Baseball Season Means Baseball Cuffs!

This is prime time season for me and the baseball cuffs aka B-Cuffs, I have been making these cuffs for years and for many team moms, wives, girlfriends and pals, from MLB friends to Little League friends, and Fans, my cuffs can be made customized to your team colors, team balls or personal balls from a family member.

All the baseballs I have in stock range from practice balls, MLB balls, used, grungy, vintage and new. Some are pink, some are hand dyed, some are team specified, designs and artwork, depends on the balls I have in stock at the time of order.Also note that I over several basic styles to make your decision easier, the Basic B-Cuff Style which is a basic baseball w/cream stitching, light color lining, a rhinestone Q for Queen of the Outfield, mini pearl border and additional crystals, this is the one main style for choosing.

The next style is the Shabby and Chic pastel cuffs, the next is grunge/vintage, another is basic stitching, no rhinestones or bling, team geared ones and some more options such as rock star edgy cuffs, artwork transfers, etc.

In addition to the baseball cuffs, its also tennis season too, so the tennis cuffs start coming in now as well, occasionally we have colored tennis balls in stock and can dye them as well.Here's an example of vintage and grunge baseballs one w/Texas AM on the cuff, the other basic red Q!All my cuffs come with a hand stitched label: LK meaning Lisa Kettell Designs, so you know its authentic and a certificate of Authenticity is emailed to each customer who purchases a cuff! These cuffs are Yankee themed colors and one is a hand stitched logo!Now many of my customers down south and especially Texas, love the bling and frou frou cuffs such as these, which I call Glamour Cuff B Style:For some New Orleans Fans:
Don't forget fave numbers and grunge:Shabby Sweet Boston Red Socks:
and sweet shoppe color:There are so many styles and ideas for you to choose, the possibilities are endless.

In the next few months the cuffs are getting another style added, contour cuff style, which bends the cuff to your wrist, this is going to be an option I recommend soon, as to not worry about size and measurements of your cuff with the clasps and jump rings. Like the baseballs the clasps all depend on what is in stock, we have some hook clasps, toggle clasps, lobster clasps, magnetic, flip over, etc. and they aren't always in stock, so please keep that in mind when ordering.

All cuffs are handmade and authentic, the cuffs and their project have been published over 50 times in the past several years, since then other versions have popped up over the web, please remember when purchasing my cuffs these are the original to my idea and there for like I mentioned earlier receive certificates of authenticity!

Also let's not forget the Tennis Cuffs, they are equally as stunning and perfect for your fave tennis star friend or yourself! Hope you enjoyed these variations of the cuffs, I look forward to your ideas and orders for your cuffs, any questions please ask!

To purchase use one of these links:
http://www.artoperanj.com/category_38/Baseball-Football-Basketball-Tennis-Cuffs.htm
http://www.artfire.com/ext/shop/studio/MoonfairesWorld/0/0/200196

Also note if you are interested in carrying the cuffs in your store, please contact me about discounted pricing and minimums!

Have a beautiful Saturday,
xo
Lisa!

Vintage Ephemera Now in Abundance at Piddlestixs!
Now in stock at Piddlestixs is tons of Ephemera from Vintage Greeting Cards, Sheet Music, Books, Paper Packs, Match Book Covers, Tickets, Prints, Bingo Cards and More, all ranging from 1850-1970, come on in for some fab ephemera and for reasonable prices!
Currently all the ephemera is mostly located at Piddlestixs, but I do have some listed in the artfire store. If you are looking for anything special, contact me and I'll see what I have in stock!
Have a magical and vintage day! xoxo Lisa!

Costumes and Dress Up Fun, Now at Piddlestixs!
At Piddlestixs we try to get the cutest, rarest and most enchanted items into the store, our latest obsession is collecting costumes from vintage to new, handmade to up-cycled, if its cute and unusual then we want it for the store.For those of our readers online who can't get to Piddlestixs due to location or distance, we are trying to upload a lot of our inventory to our online sites:
artoperanj.com
moonfairesworld.com
artfire.com
So that everyone has a chance to visit and shop at Piddlestixs, which also houses our line of exclusive products including our tea, coffee, cocoa and candy lines, the Lisa Kettell Designs Line and Aurora-tique line.
We will be adding more costumes to the online store this week, check back often as we add to our store every day and every night!

Magic and Joy,
Lisa!

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Join me for the March Madness Sale inside our Artfire Store, enjoy 30% off select items: Doll parts, supply, LISA KETTELL DESIGNS line of products, vintage finds, cake and cupcake toppers, dolls, and oddities.

March Madness Sale is for 3 straight days, Our next sale will be in April!

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Sale not valid on steampunk jewelry, baseball cuffs and handmade jewelry!

Timeless Beauty, Fairy Tales and Love!
Love is an emotion of strong affection and personal attachment. Love is also a virtue representing all of human kindness, compassion, and affection; and "the unselfish loyal and benevolent concern for the good of another". Love may also be described as actions towards others (or oneself) based on compassion, or as actions towards others based on affection.

In English, love refers to a variety of different feelings, states, and attitudes, ranging from pleasure ("I loved that meal") to interpersonal attraction ("I love my partner"). "Love" may refer specifically to the passionate desire and intimacy of romantic love, to the sexual love of eros, to the emotional closeness of familial love, or the platonic love that defines friendship, to the profound oneness or devotion of religious love. This diversity of uses and meanings, combined with the complexity of the feelings involved, makes love unusually difficult to consistently define, even compared to other emotional states.Love in its various forms acts as a major facilitator of interpersonal relationships and, owing to its central psychological importance, is one of the most common themes in the creative arts.

Love may be understood as part of the survival instinct, a function to keep human beings together against menaces and to facilitate the continuation of the species. People with developmental disorders may have a limited or minimal capability of experiencing love.

The above has been taken from Wikipedia found under the subject of: LOVE!

As we frolick through the weekend, its during this time that we are meeting up with friends, family, a date, a party, a dinner or maybe that person who sends shivers throughout. If you are married re-kindle a special time in your life and go on a date, spark a passionate kiss and turn it into an enchanted evening. If you are seriously involved try something new together and if you are single, don't dwell on a past love or two, don't expect too much from a first date and stop looking for your Prince, a real Prince will come and find you, just as one Prince found our friend Cinderella, he wasn't looking and there she was and that my friends is a fairytale ending.Although a fairytale Cinderella lost everything, but gained her smile and positive outlook which led to her Prince Charming and all her wishes granted, because she believed in a fairytale ending and got one. If we just believe we can conquer anything and have our wishes granted one by one, that is my goal for this year to succeed in my goals, expand my career, re-invent myself and keep the castle door open just in case a Prince is looking for me, lol

Have a beautiful evening my friends and may all your wishes comes true from love, to success, good health and happiness!
xoxoxo
Lisa!

P.S. Enjoy the images I restored in this post for your artwork!

Design Team Call and Facebook Fan Page!


We are looking for 5 creative and inspirational, out of the box designers to design for us at Lisa Kettell Designs and Piddlestixs.

The 5 chosen designers will be selected March 15, each will get a designer blog button, and their info on the blog, along with a parcel of Lisa Kettell Designs and Piddlestixs Products in which they will create artwork ranging from scrapbook, to assemblage, dolls, jewelry, home wares, etc., whatever their creative minds come up with.

In addition the designers will have free ad space in Piddlestixs magazine and their projects published in there as well.

Then each project will come w/material list, directions and/or inspiration! This design team will design from April-June 2012, changing every quarter. Once you design for us, you can always submit works and re-join the team as a guest designer alumni.

If you are interested send me a link to your works/blog and a quick blurb about yourself to:
lisakettell@yahoo.com

I get alot of facebook friend request, but facebook limits to 5,000 people in your personal page, so I have created the Lisa Kettell Designs Page and this is where I share alot of new works, projects, contests and inspired links, events, news, etc. more then on my personal page. So join me here and get on board for the latest stuff. Design team members will be here as well!

Magic and Joy,
Lisa!

Farley's Mermaid Circus! ATC!

This 3D ATC was inspired by my book: "Altered Art Circus", where I have a chapter dedicated to ATC's and Components.

To bring new familiarity to the ATC aka Artist Trading Card, I added more 3-d elements to the basic form of 3 1/2 by 2 1/2 inches which originally started as flat images as a way to showcase one's illustration, more on that in the book.

This piece which I call: "Farley's Mermaid Circus", is created using the Mer-Cupie Embellishment from the Lisa Kettell Designs Line, mixed w/K&Company ticket sticker strips, Cosmo Cricket Paper, Robin's Nest Pink Pebbles, Making Memories Accessories, vintage style pink Tinsel from michaels, Hemptique bakery twine, chip board, zip dry and hot glue!

Materials

-Mer-Cupie Embellishment, Lisa Kettell Designs
-Carnival/Circus Ticket Adhesive Border, Love, K& Company
-"Monday" Scrapbook Paper, Cosmo Cricket
-"Tiny Bubbles" Scrapbook Paper, Cosmo Cricket
-Mini wood clips, Making Memories
-Looking Glass stickers, Giggle Kids Line, Making Memories
-Pebbles, Robin's Nest
-Pink Tinsel, Michaels Craft Stores
-Pink/White Bakery Twine, Hemptique
-Chipboard, Paper Source
-Acrylic paint, smooches, Clearsnap
-Vintage ephemera, floral wire, rhinestones
-Glues: Zip Dry, Beacon Adhesives, Modge Podge, Plaid and Hot Glue
-Other: Floral Wire, Glitter
-Tools: Hot Glue Gun, Scissors, Paint Brush

Directions

1. Measure chipboard to 3 1/2 by 2 1/2 inches, coat with zip dry glue, lay the Monday scrapbook paper over the coated chipboard, press to adhere, let sit for a minute to dry. Then trim the paper to fit the chipboard.

2. Paint a shirt onto the Mer-Cupie with paint color of choice, set aside, let dry.

3. Make a basic pinwheel shape out of the tiny bubbles paper, secure ends with hot glue, attach a looking glass sticker to the center of the pin wheel, set aside.

4. Attach your mer-cupie to the center of the atc using hot glue, begin embellishing her. Make a paper cone from vintage paper, simply measure a 3 inch by 3 inch square onto ephemera or paper of choice, cut down the middle to form a triangle, glue sides together and attach to your mer-cupie with hot glue, add pebbles and tinsel to her hat.
5. Cut a balloon shape from paper, attach to a piece of floral wire using hot glue, apply modge podge to balloon shape, sprinkle red glitter on top, shake off excess and insert next to your mer-cupie, tie on a piece of hemptique bakery twine.

6. Add some more ephemera, mini wood clip, tickets and the handmade pin wheel, voila, Farley is now on her way to enjoy the Mermaid Circus!



Tips and Tricks:
-Use piano paper, paper from a discarded book, old advertisements, or catalog pages for your paper cone hat.
-Buy pre-made pinwheels instead of making your own.
-Use glitter paper instead of using actual glitter
-Tint mica flakes with distressed inks and add to your project for more flare.
-Stamp the alphabet onto plain cardstock, if you can't find the one I used by Cosmo Cricket.
-Use pipe cleaners in place of the tinsel.


To purchase the Mer-Cupies aka Mermaid Cupies from the Lisa Kettell Designs Line visit our store Piddlestixs or the online store:
http://www.artfire.com/ext/shop/studio/MoonfairesWorld