A Little Loaf Pan

In life, one thing leads to the next to the next to the next... LOL... it happens to most of us... and that is what this is all about... 

I love die cuts...  Punches, inks, oh... okay.. I love it all... but I do love my dies...  of all kinds...  so one day I was checking out the Sizzix web site... and then it took me to Eileen Hull's  Art with Heart Challenge...  and oh my goodness a challenge... 

Well I had to do it... as I love die's, love challenges and love all the pretties I can make with different challenges...  so I was in... 

In December I decided to also do Frilly and Funkie challenge of the 12 days of Christmas...  and I had so very much fun doing it...  it was a real challenge... as my time was so very limiting at that time... but it was fun... and also entered some of the tags and projects into Eileen's challenge for the month of December...  Oh ... I won... I won the little loaf pan die... yippppeeee yeay... 

Eileen sent me a very special one... one that went on the road trip with her... and it is even signed... love it Eileen... I will cherish it... 

Okay... now the fun started... to make things with this new little die... which by the way.. is not so little...  biggest one I own... I love it... made quite a few...  made some into baskets and some into a little loaf pan with some cookies as a gift... but I wanted to create something a little bit different... back to the drawing board... 

This is what I created... 

 

I cut two of the loaf pans... and then I made some really specials papers with textured stencils and stamping...  and covered the loaf pans... then I glued the two together... one being upside down...  to create a wonderful little table arrangement... 

 

 

 

A couple of little knobs for either side... for a very finished look...  and some flowers... 

 

The flowers are made from my favorite media... baby wipes...  LOL... best thing going... clean up, let dry and then cut for your flowers... 

 

The largest flower is made with a Sizzix heart die... that has to be at least 100 years old... LOL.. one of the first ones I bought...  about 11 years ago...  a little red die... only about 2.5 x 1.5 in size... an oldie...

 

I tied some ribbon that I died to match the flowers and tied that in the middle of the two loaf pans... and had a wonderful table arrangement...  a couple of candles and it is perfect... 

BUT... I never stop at one thing...  I wanted something else to balance this ... so I made this little bird house, drawer and BIRD...  I love this little bird... it is also an Eileen Hull die cut...  it has wings on both sides and so it can fly... really fly... LOL...  how do you think it landed on the house and another one is one the loaf pans...  ??? 



More baby wipe flowers...  more fun... more ribbons and bows... and other than the bird... all graphic 45 papers... 

the bird is made from paper that I created with dyes... 

 

So there you have my little spring in January... a beginning of spring that will soon be here... our chickens are starting to breed which means we will have little ones before we know it... and the seeds have been ordered and we will be planting soon too... 

 

Hope you have gotten your loaf pan die... I also have a few other things I am going to try with it... and will share when they are done... 

 

thanks EILEEN for the Special die of this loaf pan...

and I have enjoyed playing with it... 

Hope you all have a very special day, week-end and the first month of the year is almost gone...  yikes... where ever does the time go... 

 

Love, Light and Peace...

Bonnie 

Fall in the MOUNTAINS

So very many things are happening in my life at this time, and I have had to change around a lot of the things I use to do... one is that I have had to pack up my studio and condense it into half of what it was...  so I have had limited supplies at hand... also my time is being detoured into other areas as well... all it good... and I love change... in all ways... so this actually is something that I am having to "go with the flow" as they say... 

So I decided that if I was going to have to limit my time spent in the studio... that I would have to pick and choose the challenges that were really meeting my needs and desires... and so this month I have chosen to do the Our Creative Corner challenge which is to use a FAVORITE photo and create a vintage tag, scrapbook page, etc with those photos... 

Well again.. I have limited supplies and the Photos were really not to be found at this time... so I took my camera and took some fall pictures of where I live... as where I live is where people come from all over the world to see .... so I chose the theme...

FALL IN THE MOUNTAINS... 

 

A lot of people think that Vermont is the only place in the USA that has beautiful fall colors on the trees... well Western North Carolina has tons of Leaf Peepers, too... 

So that is my theme... 

Leaves,

Fall

Mountains,

Birds.. ( my crows of course) 

Majestic feelings..  (ooops... misspelled it... ) 

and of course the colors of fall..

