Word Art Wednesday - Featuring Taylored Expressions

Hello Delightful Friends!

Time for another challenge from Word Art Wednesday. We have my personal favorite sponsor and stamp company this week: Taylored Expressions!!

Hope you'll visit TE and check out their store and the inspiration on the blog they share with all of us card makers. There is a lot of ideas and techniques on the Facebook page and Instagram too.  Don't forget to play along with the Anything Goes - Family Friendly challenge at Word Art Wednesday.

Here are my cards:

My first card is for my granddaughter Addy, she's turning 16 this month!  (all the ingredients shown are from Taylored Expressions.  The list of items are at the end of this post)

My next two cards are for a graduation celebration which includes my grandson who is graduating from High School.  These two cards are 5x7 and I've used the Create in Quad layering stencil for the backgrounds.

Scripture Art inside the above graduation cards:

Ingredients for card #1

Inks: Guava, Peaches n Cream, Mulled Wine, Peapod, Cookie Monster, Blueberry, Toffee

Paper: Granny Smith, Sugar Cube Saltwater Taffy, Toffee

Foil It panels: Doodle Birds (Foil - Gold Shimmer using Minc laminator)

Doodle Bird Stencil/Dies

Cloud Nine 3D Embossing folder

On the Fence border die

Stamp Set:  So Tweet of You

Mini Strips Die

Inspiration for colors: Color box #041

Cards #2

A7 Sugar Cube card bases and envelopes

Inks: Blueberry, Toffee, Latte, Honey, Pablano Pepper

Paper: Sugar Cube, Blueberry, Toffee, Honey

Create-in-Quads Layering Stencil: Pattern Playground

Foil It panel: Perfect Pennant Grad (I cut out with scissors and added the border strip and fishtails using Honey Card stock)

Perfect Pennant Stamp/Dies

Foil - Gold Shimmer using Minc laminator

Thanks for visiting!

Word Art Wednesday Challenge

Hello Delightful Friends!

Here is my card for this weeks challenge at Word Art Wednesday.  Check out the WAW blog and if you have been crafty this week be sure and share with us and upload your project, the theme is Anything Goes Family Friendly.  Our sponsor this challenge is Penguin Palace. Cute stuff be sure and check out their store!

Here is my card and the ingredients follow:

Stamps: Wonky Grid Background (Taylored Expressions)

Stencils: Summer Nights Layering set (T.E.)

Inks :Pink Champagne, Rosewater, Banana Cream Pie, Pear, Granny Smith (TE)

Dies: Blanket Stitched Rectangles (Pink Fresh)

Paper: Sugar Cube (TE); white vellum

Thanks for visiting and God Bless!

Natalie💖

Word Art Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes!

Hello Delightful Friends!

Time for another challenge and a fun sponsor: Stamps for Life!!  Yay!  Stephanie has some cute stuff in her store and some great fun with a Stamp Club be sure and check out her website and shop.  

Join us over at Word Art Wednesday and share a project or 2 or better yet, share 5 each week and have a better chance of winning the gift card from Stamps for Life!  Check out the details at Word Art Wednesday! Remember it's Anything Goes - Family Friendly.

Here is my card with our Scripture Art for this weeks challenge from Luke 1:37.  

My supplies for this card:

Cottage Cutz Nestled Scallop Stitch Circle set

Carta Bella 6x6 paper (strip on the side) Flora

Stencil (layering set) from PinkFresh: Seamless Floral Panel

Taylored Expressions Ink: Key Lime, Cilantro, Cupcake, Guava, Mulled Wine.

Taylored Expressions: Blender Brushes

God's Word is NOT powerless, the verse shared today brings encouragement, knowing that His Word endures forever.  We truly are helpless in ourselves but nothing is impossible for God.  Thank You Lord Jesus for Your faithfulness.

Thanks for visiting!!

                         

WAW Challenge #310 and #311

Happy Thanksgiving to all my Delightful friends and family!

