Three different Mosaic Touches

 Like I said... I really had a time with this theme... so here are some of the other tags I made for this challenge... LOL.. I still have more... but later...  


This one on the right... DREAM, was really a fun tag to create...  
I used The die cut DREAM and then put 1/2 of the tag thru the embossing folder... and then stamped the area around DREAM with Letters to Santa Words... (told you I would use that stamp year round)  and then took some letters from Lost and Found pad of paper by Tim and cut them out to create the word SPRING... then added mosaic pieces around that... I used Glossy accent on the pieces of purple paper...  I used 7 different Distress colors on this tag... and used pads, stains, mini misters, and all kinds of things... just had a BLAST!!!  

My Butterfly is a three layered butterfly 
that I cut using a Spellbinder die and then ran thru a cuttlebug embossing folder... glued them together to create this flying butterfly...  


Total Bliss 

 Another type of tag... this one I used one of my entries from my art journal and added some goodies around it... 
I finally bought the Textile stamp of Tims'... i have admired it for a long long time... and finally decided that I had to have it... so I played with that for a long time today...  


I used all kinds of techniques and finally had a huge stack of these pretty papers.... and I used a few on this tag...  I love this stamp.... Anyway... I added the entry from my journal... a few stamped sheets of paper... and then some leaves on top of the paper lace up the side... and that other butterfly!!!  I love these pretty butterflies with the New Liquid Pearls on them...  
So will my friend that I sent this too...  Hi Sandy in Michigan...  

Okay... I did make some Mosaic butterflies... but really didn't like them enough to use them.... but I did play around with them... I think I will put them into my journal of techniques... which is getting to be HUGE... I might have to build a box to house them all... LOL... anyway... it was fun to play around with some new things... I made the flower using some Red Mulberry paper... and the other one using a soft organic paper...  all in all I had fun...  

Hope you enjoy these tags...  
And please take a look over at Tim's blog and check out all the neat tags that have been entered there... so many pretty ones... all very creatively done...  

Thanks for stopping by today... hope you have a fun day...  
Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie  

A new Book for you to see...

I know that some of you are aware that I have other blogs... a few to say the least... anyway... this book is on the Art Between the Pages blog... so click on that link here or on the side bar... I think you can get there easy enough NOW...  





Hope you enjoy this... 
Have a great day... and see you soon... Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie 

Butterflies of Spring

Well Tim released his March tag… and I was a little bewildered as to what to do… I am not into browns at all… so this was a huge problem for me…  so I started off and made a couple of tags and really didn’t like the way that they carried the theme that Tim had created.

So back to the drawing board…

Then I decided to take my mind off that tag and worked on a few samples for classes that I will be teaching… and then all of a sudden it came to me…

My    NEW    LIQUID    PEARLS….

YES!!! That is it….

WOW!!! 

That was it… 

So I gathered them all up and started to play with them….

I cut out ( using a few Spellbinder dies) some butterflies…  and then I started to play with all the new Liquid pearls… Have you seen all the NEW colors???

They are yummy… and I got them ALL…..I am a little addicted to all these pretty things… so I had to HAVE them all… 

Anyway… I put different colors on each butterfly… and then came the hardest part…. Allowing them to DRY!!!!  I put them under the lamp and left my studio for a while.. that way I wouldn’t touch them…. My fingers get a little anxious…  I went and made some chocolate chip/walnut multi grain  cookies for my sweet hubby… he loved them. 

So after they were all dry, I started to STACK them up… and created three really pretty butterflies…  one didn’t quite make it onto this tag… but it did go on another tag to a friend… I will share that with you later… 

 

So here is my tag… 

 

I used kraft paper… and then ran it thru my Big Shot with Tim’s  Wood embossing folder… I don’t have that stamp…  and I filled up the entire tag with embossing… I have a little trick so that I can fill up a longer than needed space… so that is good…  After that, I used a couple of Distress ink pads to add more color to the wood … and then more glimmer by using Cappuccino Perfect Pearls mist….  Oh I love it… 

Can you see the glimmer on it??? It is really so happy.... 

 

Now you have to remember… I am NOT a person that likes using BROWNS…. So this is entirely out of the box for me in all ways…

 

( I had a few little tape measures on my work space… and glued them on the tag… just to get them off my work space.,.. LOL… )

 

Then made this pretty rose… again using Kraft paper… and when it was finished, I spritzed it with Cappuccino Perfect pearls mist… and did the same with the leaves… the leaf is my stamp, that I create from a sheet of eraser… cutting it out and using it over and over… 

I glued all the leaves down and then started to work on my butterflies…  where to put them….

