Green and red Christmas basket X2

Hallo,

  Tried something new with this basket to make the triangles - it is a fun little pattern, not too complicated but looks cute.

   This basket is 7- and 3/4-inches round and 3 and 1/2 inches tall.

   I am not going to blab much tonight, getting late and I made this basket with the basic coiling techniques same as all the others... 😁

   Have a great evening!!!

     Tera

 

#2 Watercolor class

Hallo,
  A very rainy day here in NW Florida. It has been raining since the we hours of the morning and it looks like to continue through saturday night with a short break and rain again Sunday night and on into late Monday or even Tuesday. But that is a good thing as we need the rain and it was so nice to sleep this morning with the rumble of thunder and the sound of rain!!! And there is nothing like sitting either in my craft room or in the living room doing crafts or reading a good book in the rain!!!
  Course my puppy loves to walk in the rain so she still takes me for a walk....
   Well today I am showing you the photos of my demo board for the second watercolor installment of my 'Coloring for cardmakers' class with the CLL. We used 2 images from Flourishes - both we used before in the pencil section of class, so I thought it would give a different look to do them with watercolors too. I embossed both images in gold - the cherry blossums in an antique gold and the pointsettas is a brightrer gold. For card makers who still want to do watercolors but are a bit shy about the 'out of the lines' look of watercolors, then embossing the image can make coloring with watercolors a shade more precise because of the little  ridge  that the embossing has.
   The very first image of both I did a very light wash and then with a dry brush pulled the wash color back out of the flower petals so the red color I wanted to use on them would stay truer red. The leaves being green it would affect because of the blue already in the green color.
  I darkened the background to one side of each of the images as a 'shadow'  and gradually added layers of color to darken and define the image until it was what I wanted. Although I almost left the pointsetta more pink like the second image just because I liked that soft color..
   I will have some sample cards made up to show you in the next couple days - I plan to give one card to each of my students just so they have a finished project - with the images I have used -  to look at too. ( we aren't acually making cards in this class - I am just demonstrating coloring techniques and showing them a few things about coloring with the blendable pencils and watercolors)
  All for today - I am headed off to the couch to work on my new locker hook rug project - I will have to get some photos of that too  - when the sun peeks out again :)
   Have  great weekend!!!!
     Tera

Rejoice

Hallo,
  Well as busy day starting for me today but a quick stop in here for my latest project. I finished this last week and had not shared here yet, so I will use this for this weeks Tuesday challenge over at Flourishes. The challenge this time is to make something that makes you 'Happy'. Check out the challenge here - www.flourishes.org/blog/
  Well I really was happy the way this turned out and had alot of fun doing it.
   All the stamps are from Flourishes and the size is 16 by 20 inches.
   I will start with the center which is done on watercolor paper. I used several different watercolor srpays in shades of blue - glimmer mist and some from Zia . I then stamped the pointsettas in the corners with dark blue ink (more for positioning) I stamped the Bethleham and Wise Men scenes and embossed with white.
   For the frame - I stamped the pointsettas in black (again, more for positioning) and then stamped the phrases in gold - Rejoice in the top left corner and Wise men still seek him in the bottom right corner and colored the Rejoice in with a bit of copic marker.
  Then came the poitsettas - I stamped them all onto white cardstock and colored them in with colored pencils - about a dozen of them. Then I cut them out - most of them I used the whole image with the pines, about 6 of them just the pointsetta and then arranged them onto the picture and the frame.
   The last photo shows how I framed it - couldnot get good pictures with it in the frame.....
   All for today - off I go....
      Take Care
            Tera

Christmas Village

Hallo,
  Just popping in a bit to show you another project made with the Thomas Kinkade stamp from Cornish Heritage Farms and the last of the cool tin tile look picture frames that I found at a thrift store (maybe I will get lucky and find some more sometime)
  I did this one in brighter reds and golds - the corners are Tim Holtz corners that I colored with a gold mettalic pen. I added gold viva decor pearl drops, gold sticker corners on the main image and a gold sparkly ribbon.
  I stamped the main image with a red/burgondy ink and matched up some cardstock and DP for behind it.
  Added some flowers that had a pinkish tone to them and a small section of beaded trim. The Merry Christmas embossed with red also.
  I really had fun with this one.
  All for now - need to get a bunch of my craft stuff put away - I had a craft fair at a local grade school today which was a total bust!! We hardly had anyone even come look and I sat there from 7 am till 230 pm and didn't sell a thing - and it was outside and damp, breezy and cold - I am still trying to thaw out.......ahhh well that it the way it goes sometimes....
   Dinner to get going and a ton of errands to do tomorrow so better finish up here....
   Take Care
       Tera

