SISC9 ~ Create Your Own Background! And a BONUS Tweaked Technique!

Happy Thursday, Groovy Groupies! Got lots of fun stuff for you this week!  First, we have some new releases, one that should remind you of a certain love triangle… or not!  It is called What The Heart Wants.  And another set of immortally inspired rubber sentiments!  If you liked Otherworldly Loves, you will completely dig Simply Supernatural!

PLUS – we have a special Tweaked Technique from published art author, Roni Johnson! You can find other fabulous techniques on her blog, Ink Stains, or in her book! Be sure to check out her site for more info!!

NOW!  On with the Tweaking…  This is a tweak on the shaving cream technique, and it presents all sorts of insanely cool possibilities for texture and pattern!  Give it a try – we CAN’T WAIT to see what you come up with!

Mousse Me! Supplies:

Mousse  *   Dye Reinker   * White Cardstock   *   Heat Tool or Embossing Gun   * Gloves (optional)   *   Scraper, Craft Spatula, Popsicle Stick (optional)

Instructions:

1. Spread a layer of mousse over your cardstock.
2. Add one drop of ink to the mousse. Spread around in circular motions with your fingers, scrapper, craft spatula, popsicle stick, etc. Don’t over blend.
3. Melt the mousse with a heat tool. You will notice as the mousse begins to melt the ink will be absorbed into the cardstock in some really cool patterns.
4. Repeat with 2^nd and 3^rd color(s) if desired.

Soooo…   This week we are challenging you to try out the Mousse Me technique, (or another technique you choose to share!), and create your own background!  It is so easy to get wrapped up in designing around your paper – make your paper fit your design!!  We can’t wait to see what you come up with!  Here are the Groovies with their amazing-as-always projects!

Juanita (Groovy Guest Gurl)

Alison

Suzi

Jennifer

Lisa

Margie

***COMING SOON***

Jacquie

TTIC #4 ~ Twilight Tuesday, Hooray!

It’s Twilight Tuesday again! That means another card inspired by Stephenie Meyer’s gift to vamp lovers everywhere ~ the Twilight saga!

This week, we were to be inspired by my girl, Alice Cullen! This girl rocks out loud. I absolutely LOVE Alice! And, for the record, I think that whoever is responsible for casting Ashley Greene in the movie deserves some massively cool award. She is perfect. (Isn’t Jas just adorable in that picure, too?!)

So, we know Alice can see into the future, once decisions have been made, et al. She is considered to be especially talented among the vamps in Meyerland. She oozes haute couture style (even rocking it in rural Washington state!) and is a girl who can seriously kick some ass when need be! She is loyal, and has an awesome way of relating to her family and friends. You can always rely on Alice, and she takes that very seriously. She just rocks… have I said that yet? So here is what I came up with with, with Alice in mind:

The lovely Eve sent me this photo after I spent a whole email gushing about Alice’s awesomeness and the fabulous casting of AG ~ look at those Topaz eyes! Awesome picture! (Thanks for sharing it, Eve!)

What ability would you have?

If I could choose a supernatural ability, I would totally opt for the ability to alter time. I would like to be able to go back and revisit, and go forward to see what’s up. Particularly, on the heels of reading Twilight, I would love to go back and revisit high school ~ I would remind myself that HS is one of the greatest times in life, and that failing my driving test the first time (WHAT?!) wasn’t really the end of the world… Is there a character on Heroes for that? Plus, I would really like to jump ahead a few years and see what the new Prez will do… or jump ahead about a month to the TWILIGHT opening!

Check out these awesome submissions for the challenge, too:

Tonya Klar

Eve Fowler

TTIC #3 – Yep, It’s Twilight Day!

Welcome to this week’s Twilight Tuesday Inspiration Challenge! The inspiration this week comes from our wonderful Eve!
Eve’s choice for this week’s inspiration piece, Edward’s Meadow!!

