A peek into my studio space...

Last month (April) over at the Tattered Angels blog, the design team posted peeks into their studios spaces. We focused a little on how we each store our Tattered Angels products. There's a huge variety of spaces shown, I'm sure you can find some storage ideas, no matter how large or small your space is.

I have a small room that I use for crafting/home office; it is also the guest room (it has a pull out sofa). Here is a photo of the desk area. That tower next to desk is where I store patterned paper. The drawers next to the desk are where I store small things that I use a lot (glue, gems, glitters, etc.).

The desk has a pull out surface; this lets me get more desk surface without having to place a large desk in the room.

I keep a little swatch book of glimmer mists, chalks, glazes, and glam right next to my desk.

I have a bunch of divided containers that I use for flowers (including the lovely white ones that are perfect for misting and painting), beads, buttons, brads, eyelets and other small pieces. Here are some images of that stuff.

I have a set of bookshelves in the room; this is where I store my stamps, screens and embossing plates.

I place most of stamps into CD cases, but the Tattered Angels stamps are large and many don’t fit into CD cases, so I just keep these in their packages and store them on a shelf next to other stamps.

I store the Tattered Angels screens in a desk paper organizer.

I store all of my paints in one of those shoe storage things that hangs on the back of a door. The Glimmer Mists are grouped by color. The Glimmer Glams, Glimmer Chalks and Glimmer Glazes are group together by type instead of color; each type has its own pouch.

And, I also store a lot of stuff in the room’s closet. On the inside of the closet door, I have ribbon storage.

And I have a bunch of wicker baskets in the closet where I keep tags, stickers, rub-ons, and alphas.

Also in the closet is some more paper storage shelves and little drawer units. The paper storage holds colored cardstock, glittered cardstock, and specialty papers, like diecuts and transparencies.

The little drawers hold chipboard pieces and things like that. Each theme from Tattered Angels gets a drawer, so in one drawer I will have the Glimmer Chips and the Glimmer Glass from the Nature Collection. I also keep the all my Tattered Angels Framed Fonts in these drawers.

So, that’s probably enough photos of craft storage, here are a couple of card/envelope combos that I made.

Thanks for stopping by today - Patty

Bingo Cards Art Journal and Wedding Favors...

Hi guys, first off, sorry to anyone who happened upon my blog this week and found it permission only. I was trying to rearrange the format and got it all messed up, so I took it down until I could get it fixed. So, now, here we are again, it looks the same as it did before I started messing with, I just decided to abort the mission for now.  :)  

On to my projects for the Tattered Angels blog this month - art journals and weddings were the themes for this month. For my art journal pages I used the Tattered Angels Bingo Boards and Calling Cards. Because the cards are pre-printed, it was easy to get an interesting background for my pages without a lot of stamping and such. Before I applied any of the Glimmer Mists, Glazes or Glams; I dry-brushed some areas of the pages with a cream colored acrylic to fade the background back a little bit.

Products Used: Tattered Angels Bingo Boards and Calling Cards; Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist (Sun Sisters, Lemon Grass, Key Lime Pie, Meadow Green, and Marmalade); Tattered Angels Glimmer Glaze (Emerald Cove); Tattered Angels Chalkboard Glimmer Mist (Sprout); Tattered Angels Glimmer Glass; Prima Mask; and Making Memories Letter Stickers.


 

Products Used: Tattered Angels Bingo Boards and Calling Cards; Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist (Sun Sisters, Lemon Grass, Key Lime Pie, Meadow Green, Marmalade, Coral Reef, and Bell Bottom Jeans); Tattered Angels Glimmer Glaze (Orange Crush); Tattered Angels Chalkboard Glimmer Mist (Alaskan Salmon); Tattered Angels Glimmer Glass; and Prima Mask.

 

  

Products Used: Tattered Angels Bingo Boards and Calling Cards; Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist (Sun Sisters, Lemon Grass, Key Lime Pie, Delphinium, Frost, and Bell Bottom Jeans); Tattered Angels Glimmer Glaze (Midnight Rendezvous); Tattered Angels Chalkboard Glimmer Mist (Cornflower Daze); Tattered Angels Glimmer Glass; Prima Mask; and Prima Gems.

For my wedding themed project, I made three versions of wedding favors -- going from simple to a little more complicated. This gives you options depending on how many favors have to be made or how much time or money can be allocated to production of the favors. Instructions for how to make these and other great wedding ideas will be provided on the Tattered Angels website here. After they have all been published on the TA website, I'll post the instructions on my blog also.

