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

OH CHRISTMAS TREE

Hi Artsy Addicts fans!

Peggy Lee here to share with you 

a little mixed media canvas.

Even though it's still November and Thanksgiving is next week.

I have already started listening to Christmas music...one of my favorites is...

Oh Christmas Tree, Oh Christmas Tree

How lovely are Thy Branches

Love that song!!!

So with that I have been playing and creating tree theme artwork.

"OH CHRISTMAS TREE"

mixed media canvas

Using a Canvas Corp's canvas

I started by spraying some Heidi Swapp Color Shine

in Tinsel and Teal  and  Perfect Pearls Mists in many colors.

to create the background...adding texture 

with Crafters Workshop stencils 

and stucco/gesso mixture.

To create even more texture-randomly stamp all over canvas

also splatters of Color Shine and Perfect Pearls Mists!!

Cut out Tattered Leaves (Tim Holtz die) out of linen fabric...

colored with Distressed Stains in Bundled Sage and Forest moss.

Edged with Viva Precious Metal Effects Paint in Gold!

Covered the colored, stamps leaves with gel medium to give strength.

which helps shape the leaves in place.

Title "Oh Christmas Tree" hand written and backed in burlap mesh...

same burlap mesh became a tree trunk.

Tree leaves adorn with tiny real pine cones glittered with

Precious Metal Effects Paint in Gold

Garland is Canvas Corps jute rope...I love the woodies feel it gives the tree.

Thanks for stopping in today,

Please leave comments for us with what's your favorite Christmas song!!

Like what music do you listen to while creating?

Happy Holidays,

Peggy Lee

http://pegbaker.blogspot.com

Supplies

Canvas Corp: canvas, jute rope

Heidi Swapp: color shine in tinsel, teal

Ranger: Distress ink in black soot

Distress stain in bundled sage, forest moss

Perfect Pearls Mists in blue patina, heirloom gold, biscotti

Tim Holtz tattered leaves die

CTMH: chipboard star

Creative Imaginations: viva precious metal effect paint in gold

Silks acrylic glaze in ice

Beacon: 3 in 1 glue

Stampendous: stamp carte postale

Linen fabric

Crafters Workshops: stencils

Stucco/gesso

Tiny real Pine Cones

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.

Vintage Telegram Keepsake Box

A mini album needs a keepsake box to sit in...while shopping at my local dollar store I found this box and knew right off that I was going to alter it with Marion's new Vintage Telegram printables. I am thrilled with the way it came out so shabby vintage and wow I love pink. Grab a cup of coffee and enjoy reading and gazing at all the photos there is alot but I wanted to make sure you could see every bit of this adorable box and how beautiful the printables are.

The box measures roughly 9x6.5, I had to print out two of each design I used. Which wasn't bad at all and with the scraps I fuzzy cut out images to pop up and give the box some depth.

My daughter found some dollar store frames that were green I painted them white, sprayed patina glimmer mist added cream paint, sanded sprayer tattered leather glimmer mist. Then dry brushed on gesso, sanded a little more and I love how it came out.

I distressed all the edges of the papers and cut a small piece of paper and glued it to the under side of the cover piece of paper to be able to roll the top layer back with having the under piece showing added some gems. This is a fun and creative way to showcase your papers!

Seam binding colored with glimmer mist!!

To give depth I glued a piece of chipboard under the cut outs to pop them up out of the frame. I really like to give height to my creations.

I tucked in tiny flowers and a wood piece along with some of the cut outs from the printables.

I sprayed patina glimmer mist on the eggs and added Stickles to the flowers.

The butterfly is cut out from one of the printable pages!!

This is my fav!!

Handmade stick pin from my stash, every projects needs a paper doily!

I love the little crystal gems peaking out here and there...

These printable pages Marion design are distressed beautifully!

Here is a video to share with you...enjoy!

Thanks for stopping by today!!

Peggy Lee

http://pegbaker.blogspot.com

Supplies:

Vintage Telegram printables

Tattered Angels glimmer mist (patina and tattered leather)

Prima-Shabby Chic Resin (bird) & Say it in Crystals gems

Prima-Romance Novel Wooden Pieces

Kaiser Craft-Paper Blooms roses (dusty pink)

Folk Art Paint (black and cream)

Gesso

Ranger-Claudine Hellmuth Studio-Mulit Medium Matte

Ranger: Distressed inks (black soot and vintage photo)

Ranger: Stickles (Icicles)

Dollar Frame

Seam Binding, Lace, Doily and vintage button