This week’s challenge was so fun – we were instructed to use the infamous meadow scene as our inspiration. Yeah, baby! This is the scene that started it all for Stephenie Meyer – her dream of a perfect vampire, in a perfect meadow, professing his love to his Bella. Here’s my interpretation.

Of course, I had to include the most awesome quote from the whole series (well, except for the Volvo one!): “And so the lion fell in love with the lamb.” ~Edward

“Such a stupid lamb.” ~Bella

We know that Edward “dazzles” in the sunlight - literally, so I used Dazzling Diamonds and Crystal Effects to add the sparkle to the quotes and the leaves. We also learn that the forest is overwhelmingly green to Bella, so I used baby wipes on the background, and Always Artichoke, Certainly Celery and Barely Banana classic ink (reinkers) and graduated the hues from bottom to top to create the green forest floor, to the brilliant, sunny day they spent in their perfect meadow. I varied stroke styles until I got the ‘feeling’ I was going for. I wish the picture did it justice – it looks very subtle, but just right in person!

Twilight Tuesday Inspiration Challenge #2

Well, this may be my lamest IC submission ever! I had such high hopes: a mosaic of the Forks students, with the Stupid, Shiny Volvo and Bella’s ‘choice’ represented universally throughout as the apple… It had such potential… Alas, here is what I have to share. Remember what Momma said – if you don’t have anything nice to say…

I chose the Night of Navy and Summer Sun colors, well, because they are the real FHS colors! The rest is pretty basic. I used the Puzzle Piece Sizzix die and the scallop square Nestie. I feel like the universal feeling of high school is making the ‘pieces fit’, and Bella and Edwada re no exception. I used Wild Wasabi, because Bella was always saying Forks was “too green”, and that occurred to her often when she was going to school in the rain! Of course, Edward’s sinky and new Volvo was the obviously out-of-place vehicle in the school lot – prompting on of my favorie quotes: “Stupid, shiny Volvo owner.” Funny!

WHAT ABOUT FORKS HS REMINDS YOU OF YOUR HS EXPERIENCE?

Everything! When I read the scenes from the school, I picture it happening in my high school – (the one they are tearing down this month!) :{ I imagine the parking lot between the wings, the cafeteria with it’s big black dragon painted on the wall, the dreaded Bio lab. It was a fun walk back through HS. Specifically, I never dated any hot vampires, or had a van come flying at me, though.

My Lovely Vampires

I know, I know… this Twilight obsession is getting outta control. It is just such a visual, lovely story. *sigh* Plus, StampVamp has started doing her own Twilight-inspired masterpieces, so I have to keep up! ANY-hoo… Here is my inspiration for this one:

And this one, if you are familiar with Twilight at all, you know that Edward *sigh* “dazzles” in every way. Hence this one:

It is exceptionally hard to capture Pearl Ex on film – if you have never seen or used it, you are missing out! It is very subtle and shimmery. In this picture, it looks grey, when in facy, it is just the Basic Black cardstock with shimmery Micro Pearl powder blended into it. (The fourish is from Baroque Motifs, and was stamped with VersaMark ink.) Both quotes are from the first book.

Yeah, I am sufficiently dazzled. By Edward *sigh*, not the card! lol Who wouldn’t be dazzled by him: Wholly selfish eye candy for the blog mistress here…

I make no apologies! I’ll be back with more cards and some FABULOUS samples from Amazing Jane’s meeting a couple of weeks back… Stay Tuned!

Happy Birthday, Vamp!

I am completely engrossed in a vampire series of novels, so this one has the obvious influence! Fortunately, Vamp is reading the same series! We are sharing our obsession… Gotta LOVE vampires!!

This was an exceptionally hard card to photograph – specifically, because I used Pearl Ex and Lumiere liquid medium, which allows for the subtle metallic sheen to the background images, but apparently is incredibly light-reflective! Grrrr… I also added Crystal Effects to the popped Calla lilies. Ugh – it looks MUCH better in person. ANYHOO… her birthday is next week! Drop by and say ‘hey’!