Two Mad Dahlias: Gina's Design

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Sunday, June 28, 2015

Beautiful cameo

I haven't done a CC3 challenge in a bit. It's time to remedy that now!
If you have not played you can jump on the bandwagon too. Linda Ledbetter hosts the challenge using Tim Holtz's Compendium of Curiosities III book. Linda and her crew show us how they use the techniques highlighted in the book and then we are invited to play too. There are fabulous prizes to be won. Inspiration Emporium is giving a gift certificate to the winner. Tim and Mario have donated some awesome prizes as well.
This challenge is using the paint resist technique. The one big rule of the challenge is to not tell you how I did the technique(you need to buy the book to have all the secrets revealed).

I used the technique on the back of my canvas. The chipboard cameo is from Gina's Designs. There are 8 different cameos in the pack.

You can't really tell in the photos, but the cameo and the backing are both shimmery. There's a bit of stenciling on the cameo backing too. An industrious frame and a bit of paper behind it pop the cameo.

I used some of the big chat for the words. A little scuff from my sanding block gives them the right amount of grunge.

A little metal corner and a resin dahlia complete the project.

What have you been crafting?

Jess

Saturday, May 16, 2015

Believe you can Fly

Fly on over to The Robin's Nest to see the necklace I made.

Thursday, April 23, 2015

A bibliophile's cabinet

I know I have said it before, but I love to read. I love books and everything about them. When I first got this china cabinet from Gina's Designs I was thinking I would make it a place to store my Frozen Charlotte collection, but it morphed into something else when I started picking out my papers.
Once again my book and writing papers took over. I ended up making a little library vignette.

Little readers sit on top digging into giant reads.

Tiny books flank either end of the cabinet.

The top shelf has a little doll. She reminded me of what people think of when they hear the word "librarian." There are some reproduction flashcards and children's book illustrations on here too. distressed the edges and wrinkled them a bit so they would look like they have been used.

The bottom shelf has an awesome Nathaniel Hawthorne fact card someone sent me. There's also one of my prized card catalog cards.

Here's another angle so you can see the whole shelf.

The drawers got some little knobs made out of buttons wooden buttons and then I added the October Afternoon pins on there.

I hope you like my cabinet as much as I do.

What have you been reading?

Jess

I am entering this into the

Simon Says Stamp Due Date Challenge

Rhedd's Creative Spirit April

Friday, April 17, 2015

Adventurous Bird Wallhanging

Hi everyone,

I made an altered canvas panel for you today.

This is the first time I have used my Tattered Pine cone die. Holy moly! These roses were so easy to make. I used several shades of The Robin's Nest glitter card stock to make these.

Once I made my roses I cut some greenery and just put everything on my canvas to see how I wanted to arrange it. I used some of Gina's Designs laser cut birds on here too.

I added color to the canvas using Heidi Swapp Sprays, Distress Spray Stains, and Distress Inks. I also used Tim Holtz's Rays Stencil and a random chicken wire stencil for added layers.

I dyed my seam binding ribbon using the above Distress Stains. I wet the seam binding and then run it through the color I have smudged on my craft mat.

To add my saying I used my clear alphabet clings and Archival ink in Potting Soil.

Stamping this out took a long time, but I think it was worth it! You can see the birds got a little stamping on them too.

Here's a close up of the flowers. The edges are inked with Pumice Stone distress ink. In addition to the roses I made some random curly flowers using my Tapered Fringe die. The back of these were sprayed with Tattered Angels.