Superfluous

“A kiss is a lovely trick, designed by nature, to stop speech when words become superfluous.”– Ingrid Bergman

: beyond what is needed : not necessary

pronunciation

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Simon Monday Challenge - It's a mystery

Creative Inspirations - Inspired by Anything Goes

I discovered by accident a way to combine the Frosted Designs October and November Mixed Media Paper Kits, if you want to know how then you can click on

Happy Accident = Happy Artist

or it can just remain a mystery...;)

I've never used an embroidery hoop to create a wall hanging before, seen lots of other people do, so this was a first for me.

Creative Inspirations -Fairy Dust, Copper, Pumpkin,Mint

Deco Art - black

Prima - flower, leaves

Helmar - 450 Quick Dry Adhesive

 K&Co. - butterfly 

ribbon and wheat stalk - misc.

Deco Art Blogger - Halloween wall hanging

My first Deco Arts Blogger post!!

I wanted to create a Halloween wall hanging using a Gelli print background and I wanted to experiment with some different paints to see how they worked together.

Deco Art Paints:
Americana Neons - Thermal Green
Dazzling Metallics - Royal Ruby
Americana Frost Gloss Enamels - Black
Paper Effects -Black Pearl
Bright Accents - Gloss Acrylic, black

The metallic and neon paint did exceptionally well together. The metallic subdued the neon a little bit but still leaving enough of it to pop out without being obtrusive to the overall design. The frost glass paint applied well but was a little harder to clean off the gelli plate, but still highly doable.

I fell in love with the Paper Effects Writer with it's dual tip. The fine tip was excellent for writing words and for fine detailing. I did make sure to clean the tip well before storing it.

I used the Paper Effects 2 ways along the border. I doodled a fine line and squiggly marks using the tip, and went back and added larger drops using just the bottle's tip. I also love my little spider, I set him up on the Helmar's Liquid Scrap Dot Adhesive for some dimension and used glossy accents over his body. The stem of the broom was painted with the Neon Green and Deco Arts Bright Accents in black.

This great little wood accent from Prima was balanced on top of the broom using Helmar Liquid Scrap Dots. This is a favorite use of this specialty glue, fixing odd pieces in hard to hold areas. I love, love, LOVE this stuff!

I used the neon green on the broom by brushing it lightly on top.

I think one of the favorite parts about the gelli print background was using my kitchen utensils ( better used here than in the kitchen! Can you tell I don't cook much any more?) It's small plastic thingy ( technical term ) with sharp edges that I raked through the paint in a wavy pattern. It gave me a defined writing line to follow which I appreciated since I always have a problem keeping my lines straight!

Products used and enjoyed:

Helmar 450 Quick Dry Adhesive, Liquid Scrap Dots, Craft & Hobby PVA Glue
Prima - Anna Marie Wood Embellishment
Gelli Plate 12x 14
May Arts - black twine, ribbon
Jillibean - green twine
Cricut - Happy Haunting, p. 54

entering my 6X12" wall hanging in:

Carolyn Dube - October’s Colorful Gelli Print Party

 ( a place to link up those gelli prints!! )
Die Cuttin Diva's - #134 Fall Colors
Craftin Desert Divas - Anything with a Sentiment #16 Linky Party
Craftin Boutique - Anything Halloween Challenge #9 
2 Creative Chicks - Spooktacular Linky Party

Try it on Tuesday - Dots/Circles

Going Dotty (dots or circles )

I am loving these recycled journal books and having so much fun altering them, they make the perfect mini canvas! 

Prima - canvas, script stamp

Apple Barrel - acrylic paint

Primo - charcoal pencil

Faber Castel - PITT pen

Ranger - distress stain, Liquid pearls

American Crafts - Marvy Marker

Recollections - sticker letters

Guided - recycled paper journal

Sparkles - #48 Fairies and/or Butterflies

Artists in Blogland - Color This Quote - September Challenge



tergiversation: noun

evasion of straightforward action or clear-cut statement : equivocation

desertion of a cause, position, party, or faith

pronunciation

( really hard to say )

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Simon Says - Celebrate  STAMPtember® and use a product from the Simon Says Stamp Store

( When the Ranger Distress paints were announced last year, I couldn't wait to get my hands on them and purchased the entire line from the Simon store. )

Ranger - Distress Paints, barn door, broken china, picket fence

Prima - script stamp

Faber Castell - PITT pens

Hero Arts - alphabet stamps

Paper Playtime - pattern paper

Ch#15 Use Pattern Paper

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1 set of Metal Dies or 1 Stamp Set 
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Do you ever have any trouble mixing pattern paper? I use to, didn't like it one bit actually, but in the last couple of years my thinking has been turned around and now I love it. Here, for my little altered box, I mixed 2 different lines of paper. 

I have fallen in love with boxes, and evidently so have my customers at the Art MoB because this one has already sold! It is made out of the cardboard spool from Christmas ribbon. The bottom and top rounds were also cut from chipboard and attached.

Almost all my boxes come with velcro closures. 

And I paint the insides to match.

I add LSD to keep the wings up and separated so that they won't flatten out, I mean we want the recipient to see all that pretty paper!

Cricut - Paper Trimmings, p. 36 ( butterfly )

p. 52 ( circle )

My Minds Eye - pattern Paper

Prima - pattern paper ( script )

Really Reasonable Ribbon

Helmar - Liquid Scrapdots

Martha Stewart - doily

So I hope you get out your pattern paper and play along with us!

Eisensteinian: adjective

From Sergey Eisenstein (1898-1948) Russian

Think: montage, montage, montage.

This rounds out our top 10 words inspired by filmmakers

and again, this one isn't actually IN the Merriam-Webster dictionary

although they offer it up as a word!

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House of Cards - Shabby & Vintage

365 Cards - Day 202 - Super Sketchy Sunday

It's so nice to have a sketch to follow, takes all the stress away. 

Love the felt flower layered over the lace. 

DCWV - Shimmer Stack

Prima - butterfly paper

Martha Stewart - doily

Maya Road - felt flower

brad, lace - misc.

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Simon Says Monday Challenge Blog - Celebrate

Craftin Desert Diva's - Craft It Up & Link It Up Party #11 - Birthdays

Crafty Cardmakers -#96  Birthday

( The balloon is hand drawn. )

My Little Shoebox - stamp

StazOn Ink

Faber Castell - PITT pen

Ranger - Distress Stain

K&Co. - pattern paper
CARDSTV - sentiment stamp

Capraesque: adjective

From Frank Capra (1897-1991) American

Think: celebration and eventual triumph of the average guy, sentimentalism.

(Probably the first nonactor movie director to be known by the general public.)

pronunciation

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Paper Smooches - July 15-21 Cool Shades challenge

  

Craftin Desert Diva's - Summer Linky Party #10

I started my card off with a piece a watercolor paper, spritzed it lightly with water and then gave it one good shot of ink spray, took a paper towel and dabbed away the outside edges leaving me with a focal point for the camp fire.

 I was a little stumped at first with how to create the fire staying within the color parameters, because I wanted to add oranges and yellow to the flames. Then it hit me on the head like a bottle of V-8...paper piecing! So I stamped the image first on grey paper for the logs, then 4 more times for the flames. Cut out the flames and adhered them with LSD for dimension. I used the same pen to color them in, just layered the ink for different intensity levels.

The marsh mellows are paper pieced too, I wanted to make sure I had a piece of the cream white for the color scheme.

Paper Smooches - Happy Camper stamp set

Tattered Angels - Midnight Blue Glimmer Mist

Faber Castell - PITT pen, pale geranium lake ( pretty name for red, huh? )

Helmars - Liquid Scrapdots

Petunia Bounce - font

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cardabilities - Sketch #79-Design Team Reveal 

and

House of Cards - Classic & Elegant

also in:
Creative Inspirations - Inspired by: Ribbon and Bling
Moxie Fab - Tuesday Trigger

The water feature is reflecting an arc of light across the picture, I should know better than to photograph out there in the afternoon. I will replace the picture tomorrow with a better one.
UPDATE: New picture, goes to show you that it is important to pay attention to what time of day is the best time to take photos!

DCWV - Homespun Card Stack, glitter paper
Prima - Candy Gems Carmel Apple
Helmar - 450

Barbecue: transitive verb

In some parts of the country, such as Texas and Tennessee, your answer probably involves a method of slow-cooking with indirect heat. If you're a Northerner, you might just point to your backyard grill.
The word has different meanings, but a single origin.
When 17th-century Spanish explorers landed in the West Indies, they saw native people – the Arawakan – drying meat over a frame. The Arawakan called the wooden rack a barbacoa. The explorers borrowed the term.
Barbacoa soon came to name not only the frame but the process of cooking (not drying) meat. Now, of course, barbecue can name the cooking structure, the food, the cooking method, or the social occasion.

pronunciation
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( I wish I had a chance to win this!! )

Here's my project that I created, an up cycled Christmas ribbon spool made into a gift box. Over the music ribbon is a layer of tissue paper aged with Distress ink and the twine was wrapped around in the spaces where the ribbon didn't meet.

 I cut 2 butterflies out. Stuck my straight pin in through one butterfly and then glued the second one on top to hide the pin head. Then stuck the butterfly into the flower giving him a "floating" appearance.

The box is held together with Velcro, first the butterfly part opens

then the lid

  

Really Reasonable Ribbon - black, and music ribbon  

Kaiser Kraft - pearls

Ranger - Distress Inkm stickles

Prima - flower

twine - misc.

Cricut - Paisley cartridge

Also entering this in:
Really Reasonable Ribbon - #75 'Anything But a Card & Ribbon' Theme
2 Creative Chicks - 3-D challenge #4

Looking at Words: a photo contest

 Submit a photo you've taken that illustrates a Merriam-Webster definition in an interesting way
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How do you scrapbook? I am a chronological scrapper, everything in order. 

If you are a chronological scrapbooker, how do you begin the album? Mine have been elvolving but still consistent with how I go about it. I always list the year on it but the first page establishes a feeling/theme that I feel is relevant for that year.

Here is last year:

2012 - which focuses on my photography, I took a class that year learning on how to take better pictures and how my camera works. ( Also trying to learn new things including new scrapbooking styles...look at all that white space! That was a big leap for me! ) I also included my word of the year..focus. Love seeing that little detail.

2013 - seems to be reflective on how far I have come. It's about the achievements and the fact that I keep evolving! 

Thanks to Tracy Weinzapfel and the
May 2013 Creative Dare - DEAR ME...

This was truly a mind bender...I thought and thought and thought....I even had the all the elements, just not the words.

Tracy says this:

" Take a break every now and then and pat yourself on the back.  Applaud yourself for doing what needs to be done.  And be careful not to spend so much time looking at how far you still have to go, that you forget to appreciate how far you've already come."

And I thought and thought and thought some more...and finally I came up with this. It's not a letter but I think it's perfect in it's own way. 

I had to include my business card.

And I loved adding in a real paintbrush dripping some paint off it onto dreams.

Faber Castell - black gelato, Pitt Pen

Crafters Workshop - brick stencil

Golden - Molding Paste

LiquiTex - colbalt teal paint

ColorBok - butterfly

Prima - bling

business card, paintbrush - my own :)

and entering this lay out in:
Anything but a Card - #19 Color Inspiration

sesquipedalian: adjective

having many syllables : long

 using long words

pronunciation

( I do love sesquipedalian words like Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, just some are too hard to say and to spell! )

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It's time for the Monday Inspiration girls over at Frosted Designs!

 We would like to see your cards, layouts and off the page projects using only 3 colors.... black, white, and one other color of your choice!

I did another lay out!! Don't faint....lol 

After checking, I see that my last one was made back in November so I had better get caught up!

 Now what do you do when you don't really have anything to journal about? I used a poem from e.e.cummings and wrote fun facts about tulips around the edge of the LO. .

I also like that I got to use a small piece of ephemera, the top of the Biltmore ticket stub is used as my title. And my subliminal sub title which is God - everything - yes, because God is everything!

 entering this in:

 PageMaps 7th Anniversary sketch contest

Cut out the banner from the Cricut and adhered it to some twine.

 

 Used a French knot to secure the large overlay to the base. .

 Sprayed some mister on the overlay and let dry before placing the bling down. Because I sprayed onto a slick surface you really have to be careful and make sure it's completely dry. You can see where I added a little extra glue to the bling because it re-activated the spray, although in my book, that wasn't such a bad thing.

And attached the small journaling circle that I cut out with a stick pin which I outlined with a pen so it pop. I had to paint my date on top of the journaling sticker so that it would show up.

Cricut - Country Life cartridge

Prima - bling

Hambly - overlays

Colorbok - black felt butterfly

Maya Road - hat pin butterfly

Faber Castell - PITT pen

American Crafts - Slick Writers

Higgins - waterproof ink

DCWV - white paper

I hope you play along with us, I am looking forward to seeing what you create!