Vintage Village

Hallo,
  Happy Veteran's Day!!!
My DH served 23 years, his Dad was a Korean War Vet as well as several of his Uncles (WWII and Korea). My Dad was in the military for a few years and I have several cousins, nieces,nephews and friends that are currently serving in the military. THANK-YOU all!!!
  My project for today started with this cool picture frame I found at a thrift store - it looks like one of the old metal ceiling tiles.
  I decided to use it for the current challenge over at the CHF blog - www.cornishheritagefarms.blogspot.com
  The challenge this time was to use one of our Thomas Kinkade stamps. I love to color and LOVE my Kinkades but decided to not color this time. I stamped it with brown memento ink and cut the image out with a Spellbinders die and edged the panel with copper metallic ink.
  I added some metal corners in an aged copper color (Tim Holtz corners) and embossed the phrase in copper too. I also used a bronze viva decor pen for some accents on the inner corners, on the main image and for the 'pearls' in the center of the flower accents. The viva decor bronze is a real close match to the aged copper color of the metal corners.
  The DP behind the main image is a burgundy red with a slight copper glimmer to it - really pretty.
  I really had a good time with this one. I have another frame just like this one that I did Christmas style too but will show that another time :)
   All for tonight - I went to A.C. Moore today and JoAnn's yesterday and got some frames either on sale or with a coupon so now I need to put together some of the encaustic pieces that I did in class and get them ready to show you all (and for the Etsy shop - todays project will be up on my Etsy shop shortly  too :)
   Take Care
           Tera

Cabin Christmas Wreath

 Hallo,
   Well an early start to the day for me - as DS has a swim meet today and had to be to the school very early to catch the bus....DD needs the car today as she is taking the ACT again today - she has great scores but the Air Force Academy Recruiter told her that if she could add even just one more point it would bump her into the top third of candidates....
  Showing you another of the wreaths that I have been working on the last couple days. I hope to finish off the red/green ones today and start on a steampunk version.
  The letters are from Flourishes - colored with copics (I just love these letters and have used them a ton lately on all my wreaths) and the scene is from Cornish Heritage Farms - Thomas Kinkade line - colored with prismacolor pencils.
  I am entering this is the latest challenge over at Flourishes - the '5 senses' challenge - all the lovely color for the eyes, texture for touch with the twig wreath and all the cardstock leaves were 'textured' with embossing folders. And lastly the imagioned smell of fresh crisp snow in the winter scene.
  Check out this and other challenges - for release week and World cardmaking day.... - here - www.flourishes.org/blog/
  The steampunk one is probably something only I would get a kick out of but now that the idea is in my head I have to do it :).
  Well off to the craft room for a couple hours and then I work tonight....
   Have a great weekend!!!!
                                                                                                            Tera

Forest Christmas Wreath

Hallo,
  Another Christmas wreath for you this evening - another of the purple and blue ones. All  the stamps are from Flourishes  - the letters colored with copics and the other 2 are colored with prismacolor pencils.
  All for today - craft mania for me today :) - lovin it!!!
  Take Care
      Tera

Snowmen Wreath

Hallo,
  Ahhh thursday evening... the kids are doing home work, the DH is out of town up at Taladega to watch the race (for the weekend) and I have been at the craft table most of the day - well after an hour walk with my rowdy puppy and making a craft supply run (I needed more wreaths...) and a bit of house cleaning....
   I worked on some Christmas wreaths - 3 in purples and blues and the makings for 2 more in reds and greens and gold....
  The letters are stamps  from Flourishes - colored with copics and the snowmen are digitals from Cornish Heritage Farms - also colored with copics.
   The leaves were all cut with die cuts in my cuttlebug and embossed with embossing folders and then I hot glued them onto the wreath.
  I am really having fun with these wreaths!!!!
  All for tonight - Take Care
          Tera
 

Snowglobe

 Hallo,
   A little Christmas project for you today - working again tonight so gotta get this finished :)
  I did this for one of the release challenges over at Flourishes this week - check them out, you could win the entire release!!! www.flourishes.org/blog/
  This challenge was to make something for a child - well what kid doesn't love a Snowglobe!!!
   I used one of my new stamp sets  from Flourishes and colored it with copics - then added some stickles glitter to the snow and snowman. While that dried I worked on the frame. This was a thrift store frame that had a couple rough edges....so I roughed them up some more with some sandpaper and then used embossing ink and white powder to create more 'snow'. As I was putting it all together I really thought the frame needed something more so I added a silver mesh ribbon with a double bow blue ribbon on top and then a few blue rhinestones too.
   The phrase is from Flourishes also and both dies are Spellbinders.
   Ok all for today - here anyhow :)
        Take Care
              Tera

