Patterned Papered Dreams

Layered backgound

Hello! How's your weekend? Mine is a relaxed one. Much needed :) So, as the title says, today I'm sharing a card that features the layered background technique. Hero Arts artist Shari Carroll rocks this technique in this article and video. And this is my take on it:

 
Well, I used much bolder colors, but love how it turned out. All the stamps used are Hero Arts. I'm hooked to this big sentiments set lately :)

Thanks for stopping by and have a fab weekend!

Supplies: Cardstock: Bazill; Stamps: Hero Arts; Ink: Versamagic, Versafine, Distress, PTI ; Pearls: Basic Grey.

A luggage tag for my son

My 22 months old son is a real traveler. Since he was 2 months and to this day he has crossed the Atlantic Ocean no less that 10 times! So he deserved his very own luggage tag, didn't he? Actually, the three of us deserve at least one trip in bussiness class after so much ocean crossing stuffed in those awful dwarf-designed seats, but guess taht won't be possible any day soon ;)

This weeks Hero Arts Club challenge asked us to create something travel/vacation related, so this is my entry. I hadn't any travel related stamps, but I had this cute DCWV cardstock from the Summer Travel collection. For the tag base I recycled a long and very thick piece of chipboard from packaging (can't remember the product, sorry!). Then I adhered the papperned paper, embellished with more paper and stamping, setted the eyelet and cut and machine stitched the clear cover from an acetate sheet.

So that's it for today. We have the whole sunday ahead to do family things such as sit in front of the fire and rant about the cold outside. Or we could actually venture outside and then feel really lucky for having a big ol' fireplace when we get home.

Have a nice sunday and thanks for stopping by! 

Supplies: super thick piece of cardstock recycled from packaging; Stamps: HA CL183 (Sparkle Clear cute letters), CL174 (Sparkle Clear Live it up), CL151 (Share Laughter), CL266 (Mix&Match Elements), Technique Tuesday Hanging by a Thread; PP: DCWV Summer Travel collection; Ink: Colorbox Primary Elements and Jelly Beans; Others: Acetate sheet, sewing machine, silver eyelet. 

Moroccan slippers with a twist

Good morning! Our sunday is just beginning and today we plan a visit to the enormous Tristan Narvaja flea market, which is one of the most amazing places for thrifts hunting I've ever seen. And then we'll have lunch in a small arab restaurant where you can find real cous-cous, hummus, tabuleh and falafel. And when I say real, I really mean it! We often get food delivered from there but actually we've never been to the place, so today will be the day.

But before leaving I wanted to share what I created for Tina's Traveling Inspiration Challenge #1 at Travelingmama. The inspiration photo shows some lovely moroccan slippers...

Aren't they beautiful?

So I wanted to created something that resembled them, and what it popped to my mind was to craft my very own mini-slippers in the form of gift tags.

I used a very textured cardstock to evocate the leather, and then stamps and bling for the ornate pattern.

A sentiment in the middle of the slippers finishes the little tags.

As you can see I keep messing around with the way I use the photos in my posts, but I'm still struggling to improve my use of the Typepad options, so sorry for any optical inconvenience while you're visiting here! ;)

 For the picture I used the base of my small 
cous cous pot that I bought when I lived in Melilla years ago. And that I've never used for it's main purpose because I have no idea of how to cook a decent cous-cous.

Supplies: Textured cardstock: Ursus; Stamps: Hero Arts (all sentiments, yellow flower), Crate Paper (long flower stamp used as slipper stitching and green flower), Sassafrass Lass (pink flower). Ink: Colorbox Silks'n Satins pigment queue; Others: Bling, twill.

Thanks for stopping by and have a lovely sunday!