Altered boxes

Have you ever gotten those beautiful smelling soaps in those little boxes that the drawer pulls out? Have you ever wondered what to do with them?

Well I had 2 of them, and I decided to put them together.

 I have a lot of the romantic novel papers , from Marion Smith, I also have some of her digital printout papers, that go with that line,
they are called vintage telegram, she also has a new digital printout, vintage telegram rolled rose .

 You can find her products here

http://www.marionsmithdesigns.com/shop-1/digital-templates.html?limit=all

  I used the paper line romantic novel for the main covering , then I used the digital printable extras , with the rolled rose , for the extras .

 again I took these pictures into creative suite, and changed up the background .

This is the left side view as you can see, I put 2 of the soapboxes together .
 Printed out the coin envelope and attached it to the left side,
 inside the envelope are 3 to 4 tags for notes.
I used a 6 x 6 paper pack which fit with just a little trimming along the side .
you can also see the drawer fronts, I had 2 leftover Tim Holtz drawer pulls and used those.

 

  here's the right side

 with the romantic novel line, you could get these mini clothespins that matched.

I attached it further back on the right side, so that I could add extra ephemera, and also give me a place for extra notes .

 I printed out the tags and stamps from Marion Smith printables and use them in the clip .

  here's the top view
 I used a tag from the paper line as the top paper, it fit perfectly .
 added some Prima pearls ,a trinket from the paper line, a little Prima rose, that I had sprayed with glimmer mist.
 Now the two large roses that you see, and also the green leaves, are from the Marion Smith's printable rolled roses.
 I love how they turned out.

 If you ever get any of those soaps that come in those cardboard boxes, with the pullout drawer.
 don't throw them out
 don't just stuff things in them and hide them away
 alter them
  you can see the possibilities are endless.
 

Another tutu

Hey everyone got another tutu done.
 If you're wondering where I get my inspiration for these, the lady over at Kell Belle,

http://www.kellbellestudio.blogspot.com/
 

has a corset diaries going on this year, and she gives you the patterns for the bodice.
While these corset diaries corsets, are gorgeous they are also basically flat paper items .  She does show you that she's made a 3-D corset , but doesn't show you how to do it .I have used her patterns added a side panel to them, to make a form. And over this form I make the papier-mâché  bodice .
 which I then cut off the form,and then in this way I can reuse the form.
While hers are all basically paper , . The only part  of mine that is paper, is the bodice and then I use ribbons, and tulle, and lace . . Basically I make it my own .
 Also instead of just posting regular pictures , I took my pictures into creative suite, and there did a little fussy background with them , so I hope you like it and here's my pictures .

 

Here she is

The front view.

 I think I will call this one

Willow Fae.

 she is decked out with the papier-mâché bodice of ,   

 ivy green, being the upper part, with a mauve under bust, then over these colors are rubbings of perfect pearls copper dust . She has a chocolate tulle skirt, with a mauve floral ribbon, below the waistline, and as the shoulder strap . She also has 2 wild orchid miniature roses, at the center front waistline . . At the very top of the under bust is a row of mauve liquid pearls.
( by the way the hanger is a Kell Belle project, she has the tutorial on her site .)

 

 Okay here's the back view
 I have the bodice being laced from the top to the middle, and from the bottom to the middle so the bow is in the center of the bodice.
 I used seam binding that I colored with sugar Maple and vintage pink glimmer mist .

 

 this is a side view just showing how dimensional this tutu is . 

The bodice itself is 3 inches high, and the overall tutu, from the top of the straps to the bottom of the tulle measures 10 inches.. So this is pretty good-sized.

 

I made this tutu out of paper mache, ribbon, little flowers, and trims.

I think it turned out beautifully.

Front view

I did paint the paper mache dress part

side view

 I got this by using wired ribbon and cutting the wire part off at the top, and then flaring the pleats out that I put into the ribbon before attaching. I also added gathered tulle under the ribbon

 

 

And the back view

 I drilled holes through the dress form, and after putting on the skirt ,and bodice trim, I then threaded the seam binding through for the tie.

I am  going to make more of these. And can't wait to see how they turn out.



Got some more cork ornaments done

I just love doing these. It's also neat when you go to drill the hole through the cork you can smell the wine. Yum.

All you need is a string or chain, buttons, charms, beads and glue.

And the main item A wine cork

Vintage camera

 

 

 

 

So did a video this time. to big a project for pictures. Hope you enjoy.

This is a Paper Phenomenon, and a family history saving project.

 

SHORT PROJECT

So I saw these Cork ornaments on Pinterest, and I thought they were gorgeous. One thing nice about them, is you get to enjoy drinking a bottle of wine to get the Cork. So I decided to try it and here is a picture of what I came up with.

I think my favorite is the one with the birds nest at the top, although the bee is pretty neat.