 

So this is how it turned out... 

 

 

This is my finished piece... 

I will give you all the details for those that want to follow...

I did have a lot of fun with this... to say the least...

 

 

Well I had a bunch of die cuts... and I wanted to use them...

 

so I glued them onto the canvas board and then gesso all over them... 

 

Then let the paints fly as they did...  color and more color was added and taken away...  but had a messy time of it... 

 

Then CAMERA time... I went out and took all kinds of pictures... here are a few of them...  I took over 100 of them...

 

One of  the many little sheds on our farm...  I happen to love it... it is rustic, and cute...  and still holds all the "junk' we seem to need around us... lawn mower... etc... 

 

The leaves...  and the LIGHT... coming thru the trees at this time...

Light changes as the seasons do... and we at times only think of the light from the time when we wake up... or hey when I get out of work... it is dark now... 

 

But the intensity of the light changes... and colors show up differently too..  light... so very important in my eyes... 

 

I go in the car and started to shoot away...

As seen from the top pasture on our farm.. this mountain is so very MAGESTIC in my mind... 

a new word...

Mag  =  Magical...

estic... =  Grand... 

 

Magically Grand

 

Should be spelled... Majestic

 

These mountains are in the mountains that run from Georgia, to Maine...  called the Appalachians'... 

Mount Mitchell.. is not too far away and that is the tallest point East of the Mississippi River... and it is a very powerful point too... 

 

Okay... a favorite little tiny home...  no one lives there anymore...

the people who use to live there... are buried across the street in a shallow grave... with a Thinker Statue as the marker stone... 

A small little family plot... very typical of the folks that use to live in this area... 

This house is slightly run down.. and most likely not livable... but the charm that is pouring out of it, is GRAND... 

When we leave our neighbor hood... the mountains change a little bit...  LOL.. .here they are... the same ones as in the first mountain picture above...  they are just GRAND... and I had to show it to you as an alone picture... as it is so BEAUTIFUL in all ways...

 

Another View...

From our home to the nearest 'town' which has only gas and some junk food ...  it is about 8 miles.. then you have to go another 8 miles to a small little town which has a few more stores etc...  we are way out in the boonies... and we LOVE IT... 

 

My Neighbor calls it Podunk...

I call it PARADISE... 

 

So I picked out a few pictures and started to play around...  I loved the background... and didn't want to cover it up too much... 

and I wanted the pictures to sort of pop up as they do around here...

I added some Flowers... and some leaves... more on both as I move along... 

 

The Butterflies were one of the Die cuts I had...

Butterflies in the Fall..

They are gone...

RUSTED... 

so I rusted some...  and they are enjoying my Fall in the Mountains... 

 

 

 

When I was coloring the background... I made a huge mess... and had to grab handfuls of babywipes to clean it up...

HUGE handfuls...

so I have to use things... and so I made some flowers with some of the baby wipes... 

 

 

 

We do have a lot of wild flowers always blooming from early spring until the first frost... and then there are always some that have MADE it thru the frost... 

 

 

 

Oaky... I have a very dear friend... who I met thru a challenge... and low and behold... we use to live in the same town...  she was a little bit younger than me... but hey... that is okay...

We use to live in NJ... and now we both live in NC...

Fun HUH???

Wow... what are the changes of that happening...

Anyway...  she sent me this wonderful card to say HI...

and one of the things that has happened in my studio area, is that I have had to condense my space... so I have no space to keep things... at all... I wanted to remember this note and her love that was sent with it to me... 

Sara... your leaves are here now... and will be living on my

FALL IN THE MOUNTAINS

forever. 

 

I loved these leaves and had to save them... I used the background paper also to make more leaves... and used it all..  Thank you so very much for helping to finish off this picture...

You are a very dear person to me... and want to always have your energy in my life.

 

 

 

CROWS... If you didn't see my piece on CROWS..  just flip back a few entries... and you can see my CROW CUBBIE...

I love crows and have a huge fascination for them in all ways... as I do all of nature... 

Since I truly live the natural life, I experience it every day of my life... 

