Snow and May Flowers?

I can't believe that there is a winter storm watch starting tomorrow night and it's going to be April 22nd!  Well, in celebration of the coming May flowers Hidden Vintage Studios is releasing the "May Flowers" mini kit over at www.deviantscrap.com.  It will be in the shop on Sunday night.
Here's a little something I made with the kit.  The lady is named "Fern" and she's from the May Flowers kit, all of the other elements are from Holliewood Studio's Enchanted and Somewhere kits.

Fern trained her giant pets, Artie and Bob with a purple umbrella, not an orange umbrella....because it made them cranky.  She carefully documented her training regimen on her 1914 Underwood typewriter which she always kept close at hand.

April Showers......

Did you get an April Fool's joke played on you today?  Well, this is no joke.....the April Showers kit is in the Hidden Vintage Studios shop over at Deviant Scrap.

I made this collage with the elements from the kit.  The watercolored background is from Holliewood Studio's "Enchanted" kit @ Deviant Scrap.

This is a physical piece I made with the kit elements........

Speaking of rain.  I call this necklace "the rainball".  You can find it here.

You can also find this leather distressed bird here.

That's all for now.......spring has sprung!

Spring has Sprung?

Spring has sprung early!  Just think of the super cute Easter cards and spring art you can make with this mini-kit!  All of the images in this mini-kit were taken from vintage photos (the bodies not the heads!). You can find the Spring Friends kit over at DeviantScrap.com

 
These were made with the mini-kit and leaves, flowers and frame from Holliewood Studios at Deviant Scrap.

Egg hunt anyone?  Everything but the pink and blue background, which is from Tumble Fish Studio's "Vibrations" kit is from the Spring Friends mini-kit.

I bet you hope he'll bring you something chocolate!

Here is a little little free background for you to download and use.....

Here it is with the saturation bumped up! Feel free to use in your art!

Happy creating!

Hidden Vintage Studios

I'm excited to introduce you to the debut of a collaboration between my friend Tracey over at Glitterbug Studios and myself.  We have teamed up and created Hidden Vintage Studios where we are providing digital kits to artist with quality, colorized digital images.  The kits contain both png files and collage sheets already to print out for the cut and paste artists.  Our first kit is Red Headed Stepchildren over at DeviantScrap.com.   Just in time for St. Patrick's Day!

These piece were created with images from the Red Headed Stepchildren kit.

 The above piece also contains background elements from Holliewood Studios and Tumble Fish Studios both at DeviantScrap.com

Will you be wear'n the green on March 17th?

Junk on a Chain

Hi there! I'm back after a month and a half off from blogging and crafting.  How's everybody doing?  It's snowing here in Pennsylvania and cold and blustery but spring is just around the corner.

I've been working on new jewelry designs over the past few days and have also been gathering inspiration from Pintrest.  Have you been on Pintrest?  Oh my, it's like internet crack for the ADD person!   Anywho, here is my February Junk on a Chain which I'm sending to my niece AJ as a belated b-day gift.

 This necklace has leather, plastic, buttons, acrylic, shells, glass beads, metal, shrinky-dinks, Scrabble tiles, coral, fabric bead.......I told you it was junk on a chain!

 I tried it on to see if it was even (there are 26 charms) and I had on a leaf green turtle neck and it looked pretty good with that color.  Hope you like it AJ!

This is my Black and White Junk on a Chain which I just put in the shop over at 

Honey Girl Studio Jewelry.

I'll be adding more items to the shop in the coming days and weeks.  :-)M

Home For the Holidays......

I love being at home. It's nice to travel to different places and see different things but it's oh so nice to come home.  These ornaments are inspired by the "homebody" in me!

 Chipboard covered with decorative papers and embossed with silver embossing powder with stamps.

 Burlap house with a tinsel roof.  I made the birds and keyhole from shrink plastic.

Are there any other homebodies out there like me?

Burlap Trees.....

