Okay... Grungy Monday has really gotten me going this week... LOL.. here is another project... I made this to wear... and have not wore it yet!!!
I made it from a piece of plastic from a Spellbinder folder... that plastic is so very thick that I don't like putting it into the land fill at all.. it is great though for project using Tim's resist with alcohol inks... LOVE IT... both the inks, the technique and the necklace .... LOL...
anyway... I used a large Fiskar stamp that I had gotten at the $1.00 store... and then a few inks on the felt blender... and then added some copper around the edges, and then a few corners...
And a few beads on the bottom of the piece...
I used a piece of vintage clip art in the center of the 'frame'....
I sanded off the corners to bring the copper out in them...
And using my Distress embossing powders, I colored the idea-ology as you can see... what fun I have ...
Maybe I will be able to wear this with my new blouse!!!
What do you think...
Well... thanks for stopping by... and hope to see you tomorrow...
You never know what you are going to see here... do you???
Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie
Grungy Monday this week Linda asked that we make
something to wear... well... I had just started to make a new blouse... I use to
make all my own clothes and stopped a few years ago... as I didnt' have the time to do everything I wanted to do..
Anyway... not that the clock has changed... but I am trying to manage my time a little bit differently... LOL... like doing more art work!!! Anyway...
I thought about adding some of "ME" to the blouse... and so I started to paint some flowers on it... I started off by mixing some Distress Re-inkers and got this really pretty shade of pink... and then found my Adirondack markers and went to town on the details... The rest you can see here...
ENJOY....
Tim's Line of ink colors is wonderful... but I can make millions of colors by mixing too...
I can hardly wait to get my Distress Markers.. I know that I will go literally wild with them... my sweet hubby is a little worried that everything in the house will be attacked when they arrive.... LOL... and he is so very right... what fun they will be...
The rest of the pictures are of the right side of the blouse and this is the right Sleeve...
I still have to add more, but have to move onto another project that really needs my attention NOW... deadline by March 9th... I will fill you in on details as this all becomes a little more final...
Anyway... it is starting to shape up... isn't it???
I am going to love wearing it...
The fabric has a slight white on white design... little tiny squares and they really add another dimension to the flowers and leaves... love it...
Hope that you have a fun day... thanks for stopping by for a visit... and hope to see you tomorrow... ooops ... running short of time...
Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie
I LOVE Daisies... they are my very favorite flower ever... I do love all... but this has to be the best ever flower.... I have all these petals free flowing... and you can pick each one up... the stem is sewn down... and the stamping of the other daisies is done with a Dabber... How neat is that... ????
Of course the back ground is made with my Distress Inks... and I also added some Perfect Pearls powders... so it is glittery... love it..
I also used some dimensional Pearls on the center of the flower... and then detailed the petals with some of the green inks... I mixed a few to get the color I wanted for this...
In the center of the stamped daisies, I have used some Antique Linen Distress Stickles... and it really gives a little bit more glittery look...
This week on Grungy Monday, Linda has asked that we do something that we can wear... Well Linda, I can't wear this... but my Windows are going to be wearing these... if you check on a few of the last couple of days, you can see some of the other squares for this wild quilt... each one is 22 inches square and they will then be quilted and then turned into a massive quilt for the French doors in my studio... I am using different things around the farm as the themes of the squares... I hope that this is exceptable for this challenge!!! I am really enjoying using all my Ranger products for this quilt... I was never so excited to realize that I could use them in ways other than for paper... I found all kinds of info on the Ranger site for this... and am totally excited... Of course I am using all of the Tim Holtz line of Distress inks, reinkers, stains and stickles... LOVE THEM all... but now to find out that I can use them safely on fabrics!!! WOW... what a deal...
I hope to get my blouse done today... as I made a white large blouse to wear at a class... as I am going to share this with a lot of people... as I am so excited... My blouse will have flowers on it.. that much I know... so hopefully I will get that done this week too... I am taking a lot of time out these past few weeks... as I am having to plan all my classes for the coming season... so that takes a lot of thinking, doing and making of samples... LOL... what a heart breaker... right??? Having to spend so much time playing!!!
I will share... dont' worry..
Have a good one today... and hope you are able to play all day long... play for me.. .I have to go food shopping... and since we have to go up the mountain to do that... we stop at all kinds of places while we are out... as we don't go up there that often in a month... only a couple of times... living way out in the middle of no where is great... but when we go out.... we GO OUT for the day!!! Makes less time to play in the course of a day... boo hoo... I know that you are upset for me... but I will be back tomorrow... I have a few things to share...
Thanks for stopping by...
And I hope you like the way that the quilt is coming along...
Love, Light and Peace... Bonnie
I have to start off today by saying that I dont' throw out too many pieces of paper that I have put ink onto... LOL... I am so silly about that ... I know I will use it sometime... well this is one of those 'mistakes' and I loved the colors.. so just because it had a huge 'dribble' in the center I didn't use it for the original piece... but it is wonderful here... I took the paper and put it thru the embossing folder... I think it is called Kassies by Cuttlebug??? Not really sure... then I used three different inks on the edges... and one distress stain... and then I misted with a Perfect Pearls... and then I sat and LOVED it... oh now to cover it all up??? Such a shame... Oh well back to work on this tag...
I sort of knew that the Sunday Stamper theme was sewing... and so I started to cut out some sewing Vintage Clip art... and then I started to ink more papers... and all of a sudden my hubby asked it we were going to have dinner... how about lunch??? Oh talk about blonde moments??? I had spent the entire day making backgrounds.... this is all your FAULT Hels... every single bit of it... LOL... Anyway.. .I had a blast... I would cover the paper in all different ways, then dry it... and then run it thru an embossing folder.. so I have tons of new backgrounds now to play with... what a fun day... what a way also to spend a rainy Sunday... I missed lunch and really didn't mind it... thank goodness Glenn does his own thing when I get absorbed in my art... love it...
Okay... so as you can see, I built a fence BOX... that holds all the goodies that I wanted to store in there...
I also attached an easel so that the tag would stand up and everything would not come tumbling out... how fun is that... I used the Small Easel Die cut from Tim's line of fun die cuts... take a look at them ... and have fun with them too...
Here is all the sewing things that are in the fence Box... scissors, pattern, needles, and hook and eyes... some people I am sure don't even know what they are... but I do... I didn't say that did I???
Anyway... all go into the box...
I used the Dress form Mini die cut for this... and then put the vintage slip onto it... I was surprised that the first time I actually got the right size on the slip... that is really hard to do... I did have to shorten it at the waist... but the rest was the right size...
The dress form was cut out in Sticky back canvas and then distressed and then colored with a few distress inks... how cute... love this whole fun tag... of course when I say it took me all day to do... it is the truth.. but I did a lot of other things in between... but I have to say that there was nothing that I had planned that I did do!!! AT ALL....
I was actually going to paint on a few squares for my quilt... but never got around to it... so thanks Hels... for taking my mind and sending it in another direction.... LOL.. .
Okay... I used a few old baby wipes and created my flowers... and then added a few stamen in the centers...
Here is a closer look at the sewing that has already been finished and is hanging up... how fancy HUH???
I thank you for stopping by.. and thanks again Hels for a fun Sunday of stamping??? or playing with paints and sprays, and inks and messy fingers and hands... loved every minute of it... 100% ...
Hope you have a fun day today... Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie
Another square for my quilt... if you are just seeing these squares for the first time... I am making a quilt to cover two very large glass areas... one is French doors in my studio and the other is in our den that goes out to the deck... they both need something to help keep the night time coolness out... even though we live in the south... we do get chilly nights... and sometimes even see the white stuff... (I try not to use 4 letter words that are bad... so you will have to think....LOL)
Anyway the squares are 22 inches square and I am using all my Ranger inks to create the colors... on this one I used some of the reinkers of Distress Inks on the tie died style background... and then I created the Sunflowers... all the squares are to have something to do also with our farm... so since we grow very tall sunflowers I thought it would be appropriate to have a sunflower Square.... I am using muslin only for the fabric at this point... but might add some felted wool too... ???? Not really there yet..
I Love this piece as it is really a fun one... the colors are bright and I can remember the 15 foot sunflowers swaying in the summer skies... so very beautiful....
I will try and take a picture of them this summer and put it on the farm blog... I also need to up date this blog... but hey.. first things first... LOL...
I wanted to show some depth on these pretties... so I added some Liquid Pearls to the center of the flowers... what fun I had...
You can see them a little bit better in this picture... I also used some dyed seam binding... as I wanted to show some of the other plants that live with these sunflowers... there are all kinds of vines that choose to grow up the plants... they are just as important...
We use the sunflower seeds to feed the chickens... and also used the entire plant left for mulch on plants that were going to over winter... like garlic and shallots... which are starting to show their green tops and grow now...
This week Sunday Stamper has sewing as the theme... and I think that this also passes for that challenge... ??? YES??? I know I will most likely play with some paper today too... but you never know... I might paint again???
See you tomorrow... and I hope that you enjoyed this slight change in media... Check back on other days to see other pieces of this quilt... I think I have only done a couple... enjoy your day... and have fun...
Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie
I was trying to do too many things all at once and so this picture is huge... it took over an hour for me to upload it.. .I am on dial up and never thought I would be able to up load this size picture... anyway... enjoy...
This is the first of my squares, and I love it... I would like them to be as different as possible in as many ways as possible too... so this one was done with 100% inks... and stamps... I drew and made the leaf stamp... and the other ones are from Tim Holtz line... Enjoy the Journey and the Flourishes... I drew the bird... and then colored in the squares of the 22 inch square..
I love the way that the inks ran and I used all the Ranger ones... Archival, Adirondack, Color washes... and then the Distress ones too... the re-inkers, mini misters, straight from the bottle too... and then a few pads... and just had a BLAST... .love it ... so I will be back soon with another one...
What do you think???
Would love to have some input from you...
leave a comment or e-mail me...
thanks...
Hope you have a fun day... and thanks so very much for stopping by... Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie
Tim is into CHANGE... and that is so great, as this is the year of the Dragon on the Chinese Calendar... and it is all about CHANGE.... a wonderful process that really helps us GROW in all directions... so the first change is that Tim is going to have new tag Challenge each month... so take a look here
download the side panel and join in on the fun... I can hardly wait to share with all the gals that join in and also maybe even get to see a few blogs myself... I stay up late at night and view one a night... as it takes a long long time to download on dial up!!! But it is worth it...
So my other tag was released yesterday and as promised I created on that was a little more like Tim's.... I used the Valentine stamp on the background... and used my while dabber and then used Victorian Velvet and Red Mahogany on the background... I used my distressing tool on the edges and then started to really
create and have more fun...
I wanted to have some bangles on the top, so I used some beads and made my own dangles... and used some vintage gold safety pins... I love these little things... I have about 25 more and that is it... I can't tell you how many I use to have... boxes of them... and I gave them all away when we moved... (another story and a half) I cut out a heart and then used Red Mahogany Distress Crackle on it... and then used my Tim Music tape on the edges and created a ruffle...
Cupid is very busy here... shooting his love (clear crystal hearts) at your heart...
Cupid... another story... I didn't buy the die cut of cupid... but I did have the adorable stamp of him... so I stamped it in Red Mahogany and then CUT IT out by hand... I love to cut anyway.. so it wasn't a problem... then I used distress Victorian Velvet stickles... and cover cupid...
Another shot of the crystal hearts going to the large heart...
Now down at the bottom of the tag, I used a Martha Punch and then top dressed the paper lace with a tissue tape ruffle again... just helps to tie the whole tag together... repeat, repeat and repeat... I can remember my design professor saying that over and over... so I repeated it ...
then a little seam binding wrapped around the tag and a bow added.
I hope you had a wonderful Valentines Day... Glenn and I certainly did... we celebrate Valentines Day every day of the year... I hope you can too... so I added another page to my Blog... and it has all my LOVE Tags for Valentines on it... take a look and I hope you feel the love that I am sending to YOU...
Thanks for stopping by for a visit... and stop by Tim's blog and join in on the love and fun we will all have each month...
Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie
Well I started my quilt... actually a few weeks ago... but I wanted to share all my Valentine tags with you, prior to starting my quilt blogs...
Okay.. the first step was to drag out My Mom's olde Singer... I have a Kenmore that I have had for years... but it is beat up... not worth too much... things just are made the way they use to be made... this olde Singer... a real work horse... can't say that even about the new ones... I bought a real high end Singer prior to my Kenmore... piece of junk... threw it away... literally. I would not want anyone to have to deal with that horrible, frustrating mess when sewing... the tension was never right on it... so I would not buy another one because of it.
I think that this machine is over 60 years old!!! And it runs GREAT... of course the zig zag is an attachement... !!! How funny is that... but hey... it runs well and the tension is GREAT... what more can I ask for...
The purpose of these quilts is to cover the large sets of windows we have in our den and also in my studio, during the colder time of the day... to help save on our heating... even though we heat 100% with wood... we need to conserve that too... So each one of these 'squares' will be different, unique and fun... I have tons of ideas... and just need to create them... So I started to look at my inks, dyes, etc... and then called Ranger and did a little searching... and low and behold... most of the dyes, inks and things can be used on fabric!!!! I am in heaven... So I took some of the Color washes and sprayed it on my newly washed muslin... which is 100% cotton... and the bolt was 44 inches wide... so each square is about 22 x 22 inches... give or take.. I am not into perfection when doing that.... these are the rough squares...
