there is love

This months challenge at Inspiration Emporium is weddings, anniversaries, anything that inspires you for this month of  wedded bliss!

I did a canvas in white with handmade lace flowers and die cutting goodness.

The pics are my mom and dad, they are my fave pics of them, so I use them in a lot of projects.

They were married in 1946.

Remember "The Wedding Song" by Paul Stookey of Peter, Paul and Mary?

I know some of you do, for those of you who don't or you just want to hear the song I've included a link to the video.

I've always thought it was the perfect song for the big day.

So beautiful and gentle, it tells the story of love.

All of the chipboard pieces are painted with Distress Picket Fence crackle paint and sprinkled with glitter. The dies I used are Tim Holtz mini love struck, mini butterflies and regal crest by Sizzix. I cut the pic's with my Spellbinder's classic ovals large.

The background paper is a piece from the Tim Holtz 8x8 collage paper stash. I painted a light coat of gesso over it to tone it down and wiped off some with a wet wipe.

I applied a large piece of lace diagnally across the canvas with multi medium. I painted it on and layed the lace down over it and went around the sides. The "there is love" is from chitchat verbages.

I added some small Kaiser pearls here and there.

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Here is what I used to make the flowers.

Cardstock scraps, 1 1/4 and 1 3/8" circle punches, Fabric-Tac, vintage lace, beads, hot glue gun. 

I punched the circles from the cardstock and glued the end of the lace to the center of the circle with my glue gun. I started twisting the lace and winding it around the circle putting spots of Fabric-Tac down to hold the lace in place. After I was happy with the flower, I cut the lace and glued the end to the back. I squeezed some glue in the center of each flower and sprinkled on the beads.

That's it, hope you're inspired to play along this month.

Go check it out!

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Hope you have a beautiful day!

 

Adore Prima tag journaled!

Good morning bloggers.

Humph. I'm having so much trouble uploading my first pic on my posts. They've been uploading sideways. I finally got this right by uploading it at the original size. This stuff gets on my last nerve!! If someone can please tell me what's wrong, I'd really appreciate it!

(it's cut off part of the right side)

I made this tag last month for Inspiration Emporium, needless to say it didn't get blogged, stupid computer.

Now, I'm showing it to you journaled. I've started journaling my tags if I can, not too lumpy or bumpy. I thinks it's a nice way to showcase them.

For the background I painted on some Bundled Sage Distress paint, just painted it on straight from the bottle. Then I used my Prima Sunrise, Sunset stencil and Archival Aquamarine ink to make the little flowers. I colored the centers with my Gelly Roll white 08 pen and outlined them with my Sakura Micron black 08 pen. Next, I added some old Kaiser rub on flowers.

I'm loving Prima flowers lately. I have oodles of them from a few years back, the tiny ones, remember those?

I bet I could wall paper my stamp room with them lol!

I added the vintage lace to her skirt by running a strip of adhesive with my ATG gun and pleating the lace with my fingers, it's easier than you think.

Supplies:

stamps - prima doll stamp. paper - dylusions journal, prima divine 6x6 paper pad, tag, white cardstock. ink - archival jet black and aquamarine, copic markers e00, e57. acces. - kaiser pearls, may arts velvet rick rack, vintage lace, adage ticket adore, washi tape, tim holtz facets, prima divine flowers, distress paint in bundled sage and broken china. tools - tracing wheel, prima sunrise, sunset stencil, mft large scallop die, tiny attacher.

You can get the supplies at my fave store Inspiration Emporium. Not only do they carry the latest supplies for todays trends, but, they are good people and will go above and beyong to help you shop!

use my discount code ieirisgardenat check out for a 10% discount!

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Hope you have a great day!

Prince Albert tin flowers

 Hey blogger friends!

I have a fun altered project to show you today.

A vintage Prince Albert can filled with vintage mold flowers.

I really don't know what these molds were used for, I know there are Jello molds, I have some that say Jello on the bottom. They may be candy or cake molds? I don't know.

I have collected them for quite awhile.

The first things I made were Christmas ornaments. I have some tiny ones that aren't pictured below, I forget to get them out, you can see the ornaments here and a Halloween bouquet here. I've picked up a few Prince Albert can's too. I have one on my fridge, I use it to hold pens and a tablet for grocery lists.

This one is a giant fridge magnet, a pretty decoration for the fridge!

I plan on making fridge magnets out of the big ones, just the flower with a magnet on the back.

You could use it for any decor you want.

 I used Tim Holtz alcohol inks to color the flower petals. Just squeeze it on the flower and smear it around with a q-tip, so easy!

I almost forgot, it the past I used tin snips to cut between each scallop, this time I couldn't find them, so I used Tim Holtz Tonic scissors, worked like a charm!

