"Welcome Home" Chalkboard Sign

With spring finally here on the East Coast, I decided I needed a little "welcome home" sign to welcome guest into our home. I started with a wooden sign that I primed with gesso added some crackle medium. When it was dry I painted the wooden sign with some acrylic paint in yellow ochre. Dragged Black Soot Distressed ink over the edges, I used a wet paint brush to smooth out the ink along with using different glimmer mist and perfect pearls powders to give a weathered look to the sign. Using stucco and gesso with a Prima mask adding a crackle all over the sign and chalkboard paper.

Canvas Corp makes different color clothespins which are amazing, I grabbed the natural clothespins and thought my graphite and slate blue glimmer mist would create a pretty weathered looking clothespins. I couldn't resist playing with color.

 Canvas Corp makes different colors of burlap sheets which are fabulous!!!! I took the slate grey one for frame the chalkboard paper (which is stinking amazing) hot glued them both down to the sign added some stucco paste to the chalkboard paper here and there to give some depth to the sign. Glued the two clothespins down to the sign...

"welcome" banner is so adorable created with canvas paper sheet that I ripped a piece of cut into squares stamped the word "welcome" using black Stazon. I cut little bigger squares from the Kraft E-Flute sheet stitched them all together on my sewing machine then added to the clothespins. I just love the raw material look against the chalkboard paper.

Added some flowers and glimmer misted seam binding and fibers from the slate grey burlap...the word "home" is written in actual chalk!!!

I just love this little sign and it's ready to greet guest into our home.

Hope you all enjoy, hugs Peggy Lee

http://pegbaker.blogspot.com

supplies:

Canvas Corp: chalkboard paper, colored burlap sheets, canvas sheets

kraft e-flute sheet, natural clothespins

Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist: tattered leather, graphite, slate, patina

turqouise, aquamarine

Ranger: Perfect Pearl Mist Patina, Perfect Pearls Powders: bronze, mint and cappuccino

Distressed Ink: Black Soot

BoBunny: Blossom Natural Earth Daisy flowers

Prima: Stencil crackle mask

Martha Stewart Stucco

Gesso

Folkart: crackle medium

Acrylic paint: yellow ochre

Seam binding

Mixed Media Monday

I got to have some creative play this week with a friend and knew I wanted to create a mixed media canvas for someone special. That is why there is no title on this art piece yet (I will post after I have mailed this art piece out)! This was a lot of fun to create...

It all started with a plan 6x6 canvas, I glued down some wrinkled natural tissue paper.

I forgot to snap a photo of me trying out my new find which was Martha Stewart Stucco Paint where I used Crafters Workshop stencils with Splash of Color Primary Elements: Majestic Blue-Costa Rica and Dragon Wing powders those are so cool to mixed with molding paste or stucco like I used.

I used my favorite Tim Holtz Sizzix die: Tattered Floral which I cut with Coraline fabric with some of my favorite Tattered Angels glimmer mist. I just love how the Coraline will hold it's shape while being dried. I also used some Petaloo flowers that came in white.

I used some Dusty Attic chipboard pieces, which I cut apart and gesso them with spraying glimmer mist to give a weathered look.

These are Tim Holtz Sizzix die: Gears gesso-glimmer misted!!!

I just love how they came out.

Here is a close up of the handmade flowers with a Prima flower.

The next sets of photos show case the textures of adding layers of:

gesso, stucco, glimmer mist and stamping.

the fibers are cheese cloth covered in glimmer mists....

oops-I was being lazy and used my hand to clean my stamp...lol

and whoola my finished canvas (only needs a title) and will be complete and I hope my friend that someone special will enjoy it.

Don't be afraid of mixed media grab a few supplies and just start playing, it's all about the layers...enjoy!!

Thanks for stopping in today, remember to leave a comment!!

Peggy Lee

http://pegbaker.blogspot.com

Supplies:

Splash of Color: Primary Elements

Martha Stewart: Stucco paint

Gesso

Ranger: Archival Black ink, stamps and Claudine Hellmuth Multi-Medium Matte

and Perfect Pearl Mist: Heirloom Gold, Blue Patina and Sunflower Sparkle and handmade distressed mixture of vintage photo and brushed corduroy.

and Tim Holtz Alternations Dies: Gears and Tattered Florals

Prima: flower

Petaloo: white flowers

Tattered Angels: Glimmer Mist

Turqouise Blue

Graphite

Aquamarine

Coffee shop

Melissa Frances: resin lock

Coraline

gems, cheese clothe

Dusty Attic: chipboard pieces

Fussy Cutting "Congrats Card"

 Good morning to all, it's a cloudy day here in New England with the temps reaching a low 30 degrees last night. It's a bit chilly this morning while having my hot cup of coffee curled up in a blanket. I just couldn't take my eyes off this little beauty, created out of Marion Smith's new printable kit "Garment District" which you can purchase over on her website at www.marionsmithdesigns.com. It's a lovely 8.5x11 prints that you can use in so many ways: cards, scrapbooking layouts, journals, wedding album, tags, altered art and so much more.

