Pocket Letters from March St Patrick's Day Themed

Hey guys! In an order to get caught up which even me not posting I'm still doing pretty darn good but when I was scrolling through my fone to find old creations I realized there were a few I hadn't posted. I was debating if I wanted to go and make one long post about them all which surprising to me there wasn't to many from late this year that needs to be posted or if I should do them all individually and I think I am going to do them all separate so they get my full attention and love that I put into them!

SO today's is from March- I went with a St. Patrick's Day theme it is a big deal in my house my other half is part Irish, I'm mostly Irish, he has a Leprechaun Tattoo (as talked about in this post http://creationsbylyzz.blogspot.com/2014/07/tattoo-inspired-my-new-atc.html ), his gamer tag is Lucky and often uses a shamrock for a symbol, plus his favorite color is green, also i love Leprechauns! So St Patrick's Day and March is a great month in our home. Usually filled with the smell of Corned Beef and Cabbage too! 

(seriously making my own mouth water just thinking about it!)

So for March I naturally went with a St. Patrick's Day theme!

The front of Ashley's 

 The back of Ashley's

 The front of Tam's

 The back of Tam's

 The front of Sara's 

 The back of Sara's

If you notice there is a SUPER cute Leprechaun! If he looks filimar it is bc he is the gnome from Lawn Fawn's Gnome Sweet Gnome set and I use my masking techinque to stamp the hat from Lawn Fawn's Hats off to You set and colored him with green, yellow and an orange beard to make him a Leprechaun. I think it worked out great! 

If you have any questions about masking I did a post all about it 

 http://creationsbylyzz.blogspot.com/2016/02/masking-technique-for-clear-stamps.html

with a video and everything. It was super hard to explain how to mask over the fone or by texting I tried with Sara so I made her a video! I just hope it has helped ours!

There were more things that went into to the back of them but this was what i had pulled for pocket letters right off the back!

Thank you for stopping in and have a great day

Lyzz

ATC with a Pocket

Hey guys!

Really trying to get back into this! Ok so Today's post is a post on a swap i did in one of my groups i'm in on Swap-Bot.com called ATC with a Pocket. We had to have an ATC with a pocket with at least 2 items in the pocket! This was an interesting one. It totally got my brain going so i joined i enjoyed making it tho i didn't care for the long wait to mail it out... things can get lost on my desk and i was super worried about that i love making art but hate having it sit around to long i lose things lol!

Well this is what i did for it!

I had this idea of using my kraft paper which is a rougher surface then i like so i have to make myself use it bc i cant draw on bc it's not smooth at all which is ok for somethings but i bought it to draw on and use like normal paper but got a really good deal on amazon so it's a catch 22 with it. I have been trying to come up with other ways of using it.So here i thought OMG lets try stenciling it!

So i got out my Tim Holtz sunburst stencil and my Stamping up Tangerine Twist ink and i stenciled 2 of the same patterns on this Kraft paper. So i could have a pocket in the same thing.

I added the pocket to the exact position and then added some faux stitching to make it look like a pocket also added some sequins to add some detail and a black boarder to tie in with the black stitch lines.

Here are the pieces i made for the pocket (from left to right) all are 2 sided bc idk what the person will use them for if anything and are the same thing on both sides. Some pieces were more of a pain to do than others.

1. i use a wooden compass stamp that bought out of the dollar bin i believe and stamped a compass and i used a tan marker to color it then took my memento rich cocoa ink and a blender tool and did the blending of the dark brown i love the color that comes out when doing that the red hues really shine through and i add some in the middle to really make look worn Then i took a sign stamp out of a 1.99 Sea set i got from Michael's ( Idk the name or the brand if you are interested message me i will pull them out and tell you.) I stamped it out and colored it then glued it down and this one was a little hard to do 2 sided to get he compass right but i managed to get it!

2. Is a bookmark! I used a Lawn fawn stamp from Gnome Sweet Gnome i never use the stamp and so thought his piece has been very unique why not use it something else that is unique and different... so i too the stamp and colored it and took the same kraft paper added some gold strips which i loved the way it turned out then glued the image on and punched a hole then made the hanging tassel which was my first one i ever made and turned out great! Also 2 sided!

3. the luggage i just had this feel going on and when flipping through my stamps i see this one and thought wow that could really go with the feel if i colored then just right i used the same gold on the accents and then colored them all in some of the same color family i used in the project i wish i would have added something to the bottom to anchor more or colored it darker but did 2 sided which was a pain also bc of the cutting out process but made it work.

All and all i love how all the pieces work together to add a fun element to the ATC. 

They all looked great over laying in the pocket! 

This was really fun and i think i will do another really soon! Also i just posted a Pokemon ATC with a Pocket so this one has been on my mind. But I also want to do another random ATC with a  pocket!

Thank you for stopping by...

Lyzz

A BEE-autiful thank you card for Sandi

Hey guys!

I'm going to start with this post this week bc the flowers made me happy and making the card makes me happy and smile! I need it. I have learned my grandma has passed away. So, just wanted to talk about something cheerful and BEE-autiful!

