Memorial Day Inspiration "Flying Flags" by Peggy Lee

This past Monday was our Memorial Day Holiday, our family

always celebrate with watching the Memorial Day Parade.

My hubby marches every year...

My heart is always full of joy, grace and grateful to all who are and have served.

Thank You to them all, even the ones who are left behind will they serve.

I love to take a photo of the flags flying every year!

I wanted a way to gaze upon it's beauty and be reminded everyday...so I created this 

Mixed Media Scrapbook Layout of the Flying Flags!

Love the USA!

I used drywall tape as a stencil, I laid it down and scrapped 

stucco over it, then pulled it up...it leaves great texture!!

I also used some other stencils as well.

I did some random stamping, sprayed and splattered

my favorite mists, color washes...and gesso watered down.

I found some metal letters in my stash...perfect for this layout....I am going to frame this

layout and hang it on our wall to honor my hubby and our family members who have served.

Thanks for stopping in today,

hugs

Peggy Lee

http://pegbaker.blogspot.com

Nirvana Christmas Card!!

Good morning and welcome to December!!!

It's Christmas Time...

To start our celebration here in our home, I have started to collect the

Holiday decorations, and also create some one of a kind 

home decor...

Who doesn't make Christmas Cards? 

I do make special ones for my special family and friends...

But I also love to make a few and leave them around my home in my decorations!

Here is one I've created using 

Marion Smith's new paper collections "Nirvana"!!

I love the vintage feel...earth tones...and of course touches

of trims and lace!

I just love this image of the little girl that is on 

one of the embellishment pages.

This little image could be my youngest daughter..so I knew

I wanted to use this image in my decor displays with pics 

of my girls...love it

Vintage sheet music I used to create the Rosette...

Used a Tim Holtz stencil with gesso to create the 

background.

wooden tree

dollar store snowflake

I just love the color tones in the "Nirvana" paper collection!

now to create some more holiday decor!!

Happy December!

Everyone..

and
Merry Christmas,

Peggy Lee

http://pegbaker.blogspot.com

Supplies

Marion Smith Designs-Nirvana Paper Collection

Tim Holtz-stencil Dot Fade  

Ranger-Distress ink-Vintage Photo and

Liquid Pearls white opal

Tattered Angels-glimmer mist Graphite

CTMH-Glitz silver glitter gel

trims and lace

Holiday Sunshine Tags!!!

Good morning everyone..

Peggy Lee here bringing you a little "Holiday Sunshine" cheer in tags!

With the holidays right around the corner from us, I knew creating my own holiday tags was a must!!

It warms the heart of someone special to receive a beautiful 

handmade tag on a gift, or as a gift to adorn their gifts, trees etc.

"Holiday Sunshine Tags"

using the Sunshine My Mind's Eye paper collection.

With no direction I just sat down and started creating...covering shipping tags.

Adding texture with drywall tape, gesso and stucco...

Sprays and splatters of different mists

chipboard pieces, twines, burlap, flowers and buttons...

**do you see the fresh fallen snow**

that's right I went outside this morning in 10 degrees bitter cold temps

to capture the photos in the beautiful sunshine. :)

every tag needs a little glimmer of gold...

Viva-Precious Metal Effect Paints in Gold!

I just love taking a color flower and adding different 

sprays of glimmer mists, color shine, perfect pearls

plus precious metal effect paints...

make your own flowers

to match your projects.....love them!

Happy Holidays

hugs,

Peggy Lee

http://pegbaker.blogspot.com

Supplies:

My Mind's Eye-Sunshine Lost & Found two

Viva-Precious Metal Effects Paint in gold

Ranger-Perfect Pearls Mists in blue patina, heirloom gold and biscotti

Distress ink-walnut stain

Distress stain-forest moss and bundled sage

Tattered Angels-glimmer mist raven 

plain jane glimmer mist in blue bird baseboard

Heidi Swapp-color shine in teal and tinsel

Prima-flowers

stucco/gesso

gems, twine, burlap, buttons

chipboard pieces

drywall tape

"Time To Smell The Roses" Tag

I was sitting at my craft table and looking at my creative mess...and realized how many gears I had cut up and didn't used on my Altered Book project that I created last week.

Oversized tag came to mind!

I decided to cut 2 oversize chipboard tags out and glued them together.

Glued down tissue paper (wrinkled) with gel med.

Sprayed with Raven Glimmer Mist.

Using some stucco/gesso mixture and a brick mask from CraftersWorkshop.

Started laying down texture here and there on the tag.

also ran the texture along the sides of the tag.

white washed over the layers once dried.

Tore up some cheese cloth...

glued down some of my gear scraps...

Looking around my crafty table I started to find

little bits & pieces...

the roses where pink but just by spraying some

raven glimmer mist-love the black color with glimmer.

tucked in some chicken wire and pearls.

Creating this oversized tag reminded me...

it's a time to relax and smell the beauty around me.

"time to

smell

the roses"

Thanks for stopping in today,

Peggy Lee

http://pegbaker.blogspot.com

supplies:

chipboard

gear die cuts-leftovers

cheeseclothe

chicken wire/pearls

roses, tiny roses

say it in crystals gems

stucco/gesso

glimmer mist

perfect pearl mists

A Little Shabby.....

I was playing with some textures and color with mists...so I decided to create a couple of shipping tags with Marion Smith's new "Scarlet" printable digitals that you can purchase at www.marionsmithdesigns.com.

Using a stucco/gesso mixture and a mask created texture on the paper cover tags. Then spraying different mist here and there to add color/tones to the tags...and splats of glimmer mist!!!

On this blue-ish tone tag, I made a sikly handmade flower with pearls, tucked in some colored Petaloo (color me crazy) flowers cut in half. Took a tag embellishment cut from "Scarlet" embellishment digital sheet, cut the tag in half and tucked behind the silky flower. Punched out a butterfly also out of the "Scarlet" digital page...Also added texture and painted the chipboard cherry blossom piece. Last bit of touches was adding vintage seqins and pearl stickpin... 

 

This tag with demask stucco/gesso texture background with pinks/brown tones of color...so shabby chic!

Distressed a paper doily, with fuzzy cutting out rose, butterfly, and lady digital embellishments from the "Scarlet" digital collection. Of course this little tag needed some vintage frames and pink flowers with lace and seam binding....

Here are some pics of the steps for creating the backgrounds...

Digital papers covering the tags

and

Adding texture with stucco/gesso with Prima Masks....

Adding color with different mists...

don't forget the splatters!!!!

and the pink tag...

Hope enjoyed this little blog post sharing creating some gift tags...with textures and mist...

Thanks for stopping by,

Peggy Lee

http://pegbaker.blogspot.com

http://www.marionsmithdesigns.com/scarlet-12x12-8x8-or-6x6-printable-papers-and-embellishments-please-sign-into-an-account-before-purchase.html

Supplies:

Marion Smith Designs-Scarlet digitals

Shipping Tags

Stucco/Gesso

Tattered Angels: Graphite, English Ivy, Tutti Fruitti glimmer mist

Ranger: Perfect Pearls Mists-Blue Patina

Brushed Cordurory re-inker mixture spray

Stickles: Icicle

Hero Arts: pearls/gems

The Dusty Attic: cherry blossom chipboard pieces

Melissa Frances: vintage frames

Martha Stewart: butterfly punch

Prima: Mask-crackle and demask

Petaloo: Pink Flora Doodles, Color Me Crazy flowers

Doily, seam binding, pearls and vintage sequins...

Nail Art Plaque - CHA Project

 

Hi everyone, I'm really excited today to share with you a project that I created for the Canvas Corp, Marion Smith, 7Gypsies and Tattered Angels booth at the Summer Create -n- Connect 2013 Show (also known as summer CHA). 

 

 

I wanted to create a vibrant mixed media piece with the luscious Tattered Angel's Blue Green mediums but wanted it to be a bit unusual. I was inspired by some string art projects that I found on Pinterest.   Since I live in Florida I decided to theme my project around the beach.

I pulled out all of my Tattered Angels sprays in blues, turquoise, and mint greens.   (colors used are  listed under the photo)

Glimmer Mists: True Turquoise (not pictured),  Lake Shore, Caribbean Blue, Bubbles, Mantis,  Maya Blue, Chalkboard Glimmer Mist:  Sandy Beach, Mantis,  Plain Jane: Sky, and Glimmer Glam: Palm Leaf

 

 

I started by painting my unfinished wooden plaque with white full bodied gesso.  Once it was dry, I began building layers of the Tattered Angels Glimmer, Plain Jane and Chalkboard sprays all over the surface. I started with the blues and added small amounts of the greens to give the colors of the Florida coast line.  I then mixed in some of the Palm Leaf Glam and hit is with my heat gun causing the glaze to crackle and provide texture.  This texture gives the illusion of looking through the water to ground below. I love how all the glimmer swirled to give the piece movement and depth.  I made sure this surface was very  dry before starting the next step.  

 

I made a paste of clear Elmer's Glue & Sea Shells - I spread this paste across the plaque diagonally.  I encouraged the dripping along the sides of the plaque for interest.  The Glue is so thick that it took a long time to be completely dry.  I let it sit for at least 24 hours.    

 

I combined modeling paste and full bodied gesso into a paste and spackled some irregular lines  to give the illusion of waves crashing the shore.  I also spread a little of this into the shells to give the look of sea mist. 

 

Once EVERYTHING was completely dry I sprayed the entire plaque with a clear Acrylic Spray paint to seal the Glimmer mists.  I didn't want them to get wet and run.

 

For the star,  I started with a silhouette starfish image that I found on the Internet.   I printed it the size of my plaque. I went out to the garage and found used rusty nails (they need the flat head on top to make sure the twine doesn't slip). The nails were about 2 inches long. I nailed around the perimeter of the star pattern, and removed the pattern from the plaque before wrapping my twine. The Canvas Corp twine was the perfect "rustic" style to give my start fish life.

 

This was a super simple project that resulted in a cute home decor item.  I think I might hang this  in my guest bathroom.  

 

Thanks for stopping in today,

 

Tonya Gibbs

http://www.psychomomscrapbooks.blogspot.com

 

 

 

 

Tattered Dress Form Canvas Art

I have been adding texture to this canvas piece for awhile now...every time I used some stucco and gesso with stencil mask I would use up the extra onto this canvas.

I created the dress form for another project that I haven't finished so the inspiration for the background colors came from the dress form.

Dress form I white washed with gesso, grunge it up with Distress Ink Brushed Corduroy with water.

Then started dripping Tattered Angels glimmer mist down the sides of the dress form

and letting it run down and around the body.

Stamped the dress form with a few 7gpysies stamps with archival black ink.

 You can just keep adding layers of mist, ink!!

Oh don't forget to do glimmer splats...

I learned this techqinue from Marion Smith a few years back on grunging a dress form.

I knew I wanted to create some paper cone wing shape wreath..

Cut up an olde scrabble game pages into 2x2 squares

and began to roll into a cone shape, glued down

and tucked behind the dress form.

White washed the cones with a few little sprays of glimmer mist to match the background

and more splats!!

Oh adding a chain with dangles with a Petaloo Color Me Flower..

with glimmer mist and stamping

creates adorable touch.

close up of the stamping

Oh I love how the stamping shows up on the Petaloo flower!!!

Finial touch was adding a Art-i-Cake headpin to the top of

dress form...

Love the texture of the canvas background! I encourage you to grab some Tattered Angels Glimmer mist, paints and start playing....you never know where the art piece will lead you.

