It's All about the BEADS

Again... another great time with a great challenge

to create something a little creative

and a lot of fun...

 

I have had a lot of major changes in my life over the past few weeks here... and I am so very glad that I have had the ability to now share with you this project. 
I started quite a few project for this... and finally came down to create this... as I felt it would be something that more of you might TRY, on your own. 

A little background....  into that idea. 

 

I had on my schedule to work on my quilt...

but I re-arranged the style of the quilt...

and then my husband and I sat down to put the final

touches to it...

and realized that the place I was going to hang it,

that this would not work...

I have French doors in my studio and wanted to use the quilt

to help keep out the cold winter weather...

 

so....

a few tears and

back to the drawing board...

 

so I came up with something that I think everyone can do..

and it is a lot of fun to create this...

and hopefully a lot of you will make one of these...

 

it is PAPER BEADS...

 

Oh I know ... that is kids stuff...

I made my first paper beads when I was a kid...

sure you did too...

but these are a little bit different...

 

Think of them as CHARMS...

 

Charming CHARMS...

 

Well I have again built another blog

to take you thru the processes of making a

CHARMING NECKLACE... 

 

Step by step you will find

all kinds of ways to create

the PAPER BEAD

with ease and fun...   

 

 

No two beads are alike...

that is why I love these beads..

 

So click on this line and you will see the beginning of this process... 

 

This is what I am calling a 'DANGLE' that you will be building...

it is actually two paper beads...  you will be able to create this after watching this..

 

 

When all the DANGLES are in place...

you will need to make the necklace actually a necklace...

and you will see how right here... 

 

After the necklace is a necklace...

I added some more CHARM to it...

Charms that I bought...

 

 

 

When all done...

what a sheer delightful arrangement of color

texture,

and love... 

 

WOW...

 

 

 

And now...

as you totally expected from me...

another necklace... 

right??

 

Here it is...

 

Very different... and you can see it up close here 

 

 

I so hope you have enjoyed this tutorial and will make a few necklaces as presents for people you LOVE...

they will love them...

 and you will have a ton of fun creating them too... 

 

Hope you enjoy the season and send love to all of YOU

 

Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie   

 

 

 

 

Challenge: I ought to use this more... YIKES...

Today is Tuesday... I had a few classes and then I took a break and had to play with some new toys... so I HAD to have a reason... so I thought I would like to start to do Simon Says challenge again... So HI to all the new DT members... and Hi again to all the others... I now have high speed connections... and that is really wonderful.. .that dial up was enough to drive me over the edge... okay... calm down... I am not that over the edge...  LOL...

Okay... over at Simon Says... Monday challenge... the challenge is I ought to use this more...  ahem... that does not include me...  does it???  oh well.. I do have a FEW things that I don't use too often... and really should box them up and sell them...  way too much stuff...  anyway...  I decided to use a few of them... 

 

Down by the SEA is the name of this tag... 

First off... I made the color on the tag with Tim Holtz's way of putting ink onto a tag... love that technique...  and then used some Inka Gold... not that old... but getting there... on the edges...  then I started to play... 

 

I grabbed a piece of corrugated box... ??? who knows how long that has been in the pile??? Your guess is as good as mine... I use it when I need too...  tore it up and edged the torn sides with distress inks...  then here comes the OLD STUFF... MICA...

 

There are two large pieces of mica that my husband found one day and asked it I would like it... it is about 1/2 inch think... and I have used a few pieces... but it has been over..... AHEM... 8 years now since I have used any... does that qualify??? 

 

I also added the green mica chips that I bought over 10 years ago...   I  Guess that qualifies me... huh??? 

 

 

 

It looks a lot prettier in real life... has a lot of depth and some areas where these is almost a rainbow effect...  I did use some Distress glitters on the leaves, starfish and the turquoise bubbles... 

 

I just received the mini series of these stamps today... love them... but I think I am going to have to buy the large ones too... love these sea stamps... 

 

 

 

Added a few pieces of sea glass... they have to be over 6 years old... maybe more... but at this rate who is counting... 

 

I had fun making this tag... and thanks for letting me into the challenge... LOL.. I love to create and need a good reason at times... thanks for giving me that... 

 

Hope you have a wonderful evening, day, or afternoon...  Thanks for stopping by and also thanks ahead for leaving a comment...  I do appreciate them all.. 

 

Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie 

GLITTER plus....

So very many things have been happening this week... and all of them are wonderful.  I started a class on Journals... making one from 100% white paper... oh you guessed already...  YIKES... I guess I am a little bit to transparent...  but anyway... I have been working on this journal for a while now... and teaching a class brings it even closer to my heart... 

