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!

 

Easter tag journaled

Remember the tag I did on this post?

I said I'd probably start putting my not so bumpy, lumpy tags I make in my art journal?

this is it....

I tried out some new supplies I got recently, Tim's classis faves #6, around the border of the page (looks like Inspiration Emporium's out of stock right now, but, you can contact them to be added to the list), some faber-castell water color pencils and some liquitex molding paste, mixed media goodness I got at Hobby Lobby!

You can click the link above to see the supply list for the tag.

I glued the 7gypsies paper to the page with Claudine Hellmuth's multi-medium matte then I stamped the borders with Archival coffee ink on to white cardstock. Before I glued that down I got some molding paste and added a little bit of pink sherbet paint from the paint dabber and mixed it up, looks like strawberry icing! Then I got out my plastic doily I got at a thrift store, someone took a lot of time to crochet around them. I got 5 of these I think for cheap and a couple of them were tore so I used it for my stencil, worked like a charm!

I laid down the stencil and scraped the molding paste on with an old plastic card and lifted it up, then I heat set it with my heat tool. I love the dimension!

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I hope y'all have a beautiful Easter.
Were having a non-traditional Korean meal here, too bad my sister-in-law is not here to fix it for us, her cooking is just scrumptious!

 

IE challenge #2

I thought I'd sqeeze in another 3D project for the Inspiration Emporium March challenge before St. Pat's Day.

I was searching for jewelry for the big day and came across several necklaces that I knew I could recreate with my goods from Inspiration Emporium. 

I thought it was a great idea to have this to wear if you didn't have a green outfit.

I made my shamrocks from a heart in Dylusions Love Struck Lucy stamp set. I stamped them on shrink plastic with Archival jet black ink, I drew a stem with a black Copic marker and colored them with a green Copic. 

I spilled the little vial of glitter only once before I got smart and glued the cork in!

These corked vials do not have a bail on the cork for the chain to go through. So, I took a straight pin and stuck it through the bottom of the cork, I cut of the point off the pin and used my pliers to bend it around and make a bail.

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Supplies:

stamps - dylusions love struck lucy.

ink - archival jet black, copic markers black 100 and green yg17.

acces. - ideaology ball chain, corked vial, jump rings, pearl, green glitter, stick pin, shrink plastic.

tools -  heat tool, hole punch, jewelry pliers.

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Good News!

Online Card Classes' is having a new class, Pattern Play, and Inspiration Emporium is giving away 3 spots to this class, go over to Inspiration Journal and find out how to enter!

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Have fun creating your 3D master piece, upload it to the Inspiration Journal, you have until the end of March!

Have a great St. Patrick's Day, thanks for stopping by!

Inspiration Emporium March Challenge

I'm sooo happy it's March, I can't wait for warm weather, it just makes me happy!

I'm happy with this month's challenge at Inspiration Emporium too!

The challenge is to make something that's 3-D, anything, from pop-n-cuts to foam squares to Idea-ology Configurations!

This is my first altered configurations box, I know, I know, I'm slow :)

I love altering stuff like this, the hardest part was trying to get the pic of my grands printed off my phone, my pic software is a nightmare, uggggh.

Anyway, this was so much fun. I have to give prop's to HeyJack my cat, for finding the A & W rootbeer mug monkey, he was playing with it in the floor, and I spotted it, ah-ha, perfect! :)

I took a bunch of pic's so you can see it all up close.

I love, love, love the lantern!
 

I thought the red eyes were fitting for this feline, they do fit him well.

Thanks for finding the monkey, Jack!

It's your turn, go check out the challenge at the Inspiration Journal, make your project, upload it and see if you're this month's winner of the $50 in store goods, woohoo!

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Supplies:

ink - ranger distress walnut stain.

paper - pink paislee prairie hill 6 x 6 paper pack (for the backs of each box and to cover the sides of the big box).

acces. - cream acrylic paint, (for the inside and edges of the boxes), claudine hellmuth gesso (for distressing the metal pieces ), kaiser pearls (on butterfly body) barbara tombley's vintage glass glitter in indian summer (it's inside the tall vial), distress stickles antique linen (it's rubbed on the flower, leaves and butterfly), idea-ology findings - mini lantern, curio knob, frame, box feet, pen nib, corked vials (1is filled with glitter, the other is a vase for a tiny bouquet), fractured doll. chit chat stickers (for the sentiment), vintage game pieces, plastic monkey, vintage button card with tiny buttons, wooden spool and white string.

tools - claudine hellmuth multi-medium matte, glue gun, paint brush, blender tool, alterations mini butterflies and bow and mini tattered florals and regal crest die sets (for the leaves), crop-a-dile and awl (for making the holes in the back of the box for the lantern cord). 

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Have a great day!