tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15306495571069297022023-11-16T11:09:13.804-08:00Rubescent ReveriesJust a place to keep a record of my creative endeavors and the websites and other things that inspire me artistically.mallwalkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00216627761853718697noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1530649557106929702.post-7284559470535660952012-04-24T06:22:00.000-07:002012-04-24T06:23:38.157-07:00Cards, Cards, And More Cards<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The past month I have been busy making cards for the Barnabas Ministry Team at church and to fill an order from a friend of Tim's for birthday and all occasion cards. It has been fun getting back into this area of creativity. I am so grateful for sites like <a href="http://splitcoaststampers.com/">Splitcoaststampers.com</a> where I can find inspiration from so many talented card artists. Many of these cards were CASEd from examples that I saw on that site and others. I've pinned 300+ examples to my Handmade Cards <a href="http://pinterest.com/derenae/handmade-cards">Pinterest</a> board. You can check there for the originals that inspired these cards.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Life has been busy lately and I have let the time fly by without posting anything. I have added a number of pages and updated them, but just haven't been inspired to write a new post.</span></div>
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<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Searching the whole house for all of my art & craft supplies which have been scattered everywhere.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sorting through said supplies and corralling like items into containers and cabinets.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Cleaning and revamping my craft room. (This is a huge project!)</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Exploring new ways of expressing myself creatively: art journalling, altered books, collage.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Discovering Pineterest. WOW, what a revelation!</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Discovering many new blogs and websites. What did we ever do without the internet?</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The result of all this activity is an intense longing to hurry up and finish my craft room so that I can start playing and making a creative mess all over again. I will post pictures of the transformation of my creative space when I get a chance. I forgot to take any pictures before I started, but I'm trying to remember to do that as i go along now.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My craft room is in the basement of our house; which we bought about 12 years ago from my great aunt's estate. My aunt Lou had a canning kitchen built in the basement and that is what I have appropriated for my craft room. Saturday we tore out the counter and cabinet that separated the "kitchen" from the rest of the finished side of the basement. My younger son, Caleb, was thrilled to be able to tackle the job of demolishing the cabinet. We salvaged the 8 drawers from this cabinet and will upcycle them into a cute shelf/bulletin board and a bookshelf. See my inspiration below.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have scavenged a desk from my son's bedroom that he wasn't using anymore and we moved our old computer down to my craft room. My wonderful husband, Tim bought me a new flat screen monitor and has been working to get it all working properly. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There is much more to be done down there. In conjunction with the craft room redo, we are also turning the area next to it into a workout room. Complete with a recumbent exercise bike, weight bench, flexible flyer, my heavy bag and speed bag. We still have to take up the old carpet in this area and put down a new floor. I think that we will also paint the paneling on the walls and the rest of the cupboards in the craft room. I can't wait to get all of this finished. But at least the exercise bike is now out of my craft room, yeah.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After reading a number of tutorials on how to make paper cloth, I knew that I had to give it a try. So yesterday I gathered up all of the supplies and jumped in. I didn't have to buy a thing, I had everything that I needed on hand. When you've been doing various arts and crafts for forty years or so, you have a lot of stuff laying around, just begging to be used. I even got out my rubber stamps, I hadn't used them in a couple of years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I won't give you directions for making paper cloth; there are so many tutorials out there that do that much better than I could. So I will share links to the sites that I found helpful.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://www.ihanna.nu/blog/2010/02/how-to-make-paper-cloth-a-tutorial/">iHanna's Blog</a> </b>has a great tutorial that I followed pretty closely.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/KatherineSandsArt?sk=photos"><b>Katherine Sands</b></a> also has a nice tutorial on <b><a href="http://katherinesands.wordpress.com/making-paper-cloth/">Art Journal--A Creative Journey</a>. </b>She shows some neat things that you can make with your paper cloth after you make it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://ephemeralalchemy.blogspot.com/p/stitch-alchemy.html">Kelli Nina Perkins</a></b> has a book out on the subject and judging by the number of mentions and reviews that I've seen on other blogs, it must be really good.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The photos of the paper cloth while it was wet were taken at night so that explains the difference in color, The light overhead gave everything a yellow-gold tint. I used a garbage bag cut open underneath, it worked really well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Today I found the <b><a href="http://colorapi.com/">Colorapi</a> </b>website and I have had fun playing around with it; coming up with words and phrases to put into the search for photos and color palettes. You don't see the color palettes unless you are actually on the site. So you'll have to try it out yourself to get the complete experience. It is a really interesting experiment, especially if you are a lover of words and of color as I am.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I took advantage of both JoAnn's and Michael's sales on yarn this afternoon. This scarf making thing is addictive! There were so many gorgeous colors and varieties of yarn that I spent about 2 1/2 hours picking out my favorites.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I found this cool varigated yarn at Joann's called Stormy, it will look great with denim. To coordinate with this I chose another Lion Brand Fun Fur in Indigo and I'll probably also use the Fun Fur Chocolate that I already have with this too. Then I found the Deborah Norville Chunky yarn with sequins and had to add that to the mix. It is hard to see the color in the photo below, but it is a dark navy with brighter blue sequins in the yarn. To round out this combination I chose the really soft, muted Patons Divine yarn, which is a sort of angora blend. I can't wait to make one of these and see how they all look together. I bought all four of these yarns at JoAnn's in Saginaw, MI. They were having a buy one get one 50% off sale, so it was a pretty good deal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My sister, Diane Bennett introduced me to these fun accessories when she came to visit at Christmas 2011. She was wearing a pretty white scarf with metallic accents that she had made. She first saw them at a craft show and after purchasing one, she decided to try her hand at making them. Her success inspired me and this is the result of my first attempt.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I wish that my camera was better, or maybe just my photography skills, oh well. I picked up 7 skeins of yarn/fibers at Walmart last night. Who knew that even Walmart carries such great yarn? Certainly not me, since I neither knit nor crochet. The woman who checked out my order kept raving about how beautiful the colors were. I have to agree, I sure had fun picking them out. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Anyway, I had a lot of fun playing around with these yarns and fibers. I can't wait to make some more. I do want to go to <a href="http://www.michaels.com/Yarn-Needle-Crafts/departments-yarnandneedlecrafts,default,sc.html">Michaels'</a> and get some more yarn. They have a great 50% off sale right now, yeah! Thanks, Diane for the inspiration! I want to see more of the scarves that you made.</span></div>mallwalkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00216627761853718697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1530649557106929702.post-5447636979502929992012-01-04T09:10:00.000-08:002012-01-21T06:51:59.216-08:00Paper Bead Jewelry Sets<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> It's interesting how differently these sets photograph and look with different backgrounds. I think that my favorite is the purple set, except for the earrings. I love the earrings by themselves, but I don't think that they go with the necklace very well. I think that the proportion is off. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Both pendants are made from layered cardboard that I decoupaged with scraps of torn paper. Some of the papers were ones that I had hand painted. They were tissue paper that I painted with metallic acrylic paint and pearlized, metalic and glittery fabric paints. The metal discs on the purple earrings came from a necklace that I picked up at either Goodwill or a rummage sale. Each set contains paper beads that I made myself and an assortment of glass, plastic, clay, metal beads that I had in my bead collection.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tyvek Beads add a new dimension to handmade rolled beads!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stunning Tyvek Beads!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Amazing, Gorgeous and Sophisticated Paper Bead Necklace!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Love the colors and the asymmetrical design.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto;">So many sources of inspiration from the sophisticated to the primitive, but all beautiful. These examples get my creative juices flowing. I really have to get some Tyvek so I can experiment with making beads from that material.</span></div>
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