So it was sitting on my workbench this morning as I worked on it yesterday...  getting interior pages in place, pockets worked on etc...  I will show you different things in this book as I work on it.... which will be a process..... I love things that I can pull out and work on them for a while and then finish at a later date... 

I also have been working on more flowers... my favorite item to play with and create for different challenges, projects and also classes... I have a favorite class I teach with how to make a box and then teach how to make 12 different flowers...  a fun class... and everyone leaves the class full of ideas and are anxious to make more flowers... 

So I wanted to add these two things today HOPEFULLY to the Challenge called... 

Compendium of Curiosities 3 Challenge 2

 

 

This challenge is held every other Saturday and today is the day... what fun... and all you need is some things to play with...and Tim Holtz's BOOK...  Compendium of Curiosities 3   This book is truly a wonderful book...  all kinds of ideas, and techniques... and today the challenge starts off with GLITTER...  page 56...  so turning to page 56 is where we begin... 

 

Glitter Tim Holtz's way...  Love it...  and it just so happens that I happen to have a FEW of these pretty distress Glitters...  fun and games...  now to work on my journal a little bit more...  combining these two is very SPECIAL to me...  and I really love the way that this book is taking shape... 

 

Okay... get ready... because here it is... 

 

Oh before I forget... please go over to the site...  Click on the above link... and see all the pretties that the CREW have Created this week... it is very difficult to pick the prettiest, best or favorite... as they are truly all wonderful each one being so very different and with much depth and thought... Love this challenge... have I told you that... ???? 

 

Pictures... Oh yes... here they are...

 

 

I have to tell you that I have just recently been able to get High speed internet... so prior to last month.. .I had never seen a video on line, not been able to get to others blogs, or web sites... seen too many things other than a few small pictures that were shown in different places that I happened to spend the hours downloading...  Pictures .... uploading 8 would take hours... (2 plus) and now 18 pictures takes less than a minute... so I am SPOILED and I am loving this greatly... soooooo

 

I had not seen these fantastic 'PLASTIC' Flowers that Tim had created using Frosted film and also Wendy Vecchi's  Clearly Art sheets...  Well I fell in love with the flowers... and had to make them... so I got the supplies and am having a fun time making them... all different ways...  I have a huge stack of plastic sheets that I save too... and used them for the butterflies... 

 

The cover of my journal and all the pages are made from 100% white paper that have been INKED... yikes is that a fun thing or what... I have piles of papers that I have put ink too...  and I don't ever have enough of them either...  I then will stamp, stencil, add more inks, more stamping etc... to each sheet...  I love Pearl Dabbers... and think I bought a case last time...  LOL...  love the way it looks... now you see it ... now you don't...  love it.. 

 

6... My Favorite number... 

Flower My Favorite embellishment...

Colors... Turquoise and Greens... oh wow...

 

So here are some close ups of the flowers... I really love making these... have to buy a FEW more sheets of Clearly Art and also a couple of rolls of Frosted film... I can see what is going to happen to me...  LOL.. and I LOVE IT.. 

 

I used my palette of Alcohol inks and a solution pen to color all these pretties...  and then I used the Glitter technique on page 56... Oh what a pretty flower... 

 

 

 

 

 

I also cute out some butterflies using a Tim border die cut... and I bent them so that they stood up... and flew over the flowers, 6's and page...  I again used my alcohol inks to create the personality of each butterfly too..  Also used some Rock Candy Glitter on them too... 

 

 

 

Since this is a JOURNAL for ME... I had to add a DRAGONFLY... what else would I have...  in solid GOLD...  LOL.. 

 

 

 

Since my Husband and I own an organic farm, we are aware of many problems that we on earth are facing... one of the major ones is the problem that bees are having right now... we need to protect bees... in all ways...  not to use chemicals in anyway but especially around plants that bees and other insects will be going on... Linda's sweet Hummingbird is even effected by these harsh and horrible chemicals and we need to protect all living critters around us..  thanks for listening to me about this.. I feel very strongly about this and use a lot of bees in my work to remind all about the bees.  thanks for taking time to help protect them also.. 

 

Okay... these little flowers around the word SIX...

They are also from recycled things... oh yes... they are felt from my alcohol pads...   small and very pretty... and I cut them up and make flowers, leaves etc from them... adds a fun touch of different materials...  which I really love... you can see the tissue tape peaking thru them...  another product that I have tons of and love using all over things.. 

