Just A Note

Hello, Lyneen here,
      I love vintage and distressed cards!  How about you?  For this card I created the vintage background paper with Blank Page Muse stamps. I stamped on velum for effect!

For this card I used the following from Blank Page Muse:

Vintage style Postcards background Art Rubber StampsTTS114-01 

Correspondence Pens, Ink & Postage Art Rubber Stamp Sheet by Katy Leitch SCKTL-001 (Stamps, Pens, Script background)

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Wings of love tag

Today I have a tag to show you here on the Sin City Inspiration blog:

Products used:
Sin City stamp sheets:  Background grunge art , Flower and Bird Sketches , Correspondence pens Ink, postage art   , Wings rubber stamp set , steampunk circus set ,

White cardstock
Black stamp ink
Ink pads (blue, brown, black, green)
Ribbon
Scissors
Stencil
colored pencils
glue
Tim Holtz tag die (big and small)- or blank tags

Step 1: Stamp the bird

Step 2: Color in the bird

Step 3 : Cut out the bird and put is aside, use the die cut and cut out 3 tags in different sizes

Step 4: Take the biggest tag and use the inks and the crackle stamp to create the background

Step 5: Stencil the pattern using brown ink.

Step 6: Take the middle size tag and use brown ink to give it an aged look, make impression with the lace stamp and blue ink to create a background. 

Step 7: Stamp the feathers and the butterfly using black ink

Step 8:  Use green ink to age the smallest tag and create a background using the script stamp

Step 9: Use blue ink to make an impression of the postage stamp

Step 10: Make an impression using the circle stamp and blue ink on the biggest tag

Step 11: Age the tab and the bookplate die cuts using blue and green inks. Edge the tags with black ink.

Step 12: Layer the tag like in the picture and adhere all pieces, add a ribbon.

Below some more close up pictures

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Live Carefree & Fearless Card

Hello Sin City Fans,
For those who love shabby chic & vintage, then my card has everything you could want.
 Incorporating a sewing theme, lace, flowers, & birds make this card rustic yet feminine.
Come follow me and I will show you just how I did it.

Supplies:

1. Inhale Exhale Art Stamp Set (Sin City Stamps)
2. Dress Forms Steampunk Rubber Stamp Set (Sin City Stamps)
3. Flower & Bird Sketches Art Rubber Stamp Set (Sin City Stamps)
4. watermark ink pad / brown & black ink pad
5. embossing powder (white, black, & magenta)
6. heat gun
7. pattern paper scrap
8. paper edge distressing tool
9. acetate & permanent black ink pad
10. pearl domes
11. lace & trim


Directions:
1. Trim 1/2" off the vertical edge of the card front.  Adhere a piece of lace to the edge of the inside of the card. Distress the edge of a 5.5" square of patterned paper and then distress a matching solid paper.  Attach a third coordinating paper to a 6x6" card base.  Layer the two distressed papers offset as shown.

2. Use watermark ink to stamp the dressform onto a scrap, apply white embossing powder, and heat set.  Carefully, cut out the bodice and discard the base.

3.  Next, use permanent black ink to stamp the base onto acetate and trim.  Attach the base to the back of the bodice using dimensional foam tape.

4. Stamp the sentiment in the upper right corner of the card.  Use watermark ink, apply magenta embossing powder, and heat set.

5. Next, stamp the flying bird onto a scrap of brown cardstock and carefully cut out.  Adhere the dressform and bird to the card.

6. Stamp three feathers onto cardstock using watermark ink, apply white embossing powder, & heat set. Cut out the feathers and adhere them fluttering down to the lower right corner.

7. Finally, embellish the card with a random scattering of pearl domes.  Add a piece of trim folded casually near the dressform. Apply brown distress ink to the edge of the cardfront.

A Closer Look:

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She Flies

Hello!  This is RobinRedd, aka Rockin Redd Robin!   

I’m here today to share the first page in my new Art Journal.  I’m using the large Dylusions Creative Journal.  Up until now, I’ve been hesitant to art journal in an actual art journal.  I think because I was afraid of ruining a perfectly good art journal.  Absolute CRAZY thinking!  I had been art journaling on loose water color paper.  Loose meaning from a tablet of paper, not in a book.

I finally bit the bullet and journalled right into  a book!  And let me tell you, I LOVE this book!  As I’m completing pages, it just feels so good to hold and to flip through the few pages I’ve already completed.

With this page, I started my stamping these images onto tissue paper with a black Staz-on Stamp pad so the ink doesn’t bleed when it comes in contact with anything fluid.  –Set aside.

**Stamps used:

For Him 

Mannequin Tag 5

I will not be using any gesso as a base for any of my pages in this book because I contacted a person from Dyan Reaverly’s (Dylusions) camp and asked if she used gesso when she used this book and she did not.  When I use watercolor paper or sometimes I’ll art journal on LARGE shipping tags, I will use gesso.

To start his page, I simply took the covers off of a few different colors of Distress Stamp Pads and took them directly to the paper and smeared it around, one color at a time.  I started with Antique Linen Distress pad, covering the entire page.  I topped that with Shabby Shutters Distress Pad, then I  inked the edges and corners with the Tea Dye Distress Stamp Pad.

To get the white spots on the page, I simply drizzled plain water on the page.  I took a paper towel and DABBED it up.  I didn’t wipe it because I wanted the water to remove the ink in dots, not smears.  Then I took some watered down brown acrylic paint and splattered it across the paper. 

At this point I sprayed the page with workable fixative.  Otherwise, if I were to apply a wet medium over it, the colors will bleed.

I cut off some body parts of a girl in a magazine and with the stamped images from the tissue paper, I created a ‘new’ girl by layering all parts and adhering them to the page with Liquitex Matte Medium.

I painted these chipboard pieces from Gina’s Design’s with watercolor pencils and Distress stain, 

adhered them on with CTMH’s Liquid Glass.

I finished the page with some doodle journaling using Scarlet Lime’s black journal pen.

Here is the completed page!  Hopefully, you can use one of these simple ideas on your next creation!

Thanks for coming by!  I’ll see you in a couple of weeks.

~Robin Redd