Star Filled Sky Christmas

Hey, Crafty Friends!!

I back again with another adorable card for Team Xyron! 

Today I'll show you how to create a dimensional star-filled sky using my Xyron Mega Runner!

Supplies Used

Mega Runner (Xyron)

Crossover II (Crafter's Edge)

Beary Christmas Stamp Set (Maker's Movement)

Beary Christmas Die Set (Maker's Movement)

VersaFine Onyx Black Ink (Tsukineko/ Imagine Crafts)

140 lb Mixed Media Paper

Cardstock- White, Kraft

Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Ink - Salty Ocean (Ranger Ink)
Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Ink - Blueprint Sketch (Ranger Ink)

Life Changing Blender Brushes (Picket Fence Studios)

Starry Sky Sparkletz (Buttons Galore)

Watercolor Pencils (Derwent Academy)
Water Soluble Markers (Derwent Academy)

MISTI (My Sweet Petunia)

White Gel Pen (Sakura)

For those of you who have been following me for a while, you know that I love to color. I am by no means a professional colorist. Nor do I pretend to know what I'm doing. If I love the results of my coloring then that's all that really matters to me. And if others like my results, that's just extra, I'll take that as a pat on my back too.

A lot of times when I color I tend to stamp several images at once and color them all. Sometimes I use all the images and sometimes I don't. 

I've been coloring a lot of these bears lately. They are just too cute and I became absolutely addicted! And I have made several cards already with this awesome set. But I found that I had an extra bear (that tall guy on the left) leftover that still needed a "home". I didn't want him tossed on the side to get lost or even *GASP* thrown out! So, what else was I to do but to make a new card?

I started with the background. For this project, it became the most important feature. I blended shades of Salty Ocean and Blueprint Sketch onto a 4" x 5 1/4" piece of white cardstock using my Life Changing Blender Brushes.

 I took a mini water-filled spritzing bottle and unscrewed the cap and flicked on drops of water over the ink shaded areas. Then, I blotted the excess water using a clean and dry paper towel.

The reactive "bleached" out effects of the water are stunning! This technique always gives me so much joy!

But... that was just the beginning of my star-filled sky! For dimension and a whole lot of bling, I wanted to fill that blue sky with literal stars!!

I hate the messy process of wet glue. the sliding around, smeared glue, possibly ruining my ink job and the ever horribly time-consuming/ soul-sucking DRYING TIME. I absolutely loathe waiting for things to dry!!

Thank goodness for my Xyron Mega Runner! I simply uncap, face the application point up, and adhere all the tiny things onto the sticky microdot adhesive strip! So easy-peasy! And the best part... ABSOLUTELY NO DRYING TIME!!

Then, I simply attach the stars onto the blue speckled sky starting from the biggest and trickling down to the smallest stars.

Then I attached the background to an A2 (4 1/4" x 5 1/2") card base made from kraft cardstock.

I didn't have any extra houses or trees leftover so I needed to stamp and color a few of those. Then I die cut them with the coordinating dies.

Then I created a little snowy village landscape using the houses and trees. I simply flipped each image over and used my Xyron Mega Runner to apply adhesive and attached them to the card front.

Then I created a sentiment strip and attached it across the bottom of my village with the little bear peeking out holding a gift.

And here is my finished card...

How gorgeous are those stars?!

I hope you enjoyed this quick tutorial and create a starry sky of your own!!

Thanks for stopping by!

Until next time...

HAPPY CRAFTING!!

~Mitsyana

Sweet Dreams

Hey there, Crafty Friends!! I have a super cute card for you today! 

This one was inspired by the youngest of my four children. He keeps me on my toes day in and day out... and more often than not drains the life out of me and worries me to death with his very boyish tendencies. He plays too hard and seems almost fearless. But once he drifts into a  peaceful slumber, everything seem alright in the world, and my mind (and body) are finally at ease. And as I look down at him fast asleep, I don't see that little mischief maker, all I see is a perfect angel

  

Sweet Dreams Baby                                    Sweet Dreams Baby Dies

   

Stitched Greetings              Stitched Greeting Dies

Other Supplies Used

Spectrum Noir Color Pencils

White Cardstock (Bazzill Basics) 

Patterned Paper (Playshop Paper Hawaii)

Odorless Mineral Spirits

Blending Stumps

VersaMagic Ink Pads-Sea Breeze, Aegean Blue, Thatched Straw (Imagine Crafts/ Tsukineko) 

Momento Ink Pad- Tuxedo Black (Imagine Crafts/ Tsukineko)

Sponge Sweeper (Imagine Crafts/ Tsukineko)

VersaFine Onyx Black Ink Pad

2Way Glue Pen (EK Success)

3D Dots (EK Success)

Ultrafine Iridescent Glitter

White Gel Pen (Sakura)

PITT Artist Pen XS (Faber-Castell)

Frame, Scallop (Sizzix)

I stamping my image with Momento Tuxedo Black Ink. Then I used Spectrum Noir colored pencils. I also used a 2 way glue pen to add glue to the sleeping cap rim and pom-pom. Then layered ultra fine iridescent glitter over both.