 

I really love the way that you can get these flowers to stand up and talk...  really great.. I also use a large one inch DOT to adhere them to what ever I need to put them onto... they stay forever... I am not afraid of these flowers getting squashed.. as they pop right back up...  so very wonderful about them... 

 

 

I actually colored these small flowers (the smallest on the Tattered Floral die cut... by Tim... )  with Current Alcohol ink... after I went all the way around each petal, I then filled in the center and it diluted the petal to this pretty pink... or rose color...  similar to Victorian Velvet... my favorite color of the RED/PINK family... 

 

I then was able to use the Victorian Velvet Glitter on these smaller ones... so very pretty... 

I also used my alcohol inks to color the large brad and then add detailed dots for stamen...  love it... 

 

 

I just might pop the number 6 and the work 6 off of the cover and do something magical with them too...  I feel I have to... this cover will most likely be an on going project for a while... so when it is all done.. .I will share it with you... 

 

 

 

I hope that you have enjoyed seeing all these pictures... I am just so happy that I can take these and put them all into my blog in such a short period of time... so happy about that...

 

I hope that you will join in on this challenge... have a happy and great week-end... have also a VERY HAPPY MOTHERS Day to YOU... Every one of us has to celebrate Mothers day... as we all have or have had Mom's ...  So happy Mother's Day to one and all..

 

Thanks for stopping by for a visit... and hope you will come back again for another visit soon..

 

Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie 

 

 

CC3Challege.... Soar with the Angels

Today is the first challenge of Compendium of Curiosities 3... and I was very excited to hear about this challenge, as I love using all my Tim Holtz 'toys' and goodies... and also I love doing nice challenges... also I finally was able to obtain HIGH SPEED INTERNET...  So I am so very excited about that...  it use to take me over 2 hours to get 5-6 pictures up on my blog... and towards the end I couldn't even get onto my blog... so my life was becoming very limited on line... but NOW.. wow... what a new world has opened up before my eyes... It would take hours to download a new blog or website... and most were impossible to do, as there were too many pictures on them... so I am so very happy in many ways to be able to join in on this challenge... and others too I might add... 

Well this challenge is unique.... you can find all the answers to all your questions... HERE     Linda is so very GREAT to do this challenge and this year she has added a whole crew of talented and great people from all over the world to help with this challenge...  what a great person she is... Yeah for Linda and the CREW...  I am really looking forward to this challenge every other week... 

Okay... so here is my piece using this weeks challenge... 

 

 

This is my finished piece... but I will go into each section with as many details as I can remember...  you see when I start to create I create.. and not too much stands in my way...  as far as color names, products etc... I PLAY and have FUN...  main goal.. 

 

 

 

I started off with my marbleized paper as per Tim's directions oh how to make marbleized paper... that was so very much fun, and I had to use up all the 'stuff' on my sheet that I made over 10 pieces of paper...  oh wow... not to worry I will use them all... but this was my very favorite one...  so I went over to my other table to proceed with the creation..... mind you.. each table is totally covered in debris at this time... what a lovely mess I made... 

 

I have to tell you that this piece will be put into a scrapbook that I am making of my mother growing up...  there are so very many cute and wonderful pictures of her... I need to do that for her...

 

My mother just passed into the next experience on February 8th of this year...  she was 94 years young... she had some physical problems... but was full of life in so many ways... she wanted to create more of her art every day... it became a huge frustration for her as the days went by... she was almost blind, (macular degeneration) and yet wanted to make flowers, and make cards for friends and others...  but just couldn't see at all.. 

I should tell you that her name was Vivian Prince Riley Nelson  and her mom was Eva Mae Prince Riley...  who was a very loved woman in many places all over the east coast of the USA...  she grew up in Maine, went to college in Boston, and then got married and off to Florida where she opened a music school to teach others how to play the piano.... she had made her debut in Carnegie Hall NYC when she was first out of college...  a very proud, Victorian woman.  I loved her dearly as my Nana and mentor in life in so many ways. 

 

This tag represents so much of what I am writing about...  for those who are actually reading this... 

The ANGEL is looking over them all the time...  (to create the angel, I used Picket fence distress stain on my stamp and then stamped over it with Gathered twigs... )   love the look I got doing this...

 

The chicken wire is a stamp... 

 (of course it is TIMS...  what do you think ??? )  

and it represents the fact that they were both able to learn a lot in life and move onto the next experience.. where they are hopefully very happy and creating again...  My Nana was a wiz in the kitchen... making a cake with a pinch of this and a handful of that... and then would go out and work on a handmade dress with a lace collar that she had made too...  so very talented... 

 

 

This little bird is not just a simple little bird.. 

