It has been a long time since I posted anything new here, so I am playing catch up. I have only done a couple of cards this summer, since we moved in May and I have been "nesting" ever since! The house is coming together nicely, though, and I am almost ready to get back to crafting "full time" -- or as full-time as a homemaker can get! Here are a few of the things I have been working on besides painting walls and rearranging furniture...
I have continued to create these fun little stocking ornaments. I decided not to use them in the ornament exchange except as prizes. The rest are going to be gifts and a few may end up in my etsy shop.
One evening I decided I wanted to do a little crafting, so I whipped out this monotone paper (it is double sided, so the stripes and snowflakes are from the same sheet) and decided to do something a little different. I stained the back of the wooden stocking with brown alcohol inks instead of painting it, and I used lace to embellish it. Simple but I think pretty. The little heart is something my husband cut out just after he got his scroll saw. It had been wandering around in various containers in my stash so I decided to do something with it. First I stained it with pinks and purples (alcohol ink) then spritzed some glimmer mist on it. I backed it with paper then added the little ruffle and a beaded hanger. I hung it in my little gallery outside my studio...
The heart is hanging above the framed cards on the left side. The other things are projects I have made--I am especially proud of my first "painting" using mixed media. The shadow box was from a few years ago, and here is the "Z", in its previous state:
It just seemed so plain--especially after I made this "A" for my niece:
Another project my husband and I did together was this frame for some clock dipping bowls I bought at Pottery Barn a couple years ago. It was his first attempt at a frame, and I thought he did pretty well all things considered.
I painted it and lined it with black velvet, then glued everything in. It was the perfect accent for the wall I hung it on.
I am working on some other ornaments for the exchange using old hymnal pages to decoupage on glass balls. I will come up with some sort of fancy tag to put at the top. I also bought another box of clear glass ornaments and will experiment with some alcohol inks on those. I have about twenty projects on my list; as soon as I get things made, I'll be posting.
Ornery cut out the leaves out of the Masonite back of an old Picture frame--the same piece he used to make another project.
He made some gouges with a chisel, then we painted them. He helped us put a couple of screws into each one through the base piece and we wrapped a dead grapevine around them, hot glued some Spanish Moss around the base and cut some branches off a dead bush in the back yard for the stems.
Each one is a little different, but we had so much fun making them!
