Mystical and Magical Week 2!

We hope you enjoyed week one of our spooky, mystical and magical land of Halloween and holidays. This week the Dreamweaver design team has another set of great creations to share with you and we hope you will consider joining our challenge. Just link your creation with the linky tool over at the DREAM it UP! blog or email a photo of your work to lynell@dreamweaverstencils.com and she will post it for you. You could win a prize! 
The month of October we have as our guest designer, Alison Heikkila. October promises to be a very creative month, you won't want to miss any of it!
Here's my design for this week:

LJ816 - Spider web, LL531 - Jack o lanterns
LS28 - Spider, LG749 - Doggy words

Here's how it's done:

• Paste emboss the Spider web stencil (LJ816) with Glossy White Embossing Paste (angle the stencil across the upper left corner of black cardstock)
• Remove the stencil and place in water for cleaning, immediately sprinkle the wet paste with Crystal glitter
• Let dry
• Paste emboss the Jack o lanterns stencil (LL531) with Matte Yellow Embossing Paste in the lower right corner
• Remove the stencil and place in water for cleaning
• Let dry
• Return the Jack o lanterns stencil over the dry paste and use small stencil brushes to apply ink over the paste (I used Splendor Ink - Circus ink pad)
• Paste emboss the Spider stencil (LS28) on white cardstock with Glossy Black Embossing Paste
• Remove the stencil and place in water for cleaning
• Sprinkle Metallic F/X powder Nouveau Orange randomly over the wet paste
• Let dry
• Cut out the spider as close as possible to all the legs, use a Distress marker in antique linen to color the white edges throughout the design
• Attach to the web with foam tape
• Use the Dog words stencil (LG749), a small stencil brush and Memento Tuxedo Black to stencil the "happy" from the Happy HOWLoween part of the stencil
• Line up the Happy underneath the first one and a little to the left, tape off only the "Ha" and stencil that, use the "pp" upside down to create the two l's (minus the round part of course!), then the "oween" next to that
• Use a deckle scissors to cut around the words, and brush the background with the left over black ink from the brush, mount the words on a small orange mat with a deckled edge
• Use foam tape to add the words to the card

Now check out the rest of the team blogs:

Dream It Up! 

Alison Heikkila (guest designer)
Lea Kimmel 
Louise Healy 
Stacey Rumsby 
Terrece Siddoway 
Wendy Jordan 
Pam Hornschu 
Cherylynn Moser

This week I have been taking Creative Chemistry 102 with Tim Holtz. Scroll down to see what we've been creating!

Happy Creating,
Louise

Creative Chemistry Day 3

The fun continues in day 3 of Creative Chemistry with Tim Holtz. He is keeping us very busy and I'm loving every minute of it! Today one tag needs drying time, so I will have to share that another day, but I have finished the other techniques!
Day 3 tags
UPDATED with Cracked Glass

Faux Cracked Glass

Day 3 Tags - Creative Chemistry 102

Distress Glittering

Distress Glitter Rock Candy

Brayer technique

Smudge stamping

Smudge stamping - first and second impressions

Happy Creating,
Louise

Creative Chemistry Day 2!

Updated with the rest of the tags!

Today's techniques in Creative Chemistry 102 with Tim Holtz were all about Distress products and stencils. Being on the Dreamweaver Stencils design team, I knew I was going to have a lot of fun today! I always love to learn how to apply other products to our stencils. There are several homework assignments today, so keep checking back for updates as I complete them!
Day 2 Tags:
First tag of Day2:

Mixed Media Layering

Mixed Media Layering 

Mixed Media Layering - the layers up close!

Embossing with Stencils

Embossing through Stencils

Stencil Stamping

 

Stencil Sketching

Ink Monoprint

Paint Monoprint

.

Happy Creating,
Louise

Creative Chemistry 102 Day 1

Creative Chemistry 102 with Tim Holtz began today and let me tell you, he had us working hard! We learned six wonderful techniques for the new Distress Paints. I'm thrilled because I've had them for a while now, and have used them a little, but now feel confident to incorporate them into a lot more projects. That's what it's all about, learn new things and how to apply them. It's what makes our crafting so much fun!
Here are the tags I created today (there is one tag I have not finished because I'm waiting for the UPS truck!).

UPDATED TO ADD FINAL TAG:

Eroded Metallic

Day 1 Techniques (l to r)
Marbling, Colored Crackle, Altered Surface
Stamping Resist, Industrial

Distress Paint Marbling

Colored Crackle

Altered Surface

Stamping Resist

Industrial

 Here are some close ups of Colored Crackle and Altered Surface

Hope you've enjoyed my creations, I know I had fun making them!

Happy Creating,
Louise

Mysterious and Magical!

Are you ready to be spooked, mystified and magically transported to the land of Halloween and holidays? Hop on board the Dream Team train as we journey through all things Mysterious and Magical through the month of October. Our guest "engineer" is Miss Eerie herself, Alison Heikkila. October promises to be a very bumpy ride...

Here's my first creation for October:

LJ863 - Swirl background, LL573 - Swirly xmas tree
Glossy Black Embossing Paste

The tree was used to create the hat, use removable tape to  block off the
bottom part of the tree. A small strip of black paper was used as the brim, and orange
glitter was used as the band

LL573 - Swirly xmas tree and LJ863 - Swirls

Your next stops can be found here:

Dream It Up! 

