A Vintage Girl

Candy's World....in the latest issue of Australian Simply Cards! Check it out!

I am so excited to share this finally!

I got the opportunity to make a few projects for an incredible spread in the latest issue of Australian Simply Cards from Practical Publishing Australia. When I spent time in Australia last August I really fell in love with the area and all the wonderful people I met.  So this article really means alot to me!  

Be sure to pick up a copy and check it out!  It is sold here in the states as well and I love the education and inspiration that is in each issue!  A big thank you to Mandy Collins as well!

Thank you to all my product sponsors: May Arts, Spellbinders, The Rubber Cafe, Vintage Street Market,  Flourish with a Bling, Blumenthal Lansing, Beacon Adhesives, Glue Arts, Canvas Corp,  Basically Bare and Ranger!

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-Living The Altered Life

Candy 

CHA Summer 2012 Workshop Sneak Peek! Only 3 More Weeks!

It is almost time for the Summer CHA Show in Chicago, Illinois and I am excited about teaching a full 2.5 hour workshop with such wonderful sponsors and creating an out of box, tear it down, build it up, put it on the wall CREATION!

For those of you that have attended my workshops know that you get a ton of great product to work and play with and this is all possible because of the incredible sponsors that are participating, so lets take a moment to thank each and every one of them!

SPECIAL BONUS:  We will have peeps from some of these companies on hand to join in on the fun and to give away some awesome prizes and some SPECIAL GUESTS!!!  See you all bright and early!

WORKSHOP SPONSORS:
May Arts & Glue Arts

PRODUCT SPONSORS:

Basically Bare and Canvas Corp

Vintage Street Market, Ranger, Kuretake, Hot Off The Press, Beacon Adhesives

Look forward to seeing those of you that made it into the workshop, 

 

May Arts & Graphic45 Blog Hop.....Its my turn....Steampunk Curiosity Style!

Recently my daughter and I went out on a "Steampunk" photoshoot with a local photographer.  We had an incredible time and I just had to make an album with some of the photos.  With a ton of scrumptious May Arts Ribbon and you all know how much I love Graphic 45, a Basically Bare album is born!

By the way, if you are attending the Summer CHA Trade Show in Chicago in July....you will see us in our outfits!  Be sure to stop us and say hi!!!

Look at the awesome airship on the front from Globecraft Memories and metal embellishment from Stanislaus Imports.

On the cover, the burlap ribbon that is used on the bottom has paint on top of it to bring out the dimension.  Each Graphic45 letter is backed with black cardstock (another one of those old school techniques that I still use), and could you just die with this incredible airship with gears inside!

A  cardboard and canvas collage using pen, paint and pieces of Graphic45 and May Arts ribbon! 

I am loving this new burlap ribbon from May Arts!  I made a pocket to put this photo in on this page.  I used embossing enamel from Globecraft Memories to create the antiqued gear look on the large gear!

Now be sure to visit the following blogs today:

Denise Hahn: http://www.inmyblueroom.blogspot.com/
Laura Denison: http://www.followingthepapertrail.blogspot.com/
Susan Lui: http://luv2scrap-pages.blogspot.com/
Jen: http://jenshearsdesigns.blogspot.com/
Kimberly: http://serendipityvintagestudio.blogspot.com/

 and the rest of the days too:

Monday, June 18th:
Alberto Juárez : http://vintageodyssey.blogspot.com/
Gloria Stengel : http://gloriascraps.blogspot.com/
Nicole Eccles: http://www.nicoleeccles.com/
Jingle: http://www.justjingle.blogspot.com/
Charlene: http://www.paperandinkplayground.com/

Tuesday, June 19th:
Arlene Cuevas: http://butterflykisseswithlove.blogspot.com/
Jim, The Gentleman Crafter:http://thegentlemancrafter.typepad.com/
Betto Cesare: http://scrapguys.blogspot.com/
Vera: http://www.lingshappyplace.blogspot.com/
Latrice: http://www.latricemurphy.blogspot.com/
Karen: http://thebalddragonfly.blogspot.com/

Wednesday, June 20th:
Clare Charvill: http://mycreativespirit.blogspot.com/
Kristin Wilson: http://www.kristinwilsonhandmade.com/
Sharon Ngoo: http://glooshmoo.blogspot.com/
Jenifer: http://stitchcutcreate.blogspot.com/
Tiffin: http://www.linwoodavenue.blogspot.com/


Friday, June 22nd:
Jane Tregenza: http://janetregenza.blogspot.com/
Maiko Miwa: http://shiny-scrap.blogspot.com/
Tara Orr: http://eachmoment-onlyonce.blogspot.com/
Jinky: http://jinkyscrafts.blogspot.com/
Leah: http://1alabasterowl.blogspot.com/

Thank you for stopping by on this blog hop!
-Candy 

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!

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!

 

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!!!

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 

More from Australia...

My crafting tour has been a blur and whirlwind of great people and places...I am beyond exhausted but so happy to have gone to so many great places and meet some of the most fabulous people along the way!

You have all inspired me far more than anything I did for you!  So I finally got a little down time to work on some photos and post here on the blog...so sorry it has taken so long.  I have one more day of back to back workshops and then I am heading back to the US!

This last week we had workshops in Victoria, with the first stop being HobbySew in Echuca.  Karen and Helen came to pick us up at the airport and the poor girls had to hang out waiting for over 5 hours for us, our flight was cancelled and rescheduled.  These ladies had already driven nearly 3 hours to pick us up.  Then they finally got us at 9:30pm and still had the 3 hour drive to their house.  Thank you so very much you two for your infinite patience!

While I was at the workshops my husband got a chance to boat down the Murray river (spelled wrong I am sure):

Here are the fabulous girls from HobbySew:

 

Karen and Helen took us back to St. Kilda to spend the rest of the week there with the other stores.  However, on the way out they were kind enough to stop in the little historical town so we can take photos:

Then off to St. Kilda and we hit our hotel room and literally threw all our luggage in the room and turned around to head down to the ocean and pier:

This one is for my oldest daughter, a mini cooper with the steering on the right side of the car:


and a few more for Chelsea, we love to snap photos of grafitti and there was plenty to choose from:

Then the window shopping, lol!

and I got my sushi finally!


That is it for now, more photos coming...gotta hit the hay to get some sleep to teach tomorrow and then get ready for home.

Living the altered life,
Candy 

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