CMP Designs: blog hop

Thursday, February 14, 2019

Happy Heart Day - Valentine's Blog Hop

It's Valentine's Day! That means it's time for a huge blog hop with some amazingly talented creatives!

For my project, I focused on best friends! We all have them, we love them and they need to be reminded too! Especially that bestie that knows way more than any person should, has seen all the crazy, has stood beside you and held you up when you couldn't stand on your own. I've been very fortunate to have a few of these people in my world. From over 40 years ago to 27 years ago to family that you've known since the day you were born!

Happy Valentine's Day to all the amazing friends I have!

Time for the project now!

I started with a great little canvas that I picked up at my LSS. I didn't do any gesso on this one and just layered on my Distress Oxides.

Some pretty layers and splotches using Barn Door, Aged Mahogany and Fired Brick.

Once the inks were dry I used Rebekah Meier's Skylight stencil, Ranger Embossing Dauber and the gorgeous Ancient Amber Embossing Powder from Seth Apter and Emerald Creek!


I then stenciled on a layer with Spiced Marmalade. Once that was done, I mixed some Spiced Marmalade with TH Crazing Medium and stenciled on that with RM Stencil Distressed Lace.

Here's a close up of the crazing medium mixed with the Spiced Marmalade.

I dressed up my Paper Dolls with a little foil and wings that I tinted with some Finnabair wax.

This was such a fun non traditional Valentine to create! Thanks to Cathy Frailey from It's Oddly Appealing for bringing us all together for this hop!!

Make sure to hop on over to all the other amazing creatives that are taking part!! Enjoy your Valentine's Hop!

PolymerCreations4U: A Journey into Craftiness

It's Oddly Appealing

Matter of Crafts

Kelly Parker Designs

Psychotic Ramblings of a Serial Scrapper

The Joyful Soul Creates

Paper Mache Patch

Scrappy Squirrel’s Nest

A Fine How Do You Do

Whimsy Chic Paper Crafts Etc

The Crafty Moussekateer

Savvy Handmade Cards

The Crafty Robin

Whimsical Creations

CMP Designs YOU ARE HERE

Thanks for playing along and have a great day!

Cathy

Supplies Used:

Distress Oxides in Fired Brick, Aged Mahogany and Barn Door

Distress Ink in Spiced Marmalade

Rebekah Meier Stencils TCW803s Distressed lace and TCW801s Skylight

Rebekah Meier Mixed Media Medium

EC and SA Baked Texture in Ancient Amber

Eileen Hull Journaling Cards, Hearts

Finnabair Antique Brilliance Wax in Fire Ruby

TH Small Talk, Snarky

TH Crazing Medium

TH Paper Dolls

TH Botanicals

Ranger Foil

Monday, October 8, 2018

Magical Mysteries Blog Hop with Dragon's Eggs and Fairy Wings

It’s Blog Hop time

and we are featuring the magical mysteries line from Rita Barakat and Emerald Creek!

We are hoping to introduce you to many ways of using these new and mysterious embossing powders, turning your works into magical art.

A special thank you goes out to all of the talent in this line up. Joe, Midge & Madge, Ken, Fredrique, Cathy, Stephanie and our amazing coordinator Katelyn, we couldn’t have done this without you.

It’s Blog Hop time

and we are featuring the magical mysteries line from Rita Barakat and Emerald Creek!

We are hoping to introduce you to many ways of using these new and mysterious embossing powders, turning your works into magical art.

To enter the contest just comment on every project in the Hop by clicking through the links at the bottom of the page. The contest closes October 10 at11:59pm One lucky winner will be announced Friday October 12.

Wow!! If you have not tried/seen or gotten your hands on these amazing powders, you NEED to!! A magical partnership between Rita Barakat and Emerald Creek has brought all this shimmer and beauty to you!

So thrilled to share these with you, and so honored to be a part of the Hop with such incredible creatives!

Be sure to follow the hop, I'll pop the list down at the end of this post for you. You will be inspired to create with after seeing the projects from the Hop!

And on to my project! It's all about the fairy magic.

These powders were a dream to work with. So much lustre and shimmer and a touch of glitter.

I started with a 5X7 canvas board and used Dina Wakely Black Gesso to cover it. Once that was dry I stamped a border with my Branch Out and Mushroom stamp from Emerald Creek.

I moved that aside and then cut out a small piece from my Graphic 45 paper stash of Fairie Dust. I embossed the first letters with Kiss of the Fairy and did the border with Dragon's Egg.

Then it was time for the fairies!! Adorable little chipboard ones from Southern Ridge Trading Company. Let the embossing begin! For these little ones I used the Fairy Wings set and started with the base for all of them. The little bird was done with Mermaid Fin (such pretty glitter)

I have the bird feeding fairy and the artist fairy painting her canvas.

This little one was done with the Fairy Wings Base, Green, Gold and Blue over the base.

The artist fairy was done with the Fairy Wings Base, Blue, Purple, Pink and on the body I added a touch of Kiss of the Fairy for the sparkle.

And one last shot of the completed project. I just love the colours and how they all work together and you can use the Fairy Wings base on it's own too, such a pretty iridescent purple shine.