WOYWW/School Craft Fair Projects/ATC's & Picture Boards

Kid's Craft Fair Projects 

These ATC's were made with torn up paper napkins layered and sprinkled with twinklets.

The flowers are from Tattered Florals die and the Bigkick.

My "workdesk" is still is still the art building in town but I officially moved out over the weekend.  Next time I link up, you will all have to see the true chaotic mess my own craft area can be!!!
STamping Ground What's on Your Workdesk Wednesday

So the kids have been doing crafts in stages. They have several ATC's ready to finalize as well as some other projects. I put one together as an example but they will put their own spin on these at a craft table in Sept.during our 250th celebration of our town.  Let's hope they can squeeze in some craft time between climbing rock walls, bouncing with the bungee hanging with friends.   This ATC is linked to the Make It Monday 
party, create and share!! Check out all the great papercrafts for more inspiration.

Picture Boards

These are ready to hang on a child's wall or playroom. My blogger friend MaryAnne at Scrappy Gifts 
has a canvas board version of these for sale. She does such a beautiful job I wanted to the older kids to make some for their craft fair.  (We brought the cost down by using foamboard that had to be cut)  We had a good time especially with the beach boards.  We filled the little bottles with Popham Beach Maine sand and some small beach findings. There is still alot of work to do before December!!!

Family Quote

"FAMILY" Collage

"The memories of these fabrics are woven into our hearts."

I finally finished this little collage which holds some wonderful memories!! It holds ribbon, tulle and the flower from my 38yr old flower girl dress that I wore when I was...very little, I can't give a way my age :)

It also has some sprigs of pearls from my wedding hair piece and vintage lace (across the bottom) from hubby's grandmother.

The backing is decorative paper sewn on stiff fabric . I hope the knob it is hanging above doesn't keep you from seeing it well. You can click on it to see it larger. The dresser it adorns is a 1930's which was hubby's grandparents wedding gift.

It took me forever to finish this and make my final decisions...it sat for months at a time but I love the depth it represents.

This project is linked to This Party.

You HAVE to check out Angela's site, http://wwwcreativecreationsbyangela.blogspot.com/

She is so excited to start monthly challenges and she is going to start up a new website store.

She will be selling her hand made JEWELRY, CARDS, and Altered Art ( Picture frames, bedroom letters, decorative art, etc... ) She is hoping to have my site up within the next month or sooner!

Very fun!! She also is giving away goodies to 3 of her followers as a bonus!! Thanks Angela!!

My First Canvas Paintings

I had these wonderful stone leaves that were meant for incense burning but wanted to do something clever with them for my bathroom which is decorated in leaves, stone-like pictures and a hint of dragonflies.
My Brother,Scott has a great technique for getting this tree-like texture on canvas. Check out his blog for his fun designs on a much bigger scale. So I had to try it. I kept layering colors and exposing underlying colors until I was happy with the outcome, which takes me forever!

Here are the 5x7's before attaching the leaves. Thanks for inspiring me Scott! It was fun.

The funny part about the hint of purple...I was touching up colors on the deck table while the kids were painting with their watercolors. My 6yr old splashed her purple over onto my canvas. While trying to wipe it off, I realized it looked great. She was pretty proud to help me out with the final touches.

Glass Tag Embellishment

While I had the epoxy out to attach the leaves, I couldn't let the extra go to waste. I was able to quickly make another glass tag before it started to set. Phew, that was close. If you look closely, you will see some sparkle on the left lower edge and the top portion. For this, I splattered perfect pearls onto the wet epoxy with a small dry brush.
See similiar tags for sale on my ETSY on my sidebar.

Nest Home Art Card

I have to apologize to those who may come over from the Gothic Arches Challenge. I found the challenge on a different blog and thought it was an "egg" challenge. And I can't take my link back off the list. I have, respectfully, posted the challenge with the link on a new post. I enjoyed checking out all the beautiful art within the egg/arches theme. That is when I knew I had it "wrong". Thanks and enjoy!


This little picture is nestled in fiber and yellow homemade paper made from Sherry at "If I Could Set My Soul Free"" I also sewed mulberry paper trim and ribbon. Within the paper is mini yellow feathers peaking out from the edges. I backed the card with an old postcard and tulle.

Winter Art Card

Here is another product of that wonderful wreath stamp I borrowed from a friend. I tied some twigs above the piece of birch bark. I really enjoy layering these days.

Family Time Piece

I can't seem to stop with the fairies and the colors from the last project. This is my mom and her cousin. I almost took it all apart to start over with a more sepia colored theme. But I started adding the time pieces and it started to pull together. This is for you mom, what do you think?

This gemmed snowman is a stamp sprinkled with twinklets then sprayed with a sealer. The background is a pearl white vellum with alcohol inks.

Fairy Art Card, How to use Alcohol Inks

I had alot of fun with this wonderful stamp I am borrowing from a friend. I used it many different ways but this project was using my alcohol inks, and Pearl glitter.
Alcohol inks can be used on a variety of surfaces that pigment and dye inks won't stick to. So it's really fun to experiment on metals, brads, glass, plastics, glossy paper and transparencies (found at office supply stores). In this project I was able to manipulate the colors by blotting the inks with a blending tool on a clear piece of page protector made for scrapbook pages (I don't have any transparencies) and remove color with Alcohol Blending Solution where I wanted an image to show through like the fairy in the bottom right corner, the rose in the top corner and center of the wreath. The grundgeboard swirl attached on the bottom is painted, glittered and bejeweled.
Alcohol ink was used to change the color of the wire on the top.

The pigment inked doesn't want to dry on this shiny surface so I pressed Diamond Dust Twinklets into the wreath image.

Perfect Pearl Powders are baked right into the clay.

These papers were made using Tattered Angels Mists, UTEE and microbeads.

Postcard Art Cards

1914,1915, and 1916 postcards. I wanted to do more with my collection. Inspired by some clipart, I decided to display these great cards without altering them at all. Each card is slipped into a page protector so the cards are removable. On the front of each protector is a leaf sprayed with a glaze. Included are some hydrangea flowers and stamps also sprayed with glaze. In August I posted a 1909 postcard that I had altered. That one is my favorite.

1909 Postcard, Art Card

I found a treasure in my husband's late grandparent's house. A box of vintage postcards. Many were from 1906 up to 1940's. (One was dated in the very late 1800's, how cool). One I framed untouched. This one I decided to have some fun with. I love how they are embossed so I left it unprotected. With past projects I would use cut page protectors or mylar. I added the 4 shells on the banner to compliment the theme of the card. Then I used a matte to attach it to an old bookcover that also belonged to his grandmother. My next project with these postcards will be to frame a few with the memo side showing. Maybe using transarencies so each side can be viewed and protected. (Still thinking about that one).