scrumble: verb

to make (as color or a painting) less brilliant by covering with a thin coat of opaque or semiopaque color applied with a nearly dry brush

 

 to apply (a color) in this manner

 

 to soften the lines or colors of (a drawing) by rubbing lightly

pronunciation
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Little Yellow Bicycle Spring/Summer Color Challenge

Use this color range (orange, navy, light blue, green, and brown) 

 

No scumbling here folks, I love the bright vernal colors from LYB!

Little Bicycle products:

frame, dotted cloud chipboard - Just Because

fox, small blue cloud, sentiment chipboard, pattern paper - Fern & Forest Boy

green paper - Acorn Hollow

OK, it's a shame that you cannot order individual pieces, because I would order the heck out of the little fox, isn't he cute? 

I needed a navy color so I "painted" the inside of the photo frame with a distress stain.

other:

Ranger - distress marker, distress stain

Martha Stewart - fringe scissors

Eyelet Outlet - butterfly brad

I did add one other product to the card that wasn't LYB, but gosh, that tiny butterfly is just perfect there, don't you think?

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I made it to the top 3 finalists for designing a wooden book for Genuinely Jane Studios, would be honored if you would go visit there and cast your vote for me...( I designed the camera. )

doctrine of signatures: noun

a theory in old natural philosophy: the outward appearance of a body signals its special properties (as of magic or healing virtue) and there is a relationship between the outward qualities of a medicinal object and the diseases against which it is effective

example:" Lungwart -The broad, elongated white-spotted leaves of this plant were thought to resemble the lung and used to treat pulmonary ailments."

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Perfect Sentiments - Metal Embellished Birthdays Challenge

 

This is truly a handmade card, no one said to make it difficult, it just happen to elvove that way. First I was making this wall hanging for the 2013 Tim Holts tags and I needed some gears so I downloaded some clip art and cut them out, then I needed to add the color blue for the Helmar challenge so I decided to dry emboss with my gelato.

Here is yesterdays project with the blue embossed gears:

Now that meant the gelato would come off onto my rubber embossing mat so I laid a piece of white paper between the 2 layers. I actually loved what happened, the clip art gears acted as a mask and created the gear shapes in white with a blue embossed background which I used as my background for the card.

On the base card I stuck down my silver metal tape ( the kind you get from a harware store, I believe it's called Flashing Tape, careful, you can cut yourself on it ), then added 3 mini screw brads ( top and bottom ) and used my dry embossing tool to doodling around the edges of the metal tape.

 

Faber Castell - metallic gelato ( blue and silver ), Pitt Pen

Flashing Tape - misc.

Eyelet Outlet - gear brad

Karen Foster - mini screw brads

font - Army Stencil without lines

 

festoon: noun

a decorative chain or strip hanging between two points

or

 a carved, molded, or painted ornament representing a decorative chain

"Festoon" traces back (by way of French and Italian) to Latin "festa," the plural of "festum," meaning "festival." "Festa" is also an ancestor of the English noun "feast."
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Being that this is a new year with fresh starts and all has given me the inspiration to do something different with the Timmy Tags of 2013. Instead of making tags, ( which by the way, and don't faint, but I packaged up the 2012 tags and put them in the Art Mob, let's see if they sell? ) I am going to try and make wall hangings instead from the tag challenges..and yes, they will also be put up in the Art Mob. What inspired me you ask to make the tags into wall hangings? So glad you asked, lol You see I went into the store on the 2nd to change out my Christmas stuff to Valentines Day stuff and discovered that I sold 6 wall hangings in December! Like wow, right...exciting but it also puts me into a slight panic mode to fill in those empty spaces!

So here is the first Tim Holtz 2013 tag wall hanging!

 

 

other products used:

Ranger - Distress Stain, Vintage Photo, Clear Rock Candy crackle paint

Tim Holtz Ide-ology Film Strip ribbon

clip art from the Internet - pointing hand, gears

clock hands, gold beads, clip - misc.

Eyelet Outlet - Gear brads ( removed brad parts )

Faber Castell - blue metallic gelato ( rubbed dry onto embossing plate ) and salmon gelota used on clock frame, and PITT Pen,black

Fiskars - bamboo embossing plate

Big Shot

Helmars - 450 and Liquid Scrapdots

Aleenee's Tacky Glue

background words from Helmars Challenge site ( printed in reverse on wax paper and pressed down on board, love this technique! )

Golden - gesso, and gel medium

Cricut - French Manor, p. 31 ( clock face 8" )

Really Reasonable Ribbon - hemp cord ( dyed with Vintage Photo )
ScorPal - tape

 

Also entering this in Helmar's January Challenge where I doubt I can win this month as I won last months December challenge..woo hoo me! lol ( side note, this is one of the signs that sold quickly as it wasn't even in the store for a whole month! I loooooove it when that happens )

This month they want you to use the colors blue and orange, the word LIFE, and a list. I was so inspired by the word art list that I used it on my background. I copied it from their site and put it into my print program, reversed the words, printed it off on wax paper and then laid it down on my board and pressed it down using my hands. Gently lift off the wax sheet, don't let it wiggle or it will smear and then let it dry.

 

 I hope you can see the words:

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OK, does anyone else have problems with the colors in Dylusions Melted Chocolate? For me it comes out beautifully until it dries, gets mixed or spritzed with anything. Here I began my board by gessoing it, let it dry and then I sprayed the Melted Chocolate onto it, added a little bit of Folk Art Turner's Yellow, and spritzed it with water. I took my fancy credit card tool and smoothed out the Melted Chocolate to discover this color reaction, can you see the green and pink? Do you see any brown? lol It's actually very pretty, just not what I was going for!