Down to the Nitty Gritty!

My friend Marsha from Tumble Fish Studio has come out with a brand new kit over at Deviant Scrap called Nitty Gritty! It's full of the most unique images all in either grayscale or aged yellowed tones.

Here is a page I made using only images from this kit. I played around with depth in this one. This is something new for me and I kinda like the way it turned out.

Make Your Own Wonder

by glitterbugStudios

Thanks so much for stopping by and I will be back soon with a sweet project and a link to the tutorial...stay tuned!

More Christmas fun!

A few more Christmas goodies to show you! I just adore those vintage little Putz houses and wanted to duplicate the look only on a bigger scale. I didn't really want to put together my own, so I purchased a paper mache one I found at my local craft store. I decorated it with sheet music, lace and some candy cane colored pipe cleaners that I tea dyed.

Here is a centerpiece I made from several found goodies from Goodwill. The bird had a very ugly brown ceramic crackled finish on it. I sanded it and painted it with about 10 coats of white paint. It then got a thick coat of white glitter and laid to rest on a nest of spanish moss. I used a candlestick to elevate it and made a wire cloche out of 16 gauge wire. Lastly, I attached an altered snowflake on the front and voila!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great weekend!

Vintage Inspired Ornaments

Instead of shopping, I spent the better part of the weekend making ornaments to sell in town.

Here are a few examples and since I nearly made 4-5 coordinating ones, I have quite a few to decorate the tree at the shop. The top pic is a simple paper fairy.

This next one is a bottle brush tree I bleached and paired with a sweet little metal cup I found at Goodwill (actually I found 6 of them!).

The next is made using a digital collage I made in photoshop in which I colored the original illustration of the mad tea party and set it in Paris.

Here are some more teacup bottle brush trees but this time they are in pretty little off-white cups I again bought at Goodwill (10 of these!)

Another Goodwill find! A package of 48 little peat pots for a buck! I made some more paper fairies and put them inside the pots that were decorated with lace and tinsel ribbon -or as me and my bff Melissa calls it...TINSEL CRACK! As you can see I used it on EVERYTHING.

Another peat pot fairy...

And for a little different twist... a peat pot bird!

And I wanted to make a few Paris inspired ornies. This one has a little bottle brush tree on it.

I had my DH bend a few old spoons I had lying around so I could hang them on the tree. I love this image of this little girl. She reminds me of my niece, Ashlynn.

And I had to jump on the clock face bandwagon! Just a simple face glued onto a recycled cd disc.

I have several of these in different faces.

Thanks so much for stopping by and please mosey on over to Melissa's blog, Honey Girl Studio, where she has a fabulous tutorial on how to make a special holiday decoration using chicken wire!

Florentina's Circo Fantastico di Volo!

I am so happy to share that my friend Evelyn from Finecrafted Designs over at Deviant Scrap has a brand new kit out today called "Wild Rides".

I created the wildest ride of all in my piece.

It's a flying circus filled with wild animals!

This kit is great for digital AND cut and paste pieces.

You can find it here in her shoppe.

Thanks for stopping by!

My poor neglected blog...

I really do not know where my time goes. Just life, I guess. I am really going to try and do a post every week and not neglect my pathetic little blog. If you are a blogger that posts everyday or almost everyday, I applaud you!

I have been super busy making Christmas and winter themed pieces to sell in town here. Even they are few and far between. Man, I need to win the lottery! Anyway, here are a few things I have made over the last few weeks. I hope they give you some inspiration as many of your art has for me.

My first piece is a paper tree using vintage dictionary pages.

Next is another paper tree using sheet music and a paper mache box.

This is an idea I got off of Flickr, I believe. Just some paper mache cones covered in book text and fresh pine inside. It smells wonderful. The board is from my old deck.

Yet another tree (must have been on a kick!). This one is covered in rigid wrap, painted and glittered. Underneath is a sweet flocked deer I glittered up.

Thanks for stopping by!

Pinterest, Pinterest, Pinterest...What have I ever done without you?

I am obsessed!

Yes, OBSESSED with Pinterest!

Anyone else? (Besides my sista Melissa WHO MADE ME obsessed!)

If you have never tried it, you must go have a look. I just started last week and cannot get enough!

Have I told you I'm obsessed?

There is a button you can push on my side bar to go to my boards. I must say I have flickr'd, blog hopped, tumbled, and stumbled upon but pinning is the absolute best.

Not only can you find great inspiration, adorable pictures, and hilarious pictures- all content is pinned (or should be pinned) from the original source and then it is one click away from a fabulous new blog or a great new tutorial you never knew about.

One such blog is called Twig.

She is hilarious and her pictures are divine.

This one post had me laughing so hard because as a blogger I can relate.

Things Bloggers Do #3

And her drawings crack me up too.

Well, I am off to do some more pinning because I JUST CAN'T STOP!

Loaded with scrumptious creepiness!

Marsha from Tumble Fish Studio has done it again! She has a new kit out at Deviant Scrap just in time for Halloween called "Slightly Sinister" and it is chock full of vintage people just on the verge of being super creepy. I was immediately drawn to the headless body for this next piece I call "Puzzling".

I tried to make it look like an advertisement or poster for a new kind of act or something like that. Like with movies, how the critics say what they think and you see their quotes. The stars are from Finecrafted Design's Paper Moon kit. I just thought they provided just the right amount of dazzle to this digital collage.

Thanks for stopping by and hopefully I can do another post soon highlighting all of my Halloween decor I have been making and will explain my absence from my blog lately.