"HELLO" Sumer Card



A variety of products from Cheery Lynn Designs (the butterfly die), Stampin'Up, K&Co, Prima and AC, made for a fun card.

2 Charm Dangles - Steampunk & Fairy

Steampunk Dangle Charm - I LOVE this stuff - I might be an old lady but if I could stuff my chubby butt into a corset and wear the steampunk style I would.  Love the metal, the victorian flair, skulls, wings, owls, octopus, everything about steampunk.  This dangle is about 6" from the top of the clip to the bottom of the owl.

The Owl was the most fun creation I've made in a while.  The gold owl charm is about 2" tall and I smashed 4 bead cones and made wings, stuck a gear in his eye, a black gear on the back showing through the other eye, the crown charm originally said "2003" on the bottom but I filed it, stickled it and put on some glossy accents to get rid of the date.

The hard part is making industrial not so manly so I added a rose charm and a bronze tone flower with a swarovski bicone red bead in the center. 

This is what it looks like just dangling.

I had to make a chipboard presentation tag to support it.  Tim Holtz die gears painted with metalic pens and I made a ribbon rose from satiny brown ribbon then I ran my embossing gun around it to melt parts of the rose to "toughen" it up. A metal leaf added the right touch to the rose to make it more "steampunky".

Fairy Dangle charm!!! gotta love those fairies!  but secretly my favorite part is that mushroom charm!!

On the big fairy above the metal leaf, I used butterscotch and lettuce alcohol inks on her to help her fit in.  

 I loved loved making these dangles - they posed some challenges since I'm fairly new at beading, but I'm getting the hang of it!!

Policy Envelope Card

Kimie from Create, Share, Inspire (used to be More Paper Than Shoes) challenged us in a swap to create embellished policy envelopes with a stamped insert.  A template was provided if we chose to use it, however, I decided to make my own.  I loved the results -- a lot of friends and family members are going to receive their birthday cards as a Policy Envelope this year!!


The front of the Policy Envelope with a Handmade "Starch" Flower, Jeweled Stickpin (there are more matching bead under the flower that you can see), Stampin'Up folded blue ribbon, the paper under the lace is brown, painted with green acrylic, embossed and sanded, a little tag (about 2.25 in. square) with a beaded dangle.

Here's several views of the Policy Envelope, top: with flap open -- middle: decorated front --bottom: closed with beaded string -- side: the insert with stamped images (the Eifel Tower is Tim Holtz, embossed with black embossing powder, the doily is Stampin' Up stamped in Stampin'Up Kiwi Kiss ink)

The blue stamens are from an old flower that had outlived its usage :) --the silver flourishes are Jolees.

A close up of the tag and the insert.  Both sides have cream cardstock for extra writing space.



I used 2 "ugly" chipboard pieces and painted the "Ugly" away and then stamped with a leaf print to wrap the string around to close the envelope.

Handmade Lollipop and Starch Flowers

Newest Handmade Flowers

White cardstock, throw on some water-based marker around the edges, lay on wax paper and saturate with spray starch till marker runs, crunch flowers, dry, unfold and stick together with a glue gun.  I put stamins in these but the look great with a button or bling for centers as well.

Dryer Sheet Lollipop Flowers.  Used dryer sheets sprayed with a glimmer mist and dried, some tule, cut in the circle sizes you want, outline circles with glitter glue, stick together with a glue gun, put something in the center.  These centers are Primas.  So much fun and they look great on cards!

Spring Butterfly Fairy Premade Album with Plaster Cover



I cut the butterfly shapes out of medium/heavy weight chipboard.  This cover is covered in plaster, painted pink, and sealed. Several of the flowers are handmade or put together from a variety of materials and flowers.

The Yellow Crystals are ... yellow crystal flowers :D it may not look like it from the photo.

The tule is attached to removable tags.  Most of the papers used are either Graphic 45 or Stampin'Up.

I've fallen in love with Steampunk stuff, even though this is more fairy-springish, I had to throw a clock in there.

