Time To Break Out Those Crayons And Play

O.K Let's be honest if your are an adult how often do you take time to play? How often do you say for today the laundry and dishes can wait because I'm going to take fifteen minutes,half hour or horrors even all day to play? When was the last time you had a crayon in hand? If it has been awhile then go find those crayons. If you have kids go raid their stash of crayons. Take fifteen minutes at least to play. You don't really have to be good at drawing for this project. The object is to have fun. If you have dye ink pads grab those too.

Promise you won't laugh but I don't profess to be good at drawing. However, I keep trying and who knows when I'm a hundred and one maybe I will finally get the hang of it. O.K. taking a deep breath first. Here is my card.

I drew the flower with my crayons. Then filled it in with distress ink. I think my Concord Grape ink was too close to the crayon color as you can't really see the shading I did with the crayon. And I might have not used enough pressure for the stem and leaf with the crayon. However in the center you can see where the yellow dots really pop after I rubbed Antique Linen distress ink.

After using sea foam chalk ink on the background I decided that I needed something else so I stamped on the flying bird. Then colored with a colored pencil and didn't like the color so chalked over the bird.

The card I saw with the crayon resist had a ribbon on the side with a bow so I decided to go ahead and use the purple ribbon in my stash.

There you have my crayon play now I want to buy some glittered crayons and perhaps draw more abstract.

Thank you for stopping by and do come back again. Wishing you Happy Frugal Crafting!

Thinking Of Spring

Monday was a beautiful day and my thoughts started turning towards Spring and this inspired me to make a card with Spring colors. (Click to enlarge image)

I had cut my pieces out for this card and temporarily placed them on a piece of fabric which I embossed. I liked how it looked and decided to use a piece of the fabric for the background.

For the square I took white pearl acrylic paint and add stream alcohol ink to it to color it. After brushing the paint on I then took the white paint and added plum alcohol ink. After brushing it over the blue I took bubble wrap and pressed down on and let it sit for a minute or two. The bubble wrap pulled up the pink paint.

I made the frame from a flower file after ungrouping it and deleting the middle of the flower. I did an offset and then made a compound path. I didn't like it so went and did an offset again and came up with a new flower and frame. The frame was heat embossed with seafoam embossing powder. The flower was cut out of clear contact paper. On the sticky side I sprinkled Martha Stewart flocking powder.

The butterfly was cut out of a scrap of neutral colored pattern paper. I rubbed it with metallic chalk.

The love phrase was a pain. Twice my Cameo would not cut it out right. The third time I cut it out and got ready to heat emboss it only to not find it. Then I cut it out of colored card stock and tore it when I was gluing it. Then I saw a scrap of glittered DCW paper. Knowing that it cut best with the glittered side down I mirrored the phrase. The phrase was made using Lucida Calligraphy and Lucida Handwriting welded together.

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Wait! Don't Throw Out That Dryer Sheet

Sorry I have been gone for so long. My roommate is a really generous person and he decided to share the "Creeping Crud" with me. I have been in bed for two weeks and those who know me know that is just not me. Anyway until a couple of days ago I didn't even feel like crafting.

I have used dryers sheets before. Using colored glue and gluing wax paper on it. Gluing tissue paper on it,etc. But I never thought to use it as an overlay until I found a book called "Creative Foundations". In that book not only is the dryer sheet dyed and used as an overlay. It is also used as a ruffle and flowers made from it.  LOL! I also discovered leafing through the book where I went wrong when I tried to use acrylic paint to make a monoprint background. LOL! I still like how the background turned out and the dryer sheet softens it.

O.K. Without further ado here is the card fresh off the press.(Click image to enlarge)

For the background I painted acrylic paint on a acrylic plate for my Big Shot. I only had Holly Red,,Black and Pearl White. The rest of my acrylic paints are glitter paints. Unfortunately the white paint dried on the plate before I could even run the paper through my Big Shot. I used a scrap of parchment looking calligraphy paper. Still I like the way it turned out.

In another book on making paper mosaics there was a project using clear contact paper and paper squares. I decided  to go with thin triangles and circles. I cut my flower out with my Cameo. Then patiently attached the triangles and circles on the flower. Both the triangles and circles were cut out of scraps of paper.  I then brushed PVA glue tinted with alcohol ink lightly over to make sure that the shapes were down tight. It changed slightly the color of the circles and lightly tinted the contact paper. I didn't like the circles so went ahead and dabbed some Mandarin Orange Perfect Pearls thinned with water on the circles.

 The butterfly is one I was playing with using Perfect Pearls on photo paper. I went ahead and added some of the leftover Mandarin Orange on it. I also used brown for the body and antennae but for some reason it rubbed off. I cut a  piece of plastic from packaging into a narrow strip and folded it accordion style and then glued the butterfly down.

After playing with inks on scrap pieces of dryer sheet I ended up using my Memento Tuxedo Black Ink. It showed up the best. I also knew that I could glue down the dryer sheet without worry about the ink bleeding. Originally I was going to glue down the dryer sheet with my gel but I could not find it. I did however find Antique Decoupage medium by Royal Coats. LOL! And I think it is antique as my grandchildren weren't even born yet. It worked perfectly.

Thank you for stopping by and looking. Also thanks for leaving me some love. Happy March and Happy Frugal Crafting till we meet again!