Finishing projects

Today was the day to finish working on some projects---I have two custom wedding albums to make & I wanted to clear some things off my desk. 

My dear friend, Kathie, owns a publishing company & they moved in to their new offices recently. She raved about one of the curio boxes I had made & told me she loved anything having to do with books. Needless to say, I didn't need any more encouragement than that! LOL 

It's not a very good photo since I took it with my phone......and you can't see the "books" on the top of the box along with a child's letter block that has a pair of glasses on it. But you get the idea........  It has her logo inserted into a metal piece used to label the old, big binders (I remember those!!), glitter cuz she's a crafter, a heart to remind her of me, and "books" to represent her business. Plus I love the bordello coin in the corner---she teases her hubby that they painted one of the walls in a bordello red!

Here's my latest She Art girl----although not quite finished. She still needs a good quote on her---any ideas?  I'm so loving these girls but I have no place to put them! Hmm......

While I was cleaning out, the UPS guy came to the house delivering my Dick Blick order (like I need more stuff!). I had ordered some of the hand barrier cream so paint & glue wouldn't stick to me....I pick it off for days! So far I'm really liking it!! Plus it's keeping my horrible dry Scleroderma hands a little less dry!  But the best part of the order are these paints......

What a perfect size!! It's the same size bottle as Stickles and the paints inside are AWESOME!  I dabbed a little bit of each on some white paper........OMG.......the colors & shine are fabulous! Now I'm trying to find a distributor that I can get more!!  Have you used these?? What do you think???



Escape to the Fanciful

Yesterday my friends Marlene & Angie & I took a fabulous class at Frenzy Stamper in Scottsdale. Michael Putnam & his wife Lesley (of Jack and Cat Curio) put on a Fanciful Curio class that was so much fun!! It's always a treat to see them and play with their new ideas & it had been awhile since I've been to a class.

We started the class by making our resin pendant (the silver frame in the middle of the "roof"). I've never used resin before and it was much easier than I expected. It didn't smell too bad (LOL) and they used a cool UV drier like at the nail place. :)  It took time but with lots of little layers, it was really easy.

Then we got to use Sculpty clay to make a house for the background base. We stamped in it first then used our fingers to add Perfect Pearls to our own taste. I did a few rich colors like rust, gold, and deep orange and then trimmed it with a fun teal color.

Mike & Lesley gave us some old, brittle dictionary pages to put all around the frame that we then distressed with Distress Ink and added a little white paint. The inside frame we used Tim Holtz tissue tape before we distressed it, too.  Then it was a matter of putting everything together. We got lots of goodies in our packages but I also wanted to add some of my own things so I finished mine at home.

When I got home, I used some Tattered Angels glimmer mist on some of the new Tim Holtz ribbon roses---thsoe were added at the end to fill in some empty spaces. Other than that, it was just looking for pieces and parts and finding the perfect spot for them.

Thanks so much to Debbie (store owner) & Mike & Lesley---we had a great time & my friend Angie learned so many new things!!