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Good evening blog friends.  How was your Monday?  I had the day off today from work today and am recovering from our recent 24 snowfall of 18 inches that fell from late Saturday evening through Sunday.  Apparently, this snowfall was the Twin Cities 3rd largest snowfall total on record.  In between shoveling, I made a batch of cookies to send to my dad and made a few holidays cards pictured below.

Noel Ornament Christmas Card

Supplies Used:

Bazzill Red, White, and Green Card Stock

Carved Ornaments Sizzix Die By Tim Holtz

Noel Movers and Shapers Sizzix Die By Tim Holtz

Ten Seconds Studio Metal- Barn Red

Birds and Reindeer Embossing Folder Set By Sizzix

Holiday Wishes Stamp Set By Stampers Anonymous for Tim Holtz

Ranger Jet Black Archival Ink

Vintage Photo Distress Ink

Sanding Tool

Metallic Brads and Ornament Cord String

Holly Branch and Pine Branch Punches By Martha Stewart

Christmas Red Stickles

Inkessentials Glossy Accents

Crop A Dile Hole Punch

Reindeer Christmas Card

Supplies Used:

Red, Green, White, and Black Bazzill Card Stock

Grunge Paper By Ranger

Seasons Greetings Embossing Folder By Provocraft

Snow Tree Bigz Die By Sizzix for Tim Holtz

Reindeer Flight Bigz Die By Sizzix for Tim Holtz

Ranger Distress Crackle Paint: Peeled Paint, Walnut Stain, and Clear Rock Candy

White Sparkly Fluff

Jingle Bells

String

Sanding Tool

Holiday Lamp Post Christmas Card

Supplies Used:

Red, Green and White Bazzill Card Stock

Christmas Backgrounds and borders Set of Embossing Folders and Coordinating Stamp Set by Stampers Anonymous for Tim Holtz

Ranger Fired Brick, Peeled Paint, and Vintage Photo Distress Ink

Holiday Lamp Post Bigz Die By Sizzix for Tim Holtz

Vellum

Holly Punch By Martha Stewart

Ranger Christmas Green and Red Stickles

Thank you so much for stopping by.  Stay tuned, as I will be back tomorrow with a few more cards and a bonus Paperie In Bloom project on Wednesday.  Have a great night.

Michelle

Good afternoon everyone.  How is your week going thus far?  This morning our area received some desperately needed rain,and our temperatures remain unseasonably mild near 70.  As promised, today I have part two of my spooky Halloween blueprint cards to share with you. Click here for part one. I just love the new blueprint stamps from Tim Holtz that were designed by Mario’s (Tim’s assistant) son.  He also designed a winter blueprint set which I am eager to use later next month. I have included a list of supplies below each card. Enjoy!

Spider Web Halloween Blueprint Card

Supplies:

Stamp: Halloween Blueprint by Tim Holtz for Stampers Anonymous

Ink: Jet Black Archival Ink by Ranger Ink, Dusty Concord and Black Soot Distress Ink by Ranger Ink

Card Stock: Bazzill and Specialty Stamping Paper by Ranger Ink

Embellishment: Spider- Ideaology Hallloween Accourements

Ribbon: Martha Stewart

Bat Halloween Blueprint Card

Supplies:

Stamp: Halloween Blueprint by Tim Holtz for Stampers Anonymous

Ink: Jet Black Archival Ink by Ranger Ink, Dusty Concord and Black Soot Distress Ink by Ranger Ink

Card Stock: Pink Paislee, Bazzill, and Specialty Stamping Paper by Ranger Ink

Embellishment: Ideaology Halloween Muse Token,Martha Stewart-Black Pearls

Edge Punch: Drippy Goo by Martha Stewart. Applied Glossy Accents by Ranger Ink to drippy goo border.

Thank  you for stopping by. I hope you enjoyed a few additional Halloween cards.  I have so many more I wnat to make, but unsure with the other projects on my table, if I will have time to make more before the big day.  Have a great day!

Michelle

Good evening everyone.  I apologize that it has been since Monday since I have posted. Life threw me a few time crunch curve balls, but I am back and have several projects ready to go. Today, I have this week’s Compendium of Curiosities II challenge entry hosted by Studio L3. Every week, Linda selects a new technique challenge from Tim Holtz‘s Compendium of Curiosities II. This week is Perfect Pearls.  I love this product by Ranger and have used Perfect Pearls several times before.  I made a Halloween card.

