Laser Cut Leather Tree of Life

Today was the last day of Beginner Laser Cutting.  I created a Celtic Tree of Life Pendant out of leather.

One Little Craft Tag Challenge #274

On a chipboard tag, layer decorative paper and purple  card stock.  Stamp the witch in Archival Ink Jet Black and color with inktense pencils.  Using foam tape, attach to the tag.  Adhere black gems to the tag.  Adhere bakers twine and orange fabric to the card.  

Dolled Up Sista Creations

This was a creation from a class I took at the library.  The class was called Dolled Up Sisters and  the instructor was Shalonda Menefee from Sistas

My friend took the class with me and this is a picture of both of our creations. 

Laser Engraving Necklace

Here is the necklace I made at the Rockwood Library Markers Space. 

Shell Box

I took a class at the Oak Lodge library.  The shell box was chipboard and was painted blue and when once dry sponge a lighter shade of blue.  Let dry.  Adhere grey ribbon.  With a blue sharpie, doodle on the shells then adhere them to the box.  

One Little Craft Tag Challenge #256

On a manila tag, stamp the Prima Princess with Archival Ink Tree Branch.  Color with Zig Clean Color Real Brush Makers.  Adhere layers of decorative paper to the tag.  Stamp the top of the princess on white cardstock with the same ink.  Stamp the word "Autumn" on the piece of cardstock in Archival Ink Jet Black.  Adhere cardstock to the tag.  Adhere buttons and sequins on tag.  Tie twine on top of the tag.  

3-D printing

I took a beginning level 3-D printing class.  I have never used a 3-D printer and struggled with thinking in 3-D mode versus the 2-D.  I made a sign to hang in my studio.  

One Little Craft Tag Challenge #255

On a bristol tag, blend three colors of Distress Oxide inks (Wild Honey, Spiced Marmalade and Fossilized Amber)  through a honeycomb stencil (Stencil1).  Splatter water drops on the tag and dry with a paper towel.  On a page from a vintage dictionary, stencil bee with black paint and let dry.  Outline the bee with water soluble Stabilo Marks All Pencil in black.  Blend with water and let dry.  Cut out the bee and adhere to the tag.  Adhere the word sticker on tag and adhere chunky gold glitter and let dry.   

One Little Craft Tag Challenge #254

On a bristol tag, blend Distress Oxides (Picked Raspberries, Peacock Feathers, and Wilted Violet)  using the ink smooshing technique.  Let dry.  Stamp the swirl (Unknown) with Distress Oxides in Peacock Feather.  Stamp the hearts and sentiment (Dina Wakley) with Archival Ink Jet Black.  

One Little Craft Tag Challenge #253

On a bristol tag, use dylusions spray in Vibrant Turquoise in the ink smooshing technique and let dry.  With Archival Ink Jet Black, repeatedly stamp the bird square stamps (Unknown) on the tag.  Punch bird out of black cardstock several times.  Adhere the punches to the tag.  Stamp the word on label with the same ink and apply tag.  Adhere washi tape to the tag.  

One Little Craft Tag Challenge #252

Adhere vintage sheet music to a chipboard tag.  Using water soluble color pencils, outline the Stencil1 mum stencil and blend with water.  Let dry.  Outline the images with a Black Copic Marker.  Adhere sequins.  Layer sticker on blank piece of paper, tear out and adhere to the tag.  

One Little Craft Tag Challenge #251

On a chipboard tag, adhere several different decorative paper.  Adhere the cork piece to the tag and layer the wooden bird on the cork.

One Little Craft Tag Challenge #250

Stamp the prima princess stamp on a bristol tag with Archival Ink Carnation Red.  Color with Jane Davenport Mermaid Markers.  Using the ink smooshing technique, apply the Lobster Mermaid Marker to the edges of the tag.  

One Little Craft Tag Challenge #249

Over a chipboard tag with decorative masking tag.  Stamp the images (Blockhead Stamps) on text paper with Archival Ink Carnation Red and tear out.  Blend Black Soot Distress Oxide around the edges to create a burned edges.  Adhere the images to the tag.

