December Art with Heart - Favorite Things!

Are you ready for Christmas?

I for one am NOT! I think this is the first year that I am not ready at all! I swear last time I looked at the calendar it was October! How is it that November flew by and now it is a few days before Christmas?

Well..........
Tis’ the season for a new Art with Heart Challenge! December is “Favorite Things” and we want you to play along!  This month is essentially anything goes.  Just share your favorite things whether it be a die, paint, ink, color or project.  

So My favorite die is.......

Sizzix ScoreBoards XL Die - Blocks/Cubes, 3-D

You may ask why and I will tell you why. It is because I can use it for so many things. 

Just watch and see!

So for today's project I used the 3D Blocks/Cubes

Little Sizzles Mat board

Using my Big Kick I cut all my pieces out

I adhered all my paper on

I used a Tim Holtz Die to die cut the word Joy on the largest block

All pieces are now ready to be put together

Once put together - I die cut some feet for my tower. I used Eileen's new Sewing box die. I love the feet/base on it and am using them on so many projects.

Once I attached the base I used some distress ink and adhered some snowflakes. I added a knob at the top. In the bottom block I added a 

battery operated candle.

Using the same die I have made these projects and that is why this die is one of my favorites!

 Christmas gift box/keepsake

Valentines tower filled with candy

Halloween tower

All of these are made with the same die! And that my friends is why!

Please join us in this month's Art with Heart challenge! It's is so easy to join and just show us your favorite die, paint, paper anything!

Thanks for stopping by!

I am signing off until after CHA! I will be back in January.

Merry Christmas and have a safe and wonderful New Year!

FALL CANDY BOXES

GlueDots | October 13, 2015 | Project Ideas | 0 Comments

Designer Donna brings the fall foliage inside with fall candy boxes. Fill with treats or something special and give to your neighbors, friends, co-workers, or teachers.

Designed by: Donna Budzynski
Time: 1 hour for 6 boxes
Level: Beginner

Here’s what you need:

• Glue Lines®
• Ultra-Thin Glue Dots®
• Twine
• Cardstock – fall colors
• Sizzix Little Sizzles Mat Board or small boxes
• Distress ink – peeled paint, spiced marmalade, vintage photo-Tim Holtz
• Archival Ink Wendy Vecchi – Potting Soil
• Small Candy Bags (Optional)
• Die Cut Machine
• Die Cuts – Leaves
• Die Cut 3D Block/Cube by Eileen Hull
• Background Stamp – Something to add interest
• Ink Blending tool

Here’s what you do:

1. Die cut boxes (using Mat Board) and leaves (cardstock).
2. Stamp background on all boxes using Archival Ink.
3. Distress ink all boxes and leaves using blending tool.
4. Adhere boxes together using Glue Lines.
5. Cut off the top flap of the box, so the box is open (optional).
6. Adhere leaves to the front of the boxes using Ultra-Thin Glue Dots.
7. Tie twine around the boxes as desired.
8. Fill bags with candy of choice or peanuts.

**Use these for place settings by adding names to the leaves.
**Also write words of “Thanks” on leaves.
**Or just randomly place around the house for decorations with snacks.

~Donna

Any format of Ultra-Thin Glue Dots can be used:

Challenge- Rustification

Rustification.........Hmmmmm.....I can Rusty! Or at least I can make it look rusty.

Simon Says Stamp and Show has a CHALLENGE so here goes......

Let's give it a try.......I CAN do this!

What happens when you take masking tape, a heat gun, distress embossing powder?


                                   Rustification!

 

Here it is....A rusty Crypt..Look the trick or treaters are passing by.

 Hope they don't stop in.........

Here is the SPOOKY inside!

 This is the ONLY time glue strings are a GOOD thing!

 Mr Bones wants to meet you! He really does........Check out that picture...it changes!

 More pictures......this was made from a wood pencil box.

 Here is a really good one of the Lenticular face!

 Check out this spider and her web!

 Mr Bones up close and personal!

