Mixed Media Canvas by Sharon

Hi everybody!
It's Sharon here today, and I wanted to
share with you a canvas I created using Prima Products, as well as Lindy's Stamp Gang Products. For those of you who love tutorials, I'll be uploading a complete, step by step tutorial video on how I created it, this Friday, May 24th, so stay tuned for that.
I used Prima's Lyric Collection, as well as some of their stencils, flowers, trim, and more. For color, I used tons of Lindy's Stamp Gang products. Please see the list and links to all of them at the end of this post, and remember, stay tuned for the video coming up in a few days! I hope you like it.

Lindy's Stamp Gang products used:

Starburst Stain in Golden Sleigh Bells 

Flat Fabio in South Shore Sand

Flat Fabio in Aloha Avocado

Flat Fabio in Kissin Kenickie Coral

Glitz Spritz in Blazing Sun

Embossing Powders in Magic Moon Pearls and Byzantine Bronze

Shimmer Tile Card with Sharon

Hello everyone. It's Sharon over here.
Happy Monday! I hope you are all doing well. I have been really sick for like a week now, and I'm still not 100%, but I wanted to share with you this card I made using scraps of white paper, and my Lindy's Stamp Gang Products.

I don't know about you, but I keep scraps of everything, thinking I'll use them for something later....what ends up happening is my pile of scraps keeps growing, and I rarely end up using it all. Well, I wanted to get rid of a few scraps I had laying around here, and came up with this.

For this card I used a few different Starburst Sprays (Bayou Boogie Gold, Green with Envy Green, Midnight Rendezvous Raven, A Bit O' Bubbly), as well as an embossing powder (King Midas Gold). I embossed both birds on the card as well as some of the round tiles on the bottom of the card. I have a step by step tutorial on how I did this on video, and you can check it out by clicking HERE.

I hope you enjoyed this card and were inspired. Have a great week!

Valentine's Day Tag with Sharon

Hello everyone! It's Sharon here today.
Valentine's day is just a few days away, and today I wanted to share a tag I created to go together with one of the gifts I'm giving away this year. I used tons of Lindy's Stamp Gang Products and made a start to finish video on it. Make sure to stop by and watch if you are interested in seeing how this project came together.

The Lindy's Stamp Gang products I used are :
-Magical Mica in the colors Burnished Golden Leaf (From the Harvest Moon Magical Set)
-Starburts Stain in the color Dark Chocolate Truffle
-Embossing Powders in the colors: Cleopatra's Copper, Kaiser Russet Red, Geranium Coral Blush, Royal Burgundy Blue, Hibiscus Rose Orange, Bougainvillea Red Teal, Terra Cotta Rust, Razzleberry Plum, and Caesar's Gold.
I hope you enjoyed and were inspired to use your own Lindy's Stamp Gang products. Hope your week is a great one!

FDF: Altered Canvas with Sharon

Hi everyone, it's Sharon here, and I want to welcome you to another Fabulous Designer Friday!

Today I wanted to share an altered canvas I created for a friend using Lindy's Stamp Gang products.

 I had a really good time making this project, and love all the dimension it has.

My favorite though, is the wood frame  (I got it at my local Michael's) which I altered, spraying some Incandescent Copper, and Van Dyke Sepia Moon Shadow Mists, and then adding some Lindy's Stamp Gang Embossing Powders in the colors Midnight Copper and Byzantine Bronze. I LOVE the look it gave to the wood, and like I've said in the past, I LOVE sprinkling Lindy's Stamp Gang Embossing Powders on my projects.

 

 

I also used my new favorite, the Glitz Spritz in the color Blazing Sun on all the paper flowers I used. In the next picture you can see a close up of one of the flowers, and the wonderful gold shimmer on it. I spray it on everything now!

Loved working with this canvas, and you can find a video tutorial on how it came about on the Lindy's Stamp Gang YouTube Channel later this weekend, so if you are interested, just head on over there later, and take a look.  All the designers upload a great variety of videos using the LSG products for your viewing pleasure. I hope you liked my project for today, and thanks so much for stopping by the blog. Until next time! Have a great weekend!

FDF: Shabby Tag Mini Album

Hello everyone! It's Sharon here today with another Fabulous Designer Friday (FDF) post. I'm sharing with you a project featuring  several Lindy's Stamp Gang products. I love how this shabby little book came out, and it was inspired by THIS tag I made for the Lindy's Stamp Gang booth at Winter CHA.

I used several embossing powders and Lindy's Stamp Gang(LSG) Sprays throughout out the album. I cut out the birds, crown and birdcage out of chipboard with Tim Holtz alterations dies. On the crown, I used Lindy's Stamp Gang Embossing Powder in the color Hibiscus Rose Orange, and on the birdcage I used Weeping Willow Green Gold, also from LSG. I sprayed the entire album cover as well as the birds, and all the tag pages with my Glitz Spritz in Scintilating Silver.

To color the flower on top of the raffia bow, I used the Starburst Stain colors in Alpine Ice Rose and the Icy Primrose Gold. I used those same two colors to color the trim you see on the binding of the album, and in some pages of the inside pages of the album. Underneath the bow, I added some lace from my local scrapbook store, some bling sprays, and some Melissa Frances crystals.

There is an acrylic tag page, which I accented with some lace and a chipboad piece I embossed using the Weeping Willow Green Gold Embosing Powder. You can watch more details on THIS video I made.

Really shabby, and simple album. I had a great time creating it. Hope you enjoyed!

Shimmering Garden Shadow Box

Hi everyone, it's Sharon here and 

I waned to share a small shadow box I created for the Lindy's Stamp Gang booth at CHA this winter. It was one of the projects I completed for the booth and I just love how it turned out. 

I found this little box at the dollar store, and thought I could do something with it...I didn't know what at the time, but I knew it would be good for something, maybe a shadow box layout? Yes, that's exactly what I turned it into, and it went from this:

To this:

There was a lot I did to this box, and I love how it came out.... I had a picture of a garden on my mind, and I think I achieved it. What do you think?

First I prepped the box with guesso. After that dried, I applied a coat of brown acrylic paint. when that dried, I put a coat of crackle medium, and then some ivory acrylic paint, all to achieve the crackle finish you can see all over the box. After all that dried, I sprayed the entire box with Creme Brulee Cream Starburst Stain for some shimmer.

I used one of My Favorite Thing's banner dies, and cut out the banner from designer paper by Colorbok (Flea Market Collection). I then sprayed the banner pieces with Scintilating Silver Glitz Spritz, and afterwards added to the banner some Maya Road chipboard letters, which I sprayed with Cadbury Milk Chocolate Startburst Stain. In between each banner piece I added some tiny mulberry paper roses which I sprayed with different Starburst Stains:  Cotton Candy Pink and Alpine Ice Gold. Afterwards, I embossed the tips of these roses with some Lindy's Stamp Gang embossing powder in the color Hibiscus Rose Orange. LOVE embossing the tips of the petals of my flowers!

I also used some Lindy's Stamp Gang butterfly charm pieces, which I embossed with Dandelion Yellow embossing powder, and finished off with some white pearls on their centers.

I punched some butterflies out of cardstock using two different Martha Stewart butterfly punches. I then sprayed the butterflies with Icy Primrose Gold Starburst Stain, and sprinkled some embossing powder in the color Byzantine Bronze, just to add more texture and shimmer to them.

I used some glittered green sprays, as well as some vintage white bud sprays in the backgrouns, which I got at my local craft store. Behind the picture of my Emily I used a Kaiser Craft wood birdcage piece, which I sprayed with my Starburst Stain in the color Golden Lump of Coal. The stain gave it just the right touch of shimmer.

I filled in the rest of the box with different sized mulberry roses which I colored using my Starburst Stains in the following colors: Alpine Ice Rose, Tiffany's Blue, Wild Honey Suckle Coral and Scintilating Silver.

The wood stand that holds the box was also purchased at the dollar store. Can you believe it?

I hope you enjoyed this project and were inspired to create with Lindy's Stamp Gang Products. Until next time!

Shimmery Winter Tags

Hi! It's Sharon here and I don't know about you, but it seems like lately, everyone seems to be freezing all over the U.S., even here in Florida! We've been experiencing several cold fronts that have definitely made me rethink wether we are in Florida, or in some northern state! LOL It has been COLD! We really are not used to this kind of weather down here, so it's been quite an ordeal, specially for farmers, who seem to be the most affected in these situations, loosing tons of their farmed goods due to freezing temperatures. Lots of money lost, that's for sure.

I made these winter tags to attach to some presents, using tons of Lindy's Stamp Gang products, I love the distressed look and shimmer I got. Here are some close up shots....

I used clear embossing powder yo stamp the snowflakes on this one, some Vintage Photo Distress Ink, and on top a layer of Cactus Gold Glitz Spritz.

The angel in the middle I colored using Grab a Guy Gold Starburst Spray, and for the snow flake I painted the largest one with white acrylic paint, then sprayed it with Cactus Gold Glitz Spritz. For the smaller snow flake, I used a glitter acrylic paint from my local craft store and painted the raw chipboard with it.

For this next tag I pretty much did the same thing, except of course I used different colors---Stormy Sky Distress ink on the base of the tag, topped it with Cactus Gold Glitz Spritz, and for the angel I used Afternoon Delight Denim Starburst Spray.

In this next one I used Forrest Moss Green Distress Ink, and on top I sprayed with my Cactus Gold Glitz Spritz. I colored the angel with my Green with Envy Green Starburst Spray, and for the smaller snowflake instead of glitter  paint, I used some Diamond dust, which you can find at your local craft store. I just love the distressed look on these tags!!

 For this last tag you see I switched things around a bit, and embossed the snowflakes using Lindy's Stamp Gang Embossing Powder in the color Kaiser Rudolph Russet, and sprayed the white medium chipboard with my Cactus Gold Glitz Spritz.

This is a simple way of getting a lot of tags out using your Lindy's produtcs. You can watch a video with details of these tags HERE. Thanks so much for stopping by the blog today. Have a great week!

Fun Background Layout Tutorial

Hi there! Sharon here and today I wanted to share with you this neat hanging layout I created for my mother. Last year, I made her one, and she asked me to make another one for her this year. This one is a little bigger than the one I made before, but it turned out just as cute, if not cuter (to see the one I made last year click HERE).

I started with a plain old piece of 8 1/2 by 8 1/2 chipboard, which I covered in white cardstock. I then proceeded to make the background using some Starbursts Stains from Lindy's Stamp Gang. I made a very detailed tutorial video of exactly what I did with all the pieces on this layout, and you can watch it by clicking HERE. All the colors of stains and embossing powders I used are detailed there.

I love all the shimmer, and it truly does give me the feeling of winter every time I look at it. I hope she likes it!

Magical Micas Galore!

Hi everyone! It's Sharon here, and today I come to you with a tutorial of the inspiration project I made for the current Lindy's Stamp Gang Contest (it ends October 24, 2011----click HERE for rules and more details!). It is a Fall themed contest, where you can make either a Halloween, or a Fall/Thanksgiving themed project.

I don't celebrate Halloween, and barely have any supplies to make any related projects, but I looked around my room, and had to make something with this owl stamp, and some awesome Lindy's Stamp Gang Micas. It's a playful card, I liked the "too cute to spook" message, and I went off from it to make my trifold card.

The Cuttlebug embossing folder I used, was one I bought because I totally loved the design, even though I did not know when, or in what I would use it, but it was one of those things I just had to have. I'm so glad I got it. Love the embossed spiderweb!

You can see the full video tutorial where I go into detail on all the Lindy's Stamp Gang products I used and how I used them. Just by click HERE. You will see the process from start to finish.

All the Lindy Stamp Gang Products made my owl look so awesome, not to mention the shimmer on the clouds is fabulous!!!

All the micas I used to color this card definitely brought it to life. I LOVE the finished look! Again, all the colors I used are detailed on the video, so don't forget to watch, and thanks for stopping by!

Gecko Green is Back!!!

Hi everyone! It's Sharon here and i'm so excited to announce that Gecko is back!! Yes, you read right, the Desert Moon Gecko Green Glitz Spritz, (my all time favorite!) is back in the Lindy's Stamp Gang store! I am over the moon and swooning!!!!

If you know me, follow my blog, and videos, you know I use this spritz all the time, and when I say all the time, I mean ALL THE TIME! I love the look it gives to my projects, and I'm sure that if you try it out, so will YOU! Want to see what it looks like? Click HERE.

Not only did I want to let you in on the news, but I also wanted to share a project where I used it. I made a card using Magical Micas, one Starburst Stain and my Desert Moon Gecko Green Glitz Spritz. I'm really happy on how it came out.

I made a video tutorial on how I used the Stain, Micas, and Glitz together in the centerpiece of this card. You can find all the information on what colors I used, what I mixed together etc. Click HERE to watch. Hope you enjoy it!