This tag was inspired by Ophelia Staton's Youtube Challenge for Jerry's Artarama  https://youtu.be/Do66bQl4kpo.  Red is my least favorite color and I rarely create with it and struggle to use it as the main color.

One Little Craft Tag Challenge #248

On red tissue paper stamp the lips image (Stampendous) with Archival Ink Jet Black and let dry.  Crumple up and then flatten.  Adhere to chipboard tag that has been gessoed.  Tear a strip of decorative packing tape and adhere to the tag.  Enhance the tape with graphite.  Stamp the image (Viva Las Vegas Stamps) on a piece of kraft cardstock with Archival Ink Jet Black.  Cut out and adhere to the tag.  Adhere the decorative packing tape to a piece of text weight paper (to make it easier to cut out).  Draw wonky circles with graphite and cut out.  Adhere to the tag.

This tag was inspired by Ophelia Staton's Youtube Challenge for Jerry's Artarama  https://youtu.be/Do66bQl4kpo.  Red is my least favorite color and I rarely create with it and struggle to use it as the main color.

One Little Craft Tag Challenge #247

On  piece of vintage sheet music brush rubber cement and let cure.  I let it cure overnight to ensure it is completely dry.  Paint over the sheet music with a red water soluble oil pastel and activate with water.  Let dry and then rub off rubber cement.  Adhere to a chipboard tag.  Adhere red washi tape.  Color the flower image (Stitch Back in Twine) with Inktense pencils.  Blend with water and let dry.  Cut out, emphasis the edges with a black marker and adhere to the tag.  Doodle on the image to create stamen.  Outline the image with graphite color Stabilo Marks All pencil and blend with water.

This tag was inspired by Ophelia Staton's Youtube Challenge for Jerry's Artarama  https://youtu.be/Do66bQl4kpo.  Red is my least favorite color and I rarely create with it and struggle to use it as the main color.

The flowergirl image is a digi image I  won in a challenge.  It is from Stitch back in Twine 

One Little Craft Tag Challenge #246

On a piece of a kraft paper bag stamp the script stamp (A Stamp in the Hand) several times with Candied Apple Distress Oxide and spray with water.  Crumple up and then flatten out.  Stamp lines (Unknown) with same ink.  Adhere the piece of paper to a chipboard tag.  Fray some red burlap and adhere to the tag.  Stamp the fox image (Unknown) on a piece of canvas with Archival Ink Carnation Red and fray the edges of the canvas.  Adhere to the tag.  Using a vintage label maker create the sentiment.

This tag was inspired by Ophelia Staton's Youtube Challenge for Jerry's Artarama  https://youtu.be/Do66bQl4kpo

This tag is also part of my personal challenge to find as many ways to use the script stamp as possible.  

One Little Craft Tag Challenge #245

Paint a chipboard tag with gesso and let dry.  Using a paint brush and my finger I painted and blended several colors of acrylic paint.  Let dry.  Stamp the images on the tag.  The couple is from Stampotique, the numbers are from Stampers Anonymous and the script is from A Stamp In The Hand.  All stamp was done with Archival Ink Jet Black.

On this tag, I used the script stamp from A Stamp in The Hand to create depth to my collage.  This is for my personal challenge to use this stamp as many ways as possible.

This tag was inspired by Ophelia Staton's Youtube Challenge for Jerry's Artarama  https://youtu.be/Do66bQl4kpo.  Red is my least favorite color and I rarely create with it and struggle to use it as the main color.

One Little Craft Tag Challenge #244

Collage different vintage text paper on a chipboard tag and let dry.  Color with Portfolio water soluble oil pastels and blend.  Let dry.  Blend Distress Oxide in Antique Linen to age the text weight paper.  Let dry.  Stamp the images (Muses - Lost Coast Designs and the stamps - Fiskars) with Distress Oxide Fired Brick.  Tear out and edge with Distress Oxide in Fired Brick.  Adhere to the tag.

This tag was inspired by Ophelia Staton's Youtube Challenge for Jerry's Artarama  https://youtu.be/Do66bQl4kpo.  Red is my least favorite color and I rarely create with it and struggle to use it as the main color.