Cover the bunnies with a photo.

There is transparency attached to the antiqued filigree that keeps all the tags snug.  Even though you can see them siding under the flowers and metal the bottoms are tightly in there.

Dangle beads seem to add that extra wow factor to everything.

The fairy in the upper right corner is under a 1/4 inch glass oval.  A photo can be fit under the edges of the filigree metal brackets on each corner, or maybe a matted theater ticket. The fiber around the edge gives that feathery feel.

There are 2 pages that have these clear frames that a memento or photo can be placed under for viewing.

I loved making this roughed-up postcard on a hinge, when you raise it you access a tag and a place to put journaling and/or a photo.

The back page it lined with lace that the postcard can slide under.

The interior pages are approximately 1.5 inches smaller than the covers.

Just a backflash ...

Had a couple people ask for the old blog address to get the views of the Strawberry Shortcake and Mulan pages - they were at my blog that I decided to drop (since scrapbooking only covers a little of my crafting addiction) it's at :
www.LisaScrapbooks.Blogspot.com
I'll leave it up for a while longer if anybody wants to view those photos for ideas and I'm not a worrier about someone copying any of my stuff so feel free.

I just am finishing up an altered Spring/Fairy book and will post the pictures either today or tomorrow.
Don't forget, if you "follow" the blog you'll get the updates, but I'll gladly keep answering email questions and comments as well.  Have a fabulous Spring day!

Dressform Tag Gears and Wings

I apologize for not posting sooner! Had some weird sick stuff going on for over a week but think I'm back to "almost" norm.  Getting some promised swaps out the door but snapped a quick picture of a tag swap for CSI (Create, Share, Inspire) called "Momma Needs a New Dress" Tag swap.  Sounded so fun I couldn't resist.  I was about to go victorian on it when I saw a bag of old cog/gear-like washer thingies I bought a while back from my local Army Surplus Store and decided to go a little steampunk on it :)  -- here's a few pics.

Might be a little dark at the bottom - I took the picture at 2:30 a.m. trying not to wake the husband.

Remember ladies! look for craft embellishments EVERYWHERE -- Home Depot, Lowe's, Cal-Ranch, Army Surplus, Grandpa's garage! There's fun stuff everywhere.

I'm planning on getting back in the groove and getting more on soon.

Catching up - Fairy House & Grandma's Attic Charm Dangle

In the future I will do some tutorials and give aways, but for the first post I thought I would just show some pictures of a few recent creations to get the blog started. Since I'm doing more than scrapbooking I decided to make a new blog to show more of the fun crafting items that I think make life more full.  Everybody should try something out of their comfort zone! I swap with two swap groups, for scrapbooking items IASST (It's a Scrapbooking Swap Thing) and for items such as altered items, flowers, charm dangles and stick pins there's CSI (Create, Share, Inspire) both are fabulous with great ladies. If I don't mention either IASST or CSI after a photo then it was just for me, my family, or to sell on ebay or etsy. 

I have a teenage son and 25 neices and nephews, loads of family and friends of various ages that keep me scrapbooking and creating.  Oh, and of course some fantastic upcoming holidays (Halloween is my favorite) so keep checking back in!

Grandma's Attic Dangle - Charm Dangle Swap for CSI (Create, Share, Inspire)

WISDOM Card - for graduate to give to a teacher

and a carry over from a Swap for Altered items-the challenge was to alter an empty milk carton (I used a whipping cream pint carton) into a house of some sort.  The recipient gave a color choice.  The lady who I made my house for was Jimmie B. (CSI) and she said pink with some black somewhere, so....the fairy house! This is definitely going to be an addiction....

 

This is the back-so not as ornate

The big flower is handmade out of Bazzill Tutu Pink --gotta love the BIG Ole BEE, she is about 2"

Chimney must have eggs!

Every fairy needs a fish pond in front of her house! This one is made of broken blue glass, a bronze fish charm, and some Glossy Accents to keep them hanging on the porch with some moss :)