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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)

    Egg Hunt

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    Egg Hunt – Created for the More Than Words June 2019 Main Challenge!

    I started scrap-booking way back in 2009 when a friend asked me if I wanted to come over and scrap with her one night. At the time I was only thinking it would give me something to do…well, I haven’t stopped since! Honestly, at the time, I thought it was just putting photos down on paper and I think I might have actually said, “you know, they make photo albums for that!”

    Anyhow, I have often wanted to go back and “fix” my earlier layouts and More Than Words gave me the perfect motivation this month! Truthfully I have been wanting to go back and “fix” this particular layout for a while (the before photo is a bit further down!). At the time I made it (mid-2010, according to the date of the photo of the layout), I hadn’t been scrap-booking very long, maybe 7-8 months. I didn’t have a lot of supplies, I think all my paper still fit in a single Iris 3″ Scrapbook Case! Then I found out people sew on their layouts! “SEW!!! Why didn’t I think of that! I have a sewing machine! I’m gonna sew!”

    This months More Than Words Challenge is “Favorite & Scraplift Yourself.” 
    What does the word FAVORITE inspire you to create?
    You can choose to use the actual word somewhere on your project 
    or simply be inspired by it. Please explain in your blog post 
    how it inspired you if it isn’t obvious in your work.

    Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens – are these a few of your favorite things? As an extention to our word inspiration this month, we want you to find a favorite old project of your own and SCRAPLIFT YOURSELF! You can copy the design, the colours or any part of the project, so long as the project was created by you. Please share the original project in your post so we can see both the original and the scraplifted pieces.

    The word “favorite” has a two part inspiration for me.
    1. Sewing is still one of my favorite techniques on layouts.
    2. These are some of my favorite photos! Especially the look on my sons face while the eggs are being counted! (No, that’s not me counting them with him in the photo! I was the one behind the camera!!)

    As for scraplifting myself, I lifted technique (sewing), and colors (I actually used paper from the same DCWV stack!)

    I took “Reinvent and old favorite” very literally! LOL!!
    Ok…are you ready now? Ready to see the original?
    Here it is:
    The original, and my VERY first time sewing on a layout!

    The original paper that the original title had been cut from!

    What a difference nine years of “practice” makes!

    Cut Files & Fonts (new layout):

    • Silhouette Store
    • Sweet Pea Sketch (Font) #86121
    • PN Flittering Bold (Font) #191827
    • SG Easter Egg Dingbats #256084
    • Chevron Easter Eggs #121232
    • Easter Eggs #24502

    Products (new layout):

    • Shimmerz
    • Vibez
    • Hermit the Frog
  • Coloringz
    • Don’t Citron Me
  • Studio Calico
    • Large Alpha Used For “HUNT”
  • Pink Paislee
    • Paige Evans
    • Oh My Heart Ephemera
  • Hip Kit Club
    • Day Dreams
    • Puffy Stickers
  • American Crafts
    • Creative Devotion
    • Texture Stickers
  • Dear Lizzy
    • Date Stamp
  • Prima
    • Water Brush
  • Die Cuts With A View
    • Holiday Stack?? (around 2009-10)
  • Bazzill
    • Avalanche
  • A Flair For Buttons (Etsy)
    • All three buttons … at least I’m pretty sure because my collection was “manhandled” by a 2 & 6 yo in April when my niece & nephew came to visit! But who can resist colorful, shiny objects?!?!
  • 13 @rts
    • Ayeeda  Ink
  • idea-ology
    • Tim Holtz
    • Mini Stapler
  • Ranger
    • Archival Ink
    • Jet Black
  • Tim Holtz
    • Distress Oxide
    • Peacock Feathers
    • Squeezed Lemonade
  • Silhouette
    • Cameo 3
    • Pen Holder
  • Uni-Ball
    • Singo (Micro 207)
  • Liquitex
    • Clear Gesso
  • Krylon
    • Workable Fixative
  • Unknown/Unbranded
    • Threads
    • Washi Tape
    • Tissue Paper
    • White Cardstock (scrap pile!)
    • **All the other patterened papers. (They came in a SSS kit at least two years ago, but SSS “tears” off random chunks of pads …)
    Original Layout Products & Fonts (that I can remember):
    • Cricut
    • “53 Eggs” came from a Cricut Cartridge. I don’t know which one, it’s been a long time! I want to say it had the word “Basic” in it …
  • Die Cuts With A View
    • Holiday Stack?? (around 2009-10)

    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

    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

    Flight of Fancy Canvas

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    My 8×10 canvas for the March More Than Words Main Challenge! Fantasy + Wings

    This month the main challenge over on the More Than Words Blog was to be inspired by “Fantasy & Wings.” For me, fantasy always makes me think of fairies. If it’s fantasy, there’s going to be some kind of fae involved! This month I also had pastes on my mind, and I happen to have a nice set of Finnabair’s Fantasy Rust Effect Paste…which goes with the fact that I also love using purple, teal (turquoise), and blue together…especially with fantasy!

