A Craft HAUL from SGD and a few more surprises from the dollar store!

Hello my friends!  I received a package in the mail today!  Don't you just love getting packages in the mail? A little early Christmas present to my self that I thought I would share with you!  This box of goodies came from Scrappin' Great Deals, and I have to admit, it was wrapped up much nicer than it looks here when I received it.  I had already dove into it before I thought to make a haul post.  But just barely.  (Notice the yummy Werthers!)

Look at these new Christmas dies that I am eager to put to good use!  I also got some of the new Ranger Enamel Accents!

 I got a die for a stamp set that I already had, MFT "Make yourself at Home".  This will be a fun scene-making set.  I also got a new Lawn Fawn stamp "Sprinkled with Joy", which will also be a fun scene-builder.  The matching die is on back order and I can't wait to receive it! 

This is the stamp set "Make yourself at Home" that I had previously bought.

 A couple of fun stencils, some sunshine and some falling snow.

 Then, later today I was at Dollarama and found a few goodies.  I found this stamp set from Inkadinkado for just #3.  Just to give you a perspective, the bottom stamp is 6" x 6".  The top layer of stamps is actually a set of 6 stamps, so I thought that was a pretty good find. I like the images  a lot.

some more K & Company embellishments

 Some close-ups.  A nice vintage feel to these.

 And finally, some Prismacolor erasers.

Well, I hope you enjoyed my little haul and you can look forward to seeing some of these items in use soon.  I already have some ideas brewing...
Thanks so much for stopping by, have an amazing day!

Tag # 7-28 "Freedom is a State of Mind" #onelittletag

Hello my friends.  Another tag using items from my stash.  This one was fairly  simple.  I used a background I had created using the embossing folder wax paper resist technique that I have previously shared .  I had already stamped this background and that helped inspire the tag.

I had stamped, coloured and die cut several butterflies (a Tim Holtx set) and had several to choose from.

I edged the tag, assembled it and mounted to a black card.  I punched a small butterfly from some white card scraps.

Thanks for joining me again!  Have an awesome and artful day!

Tag 7-26 "Don;t Forget to Fly" A Steampunk Dressform tag #onelittletag

Hello my friends!

Today I have decided to make some tags.    I started my first blog ever, this one, January 2nd of  this year.  At the same time I started my first ever FB challenge, .The On Little Tag Craft Challenge  Some of you who have been following me for a while may already know this, but those of you that have more recently joined me, won't know this.   The idea behind the challenge is to create just one little tag a day, even if you just write a word on a tag, it doesn't have to  be perfect or even good.  The propose is to inspire you to be creative every day.  I must tell you, it really works!  I have been very delinquent with my tags.  I was doing really well until I went to Florida in March.  I  have created some tags since then, but not keeping up as I had been.  As time has gone on, I have gotten more and more behind.  By my calculation now, I am 85 tags behind.  Will I catch up?  I don't know, perhaps some of them.  But I am not going to worry about it.   Fortunately, I have still been creatively inspired.  I have been working on other things, but I do think about making tags, which I do enjoy.  So, I am going to attempt to get back to it.  Maybe not every day, but more frequently than Ii have been.  

Often there are prompts for the tags each week.  These are not mandatory, but designed to help prevent "tag artist block", it can be hard coming up with a new tag every single day.   I am going to ignore those prompts for now and just make the tags that I feel inspired to make.  My challenge to myself today was to use backgrounds and die cut pieces that I already had in my stash.  I have a lot!  I have created several backgrounds and whenever I am die cutting, I always cut extra.  So I have a pretty extensive "stash".

 I will forewarn you, I will have a few posts today, I have been busy!

First, I grabbed some die cut pieces from my stash.  I had the idea some time ago, that I would like to do a sort of steampunk dress form and had already worked on some of the die cut pieces.  So I decided to continue with that idea

All of the pieces I ended up ising had been cut with Ti Holtz dies.  I had adhered aluminum tape to card before cutting the dress form, and then embossed it with a Tim Holtz embossing folder.  I cut away some of the dress form to make it work for my design.  The bodice (?) was also made from a dress form that I cut up and embossed.  The skirt (which was originally a bird cage) was also embossed.  Once embossed, I ran the silver ink across them lightly to pick up the embossed areas..  I had done all  of this ages ago.  Today I edged the wings (which were not part of my original plan) with silver ink.  Then I assembled my dress form.  I already had the sentiment, a Prima stamp, which inspired to rest of the tag.

Ii had selected a few different backgrounds and wasn't sure which one to choose, so I tried them all out.

I chose the green, which was actually a surprise to me because green is definitely not my "go-to" colour!  I used mu Hero Arts stamp, one of my all-time faves, with my silver ink in the background and also on the little butterfly I punched with my Fiskars punch.

All that was left to do was assemble my tag and mount it to black card.

Thank you for joining me today.  I hope you enjoyed my tag and will enjoy then next few I post tonight!

Fun with Alcohol Ink

Hello my friends!
Yesterday my friend, Margaret Brackley, taught a workshop at our art club (Ajax Creative Arts) on Alcohol Ink.  Everyone had a great time and everyone went home happy with some beautiful pieces of art.  That's one of the things that everyone loved, they got to go home with finished work, but they didn't have to bring anything with them, everything was supplied!  I thought I would share some of the fun with you.

Above are a few samples that Margaret brought to show every one.

We all did a couple of different sized tiles, and experimented with Yuppo paper.  Here are some pictures of what the ladies created.  Hard to believe most of the had never used alcohol ink before!

We all did alcohol ink on glass pendants.  These photos do not do them justice.  Every single pendant was gorgeous!

What a great workshop with a great group of ladies!  Thank you for looking and letting me share some of the fun with you!  I can't wait for the next alcohol ink workshop where we will explore some more ways to use alcohol ink!
Have an awesome and artful day everyone!