Okay you're wondering what you do with these besides just hanging them around. well you put them around the neck of a wine bottle, would that not  make a terrific gift, a bottle wine, and a wine cork ornament, in a wine box. Now my mind is going. And I'm going to have to figure out how to do a wine box. So I hope you like the picture. Please ignore  that little section hanging down from the bee on the right hand side . I hadn't taken the heat gun to it to get rid of all the glue webs ,but it's gone now.

February's bonus project 2013

So I just finished my paper phenomenons February 2013 bonus project the paper that I used is DCWV the butterfly garden. Shown below are some of the pages of this awesome project. It took me three days to complete this. The first day I cut and scored all the pages, the second day I put it together, and the third day I matted.

 This is the front of the project. In it's folded position

 

 Close-up of the Tim Holtz pins that I used as a closure for the flap

 

 This I'm showing opening the flap and there is a large 8 x 10 photo Matt in a pocket

 

 Here is the first page completely open, on the far left with the yellow paper is the photo Matt that's in the pocket, in the center is an other photo Matt, what you see on the far right is the flap that closes the unit up.

 

On opening it up one more time.You see to the left a pocket with the black photo Matt, three pockets in the center with three black photo Matt's, two more little pockets that will hold luggage tags on both sides of he centr matts. On the right you can see that there's another section to be opened.

 

This is what you see when you open the second section, you see there are six little pockets with six black photo mats, and I just put a stationary photo Matt in the center of the bottom . To the right of that is another pocket with the another black photo Matt

 Then if you flip the page one more time, you see this section which are six little flip pockets with the pink photo mats that come out  

When you flip all of those open, it reveals another section, that has six photo matt pockets, and behind those are pink  photo mats, that slides completely out .

 

And then finally closing it all back up. you see the back of the project.

 There are so many areas, in which to place photos, and journaling, that you'll find yourself opening and closing this book alot.This was a very fun project to make .

 

Traveling watch box

I finally got something done. It's been a while winter was not easy on people this year. So finally got some energy and decided to make the gentleman crafter's traveling watch box. The papers I use was recollections Regent Street. We needed to get my husbands watches in one place as he inherited some from his dad. I thought this would be the perfect project.

Picture showing the box closed with the handle and the hinges using Tim Holtz on the edge

 gears

Looking at the open box down from on top .( hey. Jim do you see the top hats. LOL.) for the inside hinges

.. I also used the gear punch.

  Nice view of the front. With both trays open  

 the watches are on a watchband holder that you make, and lift out of there, with the two tabs showing on the sides that are sticking up.

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this is a full side view with both trays open .

this was a pretty fun project , and is still available on gentleman Jim's older website .

 so thanks for looking and hope you like the project

 

 

Finally pictures in a mini album

With all the mini books that we make, I have finally put two pictures into one of the books. The rest of the book my daughter can put their own pictures in. This is a very belated anniversary gift. So here are the two pictures of the two pictures, in a mini album.LOL.

                 I figured I would put my daughter walking down the aisle in the top picture, and the picture below is a picture of my son-in-law on the second page.

And believe me the pictures didn't look like this, I had to take them into Photoshop and really work with them, the pictures of her wedding did not turn out very well . The photographer was not very good, so. I had to take out all the clutter, all the people in the background, and all the white splotches  all over the pictures . So yeah I think I'm done with the pictures .

 

And then for the rest of the album. I figured if they wanted anymore of their wedding pictures in they could put them in themselves . And then for the rest of the book, they can pick out favorite pictures of their lives as they progress through their marriage.

 this way maybe one of the mini albums will actually get pictures put into a more than just these two.

 anyone else have this type of problem  mini albums not so many pictures . 

Projects made from gentleman crafter's site

                 So the gentleman crafter's site had a couple projects, I just had to make.
    The first one being carriage clocks, I only have pictures of the first one, which is the whitewashed one I made for my craft room. I'll have to go to hubbies place of business to get pictures of the one that's on his desk as it is steam punk and goes in with his style right now.

This is showing the front view of the clock  and the color of the hands is created by using alcohol inks.

This is just showing the top view and how I decorated it .

 

 

 

AND NOW

 

 this next picture I made for hubbies office space.

  it just screamed out to be made .

 

A HOT AIR BALLOON ORNAMENT

 

 now I couldn't find the foil material that he used , so I got my thinking cap on and thought, why not use aluminum foil , so I cut strips to fit into my xyron sticker maker , and ran it through. then I cut the strips into littler strips and started adhering them to the ornament .when it came time to apply the black paint and wipe it off.  None of the paint stayed on the foil, not even in the creases, so I get my thinking cap on, what else can I use to color aluminum foil . Ta Daa!   I used alcohol inks , . I think it turned out pretty well for not being able to have all the right equipment that he used .

