TAWS post #99 - Happy Birthday

Hi Friends!  Meredith here for my final Alley Way post.  It's been an amazing year with this wonderful crafty team.  Thank you Alison and Chrissie so much for this fantastic opportunity.  I will miss being a part of such a phenomenal group.  For my last creation I used Happy Everything in combination with Branching Out to make this fun birthday card for my darling husband.

Thanks so much for following along with my Alley Way crafty adventures.  I will likely be taking a bit of a crafty break for a while but will be back!

Happy Christmas and wishing you a wonderful New Year!

Crafty Hugs!
Meredith

TAWS post #11 - Hugs - A Vellum Shaker Card

Greetings Friends!  Here with you on this snowy Monday to bring you my latest TAWS creation!  Today I made a shaker card using vellum.  I cut my vellum and inked the birch trees from the newly released set Branching Out using Unicorn White Pigment ink.  I then heat set them using white embossing powder.

I added sequins and gold glitter inside my shaker card and as you can see I used a tiny bit too much tape runner to temporarily hold my vellum in place before sewing and the gold glitter has gathered and stuck there but I'm really ok with it!  I'll know better next time.  My sentiment 'hugs' is from this month's Free With $40 in product mini-set Moosing You.  I used MFT's Let It Snowflake Die-namics to cut out the snowflakes - some out of glitter paper and others out of kraft cardstock which I then coated in Versamark Ink and heat set using Liquid Platinum embossing powder.  

I added a button/twine treatment in the lower left to balance my creation.  I hope you enjoy and thanks for coming by today!

Crafty Hugs!
Meredith

TAWS post # 9 - Love Birds

Greetings TAWS friends!  So glad to be with you after a wonderful weekend with the new release!  I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did!!  Don't forget you can get all of the new goodies right here!

Today my creation is very CAS.  I used a T-ruler to make a light pencil line where I wanted my birds and then I stamped the birds from the new set Branching Out repeatedly on the "wire".  Once I had my birds lined up I used a Copic multiliner to trace over my pencil line.

I stamped the heart from the Stumped set in between the two red birds and heat embossed it with gold embossing powder.  I did this step 3 times to give the heart a puffy look.  I learned this trick from Kristina Werner in a video she did quite some time ago.  I then added my sentiment from the Moosing You set - which is free this month with your order of $40 or more!  I finished the card off with a few scattered sequins and some stitching detail around the perimeter.

Thanks for swinging by today!

Crafty Hugs!
Meredith

TAWS New Release Peek Day #3

Greetings TAWS Friends!!  I'm so excited to be here with you bringing another month's new release!!  Oh this month is nothing short of adorable, sweet and cuddly!!  Today I'm peeking a new set called Branching Out.  It's snuggly and warm with beautiful birch trees and some fun and furry creatures to combine to create lots of fun scenes.  

I first inked my birch trees with Versamark Ink and stamped them onto good quality watercolor paper.  I heat embossed them with white embossing powder and I used my Distress Inks in Peacock Feather, Salty Ocean and Mowed Lawn to liberally sponged my background and then splattered pearlized water to create some drips and subtle shine.  I took a baby wipe to the birch trees to clear off any excess ink that may have stuck to them during the inking process.

I colored this adorable fox with a combination of watercolor paints and Copic markers finishing him off with my Wink of Stella pen to give him a little shimmer.  

I stamped my sentiment in Delicata Gold ink and heat set it with gold embossing powder.  I then inked the heart from another new set that's coming your way called Stumped.  I trimmed the hearts out and popped them up on tiny pieces of foam adhesive as you can see in the picture above.  I added some sequins scattered about for a nice touch of texture and shine.

Thanks so much for coming by today!

See you for the new release blog hop tomorrow!!

Crafty Hugs!
Meredith