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Great-Grandma

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My great grandmother, about 82 years ago!

The majority of this layout is made using products that came in the June 2019 Tres Jolie Kit Club Scrapbooking Kit (product list below), and was created for the June Sketch Challenge hosted by Kim & the Tres Jolie Kit Club!

The Tres Jolie Kit Club June Sketch

I just love 49 & Market, and those laser cut shapes made this layout go together much faster than fussy cutting flowers!!

Adding some foam under the photo gives it just a little lift from the layers underneath.

I set out with a goal to see if I could use an entire package of flowers on a layout! I think it’s a first for me!

I just happened it have the perfect Say It In Crystals in my stash for this project!

Another big, flower milestone for me…using a mix of flat & 3D flowers. I don’t know if I’ve ever really succeeded at it. It always makes me panic!

A bit of the lace from the Tres Jolie Kit & a ReneaBouquets Heart Paper Clip for some little touches.

Products:

  • [From the] Tres Jolie June 2019 Scrapbooking Kit
  • 49 & Market
  • Bold & Beautiful Collection
  • Dear John
  • Edge of Reason
  • Whispers
  • Laser Cut Shapes
  • Blossom Blends
    • Bluebell
  • Lace
  • ReneaBouquets
    • Beautiful Board Heart Paper Clips
  • Art Anthology
    • Keyholes 6×9 Stencil
  • Shimmerz
    • Creameez
    • Lapis Dance
  • Dazzlerz
    • Foiled Again
  • Prima
    • Finnabair
    • White Crackle Texture Paste
  • Jamie Dougherty
    • Bloom
    • Spark 6×6 Stencil
  • Frank Garcia
    • Santorini
    • Say It In Crystals
  • idea-ology
    • Tim Holtz
    • Tiny Attacher
  • Tonic
    • Tim Holtz
    • Paper Distresser
  • JudiKins
    • Diamond Glaze
  • Art Glitter Glue
  • Silly Winks Sticky Back Foam Sheet
  • Liquitex Clear Gesso

    • Water Fairy

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    I love water lily’s, I think they are so beautiful floating out on a pond, so I was, of course, immediately drawn to, and inspired by, the water lily in the Mixed Media Place’s May Mood Board! 
    I just couldn’t help myself! I have a pond on my property, but I have yet to get the water lily’s I want for it, so I decided to make one! (I think the husband worries they will interfere with fishing too much!)
    The May Mood Board for Mixed Media Place’s May Challenge.

    Process Video:

    The flower is from the Silhouette Design Store, but I found the artist’s assembly instructions here: JMRush: Water Lily Votive Candle (Flameless) Assembly

    Welcome!

    Texture Pebbles sprayed with Dylusion’s and RenaBouquet’s Glass Beads! (The glue wasn’t all the way dry!)

    The tea light is turned on in this photo, but it’s also the middle of the day in a well lit room!

    A closer look at ReneaBouquet’s beautiful dragonfly!

    Products

    • ReneaBouquets
    • Glass Beautiful Beads
    • Pink
  • Dragonfly
    • Teal Jewelry Premium Paper
  • Silhouette
    • Cameo 3
    • Autoblade
    • Premium Blade
    • Design Store
    • Design “3D Water Lily” (#135617)
    • Design “Water Lily Votive Candle (Flameless)” (#136055)
  • Ranger
    • Tim Holtz
    • Distress Crackle Paint
    • Clear Rock Candy
  • Dylusions
    • Shimmer Spray
    • Polished Jade
  • Prima
    • Finnabair
    • Wax Cire Cera
    • Mint Sparkle
    • Sweet Rose
  • Bazzill
    • Turquoise Mist
    • Robin’s Egg
  • Brea Reese
    • Texture Pebbles
  • Fairy Garden Figurines
    • Fairy Crossing
  • JudiKins
    • Diamond Glaze
  • Art Glitter Adhesive
  • Unknown/Unbranded
    • Pink Cardstock
    • Tealight
  • Other
    • Fairy Best Wishes (Etsy Store)
    • Fairy Figurine
  • Pink (“Avon”) Shopping Bag!

    • Altered Notebook – June ReneaBouquet Swap

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    Altered Notebook – June ReneaBouquets Facebook Swap



    The notebook is a 9″x6″ notebook I found at Wal-Mart.

    I’ve owned the Prima Wildflowers Pillar for a few years now, and have been waiting to use that big, orange hibiscus on just the right project! Apparently the “right project” does eventually come along! LOL

    ReneaBouquets always seems to have just the right pieces for so many of my projects.

