Singing Pumpkins wreath

Hallo,
  Another wreath for you today - very similar to yesterdays. I did yesterdays in more of a yellow tone and todays in red and orange with a brown background behind the pumpkins.
   The pumpkins are from Holly Berry and the letters from Flourishes - all colored with copics.
  For a few more details - check out yesterdays post.
  I am headed for bed and then need to try and clean house later this afternoon.
   Take Care!!!
      Tera

Fall Pumpkin wreath

 Hallo,
   Well home from work, got the puppy her walk and now just giving her time to settle down and I will head for my bed.
  I got some good craft time on Sunday this weekend as it rained all day!!!!
   I did a couple more Halloween wreaths.
  The leaves were all made from scraps of cardstock and Halloween DP - in yellow, orange, red and brown. I die cut the leaves and then ran the plain cardstock ones through embossing folders. Finally I hot glued them onto the wreath.
   The pumpkin stamp is from Holly Berry - colored with copics. I cut it out with a Spellbinders die and the layer under it and then added some pearls in copper with a tulip fabric pen.
  The banner is done with stamps from Flourishes - colored with copics and strung up on twine.
   I now have 3 Halloween wreaths waiting for the craft fair - tempted to keep one for myself - problem is deciding WHICH one!!!
   I will have more encaustic wax pics this week too - I had class again yesterday and we worked with clayboard - very nice surface to work on!!!
   All for today - Take Care!!!
       Tera

He has Risen

Hallo,

I am off to bed right quickly here - my bed is every so softly calling my name....it was a busy couple nights at work but I say that alot don't I . It is job security though, so I should not complain. It is one of my favorite sayings that between cigarettes, fast food and denial I will never be without a job.......

I finished off this 8X10 canvus this weekend and am really tickled how it turned out!!!!

I started by painting the white canvus with cream and purple acrylic paint and when it was dry lightly brushed on some gold acrylic paint.

For the next step I got out my glimmer mist and some glimmer screens (from Tattered Angels) and put down a layer of glimmer mist in purple. When that was dry I lightly brushed on a little more of the gold mettalic paint.

The 2 shades of purple cardstock is from 'Paper Temptress' and have a pretty sparkle to them. The main panels were cut with a labels die and the fancy stuff behind is one of the new fancy tags - both from Spellbinders.

The large cross is from 'Holly Berry' and embossed with white embossing powder. All the other stamps are from 'Verve'. I stamped the cross and put on the white embossing powder - then stamped the phrase in black and used black embossing powder.

The wings are a 'Tim Holtz' die cut from heavy cardstock and again from printed paper.

The printed paper comes from an old Bible that I got at a garage sale with some other books. The Bibles cover was in tatters and most of the pages loose.

I glued the Bible pages to the heavy cardstock and then painted the back with cream acrylic paint - swiping some on the front. I had intended to put the wings up over the top edges so the back would show - thats why I painted the backs.....but in the end I liked this arrangement better. Then I added some gold mettalic acrylic paint on the edges and a few swipes....

The corners are also from 'Tim Holtz' and I lightly brushed a little of the gold paint on the texture of the corners so they would show up a bit better.

I stamped 'He has Risen' from the 'Verve' set on each of the 4 sides of the canvus.

Lastly I added some gold bead flourishes to the one side of the canvus.

I just love doing this kind of stuff - I have made a resolution (better late than never I guess) to make time to do more altered work like this.

This canvus went out in the mail today....can't tell who yet :).

I have 3 more canvus prepped to do something similar with. After sleeping a bit today , I plan to get all my chores done so tomorrow I can play all day with my canvus and acrylic paint, and stamps, dies cuts , embossing powders.....well you get the idea.....

Off to bed with me......

Take Care

Tera

More pumpkins

Hallo,
Just a short note today - I am at work again today but will show you this plaque I finished on wednesday.
The singing pumpkins are from Holly Berry, the flourish is from Cherry Pie and the Happy Halloween is from Hero Arts (an old one - from 1990).
I colored the main image and the phrase with my copics and added some distress paints and inks and some old unknown DP.
There's not much else to say today but this day will forever be remembered - 9-11-01 - Prayers sent, the Watch kept.....
God Bless America!!!!!
Have a great weekend everyone!!!
Tera

Singing Pumpkins

Hallo,
I finally managed to get my day rolling and get some errands done - spent along time on the phone this am. Talked with my Mom for quite awhile and then one of my greatest friends from AZ called and we talked about an hour - we hadn't talked in quite awhile so alot of catching up to do with personal and family stuff and then of course since she is an ICU Nurse also we always end up talking about work.......
Anyway - todays project was going to be a card when I started it but it turned into a plaque instead.... I found the wood plaque at the Dollar store and replaced the string to hang it with wire (after decorating it of course).
The main image is some cute singing pumpkins from Holly Berry which I colored with my copics, then I added the spider flourish from Inkadinkado and the Happy Halloween is from Hero Arts (a long time ago - 1990 - but one of my most used at Halloween time).
As I was deciding how to make the panel into a card I found the orange/red paper somewhere in the many piles on and around my desk and thats when the idea for the plaque came - I glued the paper and panel on with mod podge and let it dry.


Next I painted the edges with walnut stain crackle paint and let it dry. After it was dry I rubbed walnut stain ink over the crackle and then added the wire.
I may have to make up a few more of these....
I have been coloring on the couch in the evenings the last couple days so we'll see if I can get any of them made up into cards or plaques today - I have some house cleaning to do yet and some sprucing up in the craft room to do also before I can craft - I bought my self a big CD rack that holds a bout 900 CD's and it spins - was really hoping it would fit right by my desk but it doesn't :( - so it will be at the edge of my craft room for now (until I can get some of my piles taken care of - literally piles of stuff I have found at thrift stores and garage sales that I plan to alter.....)


Well if I am to get anything crafty done today, I had best get to my chores!!!!
Don't be too surprised if I don't post the next couple days - I work the next 2 so if I don't get anything crafty done today then I will plan on seeing you all on monday!!!
Have a great week!!!!