 

This is a rubber stamp that I made so that I can show the actions of a crow... and this crow is flying on by... 

He is looking for the WINTER to arrive any time now... and that will also follow... 

 

This is a picture in a series ... and the first one was called the farm...

You can see that here... 

 

 

 

click on the above and it will take you to both of these pieces...

So I guess I will have to do a third and fourth picture so that my wall will be balanced... another thing I am working on... BALANCE in all things...

 

So that is my piece for the entry into the Our Creative Corner this month of November...

 

Hope also that you will come on the 22nd of  this month and also see what I have created as the TOP TALENT DESIGNER for the month... 

 

I love to have FUN ... and hope that you do too...

enjoy BLISSFULLY what you are doing with your LIFE and do it more and more each and everyday...

LIVE IN TOTAL BLISS... 

 

Thanks for stopping by for a visit... I really appreciate the comments you all leave... and I love you and send you my best feelings for the day... 

 

Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie

 

The FLOURISH and the ROSE GIFT BOOK

I know you probably are so tired of hearing me say this...

 

BUT...

 

 

I HAD SO VERY MUCH FUN.... making this book... 

 

I think I am a frustrated little kid that loves to cut paper

Glue it...

Paint paper,

Cut it up...

Glue it...

and cut pictures and clip art up...

and GLUE IT...

Make pretty ribbons,

and tie them into bows... 

but I LOVE IT ALL... 

 

Do YOU???? 

 

See...  there are some out there that are holding their hands up screaming...

I DO.... I DO... 

 

I knew it.... well I had fun doing this...

 

This week-end I had my basket classes for the Kudzu basket making... what fun we all had... baskets were made by all and some were very unique while others were out of sight with different colors, of light and darker vines... some with bark, others stripped off...  so very pretty... all were outstanding... I love teaching and being part of this type of thing... it was glorious... 

 

So today I had the opportunity to create this little book in the peace and quiet of my studio... 

it was very rewarding and I had lots of fun...

 

So here it is...

 

 

 

This is the finished book... 

I will show you each section and also all the details etc... 

I love the colors... and the designs of each section... 

Don't forget this is a GIFT BOOK.... 

 

 

To start off with, my sweet husband had received a couple of books in the mail... this is the piece of corrugated that came in the books!!! 

Waste not, want not...  a good thing to practice...

I peeled off  the outside paper... to show all the beauty...

and then folded it... unevenly, so that the front was shorter than the back... 

 

I made this piece of paper this morning...

It is sort of a new technique... spun off of Pamellia Johnsons tehcnique... 

 

I will tell you a combo of what the two are...

Pamellia took the textured paste and put it onto paper,

used embossing powder and a heat gun to finish it ....

 

I did the same with black paper, textured paste, and purple embossing powder..

 

BUT then... 

I took my Versa Mark pad and ran it lightly over the textured paste that had been embossed with the purple... and added some Steam....  

 

then I did it again... 

this time adding Lettuce...  

 

then I did it again...

adding milled lavender... 

 

WOW... what fun... what colors... 

 

 

it got a little thick.. what an exciting feature...  the colors slipped into the area that had no texture paste... it just turned into a wonderful piece of paper... I really didn't want to cut it up... but hey... new rule... 

 

USE IT...

or you might not find it again.. .
LOL... 

TRUTH... sorry to say..  

With all this stenciling... I am also putting this into the
Simon Says Monday Challenge
which is all about stenciling... 
 

 

  

 

Hels Sheridan's challenge today...

Sunday Stamper... is to use a ROSE... 

so here are two...

 

 

And I snuck in a few little ones too...  can you see the little purple one... 

I used ribbon to cut the flower out... and then some stamen in the center...  love it... 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I used Tim's Tattered floral strip and used the leaves here...

I used a sort of new method on these... 

I colored them with ink on the work sheet, but then I rolled them up until they dried...  then I sort of unrolled them... leaving a lot of the paper curly, etc.. 

 

Can you see the embossing... love it.. 

 

 

 

 

finished cover.... 

 

Below are a few more closeups...  just love this cover... couldn't stop taking shots at different angles...  LOL... 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Okay... now this is a GIFT BOOK... so what is the gift...

