Smile - More than words challenge

The http://morethanwordschallenge.blogspot.com.au/ challenge this month

really was difficult for me -

to use their sketch (easy as it's a great sketch)

but having the word "smile" on the page 

took a lot of thought

I really was drawn to this photo of my son

at age 1 1/2 

we were at a holiday party and he was not sure he wanted to be there

who in the world was the big man

with the white beard and red suit?

I thought about how to meld that photo with "smile"

and after a long thought.....

it just came together

some vintage Bo Bunny paper and lots of varied embellishments

old Prima lace, some wired twine, some paint,

some buttons, some truly vintage ribbon (at the right bottom),

some buttons, a deconstructed flower, a ruler,

and various other items that just seemed to belong.

Hope you are having a wonderful weekend

in this hot hot summer

and thank you all so much for the lovely comments

ttfn

Hope -the thing with feathers

One of my favorite poems is Emily Dickinson's 

"hope - the thing with feathers"

and when I saw the Relics & Artifacts All Things Wings challenge

I knew that I wanted to build on that idea

I had found a little doll at a thrift store and

taken her apart

I made a paper mache heart for her body and added the Relics

&Artifacts heart

I added the head and appendages

but she was so heavy I was forced to adhere her to a canvas

lots of gesso - both white and gold

some acrylic paints

and other stuff for texture

I hot glued the words to wire from her hands

as I wanted them to float like feathers

What a joy this was

Hope you like it

ttfn

Crafty with Kraft

And so it goes

more challenges

this time getting crafty with Kraft paper

the first layout is for the Kraftplus challenge blog

Kraft paper, sheet music, pastel pink,

feathers, heart

I used my trusty soffit as a stencil with modeling paste

and then added Claudine Hellmuth pink acrylic paint

vintage 7gypsies sheet music paper

Petaloo and Maya Road flowers

feathers and buttons

The 2nd layout is for the Scrapbook.com July

In this corner challenge

the bird is actually on the background paper

I cut around it and inserted my photo etc.

More pink (definitely in a pink mood right now)

ribbon, buttons, and a handmade

flower made from crepe paper and a fabric yo yo

Thanks for stopping by

ttfn

Shrine to the Goddess Indigo - for Finnabair Inspired by Denim challenge

A Shrine for the Goddess Indigo

goddess of the warp and the weave

of the living and the dyeing

protector of blue jean babies and L A ladies

I had so much fun (and anguish) creating this little shrine

I was inspired by Finnabair's challenge

Inspired by denim

It's hard to see but the background is a piece of denim cloth

that I stamped with a Finnabair stamp

and then painted with rust paste and acrylic paint

I added lots of metal including 

a Finnabair mechanical heart

and layered on the top 

one of my favorite treasures

"The Face" by Diana Briegleb

lots of gel medium

and then beads

the frame is actually 2 small frames

that were given to me - no glass - just the frame

I hot glued them together

sanded them and added daubs of 

rust paste and acrylic paint

Hope you like it

ttfn