collaged tags

I made these tags for a mini album.  In addition to paper or fabric I am attempting to use paint on my collage pieces.  I plan to keep practicing.

I used scrap pieces of paper, washi tape, (red, black, silver and white) acrylic paint.  I tied scrap fibers and fabric onto each tag (that will be shown in the next post- with the finished tag album).


Also entered in the SOC sistah/brotha blogger's challenge #7.   It is a color challenge.

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Box Portfolio

This is a way to organize and store all that ephemera that I have collected.  I watch INKWELL (Dede) on USTREAM and this is her project for the year.  She calls it the alphabetica box. Each week Dede gives 2 suggestions for what to label the file folders like 'birds' or 'doors' or 'maps'.  The goal is to personalize the box and make it your own.  She collages each folder and has shown this method on many shows.  Still I hesitated- see when I first learned to collage and decoupage we never used paint- we just glued on paper, napkins or fabric.  Dede makes using paint look so easy.  Every time I try I get mud (LOL).  So, for the sake of catching up and to stop staring at an empty box I just cut down some already decorated 12 x 12 folders from my stash.  I decided to just stamp and hand write the labels on the plain manila folders,  Here is my box portfolio.

The portfolio is a recycled large flat rate shipping box decorated with book pages, alphabet stamps, colorbox ink, duct tape, and tulle.

Here are my folders and dividers so far.

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Hanging Jewelry Box

I have made this type of jewelry holder for some time now.  Unfortunately, my hands hurt so bad that this will probably be the last one I make.  Screwing in the hooks is just to taxing.  The electric drill is no good for starting the holes as it gets caught on the fabric.  Ahhhh gotta love getting older and having carpal tunnel (LOL)

This one is mine

this one I made for a friend

This one is much bigger.  I hope she likes it.

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Go make something already!

It seems like I am crafting all the time. Really, I do more watching USTREAM and You Tube than I do crafting.  I keep saying that I need to art and stop watching other people art.  So tonight I was watching Must love Paper (Jess) USTREAM show and I watched her make a card.  From that inspiration, tips and the encouragement in the chat I declared that I was going to the craft room to make a card.  Here is what I came up with.




 I got these tags in a swap and they were laying on my desk so I used them. The "hello" stamp is from Stamping Up (a set I found for .99 cents at the thrift store).  The bakers twine is from a RAK and the papers are all scraps. Brads are from my stash. Colorbox chalk ink.

Entered in Word Art Wednesday.  http://wordartwednesday.blogspot.com/2013/01/challenge-65-anything-goes.html

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Bakers twine organization

For those of us who only have a few colors of bakers twine, this is a good way to store it.

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Gingerbread dough

I got this idea from the ladies at my Thursday scrap group.  It is the ideal gift for the person who has everything.

 

The poem says: 

Gingerbread men with yummy icing
are oh so good and extremely enticing
I set out to make a dozen or two
but ran out of time. oh what do I do

So instead of the cookies I tied a bow
your own personal serving of holiday dough!

I changed a few of the words, but you get the gist of the pun.  This gift was adored by the recipient although he refused to open and use the money. 

The gingerbread mad is a cricut cut.  The rest is all scraps.

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More gifts

I went crazy making these little candy holders.  I gave them out everywhere...the post office, the town office, the chiropractor, the grocery store--I mean EVERYWHERE!  Boy was that fun just to see people's faces light up with surprise. 

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