sTEAMpUnk dREsS fOrM-Somerset Studio May/June

I am so honored and excited to have been selected to be published in the May/June

 

 Somerset Studio Magazine!

Page 44

 

Yes I am!

 

Often wonder where the artist gets inspiration from?

I do!

 

This is where I got mine!

Yep, this rusty piece of junk!

 

I thought, I died and went to heaven! Really, I did!

 

the story is told in the article and I don't want to

give it away, so I will leave it to your imagination.

In the meantime, I will take you through my mind process.

 

See big rusty thing........think need knobs!

 

Wish I could get this kind of makeover!

 

From that ↑ to this! ↓

 

I wish!

 

Somerset Studio took this beautiful photo!

Shows the dress form in it's true glory.

 

Yes, this is how my mind works.

 

Take a box, junk, drills, adhesives and plenty of idea-ology and Ranger products and toss it around on my table until it no longer looks tossed in my head.

 

A beautiful mess!

 

           I told you a mess, this is how I design.

Drives my husband NUTS!

As I go along, I might see something and think it may be cool, then try it.

Sometimes things just don't work out.

THEN..........

Times when they just do!

                       Check out those picture corners! ↓

I loved them the minute they went on!

I had no idea at the time, but I tried them on and it just (they) fit!

No measuring!

 

This picture shows the process up till the box.

Did you see her shoulder? It is a idea-ology foundation.

Suppose to be on the bottom of a box or something like that?

NaH!  Great shoulder!

 

Close up

Theses are the pictures that I took.

 

By the way, this is a night light!

I added a light kit to the back so that it would light up.

You can see it in the photo that Somerset Studio took.

 

I hope you enjoyed my journey through my mind and thought process.

Thank you to Somerset Studio for letting me share with the world!

I used tim holtz's idea-ology line, pieces off of the time machine, found box and metals, pipes from my dad's stuff. Distress inks.

Have a great week!

 

It's been A while

So many things have been going on.

Busy, Busy, Busy!

Some bad!

Some Good!

Some really GOOD!

Husband has done his raditation and has been scanned. However we are still waiting for results, cancer gone or? (Bad)

I must be holding in more stress then I thought, I had a recent trip to the hospital and need to really watch my stress levels. Seems to be attacking my body in diverse ways. My Fibromyalgia has been trying to tell me. But we never listen to our bodies. New meds are starting to work and I am feeling better! (good)

We are pretty selltled in to our new home! (good)
This has been quite a job! (Yuck)

I think the only room not really done and probly will never be is.........my studio! (oh well)

It will forever always be a mess.....any good orginizers out there?

Some good news is I have been published in Haute Handbags!
Fun and different!

I am also published in the new Somerset Studio May/June. I have yet to see this one yet. I can not wait. It is one of my famous Dress Forms. (Really Good)

Some of my dress forms. Not the one published, I will save that one until I see it.

 

More on that as soon as I get a copy!



Do you have a Hobby Lobby in your town? Do you ever pick up the Stamping*Stationary and Scrapbooking magazine they put out? Well I was included in the Glue Dots ad. I have two projects with instructions in the magizine. (Really Good)

So I have been busy and hoping to get blogging much more!

I have some deadlines for projects due on the 1st and some things I am working on for magazines. The bad part about those is you can not share until they have been published.

I will be included in a blog hop shortley so stay tuned for that.

Until next time...........

Enjoy every day!

 

Tattered Florals

What could bring me out of the mound of boxes and do something?

Well a challenge!

A tattered floral challenge....................

You see that tim holtz had to go and have this challenge right in the middle of moving or shall I say unpacking?

Really?
Does he know all of my stuff is half in boxes...?

Dig, dig deeper and deeper until I found my stuff and I started.

Everyone has done such an amazing job, I don't know why I am bothering....but, I had to try!

Huge, Huge, HUGE prize involved!



So here goes.......oh, you know I had to rust it up and make it Halloween! Yes even though it is spring!

A little closer view

Is he afraid of the flower of the ghost in the flower?

