Friday, April 12, 2013
    Well, I'm back again...sooner than usual.  As I said I'm really going to try and get this thing going.  I went back to work from my vaction and just as I thought it is slowing down a bit, but that's okay. 
   



This is Jt before church on Easter Sunday, he was is in the Easter progam that morning.  It was a really nice service that morning.  This was his first little suit and he just loves to dress up. 

    Several months ago when I was in Walmart I found a lantern and thought it would be neat to try and alter, so not being very much I got two of them.

 

   Dummy me for so reason I thought they were plastic...till I got them home and opened it up and what do ya know...it is a real working lantern.  Oh well, I wanted to alter it so that's what I did.  I didn't do it right away, guess I was waiting on the right paper and things to come along that would strike my fancy.  Prima came out the "Engraver" paper line and I just fell in love with it.  So I order it from "Discount Paper Crafts" on Etsy.  I also got the chipboard pieces to go with it.  It still took me a bit to get it started, but I finally did.  Here are some of the pictures I took along the way of altering it.



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I watched Linda over on You Tube, her channel is  faythchik777.  She added sand to her gesso for a different texture, I really liked how she did it.  At first I added a little black paint into the mixture, which made it sorta gray.  I liked it but it wasn't what I was looking for.  So I mixed some white paint and a dab of copper to get the color I was looking for.  Then I used my walnut distress ink to tone it down a bit just in spots. I used a frost to spray on half of the glass.  I had printed out the lady from the internet and used color pencils on her then fussy cut her out and put her into place.  I added a #1 from the chipboard pieces, a clock key that I picked up at Hobby Lobby.  I put some film strip in from Tim Holtz, I also put some WOC flowers in it.  Then I added some cheese cloth and a touch of copper glitter.

As you can see I painted part of it a copper color, then I dry brushed some gesso on it and that seem to give it a patina look.  I then tore some of the paper up and inked it and placed it here and there.  I also took some chain and just draped it around and used glossy accents in part to keep it in place.  Then I used some Recollections bling on the side of it.  I used more flowers from WOC and also some that I had got from  "Craftssupplies1" on Zibbet.  I also used some lace I got from "Flamingos Scraps"

Well, I know this one was kinda long, and I still have to play around with this and see how to place things better.  I'll get the hang of it eventually.  I had so much fun altering this one, I hope you like how I did this one. 

Thanks for stopping by and ya'll have a Blessed evening!  Hugs, Peggy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Been awhile...

April 7, 2013

    My how time flies...been kinda busy around here.  Figure it was time I try to update my blog a bit.  The older I get, when season hits us at work, the more wore out I get.  I get off work go pick Jt up at school, come home make sure he eats a bite,  take care of our dog, Shooter, and then feed the one and only fish we have.  He's been with us a couple of years now, don't know, guess I'm doing something right with him.  The last fish we had, was when my youngest girl was real little.  She won him at the fair, next thing I know she's wanted to give it a kiss and then there was no more fish...she's gonna kill me for that one...lol   Anyway, once I have all that taken care of, I get a snack, I sit at my computer to try and catch up on some videos and then I'm so tired I'm in and out of it.  Oh well, seasons almost over, maybe I won't be so tired now.

     Yesterday was the best day ever!  I met up with some other wonderful ladies from You Tube, There was Sherry, here's a link to her channel http://www.youtube.com/user/SherryWolfe#p/u
her daughter in law went with us also.  Sandy, http://www.youtube.com/user/Grandmasandy100
also joined us.  Let me tell you getting there was an experience in itself.  We were to meet up at 9am at Michaels in Lakeland, well I couldn't talk none of my daughters into going with me.  So I printed out the directions, not being to be able read all that well when driving, I punched the address into my gps on my phone...big mistake!!  It took me somewhere else, I don't usually go that far by myself, get to nervous and I didn't need no panic attack.  But I did finally make it to my destination, late but safe.  Bless their heart's they didn't seem upset with me, although I could not blame them if they were, I mean I was really late.  We hugged and just got the day started.  We shopped at Michaels then went over to JoAnns and then we went and ate lunch at Olive Garden.  Last stop was Hobby Lobby, Sherry had her daughter in law, who is the sweetest, take a picture of the three of us holding our bags.  I'll ask Sherry if it's okay to upload before I put it here.  We plan on doing it again, but I bet I won't get lost next time, I'll check everything out before hand...lol.

 This is an easel card I made for Sherry.  I used the "Devine" 6 x 6 paper pad from Prima, this paper is absolutely gorgeous!  I also used my reversed chicken wire stencil careful placed it on parts of the page and used spackling you get from Walmart to give it some texture then used Fired Brick distress ink to give it some color.  Miranda, Ms Liberty25 has used the spackling, I tell you what she is such an inspiration to so many.  She has made it in the top 30 finalist for ds tryouts for none other than Graphic 45...you go Miranda, my votes on you!  I fussy cut the banners out, made a single stitch crochet for the line and beads in between each one.  I used WOC flowers used my own mist on them.  The rose trim I got from MB's Treasurista store, I've had it for a good while decided this was where it needed to go.  Used the Cricut cart Lacy Labels to make the cutout for the stamp.  One of a very few stick pins that I've made.

Here is the box I made for it.  It wouldn't fit in an envelope.  I watched Terrie, Onecraftycookie on you tube make boxes for the gorgeous cards she makes.  So I decided to use some pearlized paper for the top of the box and then used the paper from the same paper pad, then put some trim around it and some bling on that.  I really liked the way it turned out, Sherry loved it, so I was happy. 



 

  Well, guess this is pretty long by now.  I've got more pictures and things to put up, but I'll wait for another day.  Thanks for stopping by.  Have a Blessed evening.   Peggy