Crow Wreath

Hallo,
  Another one of my wreaths to show you today - another Halloween one!!
   I used leaves cut from mettalic paper (gold, silver and copper) using Spellbinders and Sizzix dies and then ran them through various texture folders (diamond plate, tire treads, brick wall, gears and clock parts).
   I hot glued the leaves to a twig wreath.
  The letters are stamps from Flourishes - stamped on to a silvery gray paper and colored with silver and gold mettalic sharpie pen. I then glued little clock gears and parts to where the flowers on the letters are - and used a couple screw type brads too.
  I strung the letters to a mesh, copper orangeish ribbon and used the rest of the ribbon for a tie for my crow - which I perched on top of my wreath.
    The punmpkin was done steampunk/Tim Holtz style - I covered the fake pumpkin with strips (in different sizes) of shiny duck tape and then added texture with several tools found in da DH's work bench. I rubbed on black alcohol ink to pick up the textures and then added the pumpkin to the bottom part of my wreath.
   All for today - puppy has had her walk and now it is time to get to the craft room and do a few more projects for my craft fair this weekend!!!!
    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

Happiness....

Hallo,
I had a very busy day - have a few minutes here before I have to get some supper ready and go to work.
My DS and a couple friends wanted to go to the waterpark today so I ran them out there to be there when it opened at 10 - then my DD and I spent the day doing thrift shops and indoor flea markets (believe me this is no weather to be outside in for me - waaaayyyy too HOT!!!!).
We went to 3 thrift shops, 2 indoor flea markets and one Estate sale. I really didn't buy much - I found a few cigar boxes (one from the estate sale was full of old slides that looked like they came from an art history lesson), 2 briefcases, a wood writing desk with some great filigree scroll work on the lid and some great vintage lace doilies......then we had lunch at Panera bread before running back out to get the guys.
I dropped them off at home and made a quick run for groceries and then vacumed the pool fast before the rain hit.
I may just have to do jumping jacks at work tonight to stay awake (I rarely have any trouble staying awake even my first night on - I never manage to get a nap....)



Anyway - todays card was made awhile back for a sketch challenge over at Stamp TV. The phrase is from Gina K.
The flower was done with the flower dies from Tim Holtz from scraps from other projects - 2 of the scraps are from pieces of cuttlebugged paper distressed with distress inks and the green layer has a backrounder from CHF stamped onto it...
All for today - gotta get me some grub going....
Take Care
Tera

Butterfly Believe

Hallo,
A little something for ya today that I have been working on and off and on for about 2 months.
This is a 5x7 canvus that I first started by painting it with gouche paints (halfway between watercolors and acrylics...) and then used gesso on one of my backrounders from Cornish Heritage Farms and stamped it on top - the backrounder is called Fiery Floral and you can find it here - www.cornishheritagefarms.com
Well then I couldn't decide what I wanted to do with it next so it has been sitting on a corner of my desk for a couple months. Last week when I was coloring these butterflys I noticed the colors were similar .....
Then I stamped on the canvus with stamps from Gina K and a butterfly from Stampendous.
I glued the butterfly from Inkadinkado down with gold shimmer mod podge and glued the fragment from Tim Holtz on top. I embossed the words on top of the fragment with copper embossing powder and glued some corners from Tim Holtz to 2 corners.

All for today - Have a great weekend!!!!
Take Care
Tera

Purple Butterfly plaque

Hallo,
Last of this series of plaques for you - the purple one. I edged the black and whire DP with dark purple and glued all the layers down with gold sparkle mod podge (although you can't see it in the pics very well). Added some corners and fragments from Tim Holtz and a phrase from Gina K.
The butterfly is from Inkadinkado - colored with copics, clear embossed and sponged with light and dark purple and navy. Edged with a dark blue violet copic marker. The flourish is from Cherry Pie.
Preposting and short today as I am at work today :).
Take Care
Tera

Orange Butterfly plaque

Hallo,
Here's plaque Number 2 - This one was done with the orange paper. I edged the DP with navy ink and didn't really like how it looked but made it up while trying to think of a way to 'fix' it.
I used corners and fragments from Tim Holtz, and some copper wire to make the hanger. The butterfly image is from Inkadinkado and colored with copics, clear embossed and then sponged with light purple, dark purple and navy inks, edged with a dark blue violet copic marker. The flourish is from Cherry Pie. I glued all the layers with gold sparkle mod podge. The phrase on the fragments is from Gina K.
The last thing I did on the plaque was stamp the flourish in white staz on on the edges and I liked how that looked much better! (covers up the navy that I got a little heavy on :)).
All for today - errands to run, chores to do and the craft room is calling :)
Take Care
Tera

I'm here - girly style

Hallo,
Welcome to MONDAY!!!!! I accually like mondays because I am usually off on mondays - not that work didn't call and try to talk me into working today....but I had a few errands to do and the craft room was calling.
Another baby book for you today - using the Tim Holtz chipboard book and papers from the same pad as the boy one - only the more girly colors.
Definatly not traditional pastel pinks but more pinky orangeish, maroonish, and brown. I like how it looks but I plan to make another one with more traditional pinks too.



This book is for another coworker who is expecting a Granddaughter in the next couple months. I plan to show her this one and the one I plan to do in more traditional colors and let her pick.
The little onesie and phrase are both from Gina K's 'Wee Tee's ' set. I made up a bunch of different onsies like I did with the boy box but being a girly book you can fancy them up a little so I will show you those soon - I sure had fun making them - like playing paper dolls!!!!!
On this little onsie I added a neckline of ribbon (I also used this tiny ribbon on the feet of the box - which I will show you tomorrow) and I added some other old ribbon, old buttons and paper flowers too.....
Well I had better be off to start dinner - didn't get as much done around the house today as I would have liked but did manage a long walk and some 'hard' time on torture machine (aka the eliptical...) and got a few errands done - so maybe the house will get some attention tomorrow........
Take Care
Tera

Baby book

Hallo,
A few quick pics of my baby gift project that I have been working on yesterday and today.
This is a chipboard book from Tim Holtz that I covered with coordinating papers and stamps from Gina K.
Some of these papers have been in my stash for a long time and some are new from my trip last week....
I have had the stamps from Gina K for awhile - 'Wee Tee's' and 'Sporty Tees'.
I only decorated the front and left the pages on the inside with only the decorative papers - but then I stamped up about 15 different onesies with different phrases and pictures from the Wee Tees set and put them in a little plastic sack. That way my coworker can coordinate the onesie with the picture.

Here's a couple shots of the other inside pages and a shot of the extra onesies (and some extra die cuts and extra sports equipment).

I had a busy day - nice cool weather again this am so I took another long walk and got alot of yard work done - alas no housework done but I am sure this cooler weather won't last much longer so.....

After school I had to run a couple errands for school supplies and then spent about 2 hours at parent night at the HS - introducing all the sports coaches, teams, teachers ect. and then a quick run around the school meeting my DD's individual teachers.... Thank goodness for the crock pot :)

All for tonight - more yard work planned for the am, a mandatory meeting at work, laundry, groceries ect., ect., ect.,

Take Care

Tera