Ustream Follow Up - March 31

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Wow what a great show last night on Limor's Ustream Channel.  I met some new friends, and we had a lot of fun creating these cute little Mini Canvas Bags...

In the show I used  Limor's Signature products from Lindy's Stamp Gang and IndigoBlu to create these adorable treat bags.   Here is a link to the recording in case you couldn't make it to the show live.

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/60597287

Be sure to watch the show for a coupon code worth 20% off at LimorWebber.com sale ends Friday, April 3rd.   Reminder - coupon code must be entered in ALL CAPS.

If you decide to create these bags, please make sure you #LimorWebberDesigns  in social media so that we can find it.  You can also #FollowingTonyaGibbs.

Supplies used for the bags: 

Canvas Bags
IndigoBlu - Limor Webber Designs - A6 Ink Splat Butterfly
IndigoBlu - Limor Webber Designs - Splattered Heart
IndigoBlu - Limor Webber Designs - Limor Circles
Lindy's Stamp Gang - Flat Fabios - Tres Chic
Lindy's Stamp Gang - Flat Fabios - Under The Boardwalk
Lindy's Stamp Gang - Embossing Powder - Tres Chic
Tim Holtz  Stencil - Bubbles
Faber-Castell Design Memory Craft® - Stamper's Big Brush Artist Pen - Black 199
Faber-Castell Design Memory Craft® - Stamper's Big Brush Artist Pen - Light Blue
Beacon Fabri-Tac
Water Bottle
White Acrylic Paint
Trims
Rhinestones

Thanks again for your support and for hanging out with us. I hope you have been inspired today!

Tonya

SAVE THE DATE - MONDAY APRIL 6, 8:30 PM EST 
My next Broadcast on My Ustream Channel will be Monday, April 6.  We will be creating a layout using those brand new Easter pictures.   I hope you can make it to the show at 8:30 p.m. EST  on http://www.ustream.tv/channel/gibbst 

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Guest Ustream On Limor Webber Designs

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Hi everyone, I’m  pleased to announce that tonight I'm going to do a special broadcast over on 

Limor Webber's Ustream Channel:
  http://www.ustream.tv/channel/limor1806

Tonight -  March 31, 2015 

7:00 p.m.  Mountain Time  
6:00 p.m. Pacific Time

8:00 p.m. Central Time 

9:00 p.m. Eastern Time 

I  will be altering this cute mini canvas bag, perfect for gift bags or Easter treats. Tonight's broadcast will feature signature lines by Limor Webber with IndigoBlu and Lindy's Stamp Gang.

I hope you can join me live.  As always we will do our best to record, however, if you miss the show live, the recording will be on Limor's Ustream Channel.

Supplies:

5x5 Canvas Bags
IndigoBlu - Limor Webber Designs - A6 Ink Splat Butterfly
Lindy's Stamp Gang - Flat Fabios - Tres Chic
Lindy's Stamp Gang - Flat Fabios - Under The Boardwalk
Lindy's Stamp Gang - Embossing Powder - Tres Chic
Tim Holtz  Stencil - Bubbles
Faber-Castell Design Memory Craft - Stamper's Big Brush Artist Pen - Black 199
Faber-Castell Design Memory Craft - Stamper's Big Brush Artist Pen - Light Blue
Beacon Fabri-Tac
Water Bottle
White Acrylic Paint
Trims

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Spring Shadowbox - by Tonya Gibbs

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Hi everyone, I hope your week is off to a great start. With the weather so frigid everywhere, I wanted to create something that reminded me of spring.  I dug through some old photos and found this 5x7 of my niece Averie, and a 9x9 Shadowbox that I've been hoarding. 

 

 

It all started with a mixed media tag. I bought some of the Faber Castell Design Memory Craft glaze and wanted to experiment with it.  I love to experiment on tags, and then I try to make something with the tag.   On this tag, I used modeling paste and a stencil to get the hexagons.  Then painted the entire card with a soft green paint. Then I mixed the glaze with a gold colored acrylic, wiped it across the entire tag. Waited a few minutes then used a baby wipe to clean it off. The glaze actually stayed in the recessed areas, and helped to provide shadows on my tag.    I then started playing with some of the left overs from other Marion Smith projects, and used Marion's Hot Air Balloon stamp to create a pattern for the balloon on the tag.  The little girl and the saying was cut from the Mad Tea Party collection. 

