Techniques in a pocket

 Sometimes I  get a little carried away.. and I love it... as my art takes hold and I loose myself in the whole process...  that is what happened with this...  


Today on Sunday Stamper... Hels asked for POCKETS... so I decided that I was going to do a few techniques and put them into the pocket on a page in my journal...  What fun would that be... 

Making the tags, using a few of my favorite techniques and also my NEW DISTRESS INK PADS.... yes I would have fun....  

 Well I had to use my new ink pads first... and that produced enough paper for another journal... not kidding... wish I was... these colors are so wonderful.. and then I had to add some yellow to the whole mix...  it was great fun.... I let things dribble, run, and even used a mini mister bottle that I used every last dribble out of to make the circles on the paper.... I let nothing go unused in any way, shape or form....  Of course as always some stray colors always manage to get into the paper... and that is the fun of it all....  what FUN it is too... I love playing with my inks... a favorite plus.  

Then I made the pocket... which I stapled onto the page... and then a little trim and then some doodling... love to do that too... as you know. 

As you can see ... the pocket is a nice deep one... I can get a lot into it... so it can hold a lot o techniques...  I will have to get busy and fill it up now...  I did make a few of my favorite ones and put them into the pocket...  

Thanks Hels for a GREAT challenge...  I love it... I have been trying to make flat pages for this journal... but in life the changes that we all have happen are generally for a good reason!!!  Expanding is one of those changes that is good... when it is with paper... LOL...  

Well it is a wonderfully sunny day here in the western mountains of North Carolina.. and the weather map shows that it is raining??? Which we are praying for.. but not a drop yet today...  we are keeping our fingers crossed that we do get some today or tomorrow....  Thanks for taking time to stop by here for a visit... I always love it when you stop by...  

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

 

 

Alice's World

 This month ALTERED ALICE is sponsored by Stamp Attack  and the Alice stamps are so much fun to play and create with...  

On this piece for my Alice Journal I stamped all over the paper using the postage stamps... and then used my Dylusion sprays and had fun blending the colors...  It was a wild time... colors were all over the place... so much fun...  

I used a Dyan stencil to then create the spots of Alice's universe at the time...  LOL... Alice is in a whirl after visiting the Caterpillar...    

These postage stamps have so very many uses... but I love them as a background to any scene...  


Hope you will take a look see at these stamps...  they are fun to use on all your Alice in Wonderland creative projects...  

Have a super nice day in Wonderland... not matter where it is in your life... enjoy the time spent creating... and thanks for stopping by for a visit... 

Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie  

Angel of the Flowers

 A page of my life ... 
A page in my journal....
Having fun... 
Enjoying life 
and 
LOVING it ALL... 


I had a lot of free fun with this page... 
I had colored this paper with all kinds of flowers about a week prior... and finally got around to

 finishing up the entire pages...  But are they ever finished... aren't they like life... you keep on adding onto each page until you are satisfied??? 


But I did get more added to this area...  I added the Angel in clip art.. I had copied  a few and this one was sitting on my work space, begging to adorn something... so here she is... in all her vintage glory...  I love this one...  


Then I had to add a few

 daisies from Dynomite Daisies over at Pretties by Bonnie  which I have so much love for all flowers but I guess daisies will always hold a special place in my heart...  I had not put any in the drawing... so I needed to add a few... 

 Using a stencil I added some numbers and dots in different areas...  using a dabber by Ranger...  love them... didn't think I would use them as much as I am...  great invention...  I also used my twinkling H20's and love the shimmer that they add to everything that they touch in life...  so very pretty and GREAT...  


Well another page of my life...  
Hope you are working on a journal of some kind... there are no rules... other than to enjoy your journal... sharing with yourself and others is so very much fun...  

Thanks for stopping by for a visit...  and hope that you have a GREAT day...  and also a GREAT week-end... 

Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie  

Journals

Well... I have to say that I have been having a lot of fun with these new journals that I made... I don't feel bad if I ruin a sheet... as I leave it and something will be done with it at some time... or I can take it out of the book!!!!  And throw it away... LOL.. Believe me I don't do that at all... I will reuse and cover up the problem areas... dont you????   Anyway... here are a couple that I have done this week...  

 I took one of the journals that I made with papers that I had put into the reuseable bin...( that means that I goofed up and will use the paper in another way...)  and I gathered them all up and made 6 great journals that I love... I really feel free using them... I think that is very important when you are going to journal... FREE to Do what you feel like it... and not worry about what it is going to look like.. 

 As you can see I added some thinks to the background pages... stamped a little bit, stencils with some dabbers, of all colors... and then stamped some more... and then I added my newest digital flowers...  which I colored with Distress markers and also twinkling H20's.... and then when that was all done... I added my feelings of the day...  


My husband and I are trying to live a very balanced life... diet, time spent together

 reading time, tv time... etc... and so BALANCE is a key factor in our lives right now...  


So I was very careful with the colors to balance that too... very important in all that I do... BALANCE!!!!  

I love the way that the pages turned out...  and I love the leaf stencil behind the Pretties by Bonnie flowers... what a great addition to the whole area... LOVE IT....  I also love the addition of the circle stencil for the color is the same as the flowers... that is one thing that I love about using the products from Ranger... is that they match each other ... and the pinks are all similar to the other ones... such a benefit...  


I had fun with these pages...  

Another page that I had fun with... I have been praying for rain all day... a good hard rain... we did get sprinkles... but no where near enough to even make the soil wet!!!  So sad... and all the storms have passed for the day!!!  We are upset... but we are moving ahead...  


I found this saying and wrote it in my journal... again... an affirmation to the universe that we NEED RAIN... NOW...  


I love dandelions too... they are great to eat, and if you make wine from the flowers that is great too... So I added this flower from a new collection of Pretties by Bonnie  which I hope to release soon...   a few things to do in the collection...  I also added some doodles on the edge of the page... just for a finished touch...  love to doodle...  By the way... take a look at the books I have written...You can down load them from the publisher for half the price.. what a great deal that is...  Love it... so easy and fun... I have quite a few books of my doodles...  even ZENDAZZLE doodles... 

All at the publishers for you to easily download...  

Hey... have a GREAT day... create something FANTASTIC for YOU...  no one else even has to see it... just enjoy YOUR CREATIONS....  
Thanks for stopping by for a visit... and see you tomorrow... Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie 

 

Angel in the Gems

 I wanted to alter a little tin and so I grabbed my Alcohol inks and did so... and then I added a few things... 


I love the look...  


Using some of the metallic ink it really brought them all together...  a few gem stones.. of course they are genuine!!! What ever do you mean...  
LOL... and a few brass corners...  that I used some metallic inks on too...  

Have a wonderfully sweet day and enjoy playing and creating to your hearts content...  

Thanks for stopping by for a visit... and hope to see you again soon...  

Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie  

The Butterfly

I have a huge bag of plastic from packaging... and I love to use it for all kinds of fun things... 

this is one of those FUN things that I do with them... 
I use the plastic to create fun backgrounds...  

Using my alcohol inks and a few stamps I created this one... and then I added a 
Pretties By Bonnie    Flower from the Dynomite Daisy collection...  

This flower is one of the most popular flowers in the collection... and I have had so many requests to make it a single...  so I am thinking about it...  

Of course I dyed the ribbon o match the colors...  and the butterfly is also a Pretties by Bonnie embellishment... 

Hope you will take a look at this collection and the others.. they really are a lot of fun to use... don't forget with a digital image you can create it ANY size YOU DESIRE!!!!  That is the fun and best part of them... that is why I love them... they can be tiny or LARGE and BOLD...  you are the creator of them...  

Thanks for taking a look today... and see you tomorrow...  I have something sweet to share with you... know you will love it... 
Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie  

Sparkling flowers

 WOW... what fun I had with these flowers... I painted them with Twinkling H20's... can you tell???  I love the results of the page... I used Dylusion spray on the paper... and then colored my flowers...  love the effects of it...  

then  I added some doodling on the side!!!  

Easy and fun for me...  









Can you see the sparkling flowers??? 

Have a fun day...  
Enjoy it all.. 
Love, Light and Peace...
Bonnie  

A touch of BROWN

 Today is a beautiful sunny day here in North Carolina... and I want to make the most of the day... so hopefully I will be able too...  I started off today with a challenge on Simon Says Stamp and Show
and the challenge is really right up my alley... a TOUCH OF BROWN.... wow how great is that...  I love to add brown to things... so rich...  

So I had just printed a few new digital images that I had drawn from Pretties by Bonnie  and I wanted to  color them in and see what

 looked like colored... so I started off with that... and then a finished the edges off with a TOUCH OF BROWN... love it... and then went onto make by tag...  I gathered up some misc paper that I had cleaned up my worksheet with... LOL... best way to clean up your worksheet...(spray some water on it... and then 'mop' it up with a piece of cardstock!!!!  )  Best of everything.... so I added some Distress stains, and then a few stampings of a Tim collection that I love... the words are the perfect size for me... not big... not large... just right... and then I wanted some texture.. so I cut some tissue paper butterflies and glued them onto the tag...  they gave me just the right look I wanted...  I added some more brown stains to my paper and then cut my tag out ... and put my new digital image onto the tag...  I love the look I got... 

A touch of Brown at times is all that it needs to give that really rich Vintage feeling... even if you have bright colors.. it will still antique it...  

The Chinese character in the upper corner is for SPIRIT!!!  I love practicing my Chinese characters... and don't use them as often as I should...  I needed some SPIRIT to move me onward with this... so thus the work SPIRIT!!!   

Well ... I do hope that you will add into the challenge and join in with a touch of BROWN... you could win $50.00 of free shopping...  LOVE IT...  Simon Says is really a fun place to shop too..  so much to pick from..  take a look see...  

Well have  a fun day... enjoy what ever it is you are doing... and live to the fullest... Thanks so much for stopping by for visit... I am praying that we get a little bit higher speed soon.. I am about crazy with this SLOW speed... today it is only 21.3 kbps for me... so it took a LONG time to get these pictures up!!!  Not fun...so please forgive me for not visiting around at your site.. I don't have the ability to do that..  as it takes about an hour to down load one blog... and that is without all the pictures being visible at all... oh well.. I guess I will go whine and do something else...  
Have a GOOD Day...  
Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie  

Happy Father's Day

 Happy Father's Day to all Dad's out there...  Being a Father takes a special person...  and there are so many GREAT Father's out there...  I know that I have one here... my hubby... a Great Dad... and also a sweet and loving husband...  


I have made Glenn a couple of things with this picture this week... as it is one of his favorite pictures of him and his other 'sons'... his horses...  he will always have them in his heart...  


We lost one prior to moving south... and the older one died here on our farm...  they were Gentle

 Giants...  


Anyway... this project is for two challenges... one is a new one for me... Over at Sarah-Engels Greer site...with her Mojo Monthly Challenge...  check it out... a fun and exciting place to visit...  I have been looking for some more challenges and someone said that she had  a monthly one... so I joined in with this project...  The theme... is Manly Man....  so I made this...  Sarah had made a really unique one too...  with a hinge... Love it... so great... hopefully she will get some more sardine cans to make a little trunk..   

 I, too, covered my tin with embossed foil tape... and then used Oregano and Lettuce greens to color the leaves... as these horses were used as Logging horses on selective environmental logging contracts...  so the leaves were a must...    Then I started to do other things... like the plaid paper made with alcohol inks... and then the rose on the top...  the Plaid paper is similar to my hubbies favorite plaid shirt...  and the rose... well he loves to make new roses plants... and they are the old timey roses... so they are so wonderful... the smell and the color is magnificent...  we both love them... 

I used the Turn Key as a reminder of turning back time!!!  Wish we really could... I would love to be 20 again and know what I know now!!! Wouldn't you???  Yikes... what a blast I would have...  

Anyway... the little hands are to represent the gloves and the hard work Glenn did back then... not that farming is easy... but hey... the logs were huge... and so were these boyz... each horse was approx 2500 pounds!!!  Just getting their harnesses on was a days work!!!  

Well... I am also putting this into the Sunday Stamper... as Hels also has a Men/Male theme... so this worked out GREAT....  Thanks for stopping by for a visit today... and have a super nice day with family, friends and all...  Enjoy your time with the Dad in your life...  Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie   

Hidden Stamps

The STAMP ATTACK  

After being invited onto the Altered Alice Design Team, my brain started to switch into high gear... I knew who the sponsor was going to be... and low and behold.. I had won a set of these GREAT stamps on one of the challenges...  so I pulled them out.. and started to plan... could you smell the smoke...  ????  I really was thinking hard...  So I came up with this idea...  so I gathered up all my things... stamps, papers... which by the way the whole project you are about to see... it is made from WHITE CARD STOCK... with the exception of the Red Roses... which is a very pretty red mulberry paper... LOL... everything else started out as white card stock...  I did have a ton of fun with this project... thinking, creating and using the stamps, getting messy, rethinking... and then finally taking photos of the finished project and then sharing with ya'll.... 

