Tuesdays are for tutorials so that is what this is about BUT it is a special tutorial because I was invited to be part of a blog hop from Kialia Givehand using her "Mixed Media Inspiration Deck"
Now, not only was I automatically in for the hop, once I sat down, shuffled the cards and dealt myself 5 or so cards, I LOVED IT. I am not saying that because Kiala asked me to or because I am part of the hop, I am saying it because I mean it. It took all of the "himming & hahing" out of creating and you can make it as simple or as complex as you want.
For this project, I went with simple and here is how it went. It was super fun, for reals!
This is the deck:
and it has 52 cards and on each card is 1 creative prompts/idea/suggestion. Before I dealt myself a few MMID cards, I grabbed a few blank note cards, a few envelopes and a blank journal because I was not real sure what I was going to be creating.
Here are the cards I dealt myself: and here is what I created....
I decided to use a blank kraft note card and I adhered a heart that I had torn from book paper
Then I chose "Add a Quote"
So I tore out a bible verse from a little book that I often tear things from and adhered that to the top of the heart:
Then I got a WILD CARD so I grabbed my Black Sooth Distress Pen
and added just a little hint of color around the edges:
My next card was "Add a Tip-In" and honestly, I did not know what that was until I read the description on the card...duh!
So I ripped a paper out of the blank journal I had grabbed in the beginning, trimmed it to fit the inside of the card and adhered it in:
I could have been done at this point. I was pretty happy with the ease and speed of creating the card but I had a few more cards left so I kept going...
My next card said to include a tag, label or envelope so I chose 2 of the three
and adhered a little glassine envelope to the "Tip-In" and tucked a little tag into that! It looked like it needed a little something so I made myself glance over at the first card I had used...
and added another heart torn from book paper to the glassine envelope: Luckily, I had one more card and it was just what I needed to complete this project.
My tag needed a little something..
and then I was done..and happy with the outcome...and ready to make more because it really was that simple!
Now, guess what?????
I get to give a deck away to one of you. All you have to do is go on over to my Stephanie Ackerman Designs FB page here, share the page and leave a comment. Winner will be announced on 12/12/13.
Thanks so much for hopping by. For more info on the Mixed Media Inspiration Deck, check out Kiala's blog here.