 

Since the saying talks about seeds that grow I decided to build a little garden scene for my little girl to stand.   I used a vine as my base, then made a few flowers to cover the vine.

 

I removed the glass from the shadow box, and built my floral spray to spill out over the frame's edge.  I stitched together some punched scraps from Marion's Mad Tea Party line to create the banner that I placed across the top of the frame.

 

 

 

I just love how this frame turned out, and it is going to look fabulous on my wall. 

 

Thanks for stopping in today,

 

Tonya Gibbs

http://www.psychomomscrapbooks.blogspot.com

 

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Santa's List Holiday Organizer by Tonya Gibbs

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Hi everyone, 

The Holiday season is quickly approaching, and I'm not sure about you, but my house hold is a whirl-wind of activities this time of year.  Each year I create an Organizer/Planner to keep track of the craziness. When I started this project several years ago, I was looking for a place to trap receipts menus, calendars, card lists, shopping lists, groceries lists, coupons, sales fliers etc...  It has evolved into a true keepsake throughout the years.  It is fun to look back at all the ciaos from year to year.

This year, I created my planner with Teresa Collins Designs' Santa's List.   I just love the red and whites they are so clean, and really get me into the Christmas mood.  

I altered an Avery 6x9 inch white 3 ring binder that you can find at any department store in the office supply section.

I added lace and trims along the edge to soften up binder's hard exterior.  I also used Gold paper to accent my papers. Since the book would be tossed in the car, and dragged in and out of stores, I decided to sew down all the stickers

The Dividers
I have 3 dividers in this notebook,   Planner,  Cards, and Gifts. The dividers were cut on my silhouette using 3 bracket file folders by Lori Whitlock. I cut the folders in half with the knife tool in the design studio software and only "cut" the half that had the tabs.  This allowed me to make the folders wider so they fit the proportions of my notebook. I used the alpha set on the sticker sheet to label my tabs, then sewed across the bottom of them to make sure that they don't fall off from over use.  

I included the sticky notes from the collection for extra labeling and note taking.

Inside Cover
I love having a little something to take notes in that can easily be added to my purse and then replaced in the planner later.  Teresa's Sewed Journals fit nicely in the pockets.  I love that the December Stamp in the Santa's List Stamp set starts on Sunday with day 1.  Since this year December 1st in on a Sunday it made it a great visual reference for the dates through out the book.

Here is a video with a complete walk through of the book.

I hope this organizer will help give you some ideas for your own holiday planning.   I'm so happy I've adopted this and it will be fun to go back and flip through it after the first of the year when it is a documented mess.

I hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend.

Thanks for stopping in today.  If you haven't subbed yet, please do so.

Tonya

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Halloween Home Decor

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Marion issued us a challenge this month to create a Halloween home décor item using paper from her collections. 

 

I decided to use her Mad Tea Party Line for my project, and a cut file from the Silhouette Store.  The original cut file was designed for a candy/treat container.  I decided to add a battery operated tea light inside the hat to make it a luminary. 

 

I recycled a plastic lace spool for the stand, and covered it with black lace.  Scraps of paper from Marion's other papers were used to make rolled roses. I sprayed them with Perfect Peach and Pink Taffy Glimmer Mists. Once they were dry, I added glitter nail polish to make them sparkle.   Since the clock in the patterned paper was set to almost midnight,  I decided to make a banner and title it "The Witching Hour". The font used on the banner was Dilana Experiment.  Clear glitter nail polish offered an iridescent effect to the little black crows.

 

 

The grass is actually white yarn that I stained with Forest Moss Distress Stains, then I added the clear glitter nail polish in small areas for added texture and shine.   I poured clear and pink glitter nail polish inside a small bottle  to create a sparkly potion.  I love that the nail polish didn't mix. 

 

It was fun creating this luminary, and thought it would be great to fill up a small shelf.

 

Thanks for stopping in today, if you haven't already subbed - please do so!

