Went to a Festival in Old Town Melbourne on Sunday. Met this artist Patti Ballard. She paints these sweet heart girls. 
Here is Patti on left and Pearl on right, looking over here work. Pattie said she had a blog but it I can not find it on her card. Pattie please leave a comment and link to your blog on this post. 
Not much to say today so thanks for looking and come back soon.
I will be playing catch up here this week, so be sure and check often, I had alot of packages waiting on me and I will share this week. I have not been feeling well and had foot problems and had to go to the doc as soon as I got here, he shot my heel with med and it is now getting better. I scrubbed down the ceiling in the Florida room today and my foot did not like the step ladder. So now I am resting it the rest of the day. I cant wait to get my studio set up out there and get some projects going. Pearl and I went to a festival in old town Melbourne yesterday and I will post about that this week also. All for now thanks for looking and come back soon.
Really like this lady she is not fall or Halloween. Got her in one of my swap envelopes. Guess she could be the fall / harvest lady. 
And a sweet little boo kitty. 
And then this silly little guy. 
I have been surfing YouTube watching videos on my Droid, and found a few on how to make paper flowers. This is one I tried last night. They are made with cupcake papers! These are made with the small cupcake papers not the mini's but small. I had a great time making them, and plan on making more to use in my altered are and swaps. Just Google paper flowers and see what comes up. Another thing I was looking at was matchbook swaps. Man do I need to make a lot better boxes. They have some beautiful boxes out there. I really like the double decker boxes . Would like to do one of those swaps! 
They are having a challenge at our http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thealteredpaper/ (go join up will be having some fun time there) but I will not be able to do this one. I am moving and don't have the time right now. I do have a few Mystery envelopes made up so will continue to do those. And have a few Halloween tags and ATC's made up. If any of those swaps pop up. I am doing another matchbox swap. This one is over at The Speckled Egg.The Petite Inspiration box swap - Curiosities Edition. Check it out http://speckled-egg.blogspot.com/ I have it done and waiting on my swap partners. This also will be send to Fl. So wont see them until end of Sept. All for now thanks for looking and come back soon
Here is a pile of embellishments. Had a hard time using some of this color, like the blue tickets.
Here is what I made. Using one of the sheets of paper she sent, I used it for the back ground and made a butterfly page.
Had a hard time using the orange, brown, etc color on the butterfly page so I made a tag using the brown one she sent. Used the fashion yarn and fall leaf and orange hand made paper. Stamped with my crow stamp and added my rhinestones. Used the wood chip R putting some lavender water color pencil, then glue and dipped in my new found mica flakes. Thanks Jen, this was a challenge for me!
Here is a couple ATC's made mostly with the magazine, that i got the other day, cut the graphics out and punched flowers, added ribbon, lace, and some bling. Cut the ace spade from a playing card. Stamped the letter B and some bats. A little pumpkin pin that I painted peaking out behind them.
Well I am ready for a few ATC swaps, got some done yesterday. Will be working on my bottle swap now. All for now . Thanks for looking and come back soon.
Close up: Crackled the tags with orange and black ink using my trusty crackle stamp. Love that thing. Could pass for cobwebs on these tags. Punched out some mini flowers using orange page in the mag. Put on some rhinestones. Stamped with a bat and crow stamp. Just got those too. Owls cut from mag along with the orange and black tree with the owls, they are from mag too. Put a ribbon that I got in a package at a yard sale, see I do use yard sale stuff lol. 
Some very cool vintage cake candle holders. Picked up this bag of stuff, kept looking at it , almost put it back down, then said heck with it was only $1 so got it. It was filled with these great rose candle holders. I remember them from some of the birthday cakes my Grandmother made for me. 
There was also a few boxes of candles, look where these were bought, Murphy's! Not much around from Murphy's these days. If I ever get my esty store going would like to sell things like this in it.
I started to pack up my altered art supplies today, I sure have more to take back than what I came with. I was wanting to do the camping thing on the way back to Florida, but not sure that will happen. I think there will be a truck full. I am signed up for 3 more swaps, think I can handle that, I hate not being able to swap!! I have a few mystery swaps made up so I will be able to do them. The only problem will be making up what I receive, because it will have to wait until i get back to Fl. So I will just have to put some swapping on hold till I get settled. Hope I don't miss to much :(
Amy from http://www.rubymoonart.blogspot.com/ my swap partner sent me this ! A hand painted cupcake in a sweet pink sewn envelope. She did a great job. This swap was hosted by Wendy at http://blissfullatcswap.blogspot.com/ 
A full unopened vintage 1950's maybe 40's box was old for only 10 cents. I was totally excited to say the least. They go high on ebay. This same sale had a lot of vintage ornaments, I passed on, now I wish that I had picked them up. 
I will be posting some more yard sale finds on my other blog http://grammyandthepapillonprinces.blogspot.com/ check it out. Some neat vintage bottles I plan on using in a bottle swap.
This is what I made for Amy at http://www.rubymoonart.blogspot.com/ for my ATC card swap and the tag I sent with it. I made the ATC using a shipping tag. Stamped it with the crackle stamp , used a advertising pear graphic, some vintage lace, P scrabble tile, and bling. Wrapped string around it.
The tag is from a tag booklet that my DIl got me for my BD at Jo-Ann's. I added a few things to it. With a note to her. I will find the pic I took of the one she sent me and post it next.
This is what I made with the swap stuff Tee sent me. Got these chip board birds in another swap so took a different trun with this swap, not tags this time, Had fun doing it used at least 75% not all. This is short cause I an still a week away from new Gbites. Blessings Donna
So this is what a bot it....you put things together to make something else. I must try this. Cute little girl....
The orange rick rack, some of the many I have collected at yard sale, came in handy for this tag. I added some vintage sheet music , orange flowers with rhinestones. Vintage button with rhinestone again. Some gold twisty ribbon on the bottom of tag. Some detail and done. This tag was made on a ATC size card then attached to the shipping tag. Because I forgot what I was doing lol.
Some time ago I joined a Yahoo group but could never get anyone to respond to my post. Then one day a few weeks ago a lady posted wanting to do one on one swaps. Soooo I contacted her and we had our first trade an ATC card. I sent her my Mz. Scarlett card and a note tag along with it. Then I find out she is from Florida ...great... I am looking for some like minded peeps in Florida! I will show what she sent me next post.
Close up...vintage grandfather clock cut from mag, flowers from some lace, with blue rhinestones. Love my rhinestones! LOL Behind the clock a couple of vintage blue plates cut from a mag. 
Brown....I think of men in their brown suits, pipes, news papers. Inked and stamped another shipping tag. Added a strip of paper , and a cut out of vintage a man. An owl tag that can be removed was added. In right hand upper corner is an old bingo number o-66 from a vintage game. Found it in the buttons the other day.
Close up...with the owl tag removed.....It was nestled behind some soft mesh ribbon, with a couple brown buttons. The owl has a couple of cool rhinestone eyes. On the tag I tried to blotch some ink but didn't work to well I think some blending solution is needed. Oh, there is a little brown sparrow behind the mesh.
On the top I put some of that tatted lace I got at a yard sale last week. I got an add in the mail and it was advertising some wrist watches so I cut them out and used one here. Put a purple rhinestone in the middle of it. I am having fun doing these, I wonder if it is to late to join the official challenge ? 
They already did pink, and I am going to play catch up. This one stamp and inked the tag again. Added a large pink flower I cut out of a flower magazine. Found an add with a lady with pink finger nail polish on holding a stop watch. I love those fingers and watch, in fact that's the only thing I cut out of the add. 
I put some pink rhinestones on each nail and one in the middle of the stop watch. Then in another add, I found these sweet garden gloves, so put then on and added a pink button. I like the way it turned out.
I call her Mz. Scarlett. Made using a shipping tag, stamped with my fav, crackle stamp, and inked edges. Then on one half I added part of a vintage post card that had a flower/forrest motif. I cut Mz. Scarlett from an add in a mag, then glued her down. Added mini rhinestone hearts, some fashion yarn. Down the right side a strip of paper with some twisty braid. A little detail and she was finished. I was going to use her in the lady/hat swap but then read it again and it said, lady in a hat so...that's out for this one, she is holding her hat. But I will keep her for another trade, swap or giveaway. 
So I moved on to this one, didn't think her hat was outstanding enough, she will save her also. Used the shipping tag again. Crackle stamped and inked. Used a pic out of an old book, she is one of our presidents wives but forget which one. Was a black and white pic so I put some color to her, using chalk pencils. With a little mini rhinestone heart necklace. A strip of paper down the left side, open lace with a string of blue and an old key. A piece of corrugated card board, with mesh ribbon on top. Then a blue button with a large rhinestone heart. Some detail and she is also done.
Got this in the mail yesterday, from Tee at http://creationsbytee.blogspot.com/ . 
I traded her some ephemera for some hand made soap . Coffee flavor. Mmmm good , have not used it yet, to pretty! Thanks Tee I love it!
She also sent me a hand made Marie post card. This is the front, way to pretty to use, so I will hang it up when I get back to FL and admire it!
This is what's on the back of post card. Just beautiful! Thanks again Tee!!!!
Woke up to clouds and scattered thunder storms, so that left out setting up at the flea market. Going to be high 80's again so not sure what I will do today. Maybe a short road trip with Maggie and find some geocache's. So all for now, thanks for looking and come back soon
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