Thanks for stopping by today,

Peggy Lee

http://pegbaker.blogspot.com

Supplies:

Tattered Angels: Simply Sheer-Baby Blue

Glimmer Mist-Aquamarine, Graphite, Tattered Leather, Raven and Slate

7gypsies: stamps

Petaloo: Color Me flowers

Canvas Corp: Mixed Media Glue

Prima: Mask-crackle and demask

Tim Holtz-wing/heart die

Ranger: Distress Ink-Brushed Corduroy, Archival ink black

Embossing Folder

Scrabble book pages

Stucco/Gesso

Art-i-Cake: Head Pin

Paper Mache' Dress Form

Chain, gems, buttons, jewelry bits.

ATC: Americana

 A few weeks ago when I was creating my 4th of July art to decorate around my home, a group of my friends decided we should start swapping ATC with each other...so here is my little goodie!
Our theme of course was "Americana"
I used the 7gypsies Epicuream papers with adding some stucco/gesso with a crackle mask and stamping to create the ATC background texture.

 Flag was super awesome to create: on the flag stamp I used distress ink faded jean-I inked it up only the star part in distress ink then carefully dabbed a brush loaded with water on the stamp (just a hit and miss) then stamp it onto Canvas Corp textured handmade paper allow to dry...gives a great water color effect.
The same steps with the red stripes on the flag using distress ink barn door after dried cut out flag distress edges and glue to a toothpick that has been stained with distress ink walnut ink...glue down onto the ATC background then tie a tad of lace and stamp the title. To add even more texture crinckle up the flag then glue down and the topper of awesome is the splatting of glimmer mist over the whole ATC!!!

Next ATC will be a Christmas Theme! Whooo Christmas Time in July!
Thanks for stopping bye,
Peggy Lee
http://pegbaker.blogspot.com/

Supplies:
ATC: cardboard
7gypsies Epicuream paper
Dylusions ink spray: black marble
Tattered Angels: Army Green and Graphite
Ranger: Distress ink-Faded Jean and Walnut ink
CTMH: stamps-script and star/flag
Paint: yellow ochre
Stucco/Gesso
Prima: crackle mask

Canvas Pocket Home Decor

I am really enjoying creating little home decor projects to adorn my home for the 4th of July celebration that is just around the corner...and I love grunge primitive wall pockets!

I had to create a little flag wall pocket using Canvas Corp's mini canvas shape pocket (which are great for creating mini banners). But a light turned on and I said ohhh a mini wall pocket with a glimmer mist painted flag would be adorable.

Here it is....

Mini Canvas Flag Wall Pocket!

The mini canvas pocket comes sewed up.

I carefully inserted my sharp scissors into the back of the pocket.

Being sure to only cut through one layer of the canvas.

Punched two tiny wholes on the corners to add wire through.

Tore a 1/4 inch canvas sheet strip.

 Sprayed with tattered leather glimmer mist to grunge it up.

Hot glued to wire wrap, then wrapped canvas strip around the wire hanger.

Flag:

I freehand a flag in pencil.

Started to paint with Tattered Angels mist.

Blue: Imperial Blue Simply Sheer

Red: Chilli Pepper Red Simply Sheer

Grunge: Tattered Leather Glimmer Mist

Splats: Graphite Glimmer Mist

White: gesso

Star:

I traced on the back of E-Flute in White, cut out the star.

Grunged it up with Distress Ink-Brushed Corduroy.

Button from my stash.

Burlap twine to finish it off.

To finish this little prim wall pocket I added some cranberry pipe berries.

I love all the canvas strings hanging!

Thanks for stopping in,

Peggy Lee

http://pegbaker.blogspot.com

Supplies:

Canvas Corp:

Canvas Minis-canvas shape pockets

E-Flute in White

Burlap strings from Canvas Corp burlap sheet

Canvas Sheet

Tattered Angels:

Imperial Blue Simply Sheer

Chilli Pepper Red Simply Sheer

Tattered Leather Glimmer Mist

Graphite Glimmer Mist

Ranger:

Distress Ink-brushed corduroy

Gesso

Wire

Button

Cranberry pipe berries.