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Thursday, April 30, 2020

The Heart of Mother Nature

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Today I am up on the Relics and Artifacts Blog with a new project that I call Mother Natures Heart.

With all the craziness in the world right now I find myself trying to take a moment to enjoy the little things that so often go unnoticed. For example Hostas, Hydrangeas and Lilies emerging from their winter sleep. It happens so quickly every year one day its gray and gloomy the next the yard is green. Normally I miss it, I'm busy with the end of school year activities. But this year I haven't, I saw glimpses of the quick change from gray and gloomy to alive and green.

So with the wonder of Mother Nature on my mind I picked up Sandra's Vessel Heart and went to work. This is what I ended up with:

Relics & Artifacts Products Used:

Vessel Heart

Elements Set of 4 Collection

Oculus Stamp

Apoxie Sculpt

Other Products Used: Ranger - Dina Wakley Gloss Spray. Art Anthology -Black Gliders Paste. Golden Iridescent White Acrylic Paint. Golden Gloss Gel. Watercolor Paint. Stazon Ink. tissue Paper. Miscellaneous- Wooden Block, Paper Flowers, Wire Hanger & Seam Binding.

I truly enjoyed creating this little heart. I started by cutting a wooden block for the base and attaching a piece from a wire hanger to the back of the heart with a bit of Apoxie Sculpt.

Next I went to work on decorating my block base with just a bit of tissue paper, watercolors and Sandra's Beautiful stamps. (Oculus Stamp & Elements Set of 4 Collection)

Next it was on to Sandra's Vessel Heart , I opened up my New Dina Wakley Gloss Sprays and sprayed my heart out. I know this heart was indented for Halloween. But with a mix of ribbon and bright colors I think it found another use.

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Sunday, March 29, 2020

Guest Design for Renea Bouquets!

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This month I was lucky enough to be asked to guest design for Reneabouquets. I truly ejoyed working with Renea and her team! The products are one of a kind and truly do add that extra something to make a project shine. Here is on e of the canvas that I created for her Blog.

Reneabouquets Products Used:

Lavender Roses and Leaves Mulberry Paper Flower Set

Printed Beautiful Board Small Tessie B Darling Set

Beautiful Board Ornament Gears Set Of 4 Laser Cut Chipboard

Beautiful Beads Designer Glass Moonstone

Gawdie Girl Diamond Shard German Glitter Glass

Dark Purple Glass Microbeads

Pink Fine German Glitter Glass

Tea Time Trinkets Pack

Venice Rose Lace -White 6in Wide

Blue Fern Studios Eclectic Charm Pattern Paper Collection

Beautiful Words Small Sparkle, Fairy, Dust, Moment Chipboard

Now lets take a closer look at this canvas:

No one creates butterflies like Renea and this set comes with two of these printed beauties!

Lovely Lavender Roses need I say more.....

Beautiful Board Chipboard is simply that beautiful and so easy to alter!

Moonstones, Micro Beads and lots of lovely glitter bits..

You can see how I created this little canvas start to finish here:

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Tuesday, March 24, 2020

Imagine with your Whole Heart -Mixed Media Canvas

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Today I am stopping by to share a tiny little altered wooden oval that I picked up at the craft store. For this project I decided to use the 3 stunning Hearts from Sandra's Mexican Folk Art Hearts Power to the People. So let's take a look....

Relics and Artifacts Products Used:

Mexican Folk Art Hearts Power to the People Set

Apoxie Sculpt

Other Products Used: Ranger Dylusions Acrylic Paint- Fresh Lime, Cut Grass, Vibrant Turquoise, Bubble Gum Pink, Squeezed Orange, Lemon Zest & Crushed Grape. Black. Ranger Alcohol Ink- Dandelion & Purple. Golden: Black Gesso & Titanium White Acrylic Paint. White Uni-Ball Pen. Michaels -Chipboard Word & Wooden Oval. Stazon On Ink- Black. Kaiser Craft - Sparklets Crystals & Heart Clear. Finnabair- Heavy Body Gel, Art Pebbles & Texture Stamp.

I used a mix of beautifully bright Dylusions Paints to color my hearts. So lets take a closer look at all three of them. Here you can see the tiny purple one with that I accented with a crystal heart.

The largest heart from the set I altered a bit as you can tell using a small amount

of Apoxie Sculpt and after it dried I added my colors and a crystal gem.

Here is the last heart in the set as you see it got the same coat of fresh paint

and a bit of bling.

A bit of art pebbles some stamping and a few splatters pulled this little piece together.

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Friday, January 31, 2020

First time up on the Muse Blog!

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Today is my first time up on the Relics & Artifacts Blog! I hope you will hop over and see all the details of my first MUSE Team project. For my first project I played with Sandra's Santo Domingo Sacred Heart Set and Her VerDay Metal Paint Set and some other bits and pieces.

I am calling this canvas "Out of the Darkness" I chose Sandra's beautiful Santo Domingo Sacred Heart Set I was inspired to create this canvas after I saw Sandra's original that she found in France. She shared a picture of it over in the Relics & Artifacts Tribe and I was officially in love with this beautiful heart. I wanted the Heart to truly shine so I decide to keep the rest of the canvas dark.

Relics & Artifacts Used:

VerDay Metal Paint Set,

Sandra's Santo Domingo Sacred Heart Set,

Crosse Icons,

Regalis,

Visage Set

Tribe

Other Products Used: Prima Art Basics- Black Gesso,Heavy White Gesso and Heavy Body Gel. Finnabair- Sculpt Gel, Sparks Paint and Wax. Miscellaneous Ribbon and Lace. The back side of an old canvas. Ranger Alcohol Ink. Ranger Pearl Alcohol Ink. Deco Art Clear Crackle Glaze.

You can find all the Relics I used over in the shop several are even on SALE! So hurry over and fill up your cart these deals won't last long!

I really love the way this turned out, I had so much fun creating this. I really hope you will enjoy it to so without further ado here is my first official Muse Project...….

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Wednesday, January 29, 2020

Snowman Swap Fun!

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Today I am stopping by to share a quick tag that I created for a Tag Swap over in Renea Bouquets Artist with an edge Facebook Group. Januarys swap theme was to create a Snowman Tag. I took the theme quite literally and created this tag:

Renea Bouquets Products Used: Chunky Glass Glitter, Butterfly and Vintage Victorian Snowflake Charms.

Other Products Used: Retro Cafe Art- Snowman Tag. Prima- Salvage 6x6P Patten Paper Pad. Prima Art Basics- Clear Gesso, 3D Matte Gel. Ranger- Glossy Accents. Lindy's Stamp Gang Sprays-af Hatter Mint & Vest la Cerise. Art Anthology- Frost Sorbet. Tim Holtz- Hocus pocus stencil. Prima- Lace & Flowers. Miscellaneous - Twine, Buttons, Tissue Paper & Ribbon.

Just look at this Beautiful Butterfly! He is almost to pretty to use!

Lots of pretty Prima Flowers Tucked in with that

gorgeous snowflake charmfrom the Victorian Snowflake Set.

I just added a little Prima Rose Sticker.

Currently Renea Bouquet has another swap ready to go for February I think I might just have to take part.

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Saturday, January 11, 2020

December Art Recipe

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I just wanted to stop in and share this Mini Canvas that I created for Finnabair' s December Art Recipe. Its so very tiny but it's packed full of sparkle and texture. I hope that you like it....

Products Used: Finnabair- Stars & Moons and Mechanica Moulds. Art Alchemy Acrylic Paint Metallique - White Pearl, Sliver Spoon, Ice Queen and French Lavender. Art Alchemy Opal Magic Paint- Violet Gold and Blue Gold. Finnabair- Glass Beads & Glitter. Finnabair Snowflake Paste. Finnabair Art Basics- Heavy Body Gel, Heavy White Gesso, Soft Gloss Gel. Prima IOD Mould. Prima Flowers- #56156, 557577 & 63369. 13 Arts- Maremi Small art stickers. Miscellaneous Chipboard.