Bathing Beauty Spoolie

I played along in a swap at Blissful Art Swaps recently.

Here's what I made for my partner Darlene.

We were to use a wooden spool and the theme was Bathing Beauties.

I decided on a base of a sea shell slice. 

The spool became a pylon wrapped with cord and of course I couldn't forget the gull. LOL 

I made a mold and casting 

 for the sand castle from a pair of salt & Pepper shakers,

then sprinkled on a coating of sand.

The umbrella is from Tim's Rosette die.

 I love coming up with different ideas with this favorite die.

A few mini sea shells and a sun hat and she was ready to hit the beach.

Star Shrine

Hello blog friends, No I haven't fallen off the face of the earth, but sometimes feels like it.

I can't believe its been over a week since I posted!!!! 

I've had tons of things to share just no free time to do it.

This time of year some gardens are the STAR of the show.

Keeping that in mind

I did a little project with the Star Shrine from 

Retro Cafe Art

I used the new stamp images from Oxford Impressions

Jane's Garden

A beautiful collection of spring inspired stamps and every gardener's dream.

I hope to be catching up with you all very soon.

Well Behaved Women

Well Behaved Women.

I created this double page spread for the Round Robin swap at

Kindred Souls Art group a few weeks ago.

The Tattooed women images are new releases at

 Oxford Impressions

I thought I'd add a bit more kick to these ladies

by adding the moustache's from

Retro Cafe Art

TeeHeeHee

Just wish I would have taken a bit more time with

taking the photo.

You Are Beautiful

A fabric collage created for my Beautiful Mom on Mothers day.

Stamps by Oxford Impressions

What a crazy month it has been so far.

My DH had to have a surgery that's left him without

 the use of his right hand for the next six weeks. EEK.

So besides my regular day job, I've had to pull up the slack around here

mowing the yard & pasture, cooking, cleaning and everything else he did

while I am at work. Gosh I miss his right hand.....

I've had little time to create but did manage to get this made for my mom.

Hope you all had a wonderful Mothers day!

Tiny Dancers- Mixed Media Necklace

Tiny Dancers

When I was a young girl I dreamed about being a Ballerina,

What girl didn't? The closest I came was taking some Ballet classes.

That was so so so many years ago.....

When I saw the collage image

from Retro Cafe Art by Debrina Pratt with the Ballet Dancers

It brought up all those fond memories.

I new I just had to create a piece to capture those special times.

A mixed media necklace now available in my Etsy shop.

I'll be doing some much needed catching up with my

 blog hopping this weekend.

A Bit Of This and A Snip of That

My finished Snippet Roll in three parts

as its to long for one photo.

Paris inspired, Lots of lace, fabric, appliques.

I made mine to hold some of my vintage pins

Made from goodies my swap partner Terri sent me

from MAMA group.

Entering this in the

Blissful White Wednesday

at Time washed.

Published Stampers Sampler

Always a Thrill to get a copy in the mail!!!

I had three pieces published in the newest issue of Stampers Sampler.

My favorite an ATC. Queen Bee

 The background stamp that looks a bit like honeycomb

is by The Artistic Stamper

The bee image came from Art Chix Studio  

Now if anyone knows how to copy and link mini photos from Photobucket

Please let me know.

 They changed it again and I'm about ready to pull my hair out!!

UGHH!!!!!!

Time For Steampunk

I finished this tag forTim Holtz

April tag challenge at the beginning of the month

 and I'm just now getting around to posting it.

Even though I have the Dragon fly stamp he used.

I opted for something a bit different with the Steam punk bird.

Stamps by Oxford Impressions

By the way be sure and check out Oxfords new website.

Just link the above link.

I don't have Tim's new metallic paint so I used metallic paint

that I use in my Faux & mural painting business.

Let's just say  you'd be better off to purchase his

as mine run me about $40. a quart.

Thanks for stopping by :0)

Fly Away Little Bird

I'm coming in just under the wire for my entry this week at

Simon Says Stamp and Show Fly challenge.

No its not done by Jen Crossley.

I've never had the pleasure of taking any of her classes

 but I sure would LOVE to!!

But it is modeled after her birdhouse pendants.

Of course putting my own spin on things.

This was for a dear friend who recently underwent surgery.

I just got word she received it so now I can show you all.

While it would make perfect sense to use a piece of

brass or copper pipe for the birdhouse.

I didn't have any on hand. My DH let me cut up one of his brass shell casings.

I used a stamp from I Brake for Stamps to do the metal etching.

I have a tutorial on how to do that you can find it HERE.

I would usually use my jewelers torch to weld everything in place.

But some of the materials I used were aluminum

so went with the cold connection process instead.

Its supposed to rain all weekend so I'll be catching up

with my favorite blogs then!

UPDATE... Just heard I made the Top 3 at Simon Says!

Yea!!!! Thank you for that and for having a venue to share

our love of art.

Vintage Lace Hanging

I recently made this lace hanging with a sewing theme for a swap in the

Kindred Souls Art Group.

The stamps come from Oxford Impression Sewing Notions plate.

The little sewing machine image come from Retro Cafe Art

But these little vintage wood lace making spools...Well my

Heart skipped a beat when I stumbled across a small box of them recently.

Years ago they were used to create handmade lace.

Can you imagine the hours it took?

I'm going to part with just a few of these lovelies.

Each wrapped with one yard of lace .

now in my Etsy shop.

Sharing this post with Blissful White Wednesday

at Timewashed

How's This for An Easter Bonnet?

Every year I attend an Easter Bonnet Luncheon

with a few of my girlfriends.

While I used to create some crazy bonnets none can compare

to the one my GF Debbie made.

This year Peeps celebrated its 60th year and Debbie

took that as her cue for Fabulous Over the top bonnet!!!!!

Yes that's her tiny little face hidden under that hat.

Of Course she took 1st place for Most Creative.

let's all give her a BIG round of Applause!

Clap Clap Clap!!!!

Sold- Thank you Danielle

A couple of new pieces in my Etsy Shop

Thanks for stopping by.

Happy Spring!!!

Mini Shrines

Hello Dolly

My very first DT projects for

Retro Cafe Art

was to play along in the new swap using the most darling

New Mini Shrines.

For this cutie I used the collage sheet Simple Antique Mix.

The Coffee Break Designs taller Masonite shrine and Mini heart

Frozen Charlotte doll and Antique Brass Fleur-de-lis crown.

Spring Bunny

This little one uses the smaller Coffee Break Design shrine.

Simple Antique Mix Collage sheet.

German Dresden Mini Scalloped Gold Border.

Antique Brass Fleur-de-lis crown.

Want to join in the swap?

You can find all the information on how to join at.

House Swap

Happy Easter

I just wanted to take a moment to wish you all a most

Blessed Easter.

and share a couple of Arched Easter Atc's I created

 for the VPI swap group.

Hope your day is extra special.

Round Robin Book Pages

Hey blogger's thought I'd share a couple more pages I did for the

Round Robin swap at Kindered Souls Art Group.

This one was for Mary Beth. The theme she choose was quotes.

By pulling on the key it flips up each page revealing the words in the quote

along with images that seem to fit.

Next up is Faces. The theme for Eileen's book.

 I thought long and hard about what I could do

Then remembered when I was a kid we would get these silly

little books that has a cartoon face on them.

They were split in three parts and you could interchange

the different face parts.

Any one remember those?

That's where the inspiration came for this one.

i hope everyone gets a good laugh when they play with the faces.

I sure did!