Supplies:

ink - distress vintage photo and antique linen, adirondack alcohol ink in red pepper, terra cotta, denim and bottle. paper - prima nature garden 6x6 paper stack. (center of flowers) acces. - prince albert can, tin molds, wood shish-kebab skewers (stems), tissue tape, prima wood embellishments (leaves) crinkle ribbon, magnets, ideaology fasteners and findings. tools - tim's scissors, 1 1/2 circle punch, crop a dile, glue gun, e6000 and blending tool.

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Well, that's it!

Don't forget to play along in the Inspiration Emporium quote challenge this month, there are already some great uploads, check them out!

Have a great day!

 

come fly with me

Hey bloggers!

I've got art journal pages to show you today.

I used my small flea market journal because I wanted to use the Prima Hello Pastel and Fairy Rhymes stamp sets, the smaller stamps work in the small journal better for me. I'm in love with all things Prima lately, they have so many cute stamp sets, paper, embellishments, stencils, washi tape and fabric tape the list goes on and on! 

These journal pages turned out busy, busy!

Layer after layer of Dylusions and Archival inks and
Distress markers.

I used the fabric tape for the first time, oh my, I love it!

I used it for the black and white border around the pages.

You could color it if you want, I left it as is.

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Supplies:

stamps - prima hello pastel and fairy rhymes, date stamp.

ink - dylusions pure sunshine, campso teal and white linen spray inks, archival rose madder, monarch orange, jet black and distress markers (to color the fairy and flower stems).

acces. - small art journal, distress stickles in antique linen, chit chat verbages, jelly roll 08 white and sakura micron 08 black pens, prima fabric tape, tim holtz tissue tape.

tools - prima 6x6 crackle and flourish stencils, dylusions 5x8 dotted flowers stencil.

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When I went out this morning to take pictures of my journal pages I saw this little girl.

Looks like she just came out of hibernation by the mud on the side of her shell.

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Remember to upload your your May project at the Inspiration Journal, you could be a winner!

Thanks for stopping by, have a great day!

 

Inspiration Emporium guest poster

Hey bloggers!

Today I'm the guest poster over at the Inspiration Blog.

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Thanks so much!

 

hello!

 Happy Monday bloggers!

Today I'm showing you a card, yes, a card, I can't believe I still remember how to make one! I've been making so many journal pages lately, but, when I saw the sweet Prima stamps, it had to be a card!

Inspiration Emporium has got so many cute Prima stamps, paper, flowers and embellishments coming in, it's so hard to choose!

                                                                                 

I made this card with the new Fairy Rhymes #10 stamp set. 

The stamps I used are the tea pot and cup, the banner, butterflies and hello sentiment.

I stamped them on vanilla cardstock with Distress Black Soot & Worn Lipstick ink. I colored the butterflies and banner with Copic bg10, bg72, y11 & g21 markers. I cut the 2 little banners in the corner of the image from the Prima Divine 6x6 pad, the card background is from the pad too. 

I colored the crinkle ribbon with spun sugar Distress Stain and I attached some vintage tatting above the ribbon with my tiny attacher. 

I cut the vanilla doily with Die-namics open scallop doily duo and used 1/2 of it.

The main image is backed with pink cardstock.

The flower and leaf are from Prima's new wood embellishments, colored with Copic markers with a Kaiser pearl in the center.

Remember to play along in Inspiration Emporium's monthy challenge for a chance to win $50 in IE goodies from the store! And, use my discount code ieirisgarden when shopping to get 10% off your entire order!

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Have a great Monday!

 

magical memories

                                                       

Happy Sunday bloggers!

I've got another journal page for you and some junkin' finds!

I did some double stenciling on this page and paper pieced the clothes on this Dylusional couture couple after I drew on some heads, LOL!

See the huge flowers in the background? I used the Oh Christmas Tree 5x8 stencil and the tree in the stencil for each petal and colored them with paint dabbers, each flower is a different color.


After it dried, for this pink flower I laid down the Christmas tree stencil back over the pink petal and laid The Crafter's Workshop Mini Spring Fling stencil over that and dabbed on white paint.
I really love the look!

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Supplies:
stamps - dylusions love struck lucy (the circles around the border), dylusions basic backgrounds, dylusions man about town & night at the opera, date stamp.
paper - tissue wrap (in center of the page), dylusions art journal, mme fiddlesticks 6x6 pad, fancy pants park bench 6x6 pad.
ink - dylusions vibrant turquoise, pure sunshine, archival rose madder, aquamarine, jet black, distress vintage photo, sakura micron 08 black & gelly roll white pens.
acces. - red pepper, pitch black, aqua, pink sherbet acrylic paint dabbers, acrylic antique white, yellow & aqua paint, kaiser pearl, chit chat verbages. 
tools - dylusions 5x8 oh christmas tree & 5x8 dotted flowers stencil, tcw mini spring fling 6x6 & chickenwire stencils, fine tip water brush, blending tool.
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I did some junkin' this past weekend and I scored some fun things.
I've always liked the glasses Miss Vicki buys on her junk trips and thought it was a fun idea to use them too, not just put them on display.
I've discovered they are harder to find around here than I thought. I want the heavy ones that still have the painted stuff on them and are in good shape. I have something new to be on the look-out for, that's always fun!

I found this plastic doily, another stencil to add to my stash!

The little girl head wall pocket, she's so cute! I have crates and crates full of wall pockets. I started collecting them years ago. I hung them everywhere, when we painted for the first time and I had to take them down I decided I didn't want to hang them all back up, now I have a few of my faves up. The only time I'll buy one is if I don't have it and its cheap. I really need to have a wall pocket sale!

I got this little awl, love it, I use a lot in my crafting, you'd be surprised how handy they are. The small trowel, I'm going to use it for molding paste, gesso etc. It has a good feel in my hand, I think I'll like using it. I've never seen one this narrow. 

I picked up this yearbook to use for an art journal, I like to use the small ones for smaller stamps, there's not so much blank space to try and fill.

The first few pages are written in. Seems this man was trying to eat better for high blood pressure and his Dr. must have given him a recipe for a "magic oil".

I'm not going to cover the few pages he's written in, I love finding stuff like this.

If he only knew I was reading his book :)

Don't forget you can upload your creation using stencils or masks until the end of April at the Inspiration Journal for your chance to win $50 in goodies from the store.

It's always fun being a winner!

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Thanks for looking!

 

conquer the world

Good morning bloggers!

Today I have a second Inspiration Emporium April project to show you.

This month is all about stencils and masks, which I always use on my journal pages.

On this close up picture you can see 2 of the stencils I used, TCW mini spring fling for the flowers and Dylusions Oh Christmas tree 5x8 stencil on top of that for the little skulls on the border. The turquoise stars on the left and the star border at the bottom is from the Dylusions Starry, Starry Night 5x8 stencil.

Notice her head? I drew a head for her when I stamped her. I've heard when designers draw their fashion sketches they don't concentrate on body parts just the clothes, but, I like her with a head! :)   

I hope you get inspired to drag out your stencils and get crackin' on a project for the Inspiration Emporium April challenge, you could be the winner!

Supplies:

Stamps - dylusions couture collection night at the opera & quintessential quotes, art gone wild happy birthday yummy, hero arts starburst lace.

Ink - dylusions black marble, cherry pie, vibrant turquoise and white linen ink sprays, sakura micron black 08 & 03 pens (for the skull faces), distress marker worn lipstick (for the flower on each skull), archival jet black (for stamping the girl and her clothes), copic marker e57 brown & 100 black (for her hair and to outline her head), distress frayed burlap (hero arts stamp), faber-castell big brush pen (for outlining). Paper - white cardstock, my minds eye miss caroline 6x6 paper pad ( i paper pieced her dress), dylusions art journal. Acces. - claudine hellmuth gesso, white enamel accents, liquitex molding paste (for the star border on the bottom), 1/2 paper doily, tissue tape, prima flowers, claudine hellmuth multi medium matte , yellow acrylic paint. Tools - paint brush, dylusion stencils starry, starry night 5x8, oh christmas tree 5x8, the crafters workshop mini spring fling 6x6, blending tool, tiny attacher, heart & star punches.  

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Hope you have a beautiful day, thanks for stopping by! 

 

do you remember?

Good Tuesday morning!

The Inspiration Emporium monthly challenge is here again.

Time to start on your new project for a chance to win the $50's in IE goodies!

This month it's all about using your stencils, that was super easy for me, I love stencils and have several in my stash.

Do you remember the View Master, that wonderful little plastic machine that let you look at pictures in 3D? They always looked so real and they always had a theme of some kind.

This die , the Alterations picture wheel looks just the slides I used to look at.

I love stuff like this that bring back sweet memories.

See the white flowers in the upper left? That is done with my Claudine Hellmuth gesso and my Crafters Workshop mini Spring Fling stencil, I use this stencil quite a bit, I love it!

This is a close up of the enamel accents, its dries dimensional, love this stuff.

Supplies:

Stamps - art gone wild happy birthday yummy, date stamper.

Paper - cream, black and brown cardstock, prima natures garden 6x6 paper stack, lost and found paper stack (for the film strip faces) dylusions art journal.

Ink - ranger archival coffee and jet black ink, dylusions black marble, distress stain in bundled sage, gelly roll white pen, micron black 08 (for doodling)

Acces. - tissue tape (down the center of the page for stability), washi tape (for accents), glossy accents (used on one of the picture wheels, the black parts), pink sherbet paint dabber (for some color here and there), distress markers (for coloring the little stars on the stamp in the center of the slides), white enamel accents, film strip ribbon (to frame the sentiment), prima flowers, heart stick pins, brads.

Tools - alterations picture wheel, film strip frames and chip block alpha dies, crafters workshop 6x6 mini spring fling stencil, claudine hellmuth gesso and matte multi medium, tiny attacher, water bottle. 

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I hope you have a great day, thanks for visiting!