    I may not have had a fairy that I could get to “fit” on this canvas, and I have a few different chipboard fairies, I did have a handy-dandy fairy door from Creative Embellishments! I also happened to have the Astral Pink Butterflies from ReneaBouquets, and the color on them is

    just beautiful…and perfect for my piece!

    More Than Words Main Challenge – March 2019

    I love the cells that the paint pour created along this edge!
    Baked Texture – Patina Oxide on the door & Ancient Amber on the leafy frame!
    I love, love, LOVE these butterflies … I think I may need to make a stockpile!

    **For the record – no, everything wasn’t dry yet, I was running out of month!!**

    Products

    • ReneaBouquets
    • Astrial Pink Premium Paper Glitter Glass Butterflies
    • Teal Shard Glitter Glass
    • Gold Glitter Glass
  • Creative Embellishments
    • Fairy Door (Set 1)
    • Leafy Vine Frame
  • Prima
    • Finnabair
    • 3D Gloss Gel
    • Rust Effect Paste
    • Purple
    • Turquoise
    • Powder Blue
  • Emerald Creek
    • Seth Apter Baked Texture
    • Ancient Amber
    • Patina Oxide
  • Ranger
    • Emboss It Dabber
  • Simply
    • Acrylic Paint
    • Mixing White
  • Master’s Touch
    • Acrylic Paint
    • Gold
  • Dina Wakley
    • Acrylic Paint
    • Eggplant
    • Peacock
  • Cell Creator
  • Liquitex Pouring Medium
  • Unknown/Unbranded
    • 8×10 Canvas
    • Texture Pebbles
    • Feather Moulds
    • Cheesecloth

    Adventure – Mini Album

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    Mini Album for the March Creative Embellishments Challenge!

    This months challenge over on the Creative Embellishments Blog was to “…be inspired by 1 element from the photo below (let us know what it is) and by this quote: ‘Every great adventure requires a first step.'”

    I was inspired by the color! I love using black and white…especially when I just happen to have some lovely black & white papers that need to be used!

    Inspiration photo for the March Creative Embellishments Challenge!
    For the album I cut a thick piece of chipboard to use as a spine with the Creative Embellishment’s 5-page Square Mini Album, and I just had to add the Stars In My Universe Frame (also from Creative Embellishments), with some Rocky Road Baked Texture on it, to the cover!
    Cover
    Inside cover & page 1
    Pages 2 & 3

    Pages 4 & 5
    Pages 6 & 7
    Page 8 and inside back cover
    Products:
    • Creative Embellishments
    • Square Mini Album
    • Stars In My Universe Frame
  • Silhouette
    • Cameo 3
    • Curio
    • Pen Holder
    • Cut Files: Tags & Tabs
  • Ranger
    • Emboss It Dauber
    • Tim Holtz
    • Distress Oxide: Black Soot
  • Emerald Creek
    • Backed Texture
    • Rocky Road
  • Idea-ology
    • Tim Holtz
    • Mini Stapler
  • 13@rts
    • Rose Fields
    • Natural Beauty
    • Letters to Rose
  • Aqua Flora
    • Shades of Black
  • Prima
    • Flirty Fleur Collection
    • Something Floral
    • Pretty Birds
    • So Lovely
  • Crate Paper
    • Maggie Holmes
    • Flourish
    • Charming
  • Hip Kit Club
    • Kim Watson
    • Amber Star
    • Sparkle
  • Pink Paislee
    • Paige Evans
    • Turn The Page 07
  • Simon Says Stamp
    • Black Cardstock
  • American Crafts
    • White Cardstock
    • Thickers
    • Hello Joy
  • We R Memory Keepers
    • Crop-A-Dile & Eyelets
  • Art Glitter
    • Adhesive
  • Simply White Gesso
  • Folk Art Chalkboard Paint
  • Unknown/Unbranded
    • Twine
    • Ribbon/Fiber
    • Black Pen (I’ve had for YEARS…I’m actually impressed it still worked!)

