TUTORIAL TIME WITH SPEEDY TV #35

 I am sooo happy it's Friday but disappointed that 

the weather is supposed to cool off quite a bit after having the most fabulous 

weather the past few days. Seems the weather is never as nice on the weekends

 when you would like to be in the garden or out in the mountains!! 

And speaking of Friday it is time for a new

 tutorial and challenge at FOSTV. Our tutorial is faux frosting, 

a fun  and very easy technique brought to us by Katie.

 If you pop over to the Challenge you will also find her tutorial. 

This technique can be used for a variety of things as you can see from

 the teams take on it. I actually used my for frosting on my cupcakes

. After coloring them I put the "frosting" on them and cut them out.

I like the little silver cupcake liners so I colored mine with greys

 and added a little silver glitter. I used the Dotted Swiss folder to

 emboss the card before adding my little plaid topper and bow. 

The buttons were added to each peak of the scallop. 

The little cupcakes and sentiment were layered and added.

 Quick and easy for a fun card.

This weeks winner receives this set.

TUESDAY THROWDOWN

It is Tuesday Throwdown Team B's turn this week.

 Our Sponsor is Robyn's Fetish and the challenge is Heart Strings. 

I used the image Jeanette the Red Hat Gal, coloring and cutting her 

out and attaching to the little die cut. 

The dps were stitched and an

 PTI border added to the floral strip. The sentiment was 

stamped onto the little heart tag and tied with string

.

My talented teamies have lots of  Great inspiration for you this week.

Stop by an join us.

FRIENDS OF SPEEDY TV

 Hope you all had a wonderful weekend. With Valentine's Day around our 

 FOSTV challenge is to make a Valentine's card.

 I used this little collection of heart dps from my sweet friend Martha.

A little paper doily for some frill and a MFT flower cut out of felt 

and tied with a button.The little XO punched border is 

stitched on. My sentiment is from

the new Love Love Love Set.

Mark's Finest Papers a Heinrich Co. is giving away this 

Stamp Set to the winner

Tutorial Time at Speedy TV

A Twisted Easel card you say.....yes, that is our challenge this week. 

Its a first for me but it was really very easy using  Lagene's tutorial. 

For the top I used the daisy image from the Black Eyed Susan Mine set. The fun dp

is a BoBunny piece. Dyed some ribbon to go with it and added the

pretty butterfly.

The bottom part from The Girl's Paperie was stitched on  and the lace added The flower
is made from a PTI bloom builder die and a big pearl for the center. The flourishes are MFT.

The sentiment was layered and edges distressed.

You can stop by and check out Lagene's tutorial. You will find she

has made the instructions so easy you will want to try this one!
 You will find all the great Stamp Sets, card stock and much more at 
Marks Finest Papers a Heinrich Co. store front.

This weeks winner will take home the Buried Treasure Set..
.

Friends of Speedy TV

Hope you all had a great weekend. We had a rainy one but  thats a good

 thing here in the dry desert. My garden was delighted with the nonalkaline rain water.

These little nasturtiams survived the frost and had these 2 cheery flowers to brighten the dreary day.

Our new challenge for FOSTV is New Home. 

I have used one of Mark's Finest Papers a Heinrich Co.images from the On The Fly set.

During the hot summer months I would like to live here.

 After coloring the image

 I matted it twice and added photo corners. The base was embossed with a SU 

stripe and a piece of dp stitched on. The string is tied with a wooden button.

Lots of fun inspiration with all my teammates! Come on over and join us,,,,,

The winner will receive this stamp set....

TUTORIAL TIME WITH SPEEDY TV

Are you thinking what I am TGIF!! I have had a terrible cold, the head feeling

like a beating drum, elephant on the chest, coughing like a fool,you know the

whole drill, but short staffed at work so had to go. Okay enough whining,

  I had started a little album thinking that our crayon resist technique would be fun

with doodling and perfect for the album but I tell you my creative cap

has short circuted and not enough umph with this miserable germ
so alternate plan was a fast card!!

I did the crayon resist on the backgrounds and used Tim Holtz ink. A little

stitching and tied the little banners with a button for quick embellies.

 The image and sentiment are from one of the new January releases 

from Mark's Finest Papers a Heinrich Co. called Fantastic Dogs.

The sentiment was soooo appropriate for how I felt this week that

I was compelled to use it lol!! Lots of creative license

with this challenge so come over and join us
.

Tuesday Throwdown

I forgot yesterday I was going to show these pics I took last week.

Here in the desert we don't get  much frost but last week temps dipped

 into the 20s which is very cold here. A hose drips into the

 birdbath all the time as the temps dipped it all froze!! The good 

news is it will  be in the 70's this week!

Are you ready for the new Challenge? Today at TT team B

 is challenging you to used  Furry Friends. Our Sponsor is Meljen's Designs

 and as always they have supplied us with some Super images
.

