Flowers in a CAN ? ? ?

Yes ... Flowers in a CAN!! 
I have a lot of sardine cans around here... so I had to put them to some kind of use... I was making a box of goodies to send up to my Mom ... and decided to send her a few art projects to create... so I came up with this one... she will give them to some of the nurses etc... and it will keep her occupied in the mean time... good therapy all the way around... right??? for me and her... LOL.. 

Anyway... I am sure you can see what I have done..   

 A little background paper in the can... and then I made a flower (Tim's Tattered Floral die cut) and put that into the can... a little dyed seam binding around the can... and a bow... and Voila' a Christmas tree ornament...  
I did put a little tag (Tim's again) and a few leaves that I cut out...  


Now I did include all the goodies, with the exception of the flowers... which My Mom will have a lot of fun making her own to put in the cans... 

Here's one with Passionate Purple... 

Love this... 

A purple flower... a little netting that you get so many things in these days... veggies, brushes, all kinds of things so I am not really sure where this white netting came from but I guarantee you it was 100% FREE....    

 My background in this one... I lightened up the picture so you could sort of see it... I had bought some metallic colored pencils... and I used them on black paper...  what fun I had... so that is the background for the purple passionate flower here...  
 

Who would have thought a sardine can could look this elegant ... 

I did sort of turn it on its side so that it had some other dimension... makes one stop and think maybe..???  

Anyway... I hope that you can make a few... what fun to put on the front of a package even... unlimited ideas...  

Have fun making a few... 
Thanks for stopping by... and hope to see you again tomorrow... 

Happy Halloween if I dont' see you.... Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie  

A little Halloween FUN! ! !

I have been saving Sardine cans, and other things for so long that I decided that the time had come to use some of these things... I also wanted to try my hand at making an ATC box!!!  So I put the two of these together and came up with this fun Halloween thingy... 
 Here is a picture of the entire project... I will show you some of the

 closeups of the sections so you can see all the goodies that are in this one 'thing'  


I have to tell you that the skeleton is one that glows in the dark...  so it should be pretty spooky at night too.. 


Yikes.. what fun I had making this... I really didn't know what it was going to look like when it was done.. I was just making it and having a blast using all these fun things... 


The top is the sardine can... and the bottom the ATC block.. which I covered with paper and then added the paper black lace... he just seemed like he needed that... 

I used all kinds of things from days ago...  including some gauze pads that were in my stuff... funny how we save some silly things... but these had been unwrapped and not good for first aid... but I couldn't throw them out either... so into the studio they went... 

The mummie and the vampire are 3 D stickers... they really do look like they are jumping out at you.. don't they???

 

 I used some Halloween papers also from a long time ago.. and I love the way they look... they are so old, that they almost look vintage... LOL..  up on the top of this liar is a spider with a purple stone in the middle of it... how fancy...  ( a dollar store ring!) 

 I have all kinds of creepy crawlies around the project... but I have to tell you that they were all white...  and I had to color them... what fun.. create my own bugs...  

So there you have it... I had fun and it is my first altered can... 
and ATC box... what fun I had ... 
Hope that you have fun when you play... I am sure you do... or you wouldn't be playing all the time... right..??? Make sure you create something fun and spooky for someone for Halloween night...  yikes... what fun.  

Thanks for stopping by for a visit... love it also when you leave a comment...  it means a lot to me... and I totally appreciate it... 
Love, Light and Peace... Bonnie  

Haunted House

Just another FUN tag... with a haunted house and of course a Haunted TREE... have you ever seen a haunted tree... ???? Me neither... anyway.. that is what it is... with the bats flying around in the light of the moon... and the pumpkin all a glow... 

Love it...  what fun... 


Happy Halloween...  a few more nights until all the spookiness is all around us... 

Have a fun time... enjoy the little ones... 
Thanks for stopping by for a peek... Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie 

The BELOVED Tea Party

 The Mad Hatter is really a lot of fun to play with... he is as crazy as can be... so the playing field is so open to us... 


The theme this month at the ALTERED ALICE is the Mad Hatter's Tea Party... 

I also had just received this great set of tea pot stamps from my winnings on Simon Says Stamp and show... so I wanted to use these... I love them... they match his wild bow tie... how perfect is that...  

