4th of July Table Caddy

4th of July is one of my all time favorite holidays - JUST LOVE IT!  The colors, the celebrations, parades, parties, fireworks - who could ask for more fun?

 

I was trying to think of some fun decorative ideas for parties.  A few weeks ago I shared with you an invitation, and today I thought I would alter a six pack box to use as a table caddy.  

 

 

 

Here are the supplies I used to alter the caddy.   In addition to the supplies listed below, you need to upcycle a beverage six pack box.  I used two sheets of each of these papers to complete the box.  Measurements will vary depending on your box.  I started with the bottom and completely cover it wrapping about a half an inch up the sides to keep my utensils from falling out. Then covered the over hang with the side panels. 

 

 

 

I used Canvas Corps' Royal Blue And White Stars Reverse Paper as my base. Then made pinwheels with the Red & White Ribbon Stripe paper then cut them in half and topped these beautiful Red Canvas Banners.  Tied the banner with the Red Canvas corp Twine bows.  Then add a little sparkle with party garland, cake pick star Tucked in a Small American Flag as a topper,  and this catty turned out FAB!

Our high school team colors are royal blue, white, and red I think I may modify this caddy after the 4th for a tailgate caddy by removing the flag and adding a football!

 

 

**Side note:  Place a water bottle in the back center spot to weigh the box down so it doesn't blow off the table.  You can camouflage the bottle with paper napkins. **

 

 

Here is a second invitation I made with the scraps from this project.

 

 

 

 

Thanks for stopping in today,

 

Tonya Gibbs

http://www.psychmomscrapbooks.blogspot.com

 

 

 

I Love the UK Altered Frame // Altered Photo Tray

I have an obsession with the UK. I love the culture, atmosphere, and oh the accents make me swoon!! I just love the UK and I can't wait to go visit. I've been obsessed with the UK ever since I was a little girl and I wore my first beret...I bet I'm saying all the cliche' touristy things right now but I don't even care.

I wanted to commemorate my love of all things european with a home decor item. Something that I could look at everyday and just be inspired to make my dream of living in London come true.

I had this Photo Frame tray from 7 Gypsies. The portrait frames left lots of room to stack things up and that's just what I did.

I went more simple for this piece because my home decor is quite simple but I went bold with the color choices. Red, Black, White, Kraft, and Gold. Some of my favorite colors all wrapped up in one.

The patterned papers are all from Canvas Corp and they are such great patterned paper to work with because it's so thick it cuts like butter and it covered up the white background of the frame without having to be painted. All of the paper embellishments came from a couple different sheets of that wonderful Canvas Corp patterened paper that I simply cut out, matted and added with pop dots. Easy peasy.

I used a few die cuts from the silhouette america store that I sprayed and painted with Glimmer Mist & Glimmer Glam and Mr. Hueys. They were a bit of a challenge to handle because all the pieces were tiny. They were flying all over my scrap room when I was spraying them and again when I was drying them with my heat tool. Ha!!

All in All I have the perfect home decor item to commemorate my love of the UK!!

I'm in such the travel mode right now probably because I know my hubby and I want to expand our family soon. Where do you think we should go before the baby planning starts??  We really want to travel abroad.

What are your favorite international travel destinations?

Thanks for stopping by everyone and Happy Crafting.

Angela B. Carter
www.alwaysangella.com

Featured Artist: Agnieszka Bellaidea

Hi!

My name is Agnieszka, but in the scrapbooking world I go by Bellaidea.  Today I would like to show you several of my project I created in 2013.

Together with my husband - I'm still dating him - we're taking care of our two treasures - a Girl and a Boy.

 

I love traveling, taking photos, oranges and African bush aroma, old; books, pictures and houses, doilies, trips with friends to Italy, evenings by the fireplace, mystery perfumes, reading books to my children (no matter that they can read by themselves), audiobooks during long distance drives, praising people for their talent and creativity and meeting with other nice ladies for a cup of coffee. My favorite place to spend time is Kruger Park and Zimbali in South Africa.

I scrapbook for many reasons: to preserve memories, to make my kids remember I always care about them, to have MY time when I need it, to keep in touch with all my scrap-friend all over the work.

My style is eclectic, part of romantic, touch of whimsy, influenced by mixed media a lot. You will find on my projects; lace, chipboards, doilies, torn corners, fussy cutting,  but I never forget the most important is the photo and a story. Sometimes I hide my journaling when it's very personal...
 

The last few years I have had the pleasure to design for many blog challenges and producers like Papercraft Scandinavia/Inkido, Scrap FX, Berry 71 Bleu, Scraps of Elegance, 13 arts, studio 75,   and Magenta.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I cordially invite you to visit my blog, where you can find out what I'm doing late nights when my family members are sleeping: Bellaideascrapology

Thanks for letting my share with you today,
Agnieszka
Bellaideascrapology

Father's Day Card

 With "Father's Day" coming upon us soon, I decided to share with you one of my cards I created to celebrate this special day for the men in our lives. I knew I wanted a grunge feel with warm colors, I started with kraft card stock 6x12 folded in half. Distressed all the paper edges and used Distress ink-walnut stain to give the worn and weather look..one of my favs!  So love the tiny clothespin from Canvas Corp (which comes in a rainbow of colors perfect for your projects).

Here is a look at the papers I used from 7gypsies two paper collections.

"Travel and Epicurean"

it's great to mix and match

I know every man needs some gears on their cards, so I used Tim Holtz Gears Die cut from chip board and papers, glued together and embossed with a embossing folder, inked all edges.

The gears needed something more

 so I grabbed my 7gypsies

 awesome Time Steampunk Rubons!

I was thirlled with the way it came out....

