Fly High, Dream Big Mixed Media Canvas

Here's my latest DT project for Craft Your Passion Challenges weekly challenge.  This week's challenge is Up in the Air/ Anything that can Fly.  This image is from The Doodle Garden digi store.  I took a 6x6 canvas and sprayed the background with blue sprays in my stash.  Over that I used a stencil and modeling paste to add some texture.  I colored the girl with my alcohol markers and glued her to the canvas.  I put Gesso on the leaves and stamped them with a design.  I also put Gesso on some metal flying hearts and added them to the leaf clusters which also contain a bit of cheese cloth and twine.  I stamped the sentiment on white card stock paper, cut it out and glued it to the canvas.  For the finishing touch I used InkaGold to highlight parts of the canvas as well as to frame it.  

Thank you for visiting my blog and if you have any questions or comments I'd love to hear them xoxo Randi

Pretty Pastels Altered Embroidery Hoop

Here's my latest DT project for Craft Your Passion Challenges weekly challenge.  This week's challenge is Pretty Pastels.  The image is from A Day for Daisies digi shop.  They have beautiful images and it was really hard to narrow it down to just use one :)  The frame is an altered embroidery hoop.  I painted the hoop white and backed it with some pattern paper.  I colored the girl with my alcohol markers and put some flat back pearls in her hair.  I glued pastel flowers all around the frame.  The finishing touch was from a lace bow glued to the top of the hoop and draping down the sides.

 Thank you for visiting my blog and if you have any questions or comments I'd love to hear them xoxo Randi

Baby Boo Bunny Girl Easter Tag

Hi everyone.  Here's a cute Easter tag I made for Craft Your Passion Challenge 209.  The image is from Stitchy Bear's Digi Outlet.  I love the Spring colors.  I first did a little misting on the tag.  Then I misted and glued some cheese cloth to the tag.  After that I stamped my "Happy Easter" image over the cheese cloth.  To finish it all off, I added the image of this cute little bunny girl, a few flowers and some lace and ribbon.  It was super easy to make and it looks super cute.

If you have any questions or comments I'd love to hear them.  Thanks for stopping by xoxo Randi

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

Dream Big

Dream Big!  This is a 5x5 card made from DCWV pattern paper stacks.  On top of the glittery red base card I layered some yellow diagonal paper as well as newspaper printed paper.  I tore the edges of both for some texture.  There are also a few drops of Heidi Swapp mustard ink on top of the layers.  The Dream Big sentiment is a cut out from DCWV, which is raised a bit with pop dots. Cheese cloth is stuffed behind the sentiment.  The finishing touch is a group of flowers in the corner with a bling center and a small paper butterfly.  Thanks for stopping by :)

This card is entered into the following challenges:

The Sisterhood of Crafters Sentimental Journey
Word Art Wednesday 124 Anything Goes
Creative Moments Anything Goes
Divas by Design Flower Power

Crafty Girls Challenge 14 Anything Goes

Aud Sentiments Challenge 102 Anything Goes
MilkCoffee At Least 2 Flowers

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

Red Hot Chili Peppers

Hi guys!  I've been so busy at work lately but I'm finely etching out some time to blog.  Here's my latest scrapbook layout.  It's of me and my brother pretending to be chili peppers outside of our local Chili's Restaurant.  I used DCWV Vintage Collector for this layout.  The background paper is a dark pink with a tone on tone map design. 

 I cut out some hexagon shapes from a piece of paper in the collection and then glued them in a kind of honeycomb shape of the left side of the layout. Then, I smeared some Gesso over the background to tone down the color a bit.  Then I took a background stamp and used it with my Heidi Swapp mustard archival ink and stamped it randomly all over the page.

On the top and bottom corners of the left side of the layout I sprayed Heidi Swapp Muster and Primrose Color Shine mists.  On top of the I used a new toy I got at the craft store.  It's Liquitex Glass Beads and I applied it with a Heidi Swapp stencil.

Most of these embellishments next to the pictures are a combination of things from my stash.  Some from Dear Lizzy, Amy Tangerine and DCWV

I dyed the lace around the top and bottom of the picture with my Tim Holtz Alcohol Inks.  I felt like it didn't stand out in it's original cream color.  Then I added a few ink drops from my Heidi Swapp mists around the page.  The title is made from SN@P! and Thicker letters

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Let me know if you have any questions or comments xoxo Randi

My Purrfect Storm

Hi guys!  I'm here to share a scrapbook layout.  I haven't done these in a while but the other night I was on a roll.  This layout is a picture of my kitty Stormy when she was just a baby, many years ago.  The paper pad I used was DCWV Sunday Afternoon.  I love that stack.  It has so many whimsical images. The background paper that I started off with was a pink grid paper which I added some smeared Gesso to.  Then I misted it a bit with some Heidi Swapp Teal Color Shine.

