Blue Moon Cupie Plant Stake

Design Team Project

by: Sherry Payne-Scott

Blue Moon Cupie Plant Stake

Materials:

 

    Cupie scrap book paper

    White Card stock   

    Modge Podge or White Glue

    Foam core 

    Bamboo Skewer

    Ruby Red and Silvery Blue Glitter

Directions:

1.Using the Cupie scrapbook paper from Lisa Kettell Designs, glue the Cupie to card stock using Modge Podge to give rigidity

Trim the Cupie out once it's dry

2.Using a paint brush with Modge Podge or white glue to put glue on the heart and the lips sprinkling ruby glitter on the heart and lips

3.Cut a 5 1/2" circle out of foam core spread Modge Podge on top and sides, sprinkle blue glitter all over the circle

repeat for back side and let dry

4.Glue back of Cupie liberally about to waist of Cupie place onto moon and put heavy book on it until it is set

5.Using a bamboo skewer stick gently stick in the side of the circle behind the Cupie's legs

This is great for a party or just a cute decoration in a plant!

 

Sherry 
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How great is Sherry's project, so amazing, I could see all my plants with these or the whole garden.

Tips:
-Use outdoor glaze or decaupage medium and apply a few coats to your plant stake, insert in garden.
-Laminate your plant stake image for a weath proof all condition garden stake.

xoxo
Lisa

Welcome to the Clearsnap and Trinity Paper Arts Blog Hop!!

 Our Design Teams have "teamed up" to share layouts, projects, and more featuring Trinity Pap[er Arts' paper collections and Clearsnap's distinctive inks and accessories. From sports to summer and everything in between, kick your sandals off, grab a cold lemonade and enjoy the inspiration.   Hop along to each blog listed below and leave a comment.

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Distressed Circus Boards: Ollie's Storybook Circus

Distressed Circus Boards were something I created for the Clearsnaps Design Team, a project designed with products found within the Clearsnap Product Line and some snippets of fabulous papers from Trinity Paper Arts, plus its apart of the Clearsnaps and Trinity Papers Blog Hop!

This project was inspired by elements of the circus, vintage game boards and my book, Altered Art Circus which is filled with circus and storybook themed projects, stories and recycled pieces. Since I love to recycle as much as I can, I used sturdy cardboard from a shipping box as my base, measured to 12 by 12 inches, then layered with vintage images, papers from Trinity Paper Arts, vintage circus supplies, embellishments from my embellishments line and distressed with fabulous inks and mixed media inks from clearsnap, along with my new all time fave product, Magic Stamp Moldable Foam, which allows you to make re-useable molds or impressions, with just a heat gun and a moldable piece.

Instead of a circus board try a memory board, a candyland board, wedding board, inspirational board, baby board, girl scout, steampunk or fairy board, so many possibilities to try. 

 Materials

-Archival ink pad, Pinkolicious, Mudslide, Colorbox

-Watermark ink pad: twinkle, Colorbox

-Fluid chalk ink pad: ice jade, Colorbox

-Mixed media ink: honey, truffle, vintage and schoolhouse, Colorbox

-Smooch accent ink: frosted aqua, Clearsnap

-Smooch Spritz: tea party, Clearsnap

-Glitter: ocean spray, Clearsnap

-Scrapbook paper, Trinity Paper Arts
-Vintage Images, circus follies collage cd, Lisa Kettell Designs

-Cardboard, chipboard or wood, cut to 12 by 12 inches

-Piccolo's, Globecraft Memories

-Air dry clay, Makins

-Various clay parts:XL cherry cupie head, bailey heads, lil chick, lil kewpie Lisa Kettell Designs

-Moldable foam stamp, Clearsnap

-Tools: scissors, paint brush, hot glue gun

-Glues: hot glue sticks, decaupage medium

-Other: ribbons, chipboard lettering, circus tickets, hardware, ephemera, mini light bulbs,       

 paper umbrella, clown cupcake topper, bakery twine, mini circus animals, coin wrappers,  chipboard, paper towel, etc.

 Directions

 1. Print a variety or circus images, posters and ephemera from the collage cd, in a variety of small sizes, no bigger then 4 1/2 inches by 4 1/2 inches. Once you pick a good amount of circus images, arrange to taste onto a 12 inch by 12 inch piece of cardboard, glue in place with decaupage medium.

2. Spray smooch spritz in tea party red onto a paper towel and swipe over some of the images and embellishments. I added color to the paper umbrella by lightly spraying smooch spritz in tea party red over it, then let dry.

3.  With a edge swipe technique, swipe the edges of your collage circus board with a school house mixed media paint, rub into the board using paper towel, add more dimension using archival ink in pinkolicious and mudslide, let dry.

4. Age your collage images using honey color mixed media ink and a paper towel, rubbing into a circular motion. 

5. Cut out some favorite circus images, glue to chipboard w/decaupage medium, cut out, place around parts of the board. Next cut out several small squares of chipboard glue together with hot glue til you have a 1/2 inch thickness, set aside.

6. Take several 1/2 thickness glue chipboard squares and hot glue behind each cut chipboard circus image, glue to your circus board. This gives your images dimension when gluing to your circus board.

