Design Team Project: Party Girl Cuff & Charlotte Ring

Design Team Project: Party Girl Cuff & Charlotte Ring

By Marfi Bradford

First design team project, this fabulous series of projects comes from the one and only Marfi Bradford, who created these projects for our design team, here is her post:

I wanted to share my first Lisa Kettell Designs project with you!!!I had a lot of fun with these!

Cuff
Lisa Kettell Designs party girl doll head
small doily
flat back rhinestones
sequin ribbon
plain fabric cuff
twinklets diamond dust glitter
white craft glue
hot glue
jewelry glue

attatch sequin ribbon to edges of cuff with hot glue
glue doily to center of cuff
cover party girl doll's hat with white glue and dip in glitter, then affix to the doily with a bit of hot glue.
randomly place flatback rhinestones on cuff with jewelry glue
TIP:instead of rhinestones you can use resin flowers which can be found at most craft and hobby shops .




Ring
Lisa Kettell designs Charlotte head doll
small doily
tinsel pipe cleaner
micro glitter
plain ring base
white craft glue
hot glue

Cover Charlotte doll hair with white craft glue, sprinkle micro glitter over it
then hot glue doily to the back
shape tinsel into flower shape
glue to the back of doily
add a small amount of hot glue to center of ring base and place on the back of doily

TIP:use felt stars or flowers in place of doily


Don't forget you can find the adorable Party Girl and Charlotte doll heads in Lisa's Art Fire shop.

Marfi's Blog:
http://marfibradford.blogspot.com

Stay tuned for more design team projects this week!
xoxo
Lisa!

Up-Cycled Magic!
I restored this old cabinet, it was originally an ugly black and gray piece. I painted it with left over paints from Lowe's: coconut white and a light salmon pink. I choose to paint the inside the coconut white.

The top right corner was missing a ledge corner, the center was missing 2 medallions and had no knobs.

I molded the left corner edge of the piece, then poured with plaster, and attached to the right corner using wood putty and a few layers of spackle, once dried I sanded it!

Next I made another mold of the 2 medallions, poured it w/plaster and attached to the center doors with clear caulk, then I sanded some parts of the whole piece to show the original black paint that was underneath.

Finally I went to Lowe's and grabbed 2 crystal cabinet knobs, then attached them to the top drawer of the cabinet and to the center door. Now it plays host to my jewelry boxes and jeweled treasures.

This is actually a simple project you can finish in a weeked with in-expensive materials. I bought the cabinet for $5 because it was damaged. The paint was $3 a can since it was left over paint, the knobs were $2 each, the mold compound was $10 with a coupon, the plaster of paris was $3, Spackle, wood putty and clear caulk were left overs from another project, total for finished fabulous chic piece: $25 including the tax for everything!

This is a project you can do to old bathroom or kitchen cabinets, visit a dumpster, local junk/salvage yard, surplus store, thrift store, rummage/garage sale, etc. for furniture to re-do!

Happy Weekend!
XO
Lisa!

Inspired by Jules Verne!

Jules Gabriel Verne (February 8, 1828 – March 24, 1905) was a French author who pioneered the science fiction genre. He is best known for his novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870), A Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873). Verne wrote about space, air, and underwater travel before air travel and practical submarines were invented, and before practical means of space travel had been devised. He is the second most translated author in the world (after Agatha Christie). Some of his books have also been made into live-action and animated films and television shows. Verne is often referred to as the "Father of Science Fiction", a title sometimes shared with Hugo Gernsback and H. G. Wells.
The following is a Jules Verne Inspired Necklace I made! I was inspired by all his novelties and sci-fi underwater adventure Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea!I addition to the necklace, I made a matching bracelet! Did you know that Verne wrote numerous works, most famous of which are the 54 novels comprising the Voyages Extraordinaires. He also wrote short stories, essays, plays, and poems.

This following is drawing of Jules Verne on the sea floor with fantastic sea creatures. Legend : "Gathering from the best sources authentic information about underwater world". Cover of "L'Algerie" Magazine, 15 June 1884, this is the drawing that sparked the inspiration!

For more images of my piece and a larger version of this illustration visit my flickr photo wall!

Have a magic filled and inspired day,

Lisa xoxo

Opening Day, Its Coming!

My favorite time of year, Baseball Season, Opening day for every team is beginning any day now, so get your fave team gear together, cuffs and a cheer, because Baseball Season is here...

This time of year also brings an influx of baseball Cuff aka B-Cuff orders in, all the ladies waiting to wear them to opening day games, from team fans, team wives, league ladies, celebs, you name it, everyone has their idea of what they want on their cuffs.

By Mid Summer I will have these cuffs re-produced on a much larger scale, currently I gut, cut, stitch, adhere, and jewel each and every cuff that I make down to the wrapping, the packing, the shipping and the certificates of authenticity, all done by me.

So once these B-Cuffs are done for me, I can concentrate on designing more things. They can still be customized by colors and teams as well and originals like I do now will still be available. I'll release 5 styles to start and add on every few months.

The cuffs in this post are some MLB cuffs for my MLB clients, and 2 Celeb cuffs as well, they will all be wearing theirs to their fave games and supporting their teams. I still wear mine to every Yankee Game I go to, its now considered one of my lucky talismans, lol..


Whose your fave team? Your fave player? What colors do you like?

Mine:

Fave Team: NY Yankees
2nd Fave Team: Baltimore Orioles

Fave Players: Lou Gehrig, Derek Jeter

Fave Colors: Pink, Aqua, Black

Let's all toast to a good Baseball season, wish all players a good game, safety and fun!
Happy Opening Day,
xoxo
Lisa!

Design Team Spotlights Coming Soon!

As you are aware we now have a new design team for Lisa Kettell Designs/Piddlestixs! As soon as all the info is in I will showcase the team!

Happy Saturday and Happy St. Patricks Day!

xo
Lisa!