Flight Canvas

Another canvas this week!  They are just too much fun to make but now I have to clean the house, get ready for another visit from my hubby! Yeah!  So this is it for a while.

I used a mask with hearts and Golden moulding paste to make this background of hearts.  The drips are glue I randomly applied. The wings are cut from Tim Holtz Sizzix die Layered Wings from tissue paper.  Then I applied Gesso before coloring with alcohol inks and  Ayeeda Mists.

There are a few metal trinkets and a resin Prima piece surrounding the Kordt and Godt rolled flowers, I love those flowers and knew they would look good on this canvas.

This one is available if anyone would like to receive it, please let me know!

Thank you for your visits and I adore your comments!  Have a great day,

Kelly

Shabby Chic Bathroom Canvas

Today I want to show you a canvas that was very fun and easy to make.  I love the Prima antique bath tub and when I found the big Prima frame at Hobby Lobby I knew this was a canvas for my bathroom.

All I did was wrap the canvas with a sheet of paper and glued it on. Then I distressed the edges and glued the lace and frame on.

Those are Pion paper butterflies and a resin chandelier from Hobby Lobby that I glued on.  The faucet on the top came with the Prima Tub.  I just love this set so I ordered more. 

The tub was done with alcohol inks.  I loved making it marble. A pretty Prima flower for the bottom.

This canvas also looks good on a easel but I need to hang it high on the wall so my hubby doesn't get it wet, you know men! lol

Thank you for comments, I really love hearing your opinions and you make me smile!

Have a nice week.

Kelly

Ocean Colors

Happy Weekend to you!!  

A little bit of spare time turned into hours of fun!!  This canvas is fun and inspired by Finnabair's work.  I love how you can spray color all around and watch it run and turn into other colors. I love how the textures come out and some unexpected really cool things appear.  Making a canvas like this is artful discovery of your thoughts, it relaxes me.

First came the Gesso then the Finnabair doily mask......many color changes.

I love the discovery of items tucked away in the canvas

Having a smartphone is great when you are unsure of the direction you should go.  I sent a photo and asked for advice from a dear blogger friend.  It is such a blessing to have a friend you can just text and ask, thanks Karen.

Here is the end result of the canvas, I just love the colors and all the trinkets that are in it.

Hope you have a very crafty weekend or adore some of the new babies I am seeing on Facebook, congrats new grandmothers!

Kelly

Tilda With Millie The Mouse

Time to get crafting!  The weather here is so beautiful and it is a calm summer day here in South Dakota.  I made a gift bag to put a special canvas in it one day.  My image is Tilda with Millie the Mouse.

My image is colored with Copics and I used some scrap paper that I had already cut and glued it onto the bag.  Just had a bit of fun today and I will show you the gift I made in a day, lol

Have a wonderful day, happy crafting!!

Kelly

Challenges I would like to enter

Midweek Magnolias--Anything Goes with the Option of Summer Fun

Totally Tilda 100th Challenge Anniversary

Marvelous Magnolia Challenge--Over The Top

The Ribbon Girl Challenge--Summer Theme

Dirty Jobs

Welcome to my blog today.  I have nothing crafty to show you but maybe a laugh will come out of it?    All week while my husband was here he was doing the honey do list like, putting in Invisible Fencing for 3 dogs,  Reverse Osmosis System for pure drinking water, natural gas line to a new BBQ grill for better cooking, lattice around the front deck, shelving in the basement for storage and then in the garage for more storage and efficiency.  He had to tweak a few things around the house but he thought he had gotten out of the one thing he avoided, changing a pump and alarm in our Septic System.  The last possible minute he starts to work on it and discovers the alarm float was bad and needed a new one, so here is the drama.

No one wants to help Dad so he is setting his stuff out and I am secretly photographing him. hehe

Notice how involved our boys are and 1 is hiding in the basement. La de da......

Tom used his handmade hook to lift the float on the pump to drain what he can out of the tank into the drain field.

Well here goes his brand new ladder into the hole where the Septic pump is. Yuck

He looks so natural getting into the hole, after all he is a plumber! lol

Working on the wires pulling away the float from the pump.

He looks happy in the hole waiting for us to hand him the new alarm float.

Benton will handle this part as it is new and clean and he won't get his white clothes dirty.  He is 19 years old and loves white clothes.  He said he is to clean to help his dad with this job!

Help! Help!  hehehehe  we made fun of Tom the whole time he was doing this.

The boys are joking around and teasing but this photo looked funny to them as they look like they are going to put the cover on the hole over their dad, they loved this photo, silly kids.

Just a few tools and ties to go and it is hooked up.

This is the worst electric job we have seen on a Septic System but my husband can fix it! lol

Tom is done and out he comes..............

  ..............pops himself up and...............

...........over backwards, if only my camera were working as fast as he did his backwards summersault out of the hole.  Pretty good for a 50 year old! lol

Job done and out comes the ladder to be washed off as well as Tom, he is not allowed into the house until the clothes are off and into the wash machine! Yuck!

This was one of the fun events we did while they were all here visiting.  We laughed all the time and I sure miss them today.  3 of us are here in South Dakota again waiting for Dad to return in a few weeks.

Have a stinkin great day!!

Kelly

Butterfly Santoro Mirabelle Mixed Media Canvas

Happy 4th of July to you in the USA!  In our new neighborhood there have been firecrackers and fire works lite off all week.  The next door neighbors said they will be having a fireworks party so the sky will be bright and sparkly tonight! 

This week with my family here has been so joyful and I actually found some time to craft and I wanted to share a canvas that I made for fun.  When Trimcraft announced the Mirabelle Collection I ordered as much as I could from 7 Kids College Fund Store.  It finally came into the USA as I was moving so I decided to use my Butterfly Santoro stamp and accessories to create this canvas.

I colored Butterfly in Copic Markers and added Frantage.  Then she is mounted on Tulle and then onto the Sizzix Frame with pop up tape to make a floating frame.  

I used all the flowers that came with Butterfly and added the matching pearls also.  This corner I could not resist using a piece of old lace from the family as a background.

Here are 2 buttons from the collection that resemble the paper I used in the background.

I used Tim Holtz distressed paints to cover the background and then used the air brush for his distressed markers to spritz dots of marker all around.

Here is a stamp and frame from Kaisercraft that I inked and Frantaged before cutting out.  Part of it is modge podged on but some is left loose.

I had a scrap of paper with this butterfly on it so I cut it out, distressed it a bit and then applied TH crackle paint onto it.  The pearls are from the Mirabelle collection.

Each side I printed meaningful words and used 2 distressed paints to create the color and aging effect.  Thank you for stopping by and looking at the canvas I made, been a long time in between! lol

Here is what we have been up to lately.

A double rainbow appeared across the road after a summer rain.

Elijah learned how to ride his bike without training wheels

Playing in the park

Noah, Isaac and Ben are playing basketball in the park, of course they are not following the rules.  It has bee a lot of goofing off, laughing and chaos with all of us this week.  My husband has been working hard on installing things we need like a invisible fence system for the dogs, shelving for storage, fixing our septic system, yuck!  I have been cooking a lot and buying groceries every other day for these hungry boys. In a few days they will head back to MN to work and 3 of us will be here and it will be very quiet.  Yes lonely but I will have to craft more as my back allows me to.

Have a happy and safe holiday and weekend,

Kelly