WHERE I WORK - MORE POCKETS

Been working on more of the paper towel pockets. Like doing these as much as the tags! Love that little bird punch I got. I used an old broken necklace as the chain holding the bird cage.

I wanted to use these on my bird song tags but my jewelry stash is in FL.

Loved the way this one turned out, used some pre-stitched paper, and the little girl sticker, wheel from a vintage paper doily.

Used fashion yard for the hangers. I got a lot of this when I worked at a craft store a few years ago.

I used watch face and a new moon stamp here on the left. On the right stamped butterfly colored with chalk pencils, and cut out. With a diamond shaped rhinestone. Messy work space in PA. I turned a shelf stand on its side and put on the dinning room table and that is where I work my art while in PA.

I guess if you don't have a messy space, your not making art. lol

Trying to work out getting everything done on house I need to and still have time to do some art work. Planning a trip on Friday to have an art day with my DIL. Will remember to take camaera this time.
All for now thanks for looking and come back soon.

Blessings

Donna

TAG MODE

Close up of a few tags I made yesterday.More of the same tags. I can’t seem to get out of the tag mode. I love doing these little things. I am trying this live writer again, not sure where things will end up.

Now after I did my bird song swap tags, I found an old bird boo. It as what I wanted to use all along but could not find it. I tried doing some inking with the ink blending tool but not sure I did it right. I spritzed with some water and that helped but thinking I need more instruction. Then I did some stamping, cut out some birds added them and a few ribbons. Put on a little bling , some detail with my pitt pens and was finished!

Well that’s it for now, thanks for looking and come back soon.

Blessings

Donna

A FEW THINGS

Went to my son's home and DIl (daughter in law) and I went to a few a yard sales and had an art day. I forgot camera, so did not get any pic's. She is interested in learning about and doing some altered art. So I took some things for her to get started. We worked on a paper towel pocket and did some cutting up of magazines. I took her a cigar box and she had a great idea for making a summer memory box with it. Can't wait to see what it will look like.
I took these pic's when I got home. This is the one i did with dil.

I finished up the sheet music and butterfly one later.

I also did this flash card hanger. Has a humming bird on it. Seen a hummer this morning trying to get nectar from my Korean Dogwood tree. So I think I will get a humming bird feeder for the front porch.

WEATHER IN GREENVILLE PA: Thunder storms this morning so far. The temps have been much better in the high 70's and 80's.

I sent out my RAK Swap to Jenny at Jenny's Heart blog. I forgot to take pic's so I hope she post some. The swap was sponsored by Tee at The Altered Paper.

Guess that is all for now check out my other blog, link is on side bar.

thanks for looking and come back soon

Blessings

Donna

FINISHED MY TAGS

BIRD SONG SWAP TAGS

CLOSE UP

CLOSE AGAIN

THE TAG BACK
WEATHER GREENVILLE PA: Hot I might as well be in Florida, at least there I have A/C.

90 yesterday!

I have three fans going trying to keep a little cool, not to be they just push the hot air around. It is hard to get any work done in this heat. I did get my Birdsong tags done. I used the manila shipping tags , got them at Staples. Inked them up and stamped with my new bird cage stamp. Cut out some music notes for the song part. The bird part is, tiny mini birds punched with a new punch I got at Michael's for $1. I really am glad I got the stamp and punch because I have a lot of problems finding pic's of birds. I know I could get them of the net, but at this time I do not have a printer, so they really did come in handy. Added some fringe yarn to the bottom of the bird caged and also made the tag string with the same yarn. Did some detail with a small size Pitt Pen. On the back : Stamped bird cage in blue, inked around edge. Signed my name and blog on the bottom.

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Blessings

Donna

YARD SALE LOOT

VINTAGE TIN

INSIDE THE VINTAGE TIN

VINTAGE MAGAZINES

VINTAGE CANNING JAR WITH BUTTONS WEATHER IN GREENVILLE PA : Temp 70 Rain on and off all day. Mostly cloudy, not at all what I am used to.

I was feeling better today so Maggie and I went to a few yard sales between rain drops. Above is what we go. The first is a vintage tin, isn't that flower graphic on the top beautiful! It was full of sewing items mostly vintage things, like wood spools, buttons, tape , seam biding etc. Nice find.

