Challenge #5: The Whole Story... at Stampin' Dymonz Creative Space

Challenge #5: The Whole Story... at Stampin' Dymonz Creative Space
This has been so much fun. The final chapter of this series of challenges is here and boy was it a challenge.
Here are the rules:

Take the background you created over the last two weeks and make a Father's Day layout. Your layout can be made to insert into an album, as a wall hanging, or inside of a shadow box. Your layout must include the following elements:

• Handmade flowers -- at least 3.
• A hand colored digital image -- at least 1.
• A photograph -- at least 1.
• Butterflies -- at least 3.

For the past two weeks I have been learning two mixed media techniques: Credit Card Painting and Serendipity. Part of the instructions were to leave the project created untouched so that we could use it for the following week's challenge.

From the beginning I knew who I wanted to honor through this LO: my dear husband and of course a great dad!

There was just a tiny little problem: Didn't have a clue as of what I was going to do!!!

As days passed, inspiration came to me and a sketch was born.

I had to have at least three butterflies and since I couldn’t make up my mind on the patterned paper, decided to paint some more paper, heat embossed it with gold embossing powder and die cut them.
The flowers are simple handmade lollipop flowers.
The background paper created in Challenge 3 and 4 are the accent pieces on my LO and bring everything together.
Here it is:

Recipe:
DCWV and COLORBOK cardstock
Me & My Big Ideas Patterned Paper
Image: Lost in Paper Scraps
Tim  Holtz Ranger Distress Ink: Peeled Paint and Broken China
Versamark
Stamp: Unity Stamp Ser: Now and Always
Embossing Powder
Acrylic Paints: Deep Teal, Holly Berry, Caramel, and Pure Gold
Adhesive
Cricut Expression
Sentimentals Cartridge
Heat Gun
Buttons

 Some details:

Please follow this link to see the other entries!

Thanks for visiting!

Love

Julia

Tim Times Ten Grand Give-A-Way Challenge: Day Eight

Tim Times Ten Grand Give-A-Way Challenge: Day Eight
Your challenge today is to create a distressed tag. You must use a minimum of 3 colors of ink. You must use at least 1 image stamp and 1 sentiment stamp. You must color your sentiment stamp using two different ink colors and stamp -- this should be one press on the tag and not "stamp one color, clean stamp, stamp second color." A unique piece of ribbon or other embellishment should be used for the hole in the tag.
This one was fun, I felt like a little girl playing with colors. This technique is special; no way to duplicate a piece.

The sentiment for this tag is from a rubber stamp that a dear friend of mine gave me some time ago, don't know what company it's from, but I like it a lot.
To ink the sentiment I use black ink and a silver one. This picture doesn't show the two colors clearly, but there is a picture below where it’s clear.
Hope you like it, because I love it!!!

 Here are some details:

Click HERE to see all the wonderful creations. Everyone is doing a great job!!!

To all of you who have taken from your time to visit my blog:

Thanks!

Love,
Julia