My Home is My Castle ATC Swap

I recently joined in a blog swap hosted by Marion Bockelmann.  The theme was My Home is my Castle and there had to be a home or castle as partof the body or attire.  There are some amazing ATC's for this swap o please hop on over to Marion's blog to check them out.  These are mine, sorry about the photo quality.   I will post my returns when I get them.

 

I used chipboard cards for my base and stamps from Character Constructions.

 

These are my favorites of Caatherine's stamps.  They are from The BeeKeeper's garden" collection.

 

Hope you all have a wonderful 4th of July weekend and be safe!  God Bless, Becs

"Fabric of Nature" swap display

As most of you know, I recently participated in an all fabric (no paper allowed) ATC swap hosted by Kim Laws at Art Joy Stuff.  See earlier post here for the artwork and the participants.  I had some amazing swap partners!!!

Kim asked us to create a display for the cards and post about it.  You can go to her blog to check out all the other displays that are just awesome! Kim will be posting each day about them for the next week.

 I wanted to do a temporary display for mine beacuse I want to eventually make a wall art piece with them, but have not had the time to do it yet.  So I came up with a burlap flag banner.  I cut out flags from burlap then tacked the ATC's on then strung them on cord. I have three of them and have them hanging in my studio for inspiration. They are all so beautiful. 

Thanks for stopping by, and be sure to check out the other blogs to see their displays.
Have a blessed day.....Becs

Fabric ATC's! who new they'd be so much fun.

Recently I participated in a fabric A T C swap with Kim Laws at Art Joy Stuff. Blog.http://www.artjoystuff.blogspot.com/  We each made 12 ATC'S out fabric that had to be nature inspired. we were not allowed to use any paper. I fell in love with making these little works of art.  The photo above is of the 12 I made and sent off.

                                               

I used burlap and canvas for the bases, then sewed lace, fabric and trims. I added a fabric printed image, millimetre, saying, ribbon and metal charms and some vintage buttons.


                                            


I chose the theme of Nature's wings and did birds, nests, bees and butterflies.  I also used some quotes that I love on some of them.

   

I received some beautiful cards back and will share them with you in a few days.  We are supposed to do some kind of creative display with them and I am still figuring that out.  Below is a group photo of the ones I received back.

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From top left to right:  

Marsha Mees, Tattered Chick blog  http://www.tatteredchick.net/

Jewels Welsh, justtickety-boo blog justtickity-boo.blogspot.com

Maggie Raguse, the mag rag blog www.themagrag.com

From bottom left to right:  

Karla Jackson

Carolyn Huber

Liz Waring, lululizinlalaland blog lululizinlalaland.blogspot.com

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Marlene, uniquely Ella blog uniquelyella.blogspot.com

Kimberly Laws, art joy stuff blog http://www.artjoystuff.blogspot.com/

From bottom right to left

Amy Bauer flickr.com/photos/7866304@N08

Terri Heinz, artful affirmations blog artfulaffirmations.blogspot.com

Thanks Kim and the ladies listed, for an awesome swap.  Come back in a few days to see how display these beauties.  Kim will be hosting a reveal as well. 

Have a blessed week, Becs 

Spring Ornie Swap with Friends

Spring is in the Air!  

I have been swapping Ornies with a group of friends since Christmas.  Cassie VanCuren hosted a Christmas Ornie swap on her blog and since then we have swapped for Valentine's Day and now for Spring/Easter.  What a great group of ladies!!!  My partners are Cassie VanCuren, An Artful Adventure,  Robin Sanchez, Once Upon A Pink Moon,  Cami Dilsaver, Creating Myself Creatively, and Jeannie Ryan (Jeannie does not have a blog) .  These are the ornies I made this time around.  The first set are nests with flowers, eggs ribbon and birds. 

For the second set I made paper clay bird heads with garland crowns, french ribbon collars and old wooden spools of thread for bodies.  I love how they are have different looks on their faces.

ANd the next set I made are little vintage tart tins that I drilled holes into and decopauged an Easter image then added German Glass glitter and ribbon.  Very simple, but cute. 

I tried to stay in the Spring Theme with most of the projects so they can be used year round if they choose to.  I received some amazing Ornies and as soon as I can take photos I will post about them.  You are all going to be jealous of all my cute ornies that I got!

Thanks Robin, Cassie, Jeannie and Cami for doing this swap with me!  You have all been awesome partners!  God Bless...Becs

Bird Song Tag Book Has Arrived! And Trash to Treasure Giveaway Prize!

As most of you know, Karla Nathan, Karla's Cottage, hosted a swap called "Bird Song Tag Book Swap". Everyone was to make and send in seven tags to Karla and she sorted them out then sent us a book of eight tags (including hers). I previously the tags I made and sent in and today I got these wonderful tags in the mail! If you want to read more about the swap click on this link, and read all about the tags. "Name that Tag"

The tag on the left is the one that Karla made and it was the cover for the tag book. The cage is glittered and the bird is painted. It is just beautiful! I just love the little silver bird cage charm attached!