 

And other project finished

This one I've been working on for a while, I have already made a gas pump before,  but this one is for my grandson. Someone else from our P.I.T.A. babes made her gas pump into a bank. So that's what I did with this one. I turned it into a bank, with his favorite critters (dinosaurs).

The dinosaur that is on the top. I cut out of shrinky-dink and then shrunk it and it fits right inside the circle .

This is a close-up of the front of the bank, what it says is:

this sale

  $1,000,000.00

  2,000,000

gallons at

.50

cents per gallon

 

 and in the bottom part says

 Fossil

Fuel

 

 doesn't really show it as well in the picture, but when you're looking at it in real life, it looks like the area where the words are printed on has been ambered.  What I did, I took regular typing paper distressed it with vintage photo distress ink.

 and then I took and put clear embossing powder on top of it an embossed it, it soaked completely through the typing paper , and made it look like it was in Amber .

 this picture is showing the back view, and the area you would put the coins in

 even though I turned the gas pump into a coin bank, I still made the little matchbook holders that would go inside, there are three and I'malso showing you the little photo cards I made to put inside. and what else would you put inside the dinosaur bank and it's matchbook covers but pictures of dinos. really enjoyed making this one a very easy project .

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Wow it's been a long time

Boy has it been a long time. So I finally got my act together, and got some pictures taken of my finished crafts. So let's start off with the first one. This one I think is the most fantastic item that I have made from a tutorial yet. Kathy from paper phenomenon really out did herself on this one. So here a couple of pictures of my completed project.

 

 

 

I love how this turned out. And it's really hard to believe it is all made from chipboard paper and a few knickknacks here and there.

So time consuming so much fun

This project is very time-consuming, and so much fun to make. The pattern was given to us by our own OZGRAN. And she did a fantastic job coming up with this pattern, and then to share with everyone, what a wonderful lady. So this is my version, with the colors that I want to use in my craft room, and with a slight little twist.

It's hard to tell by the picture, what I did with the painting is I slathered on so much paint just willy-nilly, and not very neat, and made it look like the farmhouse that had paint on paint on paint on paint. I added a little bit of pink in with the white, and then I took antique linen distress ink and edged all around it. I used romance novels paper. And here's the twist. While the tower is on a swivel, at the top( my hubby had an old metal swivel piece, he's had it for years and years and years)
 so I took it made a round base added a half inch rim around it using a paper hinge and glue method. Then I took a strip of paper and paper punched the edge, and added it around the round base. So the tower swivels and the Lazy Susan on top swivels. Ie tower is filled with  distress inks (whoa is me not very full :( ), and at the top, I put alcohol inks, a distressing handle, and the alcohol solution. Also something that I did on the underside of the distress inks cases, Iput a round sticky Velcro,( the side with the teeth ) and when I take this sponge off  the handle I stick it to the bottom of the case and insert it all into the tower, so distress ink and sponge are altogether. Love love love this project.

My I'm not a wedding album

So Kathy did a project on paper phenomenon, a wedding album. Mine is not a wedding album, LOL. This was also a very easy project. The fabric you see on the outside used to be white velvet. I took and glimmer misted it to get the color that I wanted.

 This is the front, and as you can see on the fabric. Yes, I did use two different colors of glimmer mist. I remember one being Maple and can't remember what the other one was.

When you open the box up you have a standalone double-sided picture frame

And there are two albums inside the box . They're both shown here ,but what I did was on one album . The pages  that have a flap I used a key. On the other album the pages  that has flaps, I used the keyhole .So hope you guys like the project and colors that I used, wish I could remember the paper line.

Traveling case

This was a kit club project from paper phenomenon. Love how it turned out

. The only difficulty I had with this project, was trying to take the pictures. Thank goodness there's a lock on the case, as Mr. image kept trying to get inside of it and knocking it over.

And this is showing the inside of the case. There is plenty of room for a lot the pictures. The little booklet on the right was a bonus project for kit club members. I did it up in the same papers and added it to this project.

 

And still another

I made gentleman crafter's remote caddy. One for myself and one for my husband side of the couch. Valhalla was really impressed with how they turned out, he wanted me to make for more for his employees at work. He also wanted papers to represent each person's personality or what they're interested in. So here's the pictures of ours at home and the ones with employees. Oh, and one of them was a special one for himself the boss in steam punk for work.

This one is Allan's for at home

. This one is mine

this one is for Alan my hubby for at work

and this is the side view

. This one's for woman and she likes exercising a lot . could not find anything . Exercise themed. So what I did this I used this paper and on the side is bike, and all summer long she's always out riding her bike .

This one is for a golfer

This is a side view of the bike and the golfers

This one is for a gentleman who was in the Marine Corps

And this is showing the close-up of the front .

 Is says duty, honor , pride .

 

These are also very easy to make double chipboard and very sturdy .