Bad Girls Project 52 - #9

Julie Ann Shanin has posted a new challenge for the Bad Girls Project 52.

I admire the Bad Girls artists so much! This is my first time participating in a challenge there. When Julie Ann posted it...I knew just what I would use.


For this challenge, you need to use wood & wire, and a botanical theme.


I had this old mustard colored cupboard in the attic. It had a door with a wire window. I removed the hinges on the door, sanded it lightly, painted with gesso, swirling my foam brush into the gesso to make a circular pattern on my frame. First experience with gesso...and this stuff is cool.


Next, I painted the gesso with black paint. Then I used a coat of white, and finally I used blue paint. {I wanted the frame to match the blue paint I just put on my scrapbook room walls.} To add a bit of sparkle, using my finger, I swirled star dust stickles.


The pp and chip flowers are g*c*d studios. I {love} this butterfly piece of pp by g.c.d.

I inked the flowers...took some apart, added glitter, buttons & bling.


I was inspired by the quote, and used an old piece of Scenic Route pp, inked. The butterflies are a MS punch, g.c.d. pp that is glittered. Pearls on top are Queen & Co. (at AC Moore for a dollar a package!) Finally, I added some Wright's olive green ric rak to the inside of the frame.

a close up of the frame -

the altered chip flowers -

This is hanging in my scrap room.

Thanks for the challenge, Bad Girls!!!

~patti

...my friend, Jan.

I am so thankful for my friend, Jan Tatomir.

I had been whining (& whining) that I can't find any g.c.d. studios pp anywhere. (There is some in the August kit over at Citrus Tree...but that's all the g.c.d. I had...) I've talked with my LSS people and they're trying to get the new Melody Ross stuff in. I'm waiting, but not patiently....

UNTIL NOW.

Jan sent me a big package of g.c.d. stuff!! Patterned paper, die cut embellies, chip embellies, sparkly, textured, colorful, beautiful g.c.d.!!!

The hubs uses these small notepads while at work. I scarfed 3 from him and used my new scrappy stuff that Jan sent. {Guess who's gettin' one?}



Thank you, Jan!!

You're the best scrappy buddy in the whole wide world. xoxo!

...it's challenge day at Citrus Tree Studio!

The tenth is my favorite day of the month at Citrus Tree.

The DT presents their challenges for the month! I was assigned the color challenge for February, and chose green & orange. Using some TaDa Studios pp from the February "The Sweet Life" kit, I came up with this lo of my SIL, K.C. and her kids. That's my first banner on a lo...it was fun, but I think I need some practice. :)


~happy birthday!~

Thanks for stopping by. Join us for some fun February challenges!

There are prizes too....you know you love prizes. :)

~patti

card patterns sketch #49 ~

Card Patterns sketch 49 looks like this:

This little dog by Prima totally makes me smile. I mean, look at him...with the bone in his mouth, all happy to see you. Dogs rule. :)

{you are special}

I started w/Black cs by American Crafts and sanded a piece of Craft pp. The journaling die cut is by Anna Griffin, scalloped journaling spot by Maya Road, I pop dotted the ticket by CI, stamp is Inkadinkado, stampin' up! ink spot, tape is Heidi Swapp, Foofala buttons & dmc floss.

Thanks for the fun sketch challenge, Card Patterns girls!

~patti

winter is a great time to get organized!

I have not scrapped all week because I was busy organizing and purging my craft room. Alright, I admit...I did not remove one piece of patterned paper. Everything else was looked through and 1) put in the pile for my sister Amy, 2) trashed or 3) put neatly back into the ol' stash. I'm happy with my painted blue wall and clean surfaces. I'll give myself a whole 24 hours to keep 'em that way. LOL!!!

So, anyway...Kayla over at Citrus Tree had requested pictures. Here are a couple. My space is actually more like a walk-in closet off of my bedroom. The hubs built it for me five years ago. There are pocket doors on either side and the blue wall is on the opposite side of our fireplace wall.

This is my newly painted wall, Making Memories embellishment center (purchased @Michael's w/a 50% off coupon), and my new "Clip It Up" table top organizer. Note about the Clip it up - this thing is huge and holds a ton of stuff!! I love it!

I bought these unpainted cupboards for cheap. About two years ago, just for fun, I made "pages" for their fronts. Using white painted chipboard letters, I wrote out "Do what" on the left door, and "you love" on the right door front. (That's some old SR pp.) I can change them out when I get tired of them.

My steel workin' pipefitter hubby built me these wood shelves for storage.

He is much more comfortable working with steel than wood, but he can do carpentry when forced to. :)

This is a shot of my fireplace wall taken from my bed.


There you have it. Thanks for coming by to see my photos.
happy last day of January, patti

an altered dollar bag!

There is a challenge at Altered Art Junkies to alter a bag that only costs one dollar.

I saw this bag at our local milk quick stop place and thought, oh what the hell...I've got some cotton quilt squares, I'll see what I can come up with.

I machine stitched down the cotton fabric pieces and then hand stitched the flowers. For the simple flowers, I folded the fabric, ironed it and tied the center w/jute. The felt and button are Fancy Pants stash.

So, here's some pics of the bag. It's big and will hold a ton of stuff when I take Matthew to Aldi's.

-before-

-after-

oh no...I just had a thought. Will this make me a bag lady? lol!!!

It's a beautiful sunny day. I'm off and out the door for a long walk with the dog.

happy saturday,

~patti

remember when you were this old?

-the li'l davis chipboard-

-tiny matt & mia tags-

I made this lo this morning for Tricia's challenge at Citrus Tree Studio. Her challenge was to create a lo about love without using the color red. I {love} this photo of my son, Matthew and his girlfriend, Mia. They've only been dating for a few months, but it feels like love to me. ;) They are so darn sweet together! Matt's a great guy...he deserves a sweet girl. And, yes, of course I'm saying that because I'm the mother. LOL!!

Anyway, I've had this "love" chip piece for forever and a day. I got it from Mary Frances, at SBO and I think it's by li'l Davis. For this lo, I traced it onto some 7 Gypsies pp. Was really wishing I had some glimmer mist...thought it would be cool to try to mist the love piece, but made due with some black stickles.

The rest of the pp used in this kit, came from the August 09 Citrus Tree kit, still on sale. The g*c*d studios green floral print pp ranks up there as one of my all time faves. :)

I hope my friends Marti and Julie Ann come check out this lo!! They've known Matt for a few years now.

I now have some m&ms to eat...so with that, I'll catch ya later.

~patti