GLITTER plus....

So very many things have been happening this week... and all of them are wonderful.  I started a class on Journals... making one from 100% white paper... oh you guessed already...  YIKES... I guess I am a little bit to transparent...  but anyway... I have been working on this journal for a while now... and teaching a class brings it even closer to my heart... 

So it was sitting on my workbench this morning as I worked on it yesterday...  getting interior pages in place, pockets worked on etc...  I will show you different things in this book as I work on it.... which will be a process..... I love things that I can pull out and work on them for a while and then finish at a later date... 

I also have been working on more flowers... my favorite item to play with and create for different challenges, projects and also classes... I have a favorite class I teach with how to make a box and then teach how to make 12 different flowers...  a fun class... and everyone leaves the class full of ideas and are anxious to make more flowers... 

So I wanted to add these two things today HOPEFULLY to the Challenge called... 

Compendium of Curiosities 3 Challenge 2

 

 

This challenge is held every other Saturday and today is the day... what fun... and all you need is some things to play with...and Tim Holtz's BOOK...  Compendium of Curiosities 3   This book is truly a wonderful book...  all kinds of ideas, and techniques... and today the challenge starts off with GLITTER...  page 56...  so turning to page 56 is where we begin... 

 

Glitter Tim Holtz's way...  Love it...  and it just so happens that I happen to have a FEW of these pretty distress Glitters...  fun and games...  now to work on my journal a little bit more...  combining these two is very SPECIAL to me...  and I really love the way that this book is taking shape... 

 

Okay... get ready... because here it is... 

 

Oh before I forget... please go over to the site...  Click on the above link... and see all the pretties that the CREW have Created this week... it is very difficult to pick the prettiest, best or favorite... as they are truly all wonderful each one being so very different and with much depth and thought... Love this challenge... have I told you that... ???? 

 

Pictures... Oh yes... here they are...

 

 

I have to tell you that I have just recently been able to get High speed internet... so prior to last month.. .I had never seen a video on line, not been able to get to others blogs, or web sites... seen too many things other than a few small pictures that were shown in different places that I happened to spend the hours downloading...  Pictures .... uploading 8 would take hours... (2 plus) and now 18 pictures takes less than a minute... so I am SPOILED and I am loving this greatly... soooooo

 

I had not seen these fantastic 'PLASTIC' Flowers that Tim had created using Frosted film and also Wendy Vecchi's  Clearly Art sheets...  Well I fell in love with the flowers... and had to make them... so I got the supplies and am having a fun time making them... all different ways...  I have a huge stack of plastic sheets that I save too... and used them for the butterflies... 

 

The cover of my journal and all the pages are made from 100% white paper that have been INKED... yikes is that a fun thing or what... I have piles of papers that I have put ink too...  and I don't ever have enough of them either...  I then will stamp, stencil, add more inks, more stamping etc... to each sheet...  I love Pearl Dabbers... and think I bought a case last time...  LOL...  love the way it looks... now you see it ... now you don't...  love it.. 

 

6... My Favorite number... 

Flower My Favorite embellishment...

Colors... Turquoise and Greens... oh wow...

 

So here are some close ups of the flowers... I really love making these... have to buy a FEW more sheets of Clearly Art and also a couple of rolls of Frosted film... I can see what is going to happen to me...  LOL.. and I LOVE IT.. 

 

I used my palette of Alcohol inks and a solution pen to color all these pretties...  and then I used the Glitter technique on page 56... Oh what a pretty flower... 

 

 

 

 

 

I also cute out some butterflies using a Tim border die cut... and I bent them so that they stood up... and flew over the flowers, 6's and page...  I again used my alcohol inks to create the personality of each butterfly too..  Also used some Rock Candy Glitter on them too... 

 

 

 

Since this is a JOURNAL for ME... I had to add a DRAGONFLY... what else would I have...  in solid GOLD...  LOL.. 

 

 

 

Since my Husband and I own an organic farm, we are aware of many problems that we on earth are facing... one of the major ones is the problem that bees are having right now... we need to protect bees... in all ways...  not to use chemicals in anyway but especially around plants that bees and other insects will be going on... Linda's sweet Hummingbird is even effected by these harsh and horrible chemicals and we need to protect all living critters around us..  thanks for listening to me about this.. I feel very strongly about this and use a lot of bees in my work to remind all about the bees.  thanks for taking time to help protect them also.. 

 

Okay... these little flowers around the word SIX...

They are also from recycled things... oh yes... they are felt from my alcohol pads...   small and very pretty... and I cut them up and make flowers, leaves etc from them... adds a fun touch of different materials...  which I really love... you can see the tissue tape peaking thru them...  another product that I have tons of and love using all over things.. 

 

I really love the way that you can get these flowers to stand up and talk...  really great.. I also use a large one inch DOT to adhere them to what ever I need to put them onto... they stay forever... I am not afraid of these flowers getting squashed.. as they pop right back up...  so very wonderful about them... 

 

 

I actually colored these small flowers (the smallest on the Tattered Floral die cut... by Tim... )  with Current Alcohol ink... after I went all the way around each petal, I then filled in the center and it diluted the petal to this pretty pink... or rose color...  similar to Victorian Velvet... my favorite color of the RED/PINK family... 

 

I then was able to use the Victorian Velvet Glitter on these smaller ones... so very pretty... 

I also used my alcohol inks to color the large brad and then add detailed dots for stamen...  love it... 

 

 

I just might pop the number 6 and the work 6 off of the cover and do something magical with them too...  I feel I have to... this cover will most likely be an on going project for a while... so when it is all done.. .I will share it with you... 

 

 

 

I hope that you have enjoyed seeing all these pictures... I am just so happy that I can take these and put them all into my blog in such a short period of time... so happy about that...

 

I hope that you will join in on this challenge... have a happy and great week-end... have also a VERY HAPPY MOTHERS Day to YOU... Every one of us has to celebrate Mothers day... as we all have or have had Mom's ...  So happy Mother's Day to one and all..

 

Thanks for stopping by for a visit... and hope you will come back again for another visit soon..

 

Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie 

 

 

New project underway ! ! !

 Happy Sunday Morning...  Happy Challenge for Stamper Sunday.... Thanks Hels for using the theme of SUMMER colors...  I have been using them for a while trying to encourage the warmer air to circulate around the area... it settles for a few days.. then leaves and comes back again... maybe sometime soon it will settle in for a while... we lost a lot of our plants to the chill we had a few weeks ago... now everything has been planted again and hopefully it will be okay...  


I started on a new project yesterday...  I was totally frustrated by the fact that my new canon printer is not working again... I am very upset to say the least...  so I started on another project to try and pick my mood up... which it did for a while...  I decided to do a configuration box... but it is configured in a different way entirely... as I have a few extra boxes... and also wanted this one to be in the shape of a bird house...  so we will see how it turns out... 

 I also decided that I wanted to use a few things from when I was a child... ahem... these are antiques now...  don't like to admit that... but they are...  


The plastic is not like it is today at all.. it really looks like ivory...  


Anyway I had gotten these three little birds to put onto a shell pocketbook I was making... (with my mom's help)  and wanted these birds... they didn't make it onto the purse at all...  so I have kept them on a shelf or someplace since then...  finally they are standing up and have a home...  each home a little bit different...  this yellow one is so cute...  I put a printed flower in the back of this little box...  along with some bird paper... which I think is from My Minds Eye... but not really sure... 

 I have bits and pieces of all kinds of things on my work space... and they are sort of all finding homes...  so that it good... this banner is from Graphic 45 paper...  never quite made the last project...  


Here is the red bird... so cute... and a tiny little flower... the flowers here are made with the newest flower template of Tim's .... 

 I have wanted to make a secret little place and so I gathered up some hardware and went to work...  


The paper... graphic 45... the hardware Tim's....  the flower is also from the Tims newest flower die ....  

Inside... a BEE in a Bottle.. and then some graphic 45 things...  I love the bee in the bottle...  stamped and then inserted into the bottle... so much fun...  

There is also a little bottle of screws left over from the hardware hinges... and then a bottle of beads...  

I just had to share these with you... the box will take me awhile to make... but I will share it with you as I go along ... and will also share the completed project too.. 

Hope you have a nice day.... enjoy your day in all ways... and give yourself space to be YOU....  Thanks for stopping by for a visit... and hope to see you tomorrow... 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  

Recycle your things

 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  

Recycle as much as you can

Here's a great way to recycle some of that plastic that we all get ... 
These are from Ranger... Tim Holtz's Ideology line of tokens... 

I put little pictures in them... and some background papers.. and VOILA... a nice little wall hanging... 

 I made two of these... I again got a little carried away... as I always do... LOL... I have fun.. what can I tell you... lots of fun... 


I get lots of other things done in between too... believe me I do... 

Wash is going, as is the dryer, and also the oven is on full force with bread, and cookies... and the soup pot is on... and I am going to clean some Sweet potato vines in a minute...  as these pictures are up loading... it takes about an hour to upload this many pictures with dial up... 

 So here are some of the details... the leaves are created from a stamp that I made...  and then i used some Distress stains to color the stamp and make the leaf!!!! 


The little pictures are from a Hot off the Press book... 


The white butterfly borders ... 
well that is a Martha Stewart corner and border punch set...

 The sheet music back ground is from an old hymnal from a local church that needed to recycle them... so this is truly a recycled piece... 

 Generally the same type of thing... with each set of tokens you get two of these great sheets... and so this is just perfect for a couple of these... these will make a great Christmas present for someone... how perfect is that... 

 I do hope that you will try and create some of these.. they are simple to make, fun and it also saves on our landfills.. that are so in need to having LESS... 
So help out a little... and make some gifts... 


Thanks for taking a look today... and see you tomorrow with some more projects... I am on a roll now... so no telling what I will have up tomorrow... 

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