 

I wanted to add some words… but didn’t want to add a lot of words… so I picked a nice idea-ology…  and wanted some more color…  so I embossed it with some Adirondack embossing powder… (lettuce and Bottle!!! Don’t’ you just love it??? ) 

Okay… so I added some seam binding… which I colored with some mini misters that had copper tones and of course browns… 

I think I really love the BROWNS….

And I LOVE my new Liquid Pearls…

Don’t’ forget to pick these up next time you are out shopping… in fact, make a special trip to get them… they are well worth it…

 I have to say that I am really excited about this tag... The glimmering of it is so very pretty... an all the colors really stand out... 


I did go out of the box and love the effects that I created...  


Hope that you will try something NEW... 

 It is always fun... 
This picture is not the best... a little dark... but wanted to share as much of this tag as possible... 

 

 This will show you the depth of the butterflies on the tag... they are really pretty... 

I love them...  

Well, we had severe tornadoes all around us last night... but we were lucky and they passed over us... so today is a new day and hopefully no more tornadoes warnings today...  Have a good one... create to your hearts content and enjoy it all... 

Thanks for stopping by for a visit... and please check out all the other tags on Tim's site....  they are so pretty... wish I had a faster speed so I could to to each site...  I would love to see each one up close and personal...  

Love, Light and Peace... Bonnie 

A little Match Book

I had all these cute little pictures left over... and really didn't know what to do with them... I couldn't throw them away... not me!!! So I cut them up and made a little match book 'album' with them... I used an old Sizzix die cut from at least 8 years ago... maybe not quite that long ago.. but a long time ago...  

What do you think... cute enough huh???  

 There is a sad story to this little one... her Mama died minutes after she was born... sad, but life still goes on!!!  And this little one is the largest Lamb that has been born on this farm!!! So she is really special in so many ways... of course she has to be bottle fed every 4 hours... as another Mom will not feed her...  

Just had to share that with you...  

White on white class posted

I will be doing this Class on March 31, at Scrapbook Creations in Spartanburg, SC.... from 1-4...  

If you would like to see more of the card and know about what you need to bring to class... please check out the info here 

Hope you can make it... 
We always have fun... 

Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie  

With Love Heather Amy

 With Love Heather Amy... Our daughter made this for us for Christmas...  and needless to say it is VERY SPECIAL... not only because she made it, but because it is pictures of their FAMILY.... 
Our little grandson and SIL and of course HER....  how SPECIAL!!!  
She has so very many things on this super frame... I just had to share it with ya'll...  hope you enjoy it... 

 This is not a Tim Watch.. but a  REAL antique watch... love it... 
Very pretty too... 

 This Dragonfly is 3D... and the wings are all shimmery too...  
The buttons in the center of the flower are just the right color for each flower!!!  SPECIAL... 

I hope that you enjoyed this special frame... and also seeing her work...  She is a REALLY Good artist... but is still hanging out in an office... LOL... doing really special things for Children...  so that is okay!!! 

Thanks Heather Amy for this special gift... We love it... 
as well as all of YOU too... 
Hope you have a special day... and see you tomorrow... Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie  

A large FLOWER

 Another Square for the Quilt... yikes.. I love doing these ...just wish that I could spend all my time making this quilt... but I do have other things that are also just as important in my life... LOL...  


This square I used all different things... I used a Liquid Pearl to draw the flower first!!!  And then colored in behind that... some of the colors ran... and that was fun too... I used a lot of liquid pearls, dimensional pearls and also stickles to accent this piece... each piece is going to be entirely different.. so that is one of the FUN parts of this whole project... I can hardly wait to see what it is going to look like when it is all finished... I have not idea yet what it will be like... hopefully a wonderfully fancyfull quilt...  

In this picture you can see the pearls a little better... so much fun...  

Hope you have a fun day creating too... 

Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie  

Lambing ... continued

 Well as the story continues from the other day...... 
Sande and I pulled up and got into the 4x4 Kubota and zipped out into the pasture to miss by seconds the baby dropping from it's mom... but that is okay... as we got to see the rest of the process... I have seen babies being born prior... so that was okay...  BUT I did want to treat this little baby as special, as it was the first the baby LAMB I have seen being born...  
So this is how I created a special page for this little one... (March 3 I will share the entire book... it takes a while for me to get all the pictures up... so sorry... )  


So I used a Sizzix embossing folder and created the front panel... and then used different Distress colors and mists on the paper to get a really lovely look...  The flowers are very layered... and then I trimmed this out with BLACK...  
and of course made it a panel that opens...  and this is what you see...

 I had to share this PRECIOUS picture of the baby... as it is just a few minutes old... the other baby that you see laying down is about 30 minutes old at this point...  


The Mother is now anxious to get them moved and into a safer area... all the NEW MOMS are put together with their babies... 
The top folder...  made from K&Co paper and a Martha Punch...  holds this tag.. 

 I used the pine tree embossing folder and then a few different Distress inks to color the tag... then put the New MOMS with their precious ones under the trees... as there are pine tress all over the farm... 

Here is the picture of about 4 minutes after this baby was dropped... (born)  the other Mom's in waiting are looking at all that is going on... 

(I used another embossing folder on this side of the tag...  and colored it with more Distress inks... do you think I like them??? Wrong... I LOVE THESE inks... LOL... so easy to use and the colors fit my needs too... 
Well... that is a special moment in my week... and I think it will be for quite some time... seeing babies being born of any kind is always a SPECIAL happening... New LIFE is wonderful... as is each and everyone of our lives... all very special in our own unique ways...  

This section of this book is for Stamper Sunday and for Simon Says Stamp and Show...  
Check out these blogs and see all the pretties that have been made for these same themes... 
Thanks for stopping in... and now back to uploading more pics for you to see more of this book... 

Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie 

Lambing season is upon us...

 The other day one of our neighbors invited us over to see the "lambing" at their farm... so over we went... Sande was here and so I insisted that she come too... how many times in your life time do you get to see precious things....??? So over we went... and got into the 4x4 to view the babies... we got there and one of the mom's had just dropped one... how exciting is that... 
I will show you those pictures tomorrow... as this is for the front of a present that I made this couple...  You see to me this was a very beautiful thing... New LIFE always is SPECIAL...  but this couple has taken their off time from working to create a really beautiful foot print on the earth...  They have taken land and planted beautiful grasses for the lambs and sheep to graze on... and oh yes... mules/donkeys and 17 plus dogs!!! That watch over the sheep... as we have a lot of critters that love to eat anything...  coyotes, possessum, raccoon, fox, cougar, etc etc... you get the idea... so these dogs are something else to watch... 


Anyway... I am so sorry that I get so carried away with my thoughts... but because of this, I made a book, at match book and also a tag... today you are seeing the tag... and tomorrow a page from the book...  wish I could get things up faster... but the dial up is another whole story and I dont' need to go there today...  

 This tag is for a few challenges too... one is for Sunday Stamper... Hels asked that we do LIFE... well that is what I did...  New LIFE...  You will see more of this exciting event tomorrow...  
Also... Simon Says Stamp and Show asked that we use IDEA-OLOGY... and hey... I did...  A key that says DREAM... as this farm is a dream of their's and also a dream to be on... really a wonderful place... so glad that they are such good neighbors... So back to the challenges... I will reflect these same themes over the next few days... as it is spring here... and LIFE is happening all around us... Our plum trees are blooming... !!!  And I have a bouquet of daffodils on my work table!!!  How special is that... 


So for this tag... (I do get carried away...)  I cut the word DREAM out... using a Tim Die Cut... and then went to town creating the background... 
 

As you can see the background is really wild and rough... I used a lot of colors... and they were 'lifted' off with the Utee ultra thick embossing ... but that didn't bother me...  I added some more... very very lightly.. I wanted a delicate background... then added some Vintage Photo and a picture of Steve... and then the ribbon (seam Binding ) up top... along with a flower... that I made of course...  

I added the key and used a chain and pin to attach them to the bows...  At the very bottom I used Tissue to create the ruffle and then topped it off with a bow from Seam binding...  

Not really elaborate.. but this is for the top of a present... that I want to really stand out...  FUN stuff... 

Thanks for stopping by today... and I hope that you have had a nice day...  I have... and am not starting to get my classes done for the spring season... still a lot more work... but fun!!!  
See you tomorrow...  hopefully I will see YOU tomorrow... 
Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie  

A little house for another bird friend

 Victoria is always bringing me over GREAT things that she finds at the dollar store or for a dollar... this is one that she found and I didnt' get around to decorating it until this year...  I love it... and it is right next to the other one...  (previously posted)   I used vintage type papers  on it... and then added some vintage type flowers...  and added a Martha Stewart roof... LOL.. 

 

The papers are from three different pads of paper... and I love the way that they all sort of blend and create a home for a little friend...  

  

Flowers adorn the roof and the little twig and bird filigree will be enjoyed by the home owners...  I am sure... 

LOL....  I colored the roof with coffee archival inks...  what else...  Ranger lives here...  

WEll... have a fun spring... my office is all decorated for the season.. and hope that I have some bird friends move into the new houses.. . 

Thanks for stopping by for a visit... Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie 

Bird Book

 As promised I have a few of the pages from the bird book here...  I used a lot of different techniques on each page... but one of the favorites at this time is the alcohol ink release technique... so I have a lot of them to show you... 

 I used a lot of Tim's Die cuts and bird stamps and dies of all kinds... actually I spent quite a bit of time gathering them all up and then I started to play... the pages were filled in no time... actually way shorter than I wanted to be done with this fun little book... the house that it stays in I put up yesterday... so if you missed it... please take a look see... 

 I used flowers of all kinds... and loved making them of course... 


I added tissue tape ruffles, and lace and stamped where I needed and wanted too...  I had a lot of fun to say the least...  

 I used two huge 2 inch rings to bind these pages together... the book is about 5 inches tall and about 4 inches wide...  


I made all the background papers... of course with my distress inks, and worksheet... I did dry emboss some... but generally just used the inks... 

 I did use some regular papers and then collage some too...  but always had to add some plastic sheets with some birds on them... LOL... love making these and using them is just as much fun...  

 I used some of Tim's charms and also dies for some of the pages...  and notice the little tabs... love that die... I love the tabs.. so vintage of my school days...  yikes... I am really dating my self... LOL..  

 Here is a huge sheet of plastic... dont' you love it...  wow... I love that technique... if you haven't tried it... DO... you will be hooked... 

 I also had to add a little bird that I drew for Pretties by Bonnie


and also used some leaves and seam binding too...  the background is a punched piece using a corner punch by Fiskars... 

I saved this for last... my very favorite page... I made the little bird with shrink plastic... and then glued it onto a charm!!! How cute is that... I LOVE it.... birds are really a love of mine in so many ways... I love watching them and they are always so busy around our home... and farm... we have bird houses all over the place... even a bat house and owl homes... three of them in fact... the squirrels took over one of the owl houses... and turned it into a condo!!!   
Oh well we all have to make adjustments when we can... 

Hope you have enjoyed  this book... and also the day... be creative in all ways... even if it is to cook a favorite meal...  add some parsley on the top.... be creative .... love it... 

Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie  

A Little Birdy told me to make this!!

 Spring is here one minute and then winter blows in for a few days... so I thought I had better help the little birds a little bit and build this house... so My friend Sande and I spent a Sunday morning making this one...  I love it... 
I had to add a few things over the past week or so... and it might still get a few additions yet??? You never know...  


Anyway... this one has book inside of it... I will show you that later.... maybe tomorrow I can get it up on line... there are a lot of pictures... and each picture takes me about 10 minutes to up load... 
Dial up is so wonderful... I am trying to be POSITIVE about this situation... 

I put ribbon braiding around the little opening... and I think I need a bird for the perch too... but I will find the right one someday...  

 

 A little bit closer look at the braiding... I love doing this butterfly stitich... so very elegant and pretty... and not that difficult...  If I had the ability to video and get it up on line, I would show you... it is not hard to do...  

 Thanks to another good Friend... Victoria, who brought this bird to me just at the right time... I colored it baby blue for the blue bird of happiness...  and then added tons of flowers under him on the roof...  I used all kinds of flowers... some from baby wipes, old silk flowers, paper flowers, you name it... they are on there...  

 Is this bird perfect of what... ??? I love it... 


So happy on the roof too... maybe someday it will throw the book out and and nest inside the house!!!! 

On the other side of the roof...  

Speaking of the roof... lift it off and you see the book!!!  

The inside of the house is lined too... and the pattern for this house I made too... I used 6x6 papers... and they are from a few different pads and kinds of paper...  one is Prima and then also My Minds EYE...  

So hope that you make your spring arrive a little bit faster and build a house for your birds.. LOL... it is coming here soon.. the daffodils have been up for over two weeks now... and they are so pretty... also very weird that they are up this early!!!  

Thanks for stopping by... Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie