Spooky tag

Good morning friends!

I want to show you my Spooky Gecko Galz DT project today.

I am loving the Coven paper pack &

 the Haunted Ephemera collage sheets this month at Gecko Galz!

The background is one of the papers from the paper pk

and all the images are from the collage sheets!

The mini "EEEEk" tag I made myself with an acrylic stamp and some black soot distress ink.

The cheese cloth was sprayed with crushed grape Dylusions Ink spray.

I found myself in a distressing kind of mood 

and what better time for that to happen...

Halloween!

I distressed the edges of the tag and some of the ephemera with my Prima distressing tool.

Then I decided that I wanted to play with water so I took a couple of the images and sprayed them and gave them a bit of scrunching so they would have that aged, worn look.

When I had the look I wanted I dried them with my heat gun.

I added a bit of black soot distress ink to all my pieces.

I layered all my elements starting with the cheese cloth.

I used the flower spray & seam binding for my pop of color.

I finished off my tag with the little web in the top left corner and the bling trim on the bottom left.

Gecko Galz Etsy

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Happy Crafting!

Mixed media wall hanging

Good morning everyone!

The other day I watched a video by 

Limor Webber,

 that she did for Prima on Ustream.

She altered a cigar box lid.

She did a couple of techniques I hadn't done before so I wanted to try them!

That, 

and I was determined to do some layering in a way that I usually don't do!

I have so much trouble covering up lower levels!

I started with a cigar lid,

painted it with gesso,

and then

covered it with a piece of paper from Prima's Romantique collection.

From there I used inks, sprays, alcohol inks, 

modeling paste, heavy gel, 

more gesso, black paint, antique mod podge, 

several masks and a variety of stamps.

I don't remember using so much on one project.....

what fun I had!

Then came the layering 

(covering up of everything I had just done...

the hard part for me)!

Starting with the tag that I made with a piece of an old folder.

I painted it with a gel paint, inked it, then stamped it.

I also added a bit of modeling paste to the top.

I didn't hide as much of my tag as Limor did hers

 but I think I did pretty good layering more than I usually do!

Below are a few close ups of the texture I added 

and the goodies I layered on top!

Love that cute little owl!

Also like the look of the light bulb with alcohol ink dripped on the back.

The butterfly has been sitting on my desk for a while now.....

I smudged one wing when I glossy accented it a while back!

And that would be the reason I tucked it under the folded flower!

Don't you love it when hiding a flaw works out so well?

I used pop dots on the tag,

can't do anything without them!

Below is the hanger I made for it.....

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Have a great weekend!

Baby girl mini album

Good morning everyone!

Summers over here in my house so back to crafting it is!

This is one of the two baby girl mini albums I've been working on lately.....

I started with an old paper pk,

Paper Doll from K&Company,

 that has been sitting on my shelf for a few years now.

I added some flocked rub-ons to the cover.

I bent the wire and added the beads for the baby's name.

The butterfly is from Prima.

The flower spray is from Prima also.....

I added a few flower punches that I put together using the paper scraps 

and a couple I-rock gems.

Below are a few of the inside pages.....

The paper pad was a die-cut paper pad,

so I used it to make my pages all different shapes,

with different folds and pockets.

The baby onesie care above 

and the diaper below are diecut with my Cameo.

I've added laces, trims twine and flowers throughout the mini.

Every page has a pocket so Mom can add as many pictures of her cutie pie little girl as she wants!

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