“WinterSong” Shabby Mason Jar

Well, we here in the Ohio valley are in full “hustle & bustle” of the holiday season. One thing I am longing for, a little snow on the ground to make it more seasonable. Instead, it has been rainy, dank and damp-just not pretty at all. So, I created my own winter, featured in this Shabby Mason Jar.

Using a chalk paint I created myself, I gave 3 coats to this Ball Mason jar.

Using an applique, and laces and embellishments in acrylic, pearl, and metal featured in the Creating With Details store, from my personal stash I added a frame, vintage photo, branches, clay embellishments and flowers to complete the look.

Creating With Details supply list:

Venise Lace & Pearl applique:http://www.creatingwithdetailsstore.com/#!product/prd1/3263241961/ivory-beaded-venise-applique---511917

Lace Floral Trim: http://www.creatingwithdetailsstore.com/#!product/prd1/3258810581/embroidered-lace-trim-ivory---1yd

Green Wheat Acrylic Spray: http://www.creatingwithdetailsstore.com/#!product/prd1/3264753621/green-wheat-acrylic-spray---pack-of-1

Ivory Acrylic Pearl-

http://www.creatingwithdetailsstore.com/#!product/prd1/3259567001/ivory-20mm-acrylic-pearl-cw18861-pack-of-6

Antique Bronze Metal Embellishments: http://www.creatingwithdetailsstore.com/#!product/prd1/3259531461/round-antique-bronze-cw45425-pack-of-1

 

From my personal stash I used Prima Marketing Miniature Flowers, Tulle, Ice Branches, Metal Frame, and Vintage Photo (found on Pinterest/Magic Moonlight Studio free image)

 

 

 

 

 

DIY Chalk Paint Recipe:

Initial recipe found on Pinterest, however takes much "finagling" to get right consistency and coverage.

Ingredients:

Water

Acrylic Paint (I used Americana craft paint) desired shade

Cornstarch

Clean air tight container or jar.

Directions:

Fill container/jar with 2 cups of water. Use marker to mark water line on container. Pour water back in measuring cup. Begin adding cornstarch in tablespoon increments(original recipe calls for 3tbsp), alternating with water, until desired consistency. I used 7 tbsp. of cornstarch to 1-1/2 cups of water to reach the right consistency. I found that an equivalent of 1 tbsp. of acrylic paint, met my desired color.

 

 

Thank you for stopping by, and I hope you are feeling inspired too!

Crazy Holiday Season

So, it has been a couple of weeks since I have blogged. We have gotten the house decorated for the upcoming festivities with family and friends, done most of our shopping, had a weekend with our nieces and nephews pair these things with my new (and WONDERFUL0 design team position, I have been one busy gal.

So now, I share with you, my dt project from two weeks ago, aptly named “Christmas In Paris”. In this design, I used many items from the Creating With Details online store. Fabulous lace trims, appliques, pearl and bling embellishments. This has been a favorite of mine.

Hope you enjoy! Please, stop by the Creative With Details store for your unique and beautiful items for your crafting needs.

“Christmas in Paris “paper mache top hat by Michelle

There is nothing that gears me up more for the holidays than the sights, the sounds and yes, even the smells of the this wonderful season. So in thinking about these things, I was inspired by the holidays of old. Walking along the snow covered streets and bridges, seeing the decorations of wreaths and of pine trees. The sound of carolers singing a Christmas tune, and the lights. And just imagine the wondrous beauty of the Eiffel Tower, amid a blanket of snow. This was inspiration for my project this week, the paper mache top hat.

I used a paper mache top hat just like the one found in the Creating With Details online store.  http://www.creatingwithdetailsstore.com/#!product/prd1/3264818351/paper-mache-top-hat-9x11%22

Covered with a beautiful 12x12 paper from my personal stash, torn and applied with Mod Podge Matte medium. I added beautiful lace and appliques, and embellishments of pearl, rhinestone, wood, and chipboard.

I hope this brings you to think of Christmas’s of long ago, and inspires you to create something beautiful!   Au Revoir Joyeux Noël!

