How To Make Luggage Tag #Lovesummerart Sneak Peak

#lovesummerart is on from July 15th- 20th this summer!

What is that?  It is .....
A great collaboration between hundreds of artists and crafters and all around creative geniuses who make YouTube Videos.  Enjoy fantastic how to's and much more over the four days by visiting YouTube and looking for videos with the hashtag(#) love summer art!

You won't wan't to miss this event.  BONUS!  all the videos will be available after the event for your viewing privilege at any time forever!!!!

All we ask is that you check us out, maybe give us some love in the comments and a Thumbs up!  Oh, and subscribe to our channel(s) all for FREE!

So save the dates.  Tell your friends.  Tell anyone!

If you want to know how I made this you will have to go check out the video when it goes live on Friday! (link will be here on Friday)
                      LIVE LINK :     http://youtu.be/Jr6cvJWa4i4

Supplies provided by:

Kelly Panacci  Inc. "Little Flyers" fabric for Riley Blake
Linnie Blooms
DecoArt®
Westcott®O

Art from the Heart

A week full of inspiration!!  What fun!  AND, if you participate you will be entered into our random drawing for $50 in FREE Linnie Blooms product!!  That's a LOT of product!!  

So, mark your calender, set your phone reminder, do whatever it takes not to miss out!!

Hello, and welcome to MY first ever Linnie Blooms Design Team Blog Hop. Today is the first day!  I made this tag for the occasion which I will either use as a piece of home decor, a mini album or perhaps even a key chain.  I have yet to decide.  :)  I do love to work with canvas and I had so much fun designing and assembling this project.  It may be small but a lot of work went into making this.

Products needed:

Linnie Blooms Canvas Arrow-House
Linnie Blooms Luggage Tag
Linnie Blooms Shabby trim (Pink & Green)
Linnie Blooms Flutter Stencil and Mask

Micron Black Pen (Sakura)
Brown Craft Paint (Dollarama)
White Gesso  (Daler Rowney)
Vintage book page (My collection)
Gold seed bead (Multi-Crafts)
Glue (Tombow)
Glue (Aleene's)
Creative Medium in Iridescent Green (Imagine Crafts)
Label Maker and Labels (Dymo)
Permanent Green Ink Marker (Sharpie)
Scraps of printed paper from my stash
Pink Glitter Glue (Elmers)

Here's the list of participating designers and their direct links:

Beth Watson

Mayoori Jain

Ann Strecko Koeman (You are Here)

(Next stop)Karen Sessions

Gail Green

Noelia Inglesias Gonzolez

Dawn Mattson

Trish Cortez

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Remember to visit each one, leave a comment and get entered for a chance to win win win!  Thanks for hopping along.

Watercolour and Stamping

Hello,  so to start the new year and share my  new series of crafty goodness  I have for you a cute and easy tag/ embellishment I made as a shout out to my friends over at Sin City Stamps.

Here is my Raggedy Ann tag:

Of course I just love anything with the iconic rag doll as we share the same name and I loved dolls as a little girl.  To be honest I still do.  To make this I used the supplies listed below.

Supplies:

Manilla Tag by Paper Accents™
Old book page paper from my stash
Stencil by Stampendous
Mask by ditto Hampton Art
Painters tape from Stanley Works
Stamp of Raggedy Ann from My Heart Stamps For you
Pieces of twine from my stash
Aleene's Tacky Glue by Duncan enterprise
Tim Holtz Distress Inks by Ranger in:  Peacock feathers, Mustard seed, and Spun sugar.
StazOn® Black solvent ink by Tsukineko
Crayola marker in red by Crayola®
Mod Podge by Plaid®
Caran D'Ache Neocolor II® watercolor crayons.
A small brush for water color by Talens
5 vintage buttons from my stash

Directions:

1.  Using the Distress inks and some sponges or daubers apply the ink using the stencil.  Overlay the mask and continue inking.  Adding colour randomly.
Remove mask and stencil.  Let dry.

2.  On a piece of an old book page stamp the image using StazOn.  Let dry completely.  I used this permanent solvent ink so that the water colors would not run when applied.

