Paper Wings Productions Design Team Blog Hop & Giveaway

WELCOME to the Paper Wing Productions Design Team Blog Hop & Giveaway!  If you've arrived here from Irit's blog, then you're in the right place.  If you’re just stopping by for a visit, please CLICK HERE to start from the beginning.

We have come up with a fun challenge for 2014.  Each month our designers will be given a challenge of creating their projects using a certain color scheme.  This month our theme is White.  It will be so much fun to see how each designer interprets the color.  Go grab your favorite snack, get comfortable and enjoy the hop. 

The main prize is a $25.00 gift certificate to the Paper Wings Productions online store.

For a chance to win all you need to do is:

• be a follower of the Paper Wings Productions blog
• visit each of the participating designer's blogs and leave a comment
• come back and leave us a comment on the PWP blog telling us you completed the hop.

To increase your chances of winning: like our Facebook page and/or invite your friends to the hop.  Be sure to leave a separate comment for each of your additional entries. The winner will be announced on Tuesday, January 7th, 2014 on the Paper Wings Productions blog.

Happy 2014 Everyone!!  I hope you all had a WONDERFUL holiday season.  Our's was great because we actually had all of our sons here with their families.  Now that two of them are grown, it's really hard to get everyone together so we really enjoyed having them.  I also took a lot of time off to enjoy my family and recharge the ole batteries.  It felt great to sit back down at my work table to create.  So without further ado, here is my project!

I created a tag using the BEAUTIFUL January Nesting Components kit and several PWP stamps.

I was really inspired by the Cosmo Cricket wood charms in the Jan kit.  I had a ton of ideas of what to create with them but settled on making a frame with the rainbow arches.  I wanted to give them texture so I applied a layer of crackle paste, then sprayed them with each of the Lindy's Sidekicks but in the end I decided to cover them with white embossing powder.

  

I formed the shape of my frame on balsa wood and outlined to cut out but the balsa wood began to split as I cut so I ended up using matte board instead.

I used the beautiful Diana stamp for my focal image (she's one of my favs).  I stamped her with Stazon and then used Prismacolor pencils and Distress inks to color her.  Once I was done, I fuzzy cut her to insert into my frame.

I stamped the matte board with the delicate Lace With Border stamp.  I used Old Paper Distress Ink to keep the background subtle.

I put it all together using Modge Podge and then trimmed the matte board down to fit.

Next I moved onto the background of my tag.  I cover the whole tag with paper from the Cosmo Cricket Creative Girl Mini Deck included in the Jan kit.  I toned it down a bit with Picket Fence Distress Stain.  I created a panel using two of the wooden charms.  To keep the design cohesive, I covered them with white embossing powder too.  I also backed them with more of the Cosmo Cricket Creative Girl paper.

I embellished the tag using the adhesive backed Pearls from the Aug Nesting Components kit, rose ribbon and the fireworks bursts from the Sparkle stamp set.  The sentiment I used is on the With Some Sparkle stamp set.

Another little touch I added was some jewelry wire.  I used it to connect the wooden charms together.  To finish it off, I added some ribbon on the top and one of the Cosmo Cricket canvas brads.  I toned it down with more of the Distress Stain.

This is such a beautiful kit and it worked perfectly with this month's color challenge.  I highly recommend it!  You can view all of the details and purchase your kit HERE.  Well friends, it's time to send you off to the next stop in the hop.  Up next is PWP Mama Bird herself, Carrie!!

***Here is the complete line up just in case you get lost along the way***

Irit Shalom

Katie Smith

Norma Gomez

Carrie Avery

Amber Rasmuss

Cathi O’Neill

Dana Tatar

Erica Rose Thompson

Paper Wings Productions Blog “The Aviary

Thank you so much for joining me today, enjoy the rest of the hop

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Let Your Creativity Take Flight!!

Women Melange Cling Stamp Set Diana Cling Mounted Stamp Lace with Border Clear Stamp With Some Sparkle Sparkle Cling Stamp Set August Nesting Components Mixed Media Kit

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First Dia De Los Muertos skull of the season!!

Hi everyone!!  I just finished my very first skull of the season and I have to say, I'm pretty happy with the way it turned out.   So I'm very excited to share it with and see what you think:

This is a paper mache mask that measures 8 x 5 1/2".  

I started out with this retired Paper Wings Productions heart stamp then added the beautiful wings.  The wings have been in my stash for a very long time so I don't remember who they're from, sorry.  The winged heart set the tone for the rest of the skull and my color choices.

I added the flowers around the eyes, the nose and mouth freehand.  All of the paints I used are Liquitex soft body acrylics.

The rest of the flowers are from Paper Wings Productions' Flower Power stamp set.  As I mentioned the other day, this stamp set has quickly become one of my favorites.

I used distress markers for shading and a Uniball Signo pen to outline the images.  I also added Stickles to the wings for a little sparkle.

One down, a gazillion to go, lol!  Let me know what you think!!  Thank you so much for stopping by today.  

HAVE A BEAUTIFUL INSPIRED DAY!!!

NEW Wildflowers Stamps!

Hello my crafty peeps!  Today is my turn to post over on The Aviary and I'm trying my hand at some CAS designs.  Boy o boy, my hats off to you guys that do them on a regular basis, lol, because it was really hard to fight the urge to keep adding more!   Anyway, here is a peek at one of the projects I'm sharing over there:

Head on over and tell me what you think!  Should I leave this type of design to the CAS experts or keep trying?!  Here's the link: What's Up Wednesday!

Hope you'll stop by but either way, HAVE A BEAUTIFUL DAY!!

Fairy Whispers - Altered Journal

Hi there!  Today I have a really cool altered miniature journal to share with you.  

Isn't that neat?!  Well ok, this is not the best pic but the rest are much better..I promise.

See better right ;D  I started out by layering scraps of papers from my workspace on the cover.  Then applying layers of pink and purple using Dylusion inks and paints.  I used a stamp from Glitz - Afternoon Muse and embossed with metallic powder.  This stamp was my inspiration for the whole design.

I added more texture using 3-D enamels in gold.  I did some more embossing around the edges, this really helped give the journal the look of leather.  I used a white Signo pen to outline the letters to help them stand out.

I applied all of the same treatments to the back of the journal for a cohesive design.

I added some sheer ribbons and charms to my stash.

At this point I really felt like something was missing so I started digging through my rubons and found these beautiful Prima rubons from their Reflections collection.  All of the flowers and butterflies are just what my journal needed to come together.  Finally I added a little sparkle using some Stickles and I was done.  This is the first "fairy" themed project I've ever done so I was wasn't sure at first but I love the way it turned out in the end.  I think I'll definitely be doing more of them!

I'd like to WELCOME my newest bloggie friend Rosie!!  Thank you so much for stopping by and following along!  Have a beautiful and creative day!!

Paper Mache Pumpkin

Happy Tuesday Bloggie Friends!  I hope you all had a wonderful holiday weekend.  We had a great one with family and friends.  Well today I have another paper mache pumpkin to share with you: 

Originally I was going to turn this one into a black and white Halloween pumpkin but when I started it went towards fall.

I started with a coat of gesso then began building up my beautiful cream colored shades.

I added swirls with white 3-D Enamels and then distressed them. 

To finish it off, I added a little softness with the layered ribbons and a little bling with the glass bead.

This beautiful little pumpkin is heading to my shop over at Homestead Handcrafts later this week.  Are ready for fall decorating?  I usually wait til the first official day of fall but this year I think I'm gonna go ahead and pull everything out earlier.  Working on all of these fall projects really has me excited to get started with my decorating.  Well friends that's it for today!  Have a wonderful day!!

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A big warm welcome to our newest friends Cheri and Lisa, thank you so much for stopping by and deciding to follow along!!

Do What You Love

Finally finished this painting up.   The sentiment was inspired by my new friend Christina.  It's a 11x14 canvas, I used a piece of tile that I found in our backyard, a doily, printed packing tape, vintage sheet music, acrylics, gouache, gel medium, cardstock and rubons.  Christina thanks for the inspiration, I hope you like it:

   I used Golden Fluid Acrylics:Quinacridone Magenta & Primary Magenta then I added in Liquitex Soft Body Acrylic in Naphthol Crimson

This is Golden Fluid Acrylic: Titanium White

I used printed packing tape that I found in Michael's Dollar area and sealed it with Golden Regular Gel Matte.

   

 I add some Creative Imaginations rubons and some Liquitex Soft Body Acrylic in Ivory Black

This is the broken piece of tile I found.  I thought the back had an interesting pattern so I added some Golden Fluid Acrylic in Yellow Oxide with my brayer and stamped it on my canvas

I also used a doily as a stamp with my Ivory Black paint and bubble wrap with Gumbacher Gouache in Cerulean Blue

The letters are rubons that I put on white cardstock and inked with Tim Holtz Distress Ink is Black Soot then attached with Golden Gel Medium

Thanks for checking it out!