Transformations

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Hi everyone, today is March 1 and that means spring is right around the corner.  When I think of spring, I think of new beginnings and transformations. Currently, my yard has begun the transformation from winter to spring. It is peppered with camellia blossoms, the azaleas are in full bloom, and the dogwood trees are starting to bud. I just love this time of year. Seems like God's paint brush is full of high contrasts, and vibrant splashes of color. 

Today's project is about transformation. Taking something from its original form and making it something else.  When you look at things with a different perspective, it gives new life to your supplies.

Flowering Tree from Die-Namites

I was playing with my nephew and he was cutting out the Flowering Tree die (he loves to play with Aunt Tonya's toys). A few of his cuts were not so perfect, but they gave me a different perspective.  He and I both saw butterflies, which then led to dragonflies.

The butterflies and dragonflies from above were made using two cuts from the Flowering Tree die. 

In the video below I will show you how to make three different styles from this tree die.

They look lovely on all your projects.  I low how this dragonfly and butterfly look on this mixed media tag.

These would look fantastic in a floral spray on a layout, or as the focal point on a card.

I hope I have given you an idea of how to look at your dies with a different perspective. 

Thanks for stopping in today!

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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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