 

Tonya Gibbs

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Altered Paintbrush - Marion Smith Designs

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Hi everyone today I want to share with you an Altered Paint Brush that I made for the Marion Smith Design Team Challenge for this week.

I wanted the items on my paintbrush to really represent who I am as an Artist.  I wanted it to be blue/green, grungy, with a photography theme.

 

Love how it turned out.  This was such a fun project. And will look awesome in my studio!  If you decide to alter a paintbrush - please share it with me on Facebook!

 

Check out what the other designers created over at Marion Smith Designs.blogspot.com

 

 

Thanks for stopping in today,

Tonya Gibbs 

 

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Altered Notebook - Marion Smith Designs Nirvana Collection

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Wow - It has already been a week since I was appointed on Marion's Design team, and I'm still pinching myself.  Our first challenge was to alter a notebook, book, or binder in honor of back to school.  I was so excited to use her New Nirvana printed lines that will be shipping to retailers in just a few weeks. 

 

For my project I decided to alter a three ring notebook.  I'm a total list maker, so I thought this would be a great tool to have around.  I really wanted my cover to stay kind of flat so that it didn't take up too much shelf space, but I wanted it to be PRETTY!  Nirvana certainly helped there! 

 

 

 

 

I started with one of these notebooks from Target.

 

I gessoed the edges of the notebook, and painted it gold.  Then lined the notebook inside and out with the Nirvana Bliss & Documented papers.   I love how easy the cover came together with the Nirvana ephemera pages. 

 

 

 

Visit the blog to see what the other ladies did for their challenge.  So much inspiration!

 

Want Nirvana? -  Click here to pre-order it!

 

Thanks for stopping in today,

 

Tonya A. Gibbs

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4th of July Table Caddy

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4th of July is one of my all time favorite holidays - JUST LOVE IT!  The colors, the celebrations, parades, parties, fireworks - who could ask for more fun?

 

I was trying to think of some fun decorative ideas for parties.  A few weeks ago I shared with you an invitation, and today I thought I would alter a six pack box to use as a table caddy.  

 

 

 

Here are the supplies I used to alter the caddy.   In addition to the supplies listed below, you need to upcycle a beverage six pack box.  I used two sheets of each of these papers to complete the box.  Measurements will vary depending on your box.  I started with the bottom and completely cover it wrapping about a half an inch up the sides to keep my utensils from falling out. Then covered the over hang with the side panels. 

 

 

 

I used Canvas Corps' Royal Blue And White Stars Reverse Paper as my base. Then made pinwheels with the Red & White Ribbon Stripe paper then cut them in half and topped these beautiful Red Canvas Banners.  Tied the banner with the Red Canvas corp Twine bows.  Then add a little sparkle with party garland, cake pick star Tucked in a Small American Flag as a topper,  and this catty turned out FAB!

Our high school team colors are royal blue, white, and red I think I may modify this caddy after the 4th for a tailgate caddy by removing the flag and adding a football!

 

 

**Side note:  Place a water bottle in the back center spot to weigh the box down so it doesn't blow off the table.  You can camouflage the bottle with paper napkins. **

 

 

Here is a second invitation I made with the scraps from this project.

 

 

 

 

Thanks for stopping in today,

 

Tonya Gibbs

http://www.psychmomscrapbooks.blogspot.com

 

 

 

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Ustream - February 4 Treat Basket

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I hope you can join me and Flamingo Scraps on February 4, 2013 at 8:30 est on Ustream Live as I create this cute treat dish with Pink Paislee's Secret Crush and Maya Road's Chipboard pieces.

There are a limited number of kits available for the Feb 4th class!

Each kit contains supplies to make three treat baskets, with some leftover for Valentine cards, decor, or tags and with two full size Color Shines and a Prima Chalk Ink Edger!

To purchase a kit, contact Suzanne at flamingoscraps@yahoo.com. Kits are $41.99 with free domestic shipping!

