I love the color palette of the peacock. There is truly something so magical about the combination. So much so, that it inspired my newest blog design. So I thought what better way to create than to use the proud bird as inspiration.

Hi everyone, Erika Taylor here today to share with you a card I created using the Stack-a-Bellies Paisleys. I used  the chipboard pieces and painted 2 black, 1 with Broken China Crackle paint and the smallest with Organic Garden Glimmer Glam. Then I stacked them up, added some white/black marker doodles and some Stickles and a pretty Peacock Paisley was born.

The Stack-a-Bellies embellishments are perfect for every project. They really add dimension and hold paint mediums so well. Grab some Paisley Stack-a-Bellies today and see where your imagination takes you. Until next time…

PS- I’ve got  little Blog Candy giveaway going on right now and it includes some great Basically Bare goodies. Go check it out!!!

Toodles

Erika Taylor

It’s that time of year again! Time to decorate our homes with colorful pumpkins and gourds. There are so many ways to do this, but have you thought about using Basically Bare goodies on them? I have lots of ideas and will be sharing them throughout the month of October. Today, I thought I’d share a fun way to get pumpkin decorating season off to a great start: Use Basically Bare buttons as eyes for cute, not crabby, jack-o-lanterns!

I’m getting a little bit of an early start on Halloween.

I love Halloween.

I’m not sure if I’ve ever mentioned it.  If I have, I’m sure I haven’t mentioned it more than a few dozen times.  This Halloween layout features some great Basically Bare items and a picture of Master Gracey’s headstone from the old queue at Disney World’s Haunted Mansion.

I decided to take a Stack-a-Bellies Owl and turn him Halloween by inking him with black Archival Ink and then coating him with Black Diamond Stickles.

I drew a scroll-y little tree and cut it out so that the owl would have somewhere to perch.   The Recollections flower with a spider web print completes Mr. Owl’s home.

For a little splash of color I coated some Bare Basics Pennants with orange glitter glue (the Michael’s dollar bin version of Stickles) to make a little Halloween banner.

Down in the lower left hand corner, I used a stencil that I cut of part of the repeating wallpaper pattern from the inside of the Haunted Mansion as a stencil and lightly inked the design onto the background.

Happy October everyone!

Thanks for looking!

-Beth

Hello Basically Bare fans!  Jan here and I’m sharing a project that was made using a vintage barn window.  For safety purposes, I removed the broken glass that was in the frame and replaced it with some plexi glass.  I gave the plexi glass a good whack with a hammer and PRESTO..new broken glass. LOL!  I’ve used Bottle caps and a canvas heart, both by Basically Bare.  The flowers are made with Core-dinations Cardstock.

The entire family got together one day this past May for a birthday celebration and one of the munchkins grabbed my iPod. Little did I know that it would keep them entertained for hours. Who would have thought that music trivia apps would be so entertaining? Even the two year olds were playing along and singing. Of course, this provided the perfect opportunity for a picture. It’s not too often that everyone is sitting still and in the same spot.

This layout is chock full of Basically Bare embellishments.  The canvas heart and flowers were inked with Distress Inks and the dots on the heart were made using Enamel Accents.  The acrylic heart was completely covered with Stickles.  Lastly, the corrugated bird was inked with Adirondack Ink.  And yes, before you ask, I have just as big an obsession with Ranger inks as I do with Basically Bare embellies!

TGIF! Today’s post is a little layout I did using Basically Bare heart, banner, buttons and pennant collections.

I used a little bit of everything to put this layout together of one of my favorite photos.  The canvas banner is the most obvious, bearing the word “Family.” I just inked up the edges a bit and added my letters on top.

Also on the layout, starting from the top left: a chipboard button with embroidery floss threaded through it, acrylic hearts with patterned paper peeking through, and a canvas pennant poking out of the right side of the photo to house the date of the photo.  (And for those of you who remember them, the bottle cap is also from Basically Bare.)

Thanks for stopping in today. Hope you have a fabulous Friday and a terrific weekend!

Doralisa

Today I’m sharing a fun Home Décor project I made with the Basically Bare chipboard hearts.

I had this plain canvas in my studio for quite a while, it’s kind of an odd size for me to work on, like most scrappers I guess I’m used to working on a square! But it was the perfect size for a bare wall in my bedroom. I used just 3 chipboard hearts in different sizes. I wanted to keep the whole thing white to match my room so I had to make it interesting using texture. Luckily I had just had a box of scrappy things delivered so I used the packaging that they came in to get the look I wanted!

Firstly, the tissue paper my embellishments were wrapped in, I ripped and screwed up, using medium to stick it to the largest chipboard heart (I wasn’t particularly careful about this because you can trim the sides when it dries) I made sure everything was stuck down really well and created lots of bumps and creases.

I then took the string from my package and again covering the second largest chipboard heart in a generous coat of medium (to make sure it held) I wound the string round and round the top of the heart, giving it one last coat of medium when finished, I used a fine brush to remove the medium from the creases so you could see the texture clearly.

Finally, I took the smallest heart, again coated in medium, and stuck a small piece of the bubble wrap from my parcel to it (wait til its completely dry before trimming or you may pop the bubbles when it slips around)

Once all the hearts were dry I coated them in white acrylic paint and stuck them to the canvas, giving one final coat of paint over the whole thing.

I done this over the course of one day (allowing for drying time in between) so it’s a quick fun project using mostly recycled items!

Thanks for taking a look!

Sarah x

because it definitely works FANTASTIC on Basically Bare products!!!!! I had been creating a layout for 3L with the mist and accidentally oversprayed on a bare product. hmm, wheels begin turning and next thing you know… yeppers, I was creating with some of the flour de lis felt. And I am SUPER happy with the results. The best part it only takes a few minutes to dry.

I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do with this. SO of course, why not a card?  Sorry for the small image of the card. Having a few weird uploading issues. But you get the idea. Fabulous product= fabulous fun!

Leica Forrest

my blog:

Most of those who know me, know that I am not a big card maker, but I decided to throw in the towel and create a couple this month using the Basically Bare hearts along with some pretty Prima papers and here is the result!

I also created this tag using a Basically Bare bird and some Tim Holtz tapes.

Thanks for looking!

Sherry

I have been on a card making roll lately, and this is one of my favorites.

I don’t know about you, but I love working with stamps like these (this one’s from Queen Kat Designs).  Takes me back to the good ole’ crayons and coloring books days.

The super-versatile Basically Bare heart is covered with paper and then a thin coat of stickles for some shine.

And someday maybe I’ll remember to pick the paper for the card before I color the image so that I don’t have to spend forever searching for papers that will work with the colors I used on the stamped image.

Thanks for having a look!

-Beth