Windy Robinson
Hi all,
Windy here! I hope that you all are having a great start to your Wednesday and a great start to your summer. Oh yes, today is the day! The first official day of summer!
Are you ready for all of the fun things that summer holds? Like outdoor picnics and trips to the pool?
I remember one of my favorite things to do as a kid in the summer was to collect and press flowers and leaves. Oh and the summer that my mom bought me a box of solar print paper. Wowie! I was in heaven!
Do you remember making solar prints (or cyanotypes) when you were a kid?
Image by vintageprintable.com
The “Playing with Paint” section of the July/August 2012 issue inspired me to create a card of my own that is reminiscent of a solar print. But this card also puts some of the fun spray mists that I have in my crafty stash to good use.
It’s pretty simple to create your own. Find foliage from your yard. Lay it on a piece of cardstock.
Spray with spray mist.
Then you allow your image to dry. Stamp a sentiment and mount on a card base.
So who wants to win a collection of Tattered Angels spray mists and paints, a set of card bases by Canvas Corp, and a copy of the July/August 2012 issue so you can start playing with paint? Just leave a comment here telling me what your favorite summer crafting activity is. All comments must be received by Friday, June 22nd at 5pm MDT.
Here’s to a great summer!
Windy
Paper Crafts Go-to Gal
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When our grandkids get here on Monday, it will be coloring with the girls! Ellie, will be 6 on the 27th and she already asks to color with my Copics!!
Wow! What fun! I don’t have any spray mist but hope to win! Rummaging for the chance!
Making cards is my only summer time crafting activity because I’m so busy working!
Making summer and vacation layouts! Love the happy bright themes of summer!
Stamping flowers! It doesn’t get any more summery than that for me!!!!
Never tried this stuff before. Would surely be delighted to win.
I would love to be a kid again!
oh I so love glimmer mists! these are wonderful projects!
actually I try to get a jump start on holiday cards….. it helps to keep me cool in the hot summer weather. grins!
I make cards & other projects all summer since my family is away working at summer camp where hubby is the director. it’s just me and the dogs here at home, so that leaves lots of time for papercrafting!
Stunning card!!!! I can’t wait to give this a try!!!!
Wow – this is fantastic – what a great idea!! AND tha chance to win glimmer mist!!
Summer crafting projects for me will be cardmaking, stitched paper journals, and quiltmaking. A busy summer! Thanks for the opportunity to win this collection of products.
I love glimmer mists. My fav summer crafting activity is making cards and organizing my crafty space. Thanks for a chance to win!
What a great idea, and so pretty. I just like to keep on being creative with my cards and layouts. More birthdays in the summer also.
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Oooh, what a fabulous prize – thanks for the chance! I love to sit outside when (if!) it’s cool enough in the evening and sketch the birds in my backyard. There’s always a few stragglers that hit the feeders late in the evening.
WOW – I just love these cards and the technique! Thanks so very much! I love being outside sitting on our deck. We have nesting wrens in our birdhouse and can watch the parents coming and going to feed their little ones!
What a simply beautiful card and great inspiration!
This looks so fun! My favorite summer crafting activity for this summer will be helping my daughter put together her very first scrapbook. She got a scrapbook kit for her 6th birthday and her cousin suggested she scrapbook her summer! It should be fun!
I know this may sound silly but we tie dye every summer. We buy two big kits and socks and t’s and tanks and have a big tie dye party. It is so much fun and the kids love it. Our boys play soccer and this year we are doing soccer socks in our school colors. It’s great because you can just do it outside in the grass…less mess!
I have two summer projects – 1) Documenting our garden and chickens and 2) I like to make Christmas cards in the summer (maybe it helps me feel cooler!)
I love putting together gift bags using fruity themes–cherries, berries, lemons, etc. I fill with treats that relate, then make a card or tag to match. Can’t get enough fruitiness in the summer!
I’m still collecting and pressing flowers and love to garden. I have so many ideas how to do this but alas ….. only one or two sprays. Please Help !
I have been itching to try some spray mists, but don’t have any yet… so pick me!
And weirdly enough, summer is my time to start making… Christmas cards.
I have been trying to learn more techniques for sprays. I just need to try them out more often–it’s a little intimidating.
Ohhh, mists are my friend. I love how they can be used with stencils, and I really like how she used them with leaves.
I’m looking forward to getting the cast off my right arm/hand so I can start crafting again!!!!!
Luv the card. I’m going to try something similar. I like to start thinking about what my Christmas cards are going to be in the summer. It is so hot in Texas, that thinking of cooler weather helps beat the heat!! Thank you for the chance to win.
Super fab inspiration!
My fave crafting in the Summer (is exactly the same in the winter) I love love love to make cards!
Thanks for the chance to win!
Such a wonderful idea! I have the perfect occasion for making this card. Thanks for the inspiration and the chance to win these awesome products.
Same as in the winter…scrapping and cardmaking!
My favorite summer crafting will be scrapbooking and card making … and all that those entail
I can’t wait!
Fantastic! I love misting but have very few colors. I would really like some more! Thanks!!
Love this card! Perfectly CAS!
Cardmaking……it’s for every season right? Especially when it’s hot and we can’t go outside!
I love photographing the flowers in my yard and then trying to incorporate the flower photo in a card.
My favorite summer crafting activity is making coffee filter butterflies with my kids outside. That and paper kites.
So pretty! I would love a chance to play with mists. Thanks.
This would be a new technique for me; awesome!
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Would love to try your technique but I’m unfamiliar with the spray mist. My favorite summer craft is collecting sea shells and decorating picture frames and mirrors with them. Life’s a beach!