Thanks for stopping by.........leave a comment and tell me did I make it RUSTY? 

Halloween Candle Holders

I had so much fun making these amazing Halloween Candle Holders!

                Have you ever tried Glue Dots® Lines?

They are AWESOME!

                          Made this project so EASY!

 Playing with different lenses and I liked it!

Do you want to learn how to make some of your own?

Check here for full instructions!

 “I wrote this blog post while participating on the Glue Dots design team.”

Week 3- Chapter 13 Challenge: The Best Butter!

"The Hatter was the first to break the silence. `What day of the month is it?' he said, turning to Alice: he had taken his watch out of his pocket, and was looking at it uneasily, shaking it every now and then, and holding it to his ear.Alice considered a little, and then said `The fourth.'`Two days wrong!' sighed the Hatter. `I told you butter wouldn't suit the works!' he added looking angrily at the March Hare.`It was the BEST butter,' the March Hare meekly replied.`Yes, but some crumbs must have got in as well,' the Hatter grumbled: `you shouldn't have put it in with the bread-knife.'The March Hare took the watch and looked at it gloomily: then he dipped it into his cup of tea, and looked at it again: but he could think of nothing better to say than his first remark, `It was the BEST butter, you know.'" --Chapter 7; Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

For the month of March, how could we resist a challenge honoring the March Hare? We are challenging you to use "the best butter," as in butter yellow!

Our sponsor, Red Eowyn, is offering a one sheet of Alice in Wonderland stamps to the randomly selected winner of this month's challenge! The March Hare is the owner and illustrator's favorite Alice character, so of course we had to do her challenge in March. Red Eowyn has beautifully cleaned up the original Tenniel illustrations to make truly clear images that are a delight to stamp. The unmounted sheets include a variety of fun Alice sentiments, so be sure to check them out. In addition to Alice stamps, Red Eowyn also has wonderfully realistic animal stamps and some amazing dragons in the Fantasy category! Free U.S. shipping is included.You have until Friday, March 23 to show us your best butter! Entries that feature Wonderland will be given two chances at the random drawing instead of one. Multiple entries are allowed but each must be on a separate post.

I made a tag for this challenge.
I wanted the March Hare to stand out, so I used Distress Ink -scattered straw-for my best butter. I used -wild honey-Distressed Ink for blending.
I stamped the March Hare in black and colored with colored pencils. I then stamped some random swirls and tea cup with gesso. After this was dry, I went over it with a White Signo pen. I embossed, then added the words from a Alice's Adventures in Wonderland book. I added a little shading on and around the words. Added a bow with a button and that's my tag.

I love the "made just for you" stamp from Red Eowyn. So sweet and CUTE!

Head over to the Altered Alice blog and check out this weeks DT inspiration!

Thanks for stopping by.

Make a difference challenge-Cosmo Cricket

I am back with another challenge from Cosmo Cricket. This challenge is an easy one, all you had to do is make something for someone. That's it! Super easy and for a good cause!

This is what I did this week.......

It's a pincushion!

It is made with one of those $1 frames I love and a small piece of Cosmo Cricket Early Bird material. (this was the last piece I have) Super cute for that sewing friend.

Next I had a small gift for someone and I needed a little box and card.
So this is what I did.....

We all loved this line, Circa 1934. I have to confess I still have 2 decks of this and all of the 12X12's. I am in love with this line and have not been able to cut into it!

Until NOW!
Close up of the card. I cut some random circles and sewed some circles on them. I then inked with Ranger/tim Holtz distress ink "Iced Spruce". Wrinkled and curled until I liked it.

Just another view. I was trying to get this done early in the day. Did not happen! I have my 3 yr old g-daughter here from MN and she will not let Meme play with her stuff. We can only play what she wants to play with. Mostly that means being outside chasing kitties, looking at the horses, riding on the battery operated car (that she does not steer, just goes). But I am not complaining, when she is back in MN I will miss her so much!

Hope you enjoyed!

