Fun with Tiles

My mom had a birthday recently and I was hard-pressed to come up with a gift for The Woman Who Has Everything - or at least a gift in my budget. :)  I ended up giving her these tiles.  Ever since then I've been thinking that I need to make some more; the process is totally unpredictable which is the fun of it to me.  Here's what I came up with:

At first I was thinking of calling them Neptune's Forest as they remind me of looking at a kelp forest underwater.  But then I looked again and they could also simply be a fun, whimsical Funky Forest.  What name do you think fits best?

Mixed Media-ish Card

All of my good intentions to clean up my creative space are still waiting to be fulfilled but I decided to get in there anyway and get messy.  My nephew recently bought his first home.  I whipped up some funky coasters as a gift for him. 

They remind me of a tidepool - a mix of anemones, crabs, seaweed, and cold, clear seawater.  The bright colors on these inspired the colors on this card:

 Lots of fun playing around with various inks on this baby.  Started with a white base then I put a number stencil down and sprayed it with blue Dylusions ink.  It ended up being a bit too intense so I toned it down by swiping Picket Fence Distress Stain over it.

The houses were stamped on a separate piece of cardstock and cut out.  I colored them with copics; they remind me of houses in San Francisco.  The grass is embossed with a TH ledger embossing folder and direct-to-papered over the top with Peeled Paint Distress Ink.

I cut out the clouds with a Memory Box die and stenciled over the top with some Tumbled Glass Distress Ink.  They needed the pen outline to help them stand out from the "sky".  A little honeycomb background stamp is on the sun.  The banner is pieced together with the middle piece lifted off the back.

 I'm surprised I found room (or supplies) in here to make ANYTHING!  Maybe now that I got some creative juju out of my system I can get busy...

Creep-erific

Have I mentioned (532 times?) that I love Halloween?  I am definitely in my happy place to be surrounded by crows, spiders (the plastic kind, thank you very much), pumpkins, skeletons and papers in green, brown, black, orange, and purple.  Good times.

I don't recall what inspired me to delve into this latest project.  Something on Pinterest, no doubt. I have never tried stamping on tiles before so dove in with a little trepidation.  I tried several different images with no success until I stumbled upon this skull island stamp.  Wah-lah!  Love this stamp and I'm really pleased with the result
  

 I added this Skull Island Coaster Set to my Etsy shop yesterday.  Love them!

What do you think of the red, drippy rim on that wine glass?  Pretty creeeepy, yes?  Super easy to do.  Mix light corn syrup with some red and blue food coloring - just a smidge of the blue.  Dip the rim in the mixture and set aside for about a minute.  It will seem like it's not going to work but don't be tempted (as I was...several times) to dunk again.  It will start oozing in its own good time.

Thanks for stopping by again today.  I hope you're getting to enjoy a warm, sunny summer day.