A Burst of Spring from Lyn Bernatovich

Ready for fresh air, sunshine, new leaves, and flowers blooming? Well, the Dream Team is right there with you! Our challenge for the month of March is...coincidentally...Marching into Spring. Per usual, we'd love to have you play along with us, and link your own creations to the Inlinkz tool on at the bottom of this post. Play as many times as you'd like. Those of you who work Dreamweaver and/or Stampendous products into your projects receive bonus points, but everyone has an opportunity to be the winner who receives the stencil of their choice.

Pam here today, sharing a great mix of Dreamweaver and Stampendous fun...

This week's burst of springtime was created by Lyn Bernatovich. In her own words, here's the details:

I can't stop playing with the Stampendous Minuet Bird!  The card background was created with the fabulous Dreamweaver Swirl Dots (LX7029) stencil placed over a card stock panel and sprayed with Memory Mist Orange Juice.  I turned the paper and sprayed Blue Martini and let it drip down the paper.  Once dry, I stamped the Stampendous Minuet Bird in Versafine Black Onyx ink.  The bird is colored with acrylic paints from my stash.

From there, the card design took shape by tearing 3 different edges of Core'dination cardstock and layering them behind the bird panel that was also torn.  I embellished the right lower corner with Stampendous Glass Glitter.  I added the Dreamweaver fern die cut from my stash.  The 'nest' is created with May Arts mesh ribbon cut into circles and layered in three layers and held together with a brad.  I coated the mesh with Mod Podge for added stiffness.  The eggs are from my stash of Prima nests.  A double bow seam binding ribbon is tied at the top with a spring tag from Dreamweaver's Four Seasons (LJ875) that was stenciled with Splendor ink and a 1/8" stencil brush.

What has our "B" team been up to this week? Let's go see...

Dream It Up!

Louise Healy

Alison Heikkila

Kristine Reynolds

Pam Hornschu

Gill Wilson

Cindy Groh

An InLinkz Link-up

Frilly and Fabulous-With Lyn Bernatovich

Break out the frou frou again for week three! For the month of February, the Dream Team have been going Frilly and Fabulous! Vintage, retro, or modern, adding extra charm with fun Fran•tagé products from Stampendous, ribbons and lace from May Arts, buttons, crystals, charms, or even creating your own dimensional decor! A snippet or a pile, whatever your creative heart desires! Remember to link your creations using the Inlinkz tool on the Dream It Up! blog for a chance to win the stencil of your choice! Bonus points for using Dreamweaver and/or Stampendous product in your work of heart.)

Take a look at this!

Pam here today, with a fabulous creation! Not mine, no. No one on the Dream Team does frou frou like Lyn Bernatovich, so I thought I'd show this project off to you in case you hadn't seen it before. We had a monthly challenge a while back for "gifty ideas", and Lyn took the challenge and ran with it! She created this wonderful "purse" to hold a gift of handmade notecards (stenciled of course). The base of the purse was paste-embossed with the Stripes stencil. Her wonderful flower was created with multiple layers of patterned paper, doilies, and several "sludge-pasted" (a mix of pastes that create a marbled or swirled look) Zen Flowers which she cut out and added to the layers. Tulle and buttons and adhesive pearls add to the frilly fabulousness, as well as a lovely contrast in color of the machine-embossed and die cut Leafy Branch, and a monogrammed Nested Frame Die cut for personalization. Who wouldn't want this gifty? By the way, Lyn, my birthday is in June...hint, hint. Oh, and you'll have to change the monogram to a "P"!

Our "A" team would love to share their ideas with you, so follow along:

Dream It Up!

Leadonna Kimmel

Louise Healy

Laura Drahozal

Lynn Mercurio

Pam Hornschu

Jamie Martin

An InLinkz Link-up

31 Days of Halloween with Smeared and Smudged - Day Thirty-One

Happy Halloween! The Dream Team have been dipping their fingers into all things spooky, creepy, and scary, as we've played along with the Smeared and Smudged 31 Days of Halloween. The team has been taking turns to fill the quota of 31 days on the Dream It Up! blog, and posting on their own blogs as well. They've really appreciated all of your kind comments, as this has been truly a challenge for many of them! For our final day, here is the post from Lyn Bernatovich:

The Raven

And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting
On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door;
And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming,
And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor;
And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor
            Shall be lifted—nevermore!

                                                     ---Edgar Allan Poe

  

Quoth the Raven Nevermore has the creepiest sound to it, so I Googled its meaning and here it is:

 

Quoth means said. So the line means, The raven said, "Nevermore." The meaning of nevermore - never again, never in the future, never ever - changes a little each time it is used.

My card today began with the Stampendous raven and developed from there.  It is stamped on acetate with Ranger Archival black ink.  I used alcohol inks on the reverse side of the acetate to create a frame of purple around the raven and then a mix of purples and silver mixative in the center.

