Butterfly Photo Box

Butterfly Box

I got this photo box at Michaels the other day 

and knew I wanted to make a special box for a friend.  
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This month we are partnered with Pan Pastels.

PanPastel Colors are professional artists’ quality soft pastel colors packed 

in a unique pan format (cake-like). 

The special qualities of PanPastel Colors mean that artists can blend 

and apply dry color like fluid paint for the first time.

Supplies:

Sin City Stamps 

Chicken Wire with Butterflies Die Cut Page

Butterfly and Bee Die Cut

Pan Pastels: 

purple and green

Stickles, pearls, flowers, lace, pink seam binding, 

hair clip with lace pearls.

Paper is Recollections.

Mod Podge

Perfect Pearls Mist

Gesso and honeycomb stencil


I tore up the patterned paper and some cardstock
I crumpled the cardstock and sprayed with Perfect Pearl Mist.
Then I  crumpled it again.

I mod podged the patterned paper on the top of the

box. I used some of the cardstock also.

I added part of the butterfly on a wire stencil.

I decided I wanted to add some colour to the butterflies.

I added some green pan pastel. then some Stickles.

I added green pan pastels to the small butterflies and

purple to the large one.. 

Here is the butterfly with purple pan pastels then

stickles.. It was originally orange.

I painted the whole bottom of the box with gesso.

I then added the stencil and painted over it again.

I added the pearls and the flowers and lace flower on the lid.

Thanks so much for stopping by.

Check out my blog at www.lauraleesdream.blogspot.com

Check out the store at http://www.sincitystamps.com/

and

Pan Pastels at http://www.panpastel.com/about.html

Laura

Sin City Stamps Mushroom Mini Album

Hello! Peggy here to show you how I made this fantasy fairy mushroom mini album.

This month we at Sin City Stamps are partnering with Pan Pastels and I have to say I absolutely love how smooth they are and their ability to blend.

Pans contain 0.30floz (9ml) of color -

40% more material than the average pastel stick*, yielding at least 4-5 times more coverage than sticks.

*Average, based on a survey of leading brands

"Click to see survey"

Todays supplies include:

• Sin City Stamps Mushroom Chipboard
• Sin City Stamps fairy chipboard pieces
• Pan Pastels
• Soft tool applicators
• Stickles
• Lace
• Handmade flowers
• Embellishments
• Cardstock
• Copy paper stained with coffee / dried
• Hand dyed ribbon
• Glue or matt medium
• Sandpaper
• Scissors/exacto knife
• Distress ink

I began by covering all chipboard with cardstock  using matt medium and fussy cutting around each piece.  Using sand paper

around the edges blends the cardstock into the chipboard almost seamlessly.  I used pan pastels in two shades of purple for shading around windows, the door, mushroom holes and fairies.

I used stickles around the wings of each fairy

I cut some paper pages I had previously coffee stained into mushroom shapes using my back cover as a template. I hand crinkled the pages, distressed the edges with both distress Inks 

and purple pan pastels

Here you can see the thickness of the mini album and the dimension brought in by crinkling the pages.

I added my hand made flowers and a couple from Michaels. I colored and shaded all flowers with pan pastels.

I layered all embellishments on a lace applique. 

My see through holes are exposing the patterned cardstock from DCWV.

This is my finished fairy mini album. I hope you enjoyed my tutorial and I encourge you take a look at Sin City Stamps for your stamping, chipboard and stenciling needs.

Lilac Canvas - Pan Pastel & Sin City Stamps

Hello and welcome. It's Gracie from Graciellie Design and I'm excited to be here once more, to share with you a new project. This month Sin City Stamps has partnered with PanPastel, and I am very excited! My teammates have been presenting such creative projects on the Sin City Stamps' blog showcasing products from both companies, and they've done an amazing job.

PanPastel is such a forgiving medium, it blends so well, it can be corrected with a simple eraser, and it has such rich color, it's is a delight to work with them!

For my project I used PanPastel in Lilac and Lilac Tint together with Sin City Stamps chipboard pieces and rubber stamps. I made a canvas, embellished with handmade flowers and many other elements.

Supplies
Sin City Stamps: Love of Butterflies rubber plate, Chicken Wire with Butterflies Mask, Chicken Wire w/Butterflies Chipboard Sheet, Chicken wire with Butterflies Chipboard Book,
PanPastel: Violet, Violet Tint
Cottonwood Arts: Cottonwood Arts Thin 6"x 6"Canvas (to be released), Angled Cut Art Sponge - Sofft Tools
DreamWeaver Pearlescent Embossing Paste
Add a Little Dazzle metal sheet
Miscelaneous: Ribbon, lace, glitter, acrylic paint, vellum, cardstock, various adhesives, pearls and crystals

I have a step by step tutorial for you! Please click on start the guide below to check it out.

Check out How to Make a 3D Embellished Canvas With Pan Pastels by Gracie CH on Snapguide.

I hope you enjoyed my project and tutorial as much as I enjoyed making it and I hope you are inspired to try it out too! If you have any questions feel free to contact me through a comment here or at my blog.

LAND OF OZ CHIPBOARD BOOK

Today I made a "Land of Oz" chipboard book, with chipboard figures, using Pan Pastels!

I made a Snapguide tutorial for you too!  I hope it works hope you like it!!

SUPPLIES:

• SinCity Stamps "Tin Man" Chpboard Book
• SinCity Stamps "OZ" Chipboard Pieces
• SinCity Stamps "Terri Sproul Leaves" Stamp Set
• Pan Pastels: Permanent Red, Burnt Sienna, Hansa Yellow, Phthalo Green Shade, Permanent Green, Purple and Black

Check out How to Make a Land of Oz Chipboard Book by Daniella Hayes on Snapguide.

Art Journaling with Sin City Stamps and Pan Pastels

Hello everyone, and welcome to a new month of fun and inspiration here at Sin City Stamps!  This month, we will be using a fabulous product called Pan Pastels.  Before I begin, let me first tell you a bit about this product.  Pan Pastels are professional artists’ quality soft pastel colors packed in a unique pan format (cake-like). The special qualities of PanPastel Colors mean that artists can blend and apply dry color like fluid paint for the first time.  All PanPastel Colors are made using a unique manufacturing process requiring minimal binder and fillers, resulting in rich, ultra soft and super-blendable colors.

Each color is loaded with the finest quality artists’ pigments for the most concentrated colors possible. The colors have excellent lightfastness and are fully erasable. Uniquely, for pastel color, they can be mixed together for a complete painting palette.

Now that you know what Pan Pastels are, let me show you what I made with them.  I started out with a blank journal page, and here is my finished piece.

To view my directions in their entirety, I have included a SnapGuide tutorial.  Just click on the Start Here button to view the process and more detailed pictures.  

Check out How to Stamp With Sin City Stamps & Pan Pastels by Barbara Rankin on Snapguide.

Sin City Stamps supplies used:

• Natural Beauty stamp plate
• Bingo stamp plate
• Love of Butterflies stamp plate
• Rose Stencil
• Entangled Stencil

Other Products used:

• Pan Pastels colors:  Burnt Sienna (bricks), Red Tint Magenta, Hansa Yellow Tint, Ultramarine Blue Tint, Permanent Green Tint
• Cottonwood Arts Coldpress Notebook Journal
• Light Molding Paste (Golden)
• Versamark, Memento black, StazOn Midnight Blue ink pads
• Spatula

I hope you enjoyed my project and tutorial today, and be sure to check back for more inspiration from the team.  And while you are exploring the internet, I hope you will visit both the Sin City Stamps and Pan Pastels shops for all the supplies you need to make a journal of your very own. 

Have a wonderful, creative weekend!

Barbara

Time... Pan Pastels and a Gate Fold with a Twist

Today for Sin City Stamps I am making a gate fold card.

This month our sponsor company is PanPastels.

I have never used Pan Pastels before this but I find that 

I will be using them alot in the future.  I love the bold

colours that they give and the many ways you can use them.

We got a few colours to use this month and I have used two of them 

for today's card.

Supplies:

Sin City Stamps: Time Stamps (Plate of Rubber)

Pan Pastels  - Bright Yellow Green Shade

Purple and sponge

Cardstock from stash

Versa Mark Embossing Ink

Hairspray

I used two colours of Pan Pastels.

I used the sponge to put them on the paper.

I love the depth of the colour.

I then inked the stamp from Time with embossing ink.

I put the paper with the Pan Pastels over top of the stamp.

I used a brayer to make sure the ink got on the paper.

Then I used the same colour Pan Pastels to go over the

embossed ink with the sponge.

You can see at the bottom how the embossed ink makes it darker.

Here is the whole piece done.

Look the  depth of the colour when you 

add colour for the second time.

I didn't have any sealant so I used hairspray

and it gave it a big of a sheen.

This is the first time I have done anything using 

Pan Pastels. I have done some trial projects 

last week but I was pretty unhappy about how 

they turned out.

I am glad I kept trying as I really like this card.

I will definitely will getting some more Pan Pastels.

This card is a gatefold card with a twist.

Love this idea.

Thanks for stopping by.

Check out the blog all month for Sin City Stamps and Pan Pastels!

This project can also be found on my blog

www.lauraleesdream.blogspot.com

Laura

More Halloween Altered Pages Design Team Partner Projects

Hello everyone.  I you've been following along with us this month, then you know we have partnered with our good friends over at Altered Pages this month, featuring products from both Sin City Stamps and Altered Pages.  Our theme for the remainder of the month is "Halloween".  Today, I want to share the remaining fabulous projects created by the Altered Pages design team.   

                        Halloween ATCs by Robin Horasanian

                

           Do Not Enter Halloween Mini Album by Barbara Rankin

       A Spooky Light by the Graveyard at Night by Danie May

                           Alas Poor Yorick! by Trisha Too

I hope you enjoyed viewing these, and if you would like to see more, just click on their name for a direct link to their project.  Please be sure to stop by and let them know you were there.

Thanks for stopping by, and have a wonderful, creative week!

Barbara

Vintage Double Fold Halloween Card

Hello everyone! It's Gracie. Welcome to my final post for this month's amazing partnership between Sin City Stamps and Altered Pages. We have certainly had so much fun creating our projects, and I hope we've inspired you with everything we've shared too!

Today I have a vintage, double fold Halloween card, using sweet Halloween images from Altered Pages, and chipboard elements from Sin City Stamps.

Main Supplies
Sin City Stamps Alice in Wonderland Chipboard Book 
Sin City Stamps Chicken wire with Butterflies sheet Chipboard
Sin City Stamps  Love of Butterflies Plate of Rubber
Altered Pages Vintage Halloween Collage
Altered Pages Antique Halloween Collage
Altered Pages Halloween 1950s Collage
Altered Pages Bright Green Cardstock 8.5 x 11
Altered Pages Bright Orange Cardstock 8.5 x 11
Altered Pages NIJI Oil pastels
Altered Pages SKULL Ribbons
Other
White linen, light brown Leather textured, and beige Feuille carstocks
Light brown burlap ribbon
Copper and Clear embossing powders
Distress Inks in: Old Paper, Vintage Photo and embossing
Color Box white pigment ink
Patterned papers from my stash
Small wood clothespin
Vintage gold button
Various adhesives

As you can see, every side of the card was matted and embellished, except for one, which was left that way in order to write a message to the recipient.

To learn how to make this card please check out my Snapguide below. Just click on the Start the Guide button and follow each step.

Check out How to Make a Vintage Double Fold Halloween Card by Gracie CH on Snapguide.

If you have any questions about this project, don't hesistate to contact me through a comment here or at my blog.

I do hope you enjoyed seeing my card. If you'd like to make a card like this, and would like to purchase the products I used, click on the linked supples listed above.

Thanks so much for stopping by today. Until next time!

PERFECT PARTNERS...

We are still partnering up with Altered Pages!!

I made 4 tags with SinCity Stamps and Altered Pages products.

SUPPLIES:

• SinCity Stamps "Halloween Bingo"
• SinCity Stamps "Day Of The Dead by Michelle Frae Cummings"
• SinCity Stamps "Clockworks by Terri Sproul"
• Altered Pages "Halloween Phrases" Collage Sheet
• Altered Pages "Halloween 1950's" Collage Sheet
• Altered Pages "Skull Ribbon"
• Dylusions Black and Orange From Altered Pages.com
• Manila Tags From Altered Pages
• Misc. Trims, Punchinella, Gauze, Rope

First, I get all my supplies together.  I always take out too much!! lol!

I made my backgrounds first.  2 tags I sprayed with Dylusions and 2 tags I used "Halloween Bingo" on orange cardstock and adhered it to the tags.  I inked the edges of the tags too.

Next I stamped my images.  For the Sugar Skulls, I used a marker to color the stamp.  Then I breathed, or "huffed" on it to get the stamp warm so the ink would transfer to the paper.  An old technique but so awesome!  It was perfect for the Sugar Skulls!!

I also cut out images from my collages.

Now the fun part!  Putting the tags together!

I stamped some spiders on the tag and added the orange cardstock with "Halloween Bingo" stamp.  Then I added a gauze, punchinella, a collage image and my sugar skull.  I finished it off with some skull ribbon on top.

For this tag, I used the Dylusions Spray Ink on the background and stamped the Roman Numerals, to make the number 13.  I added the skull from the collage sheet, some trim and rope.

Again, I started with Dylusions on the tag.  I added a fun orange card and a collage image.  I stamped the bottles on a tag and cut them out.  I added a rope bow to a bottle and finished with some trim.

My last tag uses the "Halloween Bingo" on orange cardstock again.  Then I added punchinella, a piece of the collage sheet and a stamped Sugar Skull.  I finished with some trim and the skull ribbon.

Thanks for visiting today!  I hope you click the links and get some AWESOME Halloween stuff for your own projects!!

xxDaniella