Easter Tag by Dianna

Hi Everyone, Dianna here with a Easter Tag made with Gina's Designs X Large Tag, Easter Shape Set and Julie Nutting's Audrey Mixed Media Doll Stamp

The paper used is Doodlebug Designs "Hello SunShine".  I covered the tag and lightly distressed the edges.  I painted the Gina's Designs frame, lamb and chick with white acrylic paint. Texture paste dyed green was used to create the base for the "grass", which is actually green paper Easter grass. 

I wanted the chick to stand out, so I searched my stash of stuff and came upon white Flower Soft.  I spritzed the Flower Soft with a yellow Myra Mist and it worked.  Now, I had yellow fluffy stuff for the chick. (Note: a word of warning, I spritzed too heavily and it took two days to dry).  I used a yellow Copic Marker, colored the chicks body and used an orange for the beak.  I put glue everywhere, except the beak and spread the now yellow Flower Soft on the chick.  It dried pretty quickly, I had already cut out the egg shape so I used a chipboard spacer to give a little dimension between the egg and the chick.  A black gem for the eye and the chick is done!  The other two chipboard eggs were covered with paper and Prima chicks were used to decorate.  The edges were daubed with glitter glue.  Gina's "Basket Full of Joy" was inked in green and daubed with green and white glitter glue. 

I used white and gray Copic Markers on the the lamb then decided to cover the lamb in Flower Soft too, since it worked so well on the chick.  First I put glue all over the lamb except for the face and then covered the lamb in Flower Soft.  Now I have a fluffy white lamb!  Two gems for the eyes, a pearl for the nose and a hand drawn mouth finish the little lamb. 

Julie Nutting's new Audrey Mixed Media Doll Stamp was changed up a bit in order to hold the basket and sit down.  The skirt was cut at the bottom to the first pink band.  The legs were cut off and a chipboard filler piece was used under the feet and at the knees (this gave the legs the appearance of bending.  I used Julie Nutting's Strapless Dress Doll's other arm to create the arm holding the basket.  I gave Audrey more of a bust line in order to hide the fact that the arm is a little different.  I then stamped the bow from the Strapless Dress Doll and used nail gems for the neckline.  The Basket is a die cut and the flowers were cut from the Doodlebug paper, glitter glue was daubed on the flowers and gemstones were placed in the middle.  The cute blue bird is a brad from Doodlebug.  The stamp phrase is from Taylored  Expressions.  Gina's frame was daubed with green, white and pink glitter glue, while the glue was still wet I applied flaked glitter and seed pearls.  

Thank you for looking!

Items Used

Gina's Designs

Chipboard Decorative Tags X Large 

Easter Shape Set - coming soon

Other Items

Julie Nutting - Audrey Mixed Media Doll Stamp

- Strapless Dress Doll

Doodlebug Designs - paper

Taylored Expressions - basket die

                                          - stamp phrases

                                  - bird brad

Prima - baby Chicks

St. Patrick's Day Tag by Dianna

Hi Everyone, Happy St. Patrick's Day! Being part Irish, I just simply had to do something with Gina's Designs Chipboard and my Prima Media Doll Stamp. 

I started with Gina's X-Large Tag and covered with Authentique "Lucky" Collection paper.  The Layered Border (Victoria) from Gina's Designs comes in two layers.  The bottom layer I used gold Stickles and the top layer Sparkling H20s to give the chipboard more color.  The Ivy under the Irish Blessing is Gina's Ivy Corners, I spritzed the Ivy with Fireworks Spray and Stickles.  I cut out the Irish Blessing, the Shamrocks "Lucky", the large and small Shamrock  from Authentique "Lucky" Collection.  I used two different Stickles on the Shamrocks in caldron.  I painted Gina's caldron black then used green Stickles,  The phrase "May your blessings outnumber the shamrocks that grow...." is cut from the top of the Authentique paper.  

I used Julie Nutting's Media Doll and stamped doll dress twice using the Authentique paper.  I then layered the dress and cut the "folds" of the first layer of the dress to give the dress more fluff.  I created sleeves with the solid green paper and placed an extra clover in her arm.  The top hat was cut out of the Authentique paper.  I used Copic Markers on the hair, body and shoes. 

