Altered Paint Brush

Good afternoon everyone!

Hope you all are enjoying a wonderful summer!

I haven't done much creating this summer but I am slowly trying to ease my way back into it.

A card here,

a tag there...

Today I want to show you a first for me,

I altered a paint brush!

I've painted quite a few walls in my time but never a paint brush! 

Here it is.....

Not being one who plans out her projects I decided that I would with this one...

so pulled out a couple of wooden diecuts...

a house, a tree and the letters to spell HOME.

Do you see them? 

No?

Really?

Oops, here they are...

 laying here on my desk!

So much for having a plan!

LOL

I gesso'd the brush, 

added a crackle look with texture paint and a stencil,

sprayed it all over with several different sprays,

then after a few different lace placements, 

embellishment placements, 

flower placements

and the elimination of the original idea...

I finally finished my piece!

Here are a couple of close ups.....

The flowers I used are from Prima.

I tucked a few pieces of bead trim in here and there between them.

The brown gem spray coming out of the bottom of the flowers is one that I've had for a while.

I've tried to add it to a few other projects and it never quite fit in...must have been waiting for this!

What do you think?

I used my bow-it-all to make the bow using a piece of lace and a piece of seam binding.

The dangling gems I've had for ages!

I think they worked quite nicely here!

Below is another look at the finished piece!

I'm entering this in the

Moore Art from the Heart - Altered Paint Brush challenge HERE

Thanks for stopping by!

Gecko Galz Cross Promotion

Good morning everyone!

We, on the DT, at Gecko Galz were given the challenge to use 

Gecko Galz and Itkupilli products

to show you how well Gecko Galz products play with others.

This is the card I chose to make.....

I started with a couple pieces of brown cardstock for matting my patterned papers.

The floral paper is from Gecko Galz Mori Girl paper pkg.

Also from Gecko Galz.....

the little girl and butterfly are part of the La Vie En Rose collage sheet.

The background paper that I put the cute little girl on is from Itkupilli.

I love the "stage" look of this paper.

I added a bit of stickles to highlight the corners of the stage.

I added some sticky back lace trim to the top.

I spread some stickles on the butterfly and put that on top.

The sentiment was stamped onto a diecut I cut with my Cameo.

Now.....

I this challenge may have been for the DT to create,

but you can be the winner!

Yes, 

that's right! 

YOU can be the winner!

Just hop over HERE to check out all of the DT's creations 

and send in your vote (before Aug 30th) for your favorite and you could be the winner of all of Septembers products from Gecko Galz and the Itkupilli prize package.

And that's not all! 

Just for sending in your vote you will receive a free mini stamp set from Gecko Galz.

Good luck everyone!

Have a great weekend!

It's Always Tea Time

Good morning everyone!

Today I'm sharing one of my Gecko Galz DT samples.

I used a Tea Time Stamp & 

Mori Girl paper (background paper) 

from Gecko Galz.

I also used a piece of paper from Itkupilli paper collection.

Over at Gecko Galz our cross promotion this month is with Itkupilli  and I thought this pretty blue paper went well with the Gecko Galz paper I chose.

The shimmery blue cardstock was used for the punched ribbon as well as the mat for the stamp.

I made the ribbon with my bow-it-all and topped it with a little teapot trinket from my stash.

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Gecko Galz Blog Hop is coming soon!

Oct 30th - Nov 2nd

I hope we'll see you there!

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Right now we have the Very Vintage Customer Challenge going on!

All of the DT have created a wonderful variety of samples for you to check out!

I hope you can join the challenge!

The only rule.....

use at least one product from Gecko Galz!

The winner will receive a $25 shopping spree from Gecko Galz 

and a Itkupilli gift pkg as well!

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Thanks for stopping by!

Hope you're having a great week!