    This flamingo is made with Amazing Cast Resin & a Wilton, silicon, candy mold!

    Some more “waiting for the perfect project” items I had been hoarding. Studio Calico was the first crafting supply subscription I used! I love them, and in a perfect world I’d be a subscriber to ALL clubs I could find, but since I don’t have Jeff Bezos’ money, I try different clubs, one at a time!


    And here is a process video if you’d like to see the high speed version of assembly!


    **I made the cut file for the “replacement” cover using Silhouette Studio.

    Products

    • Notebook Cover
    • ReneaBouquets
    • Purple Spring Mix Mulberry Paper Flower Set
    • Beautiful Board Small Twisted Chain Frame Set Laser Cut Chipboard Frames
  • Webster’s Pages
    • Dream In Color
    • Drifting
  • Studio Calico
    • {Yello!}
    • the floral print transparancy
  • Shimmerz
    • AcriTonez
    • Blue My Top
    • Pinkadelic
  • Ranger
    • Tim Holtz
    • Mini Blending Tool
    • Distress Oxide
    • Salty Ocean
    • Picked Raspberry
  • Dylusions
    • Stamp & Stencil
    • Quote Medley
  • Stampers Anonymous
    • Tim Holtz
    • Bubble Stencil
  • Prima
    • 2″ Silicone Brush
    • Wildflowers Pillar Pack
    • Mixed
  • Finnabair
    • 3D Gloss Gel
  • American Crafts
    • Thickers
    • Pick-Me-Up
  • Crate Paper
    • Oasis Ephemera
  • TCW
    • Light & Fluffy Modeling Paste
  • The Paper Studio
    • Bright Lace Ribbon Scrap Pack
  • Chickaniddy
    • Mini Brads
  • Spellbinders
    • Tool ‘n One
  • Liquitex
    • Matte Super Heavy Gel
  • Daler Rowney
    • White Gesso
  • Krylon
    • Workable Fixative
  • Brea Reese
    • Texture Pebbles
  • Art Glitter Adhesive
  • Best 
    • 1″ and 1/4″ Ultra-Thin Permanent Double-Sided Tapes
  • Sorrento Crafts
    • 13 color stamen set
  • Silhouette
    • Cameo 3
  • Unknown/Unbranded
    • Stamen in largest Hibiscus
    • Lace on inside of cover
    • Chipboard
    • Flamingo
    • Wilton Candy/Fondant Mold
    • Flamingo
  • Prima
    • Finnabair
    • Metallique Paint
    • White Pearl
  • Wax Cire Cera
    • Indian Pink
    • Sweet Rose
  • Americana
    • Gloss Enamels
    • Black
  • Amazing Cast Resin
  • Daler Rowney
    • White Gesso
    • Tags
    • American Crafts
    • Amy Tangerine
    • On A Whim Collection Foil & Resist Tags
  • Shimmerz
    • Coloringz
    • No Yolking
  • Vibez
    • Jeni B Bleu
  • Ranger
    • Dylusions
    • Ink Spray
    • Funky Fuchsia
    • Squeezed Orange
  • Tim Holtz
    • Distress Ink
    • Twisted Citron
    • Picked Raspberry
  • Dina Wakley Media
    • Scribble Sticks
    • Sets 1 (Magenta) & 2 (Fuchsia)

    Butterfly Lights

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    “Butterfly Lights”

    In honor of her one year anniversary of Tres Jolie Kit Club, Kim had an online (Facebook) crop! The first challenge posted was a “bingo” challenge, and this is what I made using [most of] the products that came in the Tres Jolie June Mixed Media Kit!

    Challenge #1 Scrapbook Bingo: Complete a project (card, scrapbook page, altered project, etc) using the any of the items list in a row. That row can be straight or diagonal. Upload your project to the Crop challenge file by Midnight (CST) tomorrow [June 9, 2019] for a chance to win a prize. You don’t have to use one of our kits, but it would be nice to see (just no promoting any other kits).

    The row with the yellow box is my “BINGO!”