Love my rusted tree

Check out his body....this was made using electrical tape and put on chipboard and then embossed with one of tim's folders. Well not tim's, it's mine. He made it though. LOL!

I cut off part of it and used it at the bottem of the canvas

Here is a close up of a rusty floral.

I use metal mesh, electrical tape, chipboard, and Ten Second Studios

Ver-day paint-iron. Most important....I used the tattered floral die, by tim holtz. 

I hope you enjoyed my entry.

Good luck everyone!

Happy Valentine's Day

 

 

Happy Valentine's Day!

 

 

 

I wanted to share this cute little teddy bear I did using Cosmo Cricket " Sweet Disposition"

If you want to learn more about this paper head  to : http://cosmocricket.typepad.com/cosmo_cricket/2013/02/how-we-created-sweet-disposition.html

 

 

 

Just to let you know.....I have been away from my blog. Well I guess you know that....Reason...We are in the process of moving. My hubby went back to Minnesota to get all of our stuff and we are headed to the mountains to our new home. Well new to us!

I have been busy trying to get some business finished, articles written, art done and out the door before packing my studio up. What fun this will be. I have 5 days to do this. Rick will be back on Monday to pick up the stuff here and up to the Rocky Mountain we will climb.

This will be a new journey for us. We are excited to get settled in. It is newly painted and just waiting for us to move our stuff in and make it home. I will have to re-learn to cook and bake as we will be at 7100 ft. That in itself should be fun!

So if you do not see much of me it is because I am unpacking and decorating our home!

Then getting my studio arranged and decorated for the most inspiration possible!

Thanks for hanging in there with me!

Chapter 23 :We're All Mad Here, So Anything Goes!

`In THAT direction,' the Cat said, waving its right paw round, `lives a Hatter: and in THAT direction,' waving the other paw, `lives a March Hare. Visit either you like: they're both mad.'
`But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
`Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: `we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.'
`How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice.
`You must be,' said the Cat, `or you wouldn't have come here.'
-- Chapter 6, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

"We're all mad here" is the favorite Alice quote of artist Rick St. Dennis, so in January, anything goes! Be mad! Get cute, get creepy, get crazy, because Rick St. Dennis has amazing digi stamps in all those styles, including many wonderful AIW images! Submit your creations by Friday, January 25th for a chance to win three digital stamps from Rick St. Dennis. All projects are welcome, but those featuring Wonderland will have two chances at the prize instead of one. Multiple entries are welcome, but to be counted as separate entries they must be on separate posts.

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Designer of over 100 theatrical productions, Rick St Dennis (Donald McAfee) is also the author of 4 books on decorative painting and contributor to at least a dozen national magazines on crafts and art. St. Dennis has appeared on such TV shows as Home Matters with Susan Powell, Aileen's Crafts and others. He was Crafts editor for Country Folk Art Magazine and sold his artwork nationally through galleries and shows. For a complete bio of his amazing career, see Rick's blog.

Here are some cards that I have made from these amazing images!

First the Queen......Valentine's card

 Alice is a perfect little girl's birthday card

 This image is a FAVORITE! I love this Mad Hatter!



Oh Tweedle Dee and Teedle Dum you are all dirty?

Welcome........to the dirty old man club!

Happy Birthday!

This is the other image I just fell in love with!

I love him!

 

That is all I have! But go check out the Altered Alice blog for other design team creations! I know there is one your gonna LOVE!

Chapter 22:Christmas-tide in Wonderland!

From a Fairy to a Child

LADY dear, if Fairies may For a moment lay aside Cunning tricks and elfish play, 'Tis at happy Christmas-tide.

We have heard the children say -Gentle children, whom we love -Long ago, on Christmas Day, Came a message from above.

Still, as Christmas-tide comes round,They remember it again -Echo still the joyful sound, 'Peace on earth, good-will to men.'

Yet the hearts must child-like be Where such heavenly guests abide. Unto children, in their glee, All the year is Christmas-tide.

Thus, forgetting tricks and play For a moment, Lady dear,We would wish you, if we may, Merry Christmas, glad New Year.
-- Lewis Carroll, Christmas, 1887.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from The Altered Alice! This month the design team brings you their holiday wishes, and we invite you to send your holiday greetings or share a special project with The Altered Alice and to our other readers.