The piece behind the diecut tree is vellum that was dry embossed with the Dreamweaver Damask stencil (LJ907).  On the reverse side of the vellum, I used the soot Mini Distress pad and applied color in big streaks.  After it was dry, I tore it in half and tore the edges to create unevenness.

The Dreamweaver diecut tree (a personal fav), was cut using Core'dinations sandables which is how the cool looking orange shows through.  The same sandables was used for the card base which is a purply color showing under the black.  The Dreamweaver Stencil bat trio stencil (LL525) was a leftover piece from a previous card.  Black jute (May Arts) was bunched up and stuck behind the bat for further strangeness.

The Smeared and Smudged site have been offering prizes each day of the month by a long list of sponsors...Dreamweaver being one of them, but we've been also offering one stencil (our choice) to one lucky commenter on the Dream It Up! blog each day of this month! So, leave your comment below before heading over to the Smeared and Smudged blog to view all of the final creepiness!

Our final week of winners will be announced tomorrow on the Dream It Up! blog!

31 Days of Halloween with Smeared and Smudged - Day Eighteen

The Dream Team are dipping their fingers into all things spooky, creepy, and scary, as we play along with the Smeared and Smudged 31 Days of Halloween. The team will be taking turns to fill the quota of 31 days on the Dream It Up! blog, and posting on their own blogs as well. Be sure to leave them lots of love as this is truly a challenge for many of them! Here is today's post from Lyn Bernatovich:

I'm having too much fun working with 31 Days of Halloween!  Today's card is all about creating a feel of distressing, depressing, spooky and creepy all in one A2 size!  I knew I'd be using the Stampendous Cling Tombstone Owl and ended up stamping it onto some leftover background papers I made from my post on Oct. 11th.

Next I grabbed some Core'dinations sandables and dry embossed the Dreamweaver bat trio (LL525).  P.S. be sure to emboss the black side as the right side up.  You can guess why I'm mentioning it...  The beauty of sandables is it takes little amount of muscle power to reveal the core; hence, you achieve the look in no time flat!

The Dreamweaver Web stencil (LJ816) was also dry embossed on Core'dinations sandable paper and quickly sanded for a very cool looking web background.

All that was left was assembling the distressed panels and offsetting them for a shabby look.  Once the layers were affixed, all the card needed was my mix of Stampendous Fragments (purple, hunter) and silver crushed glass glitter and the mesh ribbon banner (May Arts).

The Smeared and Smudged site is offering prizes each day of the month by a long list of sponsors...Dreamweaver being one of them, but we are also offering one stencil (our choice) to one lucky commenter on the Dream It Up! blog each day of the month! So, leave your comment below before heading over the Smeared and Smudged blog to view all of the other creepiness! 

31 Days of Halloween with Smudged and Smeared-Day Eleven

The Dream Team are dipping their fingers into all things spooky, creepy, and scary, as we play along with the Smeared and Smudged 31 Days of Halloween. The team will be taking turns to fill the quota of 31 days on the Dream It Up! blog, and posting on their own blogs as well. Be sure to leave them lots of love as this is truly a challenge for many of them! Here is today's post from Lyn Bernatovich:

 Products Used:

 Dreamweaver Stencils

Bats (LL525)

Web (LJ816)

Bare Trees (LJ849)

Stampendous

Cling Lady and Jack

Cling Witching You

A Muse Studio

Paper:  Grape (PAPS703), Sugar (PAPS001)

Acetate:  Crystal Clear (PGCC000)

Glitter:  Onyx (EAGL100)

Paint:  Peerless Metallic Silver (MWCP004)

Ink Sprays:  Slate, navy, blackberry

Ranger

Archival Black

Misc. Surgical Gauze (my stash)

The Smeared and Smudged site is offering prizes each day of the month by a long list of sponsors...Dreamweaver being one of them, but we are also offering one stencil (our choice) to one lucky commenter on the Dream It Up! blog each day of the month! So, leave your comment below before heading over the Smeared and Smudged blog to view all of the other creepiness!

Daily COMMENT Winners for First Eight Days:

Comment Winner of Day ONE: Leigh S-B The Sharpie Domino Queen

Comment Winner of Day TWO: Silvia

Comment Winner of Day THREE: Rebecca pettit

Comment Winner of Day FOUR: Maureen J Scott

Comment Winner of Day FIVE: NanB

Comment Winner of Day SIX: Vicki Sopcak

Comment Winner of Day SEVEN: Steph

Comment Winner of Day EIGHT: (AJ) Art Jypsy

Don't forget to email me with your snail mail addy so I can send you a stencil of our choosing: lynell@dreamweaverstencils.com

Next winners announced on Thursday the 16th.