First off I put some frosted film onto a piece of recycled plastic from something... and on the back after it was cut out with the bird and cage die set...  I used my alcohol inks to color it...  I have a palette and used my solution pen to get the stroke marks on the birds body...love it...  how cute is that saucy little one... 

 

The bird stands for my Mom and Nana's love of birds... pretty colored birds that they would love to look at...  both were fascinated with the colors, flying ability of the bird and also loved to feed them. 

I used a Cabinet die cut to make the 'frame' and then used an embossing folder to create the design on it... one of TIM's folders.. but the name sort of escapes me at the moment... LOL... I think it is about 8 years old or sooooooo .... 

 

I put some butterfly wings in the back of my Mom who was about 2 years old at this time... so this picture is about 92 years old... and my Nana was about 28 years old...  but I am not really sure about that age.. would have to look it up... ??? 

 

Anyway... I put the butterflies behind them to show that they were part of the angles who protect me in my everyday life here on the Earth Mother...  and they do soar quite a lot... as they are kept busy in so many ways... 

The flowers I made with some of the marbleized papers that I had created... YEAH... you see I already have used some of it...  and then I attached some Rock Candy Distress Glitter to the flowers... had to show the glittery side of my Mom and Nana...  and the little pink bow... one of their favorite colors...  My Mom also loved Green... but really loved all colors.. my Nana loved Navy and blues the best of all... 

 

The little lace at the bottom of the frame... is only about 60 years old...  LOL... I have a small bolt of it left.. from my Nana's sewing... 

 

But I made the flowers yellow and pink... I have to tell you that the colors I chose to use on this piece were Squeezed Lemonade, Peeled Paint and worn Lipstick... as they were the only distress paints that I had...  I had loaned a bunch of my other paints to a friend for the week-end... not thinking that I would be using them for this challenge...  LOL...  so it was a tough one... not my favorite colors together... but I do love the green and pink... 

 

The hand... is pointing to the word SENTIMENTAL... as this is sentimental for me...

 

 

So looking at the whole piece again... you will see two large wings... I love these wings and don't get to use them that often... but LOVE them...  a Tim Die Cut... 

 

And they are for the whole memory to be lifted high into the heavens to send love to My Mom and Nana whom I miss and love VERY VERY MUCH.... 

 

So that is the general idea of my ART for this challenge... I will be adding this piece to a page that will have other art on it...  I will post that when I do it... but it will be a while... that is for sure...

 

Hope you have enjoyed all of this... and that you join in on this wonderful challenge... 

 

Thanks so very much for stopping by for a visit... and hope you have a WONDERFUL CREATIVE DAY....

 

Love, Light and Peace.... Bonnie 

 

 

 

Memories

Today is the day of the challenge for Sunday Stamper... which takes place of course on your computer... but the person behind all this challenge is Hels Sheridan from UK...  a very funny and loving person... 

Well... I have to tell you a short story first... since I have been on line, (approx. 10 years now..)  I have been on DIAL UP... which if you don't know what that is, feel very blessed in all ways... it is where you have very little options and they are all very

S    L    O   W  

but it was the only way I could get onto the internet... so I choose it... LOL... what else is there??? 

 

Okay... so I went down to get my computer up dated since it was 4 years old... I wanted to get windows 7 on it... so I could use both my computers the same...  LOL... my desk top (the 4 year old one) was unable to be changed over, as I would loose all my art programs in it...  and so I decided to keep that... and also if I kelp that computer as it was, it wasn't going to be able to stay on line after April 8th... due to the inability to talk to the dial up... so I had to think about what to do... all these other programs that every one had were not available around here... but finally after talking to one of our neighbors, we found out about a company that had satellite service that was available in the mountains...  so now I have

HIGH SPEED INTERNET  

 

and I am so very happy.... I love it... I was having trouble getting a picture up on line... it would take about 1 hour to get ONE small picture up... and then the line would disconnect from what ever... now I can get 7-8 large pictures up in a minute or less... and I am able to join back into my favorite groups... become social on Facebook and see Pinterest for the first time ever... and also run all my blogs and classes... so I am loving this in so many ways... 

 

 

 

So now here is another challenge... ( the first I did was Tim's Tag... )...  had to try that one again too... and also the new challenge starting on Saturday over at Linda Ledbetters... better go check that out if you haven't...  Linda and a whole CREW of really GREAT gals are all going to be giving challenges out every other week... what fun is that going to be...  They will be using Tim's newest book... Compendium of Curiosities #3...  yikes... love them all.. they are a must for any one really interested in learning new and exciting things... 

