America the Beautiful Geared Up for Fun

Hi friends! I'm back today with a couple of projects. I got a little chance to create and decided to finish up some half started projects that have been patiently waiting for me to finish them up.

First up is this America the Beautiful mixed media tag.  The sentiment and cups are from the Land of Liberty DIGITAL Set. The tag is a kraft tag that I coated with two coats of heavy gesso, then played around with some red, white and blue Impasto paints.  I splattered some of the paints on the sentiment and accented with a couple of rhinestone stars.  The cups were colored with Arteza real brush markers and then highlighted with a white nail art pen.  I finished off with some ribbon remnants from days gone by.

The second card is a fun birthday card for one of the boys' friends who has a birthday coming up in July. I watercolored the robot from Geared Up with Prima oil pastels and a waterbrush.  Then I fussy cut him and added a few accents with a silver gel pen.  The sentiment is stamped on a circle die cut and I stamped one of the gears from the set tone on tone behind for a little accent.  The gear dies are from a Tim Holtz Bigz die.  The background is randomly stamped in grey with an assortment of the gear images in the set. I love it for a background!  I finished off by stamping a number 6 to accent one of the gears.

Thanks so much for stopping by today and for your sweet, sweet comments of encouragement on yesterday's post. I puffy heart you all!

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America the Beautiful Tag
Stamps: Land of Liberty DIGITAL Set (Verve)
Paper: white, riding hood red (SU!), kraft tag
Ink: laser printer, real brush markers (Arteza - Amazon affiliate link)
Accessories: Rounded Rectangle Die (A Cut Above by VERVE), white nail art pen (Sally Hansen - Amazon affiliate link), ribbon (Creative Impressions), corner rounder, Impasto paints (Prima)

Geared Up Card
Stamps: Geared Up (Verve)
Paper: smoky slate, island indigo, lucky limeade (SU!), white (Neenah)
Ink: lucky limeade (SU!), grey (Altenew), black (Hero Arts), silver gel pen, water soluble oil pastels (Prima - Amazon affiliate link)
Accessories: Gadget Gears Bigz Die (Tim Holtz Alterations - Amazon Affiliate link), circle dies (spellbinders)

Three Cheers

Hi friends! Three cheers for a new card.  Last Friday, I uploaded a few new and new-ish digital sets to the shop.  A couple that had been on my calendar to reintroduce/redesign, and one that partially came from a set I had designed to release in stamp form, before plans changed.

That set is the  Land of Liberty DIGITAL Set, which I used today. I pulled out some patriotic papers and started layering until I had a layout I liked.  Then I added the cup, which I colored with Arteza real brush markers. I forgot to pint on smooth bristol, so the blending with the markers was terrible.  But I was snuggled up on the couch with a sick boy while coloring, so didn't bother to reprint.  I did eventually pull out some copic markers to help even out the coloring a bit and it turned out okay in the end. The sentiment is also from Land of Liberty and I cut it out with the Rounded Rectangle Die. I finished with a border cut with the Lacey Trim Duo Die Set and a couple rhinestone stars to accent the mug.

Thanks so much for stopping by today. The sickness Kellan caught seems to be taking over the family one person at a time. :(  The boys graduate Kindergarten one week from today, and I'm thinking there might not be much school for them between now and then!

If you haven't already, click on over to Verve and check out our final new digital sets.

Enabler's List
Stamps: Land of Liberty DIGITAL Set (Verve Stamps)
Paper: Yankee Doodles (WRMK), white
Ink: laser printer, real brush markers (Arteza), wink of stella glitter pen (Zig), Copic makers)
Accessories: Rounded Rectangle Die, Lacey Trim Duo Die Set (A Cut Above by VERVE), rhinestone stars