 Here is how I started: 

1. Printing all the digital pages out and start cutting,

2. Card base is white card stock cut down to 4 1/4 x 6.

3. First layer-cut down one of the printables to 4x5 3/4, and I ran that piece through the cuddle bug with a Tim Holtz embossing folder. Brushed distress ink pumice stone over the raised areas.

4. Cut a paper doilie (1/4 off) place over that embossing layer, (tip-don't glue down the top doilies that is showing-only the back side).

5. Created a small tag by tracing on a journal line printable, inked edges added some twine and button. Slide the tag under the Dollie.

6. Fussy cut out the roses from a printable sheet pop dotted it up to give some depth, punched out some tiny butterflies and adorned with little pretties trims/lace/mother of pearl buttons/gems. (every card needs some bling!)

7. Last used a tiny chipboard tag covered with some scraps from the first layer, stamped the word "Congrats" This will make a great wedding card, graduating card, or skies the limits.

 I just love the rustic chic feel of these printables!!

Here is a link to this amazing kit!

"Garment District"

I am so excited to see what you all will create with this fabulous, pretty kit! Please be sure to share with us on our facebook page "Artsy Addicts".

Have a wonderful week.

Peggy Lee

http://pegbaker.blogspot.com

supplies:

Garment District Printables Kit

white card stock

Sizzix Tim Holtz Alterations embossing folder

Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink-pumice stone

Martha Stewart-butterfly punch

CTMH-black ink, word stamp

Helmar 450 Quick Dry Adhesive & 3D pop dots

Little pretties-doilies, lace, twine, tulle, gems, vintage mother of pearl buttons

Fairy Belle - Meet Emily

Last week I shared with you my journal entries using my Sister In Law's maternity pictures. Well, Ms. Emily was due on July 11 and she decided on June 15 that she wanted to meet us all. 

Today - I am going to introduce you to the newest member of the Gibbs Clan -  Ms. Emily Jean Cunningham she arrived very healthy at 5lbs and 6oz and 17.5 inches long.  Our little Princess needed a layout fitting of royalty and Prima's Fairy Belle seemed to do the trick.

I took 2 sheets of the Fairy Belle 12x12 Paper -  Le Toulle is the top paper, and La Spa is the back paper.  Now this gets a bit tricky --on the La Spa paper I fussy cut around the top portion of the fairy at the top and used her as a pop out.   On the Le Toulle paper I cut out the center section, and used it as a frame over the La Spa.  Then added some dimensional tape between the two layers. Here are some close up pictures of those sections for a better idea.

Then I took the 6x6 paper and cut the fairies and flowers from it to use as layers around the photos.  I added a few of the Eline daisies from Prima and Pearl Centers. I used a Martha Stewart Punch with some Scrap Prima paper to make the daisy leaves for a little more layer.  Then sprinkled a little fairy dust with my Starlight - Clear Glitter Pin over all the stars and on the Eline flowers.  I know the sparkles don't show well in the photos but the layout has a subtle glimmer sprinkled here and there.

This is a Top view so you can see the dimensions. 

Thanks for stopping in today,

Tonya Gibbs

http://www.psychomoms.com

Resources:

• Prima:
• 12x12 Fairy Belle:  Le Toulle and La Spa
• 6x6 Fairy Belle Paper:  Firefly, Dream, Summer Dream
• Eline Small Daisies
• Flat back Pearls
• Scraps from the Annalee Paper Collection for the leaves.
• Martha Stewart Crafts
• Trio Butterfly Punch - used scraps from Fairy Belle paper.
• Branch Punch - scraps from Annalee Prima Paper Collection
•  Gelly Roll
• Black Pen (outlined punched butterflies)
• Starlight Pen (glitter accents on flowers and printed stars)
• Lace
• House of 3  - Digibrush  Precious Moments - Gratitude Brush Set