A Birthday Vignette Box

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It was my husband's birthday and I wanted to make him something special. Combine that with my love of making vignette boxes-and a special gift was made :)

This is the second biggest vignette box in the set of 4 when you buy them. I also added the wood frame that are sold separately. So here is the box.

Then here is the box with tiny lights! I love tiny lights. Tim suggested a Fiskars hand drill to help put the lights through-and my husband bought me one.  It is very handy and not intimidating.  I don't usually use drills and stuff so for me this hand held drill is really nice.

Then here is the vignette box with tiny lights in a dark room. LOL. Those lights are just magical!

Starting here I love this because this is a little fish tank made with:

Red Foil paper and the smaller fish from Under the Sea die

Dimensional dome and the circle to cut it from Tiny Snowglobes dies

Baubles painted with Aqua and Sail Boat Blue Ranger Alcohol Inks

Googly Eye

The baubles look like real bubbles with the tiny lights on. And there is no filter! :) 

This Tim Holtz decorative dome has little bead dice from my stash. I glued them together using collage medium. Some how some magic happened here too and the dice look like they defy gravity. lol

These chess pieces are plastic and I used pitch black and gold alloy to dress it up a bit. This is the king piece :)

This is a Tim Holtz base that I bought for this project. I thought it would be fun to take the Vignette Box a step further. The package comes with two different sizes-this is the larger size. I used gold gilded alloy in the recesses and black on the embossed. 

Here is one side of the vignette box. First I painted the whole box and frame with black gesso. Then I painted collage medium over it. Then I tried to use some grit and crackle paste but I'm not good at that yet. I don't know how to get it mixed because I tried mixing it with paint. So I painted over it with brown and black paint. Then I got out my Finnabair Rust paint effects and created the rust. I left the crackle. The I went over the black it Finnabair vintage gold wax. That's what makes the frame dots on the front gold also.

Here is the other side of the box.

Top of the box. That little record player is from Hobby Lobby a long while ago. I love minatures but I don't need another hobby. So when they are on sale and I think I can use them-I will buy them. But I really have to think if I can use it and not buy it just because it's cute LOL. (The struggle is real.)

The sweet lightbulb is from Prima many years ago.

Metal gears in my stash (could be Tim's).

The pen nub and pen chipboard are both Tim's. The background paper is 7 Gypsies. I used a bit of walnut ink distress oxide here and there. Also-I used some washi tape with gears to hide the hot glue on the tiny lights wires. 

The laugh was a token I bought at a thrift store with my husband. There was a small handful of them. I finally used one! :)  Yay! And an awesome paper doll.

Thank you for stopping by today!

The Rainbow Challenge-July Edition

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Happy July! This month at the Rainbow Challenge we are all about Charmingly Cherry! 

This board has some fantastic ideas!  I chose to use some washi tape. Some how I have a lot of red-I think I bought a tube from Michaels a while back. The paper for the background and sentiment are real red from stampin up. And the sentiment is a die cut from Simon Says Stamp.  Then I added some gems for fun. :)

Be sure to check out my teammates take on this beautiful red color.  There is so much inspiration! I hope you will join us :)

Rainbows at the Rainbow Challenge

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Happy June! New month new challenge!

This month at The Rainbow Card Challenge we are all about Rainbows!

I made a thank you card for a science teacher.

I used my silhouette machine for the beakers and liquid. I had a stencil and fine silver marker pen that I used for the circles above the red and green liquid beakers. The sentiment was a free stamp from Taylored Expressions. The background was a pattern paper I found in my stash. :)

Thank you for stopping by today. I hope you will go check out what my teammates have created. And I hope you are inspired to join us this month!

Happy Mother's Day!

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This is a little early but it doesn't matter--Happy Mother's Day to all of the mamas out there :) I hope you all have a great day!

This card is for my mama. :) I hope she likes it-I know I certainly do LOL.

So for my husband bought me salvaged patina distress and oxide ink pads. I couldn't believe it.  He also got me the wreaths you see here. So I used patina, flamingo, and twisted green on the background. I used a Tim Holtz stencil and a wet paper towel to lift up some areas. On the wreath is the twisted citron and wilderness. The little flowers are from another Tim Holtz die set and so are the letters spelling out mom. The big bird in the middle is from an old Tim die with a bird cage. It's colored with Mermaid Lagoon. And the sentiment is from the metallic sticker book. The only thing no Tim's is the gems in the middle of the flowers and those are Katia Studio. 

I am entering this into the following challenges:

Watercolor Wednesday: WWC315 Marsha's Challenge: All thing feminine 

Simon Says Stamp: Feminine  

Cut It Up: Mother's Day #225

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Vintage-y Birthday Card

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I made this fun card for a friend of mine. She's got a an awesome heart and loves Jesus-so the sentiment is perfect. 

Here's the card:

I stamped images on the cardstock paper and used walnut stain around the edges. The frame is so cool. It's a Tim Holtz frame that I added Finnabair rust pastes too. The inside is a ephemera from Tim Holtz. There are some flowers there that are Tim's also. 

This metal sentiment is a Tim Holtz thing as well. 

And lastly, this paper doll is Tim Holtz. However the cross she is holding is from a mold I bought from Michaels and painted with sparks paint from finnabair. I love this paint! :)

I am submitting this into the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: Feminine. 

Thanks for stopping by! :)

Summer Time Mixed Media Canvas

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I love summertime! So to kick it off a little early I made this 4 x 4 (inches) canvas.

The trees are paper clay and a Finnabair mold. I painted them with golden paints and used a finnabair vintage gold was to highlight. 

On the canvas is finnabair patina paste/paint. I glue shells and a sand dollar and painted them with different finnabair sparks paint. It is so pretty! It's translucent so you don't loose the shell like with an opaque paint. I filled in the spaces with silver micro beads. On the island I used a sand and glue product from a company called muddpuddles. And some word stickers from Tim Holtz-upon a shore. 

I am entering this into the following challenge:

Crafter's Castle: May 2021 Anything Goes

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Anniversary Card

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Today I am sharing a card I made for my husband for our 13th wedding anniversary. 

I used Tim Holtz's embossing folder, and 4 leaf clover  embossed die, quote chip, and the hardware heads. I used a little black soot distress ink around the clover. And a little rustic wilderness around the quote chip before I put some gold wax from finnabair around it. I also used the gold wax on the four leaf clover. For the embossed cardstock I used brocade finnabair wax. The card stock was just plain brown before-and it's always cool to see it come to life. 

The lace in the middle is something I had floating around my desk from another project. For the 13th anniversary lace is part of the old tradition and textiles is part of the modern gift giving tradition. We aren't lacey people so this worked perfectly. :)

I am submitting this card to:

Watercooler Wednesday: WWC314 Dawn's challenge All About Occasions (Anniversary Card)

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: Add a Quote

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