3.  Rub chosen colors of watercolour crayons on a plastic palette.  With a damp paint brush pick up colors off palette and color in image one color at a time.  Making sure to clean the brush in between colors.  Let dry.

4.  Tear around the coloured stamped image, ink the edges.  Once dry glue to tag with some glue and coat with a sealer such as Mod Podge.

5.  Using a black pen add stitching lines around word Hooray (that was mask).  Glue on some buttons and attach twines.

For a great place for beautiful products to use in your own crafty endeavours go check out my friends at Sin City Stamps.

Thank you so much for stopping by today.  Come back soon to see what else I am up to.

Summer, Sun and Fun...

Welcome to the Surf, Sun, & Stickles Blog Hop brought to you by the All that Stickles design team!

We're in the midst of a heat wave and what better way to cool off then indoors crafting with some Stickles?! This month's hop is all about using Stickles on those fun, summer-themed projects we all love to create. 

For my project I made this Doll Tag.

Here is the list of products and tools I used:
Paper; White card stock (tag base) from Staples, 12 x 12 Beach theme paper and frame from Dollarama, doll is stamped on telephone directory page, other papers are scraps from my stash.
Stickles by Ranger; Yellow (sun, and belt on doll), Orange Peel (sun), Frayed burlap and Antique Linen (sand), Silver Ice (crown), Pink (dress and shoes).
Stamps;  Doll Stamp #910167 by Prima Marketing, and Sun Stamp from Sailboat Collection  by Get Inky! for Blue Moon Creations.
Die Cuts; Cricut and Cricut Cartridge Life is a Beach.
Ribbons and Trims; Blue mesh (Dollarama), Top of tag ribbon with Seashells (Michaels), Yellow pom pom (Stampin' Up!), and Pink pom pom (Michaels).
Inks; Doll stamp image (Memento), Distress Inks by Ranger in Tattered Rose, Pumice Stone, and Tea Dye.
Colouring pencils; Prismacolour, Laurentien, and Lyra Metallics.
Adhesives; Elmer's clear glue, Aleene's Tacky Glue, and Dimensional foam dots.
Staples; Fastenator by EK Success.
Doll's hair= Brown Flock (Three Bugs)

We have blog candy for those who are a follower of All that Stickles and leave a comment on every stop of the hop! Winners will be announced Wednesday July 24th at All that Stickles.

Wunder's Creations

Winner's Choice of a Cricut or Cameo cover

Fresh Brewed Designs

$15 Gift Certificate

SKdigis

$6 Voucher

Bugaboo Stamps

10 Digis of Winner's Choice

QKR Stampede

5 Digis of Winner's Choice

Your next stop is __HERE!  Congrats if you made it here, if not check below to see who you might have missed. 

Here's the complete lineup:

All that Stickles
Tonya
Ashley

Chas
Julie
Karen
Cathy
Ann

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Doll Tag

Hello everyone.  The All That Stickles Design Team has a nifty Linky Party going on right now and the Theme is Waterfall Stickles.  It is such a pretty shade of blue.  After you are done here please go check it out.

For my sample I made this Tag using my newly acquired, and loved, Doll stamp by Prima (#910143).  She is a tall one at nearly 7".  I made the background tag from two layers of card stock which I covered with a patterned paper by The Robin's Nest.  I used the packaging that the stamp came with as a template.   I used ALOT of tools to make this lil' beauty, and it was so much fun.

I already mentioned that I used The Robin's Nest paper as the background, I also used papers from the same line for most of the project, and the faux gems are RN as well.

I stamped the doll onto a lightly and lovely printed Robin's Nest paper, I used Memento black ink.  I stamped the doll again on some brown card stock (from my stash), a piece of tan card stock (also from my stash), and I stamped the doll again onto a piece of Robin's Nest printed paper.  By the way the RN paper is a nice card stock thickness.  There was a lot of fussy cutting and paper piecing with dimensional foam adhesive to make her 3D.  The top of her dress is enhanced with a pink Flocking powder, and her head band was glittered with pink glitter by Martha Stewart.  Note that all the edges of the doll and the other die cuts were inked with Ranger's Tim Holtz Distress inks (Black soot, and Tattered Roses).  The edges and lines of the doll were also defined with black permanent ink marker (Staples).  I used a white Gel ink pen to high light her shoes.