    The breakdown:

    • Watercolor: I know, I know. HOW is there watercolor on there?!?! It was messy, but I added Concentrated Watercolors by Art Philosophy to the project (on top of the Acrylic Modeling Paste, which is where the Mod Podge Acrylic Sealer came in! I used it to keep those watercolors in place after they dried!!)
    • Twine/String: Jute String by Tim Holtz on the top knob
    • Wire: Wire lights by Prima
    • Beads: Teal Glass Beautiful Beads by ReneaBouquets
    • Glitter: Diamond Chunky Glitter Glass by ReneaBouquets
    The good news, I’ve managed to (finally) make my computer capable of recording videos!
    The bad news? I haven’t edited the video for this project yet! (limited project submission time and all)
    BUT…I’m going to edit it! I swear!!

    UPDATE: I finished the editing…sorta. I mean, there’s video, but no sound [Update #2: I added music after my son said it was “creepily quiet” LOL!]. By the time I “dealt” with my computer I was too tired of trying. Plus, it’s been many, many years since I’ve played with video editing, and I am still trying to get my groove back! As I continue recording projects I do, the videos should theoretically improve…but for now, here is the video that has had almost 4 hours shaved off!

    Here are some photos!
    A close up look at the Chunky Glitter Glass at the bottom.

    A closer look at the top.

    A close up of [three of] the ReneaBouquet Glass Beads (there are nine total on the project)
    Products:
    • [From the] Tres Jolie June Mixed Media Kit
    • Prima
    • Finnabair
    • Graphite Texture Paste
    • Wax Cire Cera
    • Peacock
  • Lumies
    • Item # 584771
  • The “moss”
  • Darice
    • Metal Candle Holder Stand
    • Floral Embellishments
    • 30062044 Mini Sachet Roses
    • Pastel, 0.75in, 25 Pack, Assorted
  • ReneaBouquets
    • Glass Beautiful Beads
    • Teal
  • Chunky Glitter Glass
    • Diamond
  • Magical Miniatures Double Side Printed Butterflies
    • Watercolor Spun Sugar
  • 13@rts
    • Acrylic Modeling Paste
    • Chalk
      • American Crafts
        • Vicki Boutin
        • CreativeFX
        • Iridescent Glaze
      • idea-ology
        • Tim Holtz
        • Jute String
      • Tonic Studios
        • Tim Holtz
        • 5″ Scissors
      • Prima
        • Finnabair
        • 3D Gloss Gel
        • 2″ Silicone Brush
      • Art Philsophy
        • Concentrated Watercolor
        • Bora Bora
        • Onyx
      • Liquitex
        • Black Gesso
      • Daler Rowney
        • White Gesso
      • Mod Podge
        • Matte Acrylic Sealer
      • JudiKins
        • Diamond Glaze

        Art Daily Journal Cover

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        For the months of May and June, Tres Jolie Kit Club is going to be working on the Finnabair Art Daily Journal! Which is why the May Cards, Tags, & More kit contained the 58 Piece Journal Cover Set, plus Finnnabair’s Victorian Bookmarks & Sentiment’s Stickers!
        I decided to at least make the cover look like I planned on being productive!! I mean, it is the last day of the month and I didn’t actually get any of the “Daily” part done like I told myself I would “just as soon as I finished the cover.”
        Lots of mixed media products on here, and not all of the glue is dried or the Heavy Body Gel, but it was dry enough to take photos!

        First I took all the elastics off the journal so I could coat it in black gesso, then I figured out what was going to be the decoration after browsing my stash…so after I glued all the base pieces down I gessoed (<—is that even a word?!?!) again!
        I was going to just paint the cover with DWM’s Olive, but I saw my dylusion’s Chopped Pesto and decided to combine the two! They aren’t mixed together, I just dipped half my brush in one color and the other half in the second color. As I layered and built up the paint I would alternate colors or use both together again.
        After the paint dried I started working on my rust effect paste, starting with Brown and finishing with Rusty.
        As for the metal flowers; I gave them a coating of gesso and let it dry, then I spritzed them with water, randomly sprinkled the Perfect Pearls & Magical Shaker’s on them, spritzed them with water again, then heat dried. To help keep the coating in place I gave them a spray with acrylic sealer. (All this was done on my work surface, before attaching them to the cover!!)
        To finish I placed all the flowers to my liking, and gave a light coating of Metallique Wax to the edges of the cover!
        OH! The Tim Holtz Adornment on the spine (that I used to cover the original hole since I relocated the closure!) … it was gessoed, painted with Metallique Fresh Orange Acrylic Paint, then coated with the Firebird Wax!

