Artist's Palette Altered

I just finished this cute altered artist's palette with my sister.  She is here to craft with me for a few days and this is the first project we completed...  We have lots more project to work on so I'll post more when we have them completed!   Three more fun crafty days ahead until she has to go back home...lol!

The inspiration for this project came from Miranda Edney...she made one for the Shimmerez web site.  You can find her altered palette HERE !  She is quite amazing as you will see...

I have listed below the items I used...Enjoy

Project Recipe:

Wood Artist's Palette from Hobby Lobby

Liquitex Gesso

Liquitex Modeling Paste

Glossy Accents

Stickles Star Dust

Acrylic Paints - Porcelain Doll by Martha Stewart, Ballet Pink by Folkart and China Blue by Apple Barrel

Glimmer Mist - Jingle Bells, Patina

Spritz - Cotton Candy

Heidi Swapp - White

Inks - Prima Chalks Coldsfoot Petals & Old Rose and Ranger Archival Black

Clear Stamps - Prima 960810, 563042 and 960896

Stencils - Prima Lg Butterflies 960452 & Checkers 960179, Heidi Swapp Butterflies, and Crafters Workshop Mini Fleur DeLis

Texturez - Crushed Coral

Prima Embellishments - Flowers, Bird, Topiary Tree, Corners, Wood Leaves and Flowers, Love Blub

Petaloo Flowers

Chipboard Bird Cage - Blue Fern Studios

From my stash - Cheese Cloth, Pearls, Pink Pearls, Pearl Strand

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File Folder Holder

You know how you make something for someone else and then you get done and you think "WOW I really love this...maybe I can keep it myself"?  Well that's how I fell about this file folder holder.  LOL  I actually made this for my daughter and yes, I gave it to her today but I really wanted to keep it for myself since it turned out so cute...hahaha

This file folder is made from a cardboard box that I purchased from Staples, which is an office products store.  I'll post pictures of it below, you will see how very unappealing it is to start with.  Brown and black is not the greatest look.  So I took this and folded it and glued everything closed to be sure it stayed real sturdy.  Once it is completed the Heidi Swapp Scrapbook Files fit perfectly inside of it.

These are the steps I took to complete the look:  I painted the whole box with white Gesso the covered everything except the inside with Multi-Medium  Matte (as the glue) and Tim Holtz tissue paper.  Next another light cover of Gesso mixed with water and when that was dry I used some different colored acrylic paints brushing here and there.  Next I used some colored sprays to add some sparkle and drips.  The next layer is three different Prima clear stamps using three different colored chalk/inks.  On top of that I added a layer of Molding Paste and Texturez using a couple different stencils.  Once everything was dry I used the sprays and added a few light sprays here and there.  Once that was done the decorating began...

I started by adding the ribbon, a couple of doilies and cheese cloth, then everything else is just layered on top of these. Some of the elements have been altered using Gesso and the words "A Moment In Time" has been embossed using Shabby Pink Embossing Enamel...so pretty when embossed!  The ribbon was white and I sprayed it using Glimmer Mist Silk which turned it a very pretty color which matched my box perfectly.  Below is a complete listing of all the products I used...

See how pretty it turned out?  Now you know why I wanted to keep it...lol!  Well I guess I'm going to be making myself one too!

Finished File Box

File box as it comes from Staples

Back of File Box

Left Side/Front View

Right Front/Side View

Inside View

Another shot of the Inside

Project Recipe:
Studio Gesso White
Studio Multi-Medium Matte
Liquitex Flexable Molding Paste
Sprays: Spritz-Truffle, Vibes-Jeni B Blue, Glimmer Mist-Silk and Heidi Swapp-White
Acrylics - Lime Green, Porcelain Doll, Robins Egg
Texturez - Patina
Ingred Bolme Chalk Inks - Teal Damask and Old Rose
Ranger - Archival Ink Black
Distress Ink - Frayed Burlap and Forest Moss
Stencils - Crafters Workshop-Mini Tiny Circles and Prima-564278
Prima Clear Stamps - 960896, 960810 & 563042
Prima - Delight Paper Collection
Tim Holtz - Tissue Paper and Metal #25 Tag
Flowers - Prima & Petaloo
Finnabair - Metal Clock Circle
Prima - White Metal Clock, Zipper Pull, Wood Flowers & Leaves, White Frame 570019, and
     Topiary Tree 569983
Leaky Shed - Chipboard Ring
Gina's Designs - Chipboard Words (embossed using Shabby Pink Embossing Enamel) and Steampunk
     White Doily (sprayed with Heidi Swapp White)
From my stash - Brads, Doilies, Cheese Cloth, Beads, Light Bulb, and Clear Acrylic Bubbles

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Birthday Box and Card for Mom

Good Morning!

Today I am sharing a decorated wood box and a birthday card, which fits inside the box, that I have made for my Mother's Birthday.  I think she's going to really LOVE this!  My mom loves antiques so I tried to make this box and card look really vintage.  I used one of my favorite paper collections "Fairy Rhyme by Prima".  This collection has all kinds of cute chipboard embellishments, flowers and pearl swirls, which I included in my project too!

The box is a wood box which I painted a Warm White.  Then I added the papers on the top of the box and on the inside top and bottom...see the pictures below!  To give the projects some texture, after adding the papers, I stenciled using Heavy Gesso the butterflies onto the top of the box and butterflies and dot lines on the card before spraying them each using some of the wonderful colored sprays from Shimmerz!  I have fallen in love with these sprays...they are so pretty with that shimmering effect they have when dry...check out the Shimmerz web site at www.shimmerzpaints.com . They have a great selection of colors to choose from!

To complete the project I decorated everything with lots and lots of embellishments...

Here is my finished box and card...enjoy!

Top of Box

Box opened and the card fits perfectly inside

Inside top of box

Inside bottom of box

Card Front

Card Inside

My Project Recipe for both the box and the card:

Wood Box from Michaels - Painted using Americana Warm White

Flowers - Botanicals by Farm House, Wild Orchid Crafts, Recollections and Prima

Paper Collection - Fairy Rhyme by Prima of which I used Papers, Flowers, Chipboard pieces, Letters, 

Buttons and Say it in Crystals

White Bazzill Cardstock

Frilly Square Die by GoKreate - to make the shape of the card

Martha Stewart Butterflies Punch

Butterfly by Petaloo

Junkyard Findings/Vintage Trinkets by Prima - Word Bulb & Clocks

Metal Flower by Prima

Stencil  Butterflies by Prima, Mariposas by TCW and Circle Lines by Prima

White Trim Ribbon by Prima

Dress Form Paper Clip by Prima

From My Stash - Snaps, Doily, Metal Key, Hat Pin & Ceramic Flower

Heavy Gesso mixed with regular Gesso

Glossy Accents

Glimmer Mist - Dazzling Diamonds

Star Dust Stickles

Shimmerz Spritz - Sea Foam, Cotton Candy & Mud Pie

Shimmerz Vibes, Pop Art Pink & Rolling in the Hay

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Mixed Media Collage Canvas using Shimmerz

Recently I took apart a bunch of old laptop and desk top computers that my husband had out in the garage to be thrown away.  My grandchildren helped out too...and they had so much fun doing it!  We collected all kinds of connectors, nuts, bolts, plugs, pc boards, wires...well you get it, we collected everything we could find in the old computers.  Now I have two containers full of fun junk to use on my mixed media projects.

Today I'm going to share a mixed media canvas that I made following a YouTube video that was posted by Miranda Edney.  You can find her project HERE.  I really loved the Shimmerz products she used so I used the same.  I did try to use a lot of different flowers, wood pieces and mechanical  items to try to make it more my own but the final canvas still looks very close to hers!  I think that's because I used the same Shimmerz products and colors and the same Prima stencil.  Another difference is that my canvas is an 11 x 17 canvas and I think Miranda's is an 8 x 10 canvas.

I do really love it and I was able to use some of those computer parts the grand kids and I collected (which was soooo exciting...lol).  You can't really tell they are there but if you look at the close ups you might be able to make out the two small pc boards and a connector.  The pc boards are located under all the other pieces across the top and down the left side, and the connector is on the top closer to the left side of the canvas.  Can you see them???  I think that the fun in using them is that you can't tell where they are but those pieces give the project lots of added texture and dimension.

So here it is, I hope you like it...and don't forget to check out Miranda's blog as she makes the most amazing projects.

close-up of top

close-up of bottom

The Shimmerz products I used are...Cotton Candy Spritz, Pop Art Pink Vibez, Truffle Spritz, Princess Vibez, Patina Texturez, Crushed Coral Texturez, Artichoked Texturez and Tidy Widy Texturez.  These can all be purchased HERE.

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