Texture, Tea Bags, and Pizza

Hello crafty friends,

I have been playing with texture a lot lately and have a few things to share with you.

My first card is on its way to a friend for her birthday.  I painted it up for the watercolor challenge at Splitcoaststampers.com.  The challenge was to add unexpected color to your image - I added in some red to her dress and some mint green and yellow to her face.  There is gold paint on her wings and on the background. The background was a mop up of inks from previous card, then some gesso through a Dylusions stencil.  More ink and spraying.  Tied on a ribbon to finish it off.  The base is thick watercolor paper so this is a 5x6 chunky card that cost a bunch to mail per my grumbling hubby - lol.  My response, of course, is that she is worth it (he agreed with a wink).

Another expensive to mail card done for a friend to friend challenge.  This was a challenge between me and one of my Australian crafting buddies.  We are both kind of new to mixed media and are watching all kinds of videos.  This is one we watched THIS Vintage Dress video by Gabrielle Pollaco  and THIS video by Maremi's small art on adding texture. I watched The Dress Maker will making it.  The wings and sentiment are from an old SU! Fashion Sense stamp set.

This Never Stop Dreaming card was a discard from the previous project that I repurposed into a quick encouragement card.  Stamps are Close To My Heart.

Next, I have another friend who challenged me to make something fun with tea bags - we have both fell in love with tea bag stamping.  This little mini journal was made with gallon sized tea bags that I stapled and tied together.  I made it so the openings are at the top and I stuffed a fun picture into each one.  This is a birthday surprise for a crafty friend who loves tea.  I put in pictures of her girls and her.  I dipped my tea bags into ink first and then stamped on SU! stamp sets for all the pages. 

Here is a picture of two of the inside pages.  Most pages had added in flowers or birds, but I neglected to take pictures of them...

And this is my favorite creation lately - stuffed left over pizza.  I took some horrible leftover pizza (cheap pizza loved by my Grandsons), added in some cream cheese and half a jalapeno, folded it over, and then wrapped it in partially cooked bacon.  I put it in my air fryer to melt the cheese and finish cooking the bacon.  It was WONDERFUL!

Hope your week has been going well - it is Friday!  I am very ready for some fun weekend plans and crafting - hope you do too!

Hugz,

Nancy