Linda’s DIY by Design

Monday, May 20, 2013

Hugs and Kisses for all TIME.

Design Team Project for Discount Paper Crafts!

Yes, indeed! You guessed it by the title! It's another Clock!!! I can't help it! Clocks are a weakness! They tell the tale of every minute of life that we are blessed with and it's a favorite subject that I love to craft about! This particular project was created for a wonderful, sweet friend of mine, Miranda! Her YT name: MsLiberty25. When I saw this picture of her and her boyfriend, I knew that it had to have a sweet, grungy, shabbychic masterpiece created around it! And I think that all the yummy products from Discount Paper Crafts helped me to achieve what I was creating for! I love to add an "x,o" somewhere on each of my projects, and as you will notice, the clock IS the "x,o"! I purchased the wooden "x" from a craft store and the "o" is actually a candle holder that I purchased from a local store. I nailed the 2 pieces together and so became the foundation for this clock. I added a TON of texture using The Prima Distress tool, Prima and The Crafter's Workshops Stencils, a script stamp by BoBunny and acrylic paint mixed with sand to shabby everything up! You can also visit my YT channel for exact details of this creation by clicking on my YT button at the right on my sidebar. Look for the video with the exact same title as this blog entry! While you are there, you are certainly welcome to watch any of my other videos...go ahead...I think you'll like them! Enough rambling... Here's the pics, followed by the links to all the products I used from Cathie's store. If you want to bypass the individual links and go straight for the homepage of the store, just click on the Discount Paper Crafts store link at the sidebar on the right!

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

"Forever Imagine" shabby heart hanging and a card...DT project for ThePiecebyPiece

This particular project coordinates with my last post ("Adore" mini album). They are meant to sit side by side. I've decorated this cute Crochet heart (that I picked up at an antique mall) into a shabby chic masterpiece that hangs from a stand. The stand was meant to hold 8x8 scrapbook pages that could flip up to display each page as a home decor piece. The stand was originally a bronze metal, and I used paint mixed with sand to shabby/texture it up a bit. I think this piece is really sweet! I've added lots of yummy laces and trims from ThePiecebyPiece. Also added in some awesome acrylic flower sprays, acrylic candy gem sprays, a little bit of the beautiful Prima Fairy Rhymes paper collection, some 1/2 back pearls and even some verigated pink wheat sprays...all from ThePiecebyPiece...of course! I even created two pretty little white roses by rolling and gluing a sheer ruffled trim into a flower shape ...again this trim is from Beverly's store. The card I made (decorated with the Prima Divine paper collection) coordinates with the album and this shabby heart hanging and is displayed with beautiful products from ThePiecebyPiece. Here are some pictures... and the links to direct products I used will be listed underneath the photos!

This is the card!

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

"Adore" Mini Album. DT Project for ThePiecebyPiece

I've created a mini album for my Design Team project for the ThePiecebyPiece! It's a very Romantic mini album, with ecclectic shaped chipboard pages. It's very shabby chic, textured, full of yummy, yummy, yummy laces, resin charms, acrylic flowers and Prima product...all from ThePiecebyPiece store!
I base coated the entire album with acrylic paint, mixed with sand to give it lots of shabby-chic texture and also used this same texture paint to shabby up the flowers, laces, paper, tags, and embellishments.
Here's the pictures:

Monday, April 22, 2013

"2/14"

I wanted to create a 2 page layout that could be displayed in my home that celebrates the anniversary/love and relationship of my husband and I. Totally love the end result! I love to have eclectic shaped pages so that's why I ended up with a heart shape on the left and an fancy oval shape on the right. I also wanted the pages to "fit" the divided areas of the the metal stand. I found a stand at an antique mall and completely covered the whole thing in texture paint. I mixed black paint and sand to achieve the texture. I used a bunch of yummy Prima goodies on my layouts from their Romance Novel, Engraver, Lyric and Almanac collections. I love to mix and match collections and colors and Prima does a wonderful job with color combinations that makes it easy to accomplish this! For the mixed media aspect of my design, I used several TCW masks and of course, a Prima mask combined with modeling paste. I also used used some stamping as a layering bonus for more visual interest. On the Tim Holtz chipboard wings, I actually used a crackling paste that I applied very thick and heat set...not so that it would crackle, but so that it would appear "cotton" soft with lots of texture. Then I masked over the left wing and stamped over the right wing...I love the end result! I distressed the edges of all the paper pieces as well as sewed around all the edges of the paper, including our photo. To top it all off, I used a white acrylic paint, again mixed with sand, to add texture over the flowers, embellishments and papers! I wanted this texture to match the overall texture of the stand in which both layouts hang from.

Thanks for looking! Hugsies!

Thursday, April 18, 2013

A Perfect Day in Time!

Another altered clock and this one is my FAVORITE! I'm entering this as one of my projects for the Prima DT call for the 2013/2014 season. And then it's going a beautiful friend! But I'm not gonna say who! ...Yes! I created a swing, some "steps" up to the treehouse and leaned my bike against the fence! :)
Used lots of flowers, yummy prima products from their new wood icons and the Prima Lyric collection(one of my favorite lines behind the Prima Romance Novel), a Tim Holtz goodie or two, a few of my favorite wood pieces from SaCrafters store on Zibbet...and finished it all off with Lindy's Stamp Gang shimmer, and some texture paint to shabby it up a bit. I texture painted the whole clock prior to decorating, used some Crafter's Workshop stencils, Some BoBunny and 7 Gypsies stamps and a little Gesso to whitewash it all up! Here's my pics:

Thanks for checking this out!
Hugsies!!

