Vagabond giveaway!

Please stop by and check out Drew's awesome giveaway. A Tim Holtz Vagabond. You have to stop by and check out his youtube channel. He is very creative. Here is the link.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63XbfzX3ASA

Some thrift store finds.

I have been collecting a few things here and there from thrift stores and yard sells and so on. Here is a black pouch purse. It already had the bead dangles. I want to add something on the front and then hang in my room. I will post a picture when I get it done.

I have seen some ladies on YouTube alter a box and then add a small mini or a very large mini in the inside. Here is a link to one of the video. I want to give this a go and add photos of my grand babies.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhPpC4dm7Zw&feature=plcp&context=C3b9632aUDOEgsToPDskKkoUIPS3zAUPjFXeBpntr5

Here is the inside. It is a very large box.

I ran into the thrift store to see if they had gotten anything new since I had stopped there yesterday. And look what I found. A really pretty dress form.

And only for $4.99.

Some handmade flowers

Made these using my creative memories circle cutters and some decorative scissors. The smaller ones and the centers to the larger flowers are using different flower punches.

Made with ribbon and material.

Made with different kinds of ribbon. The lollipop flowers are made with organza material.

More wire edged ribbon and regular ribbon.

These are done with edge stuffing, material and lace.

The brown flower is cut from a pine cone and the white one is done using feathers and a vintage style ear ring.

A close up of the pine cone flower.

Charms

These are a few charms I have made for my mini's and altered projects.

 

This is my gold, copper, blue, and green charm

This is a Christmas charm I just did for my first ever charm swap over at Morepaperthanshoes.

Here is my second charm for the Valentine charm swap over at Morepaperthanshoes

This one is a real simple charm for my hubby's mini I made for him. I had used Recollections paper that had these wings on it. Sorry I can't remember the name of the paper. But I had these pink and black wing earrings that I took apart and used for the dangle of the charm.

I had done a class at Archivers and made a mini. But it was missing something. So of course I had to make a charm to go with it.

Made this for my son's Halloween mini a few last year. Again just took some jewelry apart.

This one is for this years Halloween mini of my kids. The back of the pumpkin has a nob you can push and it lights up.

Here is the charm I received from the Dec charm swap from Morepaperthanshoes.

And this is the second charm from the swap. I just finished the second charm for the Valentine swap over there and can't wait to get mini back.

Brown ruffle flowers

Made these flowers from a brown ruffle shirt I got from my local thrift store. It is one of those shirts that if you put it on it stretches to fit you then comes back together when you take it off.

All I did was cut a piece off the bottom and then cut it in half to make two flowers. Here is a close up of the shirt. I love using recycled items. And on my budget right now I have to. But I do find a lot of things at my local thrift store.

Altered skates

                    Just added this photo here so a friend may see my version of the altered skate. TFL

Projects for my scrap space.

I got this at a local thrift store. Just added a few embellishments and some bling.

I first glued on a lace doily from my stash then took apart the big pink flower I got from the dollar tree and redid it my way. Added a few wedding appliques and more flowers some I made and some from the store. I also made the stick pin. The bling is from Prima

I brought this in from my garden. It was white and a bit dirty from the weather. Just painted it white and then light pink and a darker shade of pink for the main rose. I mixed a metallic green with a little white to soften the green. I have it hanging in my craft room now.

I tried to make my own trims. I still need to work on them more.

The top bottom one is one my sister gave me that was on a flower spray. The bottom one is one I got in a small bag of pearls from my local thrift store. Studied it and made my own. I tried to make the top bottom one which is the pink one. Not so easy. I believe it Karla001 on etsy that you can buy these from. And in different colors. The ones that look like a kite. I came up with. I got the idea for these from making beaded key chains for my kids when they were little.

http://beadiecritters.com/patternpages/bead5bunnies.htm

here are a few close ups.

Thanks so much for looking. I will be posting some recent photos of my craft room make over soon. So please stop by and check it out.

Hugs Virginia