The tag on the right, made by Tina S., BeansieBabbles, It has the most adorable pink cut out bird and a polka dot birdhouse!!!


The next two tags are in turquoise blue colors! ANd they both have bird feathers on them! They are adorable...The one on the left is made by Kathy, A Spectacular Mess, Birds on a nest with pearls and a scrabble tile.

The tag on the right is made by Jennifer, Eat Peanuts Blog, Jen was my partner another time and I was glad to see I received a tag from her. She made a framed peacock and added a peacock feather to her tag! Love it!


These two coming up are the cutest pink tags ever! The one on the left is made by Tami Hacker, Vintage Connections Blog, THis is one of my favorites! It is pink with glittered damask and pink roses, lace and little buttons, and the cutest lil bluebird ever! And the back is just adorable too!

The tag on the right is made by Michele, Nook and Cranny Gifts,This beautiful tag is covered with laces, ribbons, birds and flowers, It's perfect!


These last two tags are in blues and creams and so darling! The tag on the left is made by Robin Sanchez, Once Upon a Pink Moon, Robin and I have been swap partners before in a ning group. She always does such, beautiful work. The tag has a bird nest made from a baby bootie and the bird is adorning the cutest crown ever!

The tag on the right was done by Becky Handforth, becky-handforth blog, the base of this tage is on sheet music with cream lace and a cream rose. She added a nest under the cutest lil multidemensional blue bird. It even has pearls! I love it!


Thank You ladies for these wonderful tags! I will cherish them always!

Annnnddddd.....For those of you that were aware of Lynn's HUGE giveaway on her blog, Trash to Treasure Art,
I was chosen as one of the lucky winners! She gave away some amazing handmade items and I adore the journal that I received! Lynn you are an amazing artist! Thanks so much!!!


Until next time, God Bless my blogger friends! Becs

Karla's Cottage's Bird Song Tag Book Swap

As many of you know, Karla Nathan, over at Karla's Cottage is hosting HUGE Tag Book Swap. I was excited to join and have seen some AMAZING tags!!! Here are my tags that I sent to Karla. She is mixing them up and putting them into books for each of us and returning to us an amazing book of Birds from other participants!!!

I had so much fun making these and can't wait to see all the tags that come back to me!


I think that Karla will be up for days sorting and putting tags together...I so appreciate all that she is doing for this swap! Thanks Karla! If you want to see Karla's Amazing blog and her studio, just click on Karla's Cottage link and check it out.


And if you would like to see some amazing tags from this swap check out the Flickr group.

A Favorite Christmas Decoration! It's even PINK!

Beverly at How Sweet the Sound has asked us to share this month about our Christmas Favorites...this week it is our favorite decorations. That's my pink tree above. So here's the story...

All of my decorations have been in storage for five years and I cannot get to them. I have wanted a Pink Christmas Tree for years! So, this year I found this cute one at Michael's Craft store and it was the last one and was 40% off. (first reason for being favorite...LOL) I had purchased some of Jorabeel's "Candy lights" last year and was not able to use them because last year was THE worst Chrsitmas ever! (My mom was in advanced stages of Dementia and Alzheimers and still living at home with us and we were a mess!)


Okay, so the tree is pink, the lights are pink, there is a pink boa tucked into, white glittery birds, white and silver glittery snowflakes, glittery silver and gold old fashioned ornaments, keys, white roses, pink and white ice cream cones, pink and green glittery stocking and star (from my friend Ginger...I promise you will get yours this coming week Ginger)


Oh and there are crystal beaded garlands in and around the tree that my sister bought for me(along with the cool little birds), There is a silver and white glittery snowflake with a pink glittery crown on it that I made this that is toward the top of the tree! And one of my crystal rhinestone tiaras is hanging on the tree also!


Oh and I can't miss telling you about the little Hummel boy caroling next to the tin glittered church at the base of the tree. This little Hummel boy is the only one that my mom ever had. She inherited from her older sister who was going to collect them but this was all she was able to get. He is numbered and signed on the bottom. The church was a gift for my sister from me about two years ago. I got it at a place we love to shop called "Good Goodes" A wonderful place!


So, even though this little pink tree is brand new, It is packed full of memories already! I hop you enjoy it as much as we do! It is the only Christmas we have up since our house is totally torn up for the remodel...lol...but we have our Foo Foo pink tree!!!

I will be around to visit later in the day, I am going to a place up north of here called "Christmas in The Barn" It is awesome too! I can't wait to go, it has been 3or 4 years since we last went and our mom was with us and still lucid. I will take pics if I can to post on my blog when I get back! Please leave me a comment and I will visit you and see your awesome offerings when I get home! God Bless and have a wonderful Pink Saturday!

Be sure and click on the link to see all the other amazing bloggers that are joining us. There are some awesome giveaways going on too! Becs