Although the stamp is of a faceless doll I made her some eyes with Waterfall Stickles.  I also used the same colour of Stickles as the centres of the flowers and as a shimmery background to the doll's upper background.   My use of Waterfall was subtle but I think effective.

I adorned the tag with smaller tags which I made from scraps of the same papers I had used thus far.  I used a variety of die cutters, punches and shape makers:  Stampin' Up! Tags and Label makers; and Creative Memories Tag Maker.  The doily type circle was made with a Fiskars lace punch.  The button border strip was made using an EK success punch.  The small flowers were made from Fiskars punches.

To decorate the tags I used sewing theme stamps from my stash( Creative Life ), embroidery threads and small eyelets (also from my stash) as well as my Crop-a-dile to do the work of making holes and attaching hardware.  The larger tags holes were made by using  a Stampin' Up! 1/4" circle maker and a scrap piece of Robin's Nest paper, glued to the tag and pierced with the Crop-a-dile.

I hope that you enjoyed this posting. Please leave me a comment below and join my followers in the sidebar.  thanks for viewing.

Our July sponsors at All That Stickles:

Sponsors

Freckled Fawn

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Robin's Nest

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Fresh Brewed Designs

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Cause Baby you're a Firefly..

Hi everyone,
Today I have this sweet tag with:
 Summer Girl who is already to have some summer time fun with her sparkly sandals and big polka dot bag!  I made this lovely from an image by Bugaboo Stamps and by using Stickles in Firefly.  She was fun to make.

Over at the All that Stickles blog there is a Linky Party with the stickles colour Firefly, from today June 22 until July 5.  Go there to enter your project and you will have the chance to win some lovely gifts.

I used watercolour crayons by stampin' Up! and water colour pencils by faber Castell to colour the image.  The papers I used are all scraps from my stash.  So are the fibres and beads.   

I hope you enjoy!  Thanks for viewing.   

pssstttt!  Don't forget to come back tomorrow for the Blog hop and MORE prizes.  

Here are the June- July sponsors and the prizes they are offering.

sponsors

Louby Lou

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Prize - $5 Voucher

Bugaboo

http://www.bugaboostamps.com/

Prize - 7 digis

Eureka

http://www.eurekastamps.com/

Prize - 5 digis

Pinque Peacock

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Prize - Package of Stick pins

Welcome to the Star Spangled Blog Hop brought to you by the All that Stickles design team!

"Oh say can you see... by the gleam of Stickles. Oh so proudly we post, our patriotic projects" (if you sing it to the tune of Star Spangled Banner, we promise it makes sense ;)

In non-musical form: Today the All that Stickles design team has created a variety of patriotic-themed projects using our favorite sparkly embellishment - Stickles!

Here is my project:

 I made this cute and Stickled Little Construction Guy Tag in honour of my fellow Design Team Mates at All That Stickles!
Image is from Bugaboo Stamps, I used Stickles in True Blue,  Candy Cane, and Frosted Lace.  I coloured with Crayola Colouring pencils in  peach, red, white and blue.  The tag is from Staples.  The blue paper is from Dollarama.  The white stars were punched with a Creative Memories star Die Punch.  The brad is from Stampin' Up!, and the ribbons are from my stash.  I hope you enjoy!

Don't forget to come back July 1st to see my patriotic homage to my home and native land!

We have blog candy for those who are a follower of All that Stickles and leave a comment on every stop of the hop! Winners will be announced Wednesday June 19th at All that Stickles.

SK Digis

$6 Voucher

LoveBug Creations

$15 Gift Certificate

Scrapping Memories

10 Files of Winner's Choice

Bugaboo Stamps

10 Digis of Winner's Choice

Scrapping Fun with Tonya
3 Pack of Stickles

Your next stop is Cynthia's blog.

Here's the complete lineup:

All that Stickles
Ashley

Tonya
Cathy
Ann
Cynthia
Karen
Julie

Chas

Thanks for hopping! :) Don't forget to check out our Distress Stickles Linky Party!