Button Fairies

These are some of the Button Fairies I made after our last Wednesday Altered Artist group. After putting some butterfly wings on a cute face from Lisa Vollrath's sheet I picked out buttons to go with the colors. They are simply buttons attached with wire woven from top to bottom ending with some beads and a wire curly que at the bottom. I left a loop of wire at the top for hanging or I could add a magnet.

Happy New Year!

Here is my Stylin' Lady that I made for who else but my hairstylist Mirian! She saw me cutting out things at my last appointment and said she like this so I made it into her! It was fun - the cut out image is from a Nordstrom catalog and the background was rice paper, scrapbook paper and painted watercolor block. I added scissors to her hand too. Last I added some gold ink to make it shiney!

Merry Christmas!! I am finally back to post on my blog thanks to my new digital camera I got for Christmas! My old one broke soon after I started my blog so I have lots of catching up to do! This is my most recent piece called "Paris for Nikki". I did it for my friend Gail's daughter as she wanted to decorate her room in European art after her trip to Paris. I had lots of fun gathering all the images. It is done on watercolor block paper with black gesso and Tim Holts distress crackle paint in antique linen on top of gesso. Then some fun Mackenzi Childs tissue paper was used for back ground. I added some french text that I purchased from Lisa Vollrath's site. Then, I stenciled with a cool Eiffle Tower stencil from Club Scrap. An image from a '07 Vintage Map Calendar by Cavallini (my favorite) was placed lower right and several Cavallini Ephemera Stickers where added as well. I stamped with my Cavallini Bonjour Rubber Stamps too. It was great fun to work on for a Christmas present!

Birthday Banner

Here is a Birthday Banner I made for a friends 50th birthday! I also made a Halloween one but my digital camera just broke so I will have to wait to post a picture of that one!

More Banner

This a part of the Happy Birthday banner I made for a friend! Lots of fun to make!!

More Birthday Banner

This is the Happy section of the Birthday banner I did for a friend! I actually used a pre-made letter linked banner and covered each letter with glitter and then glued them onto the vintage paper background and then images and embellishments were added.

Time for Tea

This is a collage I did in my Altered Art group with a tea theme. I used images I obtained from google images as well as napkins, wrappng paper and tissue. I really enjoyed using the tea stamps my fellow altered artist brought to share. The background was done on a cold-pressed watercolor block with golden's paint. Enjoy!