She Who Stamps & Scraps

Art Journaling Class in Connecticut

(Susan S, Me, Evelyn, Judy (owner), Debbie, Alison, Susan, Cindy, Betsy)

What a great day at the Great American Stamp Store in Connecticut on Saturday! Seven women joined me for a whole day of journal play, and it was a lovely group. We took our time and made several pages using layers of stamps, paints, gesso, stencils, etc.  

This was an idea from one of my journals for the ladies to work with silhouettes:

I built the page up with layers of paint and inks, and used my  Xyron 5" Creative Station to adhere the magazine clipping of a silhouette:

Here are Besty and Evelyn working on their silhouette pages:

 And Debbie, done with her silhouette and prepping her next page:

Susan's fab silhouette and embedded tags pages:

And look what Cindy did with her embedded tags:

So cool how she fanned them in the center!  Here she is in person:

I'll be back at Great American Stamp Store in May, and hope to see you then!

Marjie

 

Photos and Metal and Flowers... oh My!

This is my spin on a layout I spied on Pinterest a few days ago by Kristin Cronin-Barrow.  If you'd like to see Kristin's layout, it's the newest pin on my Scrapbooking Pinterest board. I used Basic Grey papers that I customized with stamps and stencils.

The half circle on the left is stamped with the Darkroom Door Measuring Tape background stamp, and the one on the right is inked with jet black archival ink through a TCW elevator gate stencil.  I used the smaller version of that stencil to add interest to the yellow background paper. I edged the letter stickers with black soot distress ink and painted the wood frame black:

After running all the photos and blue sections through my Xyron® 5” Creative Station, I put the rick rack through the smaller Xyron® 1.5” Create-a-Sticker.  

I added faux stitching around the edges, Prima flowers, and Tim Holtz's Idea-ology ornate plate, flowers and brads.  The metal brings me to the Simon Says Stamp and Show challenge this week.

Thanks so much for the visit!

Marjie

 

Idea-ology Ornate Plates

Adirondack Acrylic Paint Dabber - Pitch Black

Distress Ink Pad - Black Soot

How to Use Xyron Adhesives on Selected Parts of Your Projects

Hello! Welcome to followers old and new. I made this jumbo today using stamps, stencils, inks, paint, and water soluble crayons. I used my Xyron® 5” Creative Station to adhere the image and corrugated cardboard to my tag, and I'll share below how I kept her party hat 3-dimensional by controlling my adhesives.  I started out with these parts: 

Then I stamped the sentiment and covered it with embossing powder:

Heating the power brought the sentiment right to the top of all the layered stamping and stenciling beneath it:

I stamped and cut out the hat separately and ran it through the Xyron® 1.5” Create-a-Sticker:

I adhered it behind the hat the girl is wearing.  Next I put that stamped image (with two hats) through the machine, and after it came out I peeled off the 'dummy' hat and the main hat had no adhesive. So it's totally popped up and dimensional, yet the rest of her is really tacked down with adhesive.  Cool?!?

Here she is:

And here's a close-up of the corrugated cardboard, all inked and painted and distressed:

I love being able to put dimensional items like that through my machine. Be sure to visit the Xyron blog to see lots of other ideas.

I'll share this today at Creative Every Day.  Thanks so much for visiting!

Marjie 

Scrapbooking, Thanks, and Big News!

I hosted a Scrap-IN at Michaels on Saturday (more commonly known as a 'crop') and enjoyed catching up on some pages.  This page includes a new stencil from Ronda Palazzari, a favorite Stampers Anonymous border stamp, and the brand new #14 from Tim Holtz's Valentine Blueprints set.  I used the '14' to mark my son's age last year.

My friend Anita recently had a very generous giveaway on her blog and I was quite lucky to win the set of Tim's new stamps.  Anita sent such a beautiful (inside and out) package, including one of her very own handmade tags... what a very happy mail day!  Thanks so much, Anita!

On to the big news... last week I received a wonderful phone call announcing I'd been selected to join the Xyron Design Team.  I'm incredibly honored and excited to join this team.  I've been using Xyron products for over a decade, and I am a true believer.  I have three different Xyrons in my work space and use them every week. I cannot wait to start working with the team!

Thanks so much for visiting today.  I hope you have a great week.

Marjie