Wednesday Women presents Ornament Tutorial

 Let's Welcome Cindy Pointe as our Guest Artist on 

Wednesday Women!

You can find many of these supplies here: OWSE 

This is the same glass ornament  (with flat sides) that I used last year but with a new technique, which I'll detail below. The center poinsettia is actually paper, made from card stock using my POINSETTIA SVG file. 

You can use any glass ornament but I prefer these flat sided ones as it is so easy to decorate them. For the poinsettia ornament I used strips of poinsettia printed tissue paper which I ripped into small pieces and then glued to the ornament with Glossy Accents. Once the ornament is fully covered with the tissue paper, I went back over it with a thin layer of Glossy Accents. Now to decorate the ornament! 

Shown above are the pieces for the ornament. I cut the poinsettia layers using three shades of red cardstock. The darkest shade for the bottom and the lightest for the top layer. The leaves were cut from two shades of green cardstock. The gold medallion sticker came from a garage sale find and was the inspiration for this ornament's design.

Since the tissue paper had flecks of gold in it and the paper medallion was gold, the silver top on this ornament just wasn't going to do. So I brought out my Gold Mixatives alcohol ink and changed the color. After it was dry, I used some GA over it to make it shiny again.

To make the poinsettia lifelike, I got out my Distress Markers and the water pen. I edged the pieces with the brush end of Walnut Stain and Fired Brick, using the water pen to soften the lines. Notice the dark spot in the center of the largest red piece? That shadowing gave dimension to the bottom layer. I did the same thing on the middle piece, although it is lighter and doesn't show up to well in the photo. Once dry, I went over the pieces with the DM's fine point, adding the leaf veins. Once dry, I bent and curled each petal to give them dimension. I put the flower together using GA and then added Gold Stickles stamens to the center. I added more Stickles (Gold, Red, Green, Clear) here and there on the petals.

I attached the medallion using GA and once dry I used my finger tips to rub gold acrylic paint lightly over the entire surface of the ornament. Not to cover it, just to add gold here and there. It brings down the brightness of the tissue paper and gives an "antiqued" look. I used a round pop dot in the center of the medallion and stuck on the poinsettia...giving it even more dimension. Finally I added gold Stickles dots on the points of the medallion. I think it has a very vintage Victorian look!

Some Christmas ideas and Tim HoltzWreath Die

Saturday Special - My First completed Christmas Card

Well I've started creating my Christmas Cards for this year. I usually make a few of one kind , a few of another and so on. I just can't sit and do 30 of one kind like so many Ladies do. My Anxiety level get's too high doing the same thing over and over. Dum huh?

Well anywho I have created one of the Cards I'll be sending out. I'll make about 8 of these card. I've got five more to go. LOL

This Card is a little Cutey and very easy to create.

You make three at a time by cutting a 12x12 piece of Kraft

Cardstock ..

First cut it at 11 inches then turn it and 

three 3 inches wide.

Fold this to make your card base.

Take a Strip 12 inches long and 1 1\2 inches wide of Christmas Paper

Then take another piece of Christmas Paper and do the same

With this piece take a punch.

I used a Fiscars Scallop punch and punch your border.

Cut into three pieces

Take on of the first Christmas Paper

and the scalloped edge paper and put them together

Adhere this to your card base.

The take your Salutation. In my case it was "Bliss"

I inked it up with Versamark

I stamped "Bliss" towards the top and a little bit in.

Pour some White Embossing Powder on it

and heat embossed it.

Then I cut three different shapes of Trees with my Cricut. You can do this by hand also.

The size of the Trees are two inches high.

It took a little bit of playing with my Cricut to get the right size for the card. LOL

If you were doing a whole lot of these cards now would be the time to cut out all your trees of three different kinds.

Using three different Christmas Patterned Paper.

I then took some Walnut Stain Distress Ink and a Blending Tool
and went around the edges of the trees.

I took my first tree and adhered it with a glue stick right onto the card.

Lately I have been using a glue stick for most everything. 

I'm tired of tape not sticking after awhile.

I usually use the Tom Bow tape but must of gotten a bad batch as it's not sticking well.

I also have an ATC gun but that's a whole story in itself how I struggle with that. ROFL!!

so anywho I used the glue stick and down she went onto the paper

at about the middle of the word "Bliss" and over to the left some.

Don't put it too far over because now your going to take a second tree and with those sticky two sided adhesive stick up thingys.

What in the world are they called?

Not glue dots? anyone know what their called to give that 3d look.

I am totally Blank!! LMAO!!

Oh yeah Pop Dots!! No? well someone paleese tell me what

they are called! LOL

I used those on the back of the two remaining trees so they would have that 3d look..

One tree I put to the left of the first tree almost onto the edge

and the last tree I put to the right of the first tree and on the bottom edge of the Christmas Paper.

This gives the Trees the effect of being grouped but sticking out some..

boy am I at a loss for words describing this. LMAO!!

Once I got my trees on I took my Corner Chomper and did all four corners.

I then took my White Signo Pen and created faux stitching around the card.

On the inside of the card I stamp "Merry Christmas"

Simple and Easy and great for Assembly Line work..

Like I said above I have three done as you work in three's. LOL

All of the Products were bought at

"Outlaw Women Scrapbook Emporium"

Except the White Signo Pen was bought at

Archivers.

Have fun if you are going to create this card.

I think it's a great little card and perfect for Christmas!

Robyn

Friday Feature - Christmas cards

Hi, it's Melody here.  I meant to get my post up last night, ready to go live around midnight, but my card just wasn't working for me. It just seemed to be missing something, but I'm going to show it to you anyway along with the second one, which I like.  Then, after I finished the second card, I went to take photos and found that my camera had a dead battery, so I had to wait for it to recharge. 

I've been seeing cards with some cute fun trees made from a folded half circle.  I've seen instructions using a pattern, but that was a little tricky to do.  I was really happy when I found one that can be done without a pattern and is really easy.  Because there is no pattern, it can also be made any size you want.  Rather than reinvent the wheel so to speak, I'm just going to give you a link to the tutorial that I used.  You may need to join this site to view the tutorial, but it's free. 

folded christmas tree

For my background, I made a stencil with some clear packaging, using the Tim Holtz tattered poinsettia Sizzix Bigz die.  I'm not sure why, but when I ran the plastic through the die cutter, it split and I had to use some clear packaging tape to fix it, but it still worked fine.  Then I used my stencil to sponge peeled paint distress ink on my card stock.  I love the look it gave me. 

I really didn't like all the empty space on the sentiment panel, so that was the biggest change I made. 

This one is so much more balanced and I like the paper better than the bright red. 

I made my trees using ivory card stock.  One is sponged with peeled paint and the other with vintage photo distress ink.  On the second card, I used the star portion of punchinella stencil with a damp sponge for a very subtle pattern on the trees.  Some details were added with a black marker. 

On card one, I used red card stock and on the second, some pattern paper from Pink Paislee.  I also used only half of the styled labels die cut on card two and really like that one much better. 

Some of the products used can be purchased from Outlaw Women Scrapbook Emporium. 

Sharing Technique Again

 I've shared many technique here on OWSE and was looking at some that has over 100 hits. This is one and I thought it was worth sharing again.

http://craftingwithowse.blogspot.com/2011/11/technique-tuesday-distress-stains.html

Poinsettias and Star Bright

Today, I am sharing with you 3 more new dies from Tim Holtz!

Here are two photos of the poinsettia I made in the video. I decided to emboss the outer ends of the leaves with Ranger's sticky Embossing Powder and pour Ranger Clear Rock Candy Dry Glitter over them...now it looks ice encrusted! Too cool!

Don't forget to look for these dies, the Graphics 45 paper and the Embossing Dabber, Sticky Embossing Powder and the Clear Rock Candy Dry Glitter at

Outlaw Women Scrapbook Emporium!

Saturday Special - Collage Stamping

It's Saturday and I have a Saturday Special for everyone. Collage Stamping is very easy and a lot of fun. You layer your stamps one over the other.

For this card I started out with Antique Linen Distress Ink and stamped a Text Stamp..

 Then over that I stamped this beautiful Lace Border Stamp by Donna Salazar. I used Brushed Corduroy Distress Ink and using the same Ink I stamped my bushes or thistle is what I call it. LOL .. 

I then inked the edges also with Brushed Corduroy.. Because Distress Inks stay wet for a long time I used my heat tool to dry the inks as I was going to Emboss on my next step. I took two butterflies and put them onto my stamping block positioning them the way I wanted them to appear on my paper.. I used Black Soot Distress Ink.. You can emboss with Distress inks because of the fact of them staying wet for a long time. 

Once I stamped the butterfly's I pour clear embossing powder on them and using my heat tool I embossed them..After that had dried I took a dauber and with Worn Lipstick Distress Ink I went gingerly around the butterflies to give them a pop of color.. I then distressed the edges of the paper with a Tim Holtz distress tool and added Vintage Photo Distress Ink to now distressed edges...

 I then put my card together embellishing with a Prima Flower and some bling. 

I love Collage Stamping as it can give you some beautiful

effects...

Give it a try..

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Have fun Creating!!

Robyn