Then I used blue painters tape to hold my die in place and die cut my image(and clouds) using the matching Sweet Dreams Baby Dies.

For my card base I made an A2 sized card base and taped off the top half with blue painter's tape to mask off only half of my card. Then I sponged on Aegean Blue, Sea Breeze, Thatched Straw chalk ink. 

I shaded the edges of the clouds with Sea Breeze chalk ink and backed them with 3D pop dots. Then I shaded the frame with Agean Blue ink and added more 3D dots behind it. I mounted both onto my card base and a banner I made using the sweet dreams sentiment and double fishtail banner stamp from the Stitched Greetings stamp set. Then cut it out with the matching die and added it to my card with more foam adhesive.

For the final touch a drew tiny hearts onto my background with a white gel pen and added faux stitch lines with my PITT Artist Pen in XS.

And here is my finished card...

I hope you enjoyed this card... it really is such a sweet card!

Until next time...

HAPPY CRAFTING!!

~ Mitsy

life is good ballerina

Hey, Crafty Friends!! We're having gloomy weather down here in the south. So, I am taking a short break from holiday crafting to bring you this bright and cheerful card. Hopefully, it sheds a little bit of sunshine because who couldn't use a little sunshine, right?!

For this card, I used Oak Tree Stamps' Moody Ballerina stamp set. This is such a darling set. I know it pretty much sums up all my moods! LOL

Supplies Used

Moody Ballerina (Oak Tree Stamps)

Big Shot (Sizzix)

Bigz Dies Nested Hanging Stars (Sizzix)

Classic Ovals LG (Spellbinders)

Floral Ovals (Spellbinders)

Teresa Collins Pocket Die, Life is Good- Lover's Lane (Craftwell)

Creative Station w/ 5" Permanent Adhesive Refill Cartridge (Xyron)

Mega Runner (Xyron)

eBrush (Craftwell)

Pink, Orange, Brown Sharpies

Momento Tuxedo Black Ink (Tsukineko)

Brilliance Twilight Ink Pad (Tsukineko)

White Cardstock (Bazzill Basics)

Patterned Paper- Assorted

Colored Pencils (Spectrum Noir)

Glittered Enamel Dots (Virginia Turtle)

Pink RicRac Ribbon

Pink & White Twine (Recollections)

Blending Tortillions

Gamsol or low odor thinner

2-Way Glue Pen (Ek Success)

Diamond Glaze (Judikins)

Acrylic Blocks (Fiskars)

I started by stamp my little giggling ballerina with Tuxedo Black ink. I used my Spectrum Noir colored pencils to outline my ballerina. Then using my tortillion blending stumps and gamsol I blended the colors out.

I used the little star stamps that came in the Moody Ballerina set and the pink section of my Brilliance ink pad to stamp stars around my little girl.  

Then I used my Classic Ovals to die cut her out. I also die-cut a pink mat for my oval using my floral ovals set.

Then I die cut the "life is good" phrase from white cardstock. I ebrushed half my phrase using a soft baby pink sharpie.

To make sure these don't go anywhere, I ran all my pieces through my Xyron Creative Station with a 5" permanent refill cartridge. This ensures that my pieces don't go anywhere.

I created an A2 (4-1/4"x 5-1/2") sized card base from green cardstock.

 The white mat measures at 4-1/8"x 5-3/8".

Sprinkles paper measures at 4" x 5-1/4".

The star strip on the bottom measures 1-1/2"x 5-1/4".

The ricrac ribbon measure 5-1/4" long.

I ebrushed my sprinkles paper with a brown Sharpie around the edges. And ebrushed the stars paper with an orange Sharpie.

Then, I assembled my card panels using my Xyron Mega runner and attached the ricrac using Diamond Glaze.

I cut an assortment of stars from pink and blue patterned paper using my Sizzix Nested Hanging Stars die.