Saturday, April 13, 2013

"Time" flies when you're having fun!

I'm back with another design team project for Discount Paper Crafts and I've altered another clock! I love, love, love, altering and creating clocks. It just has to do with the mechanism of time and life and it's story, I guess. I've used lots of product from Cathie's store and lots of goodies are from Prima and Tim Holtz! I will post all the links to the supplies I used at the end of this post...if it's still in stock! Prima and Tim Holtz items move very quickly!! The clock was originally an off white color with flowers painted on the sides. I repainted it with a sand-filled paint so that it would be very textured. I then moved on with several masking techniques, some stenciling, some stamping and then used Lindys Stamp Gang shimmer mist to add some pink color to the mix. I used the Prima Brick Mask, the TCW ledger mask and alphabet mask and for the large stenciled numbers, I used Tim Holtz chipboard numbers (the negatives) and paint to create a 3-D stenciled number. I used a Bo Bunny chicken wire stamp and a 7 gypsies stamp from my stash for more visual interest. Then I whitewashed over all of these things with gesso to tone it all down. Since a clock has numbers, I wanted to carry the number theme all over the clock. You will notice that in the form of the metal number "5" at the left, stenciled numbers on the front, Prima buttons with numbers, Prima Roman numerals, a Bead Landing Industrial Chic metal charm at the top with numbers on it and even another roman numeral lays amidst the flowers inside the clock area itself! Since there is a large cabinet to the left side of the clock, I wanted to also put a small cabinet handle on the lower right portion...and since things should be done in odd numbers, I even added a Tim Holtz knob at the top of the clock. I am in love with the new Tim Holtz buckles!! I used that on the front where I attached chain to...which carries over to the left and attaches to the Tim Holtz clock key--another one of his products I love! I also used one of TH new collage keys! It comes with images, but none to suit this particular project, so I just used some of the Prima Tea Thyme paper to match the Tea Thyme paper in the clock area itself! Ok...enough rambling...Here's the pics:

Here's the links to the supplies:

...and the direct link to Cathies store is at the right on my sidebar...just click on the image.

Tim Holtz Idealogy alpha parts (numeric): http://www.etsy.com/listing/126963637/tim-holtz-idea-ology-alpha-parts-numeric?ref=shop_home_active&ga_search_query=Tim%2BHoltz

Tim Holtz Ideaology collage keys: http://www.etsy.com/listing/126962675/tim-holtz-idea-ology-collage-keys?ref=shop_home_active&ga_search_query=Tim%2BHoltz

Prima Wood Icons in a box (x,o letters): http://www.etsy.com/listing/121635554/prima-wood-icons-in-a-box-xoxo?ref=shop_home_active&ga_search_query=prima%2Bwood

Prima wood buttons (Lyric collection): http://www.etsy.com/listing/125729231/prima-lyric-collection-wood-buttons?ref=shop_home_active&ga_search_query=prima%2Bwood

Prima Lyric flowers: http://www.etsy.com/listing/125729440/prima-lyric-collection-roses?ref=shop_home_active&ga_search_query=prima%2Blyric

Prima Mechanicals (skeleton clock): http://www.etsy.com/listing/121319509/prima-mechanicals-designed-finnabair?ref=shop_home_active&ga_search_query=prima%2Bvintage

Prima Mechanicals (roman numerals-small): http://www.etsy.com/listing/121318321/prima-mechanicals-designed-by-finnabair?ref=shop_home_active&ga_search_query=prima

Prima Mechanicals (roman numerals-large): http://www.etsy.com/listing/121318553/prima-mechanicals-designed-by-finnabair?ref=shop_home_active&ga_search_query=prima

Prima Metal Trinkets (Engraver collection): http://www.etsy.com/listing/120476620/prima-engraver-collection-trinkets?ref=shop_home_active&ga_search_query=prima

Out of stock: Prima Brick mask...but here's the link to the masks currently in stock: http://www.etsy.com/shop/DiscountPaperCrafts/search?search_query=masks&order=date_desc&view_type=gallery&ref=shop_search

Also... out of stock: Prima Junkyard findings, Tim Holtz Ideaology buckles

Thanks for stopping by!

Friday, March 29, 2013

Altered Canvas! (DT project for ThePiecebyPiece)

Its that time again! Another Design Team Project that I've created! It's my first altered canvas!the size is 11x17. I really wanted to showcase the romance of this photo from a friend of mine! It tells such a beautiful love story! I used Lots of Prima Almanac paper and coordinating flowers along with exquisite laces from Beverly's store! I also used Prima Vintage Trinkets, Resin Ppieces and Wheat Sprays--all from Beverly's store as well! I used lots of texture with Prima masks and modeling paste around the canvas edges and throughout the front of the canvas. Added shimmer with Lindys Stamp Gang sprays. And did my usual distressing of all the paper edges and added stitching with my sewing machine! I wanted this project to look a bit grungy, yet stay soft and romantically shabby chic! I used my texture paints (black,off-white, and peach) to add the texture throughout the project. I started with the black texture paint in the lower left corner and subtly blended in the off-white texture paint and ended with the peach texture into the upper right corner of the canvas! I added the texture to all the embellishments and flowers as well! I used the new Tim Holtz buckles (love those!) and some Prima/Tim Holtz keys to a large vintage looking cabinet handle at the bottom of this canvas. I printed the photo on to a canvas type fabric from my own printer and frayed the edges of the fabric. I topped it all off with a Prima Chipboard piece from the Engraver line (from Beverly's store) in the upper left corner that says "memories with you". Simply stated. Simply beautiful. Simply a love story for all time. Here's the pics!