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Mar 12, 2010
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If you are in the greater St. Louis area this weekend, I hope you will swing by the Indie Craft Revolution at the St. Louis Art Guild in Knoll Park. It is going to be packed with lots of handmade artists with all types of cool things on display. I will be there with my metal art jewelry. I have a couple of new things I am adding to my line up and snapped some quick photos today as I was getting ready to pack the car.
Here is my vintage mirror turned into memo board all loaded up with pins and ready to display. I added tons of new pins in addition to some favorites from my Tammy Tutterow Etsy shop.
I was kind of in a bird loving mode so I have quite a few pins with birds.
Quite a few with flowers. . .
And of course lots of bees and butterflies.
And brand new. . .
Pendants! There are metal art pendants:
And acrylic pendants!
I am kind of thinking of keeping the little bee for myself though because I think it turned out super cute!
If you aren’t in St. Louis and you are feeling the need to own one or two (or three!) of these, I will be adding some of these lovelies to my Etsy shop after the weekend is over, so stay tuned for that!
Mar 10, 2010
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I am so excited to share with you that I am featured on the super cool Mod Podge Rocks blog today! You can check out the feature and the super kind words from Amy at modpodgerocks.blogspot.com.
If you haven’t checked out this blog, you really should! It is packed full of amazing inspiration and projects using Mod Podge.
My featured project is my BasicGrey Cappella Canvas that features Prima Flowers that I repainted and sealed with Mod Podge. It was such a simple technique but it gave the flowers such a different and unique look.
You can find my original post with more details about this project HERE.
I also used the flowers on this frame, which you can read more about HERE.
Mar 9, 2010
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If you tried to download today’s vintage image and couldn’t, please try again. The link was bad but has been fixed.
Mar 9, 2010
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My work table is buried in tons and tons of metal art and acrylic jewelry pieces. Such a fun diversion from paper for a few days. Hopefully they will be dried enough to photograph later today so I can share some pictures of finished pieces.
Mar 7, 2010
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I officially declare it spring time in St. Louis!
It was beautiful out today so I escaped my basement studio for a bit and headed out to the garden to rake out all of the leaves and debris from my flower beds. In the process, I unburied my treasured White Lenten Rose, a gift from a friend’s garden. I am always ready to declare it officially spring when I see the white of her petals starting to emerge. As you can see, they are there and on the verge of blooming so I am happy to proclaim “Welcome Spring!”
Mar 6, 2010
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My friends over at Red Lead Paperworks are giving away a fun little treasure on their blog. All you need to do to try for it is to leave a comment on their blog. While you are over there, be sure to check out their awesome new 4×5 Statement Stamps that they have added to the shop. I am in red rubber love with those!
Mar 6, 2010
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A sweet baby girl is being christened today. I am flattered that a special friend of her parents chose one of my ribbon embroidered bonnets to give her parents as a special keepsake of the day.
Mar 5, 2010
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designed January 2008
Ahhhh, this project makes me smile. I made it the year my daughter Anna was a senior. When we had her senior pictures done (by the awesome Holly McCaig) she insisted on including me in one. I really do not like having my picture taken, I am probably the most self-conscious uneasy person in front of a camera. But I agreed and we ended up with one of my favorite photos of us together. I always smile when I see it. It is kind of bittersweet looking at this project because I included a photo of us together when she was just a week old. When I look at the two I feel a bit sad for the years that are gone and a bit confused about where they went. Somedays it feels like it was just yesterday that she was that wee baby in my arms and somehow we are nearly 20 years later and she is away at college making her own life. They simply grow up too fast. sigh. If I could go back and slow down time and have more moments with this sweet girl I would.
I am choking myself up. . . so anyway, about the project. . .
This project was for CHA and features the Sultry collection from BasicGrey. It was one of those projects that I sat down with no real direction and ended up with something pretty cool. I could have gotten a similar look in probably a less complicated way, but the process was fun and just evolved along the way.
I started out with a box canvas and ended up turning it into a shadowbox. I had no real plan when I started, I just sat down with stuff and let it take me somewhere. After painting the canvas, I adhered thick chipboard to the inside to give the front surface strength so I could cut through it. I added pattern paper to the front and then cut an opening. I added rub-ons to a piece of plexiglass and adhered it to the opening on the inside of the frame. I covered all of the wood framing with pattern paper on the inside. For the inside back, I covered another piece of chipboard and added photos and embellishments and adhered it to the back of the frame. On the front I added rub-ons, chipboard elements, buttons, brads, and sticker letters. I think the whole project turned out so soft and pretty looking and probably way more simple and less complicated than it was.
Mar 3, 2010
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I suppose you are all pretty tired of me talking about what I made for the Lily Bee design team by now, good thing I have just one last thing to share! This little trinket box features papers from the Audrey collection. I only needed to send in two projects, but I just couldn’t stop at two because I couldn’t decide which projects to send, so I sent three. I really loved the blues in these papers from the collection and just had to use them on a decor piece.
The flowers, stars, and crystals are all from Prima.
I cut a square Audrey die cut in thirds and repieced it back together to fit the box lid. I adhered it over a scrap of chipboard to give it a slight bit of lift off of the top of the box.
I added a scrap of vintage blanket binding for a finishing touch. I love that this binding piece has a subtle tone-on-tone pattern just like the paper.
Thanks for indulging me in my three days of Lily Bee. I will let you all know of course when they announce the team! {fingers crossed}
Mar 2, 2010
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For my second project that I sent in to the Lily Bee design team call, I made a mini book featuring their Vintage Poppy collection. The collection has round die cut with a scallop edge that fits perfectly on the round 6×6 chip album by BasicGrey. To embellish my book I used rub-ons from the collection along with paper flowers by Bazzill in an assortment of colors along with chipboard flowers by Pebbles Inc.
Each page has a vellum pocket that holds a journaling card that has space for a photo and some text.
Each pocket is decorated with a chip piece with flowers and a rub-on. Some have phrases, some have just cute little posies and some have both!
Tomorrow I will share a home decor trinket box I made featuring the Audrey collection.
What I make with my hands I give with my heart.
