Tags and glimmer

Challenges... what a blast they are... I love doing them... BUT the biggest problem is that I then have to link to the blogs... and that is my largest problem... as I am still on this "LOVELY THING" called dial up... at least I have that... but it is so S L O W ....

So I wanted to do three challenges... and I combined them all onto one project... I am still working on the scrapbook of my Mom while she was growing up...  so here is my most recent page...

So the three challenges are this...
Simon Says Stamp and Show ...  something with a flourish... 

Theme Thursday... the theme was WINGS....

Gingersnap  which is to do Transportation.... with a steampunk attitude...

So here is what I have I created...
I had created all these fun spritzers using Distress Inks... and Perfect pearls.... oh I love them... so fantastic.... So I also used some Tim Holtz's masks... and I used the flourish masks... three of them... love the background... You will see just that in a minute...

Then I made all these little tags... and on each one a picture of my Mom and my Nana with CARS.... wow...

For the WINGS... I used a Tim Holtz stamp with a bird cage... and then added a bird using his cage and bird die cut.... I cut the bird out with AC foil... so it was silver... so I used distress embossing powder to create the pretty colors on my little bird..

So here is the background paper that I made...

I used as I said some Tim Holtz masks... and also my distress/perfect pearls to create this paper...

AND also used the same on my rose which is made from parchment paper.. and then the glimmer put on it...

I wrinkled the entire paper prior to putting the rose on there...

I also took a sheet of package plastic... and used my archival inks to print a few flourishes on there...

I used stamples to attach the plastic to the paper... which was also mounted onto a sheet of black bazzill paper... love that paper too... which created a pocket for the tags to fit into and for easy viewing... 
I really didn't want to hide the background paper... but at the same time... that is what it is... BACKGROUND... but I love it... that is why my paper stash is so very large... too many pieces of paper that are too perfect to use for things... LOL... 

 So Gingersnap challenge was TRANSPORTATION.... and that is why I used only pictures of my mom with cars... they had a lovely car and always had fresh flowers in the vases on the wall of the car... I still can sort of remember them on  the side of one of the cars we had when I was small... can you image that today.... YIKES....

My Mom is sitting here waiting to go to the beach... the bird I told you about above...

 Here is a picture of my Mom stepping out of the car... look at the precious little "bloomers"... so cute...

I used some Spellbinder lace on the side of this tag... I made all my tags using the Distress inks with Perfect pearls added... love that stuff.... of course you remember that I also make all my ribbons by using seam binding and dyes.... oh I guess I am totally addicted to that... the man where you order it from... he knows the lasts 4 digits of my credit card without looking it up... is that good???? LOL...

Here is a picture of my Mom and Nana... at the beach...  cute litttle WOOLEN bathing suit... and they lived in FLORIDA.... of course it was not proper for a LADY to put on a swim suit, so my poor Nana had on a dress and stocking and hat when they were at the beach...

ugh... glad I was born when I was... 

I used some more perfect pearls and distress inks to create the tag... and also some spellbinder paper laces...  and of course seam binding tape on all the tags...

 So that is my page... and all the tags nicely fit into the pocket... and the page is really nice in the book...

Hope that you are having fun creating... I love doing that... going to make some paper beads this afternoon for a friend... she sent me a pretty letter and and the sides of the letter had flowers... so will make some beads and attach them to a piece of ribbon for her... she will love using them in her art... so much fun to swap things around... 

We are also going to do some rain dances this afternoon... praying for a lot of rain... so we don't loose our butternut squash crop...

Thanks for coming by for a visit... and hope that you come back tomorrow...  

Love, Light and Peace... Bonnie 

A Turquoise Day

 When I was making flowers I wanted to paint with this really yummy Turquoise H20 so that is what color these flowers came out... LOL.. love them... they are sort of like a Peony, but are Turquoise...

I had a lot of fun with these flowers.. .and with making these cards...  Bows, medallions using Just Rite Stamps...  Spellbinders galore...
Of course all the flowers are also made by using Spellbinders flowers too...

The leaves on this card are also Spellbinders...

 I ruffled the edges up a little bit, as this K and Company paper was so formal... and I wanted a more casual look...

 Love well, Laugh often, Love MUCH.... how perfect a saying is that!!!!

So I have to use this GREAT Martha Stewart around the card punch to create this lace... and then added a medallion.. (as explained in a couple of posts ago..)

Then added my flowers... the white ones were also made using off white paper and just a little more closed up... the leaves are Pretties by Bonnie ...had to sneak in a few of my own digitals on some of these cards...

 A closeup of the flowers... I used a pearl in the center and allowed the petals to flow easily from it...  the flowers are really stiff enough to ship in an envelope using a blister package front... (saved from my pop tape... I try and let nothing go unused at least one more time... hopefully who ever gets the card will also use it on one of her cards and re use it again...

Helps with the environment a little bit... and every little bit helps us all...

Another card with some pretty TURQUOISE flowers... love to make these pretties... and I used a Spellbinder die!!!!  So easy and fun.. I did paint each layer and it made them stiff... and also hold their shape better... 

I wanted the white background on this card to make the flowers make a real statement... which I think it did... 

Hope you have a wonderful day... thanks for stopping by for a visit... and please come on back again for some more cards... I am really on a flower kick...  Love making these flowers...

Love, Light and Peace....Bonnie 

Best Friends

Best  Friends 

I wanted to create a soft pretty card, as some of the spring time flowers are soft and yummy…. I painted the background paper with my twinkling H20s’ using a lavender, pink and cream ….

The punches are the edge of the card are Martha’s bird and branch punches…aren’t they precious…  Love them…  I used the circle beaded Spellbinder for the Just Rite wreath effect… and then the Just Rite frame to show off BEST FRIENDS…. Added a few Pretties by Bonnie  that are naturally colored and molded, with a huge pearl in the center of each one…  

Now the BUTTERFLY… I made some paper with my Twinkling H20’s and then used an Asian stamp of cherry blossoms by Bee Hive stamps… and embossed with white.  I created the butterfly using the Spell binder butterfly die cut … layering them all to create one beautiful flying butterfly… 

Spring is trying so hard to arrive in some places.. and I do hope that you are starting to see some signs of spring where you live… if not, plant some paper white, or something inside and enjoy the scent from them…  Have a great day… and thanks for stopping by for a visit…

Love, Light and Peace....Bonnie

A touch of Burgundy

The other day I had a friend over and was showing her how nice the Just Rite Cling stamps stamped.. along with the Ranger Archival Ink pads.... and she stamped a few examples of this little charming frame... I should have given them to her, but forgot... Now do you think I could toss them.??? Wrong again... I had to cut them all out and use them... LOL... just the way I am..

So here is the first one... in Black... I had to use this with a black and white theme... with a
TOUCH OF BURGUNDY....  thus the name...

Okay... details...
The frame and the trim work is Martha punches.. .but the white around the frame is a couple of the newest Spellbinders... please dont' expect me to remember the names of all the pretty new dies... one is prettier than the next... and of course I loved them all.. .LOL...

THEN I wanted a new different look for a
Pretty by Bonnie flower... so I printed out a 2 inch flower, a 1.5 inch flower and a one inch flower... then I stamped them with some really pretty flourish stamps on the same set... (by Just Rite..)  and then cut the flowers out... and formed them and layered them... the black pearl in the center was a must... the white was not right.... on the edges I used a marker to color them very lightly... in burgundy!!!! Just a Touch... 

A little black bow... and  DONE... love it... very Forever FRIENDS... type of card...

I hope that this stimulates you to create some new cards for friends... This card is just 5" square... and I used bits and pieces of things...

Hope you have a GREAT day... and thanks for stopping by for a visit... see you tomorrow with more new cards...
Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie

Wishing you Happiness ALWAYS...

Wishing You Happiness  is for the Just Rite Challenge… this week Sharon has asked that we use a couple of different techniques to create a card… I love stamping with two different inks… and I find is so pretty on these frames… can you tell.???? 

