Spring Floral Birthday Card by Tracey Sabella

Hi everyone! It's Tracey back to share a spring, floral birthday card featuring Donna's new Spellbinders® Flower Bouquet stamp and die set, scheduled for release next month. It was so much fun to color the stamped image with lovely spring colors using Donna's Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L® Pigment Powders. 

I have a dear friend who's birthday falls on St. Patrick's Day. Of course she adores green on her special day, so I've used a green backdrop for the lovely stamped image. 

Tips and Techniques

Donna's pigment powders can be mixed together to create a wide variety of colors. Add a little extra water to lighten and a bit more pigment powder to darken for shading. 

I used wine and pink for the large rose, gold for the yellow flowers and gold mixed with pink and wine for the darker yellow flower centers and buds.

The leaves are a blend of blue and yellow. 

I simply mixed the pigment powder into water to create these shimmering "paints." To keep the dry "paint" from rubbing off, I spritzed the finished image with a spray matt fixative. 

It was easy to line up and cut out the stamped image with the included die. So much easier than fussy cutting!!

I've stamped the birthday sentiment with Donna's Colorbox Stormy Mix'd Media Inx.

The Flower Bouquet set includes a die for these sweet flowers. They are cut from manilla and colored with pigment powder. The sequins are adhered with a Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L®  DODZ™ - Mini.

The final die in this set is this sweet leafy flourish. I cut it from patterned paper and inked with several shades of Donna's Colorbox® Mix'd Media Inx.

The background script is stenciled with molding paste. Once dry, I spritzed with Clearsnap® River Mossy Smooch Spritz.

Thanks for dropping by today!!

~ Blessings ~

Tracey

Donna Salazar Designs Products

Donna Salazar with Spellbinders®

NEW ~ Spellbinders Flower Bouquet SDS-020

Donna Salazar with Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L®

Pigment Powder - Wine

Pigment Powder - Pink

Pigment Powder - Gold

Pigment Powder - Blue

Clearsnap®/Colorbox®

Mix'd Media Inx® ~ Honey, Peridot, Stormy

Mix'd Media Inx® CHOX ~ Midnight

Smooch Spritz® ~ River Mossy

Partner Products 

Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L® ~ DODZ™ - Mini

Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L® ~ 3D Foam Squares - White, Regular

Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L® ~ 3D Foam Squares - White, Small

Home & Hobby® ~ Premium Double-Sided Tape - 1/2”

For a complete product list please stop by my blog, Garden of Grace, HERE.

Girlie Grunge Mixed Media Recipe Holder by Tracey Sabella

Hi everyone! It's Tracey here to share my latest project with Donna's gorgeous products. I've altered this oversized clothespin as a recipe holder. Simply clip a recipe into the clothespin to keep it in plain site while cooking. I've featured Donna's Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L® Pigment Powders and 3D Foam Swirls along with her Spellbinders Rose Creations, Bitty Blossoms, and a layered butterfly created with her brand new Cascading Butterflies die scheduled to be released this spring.

Tips and Techniques

This sweet layered flower is cut with two of Donna's dies. The bottom layers are cut from a canvas flag in Donna's Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L® Pennant Set using her Rose Creations Dies. I've inked the canvas with her Denim and Indigo Colorbox® Mix'd Media Inx®. The center flower is cut with Donna's Bitty Blossoms die. I adhered the flower to the clothespin with Donna's Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L® Dodz™ XL. I just adore how all of Donna's flower dies can be layered to create an endless assortment of different blossoms.

Donna's new Cascading Butterflies die cuts a gorgeous outline of a whole cluster of sweet butterflies and also produces a bunch of little butterflies. I layered the smaller book page butterfly, which I inked with Indigo Mix'd Media Inx® over a slightly larger one cut from a manilla folder and inked with Butternut Mix'd Media Inx® CHOX.

Here you can see the background nicely. I adhered a piece of patterned paper to the clothespin and brushed it with clear gesso. Then I mixed Donna's Blue, Rose, and Silver Pigment Powders into Whipped Spackle which I applied to the background with a floral stencil. I misted with Donna's Caramel Latte Clearsnap® Smooch Spritz. I also added a little splatter with white drawing ink.

Here I'm wearing my adhesive on the outside by covering Donna's 3D Foam Swirl with her Clearsnap® Twinkle Dust Glitter. To darken and grunge it up a bit, I brushed on Caramel Latte and Sea Breeze Smooch Spritz.

