Creative Heart Monday - Curvy Collage Box

                                                Happy Creative Heart Monday!

I hope that everyone is enjoying their holiday season!  My husband and I had a wonderful Christmas dinner, yesterday, with my parents, sister and brother-in-law, nephew and his girlfriend, and my niece and grand-niece.

I'll be honest with you about this project.....it's not one of my best.  My life has been a little chaotic. We've lost two family members over the past couple weeks and it's been hard to feel creative.

But....here's what we have.......



Supplies

Wooden Box  this link is to a different box...I found the curvy box at Joanns
Decorative Papers
Mod Podge
Black Pen
Metallic Acrylic Paint
Black Tattered Angel High Impact Paint

I'll be sending out information this week regarding my two new video projects for 2017......Art Journaling Jazz and Inspiration from the Greats.

Have a great Monday and a wonderful week!!  Happy New Year!

PEACE

Cyndi

Thank you Shawn Petite

As I've mentioned many, many times here.....I love watching other artists make their art.

In a couple weeks, my husband and I are travelling to Colorado to visit his mother and brother.  My mother-in-law has suffered with Alsheimers for several years.  I was thinking about making a small piece of art that we could hang in her room.  Because we like to pack light I needed something that I could slip into a small suitcase. Then....Voila....I watched a video by Shawn Petite on the very morning that I was trying to come up with something to make, and it was perfect.

These three little hanging pieces are made using cardboard as the substrate.  Shawn attached a piece of ribbon as a hanger on hers.  I didn't have any ribbon that I liked, but I did have some copper wire and it worked fine.  I used different stencils and I didn't have any alphabet stamps that were large enough. I printed out the words in the size that I needed on the printer, then transferred them to the substrate with carbon paper, then painted them with a paint pen (and outlined with charcoal pencil).

I might make some more of these, except smaller, as they would make great little tags for gifts, etc. They were super easy and super fast to make.  So, if you need a quick handmade gift for someone....give it a try.

Again, thank you Shawn!

Peace!

Cyndi

Tile Coasters

Tonight it's tile coasters.  This is all you need to make a pretty set of coasters:

4 inch ceramic tiles (they're about 13 cents a piece)

Decorative paper (I used scrapbook paper)

Mod Podge

Paintbrush or foam brush

Polycrylic (I used Minwax clear satin)

Felt circles or tiny rubber "feet"

Cut the paper into 3.75" squares.  Cover the tile with Mod Podge.  Center the paper on the tile.  I used an old credit card to smooth out the paper and make sure that it was completely adhered around the edges.  Brush a coat of Mod Podge over the paper.  It looks nice when you brush it in one direction so that you don't have crazy brush strokes visible.  When this layer dries, apply another layer of Mod Podge.  This time, brush it in the opposite direction.  You don't have to, but I think it looks better this way.  When this coat is entirely dry, brush on a coat of polycrylic, covering the sides of the tile also.  Lastly, attach some felt circles or rubber "feet" at each corner of the bottom of the tile.  That's it!

These make a really nice gift.  In fact, I gave my sister a set on Thanksgiving.  I going to put some up for sale in my etsy shop within the next day or so.

Peace,

Cyndi