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

Swirly Girls Club Challenges May

These are my entries for this month's challenges over @ Swirlydoos. One is hosted by Tina: Distress and Layer. The challenge is to use at least 6 layers, all distressed and we had to make a rose. I used Tim's new Retro Grunge papers. The roses on the top right corner are made from metal and the rose at the bottom left corner is made of PP and UTEE. The flowers under the rose are PP covered grunge paper. Photo of DH and DS.

The other one is hosted by yours trully. The challenge is to make your own background paper from scraps. I keep my scraps by color in plastic envelopes and every now and then I'll take one of these envelopes and create a "new" piece of 12 x 12 paper. Just arrange your scraps and glue them on a piece of cardstock or "ugly" paper. The idea of the scalloped strip with the ribbon and roses is taken from one of my favorite artists Gabrielle Pollacco.

Hope y'all had a great Mother's Day!!!

Bonnie

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

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

Did you see the TSS blog this morning?

Did you see the TSS blog this morning? http://tensecondsstudio.typepad.com/tenseconds_studio/2010/02/cool-technique.html

I saw this already @ CHA, but when I read the blog this monning, I just had to try that too :D
The square one is a coaster from Outback, the other one is a chipboard tag. TFL

New TSS Molds!!!

Yesterday the new TSS molds came in. They are soooo cool!!! Just had to play with them. I also made my own background paper. The photo is of my dad. He passed away 25 years ago, but I still miss him.


For the background paper I masked, inked, stamped and misted a piece of white cardstock. Then I cut a piece of 4.5" x 8" aluminum and embossed it with the new Kabuka #7 and then colored it with alcohol ink and paint dabber. For the horizontal strip I cut a piece of 2" x 12" aluminum and embossed it with the new Big Daddy Mold #7, painted and sanded it. The little rectangular piece is done with Kabuka #8 and alcohol ink. I embellished the LO with lots of T!m goodies and old watch parts.
 
Thanks for visiting my blog
Bonnie

More Metal

It is so much fun to play with my new tools, molds and metal that I went a bit overboard. I metalized all the packaging tins that I could never throw away, and now they came in handy. The mini suitcases are from Maya Road chipboard shapes, the bigger rectangular ones are from Quickutz and the round one is from the Prima flowers. They are not perfect, but they are great little projects to practice my metal embossing skills.
TFL and have a great weekend!!! Bonnie