Compendium of Curiosities II Challenge Entry Week #25 Halloween Card

Compendium of Curiosities II Challenge Entry Week #25 Halloween Card Interior

This week’s challenge is sponsored by Simon Says Stamp Superstore.  I am a frequent customer and give them 5 stars for product selection and fast and free shipping.  The Perfect Pearls technique is on page 53. After making two custom Perfect Pearls Palettes, I made a Halloween card and used Sunflower Sparkle Perfect Pearls powder to enhance the moon as well as to back light the pumpkin.  It is very hard to photograph, but the shimmer of Perfect Pearls is absolutely stunning in person.  The assembled card is 6X6.

Supplies Used:

Card Stock: Pink Paislee

Stamps: Stampers Anonymous

Die Cuts: Sizzix

Inks: Distress and Archival Ink by Ranger

Grass Punch: Martha Stewart

Ticket Caption: Label Maker

You have plenty of time to jump in and join us in this week’s challenge.  I greatly appreciate you stopping by and I will be back tomorrow with a super cool project that I made for my girlfriend’s birthday during a recent online class with Christy Tomlinson, Pumpkins and Cider.  Have a great night everyone.

Michelle

Good morning everyone.  How is your week going thus far?  Mine has been rather hectic and busy.  Today I am sharing a pileated woodpecker chalk board that was requested by a friend after she “adored” my robin chalk board that I posted last month.  Click here for that post.

Woodpecker Chalk Board

For this chalk board, I used a rectangle shaped wood trunk slice that I purchased from Michael’s in the wood burning aisle.  I first applied 2 coats of Martha Stewart brown chalk board paint to the tree trunk board. I then die cut the woodpecker using my Provocraft electronic die cutter and the 50 States Cricut art cartridge.  I cut the image three times, twice in black and once in red.  I cut away the crest (head) portion from the red die cut woodpecker and set aside.  Next, I applied dimensional pop dots to one of the black colored die cuts.  I then adhered a scrap piece of white card stock to mimic white head and chest feathers. I adhered this to the bottom black die cut.  Next, I adhered the second black die cut woodpecker onto the first black die cut.  This created a dimensional pileated woodpecker.  Lastly, I used a wiggly eye for his eye and adhered the pileated woodpecker to the chalk board using Inkessentials Glossy Accents.  I adhered him at a slight angle in order to simulate him pecking at the bark in search of insects.  In the lower left hand corner, I spiral wrapped a small section of brown wrapped floral wire to hold the chalk.  I adhered this to the chalk board using Inkessentials Glossy Accents.

I am pleased with how this turned out.  I do wish the 50 States Cricut cartridge had more layers for each of their images as it was a bit fussy to customize the shape for the white feathers as well as for the crest.  Thank you for stopping by.  This weekend, my fiance’ and I are going to harvest our hot peppers.  We are planning to make salsa, pickled peppers, pepper jelly, and hot sauce.  I will be back on Monday with the results as well as a Paperie in Bloom project. Have a great day and weekend everyone!

Michelle

Good evening everyone. It is finally Friday!!!! Today I am introducing another new blog feature in addition to Paperie In Bloom, that I will add to each month’s line up called Pinterest Inspired. Pinterest, in case you are not familiar with it, is an incredible website chocked full of everything: inspiring ideas, incredible photography, food recipes, fashion, to home decor, and so much more. Last week while browsing, I came across this cute altered wood rimmed tree round typically used for clocks and or wood burning that was altered into a purposeful chalk board. I loved it! I immediately pinned the idea and put a wood round on my Michael’s shopping list.

My Pinterest Inspired Project:

Pinterest Inspired: Robin Chalk Board

Photo from Pinterest:

Pinterest Inspiration Chalk Board

Source: http://media-cache5.pinterest.com/upload/76209418664571560_uiDGOKdW_f.jpg

Supplies Used:

Wood Round purchased from Michael’s

Martha Stewart Chalk Board Paint: Robin’s Egg Blue

Foam Paint Brush

Chalk board Chalk Sticks

Bird Nest

Inkessentials Glossy Accents

Provocraft Cricut Electronic Die Cutting Machine

50 States Cricut Art Cartridge- Robin and layers cut at 5 inches

Dimensional Pop Dots

This project was so easy.  First, I applied 2 coats of chalkboard paint.  I then cut an artificial bird nest in half and adhered it to the chalkboard.  I then die cut the robin and its layers at 5 inches using my Cricut die cutting machine.  Next, I adhered the bird’s layers together and adhered robin to the chalk board using dimensional pop dots.  Lastly, I added a couple a couple of chalk sticks to inside the nest. The only thing left is to decide where I am going to hang my chalkboard?  In my potting shed or in my art studio? Decisions, decisions.

If you are currently a registered Pinterest user, I have a link on my left sidebar should you wish to follow me on Pinterest.  If you are not yet registered, click here.  Be prepared to be inspired and have a new addiction.

Thanks for stopping by today.  I will be back on Monday with another inspiring project.  Have a fabulous weekend!

Michelle

Good evening.  Today, I am going to finish sharing my Toy Box Mini Album. I shared part one on Wednesday. Click here to read part one. So let’s return to our Toy Box mini album reveal.

Spread Five.

Spread Five primarily consists of photo mats and has an interactive flap that reveals additional photo mats when opened.

Toy Box Mini Album Spread Five

Toy Box Mini Album Spread Five With Flap Extended

Spread Six.

Spread six features a vintage rocking horse chip board accent from the Crate Paper Toy Box collection along with a Maya Road library pocket and journaling spot.  Opposite page has two bookmarks tucked into a page pocket.

Toy Box Mini Album Spread Six

Toy Box Mini Album Close Up

Toy Box Mini Album Close Up of Pocket Page

Spread Seven.

This was a fun spread and I admittedly went a bit over the top.

Toy Box Mini Album Spread Seven

The left hand side page of the album features a notebook embossed card that has spaces to place photos or journalling inside the card.  I used Tim Holtz’s Notebook Texture Fades embossing folder to emboss the card front and attached a mini journaling card from the Toy Box collection with a mini paper clip.

Close Up of Embossed Notebook Card

The opposite page has a pocket and holds a keepsake Toy Story coloring book.  I made the coloring book using my Your Story Mini machine and Toy Story coloring pages purchased from Target. The color book’s cover focal image is a Toy Story sticker that I purchased at Michael’s.  Inside and alongside the color pages, I added a dimensional Crayola sticker embellishment that I also purchased at Michael’s. See Below for close ups.

Close Up of Keepsake Toy Story Color Book Cover

Close Up of Keepsake Toy Story Color Book Pages

Spread Eight.

This album spread features a dimensional train embellishment from Jolee’s Boutique and car embellishments from the Crate Paper Toy Box collection. I die cut the road using my Cricut machine and the My Community Cricut cartridge.

Toy Box Mini Album Spread Eight

Toy Box Mini Album Close Up

Toy Box Mini Album Close Up

Spread Nine.

This spread features another extended flap page in order to accommodate additional photos.

Toy Box Mini Album Spread Nine

Toy Box Mini Album Spread Nine With Flap Extended

The fire engine is a dimensional Jolee’s Boutique sticker.  The airplane and the John Deere tractor are chipboard embellishments from the Toy Box paper collection. I used a Martha Stewart border grass punch for the grass and found the dump truck embellishment in the patches department at JoAnn’s. I cut the dirt hill by hand.

Spread Ten.

Toy Box Mini Album Spread Ten

The left hand page features a centrally placed photo mat that is surrounded by various sizes of Lego’s that I hand cut from Lego decorative paper that I purchased at Archiver’s.  I used pop dots behind various Lego bricks for added dimension. The right hand page features a complex pop up block element.  I say complex as the block took me several hours to figure out it’s proper assembly.  The block is a Karen Burniston 3D twist cube pop up die. I love how it turned out, but will admit that the process of trying to place the interior rubber band inside the cube totally frustrated me.  This band allows the block to twist and pop up.  Once assembled, I secured the block to the page with a brad which allows the block to spin.  I embellished the sides and the top of the block. I die cut the word PLAY and the star using my Crricut machine and the Mickey Font Cricut cartridge.

Close Up of Pop Up Twist Cube Block

Close Up of Pop Up Twist Cube Block

Spread Eleven.

Toy Box Mini Album Spread Eleven

Both pages feature a corner pocket page design and each pocket contains a removable, interactive A2 flap card.  The cards were die cut using a Sizzix A2 Card w/Flap Die.  The cards provide room for 4 photos. I used a Velcro hook and loop fastener for the flap closure and added a button for added detail. Afterwards, I tucked in a few journal cards from the Toy Box paper collection.

Spread Twelve.

Toy Box Mini Album Spread Twelve

This spread is all about vintage toys.  I had each of these toys in my own toy box as a child. The embellishments are from the paper’s collection with the exception of the moon tickets and and rocket advertisement which came from October Afternoon’s Rocket Age collection. The advertisement is mounted on a mini file that opens to reveal two additional photo mats.

Toy Box Mini Album Close Up

Spread Thirteen.

Toy Box Mini Album Spread Thirteen

This spread features popular games that children play.  The checkerboard paper was purchased at Archiver’s as a single sheet and I apologize that I can not recall the manufacturer.  I embellished the page with a couple of authentic Checker pieces from a well loved game that I purchased at a garage sale. The opposite page features a set of I Spy cards that are held together with a decorative brad.  This page is actually a flap that opens and features two more of my favorite childhood games, Monopoly and Domino’s. The domino’s are purchased embellishments as real Domino’s would have added too much bulk to the album.

Toy Box Mini Album Spread Thirteen With Flap Extended

Inside Back Cover of Toy Box Mini Album.

Toy Box Mini Album Back Cover

The End.  In all, the Toy Box mini album has places for over 50 photos and journaling.  No doubt that this album was labor intensive and expensive to make.  I am almost certain that the intended recipient will cherish this album and that the gift will become a keepsake for her son in the years to come.

Thank you so much for taking the time to visit and for allowing me to post this jumbo mini sized album into separate blog posts as each post took me several hours to compose and post. I tried real hard to include each page’s details and source’s, but if I forgot something, please do not hesitate to email me or leave a question in the comment section.  Thank you again for visiting and I hope that you come back again soon.

Michelle

Good morning blog friends.  Today is day 2 of my vacation. The weather forecast for today is 80 and sunny.  I have plans to spend the day outside staining our deck’s floor as I prepped our deck floor yesterday for staining today.  Last night, I relished in having play time in my studio and completed Tim’s Tags of 2012 for May. This year in place of his 12 tags of Christmas, he instead showcases one tag per month and started with February, he has said “he owes us January”. His tags while beautiful, are really a great learning experience as they are chocked full of old and new techniques utilizing supplies from his various product lines.  This month’s tag is none the exception.

May Tag Inspired By Tim Holtz Tags of 2012

Each month, I typically try and follow his tag to a tee to ensure I try out and learn each technique presented, but this month, I added my own twist.  I instead decided to create two tags, his version and my variation. Click here to be taken to Tim’s post regarding today’s featured tag. Tag 1 was Tim’s tag and tag 2, my variation.  I worked on each tag side by side and step by step with some notable variations.

For my variation, tag 2, I elected to use Tim’s Sewing Room Alterations die for the dress form and his Bird Cage die for the lower portion of the dress form.  This idea was inspired by the dress form stamp he used in his tag.  I die cut the dress form out of Claudine Hellmuth’s sticky back canvas and painted it with Pitch Black Adirondack Paint Dabber and embossed it with Tim’s Damask embossing folder from Sizzix. The lower portion of the dress form was cut from grunge board and painted black just as I had painted the dress form.

I also decided to place my measuring tape towards the top portion of the tag and added a fun pair of Studio 490 Art Part scissors. I painted the scissors with silver Adirondack Paint Dabber and used my Crop A Dile punch to create a hole for the scissor’s blades junction and inserted a silver brad fastener for added detail.  At this point, I have to admit that my variation was making me giddy happy. So much so, that I kind of started to abandon tag 1, Tim’s tag. Sorry Tim, no offense, but I loved the depth and all the extra stuff on my variation.

Moving on, I placed several pop dots on the backside of the dress form parts and the measuring tape and adhered them.  I tucked in the scissors and place a small drop of Glossy Accents for hold.  I then attached a Ideaology Accoutrement button with a Ideaology mini pin to the dyed crinkle ribbon. I also chose to add another Studio 490 Art Part, a piece of scallop trim.  I painted the scallop trim with Claudine Hellmuth’s Studio Paint, Traditional Tan, and afterwards highlighted areas with Frayed Burlap Distress Ink.  Lastly, I embellished the trim with some Martha Stewart Pearls in my stash.

I had difficulty locating an appropriate sized spool as Tim had used.  The ones I found were the closet match.  I think they are a tad large, but I thought they would still work.. To cut the spool in half, I used my fiancé’s vice grip and hacksaw. It took more muscle and effort than I thought it would. Afterwards, I sanded the backside of the spool, and inked the front side of the spool with a bit of Frayed Burlap Distress Ink so that the spool was not so stark and new looking.  I then wrapped some thread around the spool and inserted a threaded needle for added detail.

Regarding the flowers, I could only find Prima flowers without stems. Because they were similar in size, I decided to purchase them and add my own stems using a fine gauge floral wire.  I used my needle tool to create a hole in the bottom of each flower, applied a small dollop of Glossy Accents, inserted wire and set aside each flower to dry.  I then busted out my Melting Pot for the very FIRST time.  For some reason, I have always been a bit intimidated by it for some unknown reason. I used it without any problems, but did learn that I should have held the flowers until they cooled so that I did not end up with a dollop of UTEE on my flower.  OOPS!!..lesson learned.  No biggie, I turned the flowers accordingly and wrapped them into a cluster and attached them to the spool with hot glue.  Afterwards, I attached the spool to the tag with additional hot glue to ensure that the heavy spool would adhere to the tag.

Lastly, like Tim did, I made an oval tag using a sewing image from his paper stash and attached the cash key tag to the hanger using a small jump ring.  Overall, I really like how my variation of his tag turned out.

I have to confess, that in the end, I did not adhere the embellishments to tag 1, and I kind of abandoned tag 1 altogether. I felt really bad, but I really preferred the dimension that I created with my variation.  Making the tags were fun, I learned a lot, and overcame my intimidations toward the Ranger Melting Pot.  Thank you for stopping by today. Behind the scenes, I am in the process of working on my Compendium of Curiosities week 6 entry and will be back later this week to show you what I came up with. Have a great day everyone! See you soon!

Michelle

Welcome.  Today I have another canvas scene titled, “A Perfect Day” to share with you.  This framed 18×24 canvas was specially created for my guest designer spotlight at Tuesday Treats blog awhile back.  At the time, the Tuesday Treats moderators assigned select Provo Craft Cricut cartridges to be used dependent upon which Cricut cartridge(s) the blog was showcasing at the time.  My assigned Cricut cartridges were Forever Young and Heritage. I recall browsing the handbook and the ladies stood out for me and after a bit of brainstorming, my idea became clear to create a scene. I of course showcased my favorite places.  I will admit that this canvas was tedious, but I was/am pleased by the results.  Click on the image for an larger view.

Supplies Used:
Die Cuts:
Provocraft Cricut Cartridges: Ashlyn’s Alphabet, Beyond Birthdays, Forever Young, George & Basic Shapes, Gypsy Font, Heritage, My Community, and Walk In My Garden
Cottage Cutz Die: Ice Cream Parlor

Embossing Folders: Daisies (Crafts Too), Damask (Tim Holtz/Sizzix), Swirls (Tim Holtz/Sizzix), Swiss Dots (Provocraft), and Tartan (Provocraft)

Miscellaneous Supplies:
Acetate for doors and windows
Bow on Purse: Martha Stewart
Canvas 18×24
Doorknobs: hitch fasteners Tim Holtz Ideaology
Frame from Michael’s
Pop Dots
Purse Bling from Stash
Ranger Assorted colors of Liquid Pearls and Stickles
Scor Pal used to score buildings to mimic brick
Sidewalk is photo real paper
Storefront Window Images are resized Google images (personal use only)

 
Please feel free to leave a comment or question.
Thank you for stopping by and I hope that you will come back again soon.

Michelle

Welcome back.  Today I have chosen to showcase one of my earliest canvases, “A Cricut Garden” that I chose to also use for my blog’s header.  It is aptly named after the Cricut die cutting machine that I used to create much of the landscape.  This canvas measures 12X24  and was inspired from our home’s gardens.  We have approximate  2 1/2 acres of land with a large pond, a professionally installed and maintained native prairie restoration, as  well as several shade and several full sun gardens.   In all, I approximate that about 1 acre of our property are gardens which for the most part I consider low maintenance. Click on the image for a larger view.

Supplies used:
Cricut Cartridges: 50 States, A Child’s Year, Camp Out, Heritage, Soccer, and Walk In My Garden
Other Supplies: 12×24 Canvas, Martha Stewart Grass Border Punch, Stickles, Photo Real Paper, and Pop Dots

Please feel free to leave a comment or question.
Thank you for stopping by and I hope that you will come back again soon.

Michelle