Wednesday, August 6, 2014

Painted Bottles

I've been collecting bottles for a while now. I have many different shapes and sizes, which I love to paint and then distress. These are the latest ones that I've done and the blue matches the blue centers of the cabinet behind the bottles.

A lady's diary

made this with my sister who also made one and we crafted via Skype. This took slightly over a year to make as we only worked on it when we could do it together. We followed a tutorial that I found on YouTube and I will have to look up that information and post the link to the tutorial here. We used the ladies diary paper packs and stickers from graphic 45, a variety of embellishments that we both made and bought, buttons, lace trims, decorated paperclips and our cricut.  I am not actually using this as a diary but rather it will be a photo album, with photos of all sizes put on the many different mats that we made.  (I found the link, click here.)
 





















Hardanger

I made this for very dear friend of mine for her birthday. She absolutely loved it!

Friday, March 14, 2014

Old bottle


This started out as a clear glass apple cider vinegar bottle. I started with a dark brown paint that I brushed on waited until it's dried and then I painted over that with a steel blue color.  Both paints were sherwin Williams I think. They crackled naturally then I took the piece of extra fine sandpaper and sanded down to the brown paint in some spots.

Sunday, February 16, 2014

Scrapbook page


I used the Cricut Damask Decor cartridge for the elements in the upper left and lower right corners.


Titanic


The lamppost was made using cricut ornamental iron cartridge. The Bow Tie style of bow I learned to make following a YouTube video which you can find here. The little tiny flowers in the center of the bow tie's I learned to make following another video which you can find here.

When I made the Bow Ties, I did not make the punch that was used in the video so I simply made a template, cutting out the "punched" areas where required with a small pair of scissors.  The punch would have made it super easy, but really it wasn't that hard at all just using scissors.

When I made the little baby prima roses, I used the super small 5 petal punch, I think it's about 1/2 inch, and they came out really tiny and ended up being the perfect size for scrapbook pages.  

Sunday, February 2, 2014

Saturday, February 1, 2014

Valentine Cards for 2014


I first saw A similar card posted by Faithabigaildesigns.com on Pinterest. The heart shape was cut using the cricket cartridge Folk art festival and the girl with the puppy behind her was cut using A child's year cartridge. The little white rose is a button and the font that I use is MC sweetie hearts that I downloaded for "free for personal use " on dafont.com.


   This next card I first saw a similar one on Pinterest by Stampinconnection.com. The crafty paper  heart was cut using the cricket craft room basics cartridge and the red heart on top is actually a paper Doily. The small filagree Red heart was cut using The Folk art festival cartridge with the shadow layer behind it and the heart under that is again another shadow layer drawn out slightly larger with a small red heart shaped gem on top. The paper with the postage stamp on it is from the love stack by recollections.