TAWS post #90 - You Color Our World

Hello!  I'm here today with a simple and fun creation that I made using the newly released sets called From Us and Rain or Shine.

I used my Cracked Pistachio and Wild Honey Distress Inks along with my Kurtake watercolor pan to create the bright background that coordinated with the paper airplane images.  I stamped them onto paper from an older Studio Calico kit and hand trimmed them out.  I used 3D foam adhesive to put them on the card.

I stitched around the edges with black thread to make the panel pop!

Thanks so much for coming by today!

Crafty Hugs!
Meredith

TAWS post #84 - Call Anytime!

Hello!  I'm here today with a creation using a new Alley Way set called Rain or Shine.  I've done a resist technique to create the background that used glossy paper (or photo paper), wax paper and spray misters.  You crumple the wax paper up then sandwich in between two pieces of glossy paper with the glossy sides facing in.  You then use a warm iron on dry setting and iron the paper.  The heat from the iron will transfer the crinkly pattern from the wax paper onto the glossy paper.  When you spray your mister (or liquid watercolor - whatever you have on hand) the area where the wax is will resist the color.  Here I used my Heidi Swapp spray misters but I found better results with my kids liquid watercolors from Coloration as they gave brighter colors.  But this works well for the "storm cloud" theme.

I inked the cute clouds from the set onto Crate Paper's Journey collection and hand trimmed them out.  I added them with foam adhesive.  I then white heat embossed my sentiment onto a hand cut banner and stitched around the edge to bring it all together.

Thanks so much for coming by today!

Crafty Hugs!
Meredith

TAWS post #83 New Release Blog Hop - Rain or Shine

Hello Alley Way friends!  So glad you're hopping with us today for our latest new release! You should have arrived here via my fellow TAW teammate Marina's blog!

Today I'm featuring a set called Rain or Shine.  It's an adorable set filled with lots of images and sentiments.  Today I started by creating a background with my Kurtake Gansai Tambi watercolors.  The background is painted in the most beautiful silver paint.  It's near impossible to catch in photos but the entire background is intensely shimmery.  It's beautiful IRL.

I then stamped the background clouds with Mermaid Lagoon Distress Ink and added the frontmost clouds popped up on foam dots.  I stamped them onto basic white cardstock and hand trimmed them out.  I also added the little birdies scattered around the card through the grey sky.

I added some beautiful sequins that were in an older Studio Calico kit scattered around and tucked my sentiment on the left hand side.  I took a waterproof black pen and added the ... and the . after my sentiment to ground it a little bit and not make it look as though it were dangling in the middle of space.

I matted it with black cardstock to make it pop and added it to the front of a white notecard.

Thanks so much for coming by today!  Off you go to N@Ali's blog!!