 

 

 

Okay... enough words .... now for my creation...

 

Hels Challenge today was to use a technique by the famous WENDY Vecchi.... and also the theme of Memories are made of this....  what fun is that... 

 

Again.. I have a story...

 

 

Every year in the winter months we decide what we are going to plant on the farm.... (we have an organic farm... with chickens and lots of veggies... ) 

 

So about three years ago we planted WATERMELONs... which I happen to LOVE...  These were Orange fruit on the inside and very very sweet.... called Orangelo...  anyway... they started to grow and grow and all of a sudden Glenn told me that we had about 60 or so watermelons about the size of a basket ball... (this variety grows ROUND)   so we started to eat them... we love them for breakfast.. so each morning Glenn would bring over one for us enjoy... all of a sudden... he noticed that they had small holes in each one... like a deer took a polite little nibble out of each one of the melons...  (we have way too many deer around our farm... ) 

 

 

Oh these melons were so very delicious.... and they were being eaten by the DEER????!!!!   Well this was going to have to STOP...  Glenn brought over a few to show me... and I said to him... these are not from DEER... that is from a BIRD.... a CROW.... or many CROWS.....  And so we went out of the house and all the crows started to scream... warning the ones that were eating the watermelon to GET OUT OF THE GARDEN... the human is coming back again...  LOL... they would do that everytime he would start to walk over there...  he finally had to pull all the plants up and let them finish growing in the shed on the vines with no soil etc... which only lasted a few days... and then we had to put them in the big refrig... they were delicious... but we lost a lot of them... so this tag is all about the crow and the WATERMELONS which are represented by all the roses on this slim long tag... 

 

 

 

Okay... I have a confession... I didn't have any other special Ranger paper left... boo hoo... so I had to use a piece of Glossy paper.. which really didn't work as well...  but I had fun with the background anyway... 

 

I used two of the newest colors of Wendy's.... Fern and Forget me Not...  love them both..  actually I love them all... I happen to really enjoy the intensity of the Archival line...  really wonderful for fabrics too... 

 

Anyway...  after creating the background... I had to STENCIL...

 

I happen to LOVE the dabber with the PEARL in it...  if I don't have 5-6 of  them on hand I feel lost...  it is so wonderful to use...  I never remember to clean out the tops.. .so I use a blending tool with a foam pad and have a blast...  here you can see the pearl used... 

 

 

 

AND HERE too... 

 

Here I used citrus up on the top right corner...  and some BLACK... 

 

You can see more here... but the area above the crow... not so well..  but it is used there... and that is the beauty of this color... now you see it... now you don't... 

 

I used a wonderful Tim Stamp...  for the saying... 

 

 

 

 

 

I even used some other things like Viva Inka Gold and I used some of the copper and gold on the background and also stenciled with it...  so much fun on a piece of paper that was only 3x8.5 inches... 

 

 

BUT THEN... I had to make some roses which were to represent the watermelons... 

 

 

So using my Tattered Pinecone die... I created some roses... I made a few using the whole rose... but then I also used one whole rose to make two roses...  like little buds...  added some greens, and some leaves... and also used Tim's new Honeycomb die.. .(love that one too... ) 

 

and used the Tissue Wrap to make a few smaller flowers... 

 

But I have to tell you... that they just didn't look the way I wanted them to look... so I heated up the old MELT POT... and dipped them in for a nice glossy look.... they actually look like they are porcelain...  love it... 

 

Before I let them dry.. I added some Rock Candy Glitter... oh so much fun...  just a littlebit.... as if I added too much.. it would change the vibrant color of the roses... 

 

Here is the final TAG...  or small picture...  not really sure where I will put this... or what I will do with it... but it will have a home of some kind... 

 

Close up of the tissue wrap flowers made with the dictionary paper... and dipped into the Melt pot...  with a thick UTEE...

 

Also a lovely piece of jute for the bow... 

 

If you look real close you will see the glitter on the roses... 

 

Here you will be able to see it even better... 

 

ANYWAY.... I did have a lovely time making this... but I also had a nice time on the deck... visited with my sweet hubby... talked to both our kids today... and enjoy the day 100% plus... 

 

Hope YOU did too... 

 

I would love to see others join in on the fun challenge every week...  it is so much fun to see what others create... I now can go around and visit other sites too... it use to take me so long to get onto a blog that I really lost interest in blogging all together... and finally cound't even get onto my own blog...  now I am here in full force...  and ready to PLAY plus... 

 

Have a great day today... enjoy it to the fullest... and CREATE something wonderful for YOU... 

 

Love, Light and Peace.... Bonnie