Next pic of old magazines Woman's Day, Farm Journal, Women's Household. From 1941 and few 60's. Lot of neat old graphics and photo's especially the advertisements.

Last but not least, an old blue ball canning jar, filled with vintage buttons. A great find. I think that I am hooked on buttons. lol

I think I will be feeling good enough by Monday to start work on the house. And work on some art projects. I joined two more swaps so I better get busy.

I need to do 7 bird tags for the Karla's Cottage Bird Song Tag swap, and RAK swap with Tee again at The Altered Paper. Your are to fill a business size envelope with altered art goodies, such as graphics, tags, lace, buttons, all kind of paper, etc. I love swaps. She is going to do a altered spoon swap, now I cant wait for that. Got mine done already!!

All for now thanks for looking and come back soon

Blessings

Donna

POCKET SWAP -THANKS TEE!

GOT THIS IN THE MAIL

THE POCKET

FILLED WITH GOODIES LOOK AT THESE GOODIES

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MORE CLOSE

SOME EXTRA IN THE PKG
PIC 1- Got this sweet looking package in the mail. How cool is that with the butterflies.

PIC 2- This is my Whimsy Pocket from my swap partner Tee.

PIC 4- The goodies in the pocket. Two scrabble charms, a large double sided tag with a hand made flower, large tag with an owl, two small pink envelopes, one small pocket with tag in it, one small tag, three pastel roses.

The pocket wrapped in striped pink paper embellished with lace and beautiful satin rose. On the back a pretty pink button. Pink satin ribbon handle. This is from Tee at The Altered Paper my swap partner.

I love it, was excited when I got the mail, even tho I have a nasty cold. Do to that cold I have not done a thing since I got to PA. I feel a little better today, hope its better by the weekend so I can go visit family.

I love these swaps I have been doing I have joined two more I will post on the next post.

That's all for now thanks for looking and come back soon.

Blessings

Donna

WHIMSY POCKET SWAP

THE POCKET I SENT

POCKET AND GOODIES

MORE My swap partner received her pocket so I thought I would post about and show you all. I wrapped the paper towel roll with textured wall paper (not vintage). The flowers at the bottom I used the edging from a napkin. Put the dot sheer ribbon on the very bottom. In the middle I added a lavender vintage clip on earring. Punched holes one both sides and added the ribbon. Put daisy beads around the top. The goodies inside are an antique skeleton key, a tear drop crystal from an antique chandelier I got from a 100 yr, old house that was being torn down, some assorted buttons and sequin things. I really had fun with this swap, and hope to do many more. Glad I was able to get this done and sent before I left for my trip north.

Tee from The Altered Paper was my swap partner and she posted about iton her blog. Go take a look she as a neat blog!

Thanks for looking and come back soon

PS Maggie and I are in VA this weekend will head for PA in the morning.

Blessings

Donna

HEADING NORTH & POCKET SWAP

I am heading north in the morning. If you want to keep up with me & Maggie check my other blog the link is on the side bar. I also sent out my pocket swap, Tee was my partner she should get it Friday. When I get to my daughters on Sat. I will post my pics.
Thought I would leave you with a few pic's of Maggie. Here she is winter before last we were snowed in trying to get to Florida. Take a close look she has her snow boots on. LOL She had no problem wearing these as it was so cold she could not go out without them. With in minutes she would be lifting her paws wanting me to pick her up. Also when she sees me with a camera she looks away it really is hard to get her face. Click on pic for close up.

This is Maggie and Joey my daughters dog, they sit in her bay window waiting for us to come home and the carry on like we had left them for days. LOL

All for now thanks for looking come back soon

Blessings

Donna

MORE PAINTED PAPER

These papers are on the small size. With this first one I was trying a technique using the Tim Holtz blending tool. I think I need some lessons. LOL. They were to come out looking like sunflowers but all I got was two colored blobs. I could not waste anything, so I made my own flowers out of the blobs. Using Pitt Pens and a green jelly roll pen all I did was out line and do some detail. Turned ok for me. I really would like to learn how to use that blending tool.