 They have a huge 

variety so stop over to visit their store. 

We have added several new talented ladies to our teams

so you will want to come meet them and see their fab cards!
Asha, Joyce,Julie & Sally will be joining  Team B today.

 I am using an image called  Cuddle Bun Soup. I colored and cut this cutie

 out with a Scalloped Circle Spellbinder.

Using a variety of Lost & Found dp I stitched two on for the background

 and then cut several sizes of hearts out. After distressing and stitching I 

attached the image to the mat. I recycled a little piece of felt ribbon

 that matched the print and  foam dotted on the image.

 The hearts were layered and a few buttons added.

This little image seemed perfect for a little homespun

 look don't you think?  If you come join in the challenge

you will have the opportunity to win some Meljens Design image.

The rest of my talented teammates have some super

designs for  you to check out.

Im entering this into
City Crafters Challenge: Forever Mine..use hearts

Friends of Speedy TV

Good Morning Friends, A new week and a fresh start!

This weeks Challenge at FOSTV is creative uses of ribbon.

After trying several things and not liking any of them I made a little

knotted  and twisted strand  to go across the top, then decided I would make grapes.

After dying some light and dark purple ribbon and crinkling it I knotted 

each piece and wrapped around several times for each grape then

added the grape leaves. My husband says they look like little flowers so you 

might have to use a little imagination to see a cluster of grapes!

Mark's Finest Papers a Heinrich Co. has five new sets released for this month
 and I'm loving these new ones and I am  excited about the upcoming
 ones for February. My image is from the No Sour Grapes set.After
 coloring my image I used some glossy

effects on my wine glass. I enlarged the image hoping you could

see but doesnt seem to show up.

  A Spellbinder Label #   and doily to help show it off a bit.

After embossing and cutting the top and adding the ribbon I punched

a sentiment with an oval punch and added the brad.

My teammates have lots of fun ideas for ribbon so

be sure to stop by and see what 

they have for you.

We would love to see your ideas for ribbon, so stop over and join us.

Tutorial Time with Speedy TV

Surely you can hearing me shouting for joy....I have a computer again!

No more running here and there trying to use other peoples like I have been for the

 last two months!! Thanks to my sweet friend Martha and husband Bill for

the new hard drive and for my husbands friend Guy for doing all the  work, installing,

 driving the 30 miles to bring it to me tonight showing my how to use
all the new stuff etc. What a blessing!!

Anyways onto this weeks Challenge at TTSTV. Something I've never done before.

Packing tape transfers. Debbie put together a great tutorial on how to do this

technique. I didnt have access to a laser printer to copy an image so I used one from a 

 Birds and Blooms magazine,  the brightly colored Western Tangar. After following

the directions and getting my image onto the tape I applied it to the cardstock and then

attached to the yellow background. Such a pretty picture, I made a stab at a C&S card.

Not real pleased but at least you do see the pretty bird as the focal and using the

sentiment from what else but the Sending Happy Thoughts Set.

This really is a pretty cool technique. The team has

shown how versatile this technique is with a great variety of wonderful cards.

Sure hope you will give it a try.
Enjoy your weekend....

Friends of Speedy TV

Hope you all had a great weekend!

 Today  FOSTV we are challenging you to use something recycled on your project.

 For mine I used and old piece of tissue that I had saved. It was a

 yellowish color so I used some inks to darken it then applied to a

 piece of card stalk leaving the wrinkles, going for
an old leather look with it.

  One of our new January releases 

is this great In My Den set, perfect for a man card. I love

all the cool images in the new set. Isn't this clock great!

I stamped colored and cut out the clock. I used some glossy accents

 for the glass,and  in real life  it look just like glass... 

I stamped the chairs on a couple of  Lost & Found dps then

 added the legs. The sentiment is also from the same set.

 Using recycled items means skys the limit for this

 challenge so come join the fun!

Tutorial Time with Speedy Tv

Friday means Tutorial Time has a new Challenge for you.  

This time Tammylee has a tutorial on how to make paperbag flowers. 

After cutting out lots of flowers from the brown and white paper bags I 

sprayed them with a few different colors of Shimmermist and ink then 

following the directions scrunched and let dry before assembling

 and attaching to my card.

 This flower was actually made from a white paper bag.

After coloring and then changing colors it looks like it was from

a brown one. It was interesting how the colors

reacted on white and brown.

 This one was from a brown bag. I used the Sentiment from the 

New Life Set and the bottom is stamped with the sheet music from

 the Just a Note Set.

  Both these sets can be found at 

 Mark's Finest Papers a Heinrich Co. My flowers are a 

bit misshapen as I had a LO started and they were different colors.

 When I changed the colors they got a little messed up.

 It has been one of those weeks, know what I mean.

 The ribbon was dyed and scrunched with a old 

vintage button sewn in the center. Stop over

 you will find Tammylee's tutorial very informative.