I just wanted to share with you, that these are only a few that I have made… I am also working on a box to send up to my Mom… (at the young age of 91 and still loving to make cards… )  So I make a few of everything I do to send up to her…   For example… I made her 15 frames like these … all different assorted ones… and all different colors… so that she would be able to make some pretty cards too… I also made her 20 or so bunnies… all cut out… as she has macular and can only see out of one eye at the time… so she is very limited with scissors etc… but she is still making cards for all the ‘girls’ in the assisted living quarters… LOL… what a hoot they are… like little kids…

Oh well.. .just wanted to share that with ya’ll…  

This card…which I am calling Bunnies wishing you Happiness…   I really had a fun time with creating it… I had this piece of Anna Griffin ribbon sitting on my work table for well over a month now… and didn’t have the right card to use it on… and finally did… this little bunny scene needed it to carry the flowers from the top of the card to the bottom… where the bow was placed and a bunny sitting on top of the bow!!!  That little bunny is one of those stamps from a collection I have of little bunnies… I must have about 6 of them now… I just think that they are so precious… and of course I only use them for a very short time of each year… but they are cute…  The other one on the card is a stampin up stamp I think??? I bought it from a friend as a single stamp… so there she is… in all her glory… 

(p.s. all the bunnies have fuzzy tails... I used a white flockign on them... so cute...)  

Okay the flowers… they are from Pretties by Bonnie collection of flowers… I made these flowers 1.25 inches and put some dots in the center… with a black pearl so that the flowers would POP!!!! 

The Center of the card!!!  I started with an embossed piece of paper where I used a Cuttlebug folder… and then put a lacey square on top of that… and then a frame from the Kindness set from Just Rite set…  The challenge was to use direct to rubber… and on this one, I used two different ink pads..  or we could use two different markers… but this is ink pads… a very pretty blue and then olive on the edges… you might have to look closely, but they are both there… I cut the frame out by hand and then put the Wishing you Happiness behind it… (which is from the Quiet Moments set)    A few pearls in some locations around the card… and it is complete…

A cute spring card… Spring is on the way… we saw Daffodils two days ago… (2/21/11)  and also a lot of purple flowers in the lawns… so spring is coming… and fast too…  

Hope you can get outside and enjoy the spring weather… it is really quite lovely here… and I am ready to clean up the deck and get that ready for the nicer weather… YEAH!!!!  Warmer weather… and no more white stuff flying around…  Thank goodness for that miracle…   

Have a fun day, no matter what you do or create… and thanks for taking time out of your day to stop by here for a visit… I love it when you stop by and also love the comments that you leave me… thanks so very much…

Love, Light and Peace....Bonnie 

Reindeer in flight!!!!

I am in the middle of trying to get everything ready for the Big Day... Christmas.... which is only 25 days away... yikes where has the time gone??? Does anyone see it flying by quicker than ever???  Well it sure did fly past here... Even though we are thinking about the spring plantings, and what to buy and what do we want, we are now also thinking about Christmas...

I am trying to make gift tags and special cards... so here is one that is a real combination... and it fills the challenge on The Shabby Tea Room Challenge... so it is perfect...

The Challenge was to make a card to GET IN SHAPE for the holidays... how great is that one... We could not use a square or rectangle... but could use an oval or circle... I choose to use the oblong oval from Spellbinders... I layered it with glittered strips of punched out paper lace with a new Martha punch... and then put an oval scalloped frame around it... then I made two Parchment Holly leaves and put a bow on...

Then I created the Reindeer with the Tim Holtz Die cut

And THEN.... I used a little Just Rite stamp to finish off the look I desired...

Wishing you a holiday filled with Peace and Joy... just my feelings 100%...

Here is a close up of the Reindeer and the greeting... The deer is so very delicate and I hope you can see all the glitter ... it is soft, but it layer upon layer of glittered paper lace...
On the back I put a Swiss dotted oval just to finish it off... and then also a space to write a message...
This is an card first... as it will be mailed... but it is going to go onto a present as well.. and then it can be used as an ornament... I love it when a plan comes together ...
Thanks Debbie for such a great challenge this week...

How you all have a wonderful week of creating and getting ready for Christmas... and also thanks for taking the time to stop by for a visit... Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie