Black and White LFB page

Well next week I am hopefully going to my little fat book club meeting, so I made my page to trade. Tabitha pick Black and white as the theme and when she was hear she did her page when we were doing our beeswax. I wasn't sure I could do JUST black and white, but I sat down in my craft room and started putting together bits and pieces and I ended up the page above.

Supplies used:

Tim Holtz Stamps
Tim Holtz film strip
Distress Ink (Black soot, Antique linen, and emboss)
Clear embossing powder
Ranger archival ink
Prima Flowers
Lock brads
Pattern paper (making memories)
Stickles (Frosted lace and black diamond)
Black gem (Queen and company)
buttons
lace (purchased from Joann's)
Black Cardstock

first beewax creation

Well here it is my first beeswax creation. Tabitha and Elise came over so that Tabitha could teach Elise and I how to use beeswax. I have to say I love it. It is a lot of fun. I have all the stuff aside from the actual beeswax. I love when my dad's rc tools are useful in my craft room. So the theme I went with for my beeswax canvas is domestic diva. I got graphic 45's Domestic diva tabs, buttons, some lace, a couple of medal charms, and a dress pattern.

Away to long

Sorry I have been gone so long without posting, but I have been busy starting my christmas stuff. I wanted to get a head start this year. I swear I didn't forget about the blog. I'm sure I will here "post your christmas cards, but I'm weird I can't. I feel like they should be a surprise ever year to my friends and family, so that they can enjoy them first. So when I'm confident that they all have been recieved I will post pictures. I have 3 designs done 12 of one, 12 of another, and about 24 of a third so in total about 48 cards are complete. I think I will be doing some more as back up. I was hoping that I would just continue doing them till I have good start for next year, but I'm not sure that will happen because I have other christmas creations to do as presents. I like to do a couple scrapbook/art related gifts every year it allows me to still create without feeling guilty during the holiday season. lol. That all for now. I hope to have another post soon with some other stuff I've been doing. ttyl

Vintage Poker chip Necklaces

I made these vintage poker chip necklaces. One of them is mine which I'm wearing right now I love it. The other's are presents. I really enjoy making them. Anyone wants one email me at fireangelreborn2000@yahoo.com I can personalize it for you with an intial, a word, on a favorite image or picture. We can discuss price through email.

Halloween fun

Well with Halloween around the corner I thought it was time to do some Halloween crafts because Halloween is my favorite holiday. So I went to Micheal's to find some pumpkins to alter and found this amazing little skull. He is paper mache (sp) so I painted him orange then went back and painted him with Tim Holtz Distress paint (my favorite). Then I took the Tim Holtz Lost and Found stamp set which I just got and used the flock of birds stamp. Then I took an inkadoo. Halloween stamp set for the Trick or treat, the spiders and the spider webs. I used some stickles to bling out the spiders. Then I took one of the wings from Tim Holtz Grunge board and painted them purple and highlighted the dot pattern with orange and green paint. When it was dry I stamped the Spider webs on them and braded them to the back of the skull.

The Pumpkin is pretty simple again it was a paper mache piece boring brown. I painted it orange then the stem with Tim Holtz distress paint. I printed some images off the Internet (they are for my use only and i looked up free images) then I modge podged them around the pumpkin. After that I search my craft room high and low for green wire I know I have somewhere. I couldn't find it so I took boring silver wire and wrapped it with green ribbon. I used clear accent to glue the ends to the wire and voila I had some pumpkin vine.

The last little project I'm working on is an experiment. I bought these really great flat poker chips to alter and the first thing I came up with is to make them into charms for necklaces so I started to play and I came up with these cute halloween pieces that I'm going to give to my little cousins for halloween. They will be double sided one side the cat that you see in the group shot and the other is going to be a monster from a K&company piece of paper I had. I think these will make cool birthday gifts for some very special artists I know. Shhhh don't tell them. lol. I have about 300 poker chips to play with so we'll see. well that is all I have to share for now. I'm going to get in some craft time tonight hopefully. I have some projects due soon.

Time for the reveal... Mystery Project time

The box and supplies before:



The Results:

















Well the Swap is complete so I can post the pictures of the cigar box project that I completed. It was a fun and new challenge and I loved the result so much I didn't want to give it up, but I did and recieved an amazing box in return. I will have to post pictures of the box i recieved. I can't wait to do another one.

Heart art

I bought these cute hearts at micheal's awhile ago not sure what to do with them, but today I pulled them out and started painted with Tim Holtz Distress paint. Then I made a little trip with my gram to Joanne's and got some pretty copper embossing powder to use a long with some new stamps. It took some time but I figured I would drill holes into the hearts and hang them where I plan to put some cute short curtains to hide all my moms "other" craft stuff. I really like how these came out.