Just a simple thinking of you card

Hello & thanks for checking out my simple “thinking of you card”. 

For this card I stamped a flower from the Tim Holtz set, Illustrated Garden onto a watercolor paper card base and used a water pen and some distress markers to color it in. 

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Xo- Megan

Haunted House Inspiration

I created this card using the new Tim Holtz ‘Sketch Manor’ stamp set.



I started by dipping a piece of water color paper into inks, drying in between dippings. I then created my scene, I stamped the house, tree, moon and bats on to the base paper. I also stamped an additional house onto another piece of water color paper. 

I colored the moon and tree with the water color method using distress inks and a water pen. 

Next I colored the “extra” stamped house using the same method. I cut the house into three sections; the left wing, the middle part of the house and the right wing. I then glued the “wings” down onto the base of the card. I took the middle of the house and glued it onto another piece of paper so it would stand off of the card a little more. 

I used a blank page form an old book and stamped ‘an uninvited guest’ from the ‘Tiny Text - Halloween’ stamp set. 

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Xo- Megan

Eye spy Halloween Inspiration

I created this Halloween card using the newly released ‘Dearly Departed’ stamp set. 

I stamped the eye onto a piece of water color paper that I colored using distress inks. I stitched around the image and taped it into a piece of Black Out Kraft stock that I wrinkled up and smoothed out. I completed it with a sticker from the ideology Halloween curiosity sticker book. 

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Xo- Megan

A Quick Set of Six Halloween Cards

Michaels released some adorable Halloween stamps this year in their Recollections line. I couldn’t decide on one so I grabbed all three! 

For set I made the hard decision and picked my top six stamps and made a little set of Halloween cards. 

Check out the video below for a better step by step of just how easy it is to make these adorable cards! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here's a list of some of the products I used to make this set:

- tear tape 

- spider web stamps

- black sequins

- black paper

- word stamps

- distress ink

- distress oxide ink

- black ink

- versa mark

- embossing powder

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Xo- Megan

Halloween Inspiration No. 3

I fell in love with the Tim Holtz stamps, Monster Reunion the first time I saw them. So needless to say I was extremely excited to see the Simon Says Stamp - Stamptember release. As soon as they arrived I couldn’t wait to get in my craft room and play!!

To create these cards I started by cutting some circles out of vellum and adding some stitching. 

Next I started on the stamped parts. Using my stamping platform I stamped multiple times to ensure I got dark crisp stamped images. 

Using several different Distress inks with my water pen, I colored in all the images. 

Fussy cutting came next, and it probably took the longest amount of time. 

After I cut everyone out I went back in with Vintage Photo Distress Ink and a piece of foam from a blender tool and kind of “grunged” up the edges. That way they got some extra depth and the bright white of the paper was muted a little. 

After getting a closer look at the bird I thought he needed a little of of blue to make him a little less muddy. 

Then I started on my background. Using Wild Honey Distress Oxide Ink  I dabbed the paper into the ink on my mat about three times (or until I was happy with my coloring) and dried the paper using my heat tool in between dabbings. 


Using my blending brush I inked around the outer edges with Black Soot Distress Oxide Ink  sprayed it with water and dried it with my heat tool. I then dabbed the edges of my background in the leftover ink on my mat and finished it by drying with my heat tool. 


In my stash, I already had this die cut.. it’s the Tim Holtz Bird Branch Sizzix die  so I chopped the bird off and painted the branch portions with Ground Expresso Distress Paint. 

I then took all my backgrounds and glued them onto a black boarder and onto a card base.  Using Distress Collage Medium I glued the stitched vellum circles to the card. 

Using my stash of old threads I created a “thread nest” under each animal using a complementary color. 

Using the sentiments from the Tim Holtz Monstrous stamp set, I stamped the sentiment using versa mark and used an opaque white embossing powder. 

I then cut out my sentiments and glued  everything on my bases. 

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I loved creating this piece, leave me a comment and let me know what you think!

Xo- Megan

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Easter Mixed Media Decoration Inspiration

Thanks for stopping by to check out my Easter Mixed Media Decoration Inspiration!



For this project I used:

- small canvas

- acrylic paints

- burlap

- vintage board game pieces

- dried flowers

- lace ribbon

- silk ribbon 

- vintage sewing thread

- wooden candle stick holder

- vintage paper die cuts

- Tim Holtz crackle paint

- Tim Holtz distress & oxide inks

- Tim Holtz distress stain

- Tim Holtz distress crayon

- Tim Holtz ideology baseboard frame

- Tim Holtz ideology mini plaquette

- hot glue

- fabri-tac

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Thrift shops are a great place to find cheap and different items to incorporate into your designs. I always look at the old games as well as old spools filled with fun thread! I wouldn't use it to sew something, but I LOVE adding thread as an element in my mixed media as well as cards... the old wooden spools are just an added bonus! 

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Xo- Megan

Birthday and a card Just Because

I needed to make a birthday card for my grandmother and I knew I wanted to use the collage paper, so I decided to work on two cards mainly because I couldn’t decide on which part of the collage paper I wanted to use. 

I started by dabbing ink and water onto the piece of heavier card stock. Using the heat tool to dry the paper before adding more ink. 

I added the Tim Holtz Idea-ology Floral collage paper to my card layer using a matte gel medium. 

Once the collage paper was dry I added some clear rock candy Distress crackle paint to the flower parts and some white crackle paint randomly to the edges. I let that dry over night. 

On a scrap of paper I stamped and cut out a frame from the Tim Holtz Label Frames stamp set. 


Next I got out the sewing machine and stitched randomly around the card layer, I got out a few coordinating pieces of ephemera and arranged then how I wanted them displayed and attached them to the card layer with the sewing machine as well. 

When I was happy with how everything looked, I glued the layer onto a card base. 

  

 

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Xo- Megan