Well at Crafting with Dragonflies, the challenge is to make a gift card...  oh... not me...  I dont' give gift cards...  a gift check... yes...

so that is why I created this .... 

 

 

 

 

 

It is a Sizzix Die...  oh so very elegant... all by it's self...

Lovely and ELEGANT.. needs nothing else.. but I did put a little bow around its neck... it wanted to be dressed for the occasion...

 

I also made it into a pocket... by putting double sided tape down the two sides and across the bottom... thus a nice envelope... 

 

 

 

Then I made this to slip inside... and there is a arrow at the top... it is a little hard to see... up by my name...

it is purple... 

it says PULL UP...

 

A little tangling... too...

When you pull it out.. a folded check is there as the gift...

YES... GREAT GIFT... 

 

 

You know that I don't stop with one thing in a book.... don't you???

 

So onward...

 

I made a piece of paper... 8.5 x 11... using tim's method of coloring paper... ink onto my worksheet and then dragging the paper thru it...  oh what fun.. .then I add some other color if I desire it... this time I cut the paper in half... 

 

and made two envelope... no flaps... they just fit into the booklet cover... perfectly... wow... I am getting good with this measuring thingy... 

 

I use to draw a lot of digital images and sell them.. this is the wreath...  I printed it, colored it, cut it out and glued it onto the pocket... a pretty K and Co butterfly... 

 

 

 

And on the other pocket front, I put a die cut/embossed paper by Cuttlebug and then put this cute little bird on there... it was stamped...

 but when???

by WHO???? 

BUT I did watercolor it... 

and then cut it out... 

 

When you look at the edges of the book... this is what you see...  so now I will show you all the goodies... 

 

 

The inside flap... 

A little doily and inside the doily... which is used at a pocket here... 

 

Is another little fold up paper... I have the sizzix die for that too... but it has no name on it...  ????  but it is a square and has rounded half circles on the four edges... love it... 

 

 

I put a flower on one of the half circles... 

 

This is it all open... and as you can see I have foil butterfly stickers all over it... 

 

This is how it looks when it is all folded up...  I am going to use my stickers up too... I have tons of them... and I really love some of them... like these...

 

Also this little folder is only about 2x2 inches... and it can also hold a bill... or a check also...  but I have a little butterfly inside for right now... 

 

 

 

In between the two pockets is this little paper, with the bird in it... just a little pretty... nothing more or less... just because...

 

The next pocket is this...

that I showed up above... 

 

 

Inside each pocket, I have a tag... of course... 

Each tag was also a lot of fun... naturally it was... 

 

this one I put a doily on the top and then some Pickled Raspberry inked paper... with a little bit of purples...  but love the PR...

 

A Swirl, and Textured paste queen Anne's lace flower... and some Chit chat... 

 

The SWIRL...  over at

A VINTAGE  JOURNEY

the challenge is a SWIRL... 

Tim style swirl... 

 

 

 

That is the first tag... 

 

Then the second tag... 

 

Okay...  this one is a little bit different... 

 

The same textured paste with the same stencil... a little bit different color background...  but then a Just rite stamp... and the word LOVE stamped and under it ... YOURSELF...

 

You can't love, truly love someone else, with out loving and knowing your self FIRST...

 

Love yourself...

Love others will full intent... 

How very BEAUTIFUL... 

 

 

 

 

 

FINISHED

 

 

Now all I have to do, is to find a box to mail it in... LOL.. that will be the hardest part of the whole project...

 

But then again... the Post office has these great free boxes... that this will most likely fit into with extra space...  LOVE IT... 

 

Okay...

 

So first project of the week... 

three Challenges... 

A Vintage Journey

Sunday Stampers...

Crafting with Dragonflies... 

Simon Says Monday challenge 

 

Have a great week.. .and please check back here tomorrow for more challenges...

and Please dont' forget...

 

On THURSDAY...

I will be the GUEST DESIGNER over at

FRILLY AND FUNKIE...

hope you will take a look at what I have created for this one...

 

WOW is all I am going to say... 

 

thanks for stopping by today for a look see and a visit...

Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie