Teesha Moore Style Journal

Front of Book

First Page Spread

This is a journal I created in May after seeing one at the ATC swap that Rose made.The main structure  is cut from 12X12 black cardstock and the background is scrapbook paper  I used Teesha and Tracy Moore's collage images available from the Artstonaughts web group, rubber stamps and a vintage map image found online. The book measures 6in by 6in closed.
 To see more photos in a slide show please visit my new blog and website. Some of the pages on the new site don't have content yet, it's still a work in progress, but I sure would love some feedback on what you think.

ATC Oct 2010 Word Scraps

ATC Oct 2010 Word Scraps
Originally uploaded by okanagan_spirit

Tomorrow is the monthly swap at The Grind and I managed to get some ATCs made so I can go trade. The themes are octagons, oracles and octopi, but since I didn't have much time for creating art and I have lots of scraps I decided to go off topic. I used some cereal box cardboard run through the Zyron and I dug through my bag of scrap papers, glued with the Zyron adhesive. I left room between the pieces and added gold embossing powder to some of the ATCs and micro beads to all of them. I have added assorted rubber stamp words and images to each of the ATCs. There is another set of six ATCs over on my Flickr photos if you would like to check them out.

Is This Collage?

I haven't done very much collage, I just have trouble figuring out what should go together. So here is my attempt which has enough green on it for the Created Byhand Challenge. This is an 8 X 10 artist canvas board that I glopped gesso on and made some texture marks with a plastic spoon. When that was dry I scribbled Reeves water soluble wax pastels on and blended with a wet brush. The next step was colouring on the still wet canvas with Portfolio water soluble oil pastels, rubbed around with my finger then blended with a dry brush. I let that dry, then rubber stamped a couple of large background stamps, one music and the other script.
While this was drying I tried a Cuttlebug paint technique I read about somewhere on the internet. I put blobs and drizzles of paint on a piece of watercolour paper, placed another piece of watercolour paper over this and ran it through the Cuttlebug. I got 2 quite nice papers, but next time I think I'll just use a roller instead of the Cuttlebug, I don't like the risk of getting paint in my machine. When the paper was dry, I used my new Cuttlebug embossing folder from the Heritage set that I just got from Cherish The Thought yesterday. I sponged Walnut Stain Distress ink on the embossed areas to bring out the texture. My quote from Quietfire Design is stamped with Memento Rich Cocoa ink on a digital background I had leftover from the Tea Time ATCs. This was cut with Spellbinders Nestabilities Scalloped Oval and layered over a brown cardstock cut with the largest die from the Scalloped Oval set. The chipboard rectangles are cut with the Sizzix ATC die, dipped in coffee and the edges rolled until I got a nice distress look. They are stamped with some Michael's 79 cent stamps with Rich Cocoa ink and edged with Walnut Stain Distress ink. The white flower thingy is the back part of a button from Ruby Dog's Art House with a circle punched from scraps from the embossed painted paper and a brown half pearl in the centre.

Scrapbook Layout

Scrapbook Layout
Originally uploaded by okanagan_spirit

Well I've added some photos and rubber stamped on the scrapbook page I made at Cherish The Thought last Sat. The egg photo is one I took and the robin is from Images By Kim and can be obtained by joining the PDA group at that link.

The Folow your dreams quote is a rubber stamp from Quietfire Design and the words on the top right of the page is computer generated text.

I'm still not sure if I'll do a journal tip in or mount on canvas and hang, but I am leaning to the canvas idea.

Recycled Tag

Recycled Tag
Originally uploaded by okanagan_spirit

I used a piece of corrugated pizza box cut with the Sizzex die for the base of this tag and peeled the printed layer off the top. The image is printed on watercolour paper and the word "April" is from a Recollections Flourish Months stamp set. The eyelet boarder is a Fiskars punch rubbed with Vintage Photo Distress ink. The stitching border is a Cuttlebug Embossing folder.The ribbon comes from a grab bag of notions.

ATCs For A Special Swap

Some ATCs I've been working on for a special swap. The first one is on painted watercolour paper and the next 2 are on recycled corrugated pizza box. I peeled the printed paper off the surface, added a burgundy cardstock embossed with Cuttlebug folders. I hit the high points of the embossing with white pigment ink and the image of children the embossing was highlighted with Fired Brick Distress Ink. Both have buttons and bits of lace from my trims grab bag.

April 15 and 16 Little Book

Well I don't have a book to post for yesterday, this one I started yesterday and it took me until today to finish it. I am pleased with this one, it is based on instructions from Teesha Moore. Mine is 4X5 in. I made 3 signatures of 3 papers made of 140 lb. watercolour paper. I covered the bookboard with a computer printout of a music paper collage and the spine is cotton fabric and I glued black ribbon along the edges. I did a stitched layered paper and fabric embellishment and added a piece of hand knit lace. The flower on the top left corner is from a hair elastic.

Some ATCs

I've been working on some ATCs today. The first one has some of the torn phonebook paper from the magnet phonebooks and rubber stamps from Crafty Secrets Altered Arts small set and from Quietfire Design. I added some beads a button and a piece of lace edging

One of the themes for the Vancouver ATC group this month is Apples, so I started this one with an embossed felt, placed some floral mesh torn watercolour paper and the apple sticker over this and hand stitched it all down.

My Entries For TheVancouver ATC Exhibition

On Fri, Feb 26 I took my 9 ATCs for the Vancouver 2010 Exhibit in to Ruby Dog's Art House. There is a list of participants here. If you are in the lower mainland between now and Mar 21 please check out all the cards. The cards will be swapped at the regular Vancouver ATC Group swap on Mar 21.
The top left 2 cards have alcohol ink backgrounds on shiny cardstock and a photo of the cauldron taken from the viewing area. The third ATC is my photo of the torch when it came through my area. The photo is printed on vellum and stitched onto coffee stained watercolour paper with a piece of mesh fabric layered over. The words are computer generated torn cardstock edged with distress ink and fibres are added. The next 2 are playing cards with computer generated text and rubber stamped with "10". The next card in this row is the cauldron layered with pop dots over cardstock coloured with Fired Brick Distress Ink and both are cut with a Nestabilities die cut. The next 2 ATCs are alcohol ink on shiny cardstock rubber stamped with various stamps including a Quietfire Design flourish stamp. The last card is the cauldrom stiched onto mesh fabric on coffee stained watercolour paper.

Scrap ATCs

Back when I made the Dreams ATCs from the magnetic phone books, I cut the label frames, and the pieces left over from doing this were just lying on my desk. These just looked too good to waste so here are some ATCs I made and called "From Scraps To Hearts". I used silver metallic cardstock embossed with a Cuttlebug folder for 3 of the backgrounds and a patterned scrapbook paper for the fourth card. The word stamps are from Quietfire Design. The embellishments include Fun Foam hearts, charms, ribbon and rhinestones.

ATC-Queen Of Heart

ATC-Queen Of Heart
Originally uploaded by okanagan_spirit

One of the themes for the Feb Byhandartists monthly ATC swaps is "Queen of Hearts" in keeping with the blog challenge. Various backgrounds and 2 different digital images of Queen of Hearts, rubber stamps from Quietfire Design and sheer ribbon with heart rhinestones. This can be considered part ot the Queen of Hearts Challenge as well

Edit: I forgot to mention that the top 2 have sugar beads on the Queen card.

Life Stores Mini Album

Here are all the pages in a slide show for the Life Stories Mini Album I posted a few days ago.
Enjoy

Life Stories Mini Album

I took my second class at Cherish The Thought on Wed. and had a wonderful private session with Jessie. It's unfortunate no one else signed up for the Wed. morning class because this is a nice little album and the Basic Grey papers I used are just gorgeous. The good thing for me is that the lovely Jessie does not cancel a class if even one person signs up. This book starts with KaiserKraft mdf Antique Tags kit and a selection of the Basic Grey papers in the Life Stories line. I started out removing the shapes from the punch out sheet and then moved on to mostly straight cutting with my paper trimmer. A few of the rectangular pieces were cut to the shape of the top of the tag. Then I started adding the little tags and word pieces, tying on sheer brown ribbon to some. There is one little rubber stamp image added to one page and all the edges are rubbed with brown ink. I tied some off white and brown sheer ribbon to the ring and will probably add more. My little album is just waiting for me to choose some photos and do some journaling. This was a great class and I love the book so much I bought another tag kit and have lots of paper to finish it. I'll need some embellishments though, because most of that sheet was used.

December ATC Swap AT The Grind

The theme for this month is hands so I have done two series that are similar. The first set is "Creative Hands" and uses a digital background and digital text. The fun foam hand is heated and a rubber stamp pressed into it. The hands are painted with gold and silver craft acrylic paint. I finished with wrapping and tying jute cord around the cards.

