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Finding my way to forming this blog has been an interesting journey. In the past I never really thought about expressing my creativity. Growing up in Wyoming and in 4-H I did learn to sew but that was solely for making my clothes. I have continued to make most of my clothes since I first began to sew. Still not really thinking I was being creative.
When my husband and I purchased a ranch, I started learning how to quilt, because a rancher friend wanted to learn, we could learn together. As well, I could really use the quilts. I ended up giving away more than I have kept for myself though. Still not really thinking I was being creative
About the time we got the ranch I started sending some handmade Christmas cards. They just seemed more personal and authentic. Then about five years ago I discovered a web based company that offered stamps, card stock and inks that all coordinated. Plus the owner offered online videos of how to use these wonderful tools. And within her website she had an area where other crafters could post their creations and I could communicate with them. Over the next several years I concentrated on doing Christmas cards for family and friends creating about 100 each time. Slowly as I grew in confidence and skill I developed an interest in doing other celebration type cards and now I spend a lot of my time crafting cards whenever ranch chores allows. So maybe being a little creative.
Well as fate would have it, that original site no longer offers a place where I can exchange ideas and card creativity in quite the same way as it did, so this blog was born. It has become a way to stay in touch with friends and post what I create in my craft room, almost daily. I still sew once in awhile and would maybe make a quilt again some day.
Please feel free to email me at bonnie@enhancedequine.com.
Previously I had made this leaf image from dry embossing a fig leaf. Added the gold, water colors, trimmed the lower edge for circle tag and orange edge but it ended there. All the purple touches were in a pile not sure where I was going with them. Once I had the brain fart to combine the two piles it came together quickly. Stamped the sentiment on dark plum then heat set in the same gold on the leaf. Trimmed and began layering the pieces. Mounted on 5×7 white cs base.
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I was wanting to create a box frame that would ship USPS with one stamp. By cutting the mini slimline white cs such that I could create four 1/8″ score lines on each side I could fold and glue the frame to the inside and be under the 1/4″ shipping limit. I made the bg by swishing the white copy paper text vellum through a yellow and orange oxide spray on the glass mat. Added black splatter then brushed on dragonfly glaze for shimmer. Sentiment and greenery were Silhouette cut then attached, folding and shaping the leaves for dimension. When I attached the piece to the box frame I realized that I had cut it too small. Rather than scrap the project I cut then strips of white and colored with markers to get a close color match. Once attached they created a very cool mat layer.
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I only have a few stamps that are specific to Halloween so they don’t see much play time. For this bg I stamped in the images randomly with black ink on this note size white cs base. Focal image is stamped on Silhouette cut circle in gold heat set embossing powder I then colored with water color. Then I saw the challenge where they asked to use chalk. I have a set of seldom used chalk sticks so they were used to color the bg images and the sky for the focal image. Used Distress Glaze to lock in the coloring and this one was complete.
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Our fig bush is still quite green, so the dry embossing of one leaf on to white copy paper text vellum produced this image. It is amazing that the print is not green from the leaf! I added water colors made from color burst and perfect pearls. The veins were not showing much so I used the Versa Mark pen and then clear hear embossed. The sentiment is also heat embossed with clear on the plum cs. After adding gold water color splatter this was mounted on white cs base.
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As You Like it Challenge asked the question “Favorite Season: Autumn or Winter & why?” I am all in on Fall because it is my favorite season. That makes creating much easier using the colors, textures and themes that fit Fall. Here I made the black paper with black modeling paste smeared with credit card on white copy paper text vellum and allowed to dry. Heat embossed in Tinsel the image and sentiment. I am loving this paper because it has a chalk like finish that is very flat plus it takes all kinds of mixed media very well. Colored the image with stencil butter using a paint brush then added white gel pen accents. Mounted on copy paper with light purple marker colored edges then on the gray check pp. All is on a white cs base in the 5×7 format.
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