Altered Bird

I have this bird already since the Timster cruise last year, so I thought that it was about time to do something with it. I first glued some dictionary paper on the bird with Modpodge, then I painted it with blue metallic paint. When it was dry I dipped my finger in some gold rub 'n buff and lightly rubbed over the blue paint. I embellished the bird with cheese cloth, lace, watchparts, some Tim idea-ology and Vintaj charms. The stand I painted first with brown paint, then white paint, then sanded it and again rubbed some gold rub 'n buff on it.
Et voila.... altered bird. Here are some more photos

As always, thanks for visiting my blog
Happy creating!
Bonnie

Metal Frame

Hi y'all,
Today I had so much fun. I made this frame from all of the little scraps of metal I kept in a box. I always feel good when I'm using my scraps. I saw this idea at the Great American Scrapbook Convention in Arlington last month and it was made by Cheryl Darrow of Ten Seconds Studio. So I can't take credit for the design. The technique is also explained in one of her Taco Tuesday videos. If you're interested, here is the link: http://www.tensecondsstudio.com/videos/062210.html . What is my idea is to color and stamp the magnetic board inside the frame. I first colored the board with alcohol inks and then stamped with Stazon ink. Normally I don't work with very bright colors, but I love how this turned out.

Thanks for visiting my blog and I hope y'all have a safe and happy 4th of July!

Bonnie

Canvas with Squares

Inspired by the beautiful artwork of Audrey Underwood and the gorgeous papers and chipboard shapes of Collections I created this 20" x 10" Canvas. I first decorated the  inchies, twinchies and trinchies with scraps of paper. Then I painted and sanded the various chipboard shapes and added some lace, cheesecloth, german scraps and metal embellishments. I had a blast during this whole process, and I'm already thinking about the next project :o) !

Here are some detail photos:

Thanks for taking a peek and happy creating!

Bonnie

Bird Arch Trio

This is another kit by Audrey Underwood.
http://www.yourcreativewings.com/index.php?act=viewProd&productId=712
I just LOVE her vintage designs and thru these kits I'm learning a lot about incorporating chipboard in your art. There are so many new products on the market that I kinda forgot about chipboard. But now I re-discovered it again and intend to use it a lot more in my future projects. Thanks for taking a peek.
Have fun creating!

Bonnie

Swirlydoos June Kit - Antebellum Beauty

I have been so busy this week that I'm really late posting the reveal of the Swirlydoos June kit - Antebellum Beauty. This month's kit is again uber gorgeous with the beautiful Ella Blue papers, stunning flowers and an abundance of the most amazing embellies. So much to choose from, which makes working with this kit pure pleasure.
This LO showcases a picture of DSD Stephanie. I colored the felt with glimmer mist and the swirls with alcohol ink. The flower is made of fabrics and lace with Tim's Tattered Florals die.

This is my take on the sketch, also provided with the kit. The flower is made of canvas and lace with Tim's Tattered Florals die.

Another photo of DSD Stephanie. I made the flowers from metal.  

This picture was taken last week when I was in The Netherlands for my Mom's 80th birthday. I colored the Dusty Attic gate with teal, brown, gold and silver paint.

 

I made this with scraps of Ella Blue from the main kit and 7G from the project kit.

This month's project kit is totally fun to make. It is the 7Gypsies Printers Tray plus the 7Gypsies Avignon papers.  The embellies are from 7G, Tim and junk from my stash. The tiny houses are from Collections.

Have a great weekend

Bonnie

Spools

Recently I have totally fallen in love with the products of Collections. They have a gorgeous line of 6 x 6 papers and some pretty chipboard shapes. The little birdhouses as shown in my previous post are also from Collections. Last week I saw some super cute spools on Julie van Oosten's blog and I knew I just had to make them too. She also posted a tutorial. Here is the link: http://nirvanaelements.blogspot.com/2010/05/happy-spools.html . Check it out! They are fun and really easy to make. They are a great way to use up your tiny scraps and those chipboard circles that I never  knew what to do with. The pin cushion spool is a design from Audrey Underwood and is available as a kit http://www.yourcreativewings.com/index.php.

Hope y'all have a great Memorial weekend!
Bonnie

Birdhouse Village

While surfing the internet I came accross this beautiful birdhouse and I immediately fell in love with it. It is designed by Maxine Hazebroek and it is totally fun to make. I learned a lot of new techniques and new ways to use "old" techniques. Go check out her store for beautiful products and and inspiration http://maxinesmelange.com/

I'm really happy with how this turned out and even my hubby was totally impressed with the result. TFL

Bonnie

Buttons Tin

This is my entry for Lavona's May Altering Item Challenge over @ SB.com. This month's twist is to use at least 2 or 3 buttons. So I thought that this was a great opportunity to make something to store my buttons. I used an inexpensive lunch box tin, which I picked up at Michaels. I covered it with paper from the Prima Shabby Chic Collection and some lace and decorated it with a chipboard frame and and buttons from Jenni Bowlin, 7Gypsies and my stash. TFL