 SO..... I also wanted a hanging heart in a special place in my kitchen... between the cabinets and the stove...  so this is going to be hung up there...  I love this... it is going to be right by our own TEAS.... how perfect is that...  


Okay... so now I will tell you about some of the other fun things... with the tea pot stamps... there were cup cakes...  and a few flowers... but the tea pots and cup and saucer and the cupcakes were just what I wanted for this...  so I made a cup cake serving 'tree'   Since the Mad Hatter lives in the woods... wild as he is... the woods of Wonderland...  I used a twig punch for the tiers of the cupcake platter... Love it... 


I decorated each cupcake with paints and then embellished with Distress Stickles ...(glittery glues... )  and then topped them off with Liquid pearls... for the cherries etc... what fun I had doing that...  

The tea pots and the cup and saucers were all done with markers...  and also a few colored pencils... and anything that had the color I wanted... 

 I made the table with a sheet of 
Glassine  from Ranger and then added the brown paper ruffle that I made with an old paper bag...  The letters Tea Party are from Tim Holtz's line of ideology goodies...  

Way down at the bottom I put a flower on there... as all tea party tables have to have a pretty flower arrangement on it.. no matter how Mad the person is that is having the Tea Party... LOL... the flower I made from a baby wipe... and I love the way that these look... 

The back ground paper on the top I made with my favorite paints... Twinkling H20's... and the bottom is made with Distress Stains and a word stamp...  

I have it hanging up now... and I must say I love it...  some seam binding is holding it up... and it looks great...  I did use clear Glossy accent on the tea pots... so that they would look like real china...  so much fun... and just a jump away from the end of the month... so make something and join in on the Altered Alice Challenge...  it is a lot of fun..... 

Thanks for taking a look at my fun times I have... and for stopping by for a visit... I love it all.. 

Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie 

Winnings from Simon Says Stamp and Show

WOW... I won Simon Says Stamp and Show challenge a few weeks ago... and yesterday I got my package of GOODIES that I picked out...  

What fun I had... $50.00 in FREE SHOPPING!!!  Can you stand it... I had so much fun... 

I got this great Altered book of art projects... a lot of good ideas... and then on top of that you can see the little white flowers... When I was a kid... (as few years ago... I use to buy these kinds of flowers for 5 cents a bunch...  wow have things ever changed... but the flowers haven't ... and that is why I bought them... )  also the clear stamps... I love these... made a wall hanging for Altered Alice today... as it is Mad Hatter month... what could be more perfect...  

Then a pad of paper from 7 Gypsies... love it.. will use it for  a few of the projects in the book... 

Some wooden buttons and spools... and then from Prima some spool tops... Okay... I have just about used all of these now... but will start showing them to you gradually.... okay... I love all these and what fun I had spending $50.00 FREE... 
I do hope that you will join in on the fun at Simon Says Stamp and Show... and make something for the challenge... you too can win...  it is easy, fun and everyone loves seeing what you make... 

Thanks again Simon Says... I love all that I received... and what a wonderful store you have... wow... loaded with tons of goodies... very difficult to pick out what you need...  LOVE IT... 

Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie 

Mom's MIRACLE Flowers

Sometimes we have to look around us and see what others are doing... well the other day I received a box in the mail from My Mother...  she had told me she had mailed it to me... so I was on the look out for it... 

Now you have to realize that my MOM is only 92 years young... and she has macular degeneration... and can really only see out of one eye on the side... so to realize that and to see the flowers that she has made is truly a miracle...  

The one over on the far left is made from a pill (Medicine) cup... and then next one is done a little bit differently... and the large red and Yellow ones are made from Coffee filters that she has painted, cut into petals and then layered... MIRACLE   FLOWERS... . and so very pretty... 

My Mother is not able to get onto the computer at all... but I am hoping that one of the gals that goes over to lovingly visit with my Mom will take her phone and show her this blog...  

They are all over my computer desk top... and Thanks Mom for sending them... I love them... They are so very fall looking and since I happen to be addicted to pretty flowers they have found a new home... 

Hope that you can enjoy these flowers too... I wanted to share them with you... have a nice day and thanks for stopping by for a visit... 
Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie  
 

Apricot world

A tag that I really love everything about it...  The colors are from the Fall set of ink pads from Time Holtz's line... and the saying is perfect for this time on the earth... the leaves are for the fall time of year... and the flowers... well I just plain LOVE flowers any time of the year... (ps they are made from baby wipes)  

I just wanted to share this one with you... as it is a favorite.   

Have a fun day... and thanks for stopping by for a visit...
Love, Light and Peace... Bonnie 

Birds Delight

 I am getting ready for the holidays... and trying to get some tags made up for the gift bags I will be putting my gifts into... so here is one that is not only for that... but also for Grungy Monday...  where Linda has asked that we use a Tim Holtz Perfect Distress Technique...  


Well that sounds great to the average person... but since I am on dial up, it is deadly...  so yesterday I tried to down load the video... I have never been on You Tube... and have never seen a video on my computer... LOL... sounds pre-historic, but that is what dial up is... pre-historic...  PLUS... but it is all I can get for now.. so I am Happy with it??? 

 So I am not sure I got 100% of the technique down... as I could only download 7 minutes of the almost 10 minute video... and that took me 6 hours!!!!  Yikes... I did do other things... as I had to... but I would like to have seen the entire video for that amount of time... 


Oh well... here is my tag, called Birds Delight... 
I used Victorian Velvet on the tag...

My favorite of all time Distress Stain colors... love the richness of it... and I do love the Seedless Preserves Distress ink color too... But I use the Victorian Velvet as directed... and then used the Seedless Preserves to stamp the floral spray...  a TH stamp... that is for sure...  

BUT... I also used a resist pad and  

Inked up the bird from that set of stamps... and used only my perfect pearls on that....  on the tag I used a silver perfect pearl and on the bird I used Sunflower gold, Berry Twist and also smoke blue... love the bird... but would like him to be  little bit darker...  

My flowers were made from some baby wipes that I used to clean up my mess... and then I used some shabby Shutters green Distress Stain and made my wordy leaves...  LOL.. love wordy leaves... nothing like them...  This will go onto a white bag for a special Christmas present... I most likely will use some pale pink tissue to stick out of the top of the bag... so very pretty and feminine... Pinks and Greens...  love it.. 

WEll... I have posted a lot of tags today... hope you have the time to scroll down and see them... lots of love went into all of them... thanks for your comments...  and have a super wonderful day... 
Love, Light and Peace....Bonnie

Purple Snow Flake

This time I decided to make it a little bit different for the tag... which is for the Simon Says Stamp and Show challenge... to use only ONE color... 

So I painted my tag with Milled Lavender Distress stain... and then added a little bit of the mini mister Milled Lavender too... which has a little bit of silver perfect pearls in it... LOL.. .that is why the camera coulnd't help but pick  up the glimmer of the tag... 

The seam binding ribbon was dyed using my seedless preserves ink pad... that color is so very rich... I love using it... but the ink is starting to get a little dry... I do so wish that Ranger would think about making a re-inker for this pad... I love the colors of the fall set... very very rich in all ways...  

So I then made two tea bag folded medallions... and pop dotted them so that they are very raised... I wanted it to look like a 3D snowflake... which it does when you are holding the tag in your hand...  I used one of Tim's stamps to create the Christmas ticket... and colored that with the milled lavender and grape concord distress stains... (p.s.  if you don't have any Distress stains... buy one... and try it... I think you will LOVE them... )  

That is my last tag... and I know that you are most likely glad that I finished...  maybe a couple more... as I really have to get them finished... I need about 30 for the holidays...  maybe a few more... later on in the week...  

Have fun this week... and enjoy yourself...
Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie 

The Dance of Life

Okay.. I am now doing a blue tag...  for the challenge at Simon Says Stamp and Show  
which is to use only ONE color... oh so much fun... thanks for the challenge... I guess you could say that I LOVE it... 

I could do this all day long... but I do have some other things to get done today... LOL... but I really could use this on all my Christmas tags for the presents ....  

This one is in blues... I started off with a very very pale blue... as you can see by the flowers... as they are from the baby wipes that I used to clean the brush up...  then I used a little bit deeper blue on the leaf stamp... and printed around the edges too...  I have a feeling it was Faded Denim... but not really sure... my hands were working faster than my brain at this point... LOL... just having fun at times does that to me... does it do it to you???  
The little leaves... well they were made from a felt pad that I had used alcohol inks on.... and it was more than enough for the three leaves... and I still have a small piece left... never throw out the good stuff...  LOL... and keeping it organized will do a lot for it to get used when you need it... I have large ziplock bags and each bag holds a different color paper, or hanywipe or even these little pieces of felt...  each will sort of blend with the other, as I generally only use Ranger and Tim Holtz inks... so that is good.. 

Anyway... hope you have a fun day... see you back here with another tag in a few minutes... I did get carried away... 
Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie

Wind through the Trees

Another tag for the Challenge that Simon Says Stamp and Show .... 
which is to use only ONE color... love it... 

Well the base of this tag was made a long time ago  ( about two or three weeks.. .LOL) and I used the technique of using a stamp that used White Dabber vs ink... so I had made a stamp of the flourished die cut... so I use that on the top and bottom of the tag... and then used Bundled sage and the blending tool to put the soft soft green on the tag... 

I love to make papers in the middle of the night if I am awake... so these trees were cut from some of that paper...  I did use some silver perfect pearls on it too... as I love to add a little glitter on everything...  

Then I added the white ruffle and  the Merry Christmas ticket to finish the simple tag up...  

Hope that you have a creative day on your calendar today... enjoy creating if you do...  I would love to know that you had a good time creating...  Thanks for stopping by... sometime you will have to come in for a cup of Hibiscus tea... I love that stuff...  do you...??? 
Love Light and Peace...Bonnie 

Dried Marigold Tag

When creating a rainbow of colored tags, I had to have a Dried Marigold one... 

Another tag for the challenge that Simon Says Stamp and Show is having... using one color only... which I happen to love to create that way...  a little more difficult than with using other colors... but still fun...   check out their blog... and join in on the fun... you too could win a $50.00 shopping spree.... I did a few weeks ago and my goodies should be here today... YIPEEEE... what fun... you never know...

I love the color... so I just kept on going with it... 
The tag itself is done in Ripe Persimmon Distress Ink from the Fall collection of Distress dyes... I love that set... so it was not a hard decision to start with that color... 
Then I used an archival ink on an Impression Obsession stamp... one of those wonderful 6x6 ones...  and then I always love using scraps to create leaves with...  all different colors too...  so these are from that bag of leaves that gets pulled out in the fall time.... with all the oranges, browns etc in it... the leaf on the top is from a resist with alcohol inks, and then one using twinkling H20s' and then a few with my leaf stamp that I made .... and I used dried marigold, and also all the other 'orange' distress stains on them.... so I can't really tell which is what...  LOL... 

The flower.... well I always clean up my work sheet with a baby wipe... and so this flower is from when I cleaned up all the oranges... and then I cut it out with the Tattered Floral Tim Holtz die cut...  

Of course my seam binding ribbon was colored with Dried Marigold and then a little metallic gold... for a sparkling effect too... 

Oh what fun I have making these tags and playing... I love it all...  even the clean up... LOL... 
Have a fun day.. .and thanks for stopping by for a visit... glad you did... I always like to know that you stopped by... and would love a comment once in a while too... I really love them... 

Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie 

Reds

Onto the next color.... 
RED  ... I used aged Mahogany...  as it is so wonderful for the red color I wanted for these tags.. I made a couple... What else is new?? 

 On this tag, I stamped some trees in RED.... on top of a background.... then I added a crow... and the tag (in reds)  and then a tattered floral flower made from a Tussie wipe... the one that cleaned up the table after I finished cleaning it up from the tag... 

  Another very simple tag .... I had made a rubber stamp using my florish die cut... and also my caged bird die...  and so I stamped that on the red background...  and then outlined the bird with a black marker...  
The flowers are the same as above... The tag I stamped from one of Tim's stamp sets.... love them.. 

Both of these tags were made with smearing a distress ink pad on the worksheet and then spritzing with a mini mister...  love that technique.... 
Oh... this is contagious... more tags coming.... 
Love, Light and Peace... Bonnie 

Christmas Tags for Bags

Simon Says Stamp and Show challenge this week is to create a monochromatic project... so I had to start my Christmas tags and decided to combine the two.... 