One Little Craft Tag Challenge #243

On a mixed media tag, spray three colors of dylusions inks, here I used Calypso Teal, Crushed Grape and London Blue.  Let dry.  Using a large watercolor paint brush and clear water draw large circles and then blot with a paper towel roll.  Let dry.  Stamp the stars (Dylusions) with Calypso Teal Archival Ink.  With a finger tool, apply white acrylic paint in places and blend.  Stamp the giraffe stamp on lined paper three time with Archival Ink in Paradise Teal and Majestic Purple.  Tear around the images, outline the edges with ink and adhere to the tag.   Stamp the word on the lined paper with Archival Ink Majestic Purple and tear out.  Outline the edges with ink and adhere to the tag.  

One Little Craft Tag Challenge #242

Paint a chipboard tag with gesso and let dry.  Paint the tag with several colors of acrylic paint and let dry.  Using a dylusions figure mask, paint around the image with black acrylic paint.  Let dry.  With a white Stabilo Marks All Pencil write "X" and "O" .  Cut out face from an advertisement and adhere to the tag.  Apply washi tape.  Outline the image and the tape with black paint pen.

One Little Craft Tag Challenge #241

Paint a chipboard tag with gesso and let dry.  Brush random colors of metallic acrylic paint and let dry.  On mixed media paper, heat emboss the seashell (Judikins) and then color with watercolor paints.  Let dry and then cut out.  Adhere to shell to the tag.  With water soluble graphite write the word "Ocean."

One Little Craft Tag Challenge #240

Color a color book image with stabilo markers and Crayola color pencils.  Cut out and adhere to a black tag.  

One Little Craft Tag Challenge #239

Paint a chipboard tag with gesso and let dry.  Paint two colors of acrylic paint on the tag and let dry.  Out of black cardstock punch the black birds.  Adhere to the tag.  Outline with White Stabilo Marks All Pencil.  Doodle swirls on the top of the tag with the same white pencil.  Stamp the sentiment (Stampendous) with Archival Ink Jet Black. 

Paste Book

This is the cover

This was a project that I created in a class at the Oak Lodge Library.  The book was created by using fabric to bind posterboard pages together.  Then pictures, decorative paper, and stickers were collaged on to the page.  

First page spread

Second page spread

Last page.

One Little Craft Tag Challenge #238

On a manilla tag blend Distress Oxide Ink in Worn Lipstick and Picked Raspberry.  Lay a stencil (Dylusions) on the tag and lift the color with a babywipe  Heat set the ink.  Using the same stencil, blend Broken China Distress Oxide and heat set.  Stamp the swirl with Broken China Distress Oxide Ink several times.  Heat set.  Stamp the film strip image(Fiskars) with Archival Ink Jet Black.  Stamp the figure (Dina Wakley)  and the sentiment with the same ink. Doodle random lines with a Fude pen in black.  Stamp sequins to the tag.  

One Little Craft Tag Challenge #237

On a mixed media tag, sprinkle Ken Oliver Color Brust through a stencil and activate with water.  Let dry.  Stamp the wonky lines (Unknown) with Archival Ink Jet Black.  To create the squares on a mixed media paper, spray three colors of dylusions inks, here I used Calypso Teal, Crushed Grape and London Blue.  Let dry.  Using a large watercolor paint brush and clear water draw large circles and then blot with a paper towel roll.  Let dry.  Stamp the stars (Dylusions) with Calypso Teal Archival Ink. Cut into two inch sqares and stitch around the edges.  Adhere to tag.  Stamp the image (Rubbernecker) with Archival Ink Jet Black on vintage sheet music and adhere to the tag.  

One Little Craft Tag Challenge #236

On a watercolor tag, smoosh three colors of acrylic paint using the paint smooshing technique.  Let dry.  Tear out the image from a single layer of napkin.  Adhere to the tag using the napkin applique technique.  Let dry.  Stamp the word (Unknown) in Archival Black Ink.  Create texture with several designs of washi tape.  

One Little Craft Tag Challenge #235

On a watercolor tag, spread pink, yellow and orange acrylic paint and let dry.  Stamp the female image (Prima Marketing) three times on bristol paper with Archival Ink Jet Black.  Color highlights with color pencils.  Color the images with Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers and blend with water.  Cut out and adhere to the tag.  Layer and adhere paper flowers.  Enbellish with gold glitter.  Let dry.  

One Little Craft Tag Challenge #234

Color a watercolor tag with three colors of watercolor crayons and blend with water.  Let dry.  Stamp repeatedly with the phrase stamp with Archival Ink Jet Black.  Doodle with a white posca marker.  Color the digital stamps (A Stitch Back in Twine) with inktense pencils and blend with water.  Cut out limps and adhere to the tag.  Blend water soluble charcoal under the lips.

One Little Craft Tag Challenge #233

Recently I have started going through old art journals to decrease the amount of stuff in my life.  I had several (Ok five) partially completed journals) and so I decided to take three of them and use the pages as tag bases.  A few of the journal pages turned into great tags all on there own.  This is one of them.

I created this collage at least 5 years ago.  Most of the images are vintage images with matte medium used as collage glue.  There is always stickers, die cuts, stamping and netting on the collage.  

One Little Craft Tag Challenge #232

Smoosh a watercolor tag into a pool of  Jane Davenport Mermaid Marker ink and let dry.  Emboss kraft cardstock using a Sizzix embossing folder and enhance the design with panpastels.  Seal with hairspray, tear and adhere to tag.  Die cut a piece of kraft paper and stamp the sentiment (Recollections) with Archival Ink Jet Black.Emphasis the edges of the die cut with an india ink marker and adhere to the tag.  Stamp the image (Invoke) in Archival Ink Shadow Grey on bristol paper.  Color with Jane Davenport Mermaid Markers and let dry.  Adhere to the tag.  Adhere sequins to the tag.  

One Little Craft Tag Challenge #231

I started this stenciled collage about 5 years ago in a journal.  Recently I have been culling my old art journals for material for tags.  I use most of the material at tag bases but this one worked perfect at a tag on its own.  So I do not have any really instructions on how I created this because I can't remember. The tag includes stamping the circles in black and stenciling the blue waves, tulips, and the letters.

This tag was entered into the challenge at Lost Coast Design Portal of Creativity Challenge #39 Stenciled Background.

One Little Craft Tag Challenge #230

Smoosh a kraft tag into a pool of black acrylic paint and let dry.  Emboss a piece of kraft paper with an embossing folder from Sizzix.  Tear and adhere  the tag.  Adhere the elephant image (LunaGirl) to a piece of black cardstock with kraft photo corners.  Adhere the image to the tag.  Using a vintage dymo labeler create the sentiment and adhere to the tag.

The setiment is a line from a song called Africa is the Mother of the Beat by Palenke Soultribe.

One Little Craft Tag Challenge #229

Stamp the image (Prima Marketing) with Archival Ink Jet Black onto a bristol tag.  Color with Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers and blend with water.  Let dry.  Adhere vintage text to the bottom of the tag and then adhere the felt die cut over the vintage text.

One Little Craft Tag Challenge #228

Gesso a chipboard tag and let dry.  Paint the tag with yellow acrylic paint and let dry.  Stencil the cobblestone swirls (Recollections) with pink paint and let dry.  Stamp the flamingo stamp with Archival Ink Jet Black.  Create an eye with a white paint marker.  Adhere letter stickers and sequins to the tag.

This tag was entered into the challenge at Lost Coast Portal to Creativity #39 Stenciled Background.

One Little Craft Tag Challenge #227

Adhere striped decorative paper to a chipboard tag.  Adhere gold dresden trim and floral vellum to the tag.  Adhere torn tag to the tag and then layer vintage image over it.  Punch holes and adhere brads to the tag. Use one brad to adhere beauty die cut. Adhere stickers to the tag  

One Little Craft Tag Challenge #226

Paint a watercolor tag with orange acrylic paint and let dry.  Stamp the background image and the game pieces with Archival Ink Jet Black.  Stamp the female image (Character Construction) and the sentiment (Invoke)  on vintage text with Archival Ink Jet Black.  Tear out and adhere to the tag.  

One Little Craft Tag Challenge #225

Adhere vintage music sheet to a chipboard tag and distress with masking tape.  Stencil the heart (Tim Holtz) with pink acrylic paint.  Move the stencil around to create a bokeh effect.  Let dry.  Stamp the heart image and sentiment with Archival Ink Jet Black.

This tag was entered into the challenge at Lost Coast Design Portal of Creativity #39 Stenciled Background. 

One Little Craft Tag Challenge #224

Adhere vintage dictionary page to a chipboard tag and let dry.  Color the tag with panpastels  in light blue and pink.  Stencil the background with a buttercream stencil and pantpatels.  Seal with hairspray.  Stamp the dancer (Lost Coast Designs) and the word (Unknown) with Archival Ink Jet Black.  Adhere sequins to the tag.

This tag was entered into the challenge at Lost Coast Portal to Creativity #39 Stenciled Background.

One Little Craft Tag Challenge #223

White heat emboss all the images (Altenew) on a watercolor tag, mask as necessary. Color the images with Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers and blend with water.  Let dry. Create the sentiment with a vintage dymo labeler and adhere label to the tag.

This tag was entered into the August Inspiration Challenge at Altenew,  See the picture below for the inspiration

One Little Craft Tag Challenge #222

Gesso a chipboard tag and let dry.  Stencil the pineapple image with florescent yellow and let dry.  Then over stencil with florescent pink and let dry.  Embellish each pineapple crown with gold glitter.  Let dry.  Stamp the word with Archival Ink Jet Black.  

One Little Craft Tag Challenge #221

Paint a chipboard tag with gesso and let dry.  Spread acrylic paint with a gift card to blend a shade of blue and purple.  Let dry. Stamp the corgi (Jessica Lynn Designs) and speech bubble with Archival Ink Jet Black.  On text weight paper blend Distress Oxide ink in Wilted Violet and heat set.  Stamp the sentiment with Archival Ink Jet Black and an alphabet stamp set.  Tear out and adhere to tag.  With a stabilo all pencil create ground fro the dog to stand on as well as create an outline around the sentiment and the tag.  Blend with water.

This tag was entered into the challenge at Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers #90 - M is for Mink

This tag was entered into the Paper Craft Happy Challenge #4 - Animals

This tag was entered into the challenge at Craft Rocket #40 - Animal Kingdom

This tag was entered into the Crafty Animals Challenge #5 - Anything with an Animal

This tag was entered into the August challenge at Penny Black - All Creatures Great and Small

This tag was entered into the Dragonfly Dreams August Challenge - Animals

This tag was entered into the challenge at 2 Crafty Critter Crazies #5 - Anything with Animals

This tag was entered into the Crafting from the Heart Challenge #171 - Anything Goes

This tag was entered into the challenge at Crafty Creations #347 - Anything Goes. 

This tag was also entered into the That's Crafty Challenge - Anything but a Card.

One Little Craft Tag Challenge #220

On a watercolor tag, scrap orange and lime green acrylic paint with a plastic card.  Let dry.  Stamp the "hills" (Dylusions) with Archival Ink Jet Black.  Stamp the dog images (Tim Holtz) with Archival Ink Jet Black.  Color the details with colored pencils and then paint the bodies with watercolor and let dry.  Cut out and emphasis the edge with an india ink marker.  Adhere to the tag.  Write the words with an alcoholic ink marker.

This tag was entered into the challenge at Crazy 4 Challenge #393- Bright and Cheerful.

This tag was entered into Creative Artiste Mixed Media Challenge - Anything Mixed Media

This tag was entered into the challenge at Craft Rocket #40 - Animal Kingdom

This tag was entered into Dragonfly Dreams July Challenge # - Animals

This tag was entered into the August challenge at More Mixed Media - Mixed Media

This tag was entered into Paper Craft Happy Challenge #4 - Animals

This tag was entered into the challenge at Pearly Sparkles # 19- Anything Happy.

This tag was entered into 2 Crafty Critters Crazies Challenge #5 - Animals

This tag was entered into the challenge at Crafty Animals #5 - Animals

This tag was also entered into Penny Black Challenge - All Creatures Great and Small