Shopping Our Stash - Shape Up!

Hello, Crafty Peeps!

Welcome to the New Year!  I am hosting this week at Shopping Our Stash and in honor of all those "I will get in shape this year" resolutions, I figured creating a project using different shapes would be a solution to the failed resolution.

Create a shaped card or project or simply use shaped dies. The only NO NO is the shape cannot be Round or Square.

Hexagonal Trinket Boxes

I made this box as a companion piece to a "bud vase" I created for my neurologist last year.  The Graphic 45® Birdsong Collection is just so pretty!  I added one black flat back pearl to each of the panels and it really added interest to the design

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 Trinket Box For My Dressing Table

 I am changing the accent colors in my bedroom from cream to oatmeal(ish.)  G45's Old Curiosity Shoppe paper works perfectly!

The Trinket boxes are constructed using heavy weight chipboard and Kraft Paper.  Once the boxes were constructed, I painted them black using Earth Safe Finishes® Chalk paint.

This Link will take you to the YouTube Video Tutorial I used to make this box.   I did not use a compass to draw my hexagons. Instead, I used templates that  I  created with heavy Duty Chipboard.  

Here are the GryphonArt Templates I used to create my hexagons. Be sure to print at 100%.   I hope Uploading this as a JPG will work.  I downloaded the PDF file. 

 After printing the templates, I cut and traced them onto heavy -duty chipboard.  I glued the template sheets to the top and marked the"Front."  I created other templates for my Lid Layers.  

Thanks for Stopping By! I look forward to seeing your project at:

Shopping Our Stash

HUGZ!
CHANA

Shopping Our Stash - Create A Shaped Card

Hello Crafty Peeple!

Welcome to another challenge week at Shopping Our Stash!

Challenge:  Create A Shaped Project

Shaped cards used to be a real pain, however, with the innovative advances in thin metal die design and production, creating shaped cards is breezy easy.  As much as I love my Big Shots and other cutting machines, sometimes I like to do things the old fashion way.  I like to just use my hands.  I guess that is why I am so fascinated with Mixed Media these days.

Napkin Fold Card

I am not sure that my project really qualifies as a "Shaped Card, "  it may be more of a fancy fold.  It is, however folded into a shape, so I imagine I can skate on through!

The Hubster had a good time taking pictures.  He wanted to see how many ways he could fold the card.  He was very creative and came up with some fun shots.  Sharing for the fun of it!

 The Oriental Fan is from SCACD "Nature's Tapestry Fan

 These two remind me of a Kimono

The Design Paper is from Teresa Collins' Fabrication

My teammates have fashioned some pretty cool shaped projects!  Stop by Shopping Our Stash and have a look see.  Hope you find great inspiration and share the results in our challenge!

Earth Safe Finishes - Up-Cycled, Repurposed, Salad Dressing Bottle

Hello, My Crafty Peeps!

I have been focusing on Earth Safe Finishes'® Licorice Chalk paint, and it worked beautifully for this project.  I am also using the Ann Butler® Iridescents™ and find them to be the perfect complements for my faux metal pieces.

My previous ESF project (The Traditional Chinese Tea House Bird House) and this one,  are efforts to highlight the use of our products on large areas of small projects.  With this bottle, I really wanted the Licorice and not the faux metal label to be the dominant visual, and I think I succeeded!  I have more bottles, so I will probably try other color combinations in future products.

FROM THIS

TO THIS

HOW THIS WAS DONE

THE TUTORIAL CAN BE FOUND HERE

REPURPOSED SALAD DRESSING BOTTLE

 I hope you will find fun and interesting ways to use our products to 

create new art from old stuff!

Thanks for stopping by! Hugz,

Chana Malkah

Earth Safe Finishes - Bird House - Chinese Tea House

HI, Crafty Peeps!  Today I am presenting a cedar birdhouse that I painted and decorated to resemble a traditional Chinese Tea House - Birdhouse.

Here is a recent design using Earth Safe Finishes®!  In case you are not familiar with ESF, it is a WOMAN owned, Made in the USA company that develops, manufactures, and markets high-quality VOC free products.  You can read more about the company HERE!

This birdhouse has languished in Projects In Progress for almost four months.  I knew that whatever I did with the birdhouse, I wanted the roof to have texture so, back in May, I added drywall tape to the roof, covered the entire birdhouse with Gesso, and put it in PIP.  Last week, I decided to make another attempt and was inspired to go oriental.   I hope this project will inspire you to use chalks and pigments on large surfaces with minimal embellishments.   My product focus this week:  Earth Safe Finishes® Chalk It Up™ "Licorice" and Earth Safe Finishes® Pigment "Permanent Red."  I also used Ann Butler Designs™ Iridescents "Sheer Silver."

