"Butterfly Pouch "

Afternoon all. I made a pouch for the wall hanging I made last week.

I am linking this up to  Flying Unicorn. Please check them up, its a marvelous blog. They have an
 E-magazine, swaps, a kit of the month, sketches, product reviews, tuts etc. They have numerous monthly challenges, with great prizes, and you can enter as many challenges as you want with one item;  actually they encourage you to challenge yourself to do so.

So, I will be entering, Distress it all,  Lovely lace, and 3 Stamps...

I used a basmati rice bag as the base, fringed all the edges, sprayed with Ranger Butterscotch Color wash using aTim Holtz mask . made a border to keep my lace in...

I stamped on fabric,  using a Crafty Individuals butterfly and background stamp, the "My friend" is a Papertrey stamp, fringed the edges and adhered to a leftover paper from my butterfly project, distressed the edges. Colored the butterfly in with Lindys Stamp Gang Mica powders...

This is a Magenta stamp, also stamped on fabric, which is distressed with some TH inks,  and coloured in with the micas ( can't get the shine of the micas to come through on my pics ); fringed edges, held down with a stick pin, coloured my lace with the Butterscotch spray...

This is the back...

and this is the wall hanging going in...

Some handmade cards I received...

Hello, I had been waiting for one last b'day card to arrive from Europe before posting this, but it seems that with our strike it has gotten lost in the shuffle;I just wanted to share some of the handmade cards I received for my special day....

This one is from a darling blogging friend of mine from Scotland, Lynne...Isn't this gorgeous ? Can you believe she stamped and colored that image ? It is a small wall hanging. Lynne is a fabulous artist who does Vintage so wonderfully; she is an inspiration to me both as an artist and as a person. She also spoiled me rotten with all sorts of goodies, all packaged with so much care and love....she is so generous, in all senses of the word...

The following card is from Sue Lelli; I saw a post of hers that had one of the most beautiful cards I had ever seen and I made a joking comment saying it was my birthday next month....and she made me this card...isn't that so sweet ? The card has so many wonderful elements to it and an embossed white doily
 that is to die for ....

The following is from my sister in law , who is a fabulous artist...isn't this so cool...how imaginative and patient of her to doodle all of this....I am in awe !!!

This is from Elisa, my best friend of 37 years....She bought it from a woman in Vermont who owns a sheep farm, and makes all these great cards from her wool...isn't this amazing ....

And this one is not handmade, but it is from Richard, my soul mate...he always buys me incredible cards and  writes me touching, loving , heart beating messages inside...no, you wont see that part LOL...

more to come....

A little Birdie told me ...

that the lovely Starr, over at the Bella Creations has a VERY tough challenge for us ladies. You must make a  card with 1 flower, 1 button and 1 lace (or rubban). Yes, only 1 of each..YIKES !!!

1 lace, so vintage was out...
1 flower, so for me shabby chic was out...
1 button, ummm. when I use buttons, I uusally use 1 or 5.....

so, I went for this...I kept it very simple for a rustic look...

Isn't that the cutest bird house ? My girlfriend from Tazmania gave me this when she visited last winter
( my winter, her summer :-)  )

I made my little nest with branches, wool, feathers ...and a flower...

Thanks for visiting...xooxoxo

"The Odds have it" Flying Unicorn Challenge

Ladies, you have to go check out this fun challenge over at the "Flying Unicorn". As you may have guessed by the title, you have to use in odd numbers.

My card has 1 flower, 3 variety of laces, 5 rhinestones, 1 fabric, 1 bead, 1 pin, 1 DP, 1 image, 1 cardstock, and 1 string of rhinestones...do the 3 different kind of adhesives count LOL....

I love making my shabby flowers...

And the inside....

Tks for visiting...xoxoox

"Just use lace " Challenge at theFlying Unicorn

Hello, how are you all ? Check out this fun challenge over at the Flying Unicorn....all you have to do is use lace..

This is my very first Vintage Collage, so be kind..it is a wall hanging measuring 6.5 x 12 inches...

The beautiful woman is from a Graphic 45 paper...

This is from a free image, added white paint to age, inked the lace with a few Tim Holtz inks...

A big thanks to  Lynne, Adorn, for letting me recycle an envelope she had stamped to send me a giftie...

Lots of inking , distressing, painting to age everything...I LOVED making this...The lace and buttons are from my darling BF , Elisa...   xoxoxoxo... Thanks for visiting...

Earth Tone Colors Challenge at Bella Creations

Morning, another challenge over at Bella Creations is to use Earth tones on an altered project.  Since I had all those lovely inks and sprays out from my previous piece, I decided to make a gift package and made this small wall hanging....

My favorite seasons in the garden are spring and fall...Fall, for many reasons, and one of them being the magic foliage offers us....So in honor of foliage, I made this....

I kept it very simple, I really wanted the focus to be on the foliage....So I used the same colors and papers as my previous post, with  lots of distressing....

SO hard to photograph shiny embossing !!! I used Lindy's Stamp Gang two tone embossing powder in
Desert Moon Turquoise. I just got this last month and am in LOVE with it...I wish you could see the two tone effect as you shimmer it from side to side....To create this foliage, I stamped (Magenta stamp) heavily for the bottom part, then used the same stamp and embossed on top, but this time more lightly...

Thanks for stopping by...xoxooxox

Bella Creations Spray Ink Challenge

Hey Peeps, Where did July go and where is summer going !!1 Yikes. Bella Creations, a wonderful blog I joined last month is having a Spray Ink challenge, on which a butterfly must be used , no pastels, mostly tones of greens, blues, browns, golds and yellows. Well if there ever was a custom made challenge for me , this would be it !!!

So out came all the spray inks, the DT wants us to list them all so here goes...

Ranger Adirondack Color Wash Butterscotch, Ranger Perfect Pearls Mist Sunflower sparkle, TA glimmer mist Strawberry Shortcake  and some homemade using Lindy's Stamp Gang mica Lucky Shamrock Green.

I wanted to make a large butterfly so I used a chipboard to cut the shape out on watercolor paper then went to town inking, stamping and spritzing...I embossed with Lindy's two tone desert moon turquoise. It is hard to photograph, but it is gorgeous IRL. Gave him some antenna's and some bling for the body, popped him up on dimensionals.

Used the butterscotch to spray my lace...

 Made the background with the same sprays...mounted it on this paper that reflected the green, blues and blacks...added beads and Voila !!!

You really should come visit The Bella Creations blog; they have many groups and each has it's own monthly challenges with a random draw for goodies...Later...xoxooxo