So here is the beginning of a tree and a tree trunk with the blue sky... I used Color washes by Ranger and also some Twinkling H20 sprays... from years ago... I will be ironing all of these to help keep the color into the fabric... but at this point am not that worried about color... as I will not be washing these that often... and most likely will wash very lightly if at all.. . I have had window covers that I made from quilts when we lived in NJ... but these are going to be a little more 'decorative' and embellished...
Of course do you think I could find my leaf stamp??? NO... and I am really up set, as I have picked up my entire studio prior to starting all this ... as I had to switch things around... anyway... I made a new leaf stamp... it had to be a little smaller anyway.. so that is okay...
Then using my Archival inks, I stamped the leaf all over the tree area... as you can see...
I got a little carried away at times and wanted to try other things... so I gave way to that... as when I get those moods... I need to do it... I wanted to try stamping on just white fabric... so I used an Impression Obsession stamp and stamped with an Archival ink pad... and then used some Twinkling H20s around the edge of it...
You have to try things if you are going to learn... right???? So here it is...
Back on the tree... I let the leaves dry... and then added some words... I love words... and wanted to have a few areas of words on each square... maybe ??? To me nothing is written in stone with this project at all... so much fun... total freedom in all ways...
I also took a piece of plastic packaging and cut a bird cage using Tim's die cut... and then used it as a 'stencil' and took a mini mister filled with ink and perfect pearls and spritzed it... what fun... came out pretty good... I will see how it dries now... that is the biggest thing...
Being that this is day one... I wanted
to try all kinds of things... so then I took some other things and started mixing and painting all over this sample cloth...
I am waiting for my 22 x 22 squares to dry... I have them spread all over the studio... didn't want to put them into the dryer ... LOL... so I used some other things all around the cage...
Then I cut a little bird out... and painted it with a couple of things... Distress stains, and also some H20s... fun.. just trying out all kinds of things...
I even embossed with clear powder... and then used black distress stain to go all around the leaves... not too sure about this... seems like the stain got under the embossing ... ??? Will wait and see tomorrow...
I added some more writing... and some gold H 20's.... and just added some lines using my markers from Ranger too...
I wanted the Tree trunk to look a little like a real trunk... with some dimension... some lines, and different colors... so I used all kinds of things to start this process... I don't think this area is finished yet... we will see... maybe some Liquid pearls... or some Distressing stickles... you never know what will be added... maybe even some real saw dust... and glitter... ???
A really active quilt ... and fun too... 1st two days finished!!! WOW that went fast.. didn't it... I will post more as I get things done...
Hope that you enjoy my processes... please leave me a comment and tell me your feelings... thanks a million...
I really love for you to visit... and enjoy it even more knowing that you are enjoying this... thanks...
Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie
I truly hope that you had a very very loving day yesterday...As it was Valentines Day... if you don't have a person in your life that is your partner, than you have to spend extra time on loving self... being nice to yourself and believe in the truth of that... it is very very important to love self... not in a conceited way... but a good way... as if you don't love yourself.. .you certainly can't love anyone else... being good to yourself is a good place to be...
So this tag was to be good to ME... I put 24 hearts on it... which means 2 for every month... a lot of love... !!!! I had fun making this... for many reasons... I love this stamp by Tim Holtz and also love the color combination that I used to make it... I used Dusty Concord and milled Lavender on the background... and then I embossed with gold as I wanted this to really stand out... I am doing the ALL NEW tags with Tim too... the 12 tags of 2012... love it... and so this is the tag for February... but I did do it a little bit differently... but I will do the other way to... as I love that technique 100%... I think it is one of my favorite backgrounds... love it TIM....
I also did this tag for Grungy Monday and Sunday Stamper and also for Simon Says Stamp and Show... as they are all with the theme of LOVE... and creating with Tim's Toys... so as you can see here I made some flowers and cut out some leaves... and just had fun with a few Spellbinders too...
I love using Seam binding tape... so that is a given... I used Victorian Velvet on it... and it is much fun... I wanted my crystal hearts to really pop... so I put them on some wire and glued them with Glossy Accents (if you don't have any of that glue... you are truly missing out on a good glue... not kidding either...)
I really love the stamp with this huge LOVE on it... and it had to be in gold... sorry Tim... but I will do another one with the dabber... I promise...
I love another technique that I use all the time... it is the alcohol one.. love that... and on this tag I used the dabber with a new Fiskar stamp... added some vintage flowers... and a little paper lace and my Charm... which is so much fun to create...
I also will have another tag coming along a little later today... so come on back a little later... and thanks so much for stopping in now... I hope you will give yourself a little self love and enjoy the WHOLE day...
Love, Light and Peace.. Bonnie