Items Used

Gina's Designs

Chipboard Decorative Tags X-Large

Ivy Corners

Be Witched Shape Set

Layered Border Victoria

Other Items

Julie Nutting Media Doll

Authentique - Lucky Collection

Copic Markers

Valentine Tag by Dianna

Hi Everyone, Dianna here with a Valentine with a Steampunk Twist.  I really could not help myself as soon as I seen the Bo-Bunny Paper "Star-Crossed" line, I just knew that it would look wonderful with Gina's Designs Eiffel Tower and Clockwork Penny Farthing.  I also wanted to include a heart for the Gina's Designs February Craft Group Challenge, so of course I went with a Steampunk heart. 

I covered a Gina's Designs X-Large Chipboard Tag with the Bo-Bunny Paper, used Vintage Photo and Black Soot to distress the edges (a lot).  I used Black Soot on the Eiffel Tower as a base coat and then used Stickles in three different colors to give it dimension.  The card stock dolies were spritzed with Ranger Sparkling H20's in a spritzer with a lot of water.  I have having a heck of a time with clogging of the normal Ranger Sprays so I made my own.  I will let you know on my next blog update if it worked or if that clogged too.   The Steampunk Heart and Clockwork Penny Farthing were "painted" with chalk ink in a bronze color, then distressed and Stickled. 

The Julie Nutting Media Doll was colored with Copic Markers and Bo-Bunny paper was used for her dress.  The underdress was spritzed with water and folded a couple of times (fan like) to get the ruffled effect.  I created a sleeve out of left over paper from the underskirt.  The opposite side of the striped paper is hearts (which is really cute).  I used red Stickles and dotted the hearts for extra sparkle. The suitecases are from a really cute Stamping Bella Stamp that I stamped, colored with Copic and cut out.  The Gina's Designs Art Deco Border was painted with gold chalk ink and spritzed and Stickled to create a tarinshed look. 

Sparkling H20 was used on the Balloon and then brushed corduroy Stickles was used to create a rope look.  I Stickled the teal paper to give more depth to the balloon.  I included a couple of pictures of the balloon because you really cannot see it well in the overall photo.

 Finally, I stamped the RubberNecker Stamps on plain cardstock and distressed the edges with bronze chalk ink.

Items Used

Gina's Designs

Steampunk Hearts

Eiffel Tower 8 inch

Chipboard Decorative Tag X-Large

Cardstock Doily Set Intricates

Clockwork Penny Farthing

Art Deco Borders and Corners

Hot Air Balloon Shape Set

Other Items

Julie Nutting Media Doll Stamp

Stamping Bella-luggage

RubberNecker Stamps-Steamer Tag and phrase

Bo-Bunny Paper

EK-Success - Border Punch

Ranger - Distress Ink

Stickles



Halloween Witch X-Large Tag by Dianna

Hi everyone, Dianna here with a Halloween Witch just in time for October 31st. This is a cross-promo with Craftsupplies1.

Gina's Designs Large Tag was covered by black paper from Kitty's Scrap Post - O'Halloween. A spiderweb die cut was used to create the large orange spiderweb on the left hand side. The moon from Kitty's Scrap Post - O'Halloween was placed on scrap chip board and placed at the top of the spiderweb. Gina's Designs Boo! was painted with black gesso and distressed with orange and black Stickles. The witches hat and broom was from a Graphic 45 stamp set. The black copic marker was used on the hat, the green copic was used on the band and green Stickles.

The fence is from Gina's Designs Beach Shape Set, was painted with black gesso and distressed with gold and black Stickels. Pumpkins from Gina's Designs was painted with white acrylic paint and copic markers was used to create a rind effect on the pumpkins. The stems of Acrylic Orange and Brown flowers from Craftsupplies1 was colored with copic green marker and then curled with a pencil. The flowers were placed on the vines of the pumpkins.

Julie Nutting - Mixed Media Doll Stamp Tasha with Evening Dress was stamped on an old book and black paper, then a spiderweb was created with Stickles and a green glitter netting was placed behind her create a fuller dress look. A Gina's Designs Spiderweb was painted black with gesso and distressed with Stickles, a spider was placed next to both spiderwebs. There are two Cardstock Doily Set Intricates from Gina's Designs were distressed with black ink and placed under the witch. The Owl from Craftsupplies1 was colored with a black marker, just enough so that the gold shines through, two black rhinestones were placed in the owls eyes. The owl was placed right above the witch. The ribbons are from my stash of halloween ribbon.

Items Used

Gina's Designs

Spooky Shape Set

Pumpkins

Chipboard Decorative Tags X-Large

Spiderweb Shape Set

Beach Shape Set

Cardstock Doily Set Intricates

Craftsupplies1

Antique Gold Owls

Acrylic Orange Flowers

Acrylic Brown Flowers

Kitty's Scrap Post

O'Halloween