More Art Tiles!

So the top 3 are not accented yet with Liquid Glass

but the last few pics display those tiles that are. As

you can see these tiles can be made in many

different sizes....not just 1x1, but those are the

most fun for me to make...well, they all are...who

am I kidding! Thanks for stopping by and

taking a looksie...(((HUGS))) Laura I. Gonzalez

***TealBluCrafter***



1st Set of ATC Cards

My 1st set of ATC's...I can see why these

are so addicting! I used several stamps and

distress inks to achieve the end result and I can't

wait to apply some Liquid Glass (CTMH) to

finish them off! Thanks for stopping by ladies...

(((HUGS))) Laura I. Gonzalez

***TealBluCrafter***



Happy Friday Blogging

Okay so this week was rough...very rough. But I have to remember that "This too shall pass" and it has so now lets tend to more happy stuff. So what are YOU up to this weekend? Anything new? Going somewhere? Are you getting away from it all? Tag sales, dinner out with the family, hot date, cleaning & catching up? Let me know and share with me! I am headed to the post office tomorrow morning, God permitting of course, to mail out the 2nd installment of my Stamp DeStash along with a few small boxes of RAKS....Random Act of Kindness as I've been the awesome recipient of seveal of those in the past few weeks. I just purchased my first 4G Smart Phone last week and I get unlimited Rhapsody downloads and since I'm child of the 80's and early 90's, I LOVE Freestyle! Not alot of people "get it" when it comes to that type of music but those of us who do LOVE IT! So I'm listening, as I bop and type LOL...to MicMac Original Freestyle! Ahhhhh, the teenage memories these songs stir up in my heart...1st kiss, 1st boyfriend...Uhhhh TMI right...LOL! Okay so now that I'm just happy blogging and crafting and listening to some awesome music I'll let you all go and I hope you all enjoy your weekend regardless of what you do...

Love Always...Laura I. Gonzalez
TealBluCrafter

Simple Card Series

"Hello Dear" Card

using the K&Co 'Cut-n-Paste' Line

 

 

My Daily Check-In...Good Morning...

Let me begin by typing this prayer that was just given to me by Darlene, an RN at the clinic I go to....

 

Dear Lord,

Having been created in Your image

I am full of unrealized potential

The realization of which

Depends upon my acknowledgment of the potential,

My recgnition of all the gifts from You with which I am

endowed,

And my exploitation of the opportunities that lie open

before me.

Please Lord, help me rise to meet the challenge.

Let me use those gifts for the benefit of ll people.

Dear Lord,

For all that I am

And all that I can be

I thank You...

 

I don't want to go into too much detail but I will share that this prayer is something I'm passing on to my sister to try to help her in dealing with the massive load she's carrying on her shoulders. And I too wanted to share with you all in the hopes that it will lessen the hurt in your heart if you too are going through a trauma of some sort...big or small...it still hurts and it's still impacts you. And you don't have to be the main source of the illness for it to hurt you or affect your daily exsistence as I'm still in shock and can't seem to shake it off. But today is a new day and the sun is shining and the leaves are just piling up in front of my door. Why I bothered to sweep the front porch area is still questionable but I think the sound of the wind...cold and crisp...and all the leaves blowing in it feels good to my ears. So with that I'll say GOOD MORNING, God Bless and have a good day regardless of what you do.... 

 

(((HUGS))) Laura I. Gonzalez

TealBluCrafter

 

P.S.....stay tuned for the last installment of my Art Tiles today and the beginning of my ATC for Evy's YouTube Challenge....visit her channel...Turquesadot....for all the details!

Prep Video 3: Lets Play With Some Color!

Ahhhhhhh......Tim Holtz Distress Inks! Tonight Broken China and Victorian Velvet was my weakness. I also took out some CTMH Exclusive INKS in Olive and all 3 tiles came out beautiful!Let me share my hard work with you...ENJOY!!!

Remember that beautiful birdie stamp from the $1.50 bin

at Michael's? Well I do! And it provided me with a pretty

secondary image on top of the scripted image...

HOW COOL IS THIS?

 

Here is where those gorgeous inks come

into play...didn't these come out FANTASTIC?!?!

Ughhh...I can see why so many of you are

addicted to making these Art Tiles...they truly

are a work of Love & Art!

 

***FINAL RESULT: 3 BEAUTIFUL ART TILES***

Prep Video 2: Using Gesso & Primary Stamping

So in these pictures I take you through the 2nd half of the project. Please take note to the pictures as this will guide you through the first half of creating a gorgeous, double-stamped image (hope that makes sense!) that will knock your socks off! I'm going to let the rest of the pictures do the talking for me...Shall we........

 

Prep 2: Here I apply Gesso to both sides of my 3

tiles, taking care to do this 2x's to make sure I
have even coverage. And although it's not 

shown, I do use my heat gun

to evenly dry both sides....very important! 

 Here I used my Jet Black StazOn Ink with my Hero Arts

Manuscript Stamp. That provided me with a clean,

crisp image transfer with no chance of the ink budging

on the Gesso or fading in any way...VERY IMPORTANT!

 This is where we repeat step one...start to re-apply one more

coat of Gesso, but lightly...don't cover up your image! Then

gently wipe it off with some tissue paper/paper towel.

Remember...we still want that script image to show. Again...

use your heat gun to help your drying time.

ARE WE HAVING FUN YET?!?!

STAY TUNED FOR PREP VIDEO 3 GIRLS!

That's when we add our color of choice....Ooooo!