        Products

        • [From the] Tres Jolie May 2019 Cards, Tags, & More Kit
        • Prima
        • Finnabair
        • Art Daily Chipboard Album Cover (58 Pieces – Item # 964771)
      • ReneaBouquets
        • Glass Microbeads
        • Rust
      • Mulberry Papers Roses & Leaves
        • Mini Orange
      • Lindy’s
        • Magical Shaker
        • Grab A Guy Gold
        • Bratwurst Brown
      • Ranger
        • Perfect Pearls
        • Green Patina
        • Forever Green
      • Dina Wakely Media
        • Acrylic Paint
        • Olive
      • Dylusions
        • Acrylic Paint
        • Chopped Pesto
      • Prima
        • Resin Icons
        • Item # 573300 (Upper Right Clock)
        • Item # 573348 (Topmost Gear)
      • Finnabair
        • Heavy Body Gel
        • Acrylic Paint
        • Metallique Fresh Orange
      • Wax Cire Cera
        • Firebird
      • Rust Effect Paste
        • Dark Brown
        • Green
        • Rusty
      • Mechanica Mould
        • Vintage Trinkets
        • Item # 960278 (Bottom Right Clock)
      • idea-ology
        • Tim Holtz
        • Curio Knobs
        • Timepieces
        • Adornments
        • Foundry
      • We R Memory Keepers
        • Crop-A-Dile
        • Crop-A-Dile II
      • Mod Podge
        • Gloss Clear Acrylic Sealer
      • Liquitex
        • Black Gesso
        • Clear Gesso
      • Unknown/Unbranded
        • Metal Flowers

        Dream (Altered Artist Palette)

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        “Dream” – Altered Artists Palette – May Creative Embellishments Mood Board Challenge!

        I had always wanted to do an altered palette, and when it showed up in the May Mixed Media Kit from Tres Jolie I was overjoyed!! And, it just so happened that the paints included with the kit word perfectly with the Creative Embellishments Challenge this month!

        The mood board for the Creative Embellishments May Challenge!

        I rubbed some Prima/Finnabair Metallique Waxes on the fairies from Creative Embellishments.
        I found “Dream” at my local Dollar Tree, and it was mirrored. First I sprayed it with some Krylon Original Primer, then I added the Pink-o do Mayo and Halo Pink Gold paint (drying between colors!!) and soaked them in water so the colors could pool together however they wanted!
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        Products:

        • [From the] Tres Jolie May 2019 Mixed Media Kit
        • Studio 71
        • Traditional Wooden Palette Set
      • Prima
        • Archival Cast
        • Flora
      • Texture Paste
        • White Sand
      • Flowers
        • Sunrise Sunset Collection
        • Item # 565169
      • Jacquard
        • Lumiere
        • Halo Violet Gold
        • Halo Blue Gold
        • Halo Pink Gold
      • Creative Embellishments
        • Mega Pack Fairies In Black Chipboard
      • Shimmerz Paints
        • Pink-o de Mayo
        • Anchors Away
        • Butter Cream
      • American Crafts
        • Vicki Boutin
        • CreativeFX
        • Iridescent Glaze
      • Prima
        • Finnabair
        • Stars & Moons Mould
        • Heavy Body Gel
        • Wax Cire Cera
        • Firebird
        • Sweet Rose
        • Old Demin
      • Unknown
        • “Dream” (I kinda threw the package away, but I found it at Dollar Tree.)

        Imagine (4"x12" Canvas)

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        “Imagine” created for the Mixed Media Place April (2019) Challenge!

        I LOVED the colors of the mood board this month, and I’m not even the biggest fan of pinks! Besides the colors, the mushroom put me in a fantasy mindset, when for me equals fairies!!

        I don’t have a lot of rhyme or reason with this canvas, and originally I had hoped to recreate the mushroom…somehow…but as it so often happens, the project took on a life of it’s own! The pink tree is actually a photo I took, ran through Photoshop, printed on regular paper, and transferred! It didn’t transfer quite how I had planned, so I had to get “creative” with the Shimmerz paste! 😂

        The fairy was black chipboard, but I used some white gesso before painting it with the Pink-Blue Opal Magic and adding a T-H-I-N coat of the Peacock Metallique Wax!