So I know I have talked about Beth on here but not sure I have told you guys have a great friendship with her mother too! She lives not only in my town but in neighborhood too. She is amazing and we get together time to time to have lunch it usually is harder during the skool bc she works within the skool system But Sandi has retired so it should be much easier to see her... maybe lol.

But we were able to do lunch last week which was nice and we were out for like 3 1/2 hours talking and catching up... a real sign it's been to long. But she bought me flowers. I have been having a rough month with meds so I dont become diabetic, my father's health is not good. He has been in surgery multiple times over the last few months, Boyfriend stepped down from his manager position which is good bc hedoesnt need the stress but took a HUGE pay cut like 6 dollar pay cut. So just been way stressed about alot so she bought me flowers so nice of her! 

So I thought I would snail mail her a card to say thank  you! I loved the way it turned out! In High School a chick I use to hang with use to call me Lyzz-a-Bee! So it really made me happy! She didn't know that!

I got to try out the Lawn Fawn Black Licorices ink. Tam had it and I used it on the word Amazing tho that one isn't a Lawn Fawn stamp it is a Fiskars Teresa Collins stamp. other than that I used Memento Black to stamp and color things. I liked the black for the brightness I think it would be amazing for sentiments but I preferred my memento for my copic coloring still. Tho it might be amazing for other markers that are non alcohol based or even color pencils. I am just spoiled. I do have one Lawn Fawn Ink... Freshly Cut Grass (Bright Green) love it. But never used markers with it.

I used a couple of Lawn Fawn Stamp sets. Tam had the petite florals, so I used a flower out of that set to make the flowers. Which sad to say the petite florals set is retired but I am sure you can still find it online somewhere it is newly retired. They just started retiring their sets

:(

Which totally makes me sad! I don't own them all yet!

I used the Bee from Gnome Sweet Gnome, totally one of my favorite sets! 

I used a recollections stencil I got from Michael's while in Florida with Sara in Sept 2015 to do the honey combs with some stamping up's Hello Honey ink. 

The washi tape I believe is Michael's recollections collection. It was one Tam has it was foil silver arrows on white tape. I really loved it and it worked so well on this card in the photo it doesn't look silver just kinda gray. 

I hope Sandi Likes it.

 Thank you for stopping in!

Lyzz

A Quick Mushroom ATC

Hey everyone!!! So, today's post is a swap-bot swap of course... this one is a "quick mushroom ATC" I like these quick ones they are usually a quick turn around and gets my mind going and not alot of rules or things usually just a simple request of an atc with at least one item this case is the a mushroom and standard ATC rules. This is how i started senting my ATC's the title card is same 3 1/2 by 2 1/2 inches then i put the ATC in then i have a note/letter on the same color paper and with same logo as the title card then if there are extras the go after. i really like this system it makes so much more fun for me.

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Monochromatic gnome ATC

hey guys! so today I want to post a swap-bot swap i hosted i only had one taker but that's ok so anyways i hosted a monochromatic gnome ATC I choose blue!

I did some dots of different blues and different sizes for fun

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Rainy Day Gnome ATC

Hey everyone. Today's post is about a swap-bot swap "Rainy Day Gnome" I'm in a group called gnome sweet gnome and this week someone posted this swap. I was instantly excited and it took me a few days to actually make bc I have been SUPER sick with serve chest cold and coughing all weekend.

I used Lawn Fawn's gnome sweet gnome stamp set for the gnome, I used the Recollection's Fun border stamp set for the cloud and then I used Color Box's Cerulean Blue Pigment Ink with an Impressions Obsession's cover-a-card dot background stamp for the background. i used a heart hole punch to make the raid drops and cut them in half. I also used form tape to pop things up and pop them different levels for a fun effect! 

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Phobia "M" ATC

Hey guys so today's post is one that i have done continuing on the Phobia series tho i did get to M or she didnt post it or i just missed it idk but I did do some and I keep look at this one and I love it!

It's a simple one but differinty does the trick!

So the bees are from Lawn Fawn's stamp set of the Gnome Sweet Gnome which is one of my favorite stamp sets! I used an xacto knife to cut out the center.

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Gnome and his pet ATC

Hey guys! So, todays post is about an ATC i made for a swap-bot group Gnome Sweet Gnome (funny enough this was the Lawn Fawn set I used also!) But the group had a swap called Gnome and his pet i called mine gnome and pet bc it sounds better!

Ok so we all know i love this set from Lawn Fawn and i love using it with the navy card stock and a white gel pen it makes me super happy! I hope you like it! 

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Cute 3x3 gnome card for Boyfriend

Hey guys! So, Boyfriend was out voted 2 to 1 at work to go out of town and stay the night tonight for training in the morning. The training is like 3-4 hours away Blah! so i'm here alone with Miss Pablo we are laying in bed (depressed of course) and watching netflix! But i did make Boyfriend this super cute card and I got a steak dinner in St. Ignace (bout a 45 minute drive South of our town).

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