Alison Heikkila 

Laura Drahozal 
Lyn Bernatovich 
Pam Hornschu 
Heidi Erickson 
Louise Healy (you're here) 
Cyndi Bundy

 

Happy Creating,

Louise

Awesome in Autumn!

This has been a busy month for the Dreamweaver Stencils design team! We have been featuring the beautiful glitter from Art Glitter in our Awesome in Autumn creations and spent a week creating fall designs combining our stencils with the fabulous stamps from Quietfire Design.

Follow the trail of bling on the Art Glitter blog, and the Dream It Up! blog. Play along with the monthly challenge of "Awesome in Autumn" and link your creations to the linkytool on the Dream It Up! Thursday posts for a chance to win some stupendous stencils and glamorous glitter! As if that wasn't cool enough, Art Glitter is offering a 20% discount this month if you use the code DW20 and...

Stencil with Style is also offering a 20% discount this month if you use the code SWS20!

Today I am sharing two sparkly goodies that I created a while ago, but I just love them and they show two techniques for you!

First is the beautiful Maple branch (LJ906) stencil that you may have seen on some of the other blogs this month.  This was done in the double glitter technique using Art Glitter Rock Moss Microfine glitter in all the stencil openings, then while the stencil was still in place, I used stencil brushes and ink pads to color the image. The microfine glitter is pretty easy to stencil over. The background was covered with Crystal Ultrafine glitter.

LJ906 - Maple branch in the Double Glitter Technique

The second card was created by first paste embossing the  Rooster stencil (LG732) with Metallic Gold Embossing Paste on black cardstock, removing the stencil (place in water for cleaning later), and sprinkling the whole image with True Red Ultrafine Opaque glitter, tap off the excess glitter and let the image dry thoroughly. When dry, use an x-acto knife to scrape away the glitter in some of the areas to expose the gold paste again. Cut out the rooster and mount him on decorative papers.

LG732 - Rooster in gold paste with True Red glitter, then scraped

I hope you have enjoyed our month of Awesome in Autumn and will consider joining our fun! Now head on over to the other team member blogs to check out their creations!

Kristi Parker  (our guest designer this month!)

Art Glitter  

Dream It Up! 

Lea Kimmel 

Louise Healy (that's me) 

Stacey Rumsby 

Terrece Siddoway 

Wendy Jordan 

Pam Hornschu 

Cherylynn Moser 

Happy Creating,

Louise

Dreamweaver & Quietfire Awesome in Autumn! Finale!

Our amazing week of Awesome in Autumn concludes today! This has been a wonderful week playing with the Quietfire Design team, and their amazing images and sentiments. Their beautiful calligraphic style, quotes and thoughts are the perfect addition to our Dreamweaver designs. We hope you have followed along with us, and have left your comments for an opportunity to win one of two wonderful prize packages:

Here's what I've created for today's post:

Yesterday I showed you one corner of the beautiful Fall borders (LJ874) stencil from Dreamweaver Stencils. Today, I have used the other corner along with the Leaf texture (LG616) stencil (did you notice those two little leaves in the lower corner of yesterday's design?), and the same beautiful saying "Every blade in the field" saying (#5820) from Quietfire Design.

• Tape the pumpkin corner to the corner of Distress Antique Linen cardstock with removable tape
• Use a palette knife and paste spreader to apply Matte Yellow Embossing Paste over the stencil
• Remove the stencil and place in water for cleaning
• Let the paste dry
• Tape the Leaf texture stencil to the shiny side of a piece of freezer paper with removable tape
• Use a palette knife and paste spreader to apply Matte Yellow Embossing Paste over the stencil
• Remove the stencil and place in water for cleaning
• Let the paste dry thoroughly
• Stamp the saying on matching cardstock
• Use a Deckle edge scissors to trim around the saying
• Use Distress ink vintage photo around the edges of the saying, then edge a little darker with Distress ink walnut stain
• Mount on a piece of Distress Frayed Burlap cardstock that has been edged with ink too, set aside
• Place your clean, dry stencils back over the dry yellow paste and tape in place with removable tape
• Use small stencil brushes to add color, I used Distress inks mustard seed, spiced marmalade, forest moss, vintage photo, and walnut stain, as well as just a touch of Brilliance Rocket Red
• After the pumpkin corner is colored, Deckle the edge and ink with vintage photo and walnut stain
• Mount on a frayed burlap card front
• CAREFULLY peel different leaves off the freezer paper and arrange them along the bottom edge
• Once you like the placement, gently lift an edge with a toothpick and add a dab of glue to secure them
• Use foam mounting tape to adhere the saying
• Add a leaf to the saying too

We hope you have enjoyed our designs this week and have been inspired to create your own Autumn Awesomeness!

 Check out today's awesomeness which includes...

Quietfire Design Members...

Sherry Cheever

Holly Eastabrook

Yogi Grunwald

Robyn Josephs

Teresa Horner

Suzanne Cannon

and

Dream Team members...

Jessica Griffin

Cyndi Bundy

Wendy Jordan

Lyn Bernatovich

Louise Healy (you are here)

Terrece Siddoway

Lea Kimmel

Heidi Erickson

Laura Drahozal

Cherylynn Moser
Stacey Rumsby

Pam Hornschu

and the

Dream It Up! blog

and

Quietfire Creations Blog

Happy Creating,

Louise