I have so much to be thankful for and it's so important that we take time to reflect on that, not just today or this season but everyday.  Perhaps if we have a grateful mindset there would be more kindness in the world, especially if we keep in mind as believers that we are doing everything (word and deed) to bring glory and honor to the Lord Jesus Christ.  Our Scripture Art today expresses that very sentiment.  

Here is my card to share today for Word Art Wednesday and I'm a day late in posting so I apologize to my WAW Design team.  It's been crazy hectic here and I lost track of my days! 

This is a very simple card to reproduce and would make a nice gift set by just changing up the sentiment and ribbon or the color scheme.  I've use a stencil to create the background. The stencil is from Ranger a Dylusions small stencil called Fronds of Foliage and by using earthtone colors I've given this an Autumn feel.  The inks I've used are: Distress inks Crushed Olive, Shabby Shutters, Forest Moss, Fossilized Amber, Fired Brick and Vintage Photo to blend around the edges. I added a bow using Darice Hemp Cording and a brown gingham check.  The Scripture Art was printed then diecut using the Cross Stitched Square (Cottage Cutz), I've matted the Scripture with a dark brown card stock. The card base is Neenah Desert Storm card stock and it's an A2 size with a side fold.

I hope you'll take time to play along, the challenge is open for two weeks and there are prizes to win!! Check it out HERE.  Just remember that it's a family friendly anything goes challenge and you can link up to 5 new projects!

Thanks so much for visiting and have a blessed not stressed week!!

Planted by the Waters - WAW #188

Hello Delightful friends and family!
Wow, summer is upon us, graduations are behind us, it's been a busy time and I'm looking forward to the lazy days of summer (yeah, right?!) in my dreams anyway!! I love the Scripture this week from Jeremiah 17:8 it reminds me of Psalm 1 (I'll share it at the end of the post).  Hope you can join us and share your art with us at Word Art Wednesday (Anything Goes - Family Friendly)

Here are the details to my card:

The stencil I used is a Wendy Vecchi Studio 490 called Layered Tree and I've used Liquitex molding paste colored with Peeled Paint and Frayed Burlap (Distress Inks).  I sprinkled the wet paste with clear embossing powder and when it dried I then used the heat gun to melt the embossing powder.  (I think I saw this tutorial on Jennifer McGuire's blog). I fussy cut the tree and set it aside, then with the Stitched Hillside Borders (Lawn Fawn) I diecut the card stock and made the scene on the Neenah Desert Storm card base.  The Word Art was printed on vellum.

Have a great day and thanks for visiting!

Blessed is the man
Who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly,
Nor stands in the path of sinners,
Nor sits in the seat of the scornful;

But his delight is in the law of the LORD,
And in His law he meditates day and night.

He shall be like a tree
Planted by the rivers of water,
That brings forth its fruit in its season,
Whose leaf also shall not wither;
And whatever he does shall prosper.  Psalm 1:1-3

Exciting News! Word Art Wednesday #186

Hello Delightful friends and Family!!

I'm excited to share that I have been asked to join the Word Art Wednesday Challenge blog!! The challenge blog is, first and foremost, all about sharing the love of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. There is a weekly free Scripture/Word Art that you can use in your creations, but you are not required to do so in order to play along.  You can use whatever colors, shapes, templates and themes you choose, and may submit altered art, mixed media, digital projects, cards, layouts, etc.  Just let your heart guide you in making your art.  It's a family friendly challenge blog and there is more information about that HERE.  There are fun prizes every week so be sure to check us and our sponsors out!!  I'm so blessed to be joining this group of ladies!

Here is my card for WAW#186

Here are the ingredients I've used:

Paper: Neenah white, Bazzill Flamingo and Yellow; Ranger Watercolor paper; Distress Inks and Markers: Fossilized Amber, Abandoned Coral, Picked Raspberry; Stencil: Tim Holtz - Rays (THS003); Dies Lawn Fawn - Stitched Journaling Card set (banners); Spellbinder Nestabilities (Scallop and Standard Circles); Liquid Pearls: Buttercup and Cantaloupe; Tools: Ranger waterbrush, Cuttlebug.

