Wonderland cards!

Ok I must be going through a phase right now, everything I make is alice in wonderland theme!  I made these 3 cards using Greeting Farm's beans.  They are limited edition and I finally got to use them.  I made alice pink instead of her traditional baby blue.  

Lots of layers in the card. I used 3 magnolia dies on this card.  Lace, doilies, burlap (my fav texture to use), and iamroses!  

Second card is the queen.  I like the pink with black.  

My favorite out of the 3.  I loved coloring them with my copics!  

My Vintage Halloween!

Hello everyone!  I got one of those Tim Holtz clocks.  I love the shabby chic look but wanted to do a vintage halloween theme.  Originally I was going to do the classic black dark halloween look but since this clock will be sitting out year round, I thought I'd try something different.  I like the vintage colors and wanted browns and creams in this.  I painted the clock with 2 coats of gesso, then one coat of cream colored acrylic paint.  I slapped some modeling paste on for some texture then sprayed it with Lindy's stamp gang chocolate truffle, Cadbury milk chocolate, and creamed brûlée starburst sprays.  I love the shimmer!!!  Once again I wanted to dive into my graphic 45 halloween in wonderland paper.  This paper is the classifieds sheet so it was all cream and black.  Perfect!!!!

I have some burlap inside the clock as well as some layered behind my prima flowers.  

I used Tim Holtz clasp and rubbed some of that acrylic paint on it so it wouldn't be so plain bronze.  The pocket watch was from michaels and key is TH.  I used TH fragments with glossy accents to make the charm.  

Key hole metal charm from TH and backed it up with scraps of the paper.  I rubbed it with acrylic paint and sprayed it with chocolate truffle.

Fussy cut Alice and added mod podge on the back to give her strength.  

I love making the drink me bottles with glitter.  So cute!

Layer layer layer! I used TH rickety house die, odds and ends ticket stamp, prima flowers, and recollections bling.

Multi levels of pop dots for extreme 3-d effects!

I hope you like my vintage halloween : ) 

Steampunk spells altered wooden box

Hi all! So I finally got to play around with graphic 45's steampunk spells paper collection.  I decided to alter a wooden box I got from michaels a while back.  I did some fussy cutting and made it a little more 3d.  I made paper flowers and used my tim holtz gears die for embellishing.  I also used tim holtz word play to cut out the numbers 45, for graphic 45 of course!  The inside is still a bit empty, I'm working on my mini to go along with my box!  

Sizzix's Prima flower die!

I was so excited Sizzix came out with Prima flower dies.  Like most, I love all things Prima so I knew I had to have the new dies out.  I'm pretty new to paper flower making so I was excited to try out the Prima flora grande die.  It's a bigz L die so the petals are good size.  There are 3 petals and a leaf which is perfect so I don't have to get a separate leaf die!  I like using the middle size flower petal.  It's larger than the middle flower on Tim Holtz tattered flower die.  I cut it out 4 times since I like my flowers full.  3 works but 4 is better! 

I made one then was immediately addicted to it.  I decided to try a few more.  One for my halloween mini I'm working on, then 2 smaller ones for the same mini.... Then a few more for future halloween projects!  

Here's what I used for my flowers.  I brushed matte mod podge on the tops of the flower to give it more strength so they wouldn't tear when I rolled them around.  

Here's another pic trying a different technique with the hole in the middle to place the flower. 

Testing it out but I realized I forgot to ink my edges on the flower before I began!

My 2 mini flowers with my larger one.  The minis are around 1.25" and the larger is about 2.5"

Here are 3 more I made!  So much fun but next time I will use my hot glue gun to move it along faster.

My graphic 45 Halloween in wonderland micro mini album!!

So after holding onto this Graphic 45 paper for 2 years, I've decided to use it!  Lol.  I love the prints I didn't want to cut it out at all!  I had tons of fun making this mini tho.  It's a micro mini using celebrate it mini envelopes.  It's 2.5" x 4.  There's a tag in every pocket and it can hold tons of pics and journaling!

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I love the black fringe

Fussy cut alice out so a picture could slide under it.

A belly band on the right page.

I love these pages. I don't even like red but this came together nicely!  I really liked using red glitter in the drink me bottle.  I liked the paper I didn't want to cover it up.

The swirly paper was from a k and company halloween stack I have had for a while now.  It worked well with this album.  

I had this tea pot chipboard piece in my stash for a long time and I painted it with crackle accents to texturize it.  I stamped a mad hatter phrase on the flower.

I used my sizzix envelope die on this page.

Another fun page I loved creating.  I used Martha Stewart's bat fence punch for the pumpkin patch.  The keep out die cut is from k and company and worked perfectly with this page! 

Hope you liked it! I love all things small and sweet!

Shabby chic vintage mini tag book

So lazy Sunday comes and I decided to make this quick mini shabby chic book!  This would be a great little gift for someone.  I had fun making it. It was quick and easy.  I have 6 pages total and used pink paislee's London market paper.  Hope you enjoy! 

I used the alphabet stamp from paper smooches on my cover.

On the back there is a belly band to hold tags and pix.  On the second page I used the Eiffel Tower die from TH.  so you can slide pix behind the tower.

I then used the dress form die from TH on my third page.

Fourth page is the birdcage from TH and I used Martha Stewart's butterfly punch to make the butterflies outside of the cage.

Fifth page I used lace on a roll then placed pearls on it.

And last but not least a pocket page with a doily edge punch.