        Products

        • ReneaBouquets
        • Glass Beautiful Beads – Teal
        • Mulberry Paper 
        • Leaves
        • Dark Pink Roses & Leaves
      • Creative Embellishments
        • Mega Pack Fairies In Black
      • Shimmerz
        • Dazzlerz
        • Foiled Again
      • Studio 71
        • 4 in x 12 in Canvas
      • Prima
        • Sunrise Sunset Collection
        • Item # 565190 (Silver Flowers)
      • Finnabair
        • Heavy Body Gel
        • Metallique Wax
        • Peacock
      • Metallique Paint
        • White Pearl
      • Opal Magic Paint
        • Aqua-Rose
        • Pink-Blue
      • Ranger
        • Big Emboss It
        • Embossing Powder
        • White
      • Ruby Rock It
        • Fynmark
        • Wood Veneers
      • JudiKins
        • Diamond Glaze

        Transition

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        “Transition” – My entry to the February Mixed Media Place Challenge
        When I first saw the challenge board for the February Mixed Media Place Challenge I was immediately drawn to the mushroom. I don’t know why, but I love mushrooms…artistically. For food I can tolerate them to an extent. A very small extent! (except the white ‘button’ mushrooms, those are just a big ol’ NO!). Okay, that’s all besides the point, so back to my canvas.
        I loved the color of the mushroom, and I am so over winter that I had no desire to do a winter themed project, but I also love the sepia of the top left photo, the close up of the water drop (I think that’s what it is) in the top center photo, and the color of the leaves of the top right photo. The mushroom and the three top photos were my main inspiration for my project. At first I had thought I would somehow use mushrooms, but after I did the paint pour I realized I needed something more. I don’t know how I came around to gears and rust paste, but it was something like this:
        “I like the sepia and gold leaves, they look old. Those leaves look metallic. Rust is old. I have rust pastes. I also have some gold wax…and some metal flowers…and I made a bunch of resin gears & butterflies to have on hand…”
        Basically, I think in run-on and/or incomplete sentences. The thoughts just go sometimes, and this time I went them!
        I added the cabochon’s because the white space needed something, but I didn’t need more color! (Plus, they are what I thought of with the top middle photo!)
        Mixed Media Place February Challenge Board (Feb. 19 – Mar. 19)

        Products

        • Creative Embellishments
        • Baby’s Breath Chipboard
      • Prima
        • Finnabair
        • Rust Effect Paste
        • Brown, Red, and Gold Rust
      • Metallique Wax
        • Vintage Gold
        • Peacock
      • Mould
        • Mechanica
      • Heavy Body Gel
      • Ranger
        • Dina Wakley
        • Acrylic Paint
        • Peacock
      • Cell Creator
      • Liquitex
        • Pouring Medium
      • Daler Rowney
        • Acrylic Colour
        • Mixing White
      • 7″x14″ Stretched Canvas
      • White Gesso
      • Master’s Touch
        • Acrylic Paint
        • Gold
      • Beacon Fabri-Tac
      • JudiKins Diamond Glaze
      • Art N Glow
        • Casting and Coating Epoxy Resin
      • Amazing Cast Resin
      • Unknown/Unbranded
        • Cabochons
        • Metal/Filigree Flowers

        Blossom by blossom …

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        A layout, with a photo I took, using the Tres Jolie February scrapbooking kit.

        I was smitten with the 13@rts paper used for the background, and fortunately Mother Nature let the first signs that spring will return peek out so I could have a photo that matched the colors perfectly!

        I grabbed my Ranger Gold Embossing Powder, TCW Paste, & my Art Anthology Lotus stencil for the background, and the bit of ribbon on the bottom I’ve had for a few years!

        Under the photo I cut apart Prima’s “Rose Receipts” for layers and fussy cut “Midnight Garden” for the darker flowers peeking out at the top and bottom of the stack.

        All of the “top flowers” (the ones with centers showing!) came from the Prima flower packs that were included with the February Tres Jolie Kit, and I dug into my stash for the “bottom flowers” (the ones where only petal peek out!) and the leaves.

        Products:

        • February 2019 Scrapbooking Kit
        • 7 Gypsies Architextures
        • Iron Fence
      • 13@rts 
        • Aqua Flora: Pink Bouquet
      • Prima Midnight Garden Collection
        • Rose Receipts (12×12)
        • Midnight Garden (12×12)
        • This Place (Flower Pack)
        • Dark Romance (Flower Pack)
      • Ranger 
        • Gold Embossing Powder
      • Prima
        • Wildflowers Pillar
      • Art Anthology Lotus Stencil
      • The Paper Studio
        • Bright Lace Ribbon Scrap Pk
      • TCW
        • Light & Fluffy Modeling Paste
      • AC This to That
      • FabriTac
      • JudiKins Diamond Glaze