This first favor is the easiest to make of the three sets. The box is kept simple and the focus is on the patterned ribbon and tiny rose detail.

Products Used: Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist (Turquoise Blue, Key Lime Pie, and Lemon Zest); Tattered Angels Chalkboard Glimmer Mist (Firefly); Miniature White Paper Roses; White Paper Favor Boxes; and Printed Ribbon.

This favor takes a little more time to make than the first set. Because the ribbon is kept simple, visual interest is created by using a masking technique to add a pattern to the box.

Products Used: Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist (Turquoise Blue, Key Lime Pie, and Lemon Zest); Tattered Angels Chalkboard Glimmer Mist (Firefly); Tattered Angels Glimmer Glam (Chandelier); Tattered Angels Fanciful Stencils Glimmer Screens; Orange Paper Roses; Silk Leaves; Colored Tulle; and White Paper Favor Boxes.


This favor is the most elaborate of the three sets today. The box uses a similar technique as set 2, but an additional stamping step is added and the butterfly is hand painted.

Products Used: Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist (Turquoise Blue, Key Lime Pie, Coral Reef, and Lemon Zest); Tattered Angels Chalkboard Glimmer Mist (Alaskan Salmon and Firefly); Tattered Angels Glimmer Glam (Chandelier and Peach Bellini); Tattered Angels Fanciful Stencils Glimmer Screens; Tattered Angels Regal Classic Accents Screen Prints Clear Stamps; Prima Paper Butterflies; Orange Paper Roses; Silk Leaves; Brown Ribbon; Colored Tulle; White Paper Favor Boxes; and Brown Chalk Ink.


Thanks for stopping by, hope you enjoyed the projects!  Patty

Fabulous glimmered fabric…

I had so much fun painting and spraying fabric for March's blog projects over at the Tattered Angels blog. I made a little variety of things. First, I got a jump start on Easter by making a little basket for colored eggs. The wire basket was recycled from the Christmas gift I got from my sister, Jan. I selected the floral ribbon to use along the top of the basket. Then I sprayed wide fabric ribbon with coordinating glimmer mists (Vintage Pink, Pink Bubblegum, Flower Power, Tiger Lily, Sun Sisters, Lemon Grass, Olive Vine, Key Lime Pie, Black Cherry and Pomegranate). After the strips were dry, I wove them through the wires on the basket. Now, I’m looking forward to seeing some pretty eggs in there!

Next, I painted a printed scarf with Glimmer Glam (Golden Goddess, Chandelier, Organic Garden and Blue Suede Shoes) to add some glittery glimmery goodness. I just laid the scarf on top of a paper towel and then painted over the flower and leaves with the Glimmer Glam. You can see some of it in the photos, but it’s even prettier in person.

My last project is an altered headband. This started out as a plain off-white fabric covered headband. I sprayed it with Decadence Chalk Glimmer Mist and then painted over that with Organic Garden Glimmer Glam. I added a little Chandelier Glimmer Glam around the centers of each flower so they had some sparkle to match the headband.

Thanks for stooping by!  Patty

Tattered Angels and Metal...

Tattered Angels + Metal = FUN! February is metal month on the Tattered Angels blog. Metal night not be the first thing that comes to mind when you think about using Tattered Angels paints, but when you see February's projects on the Tattered Angels blog, it will change your mind. My projects are below, but be sure to check the TA blog for the rest of the team's projects, they are amazing!

My first project is a pair of earrings that I’m calling Blue Earth. I took a round silver bead and coated it with blue (Midnight Rendezvous) and green (Emerald Cove) Glimmer Glaze. I added a couple more beads and assembled them onto a french wire earring hook.

Next up is a altered pail. I painted the top portion of the pail with brown (Espresso Bean) Glimmer Glam and I painted the bottom portion with green (Organic Garden) Glimmer Glam. I add some accents along the embossed detail with green (Emerald Cove) and orange (Orange Crush) Glimmer Glaze.

The last project I have for the month is a Valentine Card. The “Be mine” letters were plain silver metal; I coated them with red (Be Positive) Glimmer Glam. And the dinosaur was already colored, but I painted over him with Glam (Be Positive, Peach Bellini, Organic Garden, Golden Goddess, and Chandelier) to add a little sparkle.

