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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!

 

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 

Houston, Texas here we come....Collins Group Trade Show!

October 14-17th, 2011. Collins Group Trade Show

Store Owners: Come on out to the Collins Group Fall Workshop in Houston next month.  I will be doing a fun workshop using Basically Bare's mixed media album and embellishments along with the "Magic of Oz" collection from Graphic 45, May Arts, The Rubber Cafe, Ranger and Glue Arts.

We will be helping dorothy follow the yellow brick road....and get her home with this fun mixed media album, sunshine and clouds embellishments along with hot air balloon and heart locket from Basically Bare.  

This is an exclusive workshop built for craft store owners for use as classes.  We look forward to meeting those that are attending.  We have special "goodie" bags for our attendees.

Living The Altered Life,

Candy 

Have You Seen This? And This?

First a funny story:

I recently purchased the current and one past issue of Scrap & Stamp magazine.  I sat down with them both starting with the past issue first, perused it for a bit then put it down.  I picked up the current issue and was thumbing through it, now keep in mind that I read magazines from the back to the front, when I got to the 2nd & 3rd pages I noticed something. I was shocked and nearly cried, I had forgotten about the card and did not know it was coming out in September.  I must have looked like a dork!

       
(September issue & online ad for the upcoming Just Steampunk issue)

On the bottom of the left page was an ad for an upcoming issue called, "Just Steampunk" by Scrap & Stamp magazine and my "Steampunk Card" using my "Vintage Treasures" stamp collection from The Rubber Cafe was used as part of the ad.

Here is the full card view that was used in the magazine:

Take a look of the card up close, notice that the patterns on the card are all made from the stamps.  Supplies used:  American Crafts Cardstock, Vintage Treasures from The Rubber Cafe, Spellbinders Grand Labels Eleven, Copic Markers, Ranger Ink and Dimensional Pearls, Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L (tm) foam squares, MyStix.

SNEAK PEEK OF NEW STAMP SETS...........

I also wanted to share a sneak peek of a piece from two of my new stamp sets at The Rubber Cafe!  I just adore windows, especially old vintage windows, so I stole one window and the shutter set and then used one of my new background stamps and wala! A CARD!

All my Australia students will get to see and use some of these new stamps during my tour from August 13-28th in Sydney and Victoria.  Check out the itinerary!

That's it for now, I still have tons to do before I head to Australia...gotta go start packing RIGHT NOW!

Living The Altered Life,

Candy 

Re-purposing a small mannequin with May Arts

May Arts Ribbon Tutorial

Late last summer my daughter, Mariah and I were working on paper mache mannequins that we got from Creative Imaginations.  I had a few that we painted and played with but did not finish and decided one of these would be great to re-purpose for my May Arts tutorial. 

Step One.
Add your first layer of ribbon using a hot glue gun and making ruffles.  This is the original mannequin from a prior painting session. 

 

 

 

 

Step Two.
Keep layering the ribbon on top of each other, then wrap a piece in the middle to finish the look of the skirt.

 Step Three.
Add a ribbon rosette to the bulk portion of the tied ribbon at the waist. 

Step Four.
I want to change the effect of the overall look by painting the light colored wood top and bottom.  I left the burgundy top intact as it matched the look that I was trying to achieve. 

 

 

Step Five.
I prepared a large piece of lace ribbon that was too large for adding as an accent piece to the bustled waist portion.  So I cut off the portion that I wanted. 

Sorry this one is blurry, but it shows how I cut the edge off of the larger piece.

Step Six.
I built up the bustle on the waist by adding some gold lace ribbon, the pink ribbon that I cut in the last step.

Step Seven.
Almost there.  We have the top and bottom painted changing the overall look of the mannequin.  The ribbon is in place and built up in the bustle.

Step Eight.
We need to add some fun elements to this "Girls Night Out" mannequin with some pearls; on a string, sticky backed and liquid.

The pearls that we added to the bodice were white while our pearls on a string for the bottom and necklace were more of a cream color.  I used the Adirondack alcohol ink pen to add a tinge of pink sherbert to the pearls to give them a pink tint to match the pink touches on the bustle. 

The Final Step.
 And here she is all decked out ready for a night on the town. The May Arts ribbon really set off this project.

This entire project took less than an hour and we re-purposed a used mannequin and created a whole new decor item.

Comment on this post telling us how you use your ribbon and you could win a fun package of May Arts Ribbon!  A winner will be announced on June 1st!

Living The Altered Life,
Candy