Another Amazing Release from A Creative Journey with Melissa!!!!

So you all know how much I love A Creative Journey with Melissa! Melissa is so talented. I am so lucky and honored she has chosen me to be on her design team. She is so fashion forward and always one step ahead of the industry I think! This cycle I have I think a stamp a month for the next 5 months! Yeah me! So here is the first stamp it is called Tie Dye and Splatter!

 

The  rest are pictured at the bottom of the blog post.

 

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So I was a dork when I first tried these...I was trying to fit the solid paint splatter in the tie dye splatter! DUH it does not work that way. LOL! Once I got that figured out I had a zillion projects going through my head!!! Paint splatter would be awesome for the update on my bathroom and the kitchen layout! Problem is the kitchen is not done yet. Darn husband! LOL! So I decided to create a project for my cheerleading daughter. She made cheer for her 4th year of high school. Last year her squad went to Nationals. Huge for them. They have never made it that far and we are a small high school. I am talking 600 kids. My senior class was bigger than her high school! So here is a great picture of Julia.

 

As you can tell her school starts with a "R" and their colors are red, white and black. So I took that and had lots of fun!

 

I received a bunch of great stuff from a friend. In there was a very thick cardboard letter "R". I immediately knew I wanted to do something with it for her. So I first took a 12 x 12 white daisy cardstock. and my red and black CTMH ink pads.

 

 

I then lined up the "R" to where I liked where it hit on the random stamped page. I then traced it with a large overlap and cut it out.

 

 

Now with this project Modge Podge is your best friend! You need to be very liberal with it when you apply it to your project with a foam brush. Then I sanded all of the edges to get the excess paper off. and applied more Modge Podge over the top of the paper to secure it. It also allowed my red letter cut outs to be applied with no adhesive other than covering it up over the top of those as well.

 

 

 

 

 

Here is my ending project to hang in her room!!!!

 

 

Now I did another project!!! Can you tell I was inspired?!?!?!?!

 

I added a trim around every paper with a freestyle hand drawn line. This paper is CTMH Lagoon.

Random paper with same black trim

Rectangle paper with snip to create the banner type look.

I stamp on foam. It creates a great clear stamp when I do. CTMH stamps all come with foam but if you do not have one handy you can use a mouse pad too. Always good when you are at crops cause those plastic tables give too much when you are trying to stamp.  Also always stamp standing up. You will thank me for this!



Ok this is the first time I stamped with this saying. Can you see how clear it is? You do not need to "season" the stamps from A Creative Journey with Melissa. They automatically stamp beautifully!



Here is a close up



Added the tiny splatter stamps to the banner tag.

I over inked my stamps to give it a bit of a crackle effect.

I cut out the edges. Took only a few minutes for both. I like the effect. Do you???

 

Final Project! Hope you like it! If you like what you see please go to A Creative Journey with Melissa and please let her know that Brandie sent you. I like to look good for my boss lady!

 

 

Here are all of the new releases available at www.acreativejourneywithmelissa.com

 

Everyday Alphabet Outline Upper and Lower Case

Everyday Alphabet Outline Numbers and Symbols

 

 

Everyday Alphabet Upper Case and Emoticon

Everyday Alphabet Lower Case and Numbers

 

Wedding and Celebrations

 

As Always,

Brans





Sorry I have been gone so long!!!!

Wow so much has changed since I last wrote on my blog. I GOT A JOB!!!! Woo Hoo! It is great. I have an amazing boss and wonderful co-workers. I get to work with children. Something I love to do! Kids are on vacation so we have been living at Magic Mountain, the local pool and inside with the air running. Yesterday was 102* UGH. I have a huge release post tomorrow but wanted to share with you some of the random stuff I have worked on this summer.

Pretty princess with random pieces of paper and clear glitter wink pens

My lego card! Great for scraps of cardstock. Just make sure to edge the
circles and pop them up or they will blend in.

Love this strawberry stamps. Colored it in with the pink and hot pink glitter wink pens! The little green bow I think adds a cute finish.

Love this birthday card. So girlie

The Soiree card is adorable!

Made with CTMH paper www,brandie.ctmh,com

Made with CTMH paper available at www,brandie.ctmh,com

Available at www,brandie.ctmh,com

Available at www,brandie.ctmh,com

A card made for someone who wanted to let someone
know that they were thinking of them.

Friend's daughter's 2nd birthday. Left side

right side

Put together all cardstock. Dots are punched out and glued individually.

Loved the gears and using the G45 paper. Stamps by CTMH

Loved the gears and using the G45 paper. Stamps by CTMH

Hope you enjoy!!!!!! Look for my stamped project from A Creative Journey with Melissa

ANOTHER RELEASE!!!

Oh the New Year has started out amazing! The new releases from www.acreativejourneywithmelissa.com has made my mind explode. They work for scrapbookers, Project Lifers, card makers, Smash Bookers, and mixed media artists.

The stamp set that I was honored in being able to create for is "I Just Love You". I could have done Valentines cards easily with this stamp set, but I wanted to do more. I love all people...no matter who they love. I hope not to offend anyone with my cards but I am offended I do not see more cards made this way. I have made wedding/anniversary cards for any marriage/wedding.

 

I used a random silver backing paper with Close To My Heart White Daisy cardstock. The ink is CTMH Black and Holiday Red. The bling is some I bought awhile ago and thought it was perfect for these simple cards. I was told another great wording would have been "love is love". How great would that have been too!?!?

 

 

For my son's layout "hero" the back round paper for this is "Appel de la Nature Jardin fleuri". The checkered paper is "Basic Grey Oh Baby! Boy Zachary". The ink for the outside of the arrows on the bottom is Close To My Heart Gold Rush. The inside of the arrow is CTMH Sunflower. The words are in the Gold Rush. The heart is Holiday Red as well as the  heartbeat. The heart is also colored in with Zig Wink Red. It shimmers and I love it! The "4" is by Queen Co Just Peachy.

 

 

 

So as you can see this stamp is sooooo versatile. Not just for valentine cards! My favorite things on this stamp is the way you can use the words for so many things. You can see in the stamp set it is "skip" but I have an "s" at the end. If you look closely you can see that free standing half an "s". You can use it to make the words plural like I did! I also enjoy the heart beat. There are so many ways you can use it. Words of encouragement, show of love, get better cards etc! Check out what Leticia did with the same set!

 

The next set she did is called A Date To Remember. It can be used for sooooo many applications. Rhoda used it for Smash Booking.  Sharon Meyer used it for scrapbooking but showed applications to use it for Project Life and mixed media uses.   

 

 

 

 

 

Happy New Year!!!!

Hope you all had a wonderful New Years and Holidays! I spent my time with family and the fire place going, reading and creating scarves for my loved ones and for sale. Loved the quiet.

That is UNTIL I received my new set of stamps from Melissa! They are amazing! I can not wait to share them with you tomorrow! So check out my blog as well as hers! www.creativejourneywithmelissa.com. Here are the design team members with the new releases as well:

Leticia Arvizu http://www.CraftyAmiga.com
Sharon Meyer http://pinterest.com/stampinsharon/
Rhoda Sorensen http://rockpaperscissorsandscrap.blogspot.com/

Happy Stamping!!!!