Hi Friend

This card is for my first DT project for craftyourpassionchallenges.blogspot.com  I'm really excited to be joining this team of wonderful and talented ladies.  

The challenge this week is to not use any pattern papers.  So I turned to my trusty color sprays and stamps to create a colorful background.  I sprayed a white card base with blue, teal, and pink mists and dropped some pastel yellow spots on it.  Next I took a chain link stamp with yellow archival ink and randomly stamped over the dried mists.  I sprayed the cheese cloth with the mists and and glued it to the card.  The strip of paper in the middle is misted with the same mists that I used in the background except reversed.  The base is blue with a few pops of pink and the middle strip is pink with a few pops of blue.

The cute little girl is a digi stamp from Zap Pow Designs who is our sponsor this week.  I colored her with markers and used pop dots to make her stand of the page.  The sentiment is from stamps I already had in my stash.  I finished the whole thing off with a few gold sequins.

I love working in mixed media so this challenge was really fun for me.  The messier I get while I'm crafting, the happier I am :D

If you have any questions or comments I would love to hear them.  Thanks so much for stopping by xoxo Randi

Paris Dress Form

Hi guys!  I'm here to share another card with you.  This is a 5x5 square card.  I used the Tres Chic paper stack by DCWV.  I picked out a few coordinating papers, one for the base of the card and two for the background of the cutout pictures.  The pink paper I added some Gesso with a stencil.  I put some Heidi Swapp mist droplets on the beige Paris paper.  The dress form and flowers are cutout from the paper collection.  I stamped the word beautiful and cut it into a banner for the sentiment.  Behind the papers I added cheese cloth to the left side and pink lace to the right side.  Some lucky lady will be getting this :)

This card is entered in the following challenges:

Deep Ocean Lace and Pearls
Fan-Tastic Tuesday #27 Anything Goes
Ladybug Crafts Ink For a Special Lady
Papertake Weekly For Mum
SweetStamps 161 Anything Goes
Through the Craft Room Door Anything Goes
Simon Says Glitter It
Rhedd and Rosie 28 Distress
Mod Squad Cut It out
Crafter's Cafe Square Card

You Are Just My Type

I really like this card.  It's cute and was really simple to make.  On the white base card I took a Heidi Swapp stencil and misted some purple ink on it.  Then I laid down four different strips of washi tape.  The typewriter and hearts are cut out from the DCWV Sunday Afternoon Stack.

If you have any questions or comments I would love to hear them xoxo Randi

This card was submitted to the following challenges:

Card Makin' Mamas Splish Splash
City Crafter Week 202 Beautiful Rainbow

Hello SOG

Here's my new Hello card.  I started with some teal and gold Heidi Swapp Color Shine mists on the base of the white card.  On top of that I put some pattern paper with some Heidi Swapp Color Shine drops in Primrose.  The Hello sentiment is from Me and My Big Ideas Cards Made Easy.  The girl is a stamp from Some Odd Girl which I colored with watercolors.

As always thank you for stopping by xoxo Randi

This card is submitted to the following challenges:

Card Makin' Mamas Splish Splash
Craft Your Passion 204 Young at Heart
Through the Craft Room Door March 11 Anything Goes
That's Crafty! Anything Goes
Emerald Faeries #53 Pretty in Pink
Crafts Galore Using Stamps Anywhere

Castle Through Window

YouTube Video of Project

My latest canvas is a window looking out onto a castle in the distance.  I started with pasting a piece of brown pattern paper from DCWV Dear Jane Stack on an 8x10 canvas. Before putting on the printed window pane paper from the same stack, I measured and cut out the windows from the back of the canvas.  Then I added a bit of texture around the inside of the windows with modeling paste.  Next I measured the castle paper from DCWV Once Upon a Time Stack and glued it to the back of the canvas.

I used Tim Holtz Distress Crackle Paint in Rock Candy around the brown part of the part of the window.  I was trying to make this brown paper appear as wallpaper.

My flowers are from Recollections and the dollar store.  I tried to tuck them behind the window to make it seem like they were creeping in from the outside of the window.

Along with the Crackle Paint I tore some paper away from the canvas.  I wanted the wallpaper to look worn and old.  I love the castle in the distance :)

Among the flowers I used some metal and polymer clay trinkets.  Can you spot the clock key and bird?

As always if you have any questions or comments I would love to hear them xoxo Randi

This project is submitted to the following challenge blogs:

Lulupu Challenge 27 2nd Birthday Special

For the Lulupu challenge we have to use three items beginning with L, U, P, T, C

P = Pattern Paper, T = Tim Holtz Crackle Paint, C = Canvas

Crafty Cardmakers 111 Anything but Cards Slap it On

Craft Hoarders Anonymous Challenge 3 Vintage or Retro

Hello Flower Card

Hello everyone!  This is my latest card and my first time entering my work in blog challenges.  I'm really excited to get into this blogging thing :)

For this card I used the 6x6 Sugar Chic paper collection from Heidi Swapp

I used my Cricut to cut out the scallop polka dot circle as well as the HELLO circle.  The flowers are from stash which I glued some bling in the middle of.  The finishing touch is with a bow made out of brown twine.

Thanks for visiting my blog xoxo Randi

Entered in the following challenges:

Crafter's Cafe Challenge #54 Flowers

Crafting for all Seasons Challenge #72 Spring into Spring

Crafty Girls Challenge 13 Anything Goes
Lulupu Challenge 27 2nd Birthday Special
L = Layers, P = Pattern Paper, C = Cricut Die Cut Machine
Through the Craft Room Door March 11 Anything Goes
Paper Crafter Crew Challenges Card Sketch 84

Butterfly Girl Canvas

Hi guys! Here's some pics on my latest canvas. It's called Butterfly Girl.  I'm using inspirations from my Inspirations for March Pinterest board.  Every month I'm going to pin colors and themes that will inspire my work for that month. I started off with watercolors on all sides of the canvas.  On the background I used a transfer technique where I glue an image on one side of pattern paper to the canvas and then, with water, rub off the other side of the paper.  If you don't know this technique leave a comment and I'll do a tutorial on it.  On top of that I added some washi tape and lace then sprayed the canvas.  Then I used my latest Heidi Swapp stencil with some modeling paste and purple paint

The girl is a rubber stamp I picked up from Michael's by Penny Black. I stamped her with black ink and used clear embossing powder.  Then I used watercolor pencils to color her.  Around her and through the flowers I ran some cheese cloth for a little more texture

The flowers are all from Recollections, mostly their Simply Pastel line.  And the butterflies are from Prima which I picked up from Hobby Lobby

If you have questions or want to know more please leave me a comment or check out my video on this canvas at youtube/user/RandisCrafts.

http://youtu.be/Lnibaqwvsp4

Submitted to the following blog challenges:

Stampendous March 2014 Challenge

Lulupu Challenge 27 2nd Birthday Special

L = Lace, P = Penny Black Stamp, C = Canvas

Thanks for stopping by xoxo Randi

Altered Clothespins

I got these two big, colored clothespins from Michael's. I used papers from the DCWV Vintage Collector and Recollections Simply Pastel paper stacks. They were super easy to make. I'm not exactly sure what I'll do with them yet but I'll figure something out. I made a new YouTube video showing them in more detail.

If you have any questions let me know. Thanks for stopping by guys xoxo

RandisCrafts Name Canvas

Please check out my YouTube channel for details on this canvas

YouTube.com/user/RandisCrafts

I won't write about it too much here but if you have a question from the video let me know and I will answer you promptly :)

Thanks as always for stopping by xoxo

Welcome to my blog!

I want to thank you for visiting me on my new blog. I've never done one of these before but I'm going to put all my effort into it :) I love paper crafting, Scrapbooking, mixed media and altering projects, painting, stamping, and card making. I plan on using this blog to showcase my projects and share tips with others who share these interests. If you have questions or suggestions please leave me a comment. Let the fun begin!