The second set is "Mind and Hands" and used assorted recycled tissue box and other cardstock and tissue, text paper and 1 has rubber stamped flowers and another has sealing wax. I hope to do a few more tonight, but with the leftovers from previous swaps I should have enough for tomorrows swap.

Christmas Projects

Yesterdays open house at Cherish The Thought was very fun and I met some of the people that trade ATC at the Grind every month. We made 4 very lovely projects. The first was this Christmas Card which used sugar beads on the Santa image. The next station we went to was for this cute little ornament. We chose the image and frame we wanted to use, fit it to the back of the frame, trimmed and added the lace. We punched 2 new holes for the ribbon and covered the original hole with flat back pearls. The ribbon was added to the top and a tiny jungle bell was tied on with the bow. The third project was a postcard sized hanging. For this one we used a poinsettia die cut and ran the petals through a Cuttlebug embossing folder. The background paper was added, trimmed and edged with brown ink. The petals were also inked on the edges then glued on with double sided tape and green rhinestones placed in the centre. I added the family photo at home. The last but not least project was a postcard from a vintage postcard kit. We selected the image and embellishment to use. The image was cut to fit the postcard and sprayed with Glimmer Mist. All the pieces are edged with brown ink. We used copper wire for the hanger and tied the embellishment to a loop in the wire again adding a bell with the ribbon.

Vintage Christmas ATC Swap

Vintage Christmas ATC Swap
Originally uploaded by okanagan_spirit

This is for a one for one ATC swap on PDA with the theme of vintage Christmas. I called my card "Christmas Dreams" for the work stamps I added to the ATC. The background is scrapbook paper run through the Textile Cuttlebug embossing folder and white ink rubbed over the high points. The tree is stamped on grunge board and embossed with Emerald green embossing powder. The edges are rubbed with Fired Brick Distress Ink. The hand and photo are from Dover and the sewing machine is a photo of my toy sewing machine.

12 Days of Christmas Gift Swap

12 Days of Christmas Gift Swap
Originally uploaded by okanagan_spirit

These are the gifts all wrapped up for the 12 Days of Christmas Gift Swap, expanded to 18 participants. They are starting to arrive at their destinations, but I can't tell you what is in them until after Day 9 of the gift opening. I wrapped all of my gifts in paper napkin which I hope everyone can use in an art project after opening the gifts. The tag which needed to indicate which day it is to be opened on is made from a collage done on a playing card and scanned. This is then printed to ATC size and rubber stamped with a large no. 9 and the word "Day" I punched a hole in the corner and added a piece of yarn. The packages are tied with a silver curling ribbon.

Journal Page "The Wedding"

Journal Page "The Wedding"
Originally uploaded by okanagan_spirit

The challenge this week over on the Created Byhand Challenge is "Times Gone By" so I did a journal page of by grandparents wedding photo. All rubber stamps are from Quietfire Design. The journal is filled with recycled paper from Ruby Dog's Art House and this page is brown cardstock with the cream vertical and horizontal stripes already on the page. I ran pale pink cardstock through the Cuttlebug Swiss Dots embossing folder and centered it on the larger square. The next layer is burgundy cardstock run through the Textile embossing folder and rubbed the high points with white pigment ink. The wedding photo is placed at an angle and the words are stamped on light brown text paper. Lace and ribbon are added to the cream stripes. The quote is stamped on pale pink caardstock and layered over blue cardstock. The corner flourishes are stamped with white pigment ink and the quote is added over this.

November 2009 ATCs "To The Nines"

More 9th Anniversary
Originally uploaded by okanagan_spirit

These are some more of my ATCs for the November swap at the Grind celebrating the ninth anniversary of the ATC Vancouver group.The black cat one has book paper rubber stamped with cat faces and the black cat and fence digital image printed on vellum. The 9 lives is computer generated text torn and rubbed with weathered paint Distress Ink.

Black Cat Halloween

Black Cat Halloween
Originally uploaded by okanagan_spirit

The theme this week on the Byhand Challenge is Halloween so here is my entry. The background is book page rubbed with weathered wood Distress Ink. The cat face is stamped with Ancient Page Coal Black. The black cat and fence digital image is printed on vellum and the Boo is digital text also printed on the vellum. The pumpkins are cut out clip art with spiced marmalade Distress Stickles on the front one.