Be Joyful!--#tgifc276

The TGIF Challenges color combo challenge this week is Magenta Madness, Bermuda Bay and Gorgeous Grape.  Happy, fun, joyful colors and just the combo to help me get out of a slump. 

Joyful colors called a joyful background technique--Bubbles!  This technique made a big mess and my old white tee now sports a colorful pattern! It was my first try at this technique.   It didn't turn out like I thought it would--but I don't care--it was fun and messy and all the things I needed!  A reminder to be joyful!

 

To create the background, I filled three shallow dishes with water, a drop of dishwashing soap and several drops of one of the challenge color refill inks.  After covering my kitchen counter with a towel, a piece of cardboard and several pieces of watercolor paper, I started blowing bubbles into one of the dishes using a straw.  Once I had a big load of bubbles, I transferred them from the dish to the watercolor paper.  I repeated this with each of the colors and added more bubbles of each color as needed.  I expected more white areas on the paper when it was dried, but am happy with the subtle circles and colors.

It took me a while to figure out how to use the background paper once it was dry!  I played around with different texture stamps and colors.  On this card I used the grid pattern from Comfort & Hope stamp set (#152509) and the rustic squares pattern from Textured Essentials stamp set(#152612).  The images were stamped in Magenta Madness and Bermuda Bay and then embossed with clear embossing powder.  Bermuda Bay splatters were added with a Water Painter (#151298).

The letters were die cut out of Gorgeous Grape card stock adhered to a piece of Foam Adhesive Sheet (#152815) using the Playful Alphabet dies (#152706). A bow of Magenta Madness 1/4" ribbon (#153623)enamel dots (#152480), a layer of Gorgeous Grape card stock and a Magenta Madness card base complete the card. 

Be sure and check out all of the fun projects using the color combo over at the TGIF Challenges blog here.

I'm thinking I may just keep this card on my desk as a reminder to look for joy!

Hope you have a great weekend!

--Sara Nell

Jeremiah 15:16

 

Creation Station August Hop--Where the Wild Things Are Party Animals

Welcome to the August Creation Station Blog Hop.  Our theme this month is "Where the Wild Things Are Party Animals".  We've got lots of fun inspiration for you this month, so be sure and click on the "Next' button at the end of each hop to make your way around to all of the design team members' blogs.

My wild party animal today is the moose from the Merry Moose Bundle (#153015).  It  includes the Merry Moose stamp set (#150494) and Moose Punch (#150652). I'm so happy the Moose is back in the new mini!  Wild moose live in the Northern forests, so I kept mine in their habitat while they party hearty:

This cool dude is styling in his Mango Melody scarf.  He was stamped with Early Espresso ink on Soft Suede card stock then punched out.   To make the letters, I stamped the large tree image randomly on a piece of Whisper White card stock using Just Jade and Mint Macaron inks.  I die cut them using the Playful Alphabet dies (#152706) and mounted them on letters die cut out of a Foam Adhesive sheet (#152815).

This party group is celebrating a birthday with Mango Melody balloons.  The background

is a combination of a Textured Essentials stamp set (#152612) image stamped in Mint Macaron and the large tree image stamped in Just Jade.  Five moose were punched out of Soft Suede and adhered to the background and then the entire piece was embossed using the Subtle 3D embossing folder (#151775).    

The balloons were punched out of Mango Melody card stock using the Balloon Bouquet Punch (#140609).  The greeting is from the Well Said stamp set (#148796).  It was die cut using a die from the Rectangle Stitched dies (#148551).

Now, head on over to the fantastic Sara Levin's blog to check out her Wild Things:

To Sara's Blog . . .