The Wall Hanging - Tim Holtz style

A while back I happened upon a post on Tim Holtz' blog about a display that he was giving away to some lucky recepient. The piece he gave away was a 9 piece grouping of the letters of the alphabet.Nine little 4X4 canvasses the displayed the letters of the alphabet. I just thought that would look great in my house on the wall in my family room.I decided I would try to do a similar grouping but instead of the small 4"X4" canvasses I decided to use 12X12 canvasses. It would be a better size for the wall I wanted to put this on. I scrounged thru all the "stuff I've saved over the years. I gathered things up that I felt would look great on this project. I sent away for the canvasses. They finally came in and I started with coloring the canvas. I used 9 different colors of the Ranger Color Wash. Next I dried the canvas with the heat tool(Because I am so impatient). After all the canvasses were colored. I then colored the grungeboard. Got that dry the same way. Then I started to lay out all my goodies to see how each canvas would look. After I was happy with the placement then I got out the e6000 glue and started to glue it all down. Below are the results.

      

     

  

This project was so much fun to do. Easy and kind of fast once the canvasses were here. The hardest part was trying to decide what stuff to put on which canvas.

Right now these are laying on my dining room table but soon I will be bringing these to the store for a short display.Hope you like these and let me know if you have questions.

Thanks for stopping by & see you soon,

Barbara

My Concertina Book

On my last post I showed you the Concertina book that the customer brought in. She had made hers in a class in Mississippi. That book got me thinking. I hadn't done a concertina book for so long, so over the long weekend, I made one. I used the Scor-Pal to score all the folds, I used the nestabilities to cut the rectangle scalloped windows. I then used the Cuttlebug A-2 folders to emboss and I also used Coke cans for the metal. And they emboss up great in the a-2 folders. This is actually the back side of the book.

Here is the front side of the book, see the metal? Coke cans cut so easy with a steak knife and I used my Fiskars Rotary Trimmer to trim out the metal pieces.

Hope you enjoy this.

The Concertina Book

                                                                                                                                                    

 

Look  what a customer shared with me last night. Phyllus B. took a class in Mississippi from Barbara Rankin. The class was sponsored by Magnolia PaperCraft Guild in Hernando, Mississippi. This concertina book is named The Beauty  of Nature and it is. The pictures just don't do this justice.

I love books and this really caught my eye. Phyllus did a great job on this.

This is the coolest concertina book I have yet to see.  Great job Phyl !!!

                                                                                                                                                             

A Man Card using the Truck Stamp (from PrintWorks)

We carry PrintWorks stamps here at Creative Stamper and the stamp of the month for May is the coolest truck stamp.I just had to stamp this up.

I stamped it on glossy paper & then used alcohol ink to color the truck. Next I used my craft knife and cut the window out.I actually put transparency in the window.  I then worked on the bumper. I applied double stick tape(my fav adhesive) & covered the bumper. I then used silver leafing paper to give it the metallic look. Next I needed red brads for the taillights, but I didn't have any. So I took my brad and smooshed (like that technical term?) the head down on a pigment ink pad, then dipped the brad into red embossing powder & heated it with the heat tool. (Use tweezers or a clothes pin to hold the brad so you don't burn your fingers.) I then heated the brad again & dipped it again into the E.P.. I did that about 3-4 times to build the E.P. up on the brad. Next I scanned a map onto cardstock and then tore it to the size of the card. I adheared the map with double sided tape. Then I used tape to adhere the truck. I hand wrote the little sign "On the road again". The truck stamp is 30% off in the store right now til June 1. Really cool. This is good for those cards for men that we always have such a hard time with.

See you tomorrow with 2 cool watercolor cards I made. - Barbara