Kits include:
4 - 12x12 Sheets Secret Crush Paper
1 - pkg Secret Crus Ephemera
1 - pkg Shot through the Heart Chipboard
1 - Scalloped Heart Chipboard Album
1 - Heidi Swapp color Shine Tinsel
1 - Heidi Swapp Color Shine Primrose
1 - Prima Distress Chalk Ink-Old Rose
Assorted Flowers
Assorted Maya Road Trinket Pins
Seam Binding

 

Make sure you join the Ustream crowd - http://www.ustream.tv/channel/gibbst

Thanks for stopping in today,

 

Tonya Gibbs

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Mixed Media Canvas - Dream

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I decided this week I wanted to walk away from Cut and Paste for a while and get my fingers totally dirty.  I love to create these canvases of the kids in my world and hang them through out my house.

This time though I reached for colors that I barely work with, green, peach, and yellow for the background.  After layers and layers of shimmer sprays, a little brushed corduroy around the edges, a little teal ink over the top,  some stucco, stamped script, masking tape, gesso, a little finger painting, a little drippage, the background was born.  Not much thinking just messy messy goodness. 

For the embellishments my focal point is the roses made from Aluminum cans. I have a video on these on my YouTube channel.   I used the Tim Holtz Tattered Rose and Tattered Pine cone to create them.  I rested them on top of a piece of sheer ribbon with sequin flowers.  Then for more texture I used the Prima Burlap Rose leaves, some were spritzed orange and gold to make them varied.   I added a Prima Cinderella Spray of Crystal flowers, and loved how the texture of the glass complimented the rustic metal.

To make the Prima birds blend a little better with the canvas I decided to alcohol ink them with black soot, patina rub-n-buff, and  then a gold paint on top of that. I did the same technique to the Prima birdcage (minus the Patina). I also patinaed a  metal butterfly and dragon fly charms from Pink Paislee.

I went through my Miscellaneous pile (the one that has a random element here and there left over from previous projects), and added the Prima Cabochon Roses, flower centers, and a random bead spray. I had put together the ornate plate with the ticket dream in it for a previous project and never used it.  Thought it complimented this one perfect so I threw it in. 

I love how all these random things came together.  There are so many textures in this piece that I can literally sit for hours and stare at it. When I walk by I can't help but reach out and touch it.

Thanks for stopping in today. 

Tonya Gibbs

http://www.psychomoms.com

Resources:

8x10 Canvas

Glimmer Mist:   Perfect Peach, Meadow Green, Gold

Prima:  Cinderella Spray, Clock, Cabochon Roses, Sultan Flower Centers, Resin Birds, Metal Birdcage, Burlap leaves, Resin Corner, Chain

Pink Paislee: Dragonfly and Butterfly Charm
Tim Holtz:  Ornate Plate, Adage Ticket, Number Plate, Tattered Rose Die, Tattered Pine cone Die, Brushed Corduroy Distress Ink.

Ranger: Black Archival Ink Black Soot Alcohol Ink

Rub-N-Buff: Patina

Misc: Stucco, Gesso, Ribbon, Gold Sharpie, Script Stamp, Aluminum Cans

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Once Upon A Spring Time - Cigar Box

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I guess you could say I've been on a Fairy kick lately.  Graphic 45's Once Upon A Springtime is one of my all time favorite paper collections.   I have been wanting to alter a cigar box with it for a long time now.   This past weekend I finally had the chance.

Graphic 45: Once Upon A Spring Time: Pixie Post and Once Upon A Spring Time, Ranger: Claudine Hellmuth Matt Multi-Medium and Forest Moss Distress Stain, Prima: Rose buds, Mini Roses and Trellus Roses; Tattered Angels:  Gold Glimmer Mist, Mist Fits Glimmer Chalks; Floral Vine; Gelly Roll Clear Star Pen.

The base of the box was painted with the Ranger Forest Moss Stain then I sprayed Gold Glimmer Mist on top so that it has a nice shine to it.  I cut out the book and Fairies from the paper collection and flanked it with some Roses from Prima. Then I fussy Cut Fairies and birds from the paper collection and nestled them into the floral spray.

I love the way this box turned out, and I hope that my friend likes it too.

Thanks for stopping in today,

Tonya

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From Scrappy Mess to Masterpiece

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Some serious Holiday crafting has been going on in my room the last few weeks. Between Tim's 12 tags of Christmas, Cards, and some last minute gifts, I have had scraps up to my elbows. I wanted to share with you guys today a tip for turning those scraps into a work of Art.

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