A Little Loaf Pan

In life, one thing leads to the next to the next to the next... LOL... it happens to most of us... and that is what this is all about... 

I love die cuts...  Punches, inks, oh... okay.. I love it all... but I do love my dies...  of all kinds...  so one day I was checking out the Sizzix web site... and then it took me to Eileen Hull's  Art with Heart Challenge...  and oh my goodness a challenge... 

Well I had to do it... as I love die's, love challenges and love all the pretties I can make with different challenges...  so I was in... 

In December I decided to also do Frilly and Funkie challenge of the 12 days of Christmas...  and I had so very much fun doing it...  it was a real challenge... as my time was so very limiting at that time... but it was fun... and also entered some of the tags and projects into Eileen's challenge for the month of December...  Oh ... I won... I won the little loaf pan die... yippppeeee yeay... 

Eileen sent me a very special one... one that went on the road trip with her... and it is even signed... love it Eileen... I will cherish it... 

Okay... now the fun started... to make things with this new little die... which by the way.. is not so little...  biggest one I own... I love it... made quite a few...  made some into baskets and some into a little loaf pan with some cookies as a gift... but I wanted to create something a little bit different... back to the drawing board... 

This is what I created... 

 

I cut two of the loaf pans... and then I made some really specials papers with textured stencils and stamping...  and covered the loaf pans... then I glued the two together... one being upside down...  to create a wonderful little table arrangement... 

 

 

 

A couple of little knobs for either side... for a very finished look...  and some flowers... 

 

The flowers are made from my favorite media... baby wipes...  LOL... best thing going... clean up, let dry and then cut for your flowers... 

 

The largest flower is made with a Sizzix heart die... that has to be at least 100 years old... LOL.. one of the first ones I bought...  about 11 years ago...  a little red die... only about 2.5 x 1.5 in size... an oldie...

 

I tied some ribbon that I died to match the flowers and tied that in the middle of the two loaf pans... and had a wonderful table arrangement...  a couple of candles and it is perfect... 

BUT... I never stop at one thing...  I wanted something else to balance this ... so I made this little bird house, drawer and BIRD...  I love this little bird... it is also an Eileen Hull die cut...  it has wings on both sides and so it can fly... really fly... LOL...  how do you think it landed on the house and another one is one the loaf pans...  ??? 



More baby wipe flowers...  more fun... more ribbons and bows... and other than the bird... all graphic 45 papers... 

the bird is made from paper that I created with dyes... 

 

So there you have my little spring in January... a beginning of spring that will soon be here... our chickens are starting to breed which means we will have little ones before we know it... and the seeds have been ordered and we will be planting soon too... 

 

Hope you have gotten your loaf pan die... I also have a few other things I am going to try with it... and will share when they are done... 

 

thanks EILEEN for the Special die of this loaf pan...

and I have enjoyed playing with it... 

Hope you all have a very special day, week-end and the first month of the year is almost gone...  yikes... where ever does the time go... 

 

Love, Light and Peace...

Bonnie 

It's all about the HEART

It's all about the

HEART...

Okay... it's going to rain in a few minutes and I hope that I am not cut off from getting this up...  it looks like quite a storm... 

 

I had a time with this challenge.. HEARTS....

Frilly and Funkie


I made a couple of things with hearts... and they went into that pile... the one not to use now pile... LOL.
Finally I realized I had to make a birthday card for our son... and then the whole project took on another whole dimension for me..

And this is what I came up with...

 

Our sons favorite color is RED...  so the tag is with

hearts that are red... 

 

 

Using the Tim Holtz heart stencil, I put hearts all over a piece of paper... then I cut it to size and put it onto my tag...  the tag is not an ordinary tag... it is a tag card...  one that opens.. 

 

Here you can see the hearts... and I stamped and also roughed up the edges and colored the whole thing... having fun all the way...  yikes I am covered in red... 

 

I cut a heart out on the front of the tag and then covered it up with a Martha Stewart heart punch ....  love it... 

I used a corner punch and fancy punched out the front panel of this also ... and then using an old... ancient die of at least 10 years old... maybe more???  from Provo craft... that says Love You... 

I used distress stains to color it all... 

This is the inside of the tag/card...

As you can see I also put a heart on the inside panel... to match the one on the front... 

Then some hugs and kisses... 

Then a pocket full of LOVE... 
filled with all kinds of hearts... I used a sizzix die cut... 

I cleaned and re-organized my studio the other day... and I found all kinds of really great dies... so I am going to start to use them...  why not... I loved them once... and still do... they to me are the BASICS of paper arts...  very practical in so many ways... 

 

I edged the hearts in black archival ink... and also used some barn red on the hearts...  all kinds of red fun... 

 

I think it is all about hearts... the love of hearts... and hearts GALORE.... 

 

I know that I have another one on the way... a little bit different... but this tag is for the Frilly of Frilly and Funkie...  Funkie is coming up...  yeah for both sides... 

 

Love it all.. 

 

Okay... so there you have it... 

Hope you have a nice day... thanks so very much for stopping by for a visit... and hope to see you tomorrow...  been really busy around here...  getting things ready for the fall season... love this time of pretty colors... don't you??? 

 

Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie 

 



Lilacs in the Fall

Hi... is it still Monday??  Oh it's Tuesday... well I had a fun time over the past few days... On Sunday I tore apart my studio and re-organized it... !!!  WOW... I am a fairly organized person... but I still found things that I didn't remember having... and some that I don't EVER remember buying... scary, isn't it??/  Anyway Sunday came and went...  and the studio was ready for all the wonderful Challenges on Monday...  Oh I still also had one from SUNDAY...

The SUNDAY STAMPER... Hels asked that the color purple be used... well again it happened... on Saturday I didn't have anything to do.... maybe I should say that I didn't have anything that I wanted to do... so I started looking thru some of my older Sizzix die cuts... (that is really when I realized I needed to re-organize the studio...  there were die cuts that I have that I had totally forgotten.... not good)  anyway... I found this lilac and thought that I never really got into this die cut and maybe it would be a good project for today...  so on Saturday I cut out all these three different size flowers... and colored them and put the lilac in a pile of things to use at some time...  lilacs were not going to used with fall coming up... 

So when I saw that Hels wanted us to use purple... it was not really a surprise... I had the first part done...  LOL...

So that is how Monday started out...  and I knew that I would be doing a few projects... so my studio got real messy... and nice and quickly too..  way too fast... I was having FUN... 

Here is what I created...

Challenges:  Sunday Stamper     use purple tones 

The Kraft Journal   anything goes 

Craft Hoarders Anonymous     Use flowers 

Sizzix Challenge    Use a Sizzix Die (a very old Lilac die) 

 

As you will see there are a lot of layers going on here... 

and the pictures will generally tell the story... 

 

 

I do hope you have enjoyed this... and hope you have a fantastic day ahead... 

Thanks so very much for stopping by for a visit... and hope you will stop back a little later for another card... 

 

Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie