Somebody in Texas Loves ya!

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Texana Designs Stamps:   

BW Heart (large) & 

“Somebody in Texas Loves Ya!”

Patterned Paper:   

DCWV – Glitter Mat Stack (black background),

Anna Griffin Paper Pad – Calisto Christmas and

Misc Valentines 6x6 Pattern Paper Stacks

Versamark Ink

Embossing Powder:

Black

Texana Design Team

1/01/2015

Texana Barbed Wire Heart on Vertigo Film

Texana Designs Stamps:

Barbed Wire Heart, Barbed Wire Heart (mini)

“You Make My Heart Happy” & “Love Ya!”

Pattern Paper

Vertigo Film - Taffeta

Echo Park – Capture Life Collection – Bokeh Blur

Martha Stewart Border Punch

Doily Lace Edge Punch

Paper piecing

Texana Design Team

01/01/2015

Okay, the pictures don't do the cards justice.  In the one above you can really see the "vertigo" effect of the specialty paper by Imagine Crafts.  I wanted to show the semi-transparent effect, so I created a top-hinge card and put the inside sentiment behind the focal point (heart).  You can see some of the adhesive used on the Vertigo, but I don't think it's terribly distracting.

Friend Valentine

A2 Card

Fussy Cut Patterned Paper and covered with Glossy Accents

A2 Card

Fussy Cut Patterned Paper and covered with Glossy Accents

 

ATC card

ATC card

Stamps:

FRIEND, BW Heart

Sentiments:  "Happy Heart Day”

Wink of Stella Glitter Brush

Core’dinations Purple Cardstock

Graphic 45 Sweet Sentiments Collection

Violet Bouquet

Fussy cut violets & applied Glossy Accents

Stacker Technique:

Color in shadow only with Wink

Texana Design Team

01/31/2014

Small Tag:

Texana Designs - House
Texana Designs - Home is Deep ... Texas!
Sakura Stardust Pen - Clear
Distress Markers
Distress Stains including new Metallic Stain - Brushed Pewter
Tim Holtz tissue tape
Alterations Die - Mini Labels

Large Tag:

Texana Designs - House Border
   stamped on white shrink plastic
   colored with alcohol inks and sharpie markers
Texana Designs - Barbed Wire Heart
   Distress inks and
   Distress stickles - rock candy
Texana Designs - Home is Deep ... Texas!
   on Alterations Die - Mini Labels
   covered with Rock Candy Crackle
Tag colored with
    Distress Stains including new Metallic Stain - Brushed Pewter
    Distress Ink Pads and blending tool

Welcome...

What could be more welcoming than a bluebonnet wreath on your front door? I love the Jam'n Barbed Wire Wreath with the bluebonnets. I designed a front door using Sure Cuts Alot just for this stamp. I stamped the wreath and the "welcome" on acetate with staz-on for a clear background or glass window. For the wreath I flipped the acetate over and colored the flowers and bow with copic markers. I used a silver paint pen to shade the wreath. When I turned it over the flowers were too transparent, so I stamped the flowers again and colored them with stardust gelly pens. I adhered them slightly offset on top of the acetate. Now I have more 3-D and a little shadowing also. A small silver brad nail holds the wreath in place and a larger silver brad makes the doorknob.

I wanted something like wallpaper on the inside of the card and found an ancient piece of paper in my stash that looks like stucco. It just need a little Texas greeting wall hanging. The barbed wire heart and "Home is Deep in the Heart of Texas" stamps worked beautifully. I stamped it on thin wood scrapbook paper and paper pieced it on the wall.

Enjoy!

Another Double Heart Card

Here is another card I created using Wright Papers and Texana Designs Stamps. You can see the actual card at Stamp Salado sometime next week and pick up a pack of Kraft Glassine. Here's a YouTube with Tim Holtz demonstrating the Kraft Glassine at CHA Winter 2011.

Catered Crop Recipe Swap - Newsprint

Texana Designs is sponsoring the Catered Crop challenge and I wanna play! You can play too - click for more detail. This week's theme is "newsprint".

Here is my first challenge submittion:

Stamps:
Texana Designs - TX023 Barbed Wire Heart,
TX031 Texas Cities, and TX044 Love ya with all my Texas heart
Cardstock:
White & Red
Patterned Paper:
Doodlebug Designs - Beetle Black It's About Time
and Reminisce - Set the Table
Versamark Ink
Black & White Embossing Powders
Martha Stewart Border Punch - Cherished

pssstttt.... Linda I just HAD to borrow your idea of paper piecing this heart. I would have never thought of that!!! You go girl!

Kraft Glassine Hearts & Wright Design Papers

Finally I pulled out the pad of Kraft Glassine that I bought at Stamp Salado some time ago. I noticed Stamp Salado is offering a class using this product. I also viewed the Tim Holtz video again and started creating leather looking hearts using the Texana Designs & Jam'n Stamps. I love using these stamps on the great Texas themed paper from Wright Designs.

Texana Design Team Post

Wow... it's been a long time since I posted. There is no time like the present (or new years resolution time) to correct that.

I am honored to have been asked to participate in the first design team for Texana Design Stamps. I've been working with Texana for years and love the designs. Here is the first card I have submitted.



What happens if you change the papers and colors?