 

ALL LACES used in this design, are from the Creating With Details online store, as well as the pearl and rhinestone brooch, and red wheat sprays. Lace trim-http://www.creatingwithdetailsstore.com/#!product/prd1/3257161331/embroidered-white-tulle-trim---1yd

Front Applique-http://www.creatingwithdetailsstore.com/#!product/prd1/3263317451/ivory-venise-applique-69-147-029

Top Side Applique- http://www.creatingwithdetailsstore.com/#!product/prd1/3257905321/white-venise-applique---ta5

Acrylic Spray- http://www.creatingwithdetailsstore.com/#!product/prd1/3264755201/red-wheat-acrylic-spray---pack-of-1

Rhinestone/Pearl Brooch- http://www.creatingwithdetailsstore.com/#!product/prd1/3257542661/pearl-brooch-pack-of-1

All other embellishments are from my personal stash.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hello Everyone, I just wanted to pass along a delightful and beautiful project created by my friend Kim Larson Norman for Creating With Details. This fabulous card captures  a winter wonderland of yesterday. And while you are there, please take a moment and view ALL the gorgeous designs by Mai Larsen, Robbin Fischer McCrumb, Angela Holts and myself have created for the season too! And be sure to stop by the Creating With Details online store for all of your crafting needs! God Bless!

 

http://creatingwithdetails.blogspot.com/2014/12/vintage-shabby-christmas-card-by-kim.html

 

Created by Kim Larson Norman for Creating With Details.

Wings of the Soul Altered Canvas

Hello crafty friends. I am so thrilled to have been chosen to be a part of such an incredible design team, and getting to create with such wonderful products found in Mai Larsen’s Creating with Details store. This is my introductory design using some of those products.

I chose to create a mixed media/altered canvas.

 

 

The canvas is a 6x6, 2 inch deep stretched canvas.  Covered in 2 designs of coordinating paper (torn & distressed), using gesso, enhanced with metallic paint, texture spray, and chalk ink. The “angel” is a paper mache` mini dress form (cut in half to make for flat mounting to canvas) covered in script tissue paper.

 

 

 

 

 

Please be sure to stop by the Creating With Details store for your crafting needs. There you will find beautiful lace and lace applique's, pearl, rhinestone, acrylic and resin embellishments, fabric flowers, metal charms and so much more!

 

http://www.creatingwithdetailsstore.com/

 

I used Metal filigrees, lace and lace applique's found in the Creating With Details store in this design.

 

 

Used From my personal stash:

Americana Metallic Paint in Espresso

Polymer clay shabby rose (from handmade mold)

 

 

 

 

Thank you everyone for stopping by and taking a look!

Be sure to check the Creating With Details blog each week to see other fabulous projects

by the Creating with Details Design Team!

 

 

Such an exciting time!

I am so thrilled to announce that I have been added to the
2014-2015 Design Team at Creating With Details.

Creating With Details is a FABULOUS online store founded by the marvelous Mai Larsen. There you can find a vast array of beautiful laces, ribbon, bling, metal embellishments and so much more.

I am so excited to be designing along side such a team of brilliant crafters and designers, Angela Holt, Kim Larson Norman, Robbin Fischer-McCrumb, Madge Gillen & Jeanne C Rodriguez.


Be sure to check out the Creating With Details online store, and stop by the Creating With Details blog, so you can see all the beautiful designs by the talented team of ladies!

                                                   https://www.creatingwithdetails.com/

 

                                                  http://creatingwithdetails.blogspot.com/

Get It Right..............

Have you ever, truly given your everything? Poured your heart and your love into a matter or a project, only to find out much to late, it wasn't good enough? Haven't felt heartbreak like this since I left high school.
 I was never the prettiest, the most popular, nor even belong to the in crowd. When you watch the dreams for your life, drift away, day after day, year after year, you just hit a point of complete emptiness.
I am there. Empty. Broken. Wounded to a point that I am not sure I can rebound from. I had heard this song on  the television show Glee once. The lyrics haunt me tonight......

GET IT RIGHT

What have I done?
I wish I could run,
Away from this ship going under
Just trying to help
Hurt everyone else
Now I feel the weight of the world is on my shoulders

What can you do when your good isn't good enough
And all that you touch tumbles down?
Cause my best intentions
Keep making a mess of things,
I just wanna fix it somehow
But how many times will it take?
Oh, how many times will it take for me to get it right, to get it right?

Can I start again, with my fate shaken?
Cause I can't go back and undo this
I just have to stay and face mistakes,
But if I get stronger and wiser, I'll get through this

What can you do when you're good isn't good enough?
And all that you touch tumbles down?
Cause my best intentions keep making a mess of things,
I just wanna fix it somehow
But how many times will it take?
Oh, how many times will it take for me to get it right?

So I throw up my fists, throw a punch in the air,
And accept the truth that sometimes life isn't fair!
Yeah, I'll send down a wish and I'll send up a prayer
And then finally someone will see how much I care

What can you do when you're good isn't good enough?
And all that you touch tumbles down?
Cause my best intentions keep making a mess of things,
I just wanna fix it somehow
But how many times will it take?
Oh, how many times will it take for me to get it right?