StampTV Sketch Hop

 Hallo,
   Welcome to the Stamp TV CSS Alumni July blog hop!!! This month we arefollowing the sketch you see here.
  If you came to me from Sharri's blog  - www.istamp4u.blogspot.com/2012/07/stamp-tv-css-alumni-hop.html  where I am sure she had some great stuff to show you!!!
  If you want to follow along the hop then go to the Stamp Tv main page and look for the Hop announcement around 915 pm tonight - www.stamptv.ning.com
  Also make sure to leave lots of sweet comments along the way because tuesday am the 17th we are giving away a huge grab bag of Gina K stamps to one lucky commenter :)

  I ended up with 3 cards using this months sketch because as usual I couldn't decide which color scheme to use so I did all 3. And I did up Christmas cards too!!! I had planned on doing Christmas cards all year long this year but have been slaking in that department the last couple months.
  All stamps are from Gina K and the sets I used are - 'seasonal sayings' 'vintage borders' and 'light of the season'
  I colored the candle image with copics - I stamped the music border with memento toffee and the main image with memento brown and the phrase is also stamped with memento ink but I can't remember which one - its a teal/dark turquoise blue.
   All for me today and I am also the end of our hop this time - I hope you had a great time along the way!!!!
   Take Care
         Tera

December CSS Hop

Hallo,
Boy howdy I am sleepy tonight - I haven't been to sleep yet after working last night, so if this post gets a bit wonky you will know why :).
I had some Christmas presents that I was determined to get wrapped and in the mail today and by the time I got that done I decided to do my project for tonights hop - right here, right now :)....
Soooo - Welcome to Decembers Gina K CSS Alumni blog hop. Our challenge this time was to create a treat holder or alter a container - with a Christmas or New Years theme.
If you are following along the hop then you came to me from the wonderfully talented Vicki - www.allidoisstamp.blogspot.com/2011/12/css-dec-9.html

Before I forget make sure to leave lots of comments along the hop because this time we are giving away a Huge grab bag of Gina K stamps - on tuesday am (dec 13) one winner will be chosen at random from all the comments!!!!
Well I decided to alter a container and I was kinda still in Black and white mode from a challenge earlier this week over at Stamp TV - I did similar things with the Heirloom Ornaments set here as I did for the challenge - except I added some red and gold.
First I covered the box and lid - edges and inside with red and then added the textured white over the top. Then I added rows of ribbon to the edges to fancy it up.
Next I stamped 2 of the ornaments each 3 times onto a white shimmery paper with black embossing powder and then on black with white embossing powder - heat set the embossing powder, then cut them all out by hand (leaving just a sliver of an outline around the ornament with the black and white paper).
Then using the matching Spellbinders ornament die I cut out 6 in red paper matching the box.
I then glued all the layers together and glued them to the box.
It was at this point that I realized that my lid probably wasn't going to fit back on top because of the extra bulk of the paper that I didn't plan/think about......arrrggg......soooo the black and red ribbon is my solution to my goof - I attached the ribbons on the sides near the carry handle with pearl brads and then to hold the lid on I just tie the ribbons in a bow.
Lastly I decorated the ornaments and the dies on top of the box with a gold pearl pen and let it all dry.....
Next I will send you on your way to visit the very talented Melissa C - www.inkclinations.blogspot.com/2011/12/css-blog-hop.html where I am sure she has something awesome to show you!!!!!
If you get lost on the hop just pop back to Stamp TV and start from the hop thread - http://www.stamptv.ning.com/
All for tonight - I am hoping to get back to the craft room for a bit before I hit the wall tonight :) Take Care
Tera

Blue drummer boy

Hallo,
Just a quick bit of a post tonight as my couch is ever so sweetly calling my name (or is that my bed... :).
I finished off this and a couple other cards yesterday for this months Christmas challenge over at the Flourishes Forum at Splitcoast Stampers...the challenge is for 'blue Christmas'.
I colored this Drummer Boy on white paper with prismacolor pencils and then cut him out. I layered him to a gold DP cut with a Spellbinders die - and the back DP comes from the same pack.
The ribbon is a creamy gold with black flocking - seriously sweet - got it on sale at HL (its a 30 yard roll but I really don't think I will have any trouble using it up!!!).
I didn't get much stamping time today - did a couple hours yard work, and spent some time tagging stuff to go into my booth at the flea market (I am being optimistic that I will sell a bunch this weekend!!!). And then sat for awhile with a good book..... I should get a bit of craft table time tomorrow....
All for tonight - Take Care
Tera