Come Sail Away - Art journal page

Hello friends! JJ here today, to share an art journal page with you.

For this page, I combined Susan's whimsical stamps with Pan Pastels for a soft looking page.   I started with the boat from the Sail Away stamp set.  (Colouring inside the lines is not always required)  :)    The word "Hope" is from the Painted Sentiments stamp set, and was my cue for how the rest of the text would flow.

I keep coming back to these little clouds from the Create Your Day stamp set.  They just make me happy.  Once all the colour was added with Pan Pastel, I sealed it with a fixative, and used Faber-Castell PITT pens for the lettering.

Supplies used:
Create Your Day stamp set
Sail Away stamp set
Painted Sentiments stamp set

Thanks so much for visiting!

JJ Sobey, Design Team member for Susan K Weckesser.

Journaling with Tim Holtz Distress Markers

I know that you know, how much I LOVE doodling, journaling, and COLOR! It is therapy for me really. If I am tired, stressed, grumpy, sad, happy, excited, scared…almost feeling anything really,  I will doodle. Well, except hungry! Hard to doodle when I have food in my hands!

And a  girl has gotta eat! But why do I make yummy things for the kiddos all the time…. *sigh* I just don’t know! *grin*

So, when I got my hands on some of Tim Holtz Distress Markers….well, {MAGIC} happened!!! I took  out one of my really old journals and some of my co-branded Susan K. Weckesser Inc. /Unity Stamp Co. stamps. The colors of the markers are SO bright and wonderful to work with! You can easily blend with them, which I did by using my refillable watercolor brush and ink blending tool from Ranger. You can draw directly onto your project and then blend with your blending tool or watercolor brush or your can scribble a bit of ink onto a Ranger non-stick craft sheet and then pick up the color with your watercolor brush. Tim Holtz Distress Markers are are water-based inks, which making the blending and the layering even more magical and fun!

I also created a fun grungy background by lightly using the side of nib of the marker and directly applying ink to my background stamp, “In Circle Me”. What is really cool is the Tim Holtz Distress Marker in the color picket fence. When you apply it, at first it looks like you haven’t done anything. However, in a couple of seconds a lovely bright white appears! So much fun!

Thank-you to everyone that left a comment for the Mother’s Day giveaway! The winner is…

Jessica Buffa

Congratulations Jessica! Can you please email me at susiebeestudios@gmail.com .

Have a super colorful day everyone! Enjoy all the color around you today! I know that I am sure enjoy the blossoms and colors of spring…

hugs,

Susan

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Home of inspiration

Hi Susan Weckesser's fans, Einat Kessler here with a fun inspirational project!
One of my favorite Susan weckesser's stamps is this cute adorable house (LOVE stamp). So I decided to use this stamp and create a project that can be an inspiration for you all.

I started with stamping the house on different Susan Weckesser's patterned papers and cutting the parts of the house like the window, door or roof. Then I played around with the parts so each house got a different color of window, roof or door.
I embellished the houses to fit the sentence I wanted to add.
"The house does not rest on the ground it rests on a mother": I stamped the Motherhood is a verb stamp and cutout the image. I added lace, some cut flowers and the sentence.
" Fill a home with love and it will fill your life with color": I added some colorful buttons on the house's roof and added the sentence.

"Home is where the heart is": I cut hearts in different sizes and shapes and adhered them on the roof. I added the sentence replacing the word heart with a shaped heart.
"Home is an inspiration for memories": I embellished the house with parts of clocks which to me represent time and memories. I added the sentence and wrote the word memories in a circle shape to compliment the clocks' shapes.

These four cute houses can be a mini album, a banner or even be placed on a frame. You can keep on creating houses and add more inspiration!

Have fun creating!
Einat

Step by step- Mixed media layout

 

Hey there bloggers Rita Barakat here with a mixed media layout!

It's a scrap-lift from  Misty Russell -

it was gorgeous so I had to copy lift it!

I don't know how she went about hers but here's how I made mine.

 

     First I started with a foil embossed paper ( DCWV )

Added some texture with modeling paste

and a stencil (Artistcellar Jill K. Berry-Romans)

After it was dry I added some color with Dylusions Ink spray.

Then I cut up some flags and sprayed some of those.

Added them onto my page, mxing in pattern paper (Susan K Weckeser) cut flags,

overlapping each other with some heavy gel medium.

Sprayed a ton of flowers to match.