I've been playing with this adorable

CTMH stamp-Perfect Fit Dad-Holiday set.

To finish off the card I couldn't create a project without "glimmer mist"!

Grabbed my Graphite glimmer mist from Tattered Angels and started

to splatter the whole card.

"super cool effect"

What are you creating for your special men in your life?

Thanks for stopping by,

 Peggy Lee

http://pegbaker.blogspot.com

Supplies:

Canvas Corp: kraft cardstock, mixed media glue, clothespins in black

Tattered Angels: graphite glimmer mist

7Gypsies: Hampton Art Script stamp, 6x6 paper pad in Travel and Epicurean, Time Steampunk Rubons

Colorbok: black and red cardstock

Tim Holtz: gears die, distress ink in walnut stain, archival ink black

CTMH: Perfect Fit Day-Holiday stamp, black and vineyard berry ink

and Cricut Artiste and Art Philosophy Cartridges.

Tattered Angels - Opal Paint System

Can you say - LOVE!  For all you shabby chic lovers out there this system is going to be a fav. This is the Tattered Angels Naturally Aged Paint System Precious Stone - Opal.   It is so pretty and soft. Sheer elegance!

 

 

Each kit consists of 4 1oz bottles of a medium from the Tattered Angel's family.  I have had several people ask about larger bottles. Yes, you can buy these in the standard bottles individually if you have a larger project in mind.

 

Here is a close up of the marbled background.

 

I love how soft and delicate it turned out for the backdrop for this card.

 

here is a process video on how to use the system.

 

 

Thanks for stopping in today,

 

Tonya Gibbs

http://www.psychomomscrapbooks.blogspot.com

Featured Artist - Misty Russell

Hi!  Misty Russell here, and I am just so honored to have this chance to share a little about myself  with you today!  I'm a mom of two totally awesome kiddo's who constantly make me laugh (they take after their dad), and I have one of the best men on earth to call my husband.   Most of the subjects on my pages are my kids or my nieces and nephews.  Really, its a contest of who has the best pics at the time! lol
 

 I found Artsy Addicts through their facebook page over 6 months ago and have been so inspired by the amazing talent there. 

 

I started scrapping in September 2010.  What started out as a work project for a convention we were attending, ended up as an obsession that I can't get enough of!   I googled "scrapbook ideas" so that I could get an idea of what to do, and when I started going through online galleries my jaw dropped.  I had no clue that scrapbooking could be such an art form!  It was unlike anything I had ever seen before.  So I was hooked.  I started out just playing around and trying on different styles, but ultimately the grungy, mixed-media pages are what stole my heart. 

 

I love the freedom that can be had with this style, because you can let go of all your perfectionism and just create...and it can be so therapeutic!  Most of my pages start out on a certain path and almost every time I "ruin" something that I was attempting, but the great thing about mixed media is that you can always turn it around into something kind of cool and/or really beautiful.... 

Some of my favorite projects were created by making some big, ugly mistakes...but thankfully, through the process of creating they turned into something that I hadn't expected, but really loved!

 

Here are a few of the projects I've created over the past 3 months...
 

 

 

 

The page that I've created for today is definitely on the dramatic grungy side...

 

I've used lots of modeling pastes and mists for the background, and I always finish a page with some Scrap Fx chipboard! The picture is of my niece Marisa. Like most of my nieces she is always taking pics of herself, and this time she noticed that there was a little orb of light reflecting back in the camera, so she started playing around and took this creative pic. I love how it looks like she is holding it...

 

 

 

 

Thank you so much for this opportunity to share with you today!  I hope that I was able to inspire you to let go of perfectionism a little, and just create for the sake of creating! 

 

 

Misty Russell
Featured Artist - June 2013

 

Vintage Telegram 31 Day Journal

 I've been working on this beautiful mini album using Marion Smith's "Vintage Telegram" digital printables that you can find here. I decided to use it for my 31 Day Journal for the month of June, I can't wait to fill this mini up with wonderful family and friend memories! I will be sharing more on my journal here on this blog and my blog and I will be creating some videos be sure to stop over. With my journal I also wanted to create some wrinkle and stain paper which I created a little tutorial you can see below as well as a little video sharing it too.

I wanted to buy new supplies to use with this digital design but decided I needed to use up some of my stash...I love using one of the journal spots as my title focal point, tucking in a clock die cut and a handmade flower with fuzzy cutting out images from the line to embellish. Delish!

You know me I had to use something vintage and old in my projects..don't you just love the center of the flower! It's a olde ear ring that I repurposed fabulous!!

peak at inside pages

tattered and torn is a girls best friend...

handmade tea stain paper

yummie

Tea stain handmade paper:

1. using copy/printer paper

2. boil water in a sauce pan with 3-4 tea bags

3. place paper in tea water bath

4. soak for desire tea stain look (15 minutes is good medium tone)

5. pull paper out of tea bath and place on wire racks to drip dry 

6. crumble the paper up in your hands and allow to dry a bit longer

7. unwrap gently to avoid tearing (but I love the tears)

8. let air dry or spead up drying by using your heat tool

9. cut paper down to size for your project

10. iron the papers to help shrink paper to fit flat in your mini

enjoy with your projects...

See how full and wrinkle the paper gets LOVE!

enjoy the video

Thanks for stopping by:

Peggy Lee

http://pegbaker.blogspot.com

supplies:

Vintage Telegram digitals

Distress Inks: black soot, walnut stain

Color Box ink: chestnut

Gesso

Stucco

Prima: mask

Tim Holtz: clock die

Petaloo flowers: velvet wild roses in pink

Hero Arts: pearls and gems

Tattered Angels: tattered leather glimmer mist

vintage: lace and jewerly