Altered Anchor using Mintay Papers Marina Line

Hello my dears! It has been a month since i've uploaded a Mintay project!

But don't you worry, I have more in the works!

This paper collection is AMAZING! 

and if you haven't seen the new lines! wow! Run, don't walk to the FB page!

LINK HERE

The new lines are simply divine! As is all the previous ones! 

So as summer comes to an end , I had to create at least one more project!

So i challenged myself, paper only! This paper begs to be fussy cut!

So I did! Nothing but paper! Can you believe it??? 

I hope you like it! Huge hugs and love! 

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Lila the Elephant/ Altered Elephant for Prima

Hello my friends! Hope everyone has been well~!

I've been creating a lot , Behind The Scenes! Lots to share soon, some exciting

endeavors!

So lots to share, including one of my fave projects ever!

Lila the elephant! 

I hope you like her! I have a full video tutorial on how I created her! 

CHeck it out HERE at this LINK.

Huge hugs and have a great weekend!

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Bleeding Heart Mixed Media Canvas

Hello everyone! I'm so excited to be here with you today :)

Sharing my first post for the Artist Playground Challenge Design Team. 

As i looked at the challenge this month and read the summary, I had to question myself about my work and what it means to me. I typically do altered art and mixed media. And each piece can be quite different, but for my first go here, I went mixed media canvas. 

This piece was a combination of me thinking and wanting to convey how i often feel My heart is much too big for this world. For my own body. That may sound weird, but bare with me. I am a very anxious person. I get weighed down very easily by sadness and other things going on in life. So many times I wonder why I feel the need to expose myself so much. 

But at the end of the day. I am who I am! I am definitely emotional, a bleeding heart. And that's what I wanted this piece to show. The small fragile doll laying on huge heart.  Trying to fly with my little paper wings, but not yet knowing how. 

I used all the colors from the mood board, and even took some paint skins and placed them randomly around my piece to incorporate that. 

I also decided, for this project, nothing new! As in , do not OPEN any package. I grabbed a canvas I had already inked the sides on like a year ago. Grabbed my "left over" bins, flowers, embelllishments, etc....  I wanted to just recycle and stop consuming more and more goods and use what I had. 

I have to say this color scheme is definitely a hard one for me. I don't think I have used yellow but a handful of times, but thats the amazing thing of this blog! It challenges us! So I hope you will join along and play this month! Can't wait to see your entries! 

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Hot Cocoa Mug with Santa Baby by Frank Garcia

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Back today to share some Christmas in July fun with Prima

and their new release designed by Frank Garcia, Santa Baby. I know , I know, 

too early for Christmas right?!?! But when a DT package arrives with this in it, phew

the ideas start swirling! Plus it's never too early to start on Christmas projects for me!

Because i procrastinate, or procraftinate lol. I have 2 projects to share, but

I will start with the mug here that I just had a BLAST creating. 

But i have to share something with you all, and this is something I have noticed

big time in my years of crafting. Projects like this one, that I like , ME, and I 

spend loads of time on are usually not as well liked by others. 

Whereas the projects I'm not sure of , or think aren't good enough turn out to be 

my most popular!!! It's quite bizarre, and even honey can attest to this lol.

So i guess that says..... i have bad taste LOL! 

Or it says " stop trying so hard." Or the lesson i take from it the most is

" just do what you want, and let the chips fall where they will."

I can't worry about how well received things will be , I just have to keep chugging along. 

So here is my Altered Coffee Cup turned Hot Cocoa Mug! I hope you like it!

 I used almost exclusively Franks designed items with Prima. Memory Hardware and everything, 

but I can't resist using Finn's items on everything i create! the Waxes and Art Stones. 

 I have a tutorial coming up on how I cover objects like this in paper. 

Making it easy to add gorgeous pattern paper to any surface! It does take some time, but well 

worth it to me. 

 And inside my cup, i just made a little winter scene. Lots of fussy cutting. Thats 

always the first thing I do when i get a paper pad!!!!!! And i look forward

to it so much! just cutting out those images !