And added a little text- Oh yeah- the pic on the left
was from our honeymoon way back when and the pic
on the right is last year. Which reminds me - we need to take a  new photo! 

And I need to scrap-lift more often, that was fun!

 

It’s a Mother’s Day Sale and a Giveaway!

Woohoo!!!! Guess What!? Want2Scrap is having a GIANT sale this week-end!

And guess what!? Want2Scrap carries my super duper think, colorful, and double-sided scrapbook paper!!! I LOVE my paper because not only is it super colorful and full of my hand-painted watercolor designs, but I had it printed on RECYCYLED and UBER-THICK paper that is awesome for inking, painting , scrapbooking, crafting, paper crafting ,and doing almost anything with it!!! And you know I love doing LOTS of things to my paper and craft supplies!!!! So if you want to try some of this fun and COLORFUL paper…..this is an AWESOME week-end to try some! The sale at Want2Scrap is going on HERE!   

I LOVE how the color is neutral, with POPs of wonderful bright colors! It makes me {SMILE}!

If your would like to get a stencil to go play with paper line, you can find my Crafter’s Workshop Stencil HERE.

And don’t forget my fun and easy to use Susan K. Weckesser Inc. stamp kits which can be found at Unity Stamp Company.

A list of other wonderful store that carry my Susan K. Weckesser Inc. products can be found on my website HERE.

{My Mom and I in Leduc , Alberta}

I hope that everyone has a lovely Mother’s Day this week-end! I LOVE Mother’s Day! It is such a precious day. It has been so cute this week as I have wandered into different rooms a couple times and interrupted my kiddos whispering ‘plans’ to each other for the week-end. It fills my heart with such joy to know that they care for me enough to plan…even though throughout the years I have disciplined, taught, and even lectured. But then…doesn’t a Mom do it all? Isn’t she a friend, doctor, caregiver, teacher, disciplinarian, chauffeur, coach……a MOM. Even though my Mom won’t be here this year for the first time, I look forward to this day because it truly is a day of LOVE and Caring and showing some Mom somewhere that you care! 

So….. My little gift to you ……. A Home: stamp that is! I LOVE using these large stamps! You can do so much with them from mixed media, to layouts and fabric design and home decor!!! WONDERFUL!

 

 

Leave me a comment at the end of this post & let me know what your favourite Susan K. Weckesser Inc. product is. Someone will end up getting one of my BIG Home stamps and one of Tim Holtz containers of Distress Embossing Powders from Ranger. (color might be different) So much fun!!!

 

Oh , and don’t forget that we have a Guest Design Team Call going on right now. You can find out all the information HERE!

Good Luck and Happy Creating!!!

hugs,

Susan

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Susan K.Weckesser Inc. Guest Design Team Call

We look forwarded to spending a little time with you!

hugs,

Susan xo

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Singing in the Sunshine!

Hello, this is Julie from Australia where next Sunday will be Mother's Day.

My piece today is a Memory Tin.

My beautiful, crafty Mum has been gone five years now.

She gifted me with a wonderful treasure trove as she was a saver, recycler and collector of all those,

"I know they will come in handy pieces!"

For this project many of her bits and bobs were perfect.

Here's a how to.

1. Brush the tin with a couple of coats of Gesso

2. Gather together the bits of memorabilia you want to use.

3. Colour a piece of interfacing with inks

Then 

4. Stamp the wonderful bird from Unity "Sing your Song" using Archival Ink.

5. Cut into a heart shape and apply to the tin using gel medium.

6. Pile on the lace, fabric pieces and embellishments and cover liberally with Gel Meduim.

7. Colour to your hearts delight with any and all the mediums you like to use.

The frame was made using a Spellbinder Die, thin metal and Vintaj Finish.

8. Add extra colour with Perfect Pearls and Viva Decor Inka Gold.

9. Take your time doing this as the finishing stops any potential stickiness.

Make the back of the tin in the same way.

Now what could I use this for?

On the inside I used alcohol inks for a fairly simple finish as I wanted my cabinet card to shine.

Serendipity is such a wonderful thing!

As I went delving into my Susan K Weckesser Papers I found the perfect scrap with a whimsical sun to use as a frame behind the strong black and white image.

The finishing touch was to tuck one of Mum's handkerchiefs in behind her portrait.

I miss my Mum's happy go lucky attitude and incredible creativity.

My memory piece I am sure she would love.

She would be smiling at the idea of gel medium on the lovely laces.

The little blue Bird of Happiness reminds us to enjoy 

every moment 

of 

every day.

Julie