Linda Israel

Multi-Media Artist

The challenge for this art was to use eyelets. Even though you may not be able to see them I used two. lol.. Both are in the oval chipboard and are lavender in color.

In this piece I created a 6 by 6 inch art using scrapbook papers, chipboard, Prima flowers, Adirondack Color wash and rubber stamps. Included in this art is one of my handmade butterflies – made out of polymer clay. It took about 35 minutes to make this art piece, once I had all of the materials gathered.

My recipe for glimmer mist: Future Floor Polish and Pearl Ex I mix in an old spray bottle and put in about a teaspoon of Pearl Ex and test how it looks, if it needs more shimmer I add more Pearl Ex. lol

This time I decided to make a kit of the items I used in this art and offer it for sale.

In the Kit:
Two 6 inch by 6 inch Background papers – Treasure and Plaid
Two 6 by 6 Cardstock papers – Pink and Purple
One cardstock 8 1/2 by 5 1/2 – Exact Ice
Three Cream Prima Flowers
One 6 by 6 Mat Board
One 5.95 inch by 5.95 inch chipboard for back
Two Lavender Eyelets
Two Brass Hanging hardware – for back
Two Brass brads
Nine Rhinestones two sizes
One Cream Handmade polymer butterfly
One Butterfly antenna
One template to punch holes in the back to hang the art
Three tulle green circles
Three yards of green variegated chenille yarn
One Set of Chipboard Decorative accent with flower and leaves
One Chipboard Oval frame with Bird
One Chipboard Christmas tag bookplate

I have Three of these kits made up and ready to ship. If you need any special instructions please feel free to ask.. If anyone is wanting extra butterflies I’ll add a button for that as well.

Shipping Options

So Blessed Kit US Shipping $12.00 So Blessed Kit Int’l Shipping $14.00

Here is the video where I created the art, hopefully that will help you when you create your own.

Thanks for stopping by.. Have a blessed day!

Agape’
Linda

Use Sewing in the art. For this piece I pull out my sewing machine and get busy… But that isn’t the only technique I use. A lot went into this 6 by 6 piece of art.

The heart was hand cut out of paper that I decorated with the Spray Background using Adirondack® Color Wash technique. I love using the Krylon Gold leaf pens. The shine is so pretty.

My cricut was put to use to cut out the postage frame that I coated with gesso and then painted with blue and green acrylic paint. Deciding that the frame needed a little more blue I got out my denim blue Adirondack color wash and sprayed it a little. Coated the frame with fine glitter and set it aside to dry.

Used a torn page from an old readers digest and painted a little of the paint that was still on my foam brush… Adhered this to background paper and put heart on top. then I realized that I wanted to stamp the swirl stamp so I just stamped on the edge.. Picked up a stripe piece of scrapbook paper and cut it to run across the bottom. Then took the piece to my sewing machine and did a zig zag stitch around the heart and across the bottom strip paper.

Stamped the words out on paper and then tore out, I used a gel pin to color around the words to help them pop. I inked the edges and layered with blue.

The art is mounted on mat board and on the back I cut chipboard slightly smaller and punch two holes and use hanging hardware and a brad to hang the piece.

Placed a purchased boarder across the bottom. Layered Prima flowers and placed a large rhinestone in the center.. Sanded the edges and ran a distressing ink pad around the edges. The butterfly is one of my handmade butterflies that I had premade and it just happened to be in a color that matched.

I hope you liked my take on the sewing challenge. It was fun to make.

Thanks for stopping by.

Linda

The challenge for this art was to use Paint. I recycled some cardboard to add some texture to this 6 by 6 piece of art.

Before I started the video I tore a piece of corrugated card board to the size I wanted, and then I removed the paper on one side as best I could to revel the texture of the corrugation. I coated the cardboard with white gesso paint so that the other colors wouldn’t soak into the cardboard.. I used gray paint over the gesso and two shades of green. I was going for an old shabby siding look, at least that was the vision I had for it. lol After the paint had dried on the cardboard pieces I sanded those lightly to help make those look “distressed”.

I use mat board as a foundation and glue my scrapbook paper to that with Aleene’s original craft glue. I have a box of chipboard that I use to cut my shapes from and I will sit and cut out a bunch of one or two shapes at a time and then put them in a bin to use later.. The oval shape is from a bird oval frame from Sizzix and I just used the center piece instead of the frame. I like to cut the shape then glue it to the paper and then cut around to remove the extra paper, especially if I’m going to sand around the edges anyway, you can’t tell that it was hand cut out instead of a die cut..

If you don’t have a sanding block, pick up an extra emery board the next time you are out shopping. These are inexpensive and handy to have around…

Used the Tim Holtz distressed ink pads to go around the edges of the oval and mat. Then I over stamped the oval with a text stamp from A Stamp in the Hand. (one of my favorite stamps to use.)

The word stamps are from Invoke Arts I picked a set a few years ago at the Grapevine Rubberstamp Convention that is put on by Heirloom Productions. Invoke Arts doesn’t show this set on their website, but I did see the words in other stamps.. I don’t know if they would still have them instock, just not on the website.. I stamped these on a scrap of paper and then tore these out and inked the edges so that it would match my project.

To make lace match the project I used a distressed ink bad and rubbed it over the top of the lace. I think it helps make the texture of the lace pop.. I used a piece of purchase boarder on top of the lace to help bring all of the colors together.

I love using pages out of an old readers digest as background papers.. I used a distressed ink pad to add a little color… Digging paper out of my scrap pile is a lot of fun and I don’t throw any of it away! lol..

I used Prima flowers, three small rhinestones and one of my handmade butterflies to help embellish this project. The Glitter Glue is made by Tulip and I find it in the T-Shirt embellishment department and found that it works great on paper.

Over all this was an easy project to make and I think it would be a great gift for a friend..

Thanks for stopping by.. If you have any questions please feel free to leave a comment and I’ll do my best to answer you.

Have a blessed day!

Linda

I officially didn’t sign up for the challenge that Mary at 2 scrapalot posted: http://2scrapalot.blogspot.com/2010/04/40-layouts-in-40-days-challenge-april.html but I decided that I would try to do as many as I could in the next 40 days.. I might not get them all posted everyday but my goal would be to at least get them created and then upload a video for each one…

The first challenge was to use a Puzzle piece in the art. I had a puzzle that I picked up for a dollar of some dinosaurs and thought that would be perfect to use.. My husband laughed at me because I put the puzzle together before I took a corner of it for the art! lol.. I should have taken a photo of it when I finished the puzzle. lol… I’m glad it was an easy and small puzzle, would have hated to worked on it for hours only to take it apart for art. lol… Once I selected the portion of the puzzle I wanted to use I took the rest of the puzzle carefully and placed it in sections back in the box. I should have glued it together but I didn’t lol… The piece I used I glued a small square of paper on the back side so that it wouldn’t fall apart. For the rest you will have to watch the video…

Thanks for stopping by and reading my blog I hope that something inspires you!

Blessings to you

Linda