Let's Do Makeovers!

Good morning, friends and a happy weekend to you!  I'm back with you today to share a card I made for Lori Rider's challenge at Our Creative Corner.  This week, Lori asked us to find an old card or project that we had made and give it a makeover.  Above is my makeover of this card that I originally made when I first started with Our Creative Corner almost three years ago.   The challenge I made it for was to use light pink, hot pink, brown and white.

The challenge called for chocolate, but I have never been happy with how dark this card turned out to be.  So for my makeover I wanted lighten and brighten it but still retain the feminine feel that I tried to give the original.

For my makeover, I started by scoring one inch diamonds with my ScorePal on white CS.  I stamped the grids using a tiny floral stamp made by Inque Boutique (had it about 2 years). I used my new distress markers in Worn Lipstick and Peeled Paint to color the stamp, huffed and stamped.  As you can see it took a lot of huffing and stamping to create my stamped BG but I was very happy with the way it turned out - and I found out that I really like the Worn Lipstick pink.

I created a two layer frame chipboard frame using the Baroque and Mini Baroque M&S dies.  The bottom layer was painted with Picket Fence Distress Crackle Paint and the top frame piece was first painted white with Snow Cap paint dabber and then I mixed Watermelon alcohol ink with Pearl Mixative and a squirt of blender solution on a felt applicator and applied it to the prepped surface.

I included some tribud Venise Lace - so pretty and matches the Ranger color palette perfectly.  I created a worn silver piece by adhering a small piece of Ranger Foil Tape to a piece of CS and then cut and embossed it with an old Spellbinder die.  I went over it with a Pitch Black paint dabber, let it dry a bit and then wiped it all off with a paper towel leaving a tarnished silver effect.  The tribud was white and I painted it with my water brush by brushing across the Worn Lipstick pad, picking up ink that way and brushing it on the tribud.  Mixing the ink with water that way makes it really absorb the color rather than the color just sitting on the top layer.

I cut just two layers of crinoline with the largest Tattered Floral shape and dyed it with a bit of Worn Lipstick - smooshed the pad into my craft sheet, misted with water and created a small pool of ink to dye the crinoline.  The ivory venise heart is from my boutique and I created the heart center piece by die cutting a heart with the Mini Hearts M&S die, stamped as I stamped my BG and then gave it one coat of UTEE and sponged Vintage Photo DI over it.  I love the crazed porcelain effect it created!  My pink matting layer is simply what CS that I sponged the edge with Worn Lipstick DI to match my color palette.  That's it!  Let me know if you have any questions.

Now have some fun by checking out all the old cards and made-over new cards the design team has to inspire you over at Our Creative Corner.  And then find an old card that you would like to update and join in the fun with us for this challenge.  Thanks so much for stopping by and have a great weekend!

Here are the links to the products I used from my Funkie Junkie Boutique. However, I am currently on vacation and the shop is closed, reopening on Sunday, August 5th.   Until then, you will have to window shop and create a wish list.

Distress Markers - Set of 37	Tim Holtz Movers and Shapers Baroque Die	Movers and Shapers Mini Baroque Die	White & Green Tri-bud Venise Lace Appliques
Venise Lace Triple Bud Beading	Ivory Venise Lace Hearts	Ranger Alcohol Ink - Watermelon	Alterations Tattered Florals Die
Picket Fence Distress Crackle Paint	Ranger Adirondack Acrylic Paint Dabber - Pitch Black	Snow Cap Acrylic Paint Dabber	Ranger Adirondack Alcohol Ink - Pearl Mixative
Alcohol Ink Applicator	Distress Ink - Worn Lipstick	Ultra Thick Embossing Enamel (UTEE)	Alcohol Ink Applicator
Alternations Mini Hearts Movers & Shapers	Tim Holtz Water Brush, Detailer Brush Nib	Vintage Photo Distress Ink

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Artistic Outpost July Blog Hop - Tea Anyone?

