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 might 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

Some holiday ornaments...

Here are some glass ornaments that I altered with Tattered Angels paints. For these stars, I placed them face down and poured a really thick layer of Glimmer Glaze and Glimmer Glam on the back of the stars. While they were still wet I sprinkled on some chunky glitter. After they were dry, I flipped them over and embellished the fronts with a few gems.

Products Used - Star Shaped Glass Ornaments: Crate and Barrel; Glimmer Glaze (Emerald Cove, Paradise Pink, Cowboy and Purple Passion): Tattered Angels; Glimmer Glam (Golden Goddess and Espresso Bean): Tattered Angels; Gems: Michaels.

I painted two colors of Glimmer Glaze onto this glass ornament and then coated it with crystal snow glitter.

Products Used - Glass Ornament: Crate and Barrel; Glimmer Glaze (Emerald Cove and Paradise Pink): Tattered Angels; Glitter: Stampendous.


This ornament started out as a plain frosted glass globe. I sprayed it with Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer Mist to give it an all over glimmer. Then I poured green Glimmer Glaze on the top and let it drip down the sides. After the glaze dried, I poured on a second coat of green glaze, and while the second coat was wet, I added some crystal snow glitter.

Products Used - Frosted Glass Ornament: Crate and Barrel; Glimmer Mist (Dazzling Diamonds): Tattered Angels; Glimmer Glaze (Emerald Cove): Tattered Angels; Glitter: Stampendous.


Thanks for stopping by today - Patty

Tattered Angel's Paints and Wood...

Here are some projects focused on using wood with Tattered Angels paints.

The first project is a set of place cards made using re-purposed wooden stamp blocks and large chipboard letters.

Products Used - Chipboard Letters, Glimmer Glaze (Cowboy), Glimmer Mist (Sugar Maple, Indian Corn, Apple, Meadow Green, Coffee Shop, Glimmer Glam (Espresso Bean): Tattered Angels; Silk Leaves: Michael's; and re-purposed wood stamp blocks. 

The chipboard letters I used here are from the Tattered Angels Regal Framed Fonts. I love their framed font collections. Each letter is made of three separate pieces (the letter, the background, and the frame); this makes it very easy to color each piece a different color. Here I used Coffee Shop GM on the frames, Apple and Meadow Green GM on the backgrounds, and Sugar Maple and Indian Corn GM on the letters. I coated the backs of the letters with Cowboy Glimmer Glaze. To make the bases, I cut a little slit in the wood stamp block with a Dremmel, then I treated the blocks with a crackle finish. Once the crackle finish was dry I painted on some Tattered Angels Espresso Beam Glimmer Glam.

The next project also uses re-purposed wooden stamp blocks to create a framed piece of altered art.

Products Used - Glimmer Mist (Tiger Lily, Peppermint Stick, Candlelight, Sunflower, Twilight, Caribbean Blue, Keylime Pie, Frozen Lake and Meadow Green): Tattered Angels; Chipboard: MAMBI; Epoxy Stickers: MAMBI; Gems: Martha Stewart; Button: Webster's Pages; Paper: MAMBI; Metal Accents: Making Memories; and re-purposed wood stamp blocks.

Some of the blocks were covered with photos, some with patterned paper, and some still have the original sticker showing the stamp design. The solid colored blocks were sprayed with Glimmer Mist. What is so cool about glimmer mist is the ability to get a wide range of shades from one bottle just by altering the amount you apply. This makes it easy to get the perfect shade to coordinate with your project. And because you can blend colors together, having only a few colors of GM can yield many different results.

The last project is an re-purposed wooden wine box.

Products Used - Glimmer Mist (Forest Green, Sunflower, Peppermint Stick, Frozen Lake, Black Magic and Sand): Tattered Angels; Glimmer Glaze (Cowboy): Tattered Angels; Patterned Paper: Dream Street; Gems: Prima and MAMBI; and re-purposed wine box.

I painted the outside of the box with Cowboy Glimmer Glaze. I sprayed the inside with Forest Green and Frozen Lake Glimmer Mist. I covered some of the areas inside the box with patterned paper.

I used the Tattered Angels Postage Stamp Framed Fonts to add the word "cards" on the outside of the box. I framed the word with some of the Tattered Angels Embossed Glimmer Chips sprayed with Black Magic Glimmer Mist. The Glimmer Mist colors I used on the letters were Forest Green, Frozen Lake, Sunflower, Sand, and Peppermint Stick.

Hope you enjoyed the wood focused projects!  Take care - Patty.

Treat Bags...

Here is cute little card I made using the Tattered Angels 2010 fall glimmer mist colors, I'm so in love with these colors!

And here are some treat bags, these were super easy to make. I just sprayed pre-made bags/boxes with glimmer mist and then added a few tags and ribbons. On the large bag, the ruffle at the top is made using some of the Tattered Angels Crepe Ribbon.

Below is an image of what the boxes/bags looked like before I altered them.

That's it for today!  Patty

Hybrid Card and Envelope Sets...

Here are some really easy to make coordinating note card and envelope sets.

I used a kit that included quickpages (Secrets Of Nature by Manu available at scrapbookgraphics.com). I sized four of the quickpages down to 5″x5″, printed them onto white cardstock, trimmed to size, and then glued them to front of store-bought envelope. I’ll just write the person’s name/address in the part where the photo would normally be placed.

For the note cards I made a 5″x10″ canvas in my photo-editing program (Photoshop). I combined a few of the elements from the kit on the lower portion of the canvas (below the fold line). To make it easy, I kept the base graphic (the black swirl and the tree) the same on each card and just changed the one featured image on each card (flowers/butterfly). I printed each note card onto white cardstock, trimmed to size, and then folded each in half. That’s it, nice and simple!