Believe

Mary-Ann here, I don't know where December went or the first part of January!!!  We did have two snow days that postponed back to school, so maybe that is where the time has gone?  Snow days = NO time for mom!!  When I was planning my layout to share with you today, I decided I would choose my all time FAVORITE  photo from Christmas and use up some of my leftover stash from Fancy Pants, Merry Little Christmas.  I have also been watching a ton of tutorials from other design team members and think I did a pretty good job of incorporating mixed media with my traditional style of scrapbooking.

I started with a clean white cardstock base.  Added Gesso, rubbed distress inks into my stencils, dropped some splashes of inks and Distress Paints.  I still needed something more.  I used the same technique I used on my Fall Swim layout (click here to see). I sprayed colors onto my mat, added a little water, turned my cardstock face down on this pretty mess of colors, rubbed it a lightly and voila, smudgy drippy awesomeness.  

Then I began layering.  I cut my title and deer embellishment with my Silhouette.  Notice the Fancy Pants Glassine Bag?  I tucked my journaling in here on a really large tag I had on hand.

To create these droplets of silver, I used a dry paintbrush, dipped it into my Brushed Pewter Distress Paint and let gravity drop the liquid.  If you let them air dry, they will be slightly raised to the touch.

Hope you have enjoyed my creation.  I look forward to seeing you again real soon.

Here are the items I used and where you can go to get your hands on them.....

Fancy Pants � Merry Little Christmas 6x6 Paper Pad	Fancy Pants - Merry Little Christmas - Holiday Hues Resin Flowers	Fancy Pants - Glassine Bags with Sticker Sheets	Dylusions Ink Spray - White Linen	Dylusions Ink Spray - Dirty Martini
Tim Holtz - Brushed Pewter Distress Paint	Stickles - Christmas Red	Claudine Hellmuth Studio-Multi-Medium Matte	Inkssentials Foam Blending Tool	Inkssentials - Blending Foam Replacement Pads
Inksessentials - Mini Mister 3-Pack	Beacon - Zip Dry	Mono Adhesive Tape Runner - Permanent	Scotch Foam Mounting Tape	Tim Holtz Layering Stencil - Holly Bough
Tim Holtz Layering Stencil - Stripes	Tim Holtz Layering Stencil - Bubble	Glue Dots� Mini Clear 3/16" 300 pc Box	TCW 6x6 Template - Tiny Circles

Happy New Year!!

Oh my goodness, did it feel great to get back to my desk again!!  The holidays were so busy and full of guests and trips that I didn't get to sit at my desk and create for 2 weeks!!  Aagh!! Way to long!!  It felt great to sit down, pull out art supplies and get messy!!  

I thought that this art journal entry would be a great one to share with you because I saw a picture of a party scene like this on pinterest and decided to recreate it. I love looking on pinterest or craftgawker for inspiration photos!! I take my sketchbook and draw what inspires me, then I seem to always find an idea that means something to me later on!  This party scene spoke New Year's!

I started out mixing blues and grays to create the background color.  I thought that I would like a polka-dot background but instead I pounced circles, as randomly as possible, onto the outside edges of the page. (My art journal is an old cookbook, so you can kinda see that I am just about to enter the bread recipe section through the paint!)

 I pulled out my Fancy Pants Collecting Moments 6x6 pad and started cutting!! Actually, before I cut my final paper shapes, I used some scrap paper to cut out shapes.  By cutting out practice shapes, I get the right sizes and placement without getting frustrated ruining my favorite papers. 

I used an old Wendy Vecchi Art Part for the cake stand.  Again, I had to mix paints because I didn't have the exact color that I wanted for the blue stand! (I am not picky about colors at all . . . haha!) 

This New Year's quote covered just about everything for the new year.  And I really didn't make any resolutions this year, I just want this to be a really Happy year!!

Thank you for stopping by the ePaperie today!! I hope that you all have a wonderful artsy New Year filled with lots happiness!!  -  Karen

Hey There

Hello everyone! Happy New Year to you all! I have to confess I have been mojo-less, since my daughter and husband are having winter break, I am having a full house and a lot of  cooking and laundry to do, LOL, so I decided to give my mojo some time to come back fully charged and I think it did!! BTW, while waiting for the mojo to come back I spent time playing puzzles :)

Anyway today's project is a bit different than any other project I have posted before, this time is an original paint, made by this girl :) This project (like most of my projects) started as something completely different, I planned to make a girl-y design, with lace and such, but ended up painting this scene.

Ok, let me tell you some of the products I used for this project and few details.

• Start with a piece of wood, clean it, sand it and cover it with White Gesso. Set aside and let it dry.
• Paint the sides with Pool Acrylic Paint Dabber, then activate your Luminarte Twinkling H20 Olive Vine shimmer (love it!!) and paint the bottom parts with a brush.
• Now, for this fun part, using your fingers and white gesso, create the clouds.
• Spray the very bottom parts with Dylusions Melted Chocolate Spray.
• Take a little bit of the Dylusions Melted Chocolate Spray from the bottle and a fine paint brush and paint the branches. Rinse your paint brush.
• Add little dots of Luminarte Twinkling H20 Ginger Peach and Olive Vine to the brunches.
• Take you  Olive Vine again, now your mixture is a little bit thick, paint the little valleys and green areas.
• After the paints are all dried, stamp the sentiment from Strictly Sentimens 2 in Jet Black Archiva Ink.
• Now take a  Mini Chicken Wire Reversed stencil and White Embossing Paste and apply it to all sides.
• Take your Barcode Stencil and White Embossing Paste and apply it to the back side, add your signature.
• Paint a bird from Vintage Wood Birds with Dylusions Melted Chocolate Spray, then add little bits of Luminarte Twinkling H20 Ginger Peach.

Close-up.

 

Back of piece.

Hope you like it!!
Have a fantastic day!!

Putting a twist on The Twelve Days of Christmas

Hey there ePers!  It's Erin here with you today, and I'm cheating today and using my project today also pulling double duty as the Altered Challenge that the delightful and creative Sue Lelli created yesterday!
I wanted to do something outside the box, and I think I achieved it w/ this particular project!

I had such fun creating this Valentine themed project and turning this Christmas paper on it's side!  When I was flipping through the Twelve Days stack (by Graphic 45; 8" x 8"), the couple dancing caught my eye, and that's where the idea started!

I realize that I'm stretching the "heart" theme w/ the two pears or hearts together, but oh well!  It's art!  What else can I say?!  ;D

 

 

All I did was take pretty much one of each sheet and with my exacto knife, I cut out different elements.
The background paper was cut to size, and then I painted Matte Medium on top to give a smooth layer in which to adhere more layers.

The letters are a stencil that I have had forever.  I added a layer to further make the letters jump out and not fade into the backgrounds.

Have a wonderful day and I hope that I have inspired you to look at your Christmas or any other paper you have, in a new and different light!  The possibilities are endless!!!!

-Erin

HEARTS ~ January Get Altered Challenge!

Hi everyone. Happy New Year! It's Sue Lelli here and I am hosting the January Get Altered Challenge at eclectic Paperie. The eP Get Altered challenge begins the first Thursday of each month and is an opportunity to explore your creative journey, step outside your comfort zone, and experiment with new products and techniques. It's all about having fun while creating altered and mixed media art with a chance of winning a $15 gift certificate to the eclectic Paperie  shop.

I chose to use a Wendy Vecchi - Studio 490 - Art Parts Hearts Love & Stars kit shown at the end of my post to make my heart wall hanging.

I am going to show you heart by heart details and then some of my process at the end. (LOTS of photos!)

This is the largest heart, star, and LOVE word. I used Tim Holtz distress paints, a Prima Donna Downey Damask Stencil, and Wendy Vecchi White embossing paste to make this heart. The pink ribbon is from a Victoria's Secret bag!

Here's a close up photo so you can see the embossing paste better ~ LOVE!

Here are the center stars and beads and gems.

Another close up. The text is a Christmas Tim Holt stamp set. I LOVE the font and it doesn't matter that it's Christmas because you can't read it! LOL!

On my last heart I used Wendy Vecchi's Studio 490 translucent embossing paste. LOVE how it adds texture but you can see the paint colors through it! I also added A Wendy Vecchi Blossom Bucket natural heart that I painted white.

Some Process Photos:

I gessoed the hearts and stars so they would hold the paint.

I applied Tim Holtz Distress Paints to my small craft sheet.

Here they are after I dragged them through the paint ~ LOVE the marbeling effect!

Here is a page in a journal where I wiped my left over paint for a future project ~ NEVER waste this FAB paint!

I stamped text randomly.

I applied white Wendy Vecchi Studio 490 embossing paste through a Prima Donna Downey Damask Stencil for my large heart,

and Wendy Vecchi Studio 490 translucent embossing past to my smaller heart. It looks white when first applied but dries clear as I showed you in a previous photo. LOVE!

Here is what the kit looks like when you purchase it with an example of what you could make.

Here is what my desk looked like as I was putting my wall hanging together. You are only limited by your imagination plus I have enough pieces left over to make a couple more things! This kit is FUN and I love how easy it is to make holes in it with the Crop a dile. Cuts like butter!


Now go get out your hearts and alter something! Then link it to the eclectic Paperie's Get Altered Challenge and be entered to win a $15 gift certificate to the EP Shop!

These are our Faves for 2013!

Happy 2014!
It's hard to believe that another year has passed and what a fabulous one it's been for eP. The new brick and mortar store has been such an exciting venture and complements the online store beautifully. Thank you all for your fabulous support of both as well as our eclectic Paperie blog and Design Team. We are so grateful and blessed to have you along on this journey.

We have decided to join in the fun of looking back over our 2013 favourite projects. Each team member has chosen her personal favourite from her own projects and we've gathered them together on one delightful post. If you want more details on any (or all) of these projects, just click on the DT member's name above the photo.

Sue Lelli

Tracy Easson

Adriana Templeton

Giovana Smith

Erin Smetak

Mary-Ann Maldonado

Kim Schofield

Micki Harper

Broni Holcombe

Sue Carrington

Toni Burrows

Karen Crossen

Bonnie Irvine

What an exciting...and yes, eclectic... collection of fabulous creative projects. So proud of this team!
I can't wait to see what the 2014 brings.
A special thanks to the most awesome Design Team on the planet! You continue to inspire, challenge, make us laugh, and amaze us! You rock!
To our followers and friends, Kim and the entire eclectic Paperie DT wish you all of the best for a happy, healthy, and inspired 2014!
Thank you!