Thanks so much for visiting and be sure and visit Word Art Wednesday this week and play along.

"I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace.  In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world." John 16:33

CAS - Thinking of You

Hello Delightful friends and family!
We enjoyed a beautiful day here in northern California.  Thankfully the wind has died down and it was really a pretty day.  It was so nice this evening I didn't even need a blanket or the extra hoodie at Jakob's little league game, I don't leave home without them!

Here is a CAS card I made using Distress inks, a MFT's stencil, Lawn Fawn stamp (grass from Gnome Sweet Gnome)  and Ranger watercolor paper. The sentiment is from a Taylored Expressions stamp using Archival Jet Black ink.  The card base is Neenah Desert Storm.

The Distress Inks I've used are Peeled Paint and Mowed Grass for the stems and grass.  Mermaid Lagoon and Tumbled Glass are the colors I've used for the blossoms.  I used the Ranger water brush which I love working with and I am really enjoying this watercolor technique using stencils!

I will be sharing this at Word Art Wednesday #183  Family Friendly card

and CAS on Sunday #58 Cheer up Buttercup (make a card to brighten someone's day)

Thanks so much or visiting!

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy. James 3:17

Camouflaging Dies - Word Art Wednesday

Hello!!
Hope this day is going well for you, I'm preparing to head out for a little league game but wanted to get this card posted real quick like!
It's a stenciled background (Tim Holtz Flourishes) and I've used 3 different Distress Inks on the card.  (Chipped Sapphire, Salty Ocean and Tumbled Glass) and then I masked off the lines with painters tape and used the Chipped Sapphire and Tumbled Glass to make the strips of color.  The die is from Lawn Fawn (Thanks) and the technique is from Here called Camouflaging Dies.  (sorry the pics so bad I took this at night and I usually do the photos outside in better lighting.)

Here is a better look at the dimension of the Thanks sentiment die. I diecut the thanks directly from the inked up paper and set it aside with all the little pieces and then I diecut 3 more in white card stock to stack them up and adhered them together to make it pop, then I added the last "thanks" that matched up with the design of the card.

I will be sharing this at Word Art Wednesday #181 (Anything Goes - Family Friendly)

Thanks for visiting, I'm off to the ballgame!

I do not set aside the grace of God; for if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died in vain.  Galatians 2:21

Christmas Tags - Day 3 (Totally PaperCrafts Challenge 96)

Hello Delightful friends and family!  We woke up to a very light dusting of snow this morning!  Very unusual for us being very close to sea level and it will be gone in a couple of hours but it sure looks pretty.

Day 3 of my Christmas tags!  These are a couple of favorites, I love all the texture, the different backgrounds using a stencil (Holly & Ivy - Tim Holtz) on the first and a stamp (Greeting Farms) on the second one.  Same inks and glimmer sprays and techniques as days 1 and 2). I've added a few new inks (Distress inks:  Bundled Sage and Weathered Wood and Tsukineo Brilliance Moonlight White in the Dew Drop line and Distress Paint Chipped Sapphire)

The "Believe" and fussy cut Holly is from a stamp set that I've had for awhile and I do not know the company.  The sentiment comes from Our Daily Bread Designs.  I've die cut the flag using MFT die-namics Fishtail Banner Stax. And I've scattered a little bit of Liquid Pearls throughout.  

The second tag sentiment is from Inkadinkado and is wood mounted.  The snowflake is a punch that I've inked up with Distress Ink Frayed Burlap and then added Glossy Accents. The jar is a stamp and die set from Taylored Expressions. I've added a little bit of burlap for texture and the Designer Paper is WR Memory Keepers Winter Frost.

I'm entering these in Totally Papercrafts (anything Christmassy except for cards) Challenge #96

Thanks for visiting and stay tuned for Day 4 of my Christmas tags.  Heading to the Ladies Christmas Party Luncheon shortly, I hope they like the tags!

"He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty." Psalm 91:1