7. Begin adding additional embellishments all around the board, creating mini vignettes around it. On the clay embellishments I added extra color using pigment inks, mixed media inks and fluid chalk ink pad. On the piccolo's and metal hardware I used smooch accent ink in frosted aqua to give more highlights to the hardware.

8. For the tags I used red toned scrapbook paper from trinity paper arts, cut into a tag shape, and aged the corners using vintage mixed media ink, the result resembled an old circus pullman cart.

9. No circus is complete without a clown, after some experimenting I pressed a clown cupcake topper into the moldable foam stamp block. The key to getting a deeper mold instead of a texture is to heat the moldable foam stamp block and extra 2 minutes, making sure you rotate the heat around the moldable foam stamp block sides and top to insure a perfect heat and no burn, then quickly press the clown cupcake topper into it and hold pressed for 20 seconds, voila, a re-useable mold. Now press w/makins air dry clay in white, let dry, paint and then glue to your circus board.

10. Finally add extra embellishments and glitter.

 

Tips and Tricks
-You can use a glue stick to adhere images to chipboard


-In place of vintage images, use various scraps of scrapbook paper then stamp circus scenes all 

-Try lining your whole board with circus tickets instead of images, age with a variety of              colorbox inks. 

-Alter a discarded or used game board using a variety of inks and embellish with all your fave pieces and found objects.
 
I hope this project inspires you to create a circus board of your own! Thanks so much for coming to mine!
xoxo
Lisa!


 

The Halloween ATC Book!

Here is a project I wanted to complete last Halloween and finally finished it the other day. Its an ATC Accordion book, a variation of a project from my book; Altered Art Circus, Quarry Books!This is a fun and easy project to create using your left over collage images, scrapbook papers and embellishments. In the book I chose a circus/carnival theme, for this one I chose a gothic, yet whimsical Halloween theme using some images from my book, which I photocopied, digital images I made, vintage images and re-made ones, adding bits of paper, recycled leather, vinyl and trims.
The base of the accordion book is made from 2 pieces of matte board (the stuff from frame shops) and sturdy cardstock, which was cut into a 3 1/2 by 2 1/2 strip, folded and sandwiched between the two pieces of matte board, then layered upon with more papers, images and embellishments, I added an additional cover using a hole puncher and jump rings.
I know Halloween has passed, but there is something so magical and Harry Potter like of this holiday, that I can't stop creating around it or incorporating some of its mystery into my other works, mixing it into my next fave season, Christmas!

Try following this project and creating a holiday atc book, a wonderland atc book, or a santa's workshop atc book, so many possibilities out there to explore, a fun project to also do with your children or friends.

For instructions on how to make this and collage images, visit the ATC chapter inside my book: Altered Art Circus, Quarry Books. Visit my flickr for additional collage images inside my free vintage images folder.

Any questions, please let me know,
Magic and Joy,
Lisa!

Happy Happy New Year!

New Year's Day is every man's birthday. ~Charles Lamb

We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day. ~Edith Lovejoy Pierce

One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above the little things. ~John Burroughs



German Folklore: A chimney Sweep means good luck!

In Germany, Austria, Hungary, and other regions, the chimney sweep is considered an omen of good luck if you meet with him on New Year's Day.

Many older Central and Eastern European New Year's Eve/Day postcards feature a chimney sweep, most of the time a blond child, could be seen frolicking in the snow, or tracking through the snow tossing out lucky talismans such as four leaf clovers, red and white Amanita Muscaria Mushrooms aka gluckpilz (lucky Mushroom in German), these mushrooms were used by ancient Shamanic's as a hallucinogen.

In Germany, New years was not celebrated until the 17th century, so this folklore would have taken place on Christmas/St.Nicholas Day. Gifts would have been given out on New Year's Day to people who delivered goods such as baked treats, breads, etc., or to individuals who completed household chores. Small cards were often handed out with a blessing of good wishes as a token of thank you and good lick for the service.

If you met a chimney sweep (Schornsteinfeger or Schlotfeger) at New Year's meant good luck for the whole year, especially if the chimney sweep gave you his card. Today with Chimney Sweep professions being more rare, one can find chimney sweeps in the form of dolls, small figurines, charms, candy molds, postcards, Good Luck Chocolate labels and Ephemera.

There are some forms of ephemera which show chimney sweeps giving people: money bags, riding in toboggans with lucky pigs, handing out four leaf clovers, mushrooms and other forms of lucky symbols.

I learned of this tradition this past New Year's Eve at the Store, a Customer came in around 3pm, she was from Germany and spotted a doll in my cabinet, she brought him over to me and told me he was a German Chimney Sweep Doll, which was valuable and in wonderful condition, she then informed me of the history of the doll and his German history, then placed him near my register and said he will bring you good luck for the coming year. How fitting to discover him after all this time on New Year's Day.

I hope everyone had a safe, happy and joyous New Year's Eve and Day! Let's wish ourselves and others a wonderful 2011!

Magic and Joy,
Lisa!

Christmas Countdown:Third Day, Second Day & Christmas Eve!

I would like to wish everyone, everywhere a happy, healthy and joyful Christmas! May it be filled with much magic and joy!

Here is my gift to you: Some images for you to enjoy in your holiday works!



Merry Christmas To All!
Xo
Lisa!