Frame

The basis for this frame is an inexpensive Ikea mirror, which I covered with one of the new papers from the Shabby Chic paper stack of Tim Holtz. Then I used some Viva Ferro paste in the upper left corner and stamped it with a script stamp. After drying I painted it with silver paint dabber and distressed it with the new distress ink color Pumice Stone. I think this is my new favorite color as it seems to go with everything. The lace stamps are from the Artistic Stamper and again I used the Pumice Stone distress ink. For the flourishes and the large flower I used TSS metal in the new color Bronzed God and he new Timster dies Tattered Florals and Elegant Flourishes. To give the metal some "body" I made a "sandwich" out of cardstock, adhesive sheet and metal before I ran it thru my Big Kick. The roses are made with the same paper as used for the background and then dipped in UTEE.

Thanks again for taking the time to read my blog,

Bonnie

Swirlydoos May Kit - La Vie En Rose

The colors of this month's kit are very dramatic - red and black, and Krissy paired them with the most amazing flowers and other embellies. I had a blast working with them.

This month's papers are so beautiful by itself , so that is why I used one sheet to cover this box. I just love to decorate containers.

Front

Side

Top

 

This LO is based on Beggahuna's sketch provided with the kit. Photo of me, my stepdaughter Stephanie and Nike having lunch during a major shopping day !

Red roses for a guy LO??? Here is one of my stepson Dennis.

Photo of DSS's girlfriend and DSD. I made the roses and butterfly out of metal.

There is a little story behind the title of this mini album: when my BIL was visiting last month, he made some beautiful photo portraits of the children. Back in The Netherlands he e-mailed me some low resolution files, and made me promise that I wouldn't print them until he was back here with the HR files (mind you, he and my sis are here NOW! ). But of course, I couldn't wait that long, so I DID print them !!! Hence the title "Forbidden Pictures". I used Tim's new Tattered Florals and On the Edge dies.

Here is the rest of this mini:

My stepdaughter Stephanie

My stepson Dennis

DSS's girlfriend Milan

Thanks for taking the time to visit my blog!

CU next time,

Bonnie

Paper Tiles

Inspired by the art of Jenny Jones and Julie van Oosten I lifted their paper tiles idea and made my version of it. First I cut a piece of cardboard into 2 x 2 inch squares. Then I glued some scraps of paper on them and distressed them. I embellished the squares with some ideaology and other stuff from my stash. For the background I used a very inexpensive mirror from Ikea, which I painted with Gesso, paint dabber and distress ink. Thanks for looking

Bonnie

Swirlydoos April kit - Park Avenue - Reveal!!!

I'm late posting the Swirlydoos Park Avenue projects I did this month, but here they are.

You just gotta love all the yummie goodies in this kit. I used lots of Shiummerz paint on this LO. So much fun to play with! Photo of my nephew's girlfriend Emma.

Here I used the beautiful Webster Pages vellum paper as the background. I also made the little roses of vellum paper. Photo of the daughter of my friends picking flowers in the field.

This LO is based on Beggahuna's sketch provided with the kit. The photo is of my stepson and his girlfriend.

This is a photo of my aunt and uncle. I used a metal leaf which I colored with alcohol ink, and some bronze flowers and leaves which I antiqued with acrylic paint.

Picture of Nike and me on my wedding day. The roses are handmade and the oval in the right bottom corner is a fragment with metal behind it.

This is an absolute copy job. I saw this on the Websters website. It is a design of Toni Crane. But it so happened that I just had bought the little suitcase and had the exact same papers from the kit, so I just HAD to make it. Too cute!!!

Thanks for visiting my blog.

Bonnie

More Playtime

Just wanted to share a few things that I've done the past few days.

My first attempt to work with beeswax. It wasn't as easy as it looked on Suze Weinberg's tutorial. I'm not entirely happy with the result and I don't know if it is finished, or not. Maybe I have to put more stuff on it. That is one of the nice things of working with wax. It is very forgiving. You can always melt it and add, move, and/or remove stuff. Will keep you posted.

This book/box is altered with with stuff from my stash and some left-overs from the Swirlydoos Butterfly whispers kit. I cut some flowers from lace and tule.

Thanks for stopping by.

Bonnie

Play Time!

After all the LO's done and with the new stuff hitting the stores it was time for a little play time. I love to make tags or little 5 x 7 panels to try new products or techniques.

A mini canvas with the new distress inks, glimmer mist, perfect pearls, grungeboard and grunge paper, metal, stamps, masks...

Some tags with metal, molding paste, embossing folders, stamps, grunge paper, paint, ink, perfect pearls..... ohhh, the fun I'm having....

And I played with metal and some of the new TSS molds. The right panel is a lift from Linda Brown. I saw it on her blog and I had all this stuff, so I just had to make it. So cool. I was the first time I used the alcohol ink fillable pen. I only have one, but now of course I want more LOL

The mirror is from Ikea

Thanks for looking. I love your comments. So don't be shy and let me know you were here

Bonnie