Thankful Frame

Hi Everyone,
I'm up on the Gypsy Soul Laser Cuts blog today with a super fun and easy Fall decor project.  This project uses two different frames from Gypsy Soul the Flourished Open Circle Frame(Medium) and the Round Grapevine Frame(coming to the store soon).

Cover your frames in Emerald Creek Embossing powder in Charred Gold.

 Line the back of the large frame with paper.  I used Distress Crayons to age the paper .  Glue on your paper doll and give her some pops of color using Distress Markers.

The vintage flowers were dyed using Distress Spray Stain and bundled with ribbon.  Glue on paper flowers,leaves, and sentiment.

  Flick metallic distress paints and black soot distress paint all over the piece.  And just like that you're done!

A perfect little hostess gift. 

Enjoy! 

Jess

Spring Flower Fairy Shrine

Hi Everyone,

I'm up on the Gypsy Soul Laser Cuts blog today.  I love that you can take one piece from GSL and make it lovely.  

Spring is here and the flower fairies have been busy.  Here is one hard at work placing flowers. 

I started with my ATC shrine covering it with a mixed media canvas paper from Canvas Corp on the outside.  The canvas paper is awesome because you can really abuse it with a lot of media.  

 The inside is covered with Tim Holtz Wildflower scrapbook paper.  The inside and the outside were both inked the same way.  I used Distress Oxide inks to get all of the yummy layers. I didn't cover the bottom since I will be gluing moss in there.

The front edges were hit with a tiny bit of Mowed Lawn Distress paint. I added a thin layer of gold paint to the entire shrine.When the paint was dry I hot glued a chunk of moss to the bottom.  

I have a thing for tiny ballerina cake toppers.  I buy them whenever I can find them.  

 I painted the candle holder part using the Mowed Lawn paint and added a tiny paper flower.

I glued the ballerina in the box and then added flowers all over.  My trusty glue gun held them on nicely.  

The little clipping text finishes off the shrine.  I can see this easily being adapted for all four seasons

I am entering this into the Country View Craft Challenge May Flowers

Happy Crafting! 

Jess

Secret Garden Door Hanger

Hey Everyone,

 I am back with another Gypsy Soul Laser Cuts project today. 

Can you spy the tiny fairies hiding in the secret garden? I had this Door Hanger staring at me and I knew I needed to make something.  I thought I would make something in my traditional snarky fashion.  When I started rooting around for supplies I was pulled toward flowers.  Maybe I wanted to use them because I  know these ones won't give me allergies! 

I covered my wildflower chipboard with Vintage Ivy Embossing Powder.  The flowers were given a quick coat of Green Pearl Embossing powder.  I added it right on top of the Vintage Ivy. The rest of the color was added by using Distress Markers and Distress Oxides.  I also used a piece from the Birdwatching set and gave it the same color treatment. 

The entire door hanger is covered with a piece of Wildflower paper from Tim Holtz.  I inked the edges with Vintage Photo. I hot glued a big hunk of moss to the bottom.   

I chose two of the Small fairies and them painted with Mowed Lawn Distress Paint Metallic Distress Paints

I wanted the fairies to be a little surprise that you don't see right away when you look at the piece so I covered them with Fractured Ice Embossing Powder.  

Don't they look kind of mossy now?

I added flowers to the moss and plunked one of the fairies right in there.  

The other one is hanging out up top blowing wishes to the flowers.  

I hope you enjoy! 

Jess

Bingo was his name-o

I am not a dog person.  I have four cats.  It's not that I don't like dogs.  I just like them in other people's houses. I do really like this dog. Meet Bingo.  

This Flourished Elizabeth Frame from Gypsy Soul Laser Cuts is so gorgeous.  I started just kind of playing around and this is how my whole project started.  

I applied a thin layer of gesso to my chipboard.  

I use an ink dauber and then wash it when I am done.  Once my gesso was dry I applied a layer of Mowed Lawn Distress Paint.  I love that I can dry this paint with my heat tool.  I am not a patient crafter.  I added various color of Distress Oxide Inks and Vintage Photo Distress Ink to age the frame.     

I love how the ink looks weathered.  

I glued the frame to an old bingo card and added some wallflower paper to the middle of the frame.

 At this point I still wasn't really sure where I was going with this project.  I had made a bunch of tiny houses one night and they were sitting on my desk.  A lightbulb moment happened and I knew this had to be a super cute dog house.  There are several different sizes of this tiny house available on the Gypsy Soul website.

I gessoed the  house and then painted it with Weathered Wood Distress Paint. Texture paste through a stencil makes for fun patterns on the side of your house.  I added ink to the texture paste so it wasn't stark white.  

The inside of the house is lined with paper from Canvas Corp. I love that it kind of looks like old wallpaper.  You can see that I didn't glue the house together perfectly, but when I add Bingo to the center you won't even be able to tell.  

The roof is covered with moss.  I just cover the roof part with glue and smash on moss.  It's a very scientific and exact method.  

I added some little paper flowers to the roof.  

My little paper doggie form the Tim Holtz paper dolls fit right in the house.  Doesn't he look happy to be in there? The chipboard is a quote chip from Tim Holtz.  

I just love these little houses.  They have so much potential.  I have a couple more projects using them to share with you soon.

Count Me In Challenge Frilly and Funky

Jess

The Easter Fairy

I will put wings on anything(in case you hadn't already noticed that about me).  I was playing around and made this little Easter fairy today.  

I lined the inside of my vignette box with paper from the Etcetera pack and gave it a layer of crackle medium.  When the crackle was dry I added distress crayon in Hickory Smoke and Bundled Sage.   

The sparkle on the edge is the thin roll of design tape from the Chatter pack. I colored it using alcohol inks.  

I'm still playing with the paper dolls and gave her wings from the botanical layers.  The paper flower in the back is from the botanical layers set too.  I added color using Distress Markers.  The other flowers are vintage from the hoard, as are the spools, the bunny, and the egg.  

Jess

Simon Says Stamp Monday- Things with Wings Challenge
Country View Challenge- Inspired by Tim Holtz 

Captured Fairy

Hi Everyone,
I caught a fairy! You can see her here and over on the Gypsy Soul Laser Cuts blog!

Jess

Here Comes Peter Cottontail

I spotted these bunny ears in the dollar spot at Target.  I had seen some fancied up on Instagram and decided I wanted to make some to wear for Easter.  I started with just 4 and wound up making 8.  They were easy and fun.

Hoppy Easter!

Jess

Altered Fairy Clock

Some time ago I made an altered fairy clock(you can see it here).  I was asked to make another for a friend that was getting married.  He wanted to give it to his sister as her best woman gift.  I decided to make this clock a bit more masculine, well as masculine as one can get making a fairy themed item.  I used a darker color palette with the flowers and the fairy wings.  I love making the clocks like this.  The tiny fairies tucked inside look so content in there.  An abandoned clock would make a lovely fairy home.

Artful Times in the Style of Tim Holtz

Simon Says Stamp- Anything goes

Mixed Media Monthly Birds- I know they aren't birds, but they have wings and fly!

Try it on Tuesday Hats

A Vintage Journey HB!

Craft Hoarders Anonymous Go Green

What have you been crafting?
Jess