And used a glue pen to attach them to my card. Now I can attach my sticker I made from my ovals and phrase onto my card, layering them over my stars, then trimmed off the tips that overhung the edges of the card.

I topped my ballerina with a double loop twine bow and attached it with Diamond Glaze. Then added pink glittered enamel dot throughout my card.

And here is my finished card...

A closer view of my little ballerina

I hope you enjoyed today's card and that it brought some sunshine to your day... or, at the very least, a smile to your face.

Until next time...

HAVE A CRAFTY DAY!!

Mixed Media & Bella Blvd

Hey there Crafty Friends!! Today I got a little something different... I love mixed media!! I love the way you can take different medium and mesh it to create something simply beautiful or something over the hill extraordinary!! 

And today I'm expanding my Mixed Media Journey with Bella Blvd.!! Sponsors of Team eBrush for the month of September!!

Supplies Used

eBrush (Craftwell)

Cut'n'Boss (Craftwell)

Bella Blvd - Just Add Color , Newsflash, Treasures & Texts, Daily Details, Peep Strandz, Orange Little Bits, Doodads Guacamole 

Tim Holtz Stencils- Measured, Splatters

Spellbinders Grand Nestabilities- Grand Labels One

Sharpie Markers- Blue and Navy Blue

Blue Painters Tape

Modeling Paste

Sequins (Virginia Turtle)

Diamond Glaze (Judikins)

I started off by ebrushing my Passcode paper by Bella Blvd. with a bright blue Sharpie marker.

Then I simply ebrushed a dark/navy blue ring in the center of that.

Then I added  my blue scalloped border from Bella Blvd's Treasures and Texts stickers. 

I wanted to add some texture to my layout. So I taped my layout to my work surface to help prevent warping and bowing.

Then I added modeling paste with a palette knife and my Splattered and Measured Tim Holtz stencils.

And while that was drying...

I die cut my my Bella Blvd Dotty paper with the largest die from my Spellbinders Grand Labels One set using my Cut'n'Boss.

Then I ran the die cut piece through my Xyron Creative Station for durability and adhered it to the base of my layout. Next I took my 4"x6" photo and matted it onto a 4.25"x 6.24" piece of Bella Blvd. Newsflash paper. Then ran my matted photo once again through my Creative Station.

Once my photo was adhered to my layout I embellished it using more stickers from the Bella Blvd. Treasure and Texts sheet. With my parvy circle punches I cut various circle in different sizes to add to my layout.  I tied everything in by scattering and adhering Guacamole Doodads across the page. I also added words from the Orange Little Bits stickers to my biggest circle.

I thought using the words "goofy boy moments" went perfectly with this picture of my son with his tongue hanging out.

Lastly I used my dimensional glue to adhere sprinkles of sequins onto my layout.

And here is my finished layout... 

My favorite!

Hey there crafty friends!! I have a bright and colorful card that is packed full of fun with lots of texture and eye candy!! Speaking of candy, the inspiration for this card was a strip of candy buttons... you know that wax paper strip with dots of sugar painted in rainbow colors... yup, those. I was feeling  a bit nostalgic (and hungry) at the time. 

I quickly decided to replicate the fun color pattern onto paper.

Supplies Used

Cut'n'Boss (Craftwell)

Teresa Collins Pocket Dies - Memory Collection (Craftwell)

Teresa Collins Twill Herringbone Embossing Folder (Craftwell)

Ebrush (Craftwell)

Xyron Creative Station w/ 9" Permanent Adhesive Refill

Spectrum Noir Markers - TB4, TB3, CG4, DG2, GB3, GB4

Cardstock- White, Bright Blue, Black, and Craft

Foam Sheet

With my star and "favorite" dies from my Teresa Collins Memory Collection die set and my Cut'n'boss machine I cut out 3 "favorite"s and 9 stars out of white cardstock. I also cut 1 favorite out of black cardstock and 9 stars out of white craft foam.

To cut wafer thin dies in the Cut'n'boss use the following sandwich:

From bottom to top:

D PLATE

B PLATE

A PLATE 

WAFER THIN DIE

PAPER

A PLATE

I ebrushed my stars in my Spectrum Noir markers in from bottom to top (as shown)...

TB4

TB3

CG4

DG2

GB3

GB4

Making sure to slightly overlap each color onto the next. To prevent them from flying off my desk and allow for hands free ebrushing I layed down a few strip of repositionable double-sided adhesive.

I wanted my words to be really thick, almost as id they were made from chipboard. So I glued all my white cardstock favorites together using a glue pen. I then layered that one over my black cardstock favorite ... offsetting it a bit to make it appear to be a shadow.

I cut a piece of 5"x5" craft cardstock and  ran it through my Cut'n'boss using my Teresa Collins Twill Herringbone embossing folder.

To emboss with the Cut'n'boss use the following platform sandwich:

From bottom to top:

D LATE

A PLATE

FOLDER WITH PAPER

A PLATE

Then I took all my star die cuts and ran them through my Xyron Creative Station... With such a huge platform they all went through at the same time. Once through I just  peeled and stuck them onto their matching foam star making sure to line up the points.

I created a 5.5"x 5.5" cardbase. My blue paper measures at 5.5"x11" (5.5"x5.5" once folded), my white cardstock measure 5.25"x5.25" and my craft cardstock measures 5"x5"... I adhered all my layers together using my Xyron Mega Runner.

Then I adhered all my stars to my card front and added my "favorite" word to the top of the stars using liquid glue.

And there you have it! Clean, Simple. Fun!!

Hope you enjoyed my project for today!!

Until next time...

HAPPY CRAFTING!!!

~Mitsy

To see more crafty projects and inspiration please visit my personal blog at:

upontippytoes.com

My Dancing Divas

Hi Crafty Friends... Last weekend my two beautiful daughters had their very first dance recital. And like any proud mama I was there taking picture like crazy trying to get every moment possible. We worked our tails off all year for this event (and yes, I worked my tail off too, even though I wasn't the one actually doing the dancing) and I wasn't going to let any photo-op slip away from me.

 So, what better way to document this special event than with a scrapbook layout. And, even better, our awesome friends at Bella Blvd. is sponsoring Team Cut'n'Boss for the month of June!! Their papers and embellishments were just a  perfect match for my little divas!!

Here is the first of many layouts to come...

Tools & Supplies Used

 Cut'n'Boss Machine (Craftwell)

Teresa Collins Pocket Dies- Girls Best Friend, Lover's Lane, Thankful, & Lifestyle Collections

Bella Blvd.  Color Chaos Patterned Paper- Peep Strandz, Daily Details

Bella Blvd. Color Chaos Invisibles- Click! Click!

Bella Blvd. Enamel Dots- Punch 

Grafix Metallic Gold Cardstock

 eBrush (Craftwell)

Spectrum Noir Markers (PP4, TB7)

Liquitex Gesso

Xyron 5" Create-a- Sticker

Xyron 3" Sticker Maker

Xyron 1.5" Create-a-Sticker

I started by first airbrushing my Spectrum Noir markers is TB7 and PP4 to the back side of my Bella Blvd Invisible. I love all the adorable cameras on this huge scallop circle!! Too, too cute!!

These sheets are transparent and made of a thick but flexible plastic. I wanted to add some pop to my cameras so adding color was a no brainer. The back side of the sheets are matted with texture so adding color is a cinch.

But ebrushing with my Spectrum Noir markers still leaves it transparent and I really didn't want the patterned paper I was layering it on to distract from those cute cameras... so I quickly added a layer of gesso directly over the colors and set aside to dry.

While that was drying, I used my Cut'n'Boss to cut out all my Teresa Collins Pocket Dies out of metallic gold cardstock. And because it has a huge cutting platform I can cut them all my dies at once.

The sandwich combo I used ...

From Bottom to Top

D Plate

B Plate

A Plate

 Paper (front up)

Die (cutting side down)

A Plate

Can you believe I was able to cut all of these dies all at once?!! All 13 dies cut through with one passing... HOLY COW... that saved my arms from a lot of cranking!

I ran all my pieces in my Xyron Sticker makers and  Create-a-sticker machines. I try to run them through my Xyrons as soon as they are cut so I don't lose all the little pieces and ,besides, I love the fact that they're ready to just pop right onto my projects.

I  then cut a  5"x 9" piece of Bella Blvd.'s Peep Strandz and Ran it through my Xyron

I know these aren't going anywhere now... no shifting pieces for me!! And I love it makes assembly so quick and easy! Everything comes together in practically no time at all!

I cut out the cute matching camera Bella Blvd.'s Daily Details paper and used it as an embellishment and finally topped it all off with these yummy Bella Blvd enamel dots.

Here is my finished layout ...

Hope you enjoyed my project for today!! Thanks for stopping by!!

And I hope you have a very crafty day!!

~ Mitsy

For more inspirational projects visit my personal blog at upontippytoes.com!!