cheiron's crafty life

moxie fab world: the spatter technique challenge

Just playing along with the spatter technique challenge over on Moxie Fab World. As you can see I like a more controlled spatter-with Distress Inks used as watercolors: 

Love this fun sentiment from Hero Arts/Studio Calico. 

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tuesday trigger: watercolor butterflies

This dress is the inspiration for this week's Tuesday Trigger over at Moxie Fab World. Love the colors and the watercolor pattern, so I thought I would take out my Distress Inks and water brush and see what I could do! I painted a watercolor paper strip with the colors in the dress and added a butterfly embellishment. This layout is from a sketch featured in this month's contest over on the Hero Arts blog:

For the butterfly, I colored acetate with alcohol inks. To make the butterfly look more "real", I stamped a butterfly body on white cardstock from this set so it would show through. 

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tuesday trigger: three little birds

After seeing this week's Tuesday Trigger over on Moxie Fab this afternoon I have had the song running through my head all day. When I sat down to make my card tonight, different lyrics came into my head and I was inspired simply by the birds and their colors to make this card: 

If you have not heard these lyrics from The Littlest Birds by The Be Good Tanyas, you should definitely give this song a listen! 

 

 

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tuesday trigger: sweet surprise

 

This week's Tuesday Trigger? A sweet surprise. This one is so simple, I was not sure where to start. I took my inspiration from the embossing like pattern on the box by embossing my background in white and adding blue ribbon treatment of my own and a pretty sentiment...that's it!

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tuesday trigger: happy happy joy joy

This week's Tuesday Trigger over on Moxie Fab World features these happy happy joy joy colors: 

My inspiration? The leaves, the colors and that fun cross-hatching texture. I used a stamp and die set from Hero Arts to make cutting out my sunflowers super simple: 

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tuesday trigger: simple elegance

This week's Tuesday Trigger over on Moxie Fab World? Simple Elegance. My card is inspired by the rug and the gorgeous pink of the tulips. Why is it that the simpler triggers are harder for me? I think I played it safe on this one, but I still love this spring flower: 

clean & simple saturday feathers

Really simple one layer card for this Saturday. Feather stamps, sentiment, watercolor. I had a little "incindent" and got some watercolor on my finished card and decided to add an allover splatter. I am not usually a splatter kind of gal, but I liked the way it looked and decided while I had the paints out to make a little set of these cards instead of starting over. Also entering this in the Moxie Fab World Fascination with Feathers Challenge. 

Here is a peek at the whole set. Fun, easy card-great to have a few on hand. 

tuesday trigger: home sweet home

What a sweet little Tuesday Trigger over on Moxie fab World this week. I love the handmade/patchwork feel of this little pillow. I love all the fun details of this little house (the polka dot roof, the woodgrain door and the little button knob) and tried to recreate it in my card for this week. I took it pretty literally and went with the house as my inspiration-not super original, but I still think it's pretty cute!

I stamped these little houses from Claudine Hellmuth onto sticky back canvas and then paper pieced most of the little details, and painted one house in with Mustard Seed Distress ink that I had put onto my craft sheet and sprayed with water. I added the numbers to mimic the ruler/chimney that is in the photo and also to give the card a more collage-y look. The sentiment is from this Hero Arts set. I think this will be a great card to give to a hostess next time I stay at someone's house.  

tuesday trigger: chiclectic

Time for another Tuesday Trigger over on Moxie Fab World. This one was definitely a fun one!

I was drawn to so many things in this picture: the black & white pattern, the bold pops of orange, pink and turquoise, and the gold bed frame sticking out above and below. I hunted through my stash of paper pads to find similar patterns, stamped and embossed the Fabulous Flourish. I added the doily die for a pop of pink.

I would never have put these colors together, but I really like how they came out on the card.  Here is my take on this week's inspiration photo:

 

 And another photo with a close up of the embellishment: 

 

for cath (sans cha) with love blog hop

I am so glad to be participating in the Blog Hop for Cath today. If you are a reader of the Moxie Fab World blog, then you know that she was not able to attend CHA this year. Virginia and Lorena have arranged this blog hop for Cath and I hope it brings her some cheer! You can see all the other creations linked in this post here.

Image Credit

I saw this picture last week on this post from Cath over on the Moxie Fab World blog, and have been wanting to make a card based on it ever since. I finally got a little crafty time today and this is what I came up with using one of my stamps from last month's Studio Calico add on, and if you have not seen it over on the Sudio Calico Blog, it looks like this stamp is going to be available as part of their CHA reveal!

I usually take the stamps out of the kit each month and put them in a drawer, but I thought it was time they got a little ink. I love the colors in the photo and thought I would watercolor in the sections, mist it with Calico Shine Mr. Huey's and make a little embellishment. Sending big hugs to you Cath and I hope that you are feeling as Moxie Fab as ever real soon!