Altered box and goodwill haul

Hi everyone,

I really love cameos and own a few.  Yesterday I bought a $2 block of polymer clay and made a couple of cameo molds.  Then I made two different cameos out of those molds.  I painted one and used it for this box. 





 

Supplies I used:
Blue, brown and white acrylic paint
Crackle medium
Cameo that I made using a mold from another cameo I have but didn't want to glue to anything.
Beads from Goodwill
Beads from a garage sale necklace
Copy of image from garage sale ribbon art book
Flowers from garage sale
Two colors of perfect pearls for flowers.



Box for altering: $0.99
Black flat marbles: $0.99
Set of stamps: $0.79
Cameo pendant: $0.99

Pin cushion and napkin art

Hi everyone,


This little rocking chair came in a back of wood cutouts at Goodwill.  I paid $2.99 for the bag.  I painted the chair with watered down brown paint and wiped off the excess.  Then I sewed the little cushion and glued it on.  I cut strips of paper to go around the edges of the seat and back and put a ribbon bow around the back of the chair.  The girl is from some scrapbook paper.  The clock is a button with a shank on the back.  The flowers are glued into the shank.


I bought two packs of tissues at a garage sale over the weekend.  They are Sniff brand.  The pencil holder came together with a post-it note holder and a paper clip holder for $0.59 at Goodwill.  I painted two sides of the pencil holder with white gesso then I decoupaged the napkins over the gesso.  There was a white border around the napkin image so I pieced other bits of napkin around the edge.  I painted black on the remaining white areas and wiped off the excess.  I'm really happy with the way it turned out.  The other side looks better because the printing of this part of the napkin was a little off.  I'm too lazy to take more pics, upload them etc. :)

I'm really happy with both of these projects.  I hope you like them too.

Chair pin cushion

Hi everyone,

I started this last night and finished it this morning.



I bought the chair yesterday from Goodwill for $0.99.  As soon as I saw it I knew it would make a great pin cushion!  The lace on the back is actually a small pocket I sewed.  It will hold a few buttons or beads. 


Supplies:
Goodwill chair/candle holder
Pillow from a jewelry box for a watch or bracelet
Lace from Goodwill and from my Aunt
Small flowers from a yard sale
Pearl necklace from Estate sale (I've used it for at least three projects.  It was a long necklace)
Earring from a garage sale.  I cut the post off the back

1940 ladies

Hi everyone,

In one of my recent posts I mentioned a book I got for free at a yard sale this weekend.  It's the Modern Dressmaking Made Easy by Mary Brooks Picken from 1940.  It has great illustrations.  I copied some and printed them on watercolor paper.  Then I painted them with my new water color crayons.  I'm clearly not a great watercolor artist but for a first try I think it looks pretty nice.  I'm really happy with the project as a whole. 

I watch alot of crafting videos on You Tube.  Lots of ladies love coloring with copic markers.  I'm sure they could do a great job with images like these.  This is the best I could do. I'm sure I will get better with practice.

Altered tin and box

Hi everyone,

I try to do some sort of crafting every day.  These are my latest projects.


This is an Altoids tin that I got at a garage sale for free.  It was full of little plastic animals etc. I painted the bottom of it and covered the top with a piece of wrapping paper.  I covered the wrapping paper with glossy accents.  The chain around the edge came from a Goodwill necklace and the button came from the tin or box of buttons I recently bought.





This box came from Goodwill.  It was green with two birds and a Christmas wreath on the top.  I took the birds and wreath off and painted the box with gesso and then with black acrylic paint.  Last weekend I bought a children's book at a yard sale for $0.10.  I made copies of several pages and cut out some of the images.  I  decoupaged those images around the box.  Once that was dry I painted over everything with beige paint and rubbed off most of it to make the box look a little old.  Then I used the handle end of a paint brush to make the red dots.  The little rocking chair on the top came from the altoids tin.  It was bright green.  I painted it and used E6000 to glue it to the box.


Have a great day!

Garage sales and Goodwill

Hi everyone,

Today my husband and I are celebrating our 11th anniversary.  We were going to go to an antique mall but it turns out that they are not open on Fridays!  So, we went to Goodwill and several garage sales in Charlotte, MI.

Here are some of the things that we found.  I didn't take pictures of everything.


I bought these two dolls at the last sale.  The big one was $1 and the small one was $0.50.  I hoped to use them on a project but they are a little too big.  I love them though and think they look really cute leaning against my vase.  At the same sale I also bought a book called Old-Fashioned Ribbon Art by Ribbon Art Publishing Company.  It was published in 1986 but it has a lot of old illustrations in it.  I plan to copy some of the images for use in various projects.  Maybe I'll learn a little about ribbon art also.  The book was $0.25.


The weaving kit in the purple case was $1 at a garage sale and the black box was from Goodwill for $0.79.


I bought all of these to make altered projects.  The bird house type thing was $0.50 at a garage sale.  The rest of it came from Goodwill for $0.59 or $0.39 each.  The three boxes in the center came together for one price.


All of this was free.  I think my best find of the day was the Modern Dressmaking book.  It has a copyright date of 1940.  It has great illustrations and an entire section of advice regarding posture, charm etc.  It talks about the way you should sit, dress, undress, walk, cross your legs etc etc.  I've found similar books online for $15 - $75.  This one isn't in the greatest shape.  There are some ripped pages.  I plan to keep it.  Again, I will copy some of the pages for projects.

I also bought:

two belts to use in projects $0.39 each
framed cross stitched bird
bracelet to take apart for projects
a carrying case with two decks of cards, a pencil, and a small pad of paper for keeping score
Five free National Geographic magazines

Les and I had a lot of fun visiting and walking for sale to sale.  They are having city wide garage sales in Charlotte this weekend.

ATC projects etc

Hi everyone,

I made some ATCs.


I used water color crayons on watercolor paper for all of three ATCs.  For this one I used black and white Jacquard light body opaque paint around the edge.  The flower is painted with pearl blue Lumiere paint and the stem is Metallic Olive Lumiere paint.


Again I used the watercolor paper and crayons.  I stamped the yarn and knitting needles all over the paper using a VersaMark ink pad.  Then I embossed the stamped images with clear embossing powder.  I painted black over one side and white over the other and wiped off the excess paint.  The stamp came in the box of chocolates swap.


I painted perfect gold perfect pearls around the edge of the water color paper.  I wrapped the ribbon around and then covered the ends with three pieces of painted water color paper.  The edges are inked with a green ink.  The flowers also came from the box of chocolates swap.

I am in the process of altering two different boxes.  We have a little bit of a busy weekend planned so I'm not sure if I will get these done soon or not.

Today my husband and I went to Goodwill.  They were in the process of stocking the shelves.  They had TONS of stuff out!  We got some great deals.  I didn't take picture of anything.  If you want to see something please let me know.  These are some of the deals we got:

Telescope: $5
Three large acrylic quilting rulers (for use with rotary cutter etc) $0.99 each.  I bought three so that I could share one with my Aunt.  This was a fantastic deal!
Three bags of various wooden shapes $2.99 each
Four books, $1 (25 cents each)
A large box of greeting cards $5.99.  It has tons of cards in it.  Most of them are brand new dimensional cards.  The box is a greeting card organizer.  It has dividers for different types of cards.


My sister in law came over.  She gave me a small sewing box, six magazines, two beautiful baskets, and an Ott task light.

I feel spoiled today.   

Tomorrow Les and I are celebrating our 11th year of marriage!