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.

Mixed Media Scripture Journal Page by Tracey Sabella

Hi everyone. It's Tracey here to share a new page for my Scripture journal. I simply adore working with Donna's Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L® Denim Art Journal. The extra thick chipboard pages are a dream to work with and hold up perfectly for mixed media techniques. I feature Donna's new Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L® Girlie Grunge Twine and Gauze along with her new wine and silver Pigment Powders.

"Be of Good Cheer"

Tips and Techniques

I created these twine flowers using Donna's new navy and aqua Girlie Grunge Twine. I'm working on a video tutorial demonstrating how to make these sweet flowers, so stay tuned! I sprinkled Donna's Clearsnap Mixed Berries Twinkle Dust Glitter onto Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L® ~ DODZ™ - 3D to create these sparkling centers. The twine flowers are layered onto flowers created with Donna's Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L® Girlie Grunge Gauze. Donna's Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L® Dodz™ XL are perfect to adhere them to the page.

The sentiment is stamped onto white cardstock with Donna's Clearsnap black Mix'ed Media Inx, then edged with a blend of Donna's Indigo and Schoolhouse Mix'd Media Inx.

I adore creating my own paint with Donna's Pigment Powders and mixed up a custom aqua color by combining her blue and gold powders to brush over the gauze and resin flowers.

This metal feather charm is brushed with white gesso, then dry brushed with more of my pigment powder paint. I added silver pigment powder to the aqua to achieve this darker blue.

I adhered a few strips of a dictionary page to the background and brushed the entire page with white gesso.

I cut a couple odd shaped pieces from Donna's Girlie Grunge Gauze, which I spritzed with water and distressed. When dry I adhered it to the page for added texture. I lightly brushed with my aqua Pigment Powder "paint", then dry brushed with white gesso to soften and to highlight the textures.

Here's another shot of the gauze. 

I stenciled texture paste across the right side of the page. While it was drying, I mixed up a blend of Donna's Clearsnap Mixed Berries and Holly Berries Smooch Spritz along with her Wine and Silver Pigment Powders to create this rich wine color. Once the molding paste was dry, I spritzed with water, then brushed with the wine water color mixture allowing the color to spread and pool. While wet, I sprinkled and rubbed with blue pigment powder.

I also mixed together a blend of Sea Breeze Smooch Spritz and silver Pigment Powders which I applied at the edges of the wine color, again spritzing with water, to move and create lovely color variations as it dried.

On the left side of the page, I applied these same colors, but used a palette knife to scrape the color across the corner, spritzing lightly with water as I applied the color.

I also randomly splashed a little of the color onto the white center of the page.

I hope you've been inspired to grab your Girlie Grunge products

and mix them together to create a mixed media project.

~ Blessings ~

Tracey

Donna Salazar Designs Products

Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L®

** NEW - Pigment Powder - Wine, Silver

** NEW - Girlie Grunge Twine - Navy, Aqua

** NEW - Girlie Grunge Gauze

Denim Art Journal

Pigment Powder - Blue

Dodz™ XL

Clearsnap®/Colorbox®

Mix'd Media Inx® ~ Indigo, Schoolhouse, Black

Twinkle Dust Glitter ~ Mixed Berries

Smooch Spritz® ~ Sea Breeze, Mixed Berries, Holly Berries

Partner Products

Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L® ~ DODZ™ - 3D

Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L® ~ DODZ™ - Medium

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

Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L® ~ Home & Hobby by 3L® ~ Premium Double-Sided Tape - 1/2” Permanent

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

Winter Scene Canvas by Elena Olinevich

Hello crafters. My kids are asking me each day when the winter comes. As for the youngest (he is 3 years old) it means cold and snowy. It's nasty outside with no snow. When I was a child there have been much more snow in winter than nowadays, and the color for winter projects for me are associated with white and blue for my childhood. Now I experiment a lot with a color, but in my memories of those good times it was snowy and blue was the dominant color.

So I decided to create a canvas, I named it Winter Scene - with lots of snow on the background and frosty weather.

So I played only with 3 main colors - white, blue and brown,

though I used many tones of these colors.

I started with creating different textures on my canvas background - I applied crackle paste, sand paste, and gloss gel. After that I added lace and denim trims, covered half of it with gesso and started playing with the blue.

First I misted it, then I added the pigment powders in brown and blue. It was a magic.

You can see the lovely textures and colors here.

Lots of sparkle.

So easy and so cool!

Hope you have liked my canvas, thanks for watching.

Donna Salazar Designs Products

Scrapbook Adhesive by 3L®

Denim Ribbons

Lace Ribbons

E-Z Stars Runner 

Dodz™ XL

Pigment Powder - Brown 

Pigment Powder - Blue 

Nordic Christmas Card by Elena Olinevich

Hello Friends.

Christmas is coming and I am pretty busy with making Christmas Cards.

This year I am trying different colors for them, but one of my favorite and traditional one - is Nordic Christmas.

This time I tried to experiment some new stuff on it

I took the papers from the PhotoPlay "DearSanta" collection and attached to them many fabric trims, xoxoxo

I started with Donna's Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L Canvas Ribbon, that I wrapped over the paper and adhered with Dodz™ XL, and then added the lace on the top of it.

After I tried to create a kind of wreath from Organza and fixed it on the trims with the  Dodz™ - Medium. Organza is quite transparent fabric, so the Dodz are so perfect as they are clear.

To make it look more festive, I added the flowers, Foam Swirls and touches of red. 

Hope that you have liked my card and thank you for stopping by today.

Donna Salazar Products

Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L®

Canvas Ribbons

Lace Ribbons

Texture Ribbons

3D Foam Swirls

Dodz™ XL

Partner Products

 DODZ™ - Medium

Other Products

 PhotoPlay "Dear Santa" papers

Rose Christmas Card by Elena Olinevich

Hello Crafty people.

I am practicing at cardmaking at the moment, as it is Christmas season coming. Anyway, I have noticed that simple cards now hold my creative attention, and I really enjoy making them.

Here is the latest card I made using some of Donna's Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L® products.

I started with absolutely plane white background and only die cut the star in it.

After that I added denim ribbon and tried to create an unusual bow. Donna's Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L® Dodz™XL work perfectly for fixing any fabric. I especially like to create the folds with textile using them.

Then I added the lace and the flower again using E-Z Dodz™

I really tried to keep some simple embellishments.

I only added Donna's Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L® E-Z stars, but they needed to be colored, especially those on the white background.

Lastly I applied clear gloss gel using a rose stencil and then sprinkled Donna's

Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L® Pigment Powder in Pink on it.

Products Used

Scrapbook Adhesive by 3L

Denim Ribbons

Lace Ribbons

E-Z Stars Runner 

Dodz™ XL

Pigment Powder - Pink

Vintage Jar Caddy by Tracey Sabella

Hi everyone! It's Tracey back to share my newest project with you. I found these vintage style jars and unfinished wood caddy at my local craft store and knew they would be perfect to decorate with Donna's fabulous products. I've also included accents from the PhotoPlay Autumn Day Collection.

Tips and Techniques

The larger corner flower is one of my Wispy Burlap Flowers created with Donna's Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L® Burlap Texture Ribbon. A photo tutorial for this flower can be found HERE. **Please note - I've used the new Home and Hobby by 3L 1/8" Extreme Doube-Sided Tape instead of glue in the creation of the flower. There's nothing like Donna's Dodz™ XL to adhere the Bitty Blossom to the flower center and to adhere this larger flower to the caddy. The smaller blossoms and flourish are adhered with small DODZ™.

I cut the smaller flowers from PhotoPlay Autumn Day Plaid using Donna's Spellbinders Bitty Blossoms dies, and used one for the center of the burlap flower. The Spellbinders flourish is cut from the same paper.

To get this rich, shimmery color for the flowers, I mixed together Donna's Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L® brown, pink and gold Pigment Powders into her Clearsnap®/Colorbox® Pralines & Cream Smooch Spritz, then brushed the mixture across the flowers and flourish.

I used both types of lace from Donna's Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L® Lace Ribbons set. The looped lace runs across the top of the caddy and the bow is tied with the crochet lace. I had some extra pigment powder mixture on my craft mat, so brushed the ribbons lightly with this color. 

I had so much fun creating this Vintage Jar Caddy

to fill with some of my scrapbooking trinkets.

I hope you've been inspired to create a Girlie Grunge decor project for your studio or home.

~ Blessings ~

Tracey

Donna Salazar Designs Products

Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L®

Dodz™ XL

Pigment Powder - Pink

Pigment Powder - Gold

Pigment Powder - Brown

Lace Ribbons

Texture Ribbons

Clearsnap®/Colorbox®

Smooch Spritz® - Pralines & Cream

Spellbinders®

Bitty Blossoms

Partner Products

Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L® ~ DODZ™ - Small

Home & Hobby by 3L® ~ Extreme Double-Sided Tape 1/8“

Spellbinders® ~ Foliage Flourish

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

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 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