. I love the depth of color you get with the crayons. I wish you could see this in person - it's so full of grungy texture and color!

All the supplies I used can be found at Simon Says Stamp via the links below.

Tim Holtz Cling Rubber Stamps 2016 EVOLUTION CMS262 Tim Holtz Cling Rubber Stamps 2016 PONDERINGS CMS252 Tim Holtz Cling Rubber Stamps 2016 HALFTONE AND RINGS CMS260 Tim Holtz 9 GRID ACRYLIC BLOCKS Set to Cling Stamps 521736 Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Crayons SET 2 TDBK47919 Tim Holtz Layering Stencil PLUS THS053 Tim Holtz Layering Stencil NUMERIC THS054 Ranger Inkssentials MINI COLLAGE GLUE STICK Adhesive IWT44666 Ranger TEXTURE PASTE 4oz INK44444 Dina Wakley Ranger CLEAR GESSO 4 OZ Jar Media MDM46424 Dina Wakley Ranger PALETTE KNIFE Media MDA41771 Tim Holtz Idea-ology PLAIN TISSUE WRAP Paperie TH93275 Ranger JUMBO ARCHIVAL INK PAD Jet Black XL Tim Holtz A3P06701 Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad GROUND ESPRESSO Ranger TIM43270 Tim Holtz Idea-ology TISSUE TAPE ELEMENTS Washi TH93068 Tim Holtz Idea-ology JUTE STRING TH93139 Tim Holtz Idea-ology Naturals BLACK AND CREAM Trimmings TH93105

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Thanks so much for stopping by today! Have a great week!