Marion Smith Designs and Petaloo Blog Hop Day 3

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It is so exciting to be a part of this AMAZING blog hop. Make sure to visit all the designer's blogs from March 24th-28th! There are so many amazing projects being shared ALL week! So keep checking back every day.  

 

 

 

 Make sure you comment and subscribe to each blog, as we will be picking some lucky winners to win some awesome new products from both Marion Smith Designs and Petaloo!

 

Links to each blog can be found on the following sites
Marion Smith Designs and Petaloo

 

 

Welcome to day three of the hop!  Today I wanted to share a little mixed media card that I made for Mother's Day. This card could easily be used for any occasion by changing out the sentiment.  

 

 

 

 

 

I used scraps from the Never Grow Up Sleep Over paper, Mad Tea Party Wonderland paper, Filigree Doily, Tea Party Stamps, Texture Stamps, and Garden Rose Stamps from Marion Smith S

 

 

 

Petaloo's Velvet Hydrangeas Fuchsia flowers are the star of this card.

 

 

 I really wanted to showcase some of the Marion's amazing stamps on my card.  So I painted the Sleepover paper with white gesso to tone down the paper pattern. I then used Archival Coffee Ink to stamp my images.   I even stamped over the wooden filigree and the flowers, to give them texture. 

 

This is one of my home made wooden embellishments that I made with the Tea Party stamps and a  balsa wood piece.  I did a tutorial a few months back.  You can view it here.

 

 

I added some flat back pearls to the center of the flowers, and painted them with my RV09 Copic Marker to match the flowers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 A little Heidi Swapp Gold Lame Color Shine finished this card off with the Midas touch!   I know my Mother is going to love this card.

 

Don't forget to check out my projects from Days 1 & 2 as well. 

 

Thanks for hopping with us today,
don't forget to leave a comment, and subscribe! 

 

Marion Smith Designs Team Blog

 

 Angela Carter

http://www.alwaysangella.blogspot.com/

 

Aneta Matuszewska

 www.artisant2.blogspot.com

Maggie Armstrong

maggiesdoodads.blogspot.com

Sarah Bargo

www.sarahbargodesigns.blogspot.com
 

Ana Paula Leal

http://anapaulalealdarocha.blogspot.com.br/

Colette Nederhoff

http://nederhoffco.blogspot.com

Peggy Baker

 http://www.pegbaker.blogspot.com

 

 Then hop over to

Petaloo's Blog

 

 

Happy Hopping,

 

Tonya

 

 

Card Resources:

 

• Marion Smith Designs - Never Grow Up Paper Collection "Sleepover"
• Marion Smith Designs - Mad Tea Party "Wonder"
• Marion Smith Designs - Filigree Doily  
• Marion Smith Designs - Texture Stamp
• Marion Smith Designs - Tea Party Stamp
• Marion Smith Designs - Garden Rose Stamp
• Petaloo - Velvet Hydrangeas Fuchsia
• Flat back pearls
• Scotch ATG
• Surebonder Detail Glue Gun
• Heidi Swapp Pink Archival Ink
• Heidi Swapp Gold Lame Color Shine
• Recollections Card sentiment
• Tattered Angels Timeless Lilac
• Tattered Angels Tutti Fruiti
• Bazzil Texture Cardstock
• Burlap
• Pearls
• Dollar Bin - Wood filigree
• Liquitex Gesso
• Woodsy - Circles
• Copic RV09
• Ranger - Archival Ink Coffee

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Father's Day Wallet

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I was out blog hopping yesterday and Heidi Swap had the cutest project on her home page.  She made a cute little Father's Day wallet.  I decided that this wallet would be perfect to include in another mini album, in a pocket on a scrapbook page, or as a gift card holder for my husband.

So here is my version:
I wanted mine to have a "grunge & mixed media" tone so I settled on kraft card stock for my base.  I painted some of the panels with red paint and patina Rub & Buff for some. I pulled out distress stains, distress inks, and archival inks and went to town.  For texture & patterns,   I used the "Ultimate Grunge" Stampendous stamp set from Tim Holtz.  The cool thing is you are only limited by your imagination. I decided I needed a little more pop, so I added black magic paint (metallic black) from Folk Art to packing bubble wrap and used that as a stamp. I sprinkled a few tiny quotes and elements as embellishments, and sewed buttons to flaps for a closure.



This view shows the flap opened - I used my Dymo Press Label maker to type this quote "A Dad Puts Pictures Where His Money Used to Be."



On this view you can see how the wallet starts to open  - I used my Pink Paislee Daily Junque stamps to create a small pocket.   The photo is my Daughter, Brittany, in her High School play - The Little Mermaid.



In this view, you can see that I added pictures of my husband with each of our children.  I tried to include memorable pictures from this past year throughout the wallet.



I even included a picture of our dog, Angel who has been in the family for 12 years.   This view is the wallet completely opened.  It is  fun to see the changes in our children in just a few months time.  I placed Tim Holtz Tissue on all of the creases on the inside (make sure you glue under the tissue tape so it stays down), and then stitched over the top of that with my sewing machine.



This is a view of the back of the wallet. 



So how do you make it?
I have a video that explains everything...




Thanks for stopping in today,

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