 Hey everyone! Maria Dispresso Press Design. Thank you for stopping by. Welcome! Today we're going to do a little, a fun little project. A no-brain project. That's what I'm in the mood for. First, as usual, a little show-and-tell. This is the latest that I whipped up from my mixed-media masterboard as I went each step of creation and it was quite bright so I toned it down a lot. It was quite bright and contrasty so I toned it down a lot. I came up with these three little collage sheets called Tickets. So that's in the shop. Today we're going to make scrappy scribble flowers and Quicken Easy. Made up a bunch of these yesterday. Took about, I don't know, 40 minutes. But for us the little show-and-tell, my latest shopping excursion. I went to Joanne's last night because I had, you know, I'm always in bad thinking and I often use this flower and stamp it in colors and plus you cut it as it is this way. We're going to use it today in a different way and then I realize, you know, I don't have any background embossing folders. I would like to try something doing that with a fussy cat flower and I don't have any. All my embossing folders are kind of Victorian vintage and there is one I have in mind that I want. There would be kind of whimsical to work with this but it's not in the store. So I thought I'll just drop in here and see what's new and I worked out with these three for only $12 so I was happy about that because I really wasn't intending to shop this week. So these are the scrappy flowers and I'm gonna make one little project today. So what you'll need are some stamps or doodle. I do not doodle. I chose three stamps. I'm gonna talk about my inspiration here in a minute. So I chose three stamps. Where did my main one go? This one, this one, and this one. And you're gonna need some scraps. Let me get them here. And I chose all kinds of things. In keeping with the inspiration, which is what I prefer to do as best I can, which we all do, as best I can. I stuck with papers that resemble her scruples. But of course you can do this with any paper, your scrapbook paper, any paper. But as I said, when I'm using an inspiration and I'm gonna post her blog, I have these pinned-on Pinterest. I'm gonna post the link to the blog. She also has a YouTube channel. So I'll post both and then you can look at the original inspiration. And these jelly print digitals again are from Penny Rose Journals. Jelly print, 24-digital collage jelly prints. So that's what you'll need and a pair of scissors and some glue and whatever you would like to put in the center. I used my little button die cuts for some. I used circles. And then when I went back to revisit her site, I realized that she was popping a button in the center of hers. So I'm gonna show you some inspiration here of what I already made. My first thing I made, I just made a little tag on some book page. I am going to probably whip up a little bunch for my daughter's collage book and give them to her. In honor of Valentine's, I took some of the red papers and made a little heart. As I was going through, I was thinking that I might make one of my first thoughts are always no cards. So I was going through my little tiles created from last week and how cute would that be on a little no card, three by three on the front. And then I just started, I spotted another one with some green in it. And there's another little ATC card for sure. And then I thought I might make a little tag and pop some down like so. But in the end, I think I am going to make a little bobby pin clip. So I have, these are my ones that are glued together. And these are some of my cuts that I still have to assemble. So I'm just gonna grab some scraps here and quickly stamp on the back. Now what I have been doing, at first I used black. But here's another tip. Use the color of ink that you have a lot of or that you don't like or that you do like. And then if you don't like the way the design is, if you decide not to use it as this pattern, you can still use it as this pattern. It'll work a little better with my solid here. Let me show you. So as I said, I often use this stamp and when I want to make a card or something and I want to put, sorry, some flowers on my card, on a pattern paper, I often use this stamp because I love this flower. So use the color you have a lot of and don't particularly like or use a color that you do like. That still had something else on it. It looks like black. Use a color that you do like and then you can use your store your little pieces and then you can use it either way. So that's a tip. So that's all I did. Yesterday was stamped on the back. I'm probably going to put this under scrap buster. And I am sticking with my inspiration. So let's get started and I will chat about the inspiration. Oh first, look at these delicious cookies my husband made yesterday. Oh you're also going to need some buttons. Some might just put a little dot in the center. He likes to bake. Usually it's bread. So lately we're still in Christmas mode which kind of has to end. But we often bake a lot in the winter, especially on those cold days. So I usually choose three recipes and then he picks one to make. And I'm done here happily cutting out flowers and he's upstairs baking cookies. And I didn't know what I was going to get until I went upstairs. But they are delicious. They taste kind of like baklava. Okay so that's the stamping. I'm going to spare you the fussy cutting. And I'm just going to make a little bobby pin clip and talk about the artist as I go. So my inspiration was from P&E and Parakeet. And she's from Finland. She actually does have P&E's and Parakeet's. It says on her blog. I know I am going to get her name probably wrong. Pi B Irola. Irola from Finland. She's an amazing artist is what I discovered. I have these I had these flowers pinned on my board on Pinterest for quite some time. And on those days when you just want to have fun and not think too much. Because the day before I made a book and it was a scrapbook type book and took a lot of work. Well it's much smaller but I made four signatures. I'm using my jewelette for this button. I made four signatures and ended up only putting in three. And then I think what I might do is share the inspiration and make a mini example with the fourth signature. Because well the video where I saw the book I thought this might look nice on back. And I'm gonna put that there in the flower on top. But first I am going to put my bobby pin in place. And as you know I kind of moved on from doing paper clips. Hidden paper clips because I don't like the bulk. So I use a bobby pin instead. So anyway she's a wonderful artist. I think you should check her out. She's still writing on her blog. I'm going to link you to the post with the flowers but she still has a new post on her blog. And it is delightful. Her collage art is wonderful. Her paintings are wonderful. On this when you go to her blog you'll see the latest blog posts. And if you scroll down you'll see she makes these amazing little fairy-like paper doll. Paper dolls and paper doll images. So her paintings are a lot different than her collage work and other type of work. Beautiful. Her paintings are kind of seem to me to have a touch of Japanese but not totally Japanese. And then her collage work and her little fairies. She used to do icons so you can see a touch of iconographic type. You can see a touch of that as well. I can't even describe how expressive her work is. I'm trying to grab to see if I have some kind of pocket here or something. Yes I do. There's a little pocket on there. Her work is so expressive. It's amazing. And how different each medium is. I believe her paintings, I believe they were oils. Whoops I'm going the wrong way with that. And I did that wrong. I meant to put that behind. Oh well. I didn't want that to show up. I wanted that between. But that's the way it's going now. It's okay. I can always glue something else on the back of there but it doesn't bother me. And there's a cute little clip. So these are these are very whimsical. Of course you can do your user-run scrapbook papers. But as I said when I'm showing an inspiration I like to follow the inspiration as much as I can. Of course everyone has to adapt. And as I said I don't do scribbles. So these are scrappy scribble flowers. And then oh another tip. How I do these little square letters. I take one of these. I'm sure you've all seen these. And I just stamp the entire thing instead of making a word. And then I cut them out. And I also do that with these wooden tiny wooden block type stamps. You can put as many as you want. Wrap them with a rubber band. And you can get patterns. I also do that with my numbers. My only suggestion might be you might want to keep them as a full size. A bigger size sheet and cut them out as you go. Because otherwise it's kind of like playing Scrabble. But I have all these left from Christmas. So they're in a little envelope. That scrappy word that I wanted to put on there. 22. Keep this short. And I want to get back on my schedule. So I had no idea I was planning this. I just got a scrappy mood yesterday. And that is what I came up with to spend my afternoon. And I think that's going to look beautiful without colored. That's where it will end up. But it will be end up on something. And as I said I'm gonna finish up this little pile. Make these today. Probably pops. I don't know how many I get part with. But I'll probably pop some in the little envelope for my daughter to use in her book. Okay everyone. Thanks for stopping by. I'll see you next time. Have a great week everyone. Bye.