A NEW YEAR!

I have been busy! I know, it does not look like it by the looks of my postings! The holidays came and went so fast. I made almost every gift I gave this year. Yep! i am pretty proud of that!

I made tons of ornaments! Had great fun soldering! I forgot how much I like to solder. I have painted, made cards and now I am back on the Altered Alice design team. I have a custom order of 12 cards that I had to make and get in the mail. Done! Now I am working on my next project for the Altered Alice and I am starting to write another article for a magazine. More on that later. That is hush, hush!

I will keep this updated much more. It is one of my goals for the year. I just get caught up in the art and forget to blog about it. If you guys could see everything I do you would be amazed and ask why didn't you put that on the blog, oh and that too, and that.......you get what I mean. I just get to wrapped up in it.

I will leave you with a few pictures.

We all need Thank you cards in January, right?

These two are made with 7 gypsies Lille 6X6. I bought this a while ago and have not had a chance to play with it, so it turned into some nice thank you cards. Of course I need to distress each one. Everyone knows I need to distress pretty much every little thing! Thank goodness for Ranger/Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous.

Not a great picture but you get the idea. I only made 2 Christmas cards this year and this is one of them.

Yes, shame on me!

 Inside

I will be back on Thursday and show you some ornaments! Hey they were also on Ranger's facebook page!

CHAPTER 10: A Lewis Christmas Carroll to All!-My Turn!

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 to The Altered Alice. You have until Friday, Dec. 23 to enter. The winner post will either be a little early or late, as the last Sunday of the month falls on Christmas day!

Our prize this month is a $40.00 gift certificate to Custom Crops, the premier online retailer for crafters of all kinds. From Accuquilt to Zva Creative, adhesives to vinyl and everything in between, Custom Crops offers a huge selection of the products you've been looking for at competitive prices with fast, friendly customer service.
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! Our quote this month is actually contained within the window, do you see it?

The window was designed by the stained glass artist Geoffrey Webb, a must-see for anyone that 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!


My December challenge is my own version of the Cheshire Cat, with his BIG cheesy grin! I did a     
tri-fold Christmas card. The 1st thing I had to do was draw a Cat fitting to be the Cheshire. This is what I came up with. Hope you all like it!

My Christmas Card to all of you!

                                                                      Front of the card

                                                                   Open to the second fold

                                                                        Inside of card

                                                                                        Just some close ups

What products did I use? I used my own drawing and lettering.

Red paint was from Creative Inspirations.

(They were our sponsor in august and I was unable to be a part of the last few months, so I used it here)

I also used the Ranger's Winter release of Distress Inks Iced Spruce.

Snowflakes are from a cube stamp that I have had for a while, don't know who it is from.

Also used colored pencils for the color on the Cheshire Cat.

Oops, and some Stickles for some sparkle.

Thanks for stopping by.

Wishing you a Happy Holiday!

We look forward to seeing your holiday greetings, so send us a Christmas Card! If it features Wonderland, you will have two chances at the randomly awarded prize instead of one. Multiple entries are fine, but each must be on a separate post.

Please go to the Altered Alice blog and enter.

Anything Goes

 Anything goes! Yep that's what they said at Simon Says Stamp and Show. So this is my anything!

I put together a Western Shadow box of my Great Nephew. I used some of tim's products, which include

Distress inks, number plate (plaquettes), hanging sign die cut, swivel clasps and last but not least his paper. The piece of wood, barbed wire, rusty nails all gifts of the earth around these parts. Oh and grungepaper and some distress embossing powder (tims).

 It is kind of hard to take a picture of glass.
                            (just my opinion)

                                                      Close up of sign and rusty nails

                    

                                                OUCH!

 This is hard to bend! Let me tell you, I scratched my hand a bit......even a little blood! But none got on the paper! That's what counts!

Hop on over and follow the blog at Simon Says Stamp and Show, they call it Stamp-tember Blog Hop. You will like what you see!

Hope you enjoyed my play of the Wild Wild West!