    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

    Always

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    My sons … a few (13!) years ago!
    For the month of February the More than Words Challenge was “Always & Quote.” My favorite quote of all time is by Helen Keller, “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be see or even touch – they must be felt with the heart.” The greatest of all emotions is Love, and I don’t think there is a greater love than parental love – Always.
    February 2019 More Than Words Main Challenge
    A quick overview of what I did:
    • I first coated the Creative Embellishments Heart Flourish in the Prima Pastes and set it aside to dry.
    • I started with some clear gesso on the background, then added the stenciling & embossing.
    • All parts from the Prima Mould were coated in black gesso, then Bronze Age wax…and I just started stacking and arranging and gluing the ReneaBouquets Grid with the gears…And hoping for the best! LOL!
    • Then the pastes … layering and mixing and blending and watering down and building back up and drying … and doing it all over again!
    • The hearts & “Always” were both coated in black gesso, but the hearts only have Electric Violet Metallique Wax & “Always” has a mix of Electric Violet, Old Denim, and Mint Sparkle on top of Bronze Age.
    Cluster at top of page.
    Cluster at bottom left of page.
    Area under photo.

    Products:

    • [From the] Tres Jolie February Scrapbooking Kit
    • 13@rts
    • Aqua Flora “Blue dreams”
  • Prima
    • Midnight Garden Collection “Old Map”
  • Resin Icons
    • Chalk Black Gears
    • Chalk Black Words
  • Creative Embellishments
    • Heart Flourish
  • ReneaBouquets
    • Beautiful Board
    • Grid Elements
  • 13@rts
    • Rose Fields Collection
    • “Always” Chipboard
  • Prima
    • Finnabair
    • Metallique Wax
    • Bronze Age
    • Electric Violet
    • Old Denim
    • Mint Sparkle
  • Rust Effect Paste
    • Burnt Sienna
    • Royal Blue
    • Lavender
  • Mechanica Mould
  • Vintage Trinkets (Clock)
    • Art Anthology
      • Diamond Grunge Stencil
    • Ranger
      • Antiquities Embossing Powder
      • Frosted Crystal
    • Archival Ink
      • Jet Black
    • Tim Holtz
      • Aged Mahogany Distress Oxide
    • Freckled Fawn
      • Wood Chips – Hearts
    • Stampers Anonymous
        • Tim Holtz
        • Bubble Stencil
      • Silhouette Curio
      • Silhouette Pen – Black
      • Unbranded
        • All the other gears not from the Prima Mould!

        Rattan Heart

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        Rattan Heart created for the Creative Embellishments February Challenge

        Over on the Creative Embellishments Blog the February Challenge was a color challenge, and this heart is what I came up with!

        To color the rattan heart I used three different sprays, Shimmerz “Pretty In Pink” and “Sweetheart,” and I watered down the “Rose-Gold” Prima paint to make the third spray. After they were dry I had to add some lace…because Creative Embellishments had it as a twist, and I’m not one to “skip” on twists!

        It was after I had the lace on I decided to add make the inner and outer edges a bit darker with the “Rose Gold” Icing Paste!

        After that is was a matter of arranging the flowers and working in the chipboard from Creative Embellishments!

        For the Corner Flourish 4 (which has been cut apart) I put on a coat of white gesso, sprayed it with Shimmerz “Ruby”…twice, then I put on a layer of “Aged Mahogany” Distress Oxide and spritzed it with water! The berries were just coated in a layer of “Rustic Brown” paint, no gesso, because I wanted the paint to soak in some to “dull” it a little.

        Products:

        • Tres Jolie February Mixed Media Kit
        • Scrapberry’s – Rattan Heart
        • Creative Embellishments Corner Flourish 4
      • ReneaBouquets
        • Vintage Burgundy Roses & Gardenias Flower Set
      • Creative Embellishments
        • Berries
      • Prima
        • Flowers (Item #594718)
        • Finnabair
        • Icing Paste
        • Rose Gold
      • Opal Magic Acrylic Paint
        • Rose-Gold
      • Metallique Acrylic Paint
        • Rustic Brown
      • Heavy Body Gel
      • Shimmerz
        • Coloringz
        • Pretty In Pink
      • Spritz
        • Ruby
      • Vibez
        • Sweetheart
      • Ranger
        • Tim Holtz
        • Distress Oxide
        • Aged Mahogany
      • Unknown
        • Lace