Hi there, summertime is here with bright and sunny days. In the winter the sun can be gone for days here in Norway. When you know that you have to be creative everyday, it’s good to have a few tricks up your sleeve, to boost that inspiration when you need it the most.So I have made a motivation album for those days. I have left some space on the pages for more words and quotes to be added during the summer. For my inspiration book I’ve used the Funky Findings Album. I love all the different surface and texture in this book. And the envelopes I’ll keep cut outs of images and quotes/texts that inspires me.

I’ve used the moon and cloud from the Celestial Shape Set on the cover. I’ve alteded the cloud with lots of beads and the moon is decorated with acrylic paint and tylle. The black arrow from the Arrows Set show the direction.

On this page I have played with acrylic paint and white Utee.

Tree top from the Happy Little Trees Set.

One black gear from the Gears Set

Here I ‘ve used one piece from the Fleur De Lis Set. I’ve covered parts of it with acrylic paint. The background was given some splashes with black ink and white gesso. I’ve used a pennant shape from the Pennants-Large Set to make a tab. I dry embossed it and then added some Distress Stain to it.

No summer without flowers. Here I’ve used three different sized flowers and leaves from the Blossoms & Leaves Set.  On the left side I’ve added a hearh from the Heart#2 Set.

Some pink fabric from a dress can be used to make a beautiful flower Another pennant shape from the Pennants-Large Set used to make a tab.

Two acrylic stars from the Celestial Shapes Set runned though an embossing folder .

Wishing everybody a beautiful and creative june. Linda

Welcome back to another day of Basically Bare and Momenta goodness!  Jamie here, and boy do I have a lot to show you today.

I have so many friends and family members with birthdays coming up that I wanted to make a fun set of items that I could use.  So hold onto your hats, I have three items that will spruce up the birthday party.

To start with, I have a super adorable gift canister and birthday card.  The canister features the Fanciful Frames Set and Basically Embellie Bird.  The card also has a piece from the Fanciful Frames Set  and also uses the Celestial Shapes.   Now, let me show you how the gift canister was created.

1. To start, I upcycled a plastic canister I was no longer using.

2. Cut your patterned paper to the size of the canister, then adhere to the  canister.

3. Add a pom-pom trim to the top of the canister.

4. Wrap a piece of contrasting paper around the middle of the canister.  Next, paint the smallest piece from the Fanciful Frames set with a Zig Painty FX pen in black and let dry.  Once dry, add a thin layer of glue around the edges of the frame and then add black glitter.  Must not forget to add a bit of glitter

5. Cover a chipboard bird with patterned paper and add a small dot of black Enamel Accents for the eye. Then adhere the bird to the frame.

6. Lastly, adhere the frame to the cylinder and then tuck in a small vine behind the frame.

Next up is bright birthday card.  How cute is this?  Lots of layers of Momenta patterned paper and Basically Bare chipboard.  I used the same technique on the chipboard frame on the card as I did on the canister, just to tie the two pieces together.  The chipboard sun was heat embossed with WOW Sierra Sunrise Embossing Glitter.

And now to the last pieces, three pinwheels.  Every birthday party needs pinwheels, right?

These pinwheels make the perfect party favor!  And tucked tight in the middle of each one is a Basically Embellies Button that has been inked with alcohol based ink.

Bring on the next birthday, I’m ready to go!

Supplies Used:

Basically Bare – Fanciful Frames, Buttons, Birds, Celestial Set

Momenta – Animal Print Paper Pack, Peace Mini Puffy Icon Sticker, Zebra Print Sticker Pack

Kuretake – Zig Painty FX in Black, Kurecolor Ink in Orange

Hey papercraftin peeps! Sarah’s in the houuuse!! How are all of you on this beautiful day?! I have a layout I would like to share with you, and it’s actually about me can you believe it?! Woohoo! It is SO important that we artists document ourselves, even if it’s about something silly like what my layout is. Dreaming. What do you dream about? I am ALWAYS dreaming about something, whether it’s creating or redecorating or gardening or whatever!  But usually, for me, it’s about traveling to far off places, distant lands far far away. I love to travel and there are sooo many places I would like to visit. Someday… So here’s my layout;

I love the Basically Bare Banners! They are so stinkin cute! I took some patterned paper, roughed and inked up the edges, then covered my chipboard banner pieces with them. I love to mix up the shapes together, it gives it more of an eclectic feel. Add some string and voila!