Next I added some modeling paste with a polka dot stencil.  On top of that I sprayed some Mister Huey's blue ink.  The clouds were cut out from a page in the stack.  I also used them in my Randi's Crafts Name Canvas. They are so cute.  They have some fake washi tape on them which is already on the paper but I added additional washi tape for more interest.

The embellishment cluster was started with some cheese cloth coming out of the right side of the layered papers under the picture.  I stuck a "wonderful" tab under the right side of the picture which was cut out from the paper pad.  The corner was finished off with some flowers from my stash as well as a kite cutout.  

My title is made from SN@P! and Thicker letters.  In the background you can see the Prima stamp I used with Tim Holtz Distress Ink as well as a few additional ink splatters

Thanks so much for stopping by! xoxo Randi

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

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

Artist Trading Cards

Hi guys. I want to share my latest project. Artist Trading Cards. They are 2 1/2" by 3 1/2" works of art used for trading amongst artist. I had so much fun making them for my Swap-Bot "Things with Wings" swap

As always let me know if you have questions xoxo

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

Handmade Hanging Wall Decor

My latest project. I bought a plain wood plaque at AC Moore. I painted it brown and then put on some pattern paper from DCWN Dark Romance

It has a haunting love theme with tarot cards, a poem and a love spell label, all from the collection

I even hung some cute jewelry trinkets from the poem, glued down a few white flowers with gold stickles, and finished it all off with some texture paint around the edges of some of the embellishments

Thank for stopping by :) xoxo

New Craft Toys!!!

Today I picked some new stuff to craft with. First, I got two stacks of DCWV pattern paper, Dark Romance and Sunday Afternoon.  They are beautiful papers and I can't wait to make something with them.

Also, I picked up some new trinkets.  They will add lots of interest to my projects.

Lastly I got some new art tools. A watercolor pan set, watercolor pencils, paint pens and alcohol inks! I'm so excited!

Handmade Paper Flowers

I may do a YouTube tutorial on these. They were made with a couple of flower punches, pattern paper, and hot glue. Very simple and pretty

Update On the Conquer Typo

Before my fix. Ugh how didn't I notice this at the time???

So after noticing my typo last night I immediately went to fix it this morning.  I gently pulled off the 'R' and the 'E' in the word Conquer

Then I glued the the letters back in the correct order lol there's no project that can't be fixed :) thanks for dealing with this mini tragedy with me lol xoxo

Life is an Adventure

This is my latest canvas art. I used pattern paper from DCWV Once Upon a Time stack. I glued down some scrap pieces of paper and tissue paper. Over that I sprayed the background of the canvas with sprays from Heidi Swapp, Tattered Angels, and Recollections. I tore the extra paper from around the dragon and pasted him on the canvas. Then over everything I added some modeling paste with stencils and a little bit of background stamps

The title is made with Thickers and SN@P! alpha stickers. Which I just noticed a typo!!! I will fix that and update you tomorrow on how it goes. I glued those letters down very well lol

The dragon was already printed on the paper but I felt like it didn't stand out. So I painted him and his fire so it would all blend with the background canvas colors

The top corner has some Trico flowers, a Tim Holtz trinket chain, and other embellishments from my stash, including a polymer clay heart I made myself :)

The bottom corner also has Trico flowers and trinkets from my stash. I put a light covering of Gesso over the embellishments in both corners. I needed to tone down the flowers since this is for my brother. I don't want it to be too girly lol

I know my pix aren't the best but I will be improving that, I promise. Thanks for reading xoxo

Mixed Media Slideshow

This is my first YouTube video. I plan on putting my face and voice on future videos but I thought this slideshow would give me a feel on how the editing process goes. I hope you enjoy it. If you want to see any of these projects in more detail please leave a comment and I will do a video on them.

My Second Mixed Media Canvas

This is my second Mixed Media art project.  It's also on a 8" by 10" canvas that I bought from AC Moore.  The background is textured with scrap paper, washi tape, burlap pieces, and lace.  The sprays I used were Heidi Swapp Color Shine in Mint Green, Primrose, and Peach as well as Recollections Simply Pastel Yellow Shimmer. The LOVE words were from a card making kit from Me & My Big Ideas which I picked up on sale at Michael's during their Valentine's Day Sales.  I sprayed one set of words with Tattered Angels Almost Black Spray and the other set I mixed texture paint with blue acrylic paint.

The flowers are from the dollar store as well as a couple from a Recollections collections.  The corners also contain trinkets from my stash as well as a polymer clay bird that I made from a Martha Stewart mold.

The frame and key are from Micheal's $1.50 bins.  The LOVE alpha stickers are from SN@P!  The hearts are handmade from polymer clay.  All the trinkets are finished with the white texture paint from Martha Stewart

This was a great project to make.  I am still honing my skills but I love how it turned out and it looks so cute hanging on my wall at home