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Get Cagey over on the Spellbinders Blog Today!

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!

Burlap Tree with May Arts and Sweet Stamp Shop

This was a fun card to make, featured today at the May Arts Blog! I had a little fun with their burlap twine, here are a couple of photos and head over the blog to see how I created it.

Thank you for stopping by!

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!

 

May Arts and Graphic45...Christmas Style!

Welcome to the first day of the blog hop with Graphic45 and May Arts AND DONT FORGET TODAY IS GIVEAWAY DAY at MAY ARTS!

 I got the opportunity to work with the beautiful Christmas Emporium paper collection and wanted to incorporate a fun way to add ribbon to a layout. 

I made the tree from May Arts ribbon, layered it on top of each other using Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L Crafty Power Tape to hold it together.  I then cut the tree shape out! A ribbon sash on the upper left and its ready to go!  Well, not without some fussy cutting anyway!

 

GRAPHIC45 BLOGS TO VISIT TODAY!
Lynette Carroll - http://www.lynettecarrolldesigns.typepad.com/
Jane Tregenza - www.janetregenza.blogspot.com
JackandCat Curio - jackandcatcurio.blogspot.com

 

BE SURE TO VISIT Latrice Murphy for more May Arts and Graphic 45 Inspiration!
http://www.latricemurphy.blogspot.com 

 

 Be inspired all week with the Graphic45 and May Arts team blogs:

Tuesday, December 13th

Charlene Driggs- http://www.paperandinkplayground.com
Ellen Sosnoski- http://closeyourears.blogspot.com
Jen Shears- http://jenshearsdesigns.blogspot.com 

Melaine Forbes - www.melanie-forbes.blogspot.com
Laura Denison - www.followingthepapertrail.blogspot.com

Wednesday, December 14th

Jenifer Cowles- http://scrapbooking-n-more.comJingle- http://www.justjingle.blogspot.com

Robin Shakoor - http://robinshakoor.blogspot.com
Yuka Hino - http://nsnlso.blogspot.com/
Gloria Stengel - www.gloriascraps.blogspot.com

Thursday, December 15th

Jinky Kowalski -http://jinkycrafts.blogspot.com
Karen Baker- http://thebalddragonfly.blogspot.com
Britta Swiderski- http://brittaswiderski.com

Sherry Cheever - http://sherrycheever.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/
Hilde Janbroers - http://hildejanbroers.blogspot.com/

Friday, December 16th

Kimberly Jones- http://serendipityvintagestudio.blogspot.com
Peggy Cain- http://www.createwithbubbe.blogspot.com
Vera Yates- http://www.lingshappyplace.blogspot.com

Tara Orr - http://eachmoment-onlyonce.blogspot.com
Nancy Wethington - http://art-from-the-heart.typepad.com
Nicole Eccles - www.NicoleEccles.blogspot.com

 

 Happy Holidays to everyone! 

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!

The First of Three CHA Winter Workshops Announced!

Ok, first of all, I know that you may be a little taken aback.  Candy is NOT doing vintage, you ask? That is right, I am revealing a little known secret! I have loved Bella Blvd since the first CHA I went to.  They were one of my top 3 and I think most of you know who the other two are! lol

So here is the official announcement:

I have been working hard on upcoming CHA Winter Workshops!   The first one I have to share is our Basically Bare, Bella Blvd and GlueArts sponsored workshop, along with co-sponsor May Arts!

 

 

This will be a fun class that includes the CHA Launch of the baby version of the "Timeless Tabs" album, appropriately called "Tiny Tabs" from Basically Bare.

Registration is not yet open, so keep an eye out on the CHA Website to be one of the 50 spots in this class!  And keep an eye out for the other two workshops, they are coming!!!  I am working these fingers to the bone, here!!!

I used an entire package of 3D Foam Squares on this one!

Did you see the blog hop with Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L and Graphic45?  I could not resist using an ENTIRE PACKAGE of 3D Foam Squares on this layout.  That's kind of how I roll, or should I say STICK!

So I have a little confession to make.  I am in the middle of moving and have to move from a very large studio to a small bedroom, this is temporary while we wait for escrow to close on our house.  This is temporary but nonetheless, there are deadlines for projects.  I was sitting in my room with boxes all around me, and could barely find the basics.  Scissors, paper, adhesive, distress ink, blending tool and pen.  

After some searching, and a big mess, I gathered the basics.  That is all that I had to work with.  If you know me, you know that I dont use many embellishments unless I can make them out of paper. 

Using the new Graphic45 ABC Primer collection, beautiful May Arts ribbon, laser cut fence from Imaginarium Designs, twine, distress ink and blender, copic pen and nothing else...I created a little story:

 

 

I wanted a sewn look but of course, do not know where the sewing machine is at this moment so I resorted to some twine carefully tied around the cut and dimensional frame.  Then topped it with a tag.

The fence actually sits off the page an inch and is held with Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L, 3D Foam Squares.

 

Be sure to stop by Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L and Graphic45's blog for the second week of the blog hop!

 

Living The Altered Life,
Candy

May Arts & Tattered Angels: A bit of a blog hop to share

There are so many ways to use various "paint" products from Tattered Angels, it is hard to choose one.  I decided to use Glimmer Mist and Glam to give HINTS of dazzle on this piece.

Supply List
- May Arts Ribbon
- Tattered Angels: Glimmer Mist, "English Ivy"; Glimmer Glaze
- The Rubber Cafe, "Windows of Opportunity"
- Ranger, Perfect Pearls, "", Dimensional Pearls: "
- American Crafts, Cardstock
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 I used a negative to chipboard sheet with a bit of Glimmer Mist, "English Ivy" on cardstock to create a light image on the paper as a background.

Once it has dried, I stamped a set of shutters from the new "Windows" set, created for The Rubber Cafe.  

 

The stamp was created in a way that allows you to cut the two shutter images seperately to make "working" shutters.  I used Glimmer Glaze to enhance the outside of each shutter to give it dimension.

I used the same Glimmer Glaze to add some reflection patterns on the windows.  Once it dried I applied Ranger's "Perfect Pearls" on the inside window boxes.

Put it all together with some beauitful May Arts Ribbon, adding the finishing touch to this card.