Super cute and different way to create a word, yes?! Another way of juicin up your chipboard is to cover it with glitter, like this Basically Bare Fanciful Frame here;

Here’s a little tip, you should paint the surface of the chipboard first, that way you don’t see any brown coming through and your color is solid and crisp. Kurtake generously provided some of their Zig Painty FX markers for us to play with, and I used the black on this frame which worked really awesome! Made it look super fancy schmancy! (technical term)

Those fancy frames add just the right amount of pizazz, even if you’re not “framing” anything, don’t you think?

So thank you so much for hangin out, remember to keep dreaming cuz you just never know!  Have an amazing day!

Love, Sarah

Hi everyone, it’s Erin posting again today.  :)

Who likes vintage?   Of course I do, but with a modern twist!  Sewing manikins are still hot in the crafting world and so I thought I’d create a canvas with one using one of the Basically Embellies Dress Forms.

I stared off by painting a 5″ x 7″ canvas using some of my favorite paints and stencils.

Then I pulled out three of the canvas leaves, and one of the small chipboard flowers from the Basically Embellies Bare Basics Blossoms & Leaves, and one of the bodices from the Dress Form set and painted them up.  While they were drying I covered the skirt of  the dress form with the chevron zig-zag paper.  I then adhered the dress form onto the canvas with matte regular gel medium…it’s nice and thick so I can “slope” the edges around the chipboard since it dries clear, and then paint over it.

Then I just adhered the “leaves” onto the skirt with some more gel medium and added a few embellishments too.

I was careful to only adhere the tops of the leaves onto the canvas so that the bottoms could have some dimension.

And then I just finished it off by stamping on a scripture verse and adding some finishing touches.

Hi there Basically Bare fans!  It’s Erin here again at the wheel today, and I had so much fun making this canvas with products from Basically Bare and Pink Paislee!

Don’t you just love those little birdies?  Each one is made of different Basically Bare materials….felt, chipboard, and acrylic.

Made out of the felt bird

Made out of the chipboard bird

Made out of the acrylic bird

I also took a canvas heart, embroidered my our initials on it and some edge stitching, and added that to the tree trunk.  That’s my favorite part of this canvas!

Embroidered canvas heart

I also frayed the heart edges…like I do on just about any fabric I get my hands on.  ;)  To keep it from fraying too much I like to put some Fray Check along the fray so it doesn’t get out of control.  Once it’s dry you can’t even see it.

Close up!

This turned out to be such a spring-y project!! Perfect timing!

There is something about the Christmas holiday that brings out the altered artist in me.  I love making new little trinkets and ornaments, and for the past few years, houses to add to my Christmas decor.  I think it has a lot to do with all of the handmade treasures that we made for my mom as kids, that she still enjoys to this day.

When I spotted this weighted paper mache house on the clearance rack at Michael’s for .29, I knew I had to get it although I didn’t know what I was going to do with it…that is until now!  I covered it with papers and die cuts from Creative Imaginations and added a couple of Stack-a-Bellies Birds to create my own little Christmas birdhouse.

I started with the acrylic and chipboard birds and wings.

I ran the set through my Cuttlebug using the Script folder.  I love the romantic look that this folder lends to the birds.

NOTE: I left the protective seal on the plastic when I embossed and then removed it afterwards.  This is what the birds look like after they come out of the folder.  If you ask me, they are beautiful enough to use on any project as is, but I had to take it a step further.

Using a sponge brush, I gently swiped white acrylic paint across the embossing and then painted the edges of one of the birds and one of the wings.

I used silver embossing powder to cover the second bird/wing set.  Notice how the dry embossing holds its shape under the wet embossing.  I love this technique!

After the birds were dried, I layered them on the bottom of the house.

Then added die cuts until I was satisfied.

Here’s the finished product.  Cute, isn’t it?  I think I have a place for this right next to the “JOY” frame set that I made last year.

Thanks so much for stopping by the blog today.  Come back and visit often for more inspiration!

Tanisha Long

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