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You know I love birdcages and the many different ways to make them!  I used Spellbinders™ Edgeabilties to make one!  Check out the blog to see how it was made...

Hope you enjoy...my next post is next week so keep an eye out it!

To Corset or Not To Corset? That is the question....LOL!

Well, I got my paint on, sorta.  It did not start out that way.  I had a blank canvas, a pile of Blumenthal buttons and some Sandtastik metallic rocks and a bit of May Arts ribbon.  This is where I stopped at 1:00am this morning! LOL  Lets just say it was a metamorphisis of mistakes! 

Thank you for stopping by!

Home Decor with Graphic45 and Hambly Studios

I know it has been awhile.  It is not because I haven't been crafting, just the ol' cant show it for a long time adage.  So today I got a bit of time and decided to make something JUST FOR YOU!  Not for anyone else except for my wonderful readers!!

I had a wonderful chipboard printers tray that I picked up in Australia when I was on tour last August and it has been calling my name for quite some time.  So I grabbed it and got busy.

First paint. Graphic45 paper. Glue. Hambly Screen Prints. Pearls from Flourish with a Bling. May Arts Ribbon. Graphic45 clothespin. Jolee's findings. Layered and Glued and there you have it!

 

Underneath the Hambly Screen Prints is a butterfly, ribbon, an old key and then a wood heart from Blumenthal Lansing.

Lots of layers to make this little home decor project.  Lots of fun getting the paint brushes out, and getting my craft on!

Getting Ready For CHA in Chicago. Getting Product In!

For those of you that are attending, I will be teaching one Altered Art workshop at the Summer CHA show in Chicago sponsored by May Arts, Basically Bare and GlueArts.   We will be de-constructing a mixed media album and embellishments and using various products from our sponsors to create a Vintage Inspired Altered Art Home Decor project!  This will be a fun workshop that I am very excited to be teaching at the show and you wont to miss the new stamps from The Rubber Cafe!!

We will be playing with corrugated cardboard, acrylic, chipboard, canvas, ribbon, buttons and so much more!  

I am getting product in to start making the project, this is the fun part!  Look at the goodies that just arrived from May Arts!  Time to dig in and get this project started!

Keep an eye out for more updates!

 

My love affair with Blumenthal Lansing buttons...

Hi, my name is Candy and I have an addiction to buttons.  Old vintage buttons!  So let me tell you a fun story about this little "thing" I have.

Two years ago I was asked to cover a story about Blumenthal Lansing button company for Scrap n' Art Online Magazine, at the time I was a designer for the publication.  I jumped on this chance due to my love for buttons.  Now I have to tell you that I did not really do much with them at the time, I just loved to look at them and run my fingers through them as I had a number of jars full.  I have since found quite a few ways to use them in my art.

In preparing for the article, I head on over to their website and look around.  I found out that they had been around since 1877 and at that moment I realized that I have some vintage Blumenthal buttons on a card, but the Lansing was not on the name.  With some more searching and looking at the card it was the same company and the ones I had were from the early 1900's.  I was floored.  

So here I am having to write a story on this company, show the "newest" and "greatest" from the company.  I got to work on my article and named it, "These are not your grandma's buttons, or are they"?  I had alot of fun showing photos of my vintage buttons and some new ones and telling the wonderful story about this company.  To learn more go to Blumenthal Lansing History Page. 

Now I get the opportunity to work with them through the magazine and on other commissioned projects and I am so lucky to work with them, it is truly an honor!  This last CHA show I got a chance to work with some new products that they were introducing and was put to work on a colorful, fun project that took my out of my VINTAGE BOX.  I do it kicking and screaming but I secretly enjoy it! lol.  

My daughter, Mariah, helped me with this project as well.  We got a birdhouse from the craft store and using the fun and bright buttons, bling, sequins, flowers and glitter we created this birdhouse.

I was struggling with making a bird, so I asked my 14 year old daughter to help me.  She sat down and started cutting and gluing and going crazy and created this awesome bird for the birdhouse:



Thank you Blumenthal Lansing for allowing me to work with you in so many ways!

-Candy

Just Steampunk...a ton of eye candy! No pun intended!

Congratulations to so many of you including some I am honored to call friends in the latest SPECIAL ISSUE by Scott Publications..."Just Steampunk!"  

 

See the rest of this one in the publication!
This 18" mannequin is covered in a number of mediums and products to create the mixed media look.  Ranger: Perfect Pearls, Claudia Hellmuth Medium; Steampunk Set by Candy Rosenberg at The Rubber Cafe;  Basically Bare: corrugated gear;  Imaginarium Designs: laser cut gears and alpha; May Arts ribbon; Prima foliage; Graphic 45: Steampunk Debutante; Candi: legless brads; Copic Markers;  Gauche Alchemy: punchinella

There is a lot of fun and steampunky projects in this issue!

 

Living The Altered Life,
Candy 

Yep, I had a little time to create! These babies are in the mail to Peddlers Den!

I love working with Tonya from Peddlers Den in Illinois!!  She sends me some goodies now and again to make some projects for her store.  I love these kind of projects because when they arrive they will be available to hold and touch and not just here in a photograph!  I hope if you are in the area you stop by!

Some FabScraps love:

Tonya knows me well, she sent a great canvas, some wonderful Canvas Corp paper and a wood laser cut tree.. what shall I make?  Can you tell I am in a bit of a home decor mode due to just recently moving?

Thank you for stopping by!