These are some poppies I painted using water color crayon and Pitt Pens for the detail. I am not sure if I will use this as a small almost mini collage or add it to a larger collage.

Same with these flowers I drew them and used the water color crayons on then also. WEATHER IN MELBOURNE FL. : Yesterday we hit a record high of 96. I wonder what summer will bring if this is spring weather!

Not much in the way of art going on around here. I now have everything packed up ready to go.

I did these a few weeks ago so thought I would share them now.

That's all for now thanks for looking and come back soon

Blessings

Donna

SWAP

HAPPY MOTHERS DAY TO ALL YOU MOM’S!

I joined another swap! Love doing these. This one you are to use a paper towel roll. Cut it glue down one end and decorate. I got mine done and the pic below is a sneak peek at it.

When you get done you are to fill it with sweet little bits and pieces. When I get done I will show you all, I don’t want to give it away in case my swap partner might read my blog.

Short post today thanks for looking and come back soon!

Blessings Donna

HAND PAINTED PAPER & A SWAP

This is a close up of the blue on one sheet of paper you can see the texture of the wall paper.

This is the three sheets that I used for this batch of paper.

Close up of paper layered using paint and old paper doily and a piece of screen that is the squares.

More doily stencils.

This is a coaster that is in the shape of the sun I used as a stencil.

I am using the live writer and still not sure where the text is going to show up or how. I hope I get use to it soon. I had a whole post wrote up with pic’s and all . Well it end up on the wrong blog. Sometimes when I go to type the letter I it changes the fonts to italics. Having this new computer does not help very sencitive and I touch thing not knowing and zap something happens and I have know idea what or how and do not know how to fix it. I still can not find the save button.

Pearl got some out dated wall paper books and she shared some with me, and that is what I used here. I have 3 frames that I got at a yard sale going to use them for these. I plan on collageing on them. So stay tuned for that.

Also I joined another swap that was what I did yesterday and it got posted on the wrong blog so I deleted and now have to redo it. That will be next blog.

All for now thanks for looking and come back soon.

Blessings Donna

LIVE WRITER

Well second time for trying this, First time I hit publish and it did not publish. So I will try again. This is a test post. I also will try and post a pic and see where you can put text. On top or and at the bottom of pic.

Here goes, this is 3 frames I got at a yard sale few weeks ago. I already made a back ground to collage on for them. I used wall paper from an out dated wall paper book.

Going to try and post this again.

Ok, this big dummy figured it out. lol

MY FIRST ALTERED BOOK

This is a couple pages from the first book that I am altering. This is kinda hard for me as I am so new to this art that I really don't know what I am doing. And not sure how to do it, According to what I have read there is no right or wrong, so I will go ahead and show you. I think I am done with these two pages but you never know with this kind of art. I first put a layer of acrylic paint down kind of scattered not filling in the whole page. Did some stamping then added flowers and butterflies from differed sources.

The sunflowers are from a card that my son's family got me for my birthday one year, I used part of it for this project and part is in my Junk Journal. That journal is mostly for family mementos. This sunflower I put some detail on it and added a vintage button. The stems are just cut from card stock with detail added.

Close up of other sunflower.

This is a butterfly cut from a magazine add. I think it was for jello, not sure about that. I did the detail with my Pitt Pens and added a diamond shaped rhinestone that I got in a package of things at a yard sale.

More of the same butterflies only smaller. You can see the stamping in the back ground on this pic. The yellow on the page is from water color crayons.

I punched out some flowers and used them and the negative. On the negative I rounded the corners did some detail again with pens and added some gold metal brads in the middle. Then scattered the punched out flowers around.








Another close up of sunflower.

This is a pic of the book that I am altering. Not the best pic but you get the idea. I got off to a not so good start to this. I could not figure out what to do. So I started by just doing some back ground work on the pages, gluing several together so the book is not so fat, and generally just back ground work. Finally I started with the sunflower and it kinda just started to fall in place. I did not do it all at one time, that I found out is not the way this art works most of the time. I learned from other altered artist that you let your muse lead you. LOL didn't know I had one till now and still not sure when or how she will show up.

Well that's it for now, thanks for looking and come back soon.

Blessings

Donna