I painted these chipboard letters with a coat of white gesso, then brushed with Donna's blue and silver pigment powders mixed with matte medium. I mixed them separately, then lightly stirred the two colors together so there would be color variations on the letters. I heat set, then dry brushed very lightly with gesso.

One final shot.

I hope you've been inspired to grab your stash of Donna's supplies

and create a girlie grunge mixed media project.

~ Blessings ~

Tracey

Donna Salazar Designs Products

Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L®

NEW ~ Pigment Powder - Silver

NEW ~ Pigment Powder - wine

Dodz™ XL

3D Foam Swirls

Pigment Powder - Blue

Pennant Set

Spellbinders®

NEW ~ Cascading Butterflies

Rose Creations

Bitty Blossoms

Clearsnap®/Colorbox®

Mix'd Media Inx® ~ Denim, Indigo, Truffle

Mix'd Media Inx® CHOX ~ Butternut

Smooch Spritz® ~ Caramel Latte, Sea Breeze

Twinkle Dust Glitter ~ Pralines and Cream

Partner Products

Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L® ~ DODZ™ - Small

Clearsnap/ColorBox® Embossing Powder - Clear

For a complete product list, please stop by my blog: Garden of Grace.

Nature Boy by Donna Salazar

Hello my peeps! Today I'm sharing a layout that I made of my grandson, Hunter. He LOOOOVES the outdoors and I have so many pictures of him being a typical little boy running around with sticks, in trees and playing in the dirt so I wanted to make sure that I made at least one layout of him in his element... I'm sure there are more in my crafting future. 

I used my new Cascading Circles die from Spellbinders® that will be available to purchase in April.

I used my Colorbox® Mix'd Media Inx to add the color to the background then used my Mix'd Media Inx CHOX to ink the photos, the edge of the layout and to stamp the title. 

I used my Girlie Grunge Art Medium from Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L® to adhere the circle layers together and to adhere some of the circles to the layout. This medium works as a craft glue, as decoupage, can be mixed with pigment to make a paint and then the paint diluted with water can be used as a spray. I used it to make the lace bowls that were in my post on the Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L® blog from the other day too. I'll be doing a lot of videos to share some of the ways that you can use this Girlie Grunge Art Medium... it is one of my favorite new products!

Product used:

Donna Salazar Designs® with Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L® product used:

NEW - Girlie Grunge Art Medium

Spellbinders®

Cascading Circles 

Colorbox®

Mix'd Media Inx CHOX - Sparrow

Thanks for stopping by!!! Smooches ~D~

Where to find Donna:

Donna Salazar Designs Website

Donna Salazar's Personal Instagram

Donna Salazar's Personal Facebook

Girlie Grunge Card with Denim by Elena Olinevich

Hello Crafty friends, I've got a card to share with you today,

totally inspired by one of my favorite color combinations - teal + denim and white.

I still remember the joy I had while creating a birthday banner for my daughter in July. So I used almost the same products; however, I have changed some things.

I used the denim piece from the Pennant Set and colored the dies and the fabric with Pigment inks.

I made this beautiful flower using a Spellbinders Die . . .

and applied glitter on the sticky flourishes. For the bottom of my card I used burlap ribbon, it was quite fun to color it with the pigments.

And a bow from organza ribbon adds a delicate touch to it.

It was quite easy to make the fold on the denim using XL Dodz, quite firm enough to hold the fabric.

And I experimented with not adding the sentiment.

Products used:

Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L®

Pennant Set

Texture Ribbons

Pigment Powder -Brown

Pigment Powder -Bleu

3D Foam Swirls

Dodz™ XL 

Clearsnap®/Colorbox®

Mix'd Media Inx - Verdigris, Patina, Stormy

Spellbinders® 

Rose Creations 

Partner Products

E-Z Runner® Permanent Strips Refillable Dispenser

Girlie Grunge Christmas Card by Tracey Sabella

Hi everyone, it's Tracey back with another girlie grunge project to share with you today. 

Christmas is just around the corner, so I decided to get a jump start on my Christmas cards, pairing Donna's fabulous products with the Dear Santa paper collection by PhotoPlay. 

One of the things I adore about using Donna's products is that they are so versatile. There seems to be no end to the cool things you can create with them. Need a Christmas tree? No problem - cut it out of her Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L® burlap ribbon from the Texture Ribbons pack. Want to color it green? Grab her Clearsnap® Evergreen Smooch Spritz and brush it onto the burlap tree!! Here's my card. I share close-ups with all the creative details in my Tips and Techniques section below.

Tips and Techniques

Here's the tree I mentioned. I simply cut it from Donna's burlap ribbon. I cut out the tree shape and placed it on an Adhesive Sheet by Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L®, then trimmed around it, peeled off the backing and placed it on the card. This is a perfect way to hold those grungy frayed edges in place.

As I was creating, decided that I wanted my tree to be green so I spritzed some Evergreen Smooch Spritz onto my craft mat with a little water and brushed it across the burlap - the perfect color for a Christmas tree. 

For the snow on the tree, I randomly spread Donna's Clearsnap® Emboss Gloss, then sprinkled with her Clearsnap® Jasmine Mix'd Media Inx Embossing Powder and heat set.

I spread a few of Donna's Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L® E-Z Stars across my non-stick craft mat, then rubbed her gold Pigment powder (also by Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L®) across them to get this shimmery gold color. I lifted the colored stars with a metal palette knife to move them to the tree.

The music note rose bud is die cut with Donna's Spellbinders® Rose Creations dies. I cut two of the smallest rose petal sections, forming a bud in the center. I cut a snippet of Donna's Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L® Lace Ribbon to layer under the bud. They are held in place using Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L® Medium DODZ™.

I've embellished this darling Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L® 3D Foam Snowflake with Donna's Clearsnap® products. First I very lightly sprinkled one side with Donna's Jasmine Mix'd Media Inx Embossing Powder, then sprinkled a bit of her Sugar Shimmer Twinkle Dust Glitter. Be sure to tap off any excess before heat setting, or you just might have glitter flying everywhere. I just adore the texture of the embossing powder paired with the shimmer of this super fine glitter.

I layered pieces of Dear Santa Cozy Up and Let it Snow paper and tucked Donna's sweet lace into the layers. The sentiment is also from the Dear Santa Element Sticker sheet. The edges are lightly distressed using the edge of my scissors blade and then inked with Donna's Stormy Mix'd Media Inx.

I've also splattered the background, including the tree with white drawing ink from my stash.

 I thought I'd also share a shot of the inside of the card. If you look carefully, you'll see I tucked a piece of Donna's organza lace from her Textured Ribbons pack between the layers. The sentiment is stamped with Donna's Midnight Mix'd Media CHOX Inx.

I hope you've been inspired to add wonderful texture and

color to your next card project with Donna's fabulous products!

~ Blessings ~

Tracey

Donna Salazar Designs Products

Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L®

E-Z Stars

Pigment Powder - Gold

Lace Ribbons

Texture Ribbons

Clearsnap®/Colorbox®

Mix'd Media Inx® ~ Stormy

Mix'd Media Inx® CHOX ~ Midnight

Mix'd Media Inx® Embossing Powder ~ Jasmine

Smooch Spritz® ~ Evergreen

Twinkle Dust Glitter ~ Sugar Shimmer

Emboss Gloss® 

Spellbinders®

Rose Creations

Partner Products

Home & Hobby by 3L® ~ Premium Double-Sided Tape - 1/8" Permanent

Adhesive Sheets - 4x6”

DODZ™ - Medium

3D Foam Snowflakes

Spellbinders ~ Artisan X-plorer (Retired)

Photo Play

Dear Santa

 Cozy Up

Let it Snow

Element Sticker

For a complete product list, please stop by my blog HERE.

Girlie Grunge Fall Banner by Tracey Sabella

Hi everyone!! It's Tracey back to share another project created with Donna's fabulous products!

This month Donna's Creative Team is featuring paper collections from the brand new company, PhotoPlay. Today I've used paper and stickers from the Autumn Day Collection. 

As you may have noticed, I tend to cut up Donna's Pennant Set by Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L® to create other embellishments like handcrafted flowers. I've finally used the canvas pennants from the set to create a fall banner. I'll let you in on a little secret, this is my first attempt at a banner.

Our son and daughter-in-law recently moved into their dream home. Our son loves to fish and has docked his bass boat at my parent's place on the lake for years. One moonlit night several years ago, Joseph took Rachel for a ride in his boat. He asked for her hand in marriage under the bridge between the two lakes. How romantic is it that their new place overlooks that bridge? Rachel adores decorating for the fall season, so as a house warming gift, I've created this home decor banner for them. Rachel had a special place in mind for it the moment she saw it. 

Tips and Techniques

Staying true to my style, I've added a little grunge to the fall stickers by rubbing them with Donna's Clearsnap Sparrow Mix'd Media Inx CHOX transforming the bright white to a soft tan color. I also edged them with Midnight CHOX Ink. I added a little shimmer by painting the striped inner portion of the letters with Donna's Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L® Pigment Powders mixed with water. 

I've created these sweet flowers by pairing Donna's Spellbinders Bitty Blossoms dies with the Autumn Day Plaid paper surrounded by Donna's Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L® Lace Ribbons. I cut the ribbon down the center and distressed it before coloring with Pigment Powder left over from the letters. I mixed pink, gold, and brown Pigment Powder to achieve this color. 

My step by step Bitty Blossom tutorial can be seen HERE. **Note** One of Donna's Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L® Dodz™ XL works perfectly to hold the flower together in place of the glue.

The twine flower base is also handcrafted and a step by step tutorial for them can be found here. I've adhered the flower layers together and then to the canvas using Donna's Dodz™ XL.

On the canvas pennants, I stamped a script image with Jasmine Mix'd Media Inx, then sprinkled with and heat set Jasmine Mix'd Media Inx Embossing powder. I spritzed the canvas with water, then with Donna's Clearsnap Pralines & Cream Smooch Spritz. To add more splotchy color, I spritzed some of the Smooch onto a craft mat, added more water, then pulled the pennants through the color. The embossing acts as a resist so that the script shows up nicely on the background.

I've tucked in a couple dried flower pods on each banner.

I topped each of the pennants with the looped lace from Donna's Lace Ribbons set, adhered with Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L® Premium Double-Sided Tape. Between pennants I've placed another handcrafted Bitty Blossom flower, this time using the Autumn Day Multi Stripe paper.

To string the banner together, I placed an eyelet in the top corners of each pennant and ran hemp twine through to lace them together. The looped lace and Bitty Blossoms "hide" the eyelets.

I hope you've been inspired to grab your girlie grunge Donna Salazar products

and create a fall banner for your home. 

~ Blessings ~

Tracey

Donna Salazar Designs Products

Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L®

Dodz™ XL

Pigment Powder - Pink

Pigment Powder - Gold

Pigment Powder - Brown

Lace Ribbons

Pennant Set

Clearsnap®/Colorbox®

Mix'd Media Inx® ~ Jasmine

Mix'd Media Inx® CHOX ~ Midnight, Sparrow

Mix'd Media Inx® Embossing Powder ~ Jasmine

Smooch Spritz® ~ Pralines & Cream

Spellbinders®

Bitty Blossoms

Partner Products

Home & Hobby by 3L® ~ Premium Double-Sided Tape - 1/8" Permanent

PhotoPlay
PhotoPlay ~ Autumn Day - Plaid
Photo Play ~ Autumn Day - Multi Stripe
Photo Play ~ Autumn Day - Element Sticker 

E-Z Stars Resist Technique by ~Donna Salazar

Hello my peeps! Today is the last of my Quick Craft Tips using the new Donna Salazar Designs with Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L E-Z Stars. 

Today I'm starting with a background that has been stamped with my Indigo Mix'd Media Inx and dried. I then added some of my E-Z Stars randomly around the background.

I sprinkled some Jasmine Mix'd Media Inx embossing powder (and this time I wanted a clean emboss so I didn't press the powder into the E-Z Stars).

I returned the excess to the tub and heat set the embossing powder.

I misted the entire background with a generous amount of water. 

I then used an ink blender (with plenty of Indigo Mix'd Media Inx) to rub over the wet background.

The embossed E-Z Stars will resist the ink so I used a baby wipe to remove the excess.

I dried the tag...

... and finished by adding some 3D Foam Stars with Twinkle Dust Glitter and a bow tied from one of the ribbons in my Denim Ribbons pack adhered with a Dodz™3D.

And this is the final result.

Product used:

Donna Salazar with Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L®

E-Z Stars

Denim Ribbons

Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L®

Dodz™ 3D

3D Foam Stars

Clearsnap®/Colorbox®

Mix'd Media Inx

Mix'd Media Inx embossing powder

Twinkle Dust Glitter

Thanks for Stopping by!!! Smooches ~D~

Where to find Donna:

Donna Salazar Designs Website

Donna Salazar's Personal Instagram
Donna Salazar's Personal Facebook