Psychotic Ramblings from a Serial Scrapper AKA Craft Room Therapy

Greetings today I am excited to share this monochromatic anniversary card I created.  This card features many different types of embellishments - paper tags, jute fibers, paper dolls, chipboard, foils and burlap flowers. And my  ScraPerfect's Best Glue Ever was perfect for all these embellishments! I wanted to create a monochromatic card so I chose all my supplies in a neutral Kraft tone.  I used brown inks to carry that color throughout the card. So let's gather our supplies! Supplies needed ScraPerfect's Best Glue Ever  with No Clog Writing Cap   ScraPerfect's Perfect Crafting Pouch ScraPerfect's Embellie Gellie ScraPerfect's Transfer Foils Other Supplies Kraft card base, Distress Inks, Paper Dolls, jute, Kraft paper tag, script stamp, sentiment stamp, archival ink, raw chipboard Antique your paper dolls by inking with distress ink.  You can see the difference the inking makes.  The large paper dolls are un-inked and the smaller ones are the on...

Greetings!  Today I am so excited to share this stenciled watercolor technique I used to create this card.  I know previously I have shared how to create watercolor pieces using watercolor pencils, but this time I chose to try watercolor markers.  Supplies needed Clear Scraps  6" Flamingos Stenci l Clear Scraps 4 x 6 Pine Cone Stencil  watercolor paper Watercolor markers water brush or paint brush and water Cardstock border punch Start by securing your paper to your work space.  Trace images from  Clear Scraps  6" Flamingos Stenci l using watercolor markers. I used a light pink on the top of my flamingo and a darker pink along the bottom of the flamingos.  Using a water brush draw ink toward the inside of the flamingos .  Draw in water with watercolor markers and blend with water brush.  Draw in sandy shore and blend.  Using the  Clear Scraps 4 x 6 Pine Cone Stencil   and varying green watercolors markers, pine b...

Greetings!  I am excited to share this twist on ATC.  I love creating them but then never really enjoy them.  After creating these 4 ATC for this months Blank Page Muse Challenge (ALL Seasons), I decided I loved my cards and wanted to mount them for myself! To recreate this project you will need Blank Page Muse Woodlands Art Rubber Stamps designed by Donna Gray Blank Page Muse Overcast Stitch Stencil designed by Stephanie Eaton 4 watercolor ATC, Watercolor Markers  (I used Tombow), Water Brush or paint brush with water, Shaved Iced Glitter, Fine Point Glue Pen, Border Punch, thick mounting paper, pencil, eraser, pen, archival ink Start by stamping Woodland Girl and Tree on 4 ATC. You will notice below that I use used my water color marker to ink the stamp for 2 of the trees.  While inking the stamp I DID NOT ink the leaves one one and only inked the very start of the leaves (In light green)  to imitate buds on the other.  Color images as des...

I love playing with Stencils!   And I love playing with inks!  This card allowed my to play with both! Clear Scraps has some amazing stencils and I decided to combine a few to create this beautiful card!  This Card features Clear Scraps 4x6 Sunrise Stencil Clear Scraps 5 x 9 Mountain Scene Layering Stencil Clear Scraps Fancy Butterflies Chipboard Embellishment other supplies Watercolor paper, distress inks, greeting sentiment, embossing inks and powder Start by securing and inking your  Clear Scraps 4x6 Sunrise Stencil  with distress inks onto watercolor paper.  Be sure to leave room at the bottom for your trees. Begin inking  Clear Scraps 5 x 9 Mountain Scene Layering Stencil .  I used 3 differnt green inks and moved my stencil along the bottom of card, filling in any gaps with ink. You can see how I moved the stencil, and even a few gaps left behind.   Here I moved the stencil to "cove...