Christmas in July - New Release of Stamps

Texana Designs is gearing up for Christmas.  Check out the new stamps available now.

If you are near New Braunfels 7/11/15 morning, stop by Scrapbook 'n' More for a great make'n'take.

Paper Piecing Owls & Books

You may ask "what is paper piecing".  It's a cool technique that I learned from Jam'n Stamps spectacular artist, Joyce Meyer.  An image is stamped (and sometimes embossed) several times on different papers.  Next the individual pieces (body, wings, head, etc) are cut and separated and glued onto the bottom image.  Here it is up close and personal.

I stamped and embossed the owl on a cream colored patterned paper.  I used my Brother Scan'n'Cut to cut out the image with a small border.  I stamped the owl again on a darker cream for the wings and the head, I used the striped paper for the body.  I also cut the beak out and layered it on top.  I used colored pencils to color the branch, beak and feet.  I also lightly shaded the wings.  In order to make the eyes really pop, I used my white pen.

This was a fun project.  There are so many ways to paper piece Texana Stamps.  The card above I used the book stamp as if the two exposed edges were the pages of the book.  The two cards below show one edge as the bookbinding and one edge as the pages.  So versatile!

For this sample I used a printed paper that keeps in step with the anniverary theme.  For this one I also removed the branch and placed the owl directly on the books.

This sample my paper pad had fewer choices of coordinating papers, so the background is the same as the body of the owl.  I wanted to make it a bit different, so I used colored pencils and a blending tool to shade the body.

Product used:

Texana Designs Stamps:  Owl (lg), Books (lg) &
sentiments:  Owl always love you! &
This anniversary is for the books!
sentiment: This birthday is for the books!
or sentiment:  Owl never bee too old to read!
Graphic 45 6x6 Paper Pad
Distress Ink - Vintage Photo


Technique:  Paper Piecing
Texana Design Team
9/01/2015
Samples by Janet Bradshaw

Iris by Jilda

Another Great card!

  

Zentangled Tulip by Jilda

I love this card by TDDT member, Jilda. Thanks for sharing!

Watercolored Sand Dollars by Libby

Sand Dollar, Life is better with Friends from Texana Designs
Cardstock from MFT, Hero Arts
Watercolor paint
Pens (black Glaze, white gel)
Archival black ink
Ranger Distress crackle paint
Distress stains & inks
Hemptique twine

Check out Libby's Blog here for more details.

Texana Designs Stamps as Scrapbook Layout Embellishments

YOU CAN’T CROSS THE OCEAN

JS001S—Shell (Fan)-small,JS004S-Starfish small,JS003S-Sand Dollar small,

JS002-Shell (snail) small,JS004m-Starfish mini,JS003m-Sand Dollar mini,

JS001m—Shell (Fan) mini,JS00m-Shell (snail) mini,JS005-Sun,TD144 you can’t cross the ocean.

Cardstock

VersaFine Black Onyx Ink

Distress Inks for aging

 BOOTS AND BLUEBONNETS

100703S Boot (small), WF026-Jam’n Bluebonnet #2, TD037 There’s no place

…..Springtime.

VeraMark to stamp sentiment on background

VersaFine Black Onyx Ink to stamp images

Boot colored with Distress Markers

BlueBonnets colored with Sakura Stardust Markers

And The Winner is......

And the winner of the Texana Designs Blog Hop drawing is: Paula Kay Bourland. 

We will be mailing all the cards created for Texana Designs Blog Hop to Paula.

Thank you to all who participated.