I bought a lot of white shopping bags and the tags will show up really pretty on them.... and I am also going to stamp on some...  as I have made my own stamps for them... yahoo... fun and games... 

Anyway... I get so carried away telling you things that I go off on tangents .... and never get this written... 

So here is my first color.... WHITE... I happen to love doing all white... and find it very Christmassy looking...  What do you think??? 

White on White 

  When I started to create this, I used a Martha Stewart corner and border twig and bird punch....  and then I added a sheet of paper that I had embossed with one of Tim's embossing folders...  
Added a branch for my little bird to sit on... (actually the tree with the trunk cut off...)   and then added the little bird from the Caged bird die cut... and the flower made from the Tattered Floral die... all of these are Tim Holtz's die cuts...  Simple, all white and one bag finished!!!   

This will be glued onto the front of the bag.... so nice for a present... 

Hope you have a creative day... and enjoy it all... it is suppose to be nice all round us... so have a good day... enjoy the fall... 
Thanks for stopping by for a visit too.. .
Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie  

Fall Tags for all different thoughts...

 Fall Tags 
I love the fall season... and when we have moved to North Carolina I thought that I would not see the change of seasons as drastically as I have... so for that I am very very happy.. Fall here is even more of a contrast than it was up in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New York areas... I love the colors here... very vibrant and pretty.... Since I live in a very rural area of Western NC in the mountains the trees around us change and it looks like they have been painted with brightly colored paints... 
I LOVE it... 

 So this tag is for a Birthday present... that will be sent out this week...  I made the tag with my leaf stamp... that I made from Speedball rubber... and then used my wonderful Ripe Persimmon distress ink to color it...  The flower LOL... well after I had made a nice little mess on my worksheet, I cleaned it up... with a baby wipe... and that is what I made the flower from....  of course I used the Tattered Floral Die cut from Tim's line of great dies...  the leaves I just cut out to give the contrasting color of Greens...  I love it... simple and so much fun to make...  I love and adore making flowers... a favorite of mine... 


This week on Ink on my Fingers, Hels is back from her trip to the USA... and it looks like you really enjoyed yourself Hels... I do wish I could have been a little fly on the wall and watched all the fun you all had...  or even been in a chair playing with you all... LOL... the pictures of the area are nice... ANYWAY... for the challenge this week, Hels asks that we make FALL themed items... so since mine are all tags, I thought I would give you some of my fall thoughts as well... 

 Since we have a farm, there is a different beat that goes on here... My husband and I had been vegans for over 30 years... and cherished and honored all animals .... we didnt' eat of any flesh at all... 


But due to some health problems we started to eat some meat... and we also started to farm our land for our food we needed to live...  BUT the deer wanted to eat what we planted... I can't blame them... it is delicious and 100% organic and fresh... BUT it is not for them to eat it all... they just don't stand there and eat a whole squash... they tend to take a nibble from one and then move onto the next... so in a day they have ruined a whole patch of squash... or sweet potato bed, or something... so we try to protect the crops... during the fall.. the local men who hunt, ask if they can hunt on our land... which we do give them permission to do so... maybe they will help in the controlling of some of the 100's of deer that are around...

So this tag is for the sweetness of the deer and honors their life on earth... I would love to live in harmony with you all... but it just doesn't seem like we can do so at the present time...  but I do love you... and this is for you...  

The tag was made with using ink on my worksheet and then the deer was stamped with Gathered Twigs... I have really used that ink pad... hope it lasts forever...  I dribbled water onto the tag and love the look of the water spots.. I made the flowers from the baby wipe I used from the last tag.. and used my tattered floral die cut to create them... I also used a Pretties by Bonnie flower in the arrangement for contrast ...  the leaf I cut out of some of my paper that I love to make...  

A lot of times during the night I can't sleep... so I come up into the studio and create... I try to be quiet, so what is more quiet than painting... I create all kinds of fun papers... using my ink pads, Distress stains and inks... and mini misters... you name it... some get stamped and some don't... but I do save them all.. they are arranged by color and when I need something it is already there for me to use...  sometimes I have to make a background for something... but generally they are all done for me... as I love painting...  

 

 Now for the last tag I made.. this one is really the fun one... but very deep in meaning... 
BE  THE  CHANGE  YOU  WANT  TO  SEE  IN  THE  WORLD... Gandhi 

WOW...  I love this stamp.. so very wonderful... I use it every so often... and since I have been doing my art journal on a daily basis my mind has moved over to deep thoughts... and this is truly one of them...  


Making the tag... I used my white dabber ... and my favorite leaf stamp... actually I have now made three leaf stamps...  so there is a difference in the leaves... I stamped them onto the tag... the two larger leaves and the smaller one too...  then I dried them with the heat gun... and THEN..... 

Using my blending tool and two of my favorite Distress ink pads created the color on the tag...  Ripe Persimmon and Seedless Preserves... wow... I love the combination and also the colors of these two...  Then I wiped the ink off the leaves... and bingo... beautiful white leaves... love this technique... have you tried it yet????  you should... it is fun and wonderful results.. 

Then I stamped the saying...  
Added a leaf charm and the corrugated box paper... which I had altered a little with some ink and perfect pearls in a mini mister...  Love this tag... it will be on my desk area until it gets dressed for the Christmas holidays...  

Love making tags ... so thanks Hels for the inspiration..  And I am glad you had such a lovely time over here...  

Thank you all for stopping in for a visit today... and hope you enjoy some of the local color in your area... and that it inspires you to create something special...  Hope to see you back again tomorrow...  Love, Light and Peace....Bonnie  

The WITCH is IN

Oh what fun I had making this one tag... 
I think that if anyone had seen or heard me they would have thought I was a crazy woman.... LOL>.. 
I kept on laughing and laughing... and thought it was so cute...  The Witch is IN... no body... as she is in the tag... her hat and shoes can be seen... nothing else...  LOL.. so silly... silly me... 
I love it... 
Had fun making it and that is what counts... 
I have put all my Halloween and Fall tags into one book... so that I can view them when I need a fun time and laugh... hope you have a Happy Halloween...  
Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie 

A Cat with Yellow eyes...

Around Halloween night!!!

Is this a typical Halloween scene or what... 
Had to do it... 
The houses are so important in the background... as each and every neighborhood has cats roaming around... and of course a local witch is a must... LOL... 

Had fun making this tag... hope you have a spooky Halloween night... 
it is not long prior to the big Trick or treat night... 

Have fun...  Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie

A Little of this and that with LINES

 Oh what fun I had making this wall hanging this morning... it was for many reasons that I made this... 
The first was for the Simon Says Stamp and Show challenge.... which was LINES....  there are 9 sections of lines on this wall hanging... and that is what I was also trying to do... to see how many LINE sections I could do on one piece.... I loved doing this... 
Okay the lines are this... 
The book page background... I also used a book page to cut in 'lines' to make the little 'trees' .... also the corrugated board which I took off a box and took the outside paper off and then misted with some inks and Perfect pearls... 
The Thread on the spool, the stamped words on the Lace' paper, the lines of the Lace' cuts and also the border print... oh I almost forgot... the lines on the leaves of my leaf stamp I made...   YES!!!! 

 I also used a few of Tim Holtz's things... such as Word Tag, Die cuts of sewing and also Tattered Floral, the corners, Hanger and Swivel chain... and then the adage tag...  


I needed t o make some flowers... as I have not made any in awhile and was having slight withdrawal... so I got a baby wipe that I had used last night and really felt bad about cleaning up my work sheet, as I had used my new Gathered Twigs pad and had so much on the sheet... but here is the sheet used... so that is perfect... I made all the little flowers with one baby wipe...  the bows and hanging ribbon with dyed seam binding... 

 I have a few rolls of canvas that I had bought quite a few years ago... and so I cut the Sewing mannequin and spool from that...  and draped the ribbon around that...  


The canvas cut perfectly in the die cut... I was a little worried, as it was thick... but NO PROBLEM at all.. with the die or with my machine...  
The little 'trees' are made by cutting paper with parallel lines and then I wrapped them around a tooth pick...  colored them a little bit and then fluffed out the 'branches'....  how much fun is that... 

I enjoy doing Lace' and felt the need to put something a little special on this tag... so I did...  

with a little scrap of Broken Glass paper behind it...  just had to add another color into the hanging...  

Hope you enjoy this as much as I did making it...  Also scroll down to see my little suitcases that I had fun making for presents... 

I do have fun in my studio and hope that your days are fun too...now I have to go do some chores around the farm... so see you later...  

Thanks for stopping by for a visit... and see you tomorrow... as I am always working on something new... you never know what it will be...  that is for sure...  

Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie 

Travels... you are going to love these! ! !

 A long story very very short... some one showed Sande and I this adorable little suitcase that they had made at a Tim Holtz class... and we fell in love with it... 


So I decided that it was about time I got the brain into gear and made one... 

Oh what fun I had making these... I started out with one... and of course couldn't stop.... you know me... 

 One is never enough... besides, I am going to have to show a lot of people how to make this fun little suitcase, so I have to know all the ins and outs of how to make it and simply make it... 


I used paper on this one.... actually a K&co paper... a little bit thicker than paper... and used real sheet music on the corners...  


This is the little 'lock' area.. and it 
of course locks the suitcase

 I used Bazzill for the handles and put sewing holes along the edges for detail... 


I had to make this look like a real suitcase, so I put a key, tags and also a Tim Holtz 
Philosophy token on it... Since this suitcase is for my

Mom, I used the LIFETIME one... as it is going to be a little suitcase with a book on the inside of all the places in the world she has been to...  in her LIFETIME... since she is 92 ... I didn't want her to really think her travels were over, so I added a few extra pages in the back... 
 

 Here is the book cover... and it has 25 pages... as she has been to almost that many places..  
her Travels... love it... she is going to really enjoy this... and look back at all the great places she has been and remember things that she has forgotten... 

 On the inside of the box... more great K&co papers... a fish... and a flower... wow... fun things... very collage like and all done for me... 

Don't forget this little suitcase is made from 100% chipboard... and covered with papers...  Love making these cute little things...  

 Here is the inside of the book... actually the first page... places in the USA that Mom has visited...  


And a quilled flower on the inside of the cover.. 

When I was little we had a car that sort of looked like this... and we called her Jenny...  I hope Mom remembers this... this car use to have major problems.. but it generally got us to where we were going... overheating or not... LOL... a real problem in the hot summer months.. 

 Okay... now as I said... Sande and I really wanted to make these and had been planning on doing them for a while... so we had bought some really nice suede papers... and so I wanted to do a couple in them... I even embossed the darker color using a bubble folder by Cuttlebug...  

 You can see the Philosophy token a little bit better here... this is for a journey journal... 

 The lock area... and the swivel chain by Tim Holtz Ideology line of great things...  I love these things... really puts the finishing touch on things... don't you think.... try them ... they are fun to use too.. 

 This is the inside... fully lined... and of course the little books will be going on the inside.. 


the suitcase is 4" X 5" and 2 inches deep... so it is a good size little suitcase... and can hold a nice little book... 

 I wanted one done with a heavy cardstock... so I used some of Tim's papers... and this is going to be a suitcase of all the places that Glenn and I have traveled together in our 42 years together...  what fun remembering all those places... and trips that we took...

 Here is the inside... more of that great paper...  love it... 

 Okay... then I had to get a little funky... and made my own paper using some 6x6 stamps by Impression Obsession... love these stamps... and when Susan and Marie were over the other day, I used some of Susan's stamps and made these papers and then made the suitcase...  


I have not finished it yet... but will ... needed to think through some things on it... 

Here is the inside of the box... wow... I love this color with the brown outside... 
Oh by the way.. the outside is Gathered Twig Distress ink.. and inside is the Plum from the new Archival inks...  isn't that a rich color...  I love it...  

I am going to finish this and will show it to you when done... but not really sure yet what I am going to do with it... 

Just wanted to share these with you... dont' you just LOVE them... I do... and the books are just the right size... not too large and not to small... Spellbinders can be used in them.. and all the things we love to use fit perfectly... wow... what a fun project... 

Hope you have a fun day... and thanks for stopping by for a visit... hope to see you again soon.. Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie