Fairy Spoolie

Today I have a cute little Spoolie to share you.  I've been wanting to make one of these for awhile and when I saw the PWP Mar Mixed Media, I knew it would be perfect for this kind of project.

Isn't she adorable?!  Everything on this project came in the PWP Mar Mixed Media kit except for the spool, small flowers, bling and the sentiment.

I started out by adhering the twill trim to an old wooden spool.

Then I cut out some flowers using my Cricut Flower Shoppe cartridge.  I cut the flowers out of the sheets of book text included in the kit and inked them with Tim Holtz Victorian Velvet Distress Ink.    I glued all of the layers of flowers to the top of the spool to create a base for my fairy.  Do you see the key trim that she's standing on?  That is a small wooden piece that I covered with the other trim included in the kit.

I added a small crotchet flower to the top of the wooden piece for a nice finished look.

This cute little fairy and her beautiful wings are on the sheet of clip art.  I fussy cut them out and added some color using Tim Holtz Distress Markers.  I also added a little sparkle with Stickles.

To give her a little more support, I cut one of the library cards with the Tim Holtz Mini Baroque die.  Then I ran it through my Cuttlebug with a Tim Holtz embossing folder and inked with TH Victorian Velvet and Vintage Photo.  The sentiment I used is from the PWP Prince Stamp set.  I adhered it with foam for some dimension.

To finish her off, I added some flowers from my stash, a flower button and some Recollections bling.  I really like the way this turned so I think I'll be making more spoolies.
 
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Thank you so much for stopping by!  Have a Beautiful Day!!!

Thank You Card

Hello There!!  So if you visit me a lot, then you've probably noticed that I don't make to many cards.  Well guess what?!  Today I'm sharing a card!!  One of our friend's mom is so sweet to us and the other day she made us TWO banana bread cakes.  Oh man, they are so so good!  One was suppose to go in the freezer for later but not around here, lol.  We ate them both and yes I'm paying the price because I've been gaining a lot of weight lately but that's a whole other conversation.  Anyway we really appreciate her thinking of us so I wanted to make her a card.

I made my base with BoBonny Ocean Dot.  I really love the color of this paper.  I've been hoarding it for years (literally). 

Almost everything else I used is from the Colorbok Flea Market collection.

I used an Inkadinkado stamp for my sentiment and made a stick pin with the beads in my stash.  The flower button is also from my stash.  I hope she likes the card I made her :D

Thanks so much for stopping by today & have a beautiful, inspired day!!

Last Call!! Are YOU Up For The Challenge!!!!

Hello Everyone, I hope you're having a terrific Tuesday! I've done a little crafting today so I'll have a card to share with you tomorrow.  Right now I don't have a project to share but I wanted remind you all about the fun challenge going on over on the Zeus and Zoe Challenge Blog.    In fact, here is a layout by DT Member Riika Kovasin to jump start your creativity for this challenge:

Isn't her layout beautiful?!  Okay now let me tell you about the challenge, this month's theme is "New Beginnings" and you are invited to interpret this theme anyway you'd like as long as you incorporate a stencil or mask in your design.   Easy Peasy, Right!!  Here is the original introduction of the challenge written by DT Member Dana Tatar from the Zeus and Zoe blog:

The month of March brings longer days, warmer temperatures, the rebirth of flora and fauna and Spring! A talented set of new designers begin their term this month and to celebrate the commencement of the new design term and the upcoming Spring Equinox, the Zeus and Zoe Team challenges you to create a project inspired by the theme "New Beginnings." If you started a new job, moved to a new city, are taking a class, treated yourself to a makeover, repainted your house, celebrated the birth of a child, or are reorganizing your scrap space we want to see how this journey has inspired you! This theme is open for interpretation, so we are adding an additional requirement for this challenge to use a mask or stencil on your entry 

and finally, here is an inspiration board that Dana put together to spark your creative!!

This board includes some of the projects made by the design team for this month's challenge and here are the prizes you could win!!

One project will be chosen by the design team using a voting system and besides bragging rights, the winner will receive this prize from this month's sponsor DecorArt:

                                                                                     

Then a random winner will be chosen and will win this prize:

 

As I mentioned this is the last call because the challenge ends on 3/31/2013 11:59 PM North America - Central Standard Time.  So get your masks and/or stencils out and start playing!  

I really do hope you'll join us!!!!  Have a Beautiful Day!!

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Go Make it Happen - Art Journal

Hello friends & Thank You to everyone who stopped by over the weekend for the Hoo's Ready For Spring Blog Hop!  I'm so glad you all liked my project and WELCOME to all of my new friends who just started following along!!  Today I have a fun little art journal page to share with you all.  

I made these pages with the PWP March Mixed Media kit.  I used the resin covered book pages, library cards, book text, ribbon and stamp set included in the kit.

She looks kinda angry don't you think, lol.

The cogs were cut out from library cards too.  If you'd like some for inspiration for the March kit, visit The Aviary today.  Carrie is sharing a couple of beautiful projects for Mixed Media Monday.

If you're interested in purchasing or finding out more about this beautiful kit, visit the Paper Wings Productions Online store.  This item is a limited release kit so once they are gone, it's gone.  If you want one, get it before they're sold out.   ;D

Have a Wonderful Monday!!

I've entered this project in the Simon Says Stamp & Show Quotable Challenge 

Hooo's Ready For Spring Blog Hop!!

Welcome to the Hooo's Ready For Spring Blog Hop! 

 We are so happy that you could join us today! In case this is the first time you have joined us for a hop, let me fill you in. The lovely Heather Lynn, who absolutely loves owls, gets all of her friends together for a seasonal owl themed hop every three months. Since Spring is almost here we decided to share Spring themed or Spring colored projects this time around. Heather Lynn has put together an amazing line up for your viewing pleasure but wait there's more!

The wonderful Pinque Peacock is sponsoring the hop!!! So please be sure to head over to the PP blog and become a follower. Then, head on over to their Facebook page and see all of the beautiful items they have to offer! Here is the link...

Pinque Peacock Facebook Page- https://www.facebook.com/PinquePeacock?fref=ts

One lucky hopper that hops all of the way through and follows all of the blogs will win a $15 bundle from Pinque Peacock. That will include..

(4) Beaded Stick Pins

(6) Large Felt Poppers

(2) Layered Garden Beauties

(2) Large 1.5" Fabric Covered Buttons (FCB)

(6) Small 3/4" Fabric Covered Buttons (FCB)

(1) 2.5" Splendid Swirl (w/Embellished Center)

Thank you Pinque Peacock! 

Heather Lynn will choose ONE winner next week! Okay now onto my project!!

I made this cute little tag in the beautiful colors of Spring.  If you visit me often either here or on FB then you know that I like to say "WOOT, WOOT" and I want you to know that every time I type it in I'm doing my little happy dance, lol.  So when you see it, just know that I'm raising the roof over here ;D

Now for the nitty gritty of this tag! I used a #8 tag and spayed it with Dylusions inks. Then I ran it through my Cuttlebug to emboss it and inked with TH Peacock Feathers. The little owl stamp is by Inkadinkado on the Gem Stone Birds set. The little frame is from Michaels. I made the stick pin and the smaller flowers are K and Company. The large pink flower, tulle and ribbons are from my stash and the sentiments are by Making Memories.

Well friends that's it for me!! Up next is my EXTREMELY talented friend Lisa of A Mermaids Crafts, enjoy!!

Here's the complete line up just in case you get lost along the way.

Heather Lynn-http://heathernovinger.blogspot.com

 Jessica -http://jessicascraftshaque.blogspot.com

Teresa- www.createenjoyshare.blogspot.com

****Norma G.-http://lilhoneybeestudios.blogspot.com/**** YOU ARE HERE

Lisa-http://indymermaid.blogspot.com

Paula D.-http://scrapyourworld1.blogspot.com

Cindy- http://www.cindys-greencricut.blogspot.com/

Janet R -http://janetscreativeworld.blogspot.com/

Tara-http://www.craftindesertdivas.blogspot.com/

Carrie- http://paper-wings-productions.blogspot.com

  

Thanks so much for joining us today! Have a great weekend!

Graphic 45 Design Team 2013 Audition

Update, 4.4.13!!!  Sadly I was not chosen but I will all those who were much luck.

Hello, Hello My Sweet Bloggie Friends!!!  I hope you're having a fantastic day!  I'm so glad you stopped by for a little visit because today is a very big day for me.  You see,  I've decided to throw my hat in the G45 ring!!  That's right I'm going for it and this is my official audition post!

I'm very excited to share some of my favorite projects with you.  So let's get this show on the road shall we!  I've added the link to the original post at the bottom of each project.  That way you can take a closer look and find out how each project came together.

First up is this beautiful scrapbook style canvas that I created with the Paper Wings Productions March Mixed Media kit.  That absolutely adorable little girl is my big sis and this canvas is my gift to her. 

Feature Friday - March Mixed Media Kit 

This is a fun little tag I created with a playing card that I picked up at an estate sale.

Royal Tag

This interesting little book is an altered miniature composition notebook.  I added layer upon layer of patterned papers, paints, stamps and rubons to create this gem.

Fairy Whispers

This gorgeous card was for a friend's Grandparent's Day Blog Hop.

My Craft Room's Blog Hop

Oh and this layout is for a very special event in our family, the arrival of our grand daughter.

Celebrate

This wonderful mixed media collage was a really fun project to make and you can see it come together in this post: Hope

Thanks so much for joining me on this stroll down memory lane.  Wish me luck!!

For my new G45 friends, I appreciate you taking the time to visit my blog and invite you to browse through my posts and galleries to get to know me and my work a little better!!

Have a Beautiful Day and Thanks for stopping by!!

Be True - Mixed Media Paper Mache Heart

I finished the large paper mache heart that I started on Sunday.  Check it out!!

I love the way it turned out!!  I usually don't draw people or anything really on my projects but when I first saw the paper mache heart, I immediately imaged this kind of image.

I started out by prepping the heart with a layer of gesso and then I drew my focal image.  After that I added some texture with molding paste and a stencil.  Next came all the layers of color and my favorite 3-D Enamel swirls.

With the background off to a good start, I moved onto coloring her in.  I wanted her to have an ethic flair ;D

I added tons of rose and flourish rubons and a Tim Holtz heart stamp.

It took me awhile to figure out what I wanted to say and then it came to me, "Be True To Who You Are".  I added "Courage" to the TH stamp after that because it takes courage to be true to yourself.   I chose this quote because it expresses how I feel right now.  It's been just over a year since I've returned to the "creative" world.  I've always had a passion for creating but as you all know, life sometimes gets in the way.  So it had been years since I'd done any kind of creating and I was feeling unfulfilled.  I began soul searching and decided that what I needed to do was to get back in the studio and be true to myself.  I dived right in and launched Honey Bee Studios and I've been so happy with where this journey is taking me.

These days I'm even finding the courage to actually draw again :D  I still have a few more of these hearts so I see a series in my future!!  Well friends, as always, THANK YOU so much for stopping by and for all the sweet comments you leave!!

Have A Beautiful Day!!!

I entered this project in the DL.ART Thankful Thursday - March Linky Party

Welcome!

Happy Monday Everyone!  I just wanted to pop in and say HELLO and to WELCOME my newest bloggie friends: Ana K., Chantal and Tara!!  Ladies thanks so much for joining me!!

Did you all have a great weekend?  Well today it's back to the grind after and extended Spring Break.  This year school let out on Thursday so the break was nice and long.  We spent a lot of time with family so that was really great.  I didn't really do any creating but will get back to it this week (hopefully, lol).  I did start a new project yesterday so I'll share that as soon as I'm done.  Here's a little looksy:

I've also been adding items to my Etsy store daily and I'm really excited to have artist prints available now. So I think I'm gonna start offering prints of some of my art journaling pages too.  Anyway, I better start getting this house back in order.  Have a Wonderful Day and Thanks for stopping by!!!

Zeus and Zoe

Hello Hello!!  I hope your enjoying a wonderful weekend and maybe even getting some crafting time in.    I just wanted to remind you about the Zeus and Zoe Challenge Blog.  This month the challenge is "New Beginnings" and you are invited to interpret this theme anyway you'd like as long as you incorporate a stencil or mask in your design.   You could even submit a Spring themed project.  Here is the original introduction of the challenge from the Zeus and Zoe blog:

The month of March brings longer days, warmer temperatures, the rebirth of flora and fauna and Spring! A talented set of new designers begin their term this month and to celebrate the commencement of the new design term and the upcoming Spring Equinox, the Zeus and Zoe Team challenges you to create a project inspired by the theme "New Beginnings." If you started a new job, moved to a new city, are taking a class, treated yourself to a makeover, repainted your house, celebrated the birth of a child, or are reorganizing your scrap space we want to see how this journey has inspired you! This theme is open for interpretation, so we are adding an additional requirement for this challenge to use a mask or stencil on your entry 

and finally, here is an inspiration board to spark your creative!!

This board includes some of the projects made by the design team for this month's challenge and here are the prizes you could win!!

One project will be chosen by the design team using a voting system and besides bragging rights, the winner will receive this prize from this month's sponsor DecorArt:

                                                                                     

Then a random winner will be chosen and will win this prize:

 

I hope you'll join us!!!!  Happy Creating!!!!

Feature Friday!

Happy Friday!!  I hope you all had a great week!!  Today I'm just popping in really quickly to let you know that it's my turn to post over at The Aviary and I'm sharing this canvas:

I used the PWP March Mixed Media kit to create this beautiful canvas.  Hop on over for all the details!!  Have a fun and safe weekend, hugs!!!!

Beauty - Mixed Media

Hello, Hello!  I hope you all are having a fabulous week!  So far mine is going great, we've been enjoying Spring Break with family but I did manage to fit in a little studio time.  I've also been adding items to my Etsy store daily and connecting with my local artist community (which is very exciting for me).  This week I was also featured on Dawn Herring's JournalChat over on Twitter, so that was extremely cool.  I feel like it's definitely been a great week so far and I have so much to be grateful for!!

Okay so onto to some art!  

I just finished up this 12x12 canvas and have been itching to share it with you:

I started working on this one about a week ago but really hadn't had the time to sit down and finish until last night.

If you follow me on FB, then you've seen this one coming along.  I started out by adding the swirls with crackle paste and a stencil, then transferring the image with gel medium.

Because there was already a lot of texture on the canvas from the stencil, the eyes and hair didn't transfer well.  So I decided to give her a beautiful butterfly mask and long dark brown hair.

From there she sprang to life and her message fell into place: 

Dare to Dream,

 Beloved All Natural Beauty, 

Forever Believe

I'm very happy with the way she turned out and I think I'm going to make artist prints of this one.  I've been researching how to make prints and I think this would be a perfect canvas to try it on.  Either way, this "Beauty" will be available on Etsy starting tomorrow.

I've got some other exciting news to share soon, so keep an eye & ear out!  I really want to THANK all of you for all of your kind and encouraging words.  They really mean the world to me and I am so grateful to have this forum to share my love of art with you.  Have a wonderful day & from the bottom of my heart THANK YOU!!!

Zeus and Zoe: Challenge Layout - March - New Beginnings

Have you joined the Zeus and Zoe March challenge yet?!  This month we are challenging you to create a project with a "New Beginnings" Theme that incorporates a stencil or mask.  Check out this beautiful layout by DT member Sandie Edwards:

Follow the link to find out more: Zeus and Zoe: Challenge Layout - March - New Beginnings

I hope you'll join us!!