Journal Blog Hop Winners

HAPPY MONDAY! 

Thank you! Thank you, for joining the E-Team for our new blog hop featuring our Journaling Adventure.  We appreciate your time to visit the E-Team and sharing your comments about their beautiful journal covers. We hope that you are inspired to start your own and join us, too. We'll be posting a new journal entry every 4th Wednesday of the month. You are all invited to join us.

Congratulations to the following lucky winners of the journal blog hop. Please contact daisy@eclecticpaperie.com to confirm your email address. You have until the next blog hop to claim your $25 eclectic Paperie Gift Certificate.






From Micki's Blog:

From Starla's Blog:

Don't forget, eclectic Paperie is looking for 2 Guests to join us next month for this Journal Blog Hop. Upload your journal cover HERE.

Happy Journaling!
-Daisy

Time for a New E-Team Blog Hop: A Journaling We Go!

Are you ready for an exciting new E-Team Blog Hop? The E-Team has been talking about journals so we finally decided to take on a Journal Blog Hop of sorts. 

Imagination is everything. 

It is a preview of life's 

coming attraction. 

-Albert Einstein

Journals take on a very personal and meaningful element for its owner. I challenged the E-Team to choose a journal of her choice and create a cover. The E-Team will be given a different quote each month to serve as inspiration for their monthly journal entry. It will be fun to see their inner artist come out and interesting to see their interpretations. Only their imagination and time will be their limit.

Broni Holcombe

Micki Harper

Linda Ledbetter

Starla Nelson

Sherry Cheever

Visit each E-Team participant on her blog to see what she created. We'll have some goodies to share for several lucky readers

• We'll randomly choose 2 winners to receive a $25 Gift Voucher to shop at eclectic Paperie.  

• You have from today until Sunday, April 29th to leave a comment. 

• Winners will be announced on the eP blog Monday, April 30th. 

EXTRA! EXTRA! 

Want to Join an E-Team Blog Hop?

Do you want to join us for a journaling adventure? Want to explore your inner artist? Ever wanted to try creating a journal, too? We are calling on you to choose your journal and create a cover, too. Upload your journal cover here and we are going to choose 2 people to join The E-Team Blog Hop next month. You have until May 4th to upload your Journal Cover. Come journal with us!

Faux Postage Blog Hop Winners, Come on Down!

THANK YOU! THANK YOU! for taking the time to join The E-Team for our Faux Postage Blog Hop. We appreciate all your kind comments. They encourage us to keep pushing the creative envelope as we prepare for our next blog hop.

Congratulations to the following winners. Please confirm your email address by sending an note to daisy@eclecticpaperie.com and we will send you more information about redeeming your $25 eclectic Paperie gift voucher. We have lots of new items for your shopping pleasure.

From Micki Harper's Blog:

From Sherry Cheever's Blog:

Wishing you a Happy April!

-Daisy

"feed your creativity" at www.eclecticpaperie.com

eP Blog Hop, Get Your Faux On - Part 3

Happy Last Day of March!

Time for a new e-Team Blog hop. The e-Team is ready to share Part 3 in our "Get Your Faux" series. We are featuring Faux Postage today.

Faux Postage is simply a technique to feature your stamped projects to mimic postage stamps. It can be as versatile as you want by customizing the "postage size" you would like to work with. There are a variety of Faux Postage techniques and tutorials out in the blog world. The e-Team got jump started by referring to the Splitcoaststampers tutorial by Beate Johns that you can see HERE.

Let's get some details of this new e-Team blog hop first:

• Visit the e-Team blog participants to see their Faux Postage creations. There are a lot of variety in design and use of this Faux Postage look.
• Please leave the e-Team comments beginning today - Sunday, April 1st.
• 2 Random Winners will be chosen from the e-Team blogs to win a $25 eclectic Paperie gift voucher
• Winners will be announced Monday, April 2nd on this eP blog.

Sherry Cheever

Micki Harper

Broni Holcombe

Linda Ledbetter

Daisy Sparks (eP Blog, You are Here)

Starla Nelson is not joining us today but make sure you check out Exploring Creativity to see what she is up to.

Let's Get Your Faux On....

There are many free templates available online if you do a search. I had a new Lawn Fawn stamp (Gnome Sweet Gnome) that I wanted to play with but found that Mr. Gnome was a little bigger size than a traditional postage stamp. I created my own postage outline using Pages on my Mac. Just had to create some rectangles with dotted outlines. Traditionally, you would create a mask for this faux postage technique but I wanted to go a more simple route. 

Picking out the colors I wanted to use,  the coloring began. 

Mr. Gnome dude is so cheerful and was the perfect image I needed for this springtime card. I reached for the new Lawn Fawn papers in a 6x6 paper pad. The design is called Bright Side. Love all the colors and cute designs.

I really wanted simple and easy so I cute some strips to layer on my 6x6 size card. I always find a little Distress Ink adds some dimension and interest to any project.

I created two cards with the image and my self-made faux postage template. No masking was involved, just cheerful papers & some Copic Markers.

You can always find all the new product arrivals at eclectic Paperie in our Brand Spankin' New section. We will not be carrying stamps anymore but you can go directly to most of your favorite stamp companies as they sell directly to consumers on their websites.

Wishing you a great last couple days of March Madness. Don't forget to see how the eclectic Paperie Blog Team (AKA The e-Team) got their faux on during this blog hop. Their projects will inspire you to Get Your Faux Postage On!

-Daisy
"Feed Your Creativity" at www.ecleticpaperie.com

Hey Blog Hop Winners, Come Get Your Faux On!

Happy Saturday!

Thank you for visiting the E-Team during our Get Your Faux On: Part 2 blog hop. We hope you picked up some techniques or ideas to try out yourselves. We very much appreciate the time you took to visit each of the E-Team ladies and leave feedback, too.

Congratulations to the following 2 winners. To claim your $25 eclectic Paperie Gift Certificate, confirm your email address to daisy@eclecticpaperie.com. You have until March 12th to claim your prize.

From Starla Nelson's Blog

From Broni Holcombe's Blog

We are working on some ideas for future blog hops for the next several months. If you have some technique, idea, or project that you would love the E-Team address, please let us know. 

Have a great weekend!

-Daisy

eP Blog Hop: Get Your Faux On, Part 2

Happy February 29th!

Not sure where this month left but very happy for this extra day. The E-Team has prepared a blog hop for you today to celebrate Leap Day. It only comes every four years for it should be special.

The E-Team dug into their paper craft arsenal to get ready for Part 2 in our series we call, GET YOUR FAUX ON! The Blog Hop will feature Faux Marble.

According to Wikipedia:
Marble is a metamorphic rock composed of recrystallized carbonate minerals, most commonly calcite or dolomite. Geologists use the term "marble" to refer to metamorphosed limestone; however stonemasons use the term more broadly to encompass unmetamorphosed limestone. Marble is commonly used for sculpture and as a building material.


Let's build on that. Paper crafters have been creating faux marble finishes to enhance their projects. There are so many different ways to achieve the marble look with inks, paints, papers, and more. I challenged The E-Team to create a faux marble look on their projects.

• Visit the participating E-Team Blog Team members to see what Faux Marble paper craft she came up with.
• Leave a comment for a chance to win an eclectic Paperie Gift Voucher for $25. 
• You have from today, Feb 29th to March 2nd, Friday to visit each E-Team blog hop participant. 
• Two random winners will be announced on Saturday, March 3rd.

Sherry Cheever

Micki Harper

Broni Holcombe

Starla Nelson

Daisy Sparks (eP Blog, You are Here)

Linda Ledbetter is not joining us today but make sure you check out Studio L3 to see what she is up to.

I love the look of Faux Marble and amazed at all the different ways that you can achieve this look. I had an idea for this reviving an oldie, but goodie. I've been using this technique ever since it was first introduced to me. I've done with my Girl Scouts as part of their art lessons, and my kids have enjoyed, too. It's great for creating all kinds of backgrounds on paper since no two are ever the same. 

I am referring to the Shaving Cream Technique. With some plain white cardstock, foam shaving cream and all those inkers you have, you can create some beautiful, one of kind backgrounds.

I used some pie tins to get started. Plain foam shaving cream works best. Your paper may smell good afterwards, too. Usine some Distress Re-Inkers, I dropped some Tumbled Glass and Wild Honey into the foam shaving cream.

With a toothpick or bamboo stick, lightly swirl to mix up the colors...but only a little. 

I had cut my white cardstock into A2 size squares and just lightly set them on top of the shaving cream mixture. Use a spatula, your scrapper or even you fingers to swipe the shaving cream off of the cardstock. You will be left with some unique backgrounds. 

I thought these papers would be great to use with this butterfly die called Fanciful Flight. It was just what the wings needed. 

Here are two ways that I used the various backgrounds that I was able to create with the Re-Inkers and shaving cream. The Studio 490 stamp, Visions of Art, suited the project well. 

Don't forget to see what The E-Team has created for this Blog Hop. Have a great Leap Day and GET YOUR FAUX ON!

-Daisy

Get Your Faux On -Part 1 Blog Hop Winners

Come on down!

If you see your name below, CONGRATULATIONS! You are one of the 3 winners from our "Get Your Faux On, Part 1" blog hop. Please send your email address to daisy@eclecticpaperie.com and we'll give you the info you need to redeem your $25 eclectic Paperie gift voucher.

From Sherry Cheever's Blog:

From Linda Ledbetter's Blog:

From the eclectic Paperie Blog:

THANK YOU!! THANK YOU!!! for joining the E-Team on this new blog hop series featuring Faux techniques. We really appreciate the time you take to visit each blog and leave a comment/feedback. We are working on our next one but let us know what other FAUX techniques you would like the E-Team to feature. 

Happy Monday!

-Daisy