CHA Recap...Projects, People and Basically Bare

Sorry for the delay in sharing the FEW photos that I took at CHA.  You just get so busy that you forget to take the camera out, however, I did catch a few photos that highlight projects that I created for booths, some people I got to hang with and our rockin' Basically Bare booth!

Let's get started....

First of all, we decided to make a 7ft corrugated cardboard dress form, dubbed "Basically Betty" that matched the Basically Bare dress form embellishment and covered it in papers and foil from Vintage Street Market.  VSM has paper that is 48" x 24" and was a life saver in this case.  This is the blank version and then me covering it in layers of VSM papers in our hotel room.  The completed dress form is the photos of the booth.

 

 

The front of the finished booth.  The few photos we took of setting up were quite blurry.

 

Here are views all the way around the booth:

A shot of the NEW ARRIVAL prototypes.

And Miss Jamie handling the miniature "Dorothy" dress forms using Graphic45, Magic of Oz papers, Craftworks Cards Candi's and Scrapbook Adhesives.  Thank you to our wonderful sponsors and to Jamie for taking the time to help out!



A few visitors came by the booth:

Angel, co-owner of Basically Bare with Tiare, Kim and Melissa from The Rubber Cafe.  Melissa stopped by so I can see the new stamps that I designed.  How exciting is that?  

Then we headed over to the Spellbinders booth to check out Melissa doing her awesome Make n' Take using her awesome glue and new stamps!!

Look at this hot mama!  She is a rockin' teacher!

Ok, now for the projects that were featured at the show.  I did a mixed media canvas for Scrapbook Adhesives using photo corners to make the flowers and other adhesives to make the different effects.  Sorry I did not get any close up photos! Arrggh.  I used an awesome alpha from Imaginarium Designs for the words:  Create. Inspire. Teach.

Then there is the Westcott Designer Display where we were shipped an assortment of cool duct tape, velcro and scissors in which we could use an additional three products to create whatever we wanted.  Hmmm....wonder what I was going to do.  
I used May Arts ribbon for the lace of the corset, the back has a velcro fastener, the entire corset is made from duck tape with a scissor holder built in.  I also used small gears from Imaginarium Designs and large heavy duty gears from Basically Bare.

There were 20 designers that were included in this display, here is a shot of the case I was in.  Check out the other cool projects that were made.

Last but certainly not least, the Dorothy Mannequin at the Graphic45 booth with her little ruby slippers.  She was quite a bit of work but I love how she turned out!  She also has the "No Place Like Home" album that I will be teaching in Australia in just a week and a half.

Here are some more detailed photos that I took before I left:

 

 and I got to see Teresa, she has been working out like a mad fiend and it shows.  
You are beautiful, darling!

Well, that is it.  I got a chance to talk to some great people, make new friends and spend time with old friends.  What a fantastic show, cant wait to share some of the awesome opportunities that came about for me.  Life is good, thank you for sharing!

Living the Altered Life,

Candy 

Australian Tour- Tickets are Booked! Be sure to sign up!

I will be traveling to beautiful Australia in August bringing two exclusive workshops to local stores using the new "Funky Findings" mixed media album by Basically Bare with Graphic45's "Steampunk Debutante" and "The Magic of Oz" paper collections to create two different dimensional albums.

This wonderful event is all handled by the lovely Sherry Mendoza of Your Creative Journey.  Be sure to check to see if your local Aussie store is offering these workshops by keeping an eye out on this facebook page: CLICK HERE!

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"No Place Like Home" Mixed Media Album

The first workshop is "No Place Like Home" a mixed media album that is perfect to document a family holiday or tradition.  We will be using Graphic45's brand new "Magic of Oz" paper collection along with products from Basically Bare, Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L, May Arts, Ranger, Imaginarium Designs, The Rubber Cafe and Flourish with a Bling!  This kit is to die for, it is jam packed with lots of wonderful elements that we will be layering throughout this book!

We will be going on a mixed media journey doing lots of layering, distressing and inking!

"Treasured Memories...The Past" Mixed Media Album Workshop

It is no secret that I love "Steampunk" and heritage inspired projects and our Treasured Memories...The Past is the perfect album for this.  Using the new "Funky Findings" mixed media album from Basically Bare!

We will be using Graphic45's  "Steampunk Debutante" paper collection along with products from Basically Bare, Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L, May Arts, Ranger, Imaginarium Designs, The Rubber Cafe, Flourish with a Bling and Vintage Street Market!  We will do some serious layering and inking in true steampunk style.

  We will have custom lettering that will go on the front that says "Treasured Memories" for the actual workshop.  I do not have them yet to show on the sample.  Please notate.

I cannot wait to meet all you wonderful crafters in Australia and very excited to share and inspire each of you!

Living The Altered Life,

Candy

Passports in Hand....check. Product Ordered...check. Australian Tour...check!

Got our passports today for my Australia Tour!  Yay...now I can relax and get ready. 

So first let me tell you how excited I am to be going to Australia to teach two fun mixed media workshops using Basically Bare's "Funky Findings" album, Graphic45's new paper collection, "The Magic of Oz" and "Steampunk Debutante" along with adhesive from Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L (tm), May Arts Ribbon, The Rubber Cafe, Imaginarium Designs chipboard, bling from Flourish with a Bling and more from Ranger!

Thank you to all the Aussies that have been messaging me, looking forward to meeting everyone and hanging out with Sherry Mendoza, who is responsible for bringing me over there.  Thank you Sherry! Hugs!

Visit YOUR CREATIVE JOURNEY for more information.

 

Living the altered life,
Candy