That’s it for me today, thanks for stopping by today – Patty

Tattered Angels + Canvas…

Yeah!!! The Tattered Angels blog is back up and running!!! And this month the Design Team is focusing on the fabulous combo of canvas and Tattered Angels paints!

For my first project, I started small with a mini canvas. I stamped the image and text with black StazOn Ink. Then I painted the canvas with Glimmer Glaze. The detail image shows the nice variations and depth you can get from overlaying various colors of glazes.

Products Used - Mini Canvas: Reeves; Letter Stamps: Creative Imaginations; Butterfly Stamp: Studio G; Ink: Tsukineko; Glimmer Glaze (Sugar Cane, Penny Loafer, Orange Crush, Waterfall and Emerald Cove): Tattered Angels.

My next project is a larger (12x12) canvas. I saw this saying on an item while I was out shopping one day over the holidays. The saying stuck with me, so I thought I'd incorporate it into a wall hanging for my studio.

I stamped all of the letters on individually with black StazOn Ink. I painted all of the letters with various colors of Glimmer Glaze. The little brush that comes with the Glimmer Glaze (it looks like a nail polish brush) was a perfect size for painting the small spaces in the letters.
Then I sprayed the whole canvas with Vanilla Breeze Glimmer Mist. Then I added little colored spots all over the canvas. I did this by pulling the sprayers out of the glimmer mist bottles and flicking them above the canvas.

Products Used - Canvas: Michaels; Letter Stamps: Dawn Houser; Felt Accents: La-di-dah; Brads: Basic Grey; Glimmer Mist (Vanilla Breeze, Bahama Blue, Trunk Bay, and Pumpkin Pie): Tattered Angels; Glimmer Glaze (Penny Loafer, Sugar Cane, Waterfall, Paradise Pink, Orange Crush, Purple Passion and Emerald Cove): Tattered Angels.


Next I altered the lid on a jar candle. I had these round canvas stickers in my stash, but you could make them by cutting the canvas freehand or running it through a die cutter. I stamped the larger circle with a stamp from the Tattered Angels Time Traveler Collection (that collection has a lot of circular stamps). I sprayed it with blue (Bahama Blue and Truck Bay) glimmer mists. I'm giving this candle as a little thank you to a friend, so I stamped the smaller circle with some Thank You word art. I sprayed it with orange and yellow (Pumpkin Pie and Sun Sisters) glimmer mists. The purple flower is from Prima.

Products Used - Canvas Stickers: Technique Tuesday; Flower: Prima; Stamps: Tattered Angels and Inkadinkado; Glimmer Mist (Bahama Blue, Trunk Bay, Sun Sisters and Pumpkin Pie).

This next project is an altered chipboard and canvas binder (the spine is covered is canvas). I organize  my inspiration books into binders. I have one for cards, one for scrapbook pages and one for home decor and other misc things. Well, I just started getting into beading, so I wanted to make an inspiration book for that as well. I had these file folders with a really cool pattern on them - I wanted to cut them and use them to cover the chipboard part of the binder. What I love about Glimmer Mist is how you can overlay the colors to get just right shade to coordinate with your other project elements. For the spine I mixed Viva Pink and Chocolate Covered Cherries Glimmer Mists. The "BEADS" letters are the center portion of the Tattered Angels Butterfly Framed Fonts. The pink letters are spayed with Viva Pink and the orange are sprayed with Pumpkin Pie. Both have a little Sun Sisters sprayed on them as well.

Products Used - Binder: BoBunny; Patterned Paper(recycled file folder): The Container Store; Ribbon: Offray; Chipboard Letters: Tattered Angels; Glimmer Glam (Espresso Bean): Tattered Angels; Glimmer Mist (Chocolate Covered Cherries, Viva Pink, Pumpkin Pie and Sun Sisters): Tattered Angels.

The last project I want to show you is one I did last March - in case you didn't see it then - it's a altered canvas apron.

The apron was a lot of fun to alter. I made a little flower garden on it. I sprayed the apron with green and blue glimmer mists (Meadow Green, Key Lime Pie, Sweet Clover, Olive Vine, Waterslide, and Frost). Then I stamped the swirls (Fanciful Stencils Glimmer Screens) and stems (Donna Downy foam stamp) using manila colored acrylic paint. With double-sided tape, I attached two layers of trim along the top edge of the ruffle. Then I added some felt flowers and embellishments.

Well, that's it for me today, be sure to check out the Tattered Angels blog this month to see more great canvas projects!!!   Take care - Patty