"I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face"

In the infamous words of Professor Henry Higgins,
(My Fair Lady), I have grown accustomed to the most classic and beautiful woman in the history of Hollywood. Audrey Hepburn.

I love it when life's stresses, can bring about a creative side. This is my version of "Finnabair/Christy Tomlinson meets My Fair Lady.


                          "I've grown accustomed to her face"

 

 

A 6x6 deep stretched canvas, using various patterned craft papers, Lindy's Stamp Gang spray in Cotton Candy, gel crayons, and various mixed media items.

 

 

 

 

 

Everyone  have a blessed and crafty day!!!!!

 

 

A Time of Reflection and Renewal

2 Corinthians 5:17
Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come

Isn't it strange, that events in this life, can literally feel like a punch in the gut. And sometimes these events, can seem hopeless, often leaving one full of despair. And one of the hardest things to do, is to stand on the sidelines, waiting for a move of epic proportions, that will turn life around.

Trusting in the unseen, is one of the very hardest things to do. For me personally, when it comes to my life, I really tend to try to hold on to control too tightly, often times feeling defeated, when those moments have long passed.

Yesterday is gone, just a memory now. Today is a day to move forward. Today is a day of renewal.

 God removes the stains of our troubles and sorrows of yesterday. Each new day given, is a gift. And it is with expectancy, we face each new day. We move forward in a new found hope, and a new found freedom.

 Today, do not let the shackles of yesterday, leave you stuck in a place of uncertainty, or of complacency. For those who have believed, no longer shall you be weighed down, no longer shall you be bound by hurts, by sickness, by poverty.

 God will exceed abundantly, than we ourselves expect. We see what is before us, God see’s beyond that. He uses our troubles, to shape us, to transform us. We have been made, overcomers, by the transformation. With the love that has been given, with the grace and mercies of new promises, we can enter into a new season of our lives, VICTORIOUS, because our battles have already been won!

So if today, you are weighed down by the woes of yesterday, give it over to God. Place it in the hands of the creator of the heavens and the earth. Place it in the hands of the one who created you. Is there really anything too impossible for God? Move forward in the blessed assurance that the Father, wants every good and wonderful thing for His children. And He has got everything under control.

 

Another Project Complete....Timeless

DREAM BIG

I heard a sermon on Sunday, from Pastor Tony Stewart at CityLife Church in Tampa, that has resignated in my spirit since. The following is some excerpts, and my own notes combined from that sermon.
DREAM BIG
B-BELIEVE
I-IN
G-GOD
Many times we question, when we are faced with adversity of any kind, be it financial, sickness, problems in the family dynamics, marriage, whatever the problem, we never take one step alone. And many times when going through, we cannot see the finality in the matter, it is not meant for us to see.
All that is expected of us, to those who believe, is to trust in God, to believe in His word and promises. These trials, they are meant to develop us, to shape us into who God has destined us to be. To see proof,  take a look at Joseph in Genesis 37 is one of favoritism, envy, betrayal and deceit. It's not until 13 years later that it becomes a story of forgiveness, humility, love and restoration. Yet the end of the story of Joseph is a mirror image of the dreams that he had as a youth -- that one day his family would bow before him.
With jealousy as a motive, Joseph's 11 brothers attempted to prevent those dreams from being fulfilled by selling him as a slave to a band of traders. In their minds, to send Joseph into the lowest social class possible guaranteed they would never have to subject themselves to the humiliation of bowing to the brother they envied. But God, the giver of dreams and visions, had already confirmed the outcome.
And the trials Joseph faced from there, Joseph experiences life as a servant, during which he is falsely accused of a crime by Potiphar's wife, followed by several years in prison. Eventually Joseph is made second in command over all of Egypt, which allows him to save his entire family during a time of famine. It's a success story made in heaven, one that offers a message of hope in the midst of trials for those that read it.
God’s covering, brings connection.  God’s connection, brings favor. Always expose yourself to good input. I know, sometimes it is very difficult to do. But think the right thoughts, speak the right way. Celebrate the good in other’s whose dreams are being fulfilled. God will use ANY moment in our lives to bring our dream into fruition. Keep your dream in your spirit, no one nor thing can take the dream from there.
Any trial, pit or downfall, IS NOT our final chapter, “If god be for me, who can be against me?” Do not wrap yourself in the cloak of disappointment, wrap yourself in the cloak of praise, being grateful that God is fulfilling your dream. Hold onto the dream you have for your life.