Puckish

Oooky Spooky Class

 This is a class I'm teaching in a couple of weeks.  It's all sold out (I ran out of castles!) but if you can snag the supplies, I've got clear shots of each page if you'd like to make one :-)

 

 

 

You'll need: 

Pink Paislee's Hocus Pocus Line, embellishments & papers

Walnut Stain Distress Crackle Paint

Kaisercraft Beyond the Page Castle Album

Black Vine Ribbon

Black Sheer Ribbon

Tim Holtz Rosette Die

Scallop Border Punch

Glue (I like Zip Dry)

 

 Make a pocket on the first page

 

 Make another pocket on the back of the page as well

 

 Punch holes in one of Hocus Pocus clear cards and use it as a page.

 

  Punch holes in another one of Hocus Pocus clear cards and use it as a page.

 

 Paint the rooftops with crackle paint.  When it dries go over it with distress ink.

 

Now go back through the book and apply stickers.  Fun and easy!  Just don't watch spooky movies while you are making it like I did.  I've got the heebie jeebies now!  I think I'll throw a Young Frankenstein Party and put the pictures in this album...

hehehe

Fall Magic WCMD 2011

Happy Monday, everyone!  It is a beautiful fall day, the leaves have changed, the mums are blooming, and the scarecrow is the next thing on my to do list :-)

 

It is the perfect day to announce the winner of this Fall Magic Box Kit!

Drumroll please.....

 

The winner is Pamela Young!  Your name literally fell in my lap during the drawing, lol.  Please e-mail me at donya at backroadsplumcrazy.com with your contact information by October 17th, 2011.

 

I taught this as a class this time last year at Door County Rubber Stamps in Egg Harbor.  We had so much fun!  Everybody made such beautiful boxes.  I think the most popular part was making the paper rose and coloring it with Twinkle H2Os.

 

Here are the instructions for everyone who wants to try this at home:  

 

Fall Magic Box

Well I hunted and hunted for the diagram I had made for folding the sturdy little origami box that makes up the heart of this project to no avail.  But hurrah! Splitcoast Stampers are the best :-) they had a step by step list of how to make it.  

Just go here: 

http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/resources/tutorials/origami_box/

 

Supply List Details:

• Stamps are all available at Backroads Plum Crazy or directly from Door County Rubber Stamps
• I used decorative paper from Cosmo Cricket Flueriste Paper (Vineyard & Dew Drops) & Cosmo Cricket Flueriste Cardstock Stickers on the inside of each notecard
• I used the Marvy Embossing Oak Leaf Punch and the McGill Designer Series punches to make the foilage out of vellum.  Since then Spellbinders has come out with some really excellent foilage dies that I would highly recommend.
• I stamped my main image, cut it out with Spellbinders Nested Maple Leaves (S4-228), colored the girl and branches with Copics, then created sky and leaves with a blending tool and distress ink.
• Brown Vine & the Antique Gold Silk Ribbon are from May Arts and are to die for.  Swoon.

 

That's all for today folks!  If you have trouble with any of the steps or questions, don't hesitate to shoot me an e-mail. Have fun and thanks for visiting!

 

 

Burlap is the New Black

I ordered in these awesome stretched burlap canvases from Canvas Corp for the shop.  Having made this project, I'm beginning to wonder if I'm going to be able o share the boxful.  They are awesome.

 

 I had fun in the cornfield taking pictures of my little project.  So handy.  Hope the renter doesn't mind if I bent a few of his ears are artistically arranged.

 Supplies Used:

• Canvas Corp 12x12 Burlap Canvas
• Prima Alder Regent Flowers
• Prima Pearls and Roses Swirl
• Tea Dye Distress Embossing Powder
• Graphic 45 Magic of Oz Paper-  Scatterbrained Scarecrow, The Magic of Oz, There's No Place like Home
• Alphabet Stencil & Black Paint
• Vintage Photo & Black Soot Distress Ink
• Foam Dots
• Dried Wheat

 Directions:

1. Fussy cut out  Scatterbrained Scarecrow paper.  Stencil the burlap canvas with black paint.

 

2. Add a little distress embossing powder in a pleasing manner.

 

3. Add some pearly swirls

4. Give the Dorothy quarter of There's No Place Like Home Paper a little rough love.

 

5. Then a little rub with distress ink to make it all better.

6. Fussy cut out Dorothy and the Scarecrow.  While your are at it cut out the Magic of Oz banner from The Magic of Oz paper.

