Shabby Vintage Tags

Hi Everyone, 

Today, I managed to finish off 2 sets of 3 shabby vintage tags that come with 3 extra little cluster bits. These are for sale on ebay. I have plans of making a few more sets tomorrow and will post when finished. Thanks for looking!

Free Bee Fridays - Digital Collage Sheet- Valentine Postcards

Hi Everyone, 

Here is a free digital collage sheet for my new Freebee Friday offerings. This collage sheet is made from some of my personal designs and ephemera. Feel free to use in your art for both personal and for resale products made from this collage sheet. 

Each Friday I will post a new sheet. If you miss a week they will be hosted under collage sheets see tabs above. To download click on the image and then right click to save to your computer.

Free Bee Fridays! Digital Collage sheet - Hearts

 Hi Everyone,

Here is a free digital collage sheet for my new Freebee Friday offerings. This collage sheet is made from some of my personal designs and ephemera. Feel free to use in your art for both personal and for resale products made from this collage sheet. 

Each Friday I will post a new sheet. If you miss a week they will be hosted under collage sheets see tab above. To download click on the image and then right click to save to your computer. 

Anytime you create something and you want to share what you created, I would love to see what you make!

Happy Arting!

Bohemian Gypsy Boho style journal cards Set of 3

 Hi everyone,

Todays creativeness came as 3 journal cards decorated in a boho gypsy style.

My cards are made with the a collaged shabby fabric boho  gypsy style theme my design. 

I used a sheer fabric overlay over  the image to create a through the curtain look at these lovely gypsy dancers. Cards are hand sewn with many layers of fabric, threads, scraps and trims to create a shabby vintage look. 

Cards are backed with a distressed lined paper for writing and finished with a blingy dangle and small coin replica.. These cards approx 4ish x 6ish. 

These cards are for sale on ebay.

Is it artable? Yes!

Hi everyone  

I was folding laundry this morning and one of my towels has seen better days. But it is the perfect weight and as ugly and tattered as it is i just cant throw it out. So I tore off the raggy seams and folded it up and into the towel basket it went. Just as I was ready to toss out the raggedy bits I looked at it and said to myself, yep this is artable! Stay tuned! ;)

Boho gypsy style Fabric swatch kits.

Hi everyone,

I spent the whole morning cutting fabric today so that I can offer for sale some Boho gypsy style fabric kits. These kits are made up of 10 pieces of fabric that is 8 x 10 inches and 10 additional scrap pieces that range from 4-5 inches wide and 6 - 8 inches long. A total of 20 pieces. The price will be 18.00 plus shipping and they will be posted on my Ebay listings shortly today. I have a total of 6 kits available. When they are gone, they are gone.

The fabrics are from a variety of repurposed clothing and fabrics.

Some are from Saris, silk  cotton, fibres and more. Some are shear and some have some beautiful trims and embroidery included on the fabric piece. Sizes are approximate only because it isnt easy to cut some of these perfectly straight, but they are slightly larger to accommodate the irregular cuts so that you can cut them straighter and have some scrappy bits to play with as well.

These are the exact fabrics you will receive but the section of the pattern may vary, and I will always add in some extra goodies in the package before closing it that will compliment the fabrics for your creative expression. Here are the pictures showing closeups of the fabric swatches.

 

Scrap busting Saturday - Boho fabrics

Hi everyone, well here we are with another Scrap busting Saturday.

Today I have this huge pile of boho style fabric bits to work with. My plan is to spend today and tomorrow busting through this pile to create some clusters, maybe a snippet, some boho style beads and some journal cards. Thats a lot right? I always give myself big plans and I may not always be successful but I  am always hopeful. 

And I am sure you are asking, why do you have sooo much scrap fabric? It is because I spent  the whole morning putting together some awesome swatch kits that I will be selling on Ebay this week. Stay tuned for my next post showing you the swatch kits. Below is my fabric scrap pile, and I will try to update after the weekend what I  made with it all.

So the question I ask every Saturday is what are you busting through today?

Scrap busting Saturday - Bead dangles and tassels

Hi everyone,

It is Saturday and time for some scrap busting. Today I have my bead tray on the table and Im cleaning up some odds and ends beads. While I  will make a few dangles to add to my stash, I  am hoping to make a few bead tassles for the boho slides that I made last Saturday.

So lets get the scrap busting started, what's on your table today?

From photo slides to Boho Dangles

Hi everyone,

While yesterday's scrap busting was a super challenge, I am finally pleased with the results.

I wanted to use up some of my photo slides and turn them into Boho style dangles to add to journals and tags.

The first thing I did was pop out the image from the slide holder. I then wrapped the entire slide in phloo phloo fibre wool. It takes about 3 yards to wrap and I used a little hot glue to hold in place as I went around the corners.

Depending on the wool, some of the holes are nearly filled in. I knew that I wasn't going to add a picture si that was ok. I wire wrapped with beads, added hangers and then wired in the filigree embellishment. From there it is just decorating as I choose. The hanger loops will be used to add tassles and dangles from the bottom, and the top one will be for some type of hanging tie thingy. Still undecided what I want. The wrapping takes time, but the results are well worth it. Now I will work to master my techniques and make a pile of these. When done I will share another post and I will be offering these for sale. If you want to make some yourself, I do sell the slides and wool fibres in a ton of colours.

Thanks for looking!

Scrap busting Saturday

Hi everyone,

It is scrap busting Saturday and today I have this pile of slides on my table. I have used these many different ways in the past, from specimen samples, to dangles embellishments. Ive even made Christmas ornaments with them and jewelry too. But today I have a different plan...I'm thinking of making some Boho grunge dangles. Not sure exactly what I have in mind but hopefully it will come to me as I go along.

Yes, I'm still working on those fabric snippets and they are getting closer to being done, but well...you know...squirrel hunting! Maybe soon I will have some pics to show you.

Back to these slides, if you are looking for some, I do sell in my ebay listings, see link above.

Sooo my question every Saturday is: what's on your table today? 

Happy Creating!

Finished tags challenge.

Hi everyone, 

Here are my finished tags for a recent challenge, (see link  above to the challenge) Tag yur it theme: Scarey or pretty. I printed the images on transparency film and did a 2nd print of words, and a 3rd print of a light burgundy floral background. Yes 3 prints on the same transparency. They turned out pretty good, though it might be hard to see in the photos.

I had so much fun sewing my scraps over top on the tags, and leaving threads and bits hanging. Sometimes I'm not able to do that. Though I dont think I am OCD,  I still find it difficult to not cut all the loose threads off.

I finished with a little bit of bling using one of my hand made dangles.

I made 6 tags in total, I am selling in sets of 3 and they are now  posted for sale

Thanks for looking.

Finished scrapbusting piece

Hi everyone, while I had good intentions of finishing up all the scrap pieces and turning them into lovely tuck pockets and snippets, I found it a little tough to stay focused. I sorted the bag of bits to find that the pearls sprays were 2 garlands. I did take them apart, yes all the beads off the plastic strand. They are usable for jewelry or hand beading. Then I bagged up everything else. The little white roses got stained with coffee.

Then I beaded one of the snippets I made and added 2 handmade silk ribbon roses, some bling and of course the pearls and my little coffee stained flowers. Then I lost my mojo. I spent the rest of the day squirrel hunting and was easily distracted. Here is my finished piece and pictures of the stuff yet to do.

Saturday scrap busting - bag of bits

Hi everyone 

Its another scrap busting Saturday and today I am showing this bag of bits. It is a huge tangled mess of pearl strands ribbons and other bits.

I bought the whole freezer bag at a yard sale last summer for 25 cents. Soooooo since I never did finish off those scrap fabric pieces from last Saturday (see Jan 9th post below),  I decided I will sort this mess and incorporate into my fabric scraps. I think there is some potential here, if I have patience for this Lol. Come join me and post what you are busting through today. Below is a picture of the bag of mess/goodness. Hopefully I can show you something beautiful by the end of the day.

Finished tags Paris pink pocket

Hi everyone, here are my finished tags for the Thursday TagYur it challenge. If you would like to participate, see link above.

The theme was Paris, pink, pocket, and you had to put something in the pocket.

My tags are made with the background paper I provided. Then I stitched on a lace or fabric pocket and embellished with a pink butterfly, and a pink bead dangle on a bulb pin. Each pocked is filled with ephemera bits including a pink tag, currency, vintage mini postcard, a playing card, a lovely boudoir lady, and a pink ticket. Top  of tag is finished with soft phloo phloo fibres (my name for them) for tying. These will go up for sale in my ebay listings later today or tomorrow. Link also above

Thx for looking!