Altered shoes

I made these shoes for the Art Hive's Fall Fallies Fashion Show which is being held this Saturday night (Sept 27th). The one pair were modge podged with vintage pages from a Ragedy Ann & Andy and a vintage romance book. They were then embellished with silk flowers and vintage buttons from my grandmother's stash.

The other pair were inspired by this great mixed media artist at Eclectic Visions of an Altered Journey blog who did a pair of childrens shoes with this technique using carpenters liquid nails and a heat gun. After getting my desired texture I then painted it with a shimmery blue and green paint then rub and buffed it with gold. The embellishments are old earings and feathers I found at our local second hand store. They look like snakes to me.

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Link to a great site

Here's a great site I have recently found. Love all the great inspiration!

http://inspiremeinspireyou.blogspot.com/2008/06/iim-1-rak-winner.html

Thanks for looking :)

You Colour My World

This mini album was made for a class that I was teaching on making a mini album out of recycled materials. It was hard for me not to use any of my new products but I did make a rule that no product could be opened and only scrap paper could be used. The cover was made with an old fleece sweater I had that I dyed with acrylic paints. The paper underneath the cover picture is the wax paper I used to dye the shirt and buttons. His wings are part of the shirt as well that I put on a tin lid so that they would have shape. The stickers were just old ones I had. The bones of the album is made from flooring samples that were tossed out from our lumber yard. The ribbons were all scraps. The inside pages were all made with scraps as well. I did use an album that CD Muckosky has done as inspiration and did use some of her quotes on the inside tabs. Thanks for looking.

Party Hat

I made this party hat for the Art Hive's 'Be ONE with the Hive' celebration. I have been wanting to do some kind of mixed media collage style piece for a while. The paper on the hat and on the plate are from the receipt books we use at the Hive. These receipt books were for the old Welshes General Store (http://www.thearthive.com/) All the work bees are the current artist at the Hive. The artists on the banner are the founding members. I made the flowers out of tissue paper, kleenex, feathers and fibres. The little girl on the hat is actually my hubby's aunt. The paper on the wings and on the banner are from this old french poetry book that my grandmother treasured. My hubby took the picture that is inside the base of the cake stand. I made the stand out of a parfait glass and a plate that I decoupaged. I had so much fun making this! Thanks for looking!

SOOOOO Excited!!!!!

I can't believe it! I finally have my dream tool! The new Pazzle Inspiration. I bought it to help me cut out my labels for my all-natural bath products I make but really.... I got it for scrapbooking! I can't believe it's been sitting here for two weeks... We are renovating our house and I have no where to put it as it does require quite a bit of real-estate. Will post when I finally use it... :) Yipeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!

Older Mini Albums

I decided to post some pictures of some older albums that I made. The first one was made for my mom in 2005 for mother's day. I don't have a listing of the supplies used but I do remember that I only used 2 sheets of patterned paper for the whole album. The album measures approx 3x3. I made the accordion out of cardstock and had a quote on one side and a picture on the other. Since I love to sew on my pages I tried to have at least one side sewn. The second album was made to match my mother's day one for my step father. I also made one for my father but he lives out of the country and I never took pictures. This album was made with the same little box that I used for the mother's album. The third album was made this past Christmas as they are now grandparents. I used an old cigar box and four 4x4 mini albums I bought at Dollarama. I used a variety of papers (again no source) and rubons/stickers. I do know that I used quite a bit of Melissa Frances products (my favourite!).
Thanks for looking!
Stacy

Songbird Challenge - first digital layout

Hello All,

Here is my first attempt at digital scrapbooking! I created this layout in response to a scraplife challenge from this great website called Songbird Avenue http://songbirdavenue.com/blog/ this site has great kits every month and the proceeds go to a charity. This month the kits proceeds go to the MS Society. This organization does great things. I know as my stepdad has MS.

The layout I scraplifted can be found here: http://twopeasinabucket.kaboose.com/pg.asp?cmd=display&layout_id=1247758 and this is my take on this layout with the Fresh Outlook kit.

Stacy