We do not have a sponsor this month, so we are just sharing for the joy of Christmas in Wonderland, and we hope that you will share too. We will have honorable mentions, so play along for the glory if not a prize!

To celebrate the season, we bring you The Lewis Carroll Memorial Window at Daniell Chapel in England. Notice the left panel where Lewis Carroll and Alice kneel to pay homage to the newly born Christ in this wonderful Nativity scene! This month's quote is actually contained within the windows, do you see it?

Click to enlarge - See Lewis Carroll and Alice in the left panel

The window, designed by the stained glass artist Geoffrey Webb, is a must-see for anyone who loves Wonderland. A wonderful Christmas poem by Lewis Carroll is shown in the center three bottom panels, which include characters from Wonderland - the White Rabbit, Dodo, the Caterpillar, Mad Hatter, and more! Our own Sue Roddis visited this chapel and gave me permission to show her close-up photos here, click to enlarge:

Here are my Holiday cards featuring The Octopode Factory!

I love how Lily creates her images! You should check The Octopode Factory out, I think you will love her images.

 

My cards are not traditional by any means, but I LOVE them!

 

This one I call...........Let It Snow!

This here is My Little Drummer Boy!

And where would we be without Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum?

How about a little Jingle? Check out the Hare's toes!

The Queen of Hearts

All Hearts Come HOME For Christmas!

 Another shot of the Queen

Hope you enjoyed my Christmas Cards.


Please consider adding your own project to share by Saturday, Dec. 29th. It can be a Christmas project or just something Alice-related that you want to share that perhaps did not fit with any of our other challenges! For this month only,we will allow you to back-link projects that were created before this month, as Christmas-tide is all about giving and sharing!

Share your project by going to The Altered Alice blog!

Merry Christmas to one and all, with great love from 

The Altered Alice!

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CHAPTER 22: Christmas-tide in Wonderland!

 

From a Fairy to a Child

LADY dear, if Fairies may For a moment lay aside Cunning tricks and elfish play, 'Tis at happy Christmas-tide.

We have heared the children say -Gentle children, whom we love -Long ago, on Christmas Day, Came a message from above.

Still, as Christmas-tide comes round,They remember it again -Echo still the joyful sound, 'Peace on earth, good-will to men.'

Yet the hearts must child-like be Where such heavenly guests abide. Unto children, in their glee, All the year is Christmas-tide.

Thus, forgetting tricks and play For a moment, Lady dear,We would wish you, if we may, Merry Christmas, glad New Year.
-- Lewis Carroll, Christmas, 1887.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from The Altered Alice! This month the design team brings you their holiday wishes, and we invite you to send your holiday greetings or share a special project with The Altered Alice and to our other readers.

We do not have a sponsor this month, so we are just sharing for the joy of Christmas in Wonderland, and we hope that you will share too. We will have honorable mentions, so play along for the glory if not a prize!

To celebrate the season, we bring you The Lewis Carroll Memorial Window at Daniell Chapel in England. Notice the left panel where Lewis Carroll and Alice kneel to pay homage to the newly born Christ in this wonderful Nativity scene! This month's quote is actually contained within the windows, do you see it?

Click to enlarge - See Lewis Carroll and Alice in the left panel

The window, designed by the stained glass artist Geoffrey Webb, is a must-see for anyone who loves Wonderland. A wonderful Christmas poem by Lewis Carroll is shown in the center three bottom panels, which include characters from Wonderland - the White Rabbit, Dodo, the Caterpillar, Mad Hatter, and more! Our own Sue Roddis visited this chapel and gave me permission to show her close-up photos here, click to enlarge:

Please consider adding your own project to share by Saturday, Dec. 29th. It can be a Christmas project or just something Alice-related that you want to share that perhaps did not fit with any of our other challenges! For this month only,we will allow you to back-link projects that were created before this month, as Christmas-tide is all about giving and sharing!

 

Share your project by going to The Altered Alice blog!

 

Merry Christmas to one and all, with great love from The Altered Alice!

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