The Tutorial for this project can be found at the Earth Safe Finishes® Artists Blog

My husband purchased an unfinished cedar birdhouse from the Goodwill Store for $3.49.
The windows are caps from empty distress stain bottles.
The house had some rough edges, which was great, because I wanted the tea house to show age.

The Oriental Weave panel provides visual relief from 
the bold designer papers on the back, side and front of the house!  

The instructions for creating the faux metal siding are included in the tutorial.

Thanks for Stopping by,

HUGZ!

Shopping Our Stash - #232 My Precious

Hello, Crafty Peeps!

Welcome to another fun challenge at SHOPPING OUR STASH!  

Our Theme this week is "MY PRECIOUS."  

Use something you have hoarded that you never, ever, planned to actually use. Piece of pretty paper? Special embellishment?  Tell us what your is your Precious element.

**TWO WEEK CHALLENGE! (ENDS ON 01/04/16)

When it comes to hoarding, in my world, it is anything from Graphic 45.
I have tons and tons of G45 Collections.  I am a member of a buying club and we get G45 at a group discounted rate, so I can get the stamps, papers, embellishments, etc., at a deeply discounted price.  Great, right? Wrong, because I never want to use the stuff.  In 2016, I plan to start using my papers. bs'd

HARMONY CANVAS PANEL

I had to find a way to incorporate those stunning birds!  The micro beads and glitter don't photograph as well as I would like, but IRL, they jus sparkle.

Creating this project put me in an oriental state of mind and I completed two more designs using the Graphic 45 Birdsong papers.  I also fell in love all over again with the faux metal embossing.

My teammates at Shopping Our Stash have creates some pretty awesome projects for your inspiration.  Stop by and leave your "Precious" and a little love!

Hugz, 

Chana

Tranquil Moments! - 613 Avenue Create Challenge Blog - Create Your Own Challenge

Hello Crafty, Peeples!   Here is my second design for Challenge #27 at 613 Avenue Create!  My first project used an image from our sponsor, QKR. This one uses an image from our sponsor, Rick St. Dennis.

The image is "Geisha" by Rick St. Dennis

The papers are from the Graphic 45 Birdsong Collection
Image, Solid Paper, Patterned Paper, Die Cut, Liquid Pearls, Pearls, Lace, gliimmer mist

This  project is based on the same Tammy Tutterow Project that I shared when I posted my 

"You Are Matchless" Project.  I just increased the size of the Matchbook and the cards are not 

bound at the bottom.  You can find Tammy's Tutorial HERE

Here are the Journal/Photo Mats.  The back is blank

JOURNAL / PHOTO MAT CARD

Here is the chart for  "Create Your Own Challenge"   

Thanks for Looking!  Hugz, Chana

Challenges Entered:

One Stop Craft Challenge - Anything Goes

Challenges For Everybody - Anything Goes

Creative Inspirations - Anything Goes

No Matter Which Challenge - Anything Goes (This is their final Challenge)

Joanna Sheen Challenge - Don't Be Square

Robyn's Fetish - Anything But A Card

That Craft Challenge - Ribbon and/or Lace

Make It Monday - Always Anything Goes

Oriental Allure

MAKE A TAG OR LABEL

Hello, Crafty Peeples!

I guess I am just in a tag making mode!  I have another one coming Wednesday for my Crafter's Cafe Challenge DT project.  Anymahoo,  here is another one of my "having fun playing with my Tim Holtz and Graphic 45 Stuff projects.  This one was for the Saturday, Paper Ala Mode Challenge at The Outlawz!

I could have kicked myself when I realized I had not ordered the 3rd stamp set that goes with the Graphic 45 Birdsong Collection (I corrected that error today when I stumbled across the set in the clearance section at Scrapadabadoo.  I really wanted to leave the flower off the design, but to cut the dress out of the dp sheet, the edge of the train ends up being square.  When I tried to round it off, it looked funky, so I decided the flower(actually made for another project) was less funky and the colors just happen to agree.

Adding the Design Paper to the back of the tag is a good way to cover the brad legs, as well as the bleeds from the inks, paints and stains.

Thanks for stopping by!

Hugz,

Chana

Challenges Entered:

The Outlawz Paper Ala Mode Challenge - Tags or Labels
It's All About The Vintage - Oriental