Organization Share

I know soo many of you love all of the great Tim Holtz and Ranger products as I do. I ran across their blog post this morning and just had to share. They have FREE, yes free printables to help you get your items in order. I just love some of these. Check them out. They have printables for your stickles and inks and soo much more.

Check it out: http://blog.rangerink.com/blog/2012/01/new-years-organization.html

Sooo Much to Come

With things wrapping up and getting back to normal... or what I call normal. I'm ubber excited. I have so much to share with you all. I've been very busy playing with some fun things and doing a bit of tinkering around in my crafty room. I'm looking forward to a post each night this week, showing some fun new things I have created as well as re-organized.

I hope the holidays found everyone feeling well and ready to begin a nice new year. Something so refreshing about a new year. New crafting goals and things to do. Definitely makes me want to get cracking on some new projects and ideas. I have a large goal to finally get my pictures printed. I am guilty of not printing pictures in about.. hmm almost 2 years this spring... I know I know. I think it's partially the reason I have slacked on doing layouts, because all the pictures I have left I'm not in love with and well all I can think about is the pictures I know I've taken that I desperately have stories to tell about!

Can't wait. Will be costly and time consuming as I do them all in order but I'm excited for sure!

Do you have any crafting goals for the year? Share away! 

What do you think???

So, I follow easily over 100 blogs. The majority are crafting blogs of some sort or another. I've been curious lately. I more often than not, have a bit of a tutorial with most of my postings. I find it nice to see how things came together. I love the inspiration many blogs offer but I often find seeing how it got to where it did, quite helpful. Maybe I don't want to recreate the entire project but just something they did on one of the pages of a mini-album.

How do you feel about this? I ask because on more blogs than not I notice there's no showing how the project came together. While some of it super fun to look at, often I'm curious. "Well how did she get that on there, or make that look that way." Am I the only one?

I like I said, I love viewing the completed projects but often wish more followed my own format of trying to show it got from here to there. Does this matter to you? Or are you just fine just looking and figuring it out on your own?

Dress Form (heavy photo post)

I bought this dress form a few weeks back. I knew I wanted to play with it but, it was one of those moments where I was afraid I'd mess it up. I often buy things I know I want to do and then fuss and fuss over messing them up. Meanwhile I tell all my craft Friends when their starting out there is no messing things up just learning.. sooo a few ideas and a glass of wine later, I dove right in. I took pictures along the way to serve as a bit of a tutorial for you all. Dress forms are all the rage right now in the crafting world and I've seen them turned into moo much; jewelry holders, stick pin cushions, etc. I just love the eclectic feel of it all.

Now I stained it white, not knowing the full direction it was going in, however I really didn't need to since I later decided to cover it.

I crinkled up some Tim Holtz glassine paper and then inked them up with the new Christmas distress inks. 

Great way to cut tulle, is to wrap it around a piece of cardboard and then cut on both ends, this can be done on little sets as well as something like a little girls tutu. Makes for great evenly cut pieces.

I then glued it to a piece of paper.

after the ink was done drying, I pleated the glassine.

I added some lace to the top of the tulle and then clipped it to ensure it dries well.

I tore pieces of canvas and then misted it, crumpled it up and let it dry. I didn't go for even coverage just some added color.

Adhere the pieces to the form.

Cover the form.

Wrap the glassine around the form.

I added the tutu then. And a cute stick pin, I later removed. I also, inked up the tutu a bit and added another piece of lace to it. I then took the heat gun to the skirt a bit to make it a bit less poofy!

I then put together a few jump rings and some misc. charms and things.

I used stick pins through the form to attach the fun metals charms.

I then added some tattered angels mists along the tears of the canvas and then spritzed it with water. Look at the below pic for the results.

Weekend Creativity

Yesterday I lived in my craft room. Something came over me and I decided rather than naming all the things I should be doing instead I would just put all the must do's on the back burner and do what I "wanted" to do. It was somewhat freeing. I had worked on two altered projects. Both I'm quite happy with. If you missed the beginning of this project it can be seen HERE. Below is the rest of the project. I'll admit it's probably not completed, as I will add this and that too it over the next few days I'm sure.  here is the first part of this weekend play time. Be sure to check out the link above to see what I began with.I'll be posting here shortly the other post, so as to not make this too post too picture heavy.