10. Glue the red No Place Like Home square you just distressed to the Magic of Oz banner.

11. Tuck a little wheat behind.

12. Add the straw colored flowers and a little more wheat.

And there you have your very own!  Have fun :-)

Magic of Oz

 

I grew up in Kansas.  It wasn't black and white.  Sometimes it felt pretty sepia toned, especially when I was in high school.  I have to say I'm glad to be living in full technicolor now.  I think that Iowa (where I live now) might still be stuck in an episode of Green Acres. That isn't all bad, what with quirky characters and the occasional adorable pig.  But sometimes, just sometimes, it's time to run away to Oz.

Handily, I ust got the new Graphic 45 Magic of Oz paper.  Sometimes you need one of everything.  Especially Graphic 45 anything.  In which case you might need two of everything :-)

I made me some home decor.  I think Dorothy is your happy medium of happiness and good wholesome Midwesterness.  And then like little good and bad angels on each shoulder, you've got your witches.

 Glinda makes my teeth hurt. But you have to give her points for character.  Not just everyone can carry off a crown that big.  Takes serious Personality (with a capital P)

The Wicked Witch rocks.  Everybody loves a bad ass :-) and the flying monkeys.  That's just genius.

And of course you must have fabulous shoes.  Must.

Supplies Used:

Graphic 45 Magic of Oz Collection-

• Parcel Post
• Goblin Gazette
• The Magic of Oz

Door County Rubber Stamps-

• Trick or Treat Witch
• Trick or Treat Fairy

Misc.-

• 8x10 Oval Mat
• Tim Holtz Rosette Die
• Ruby Stickles
• Vintage Photo Distress Ink

 

A Tisket A Tasket

My first hanging basket:

I am so sad that I can't get the Eliza collection paper from Anna Griffin any more.  I used the tar out of that collection, it was so versatile.  And it mixes so nicely with Rose Edgeability die (like I used on the trim here).  On the other hand the new collections a pretty gorgeous, as usual, hard to feel too put out.

To make your own hanging basket is very easy, you only need one sheet of double sided paper (if you want a pretty inside) and embellishing with Spellbinder dies makes you get a real bang for your buck .  To make this exact one you'll need:

S4 044 Rose Edgeability
S3 033 Cameo & Brooch
Anna Griffin 1046 (pale blue ribbon swag)
Anna Griffin 1054 (green pattern)
Anna Griffin 1037 (polka dot stripe)
Prism White Cardstock
Worldwin Doublemate Chocolate Malt
Copic R81 Rose Pink
Copic RV06 Cerise
Copic G24 Willow
Copic Airbrush System
Walnut Ink in a spritzer bottle
Black Ink Pad
Spray Glue
White glue
1/8” wide red line tape
Scrapbook Adhesives Foam Squares
Petaloo Tuscan Brown Velvet Hydrangea
Copper foil
Bee Charm
Tassel
Fancy Pants Crush Ribbon (blue lace)
Offray Ivory 1 1/2” double face satin ribbon (I have an addiction to this stuff, can't have too much)

And here's the obsessively step-by-step instructions:

Replicate the bee charm in copper foil.  Fill in the back with white glue and set aside to dry.

Use spray glue to attach blue paper back to back with green printed paper.
Using a compass, draw from corner to corner to form an arc on paper.  Cut along the line.
Put a line of red line tape along one straight edge and roll paper into a cone.
Cut a row of polka dots off of polka dotted paper and use it to trim the inside top of the cone.
Spritz the outside of the cone with walnut ink, wipe off excess and set aside to dry.

Cut and emboss Rose Edgeabilities out of white cardstock.
Airbrush through the die using Copic markers.
Pop the paper out of the die and cut off the frame part of the edgeability so all you have are roses.
Distress roses to age them.
Cut and emboss Cameo & Brooch out of the brown cardstock so the lighter brown side of the paper is the one embossed.
Stencil through the die using black ink.

Punch holes on each side of the cone, then thread and knot the satin ribbon through them to form a handle.
Feed the tassle through the bottom of the cone and hold in place with tape on the inside of the cone.
Use the big rose panel to trim the front top edge of the cone.
Put red line tape around the top of the cone and stick the blue lace trim to it.
The little roses then get glued down on either side of the main rose panel (over the blue lace).
Attach cameo frame and rose embossed center to the front middle of the cone with foam squares to make it stand out.
Embellish with velvet flowers and the copper foil bee charm.

tres jolie

I filled it with some random dried yard weeds and roses made from crepe paper.  Now it hangs on the door to Rosie's Room at the Dairy Barn B&B, serving no good purpose but being pretty.
Don't forget to check Ellen's Blog today for your chance to win a set of the new pierceability dies (which would work really well for basket trim too ;-)

Time to go join a parade! Happy 4th of July Everyone!