I've been kind of obsessed with burlap this season and got a little carried away with making trees out of it!   I cut out chipboard and covered the front and back with burlap.  I used Mod Podge to glue on the burlap first by using a paintbrush and layering on a good amount of Mod Podge then laying on the burlap then painting on another thick layer of glue.  After it was dry then I cut it out.  

 The fun part was digging into my junk stash and putting the embellishing touches on them!

 The trunks are made from an old folding ruler that was cut into pieces.

A Use of tiny boxes

A friend sent me the cutest little house pendant in a little cardboard jewelry box recently and it got me thinking.......hmmmmm I could make ornaments out of the box and make my own little wooden houses, and that's just what I did!

 I covered the boxes with scrapbook paper and glued thin tinsel crack around the outside of it.  Then I made the houses out of wood and covered them with paper and ba-da-bing.....it's a sweet little ornament!

Have you recycled anything and turned it into an ornament this year?

Merry Christmas!!!!

Wishing all my friends in blogland a very Merry Christmas!

Digital card made with elements (except for the snowman) from Christmas Cheer by Tumble Fish Studio which can be found at Deviantscrap.com

Bottle Brush and Book Text Trees Galore!

Cream and white galore! Who uses the word "galore" anymore?  I guess I do!  I probably get it from my mom b/c she uses it too!  This year I made a drastic departure from the traditional way I usually do my mantle.  I've always done it in pine roping with red and green baubles and beads but I felt I wanted something more peaceful this year.  So this is what I came up with..........

I got this very cool piece of pottery at a flea market for a dollar.  It has a cream colored base with a bumpy white texture to it that reminds me of snow.......

A very tall hymnal music and text tree.  The white candles were also a flea market find for one thin dollar.

Peat pots make great little containers!

I bought a whole bag of green bottle brush trees and dipped them in a solution of water and bleach for about 15 minutes.  Large wooden blocks of wood covered with various decorative cardstock is a great way to elevate the trees.......

This is a big cloche I made out of chicken wire to go over the tree just to balance out the tall tree at the other end of the mantle.   I cut the paper strips a little wider and cut the tips with pinking scissors for this tree.......

The white lights are doubled over and then wrapped with a cream strip of tulle.  The use of the tulle diffuses the light and gives a soft glow.

This piece was created with chicken wire molded into a basket shape, glued to a candle stick base and filled with moss, tinsel and a glittery bird (with a hat, because all birds should wear hats).

So that's my mantle for Christmas 2011! What do you think?

It's Christmastime!  Here's my newest creation which I used a book for a base in which I glued the pages together.  How about that clock face?  It's backed with chipboard and it stands up by itself.  

I used the Nestabilities "gears" to cut out the gears from brown cardstock.  The house I made out of cardstock and glued burlap to the roof.  I think it makes it look like a thatch roof.  The bottle brush tree was green so I dunked it in Clorox and dyed it out white.  Now let's talk about the picture.  It's a picture from 1911.  I think they are sisters?  I backed the clear flat backed marbles with glitter copper colored paper and glued them down with clear calking hit with glitter.  That calking is cheap and works great to glue stuff together and really looks like snow. 

Merry Christmas!

A Red, Grey and White Christmas......

Just playing around with Tumble Fish Studio's Frippery Kit.  I created these collages with elements from her kit and then backed them with heavy chipboard and trimmed them out with thin tinsel to make them into ornaments.

Holiday Digi

Playing around with a new kit by Tumble Fish Studio called Frippery.  

I converted everything to black and white.  I'm thinking about turning this one into a small ornament with silver tinsel around it.  

Have you every noticed how we use the word "display" when it comes to Christmas decorations?  Would you still use the word display if only hung up one Christmas ornament? LOL!

What's your favorite thing to display at Christmastime?

Winter Wonderland Book......

He's ready for the snow.........are you?

The base of this piece is a book!  I painted an old hard covered book light blue, glued the pages together and printed out a title for the spine and glued it on.  The snowman's face has been hand sculpted out of paperclay and painted.  I made the hat and scarf from a scrap of felt.

As I was glueing the pages together I tucked glittery snowflakes between the pages here and there to peek out.   I secured a hanger on the back and he's ready to hang on the wall!