So on the outside of this project... which is a hexagonal box...  I am showing you all the stamps from the set  called  Alice in Wonderland ....                                       

The characters all around this Hexagon are the characters we all love and cherish...  Like the Queen ... 

the RED QUEEN of Hearts... 

White Rabbit 

On the top of the box.. there are 18 red mulberry roses in honor of the Queen...  
I made them like porcelain so they will stand up to all kinds of people handling this box...  The leaves are Pretties by Bonnie and colored with Distress Markers... by Ranger.. 

All around the lid there is a band of green leaves... cut from a Martha Stewart punch and colored with five Green Distress Stains...  and then the word WONDERLAND is spaced across with K& Co letters... 

Click to enlarge 

The feet are from my days of country crafts... and they are little RED apples...  I only had 4... so since this was a WONDERLAND project and things in Wonderland are always a little off.. so 4 feet on a six sided box is a little bit off... but normal in Wonderland... 

Each one of the panels on the sides of the hexagon box are basically the same... each has a stamp by STAMP ATTACK... but the backgrounds are all different...  and I used a separate embossing folder for each panel...  


And then this adorable little ALICE... 
I have cut each one of these out... and they are so adorable...  I love these stamps..













AND of course the MAD HATTER.... with only one show on...  

I left these all black and white ... but have used them often and colored them too.. they are really a nice set of stamps...  






















And here is ALICE sitting on the Throne with the critter under her feet...  with her Fleur De Lis in her hand... and so I used the background of the same...


















And of course the FAMOUS  Tweedle boys... Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum...  how cute are they...  with the stripe back ground... 

I have to tell you that my daughter gave me the checkered stamp that I used on the bottom... it was one of the first clear acrylic stamps that I received... and it was well over 10 years ago... I really didn't know what I was ever going to use it for... and I have to tell you that it is one of my favorite ones that I use almost every day either in my work or in my journal...  I love it... thanks Heather Amy..  On all the edges of the box, I have used Tim Holtz tissue tape... and it helps to make the project work really fast...   Love it...   

 


And a picture of the top of the box real close up and pretty....  This is the only part of the box that is not made from White paper... I used red Mulberry paper to make the roses and then dipped into Utee... love the roses...  










When you take the lid off... low and behold...  four of the sides fall down...

And you see the inner section of the box... which the scene is alive with all kinds of action...  

The Mouse is telling his Sad Tale that is on his tail...  (another STAMP ATTACK Stamp...)  
How wild is that...  

All his friends are sitting around as he tells his SAD TALE...  

A little bit closer ... so you can see this great stamp...  of course I had to take his original tail off... and added the tale ... 

This is the mouse all alone... he is really a very special mouse... as when you lift up the panel he is standing on... as you see here... there is a box... underneath the place where he stands...  

Here is the box... and low and behold... there is a hidden BOOK...  

It is the ROYAL book of Wonderland Postage Stamps...  The mouse must have taken this... I wonder if the Queen knows about this...  Oh well... 

Now when you take the book out... you can see the box... surprised that the mouse didn't have something else in there???  

 

Here is the Royal Book of Wonderland Postage... from 1865... 

And here is each one of the stamps... which I have to say each stamp was colored and then put onto special painted papers that match each stamp... . 

I have used all kinds of paints, inks and you name it... on the papers...  

Each stamp is really cute... and I would say that they are about 1.5 inches in length...  or height...  how cute is this one with Alice and the pig child...  

And of course the Mad Hatter... 

I like him so very much that I had to do two of him...  they are wild... 

I used a post card embossing folder from Tim Holtz on this one... love the look of that with the Tea Party stamp...  how great is that... 

I used some twinkling H20 paints on the paper and then a white gel pen to do the feather...  love the rabbit in his purple vest...  

 

And here he is in a blue vest...  

The colors really change the whole look of the stamp... that is why I colored so many... and then I WAS going to choose my favorite ones...  but I loved them all... LOL...  

And I had a piece of glossy paper that I had used some alcohol inks on.. and had to use them with this Alice stamp again...  

I really have to say Thank You again Carol for these GREAT stamps... I hope that a lot of you will take a look at these stamps and buy them... your Alice Creativity will really LOVE these ...  

Thanks for taking and look at my Entry in the Altered Alice Design Team... I hope that you will enjoy what I create ....Enjoy your day and week...  and your visit in WONDERLAND.... 

Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie