repertoire: noun

a supply of skills, devices, or expedients; broadly : amount, supply

pronunciation

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Moxie Fab - Tuesday Trigger: A Painterly Palette

I loved the circles and colors, would love to have all those soft shades of paint too....mmm

~yummy~

I used a stamp in the center which I colored in with my glaze pens and then embellished it with little drops of gem stones.

Studio G - stamp

Sakura - Glaze pens

Faber Castell - PITT pen

Helmar - Gemstone Adhesive

all the cardstock came from my stash

Here's to a yummy day filled with a Painterly Palette for all of us!

fustigate: verb

to beat with or as if with a short heavy club

to criticize severely

pronunciation
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Faber Castell - May 'Take the Challenge' with Mou

Simon Says Stamp and Show - Inspired by
Love to Scrap! - Anything Goes

Eddyth Sue ( from our Mixed Media Monday group ) has issued a small challenge of her own!

"For Monday, May 6, 2013 my challenge for "Sandee Setliff" and anyone else is......pick your favorite piece of work that Tracy has done, whether it's a canvas, journal page, etc. and make a page/canvas/coaster with your take on it! Oh, and post a pic of her work and yours."

Noticed how she picked me out? hmmmm?

Well, not to disappoint anyone, and I am always up for a challenge!

 So I picked this canvas piece from Tracy's work:

I love that field of colorful flowers and since it fits the garden theme with Mou's challenge, it was an easy choice. Here is my little garden card:

My background is a wash of gelatos, the flower outlines are stamped and then colored in with more gelatos. I tried using the pastel pencil to outline the "canvas" but it didn't go over the gelato layer very well, so I used pens instead.

Faber Castell:

gelatos- metallic grape,blueberry,mint,melon and gold

pastel pencil

yellow Aquarelle pencil

other:

Stazon ink

American Crafts - flowers

gems - misc

Ranger - stickles

Close to my Heart - bee stamp

Studio G - flower stamp

Sharpie - for outlining and doodling

Oh, and for all you stickle addicts

 ( yes, I am one of them ) I found a new challenge site JUST for them! lol ...in heaven...just sayin'...♥

All that Stickles -Icicle Linky Party ( used on the bee's wings, and in the center of the stamped flowers )

hot air: noun

empty talk

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"Interestingly, the history of hot air ballooning can be traced back to the 18th century - way before the Wright Brothers developed the first airplane.

The urge to fly like the birds prompted humans undertake several attempts to soar in the skies.

 The Montgolfier brothers - Joseph-Michel Montgolfier and Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier, are given the credit of being the hot air balloon inventors - a feat they achieved in the second half of the 18th century." 

I don't now about you, but I am fascinated with hot air balloons...don't get me wrong, I do not, in any way, want to be in one, I just like looking at them from the ground floating across the sky.

and why am I talking about hot air balloons, you ask?
 Because it's time for

where our challenge is Inventions, inventors, or steampunk

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I was really going back and forth on this challenge because there are SO many awesome things that have been invented over time, but in the end inspiration from this picture  I discovered on Pinterest won out. I was smitten from the moment I saw it!

 So many elements were found recycled parts, the balloon ( or envelope ) itself came from packaging, covered it in tissue paper, outlined with my Pebeo to create the seams, colored with metallic melon gelato, and embellished with rhinestones and pearls.

The basket ( or gondola ) was created from a used tea light, that tin is so malleable, I just loved working with it. Covered it with tissue tape which was then washed with the same gelato color as the balloon. After I punched holes into the basket I sewed it with silk cording to attach it to the balloon. I used LSD to prop up the puffy heart that is riding in the basket.

I love the free hanging heart bead on the ground cable....which really shouldn't be attached theoretically beacause in the real world it would get caught on a tree or something...but then hey, there aren't giant puffy hearts flying balloons either... but I like how it looks :)

  

American Crafts - Thickers puffy stickers
Dear Lizzy - glittered chipboard bird
Maya Road - arrow chipboard, tissue tape
Ranger - Distress Paints, tissue tape
Pebeo - outliner
Helmar - 450, Liquid Scrapdots
Faber Castell - gelato, PITT pen
Higgins - waterproof drawing ink
Syudio G - stamp
Really Reasonable Ribbon - hemp cord

also entering this 6x12" wall hanging in:

Sparkles Monthly Challenge - #43 Hearts
Faber Castell - April 'Take the Challenge' with Mou

supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

This concerns the longest word in the dictionary:

OK, so you need to watch this short video, for several reasons, one being the ability of the assistant editor of Merriam-Webster to pronounce words like  "antidisestablishmentarianism" with ease that impressed me and to find out the criteria for picking words that go into the dictionary. I do think her job is somewhat sublime, although I still root for supercalifragilisticexpialidocious to be in their dictionary, and evidently so do lots of other people after reviewing their comments concerning the video.

Now what does supercalifragilisticexpialidocious actually mean?
We need to know this so we can use it more often, correct?
 "We all know the origin of the word; a song from the 1964 Disney musical film Mary Poppins. The song was written by the Sherman Brothers, and sung by Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke.
The roots of the word have been defined as follows: super- "above", cali- "beauty", fragilistic- "delicate", expiali- "to atone", and docious- "educable", with the sum of these parts signifying roughly "Atoning for educability through delicate beauty
According to the film, it is defined as "something to say when you have nothing to say"."

and that is from Wikipedia :)
So supercalifragilisticexpialidocious that Merriam-Webster!!

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April 2013 Creative Dare - FIVE WORDS

 

Think of 5 words that YOU think best describe you.

Now let's leave off snarky, lazy, fat, old..

let's think 5 POSITIVE words....

harder to do...huh?

I thought so anyway, I'd make a list, scratch off, add another...rethink...add...erase...

you get the idea.

 

There are more things I wanted to add..subliminally perhaps, like the paint brushes for being creative, or the books because I am a librocubicularist ( a person who reads in bed, lol )...

 

I also have a new toy, it's Pebeo Outliner....I free hand drew everything with it, so that's why it's all a little wonky..another subliminal me...messy, not patient...

I cut a slit into the pages of the bible through the board to slide in the book marker ribbon and stamped inspired on it, because God's word does just that. Not that I think I am inspiring, but that I couldn't leave God out of this and He inspires me daily in my art.

Crafters Workshop - TCW191S ( brick stencil )
Golden - Molding Paste
Ranger - Distress Inks, Distress Markers, Alcohol Inks
Pebo - Outliner
Really Reasonable Ribbon
Studio G - small flower stamp
Sandy Lion - Inspired word stamp
Higgins - Waterproof Drawing inks
Faber Castell - PITT pens
Gold Leaf
Helmar - 450

grift: verb

to obtain (money) illicitly (as in a confidence game)

or

to acquire money or property illicitly

pronunciation

"Grift" was born in the argot of the underworld, a realm in which a "grifter" might be a pickpocket, a crooked gambler, or a confidence man—any criminal who relied on skill and wits rather than physical violence—and to be "on the grift" was to make a living by stings and clever thefts."
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Making a few tags for the store, my only Easter tag that I had in there, has already sold! I don't know why, but I am always humbled when they buy my tags :)

 

entering this in:

 

Simon Says Stamp Challenge Blog - Easter/Spring

  Added dimension with the grass, love that my Liquid Scrapdots can equal the height of the bunny's tail :)

 

 

bunny, cotton ball - misc, from stash

Creative Imaginations - basket weave paper

Cricut - Happy Hauntings cartridge p. 67 ( grass )

Really Reasonable Ribbon - twine

Prima - ( gem butterfly )

Heidi Swapp - bling ( eye )

Helmar - Liquid Scrapdots, Gemstone Adhesive

Studio G - stamp

Sakura - Glaze pens

Honey Script - font

Ranger - Liquid Pearls

Stazon - ink
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Cath over at Moxie Fab has us all thinking about home decor projects.
 I took some tea light candles and wrapped some washi tape around them and then had tons of fun embellishing them. Warning here folks, this may become addictive. They are so cute and tiny! lol I can picture them in the guest bathroom or out on my balcony...either way I can't wait to make some more.

Spring Home Decor Challenge in the Moxie Fab World
also entering in
Anything But a Card - Challenge 15 Spring or Alice in Wonderland

Do make sure that anything you adhere to the tea lights is out of the way of the flame!!

Maya Road - Fabric Tape
Ranger - Tissue Tape
Recollections - flower
twine, button, fiber - misc
Helmar - 450 Adhesive



heliacal: adjective

relating to or near the sun — used especially of the last setting of a star before and its first rising after invisibility due to conjunction with the sun's rising and setting
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Let's Get Stitchy is the challenge over at Take it on Tuesday!!
( stitching can be real or faux )

Our sponser this month is

Crafty -emblies is our sponsor for January, with a £10 store voucher for our lucky winner this month.
( currency convertor )
 

I sooooooooooo love stitching on my projects!

Here is the one I completed for the challenge:

The easiest and best way to add a special touch to your card is a simple border. Just straight line stitching.

 

Reminisce - pattern paper

Studio G - house stamp ( stamped and paper pieced back together )

 

examples of other hand stitching:

 

You can sew shapes, here is a stitched rainbow shape and then I used chalks to help highlight the colors :)

 

Or, if your up to some French Knots, they add awesome texture!

or, if you are the more adventurous type you can do something like this:
Here I stitched the bristles to the brush, the bristles that are "dipped in green paint" are fibers glued on. This is one I would consider a little bit of mixed media.

 

Now for anyone that has never done hand stitching on a card, here are a few basic rules.

 

These are the tools to my trade :) Nothing fancy or high tech here. You will note an old piece of Styrofoam that I use as a base to push my fancy hole piercer through. And yes, my hole piercer is nothing more than a needle jammed into a pencil eraser. I do love my Fiber Friend and it helps to make all my spacing perfect, although I don't always use it.

 

Punch your holes BEFORE sewing, otherwise your paper can bend or tear.

 

Do not knot the thread on the back as it can still slip through the hole, but tape your beginning and end piece of thread down.

 

Do not stitch directly onto your base card. Always sew onto a separate piece of paper that you will adhere to the base card stock. That way the stitches on the back will not be visible.

 

 Sew simple, yes?