Hello and thanks for stopping by today.  My post is for the July Artistic Outpost blog hop where we were invited to use our favorite Artistic Outpost stamps.  My piece today uses a couple of the tea themed stamps from the London Elements plate.  I stamped them on white CS with Aged Mahogany and then give them one coat of UTEE, flicking off anything lose.  Once heat set, I then sponged over them with Aged Mahogany which filled in all the cracks with color.  I love that technique - don't know what it is called, maybe I should give it a name, huh?  I cut a strip with the Vintage Lace die and give it the same technique.  I added a handmade crinoline flower (the pieces were cut with the Mini Tattered Florals M&S  dies) plus a piece of filigree metal that I white embossed and then swiped with more Aged Mahogany.  The outer shell is Mellow Moss and the next layer in also has the UTEE technique.  The lovely designer paper is some random free digital paper that I ran across somewhere in my surfing travels.  Plus I added a white doily that I restrained myself from swiping with Vintage Photo DI - can you believe that?

So now it's time to hop on by the other Artistic Outpost designers' blogs to see what sort of eye candy they have to titillate you.

Gerrie Johnnic

Lisa Somerville

Suzanne Czosek

Tracy Evans

Thanks heaps for stopping by today!

Aged Mahogany	Vintage Photo Distress Ink	Alterations Vintage Lace Die	Ultra Thick Embossing Enamel (UTEE)
Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Embossing Ink	Mini Tattered Florals Movers & Shapers	Crinoline	Fancy Corners Filigree Metals

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Altered Metals Part II

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Hi gang,

I'm back again with Part II of the Frilly and Funkie Altered Metals challenge.  This week, we're going Funkie and our DT has rocked this challenge!

Oh my, am I ever having fun with these ink sprays and the altered metals!  I've started keeping some jumbo tags within easy reach of my craft desk for times when I have left over inks on my craft sheet.  For this piece, I had used some Vibrant Turquoise (Dylusions spray) and already started to mop up with a paper towel, when I spritzed again and all the lovely turquoise beaded up, I had to grab a tag to capture it.  Same story with the Meadow Adirondack Color Wash spray - that's a really great green and I just love the way I created such a quick and easy background.

I adore altering metals and this piece was an absolute joy to work on.  First I took one of the Vintaj bronze blanks and ran it through one of the new Sizzix Vintaj metal embossing folders, then I painted it with all three of the Vintaj patina paints from the Rusted Hardware collection.  When it dried, I reliefed it with the Vintaj reliefing block.  I really love this piece and want to play around with making some chains and other jewelry type pieces with these heavenly Vintaj metals and patinas.  I have some other blank charms coming into the boutique as well as some chains and jump rings.  Lots of fun creativity opportunities there!

Next I took some umm, not sure what it is, but it's from my local hardware store.  I did play around with rusting it, but it's galvanized and didn't rust well.  So I ended up "rusting" it with Tea Dye Distress Embossing Powder and than dabbed some of the blue paint on it from the Weathered Copper patinas (sorry, not in the store at this time - on back order from Ranger :(  Using the same Weathered Copper patinas, I painted the filigree butterfly and brads.  However once they were painted and dried, they were too blue green and I felt like they should have some copper "showing" through (of course there was no copper to begin with).  So I went back to the Rusted Hardware patina paints and sort of dry brushed over the blue-green with a little rusty look - it made a huge difference in the final piece.

Hope you like my little altered metal experimentations.  I'd love to see what you can do with altering metals.  Hope you will stop by Frilly and Funkie to see what the other designers have to share!

These items from The Funkie Junkie Boutique were used to create this tag.

Jumbo Manila Shipping Tags 8x4"	Natural Jute Mesh (Burlap)	Burlap String 10 Colors	Vintaj Patina Kit %u2013 Weathered Copper
Ranger Vintaj Patina Kit � Rusted Hardware	DecoEmboss Die - Nouveau Roses by VINTAJ	Meadow Adirondack Color Wash	Dylusions Vibrant Turquoise
Ranger VINTAJ Glaze	Coffee Archival Ink	VINTAJ 34MM Altered Blank Cirlces	Stampers Anonymous Stuff to Say

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