Learn How to make this Altered Canvas Trio

Take a class with me at Michaels - Markham, Ontario and learn how to create beautiful things.  This is my 'Altered Canvas Trio' class:

ALTERED CLASS TRIO SCHEDULE:

This class is 2 hours in length.

March 8 6:15 Thursday

March 23 6:15 Friday

April 21 5:30 Saturday

April 26 6:15 Thursday

April 29 2:00 Sunday

May 3 3:00 Thursday

May 7 1:30 Monday

Email me if you would like more information : michaelsinstructor@gmail.com

You may sign up for classes on the phone, online and in the store.

Thank you for stopping by,
~Roberta
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Spotted Canary School - Class 1 - Loved it!

I am so happy to be teaching and I just wanted to share what one of my students brought for me:


She baked a traditional Taiwanese dessert and then packaged them in these exquisite paper bags which are also made in Taiwan.
I thought they looked so beautiful.
And then I tasted one of the divine squares of buttery goodness, and all was good in the world:)

Thank you Mavis!!!!

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Smooch Spritz Shaving Cream Creates...

I love being able to test and play with so many craft products.  As a Michaels Instructor I was able to demo the SMOOCH line of spritzes and inks.
One of the techniques was dropping the inks into a shallow container of water and letting them swirl, resulting in a beautiful marble effect after you quickly lay a piece of cardstock on the surface and then remove it.
So that got me thinking:  What else can I try to put the sprays and inks in that would not dissolve them to the degree that the water does...... and then I thought, SHAVING CREAM!

I grabbed a little can from my 'stash' and practically flew down 2 flights of stairs to my studio.

Here's what happened:

The glitter isn't showing up on this pic, but I love the effect and I think I see a tree!

The bath of cream -- the aftermath.  It kind of looks angry, don't you think?

I have other pieces drying with some cream still on them.

The way I made this sample:
I shmeared a thick layer of cream in the bin and then randomly shpritzed with the various inks and sprays.  I then placed my paper on top and pushed it down a little bit into the colour.
I then pulled the paper up and wiped off all the cream -- and the colours didn't run!

Now if only I had 'smellovision' :)

Thanks for stopping by,
~Roberta

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Worth Repeating

"You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do."    

 
 ~  Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) 

FaveCrafts Blog Hop Winner! Me!

I am extremely grateful to FaveCrafts and everyone who voted for my entry.  It was a lot of fun participating and I noticed a huge increase in the traffic to my blog.  Here is the official post on their site

Thanks to everyone who participated in our Paper Crafts blog hop this month! We challenged you to share your best handmade cards, scrapbook layouts, and other crafts made with paper with the FaveCrafts community and then vote on your favorites.

The winner receives a Paper Crafting Gift Basket!

And the winner, with 35 votes, is Roberta from Decorables with her 3D Love Flowers Card! Congratulations, Roberta!

 Thank you for stopping by,

~Roberta

Desert Rose - paper flowers created with SCAL and Cricut

My experimentation continues!!! I now have a wonderful petal template that I also created with SCAL and cut out with my Cricut. What do you think?

I created the red flower first, using 3, 11 inch strips of petals.  I then wrapped the 'leaves' around the base of the flower.  For the centre of the flower I used a red crystal drape ornament.

Gold and peach Stickles were added and then I misted the flower with marshmallow Tattered Angels and Green Smooch.
I used a quilling tool to roll the leaves.

Thank you for stopping by,

~Roberta 

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Monday Crafting Tip ~ Paper Punches

Tip #421  Regarding paper punches.


Be they little punches or edge punches, and no matter HOW tempting it might be, 

do NOT

put ANYTHING BUT paper into the punch.  They are meant for paper. They will chew up and/or get really jammed with whatever you stuck in there and then you might wind up spending a LOT of valuable time trying to pry, pull, coax, and swear at the material to come out so your beloved punch can function again.

Oh, I heard all this from 'a friend'. :)

~Roberta  

You are welcome:)

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Let's SMOOCH!

Come on a journey with me as we 

SMOOCH in SO many different ways!

Can you pick out all the techniques I used  and surfaces friendly to Smooch in making this frame?  I'll give you a hint: 12.

  

  

Use inks to enhance stamped images

Decorate a card by applying mists to a wet sponge and stamping/smooshing it along the surface.

Marbling

Marbling

With Smooch you can: spray, stamp, mask, paint, marble, colour, enhance; you can spray/paint on paper, wood, fabric, metal, chipboard, grunge board.

WANNA SMOOCH??? 

Smooch is available for purchase from MICHAELS.

Smooch is made by Hampton Art

Thank you for stopping by,

~Roberta

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UPDATE: 3D flower template designed by ME!

I designed my own 3D flower template tonight  using my Cricut and Sure Cuts a Lot! I can control the size of my petals.

 I hand-rolled all of them, but can you tell which is the one I designed?

Designed on the computer using SCAL and printed out with my Cricut.

The Pink flower, centre bottom, is the one I designed.  

I made 4 strips and cut them out with my Cricut

Carefully removing the strips 

Here are the 4 strips once I peeled them off the mat

One strip glued on top of the other

rolled flower before peeling the petals back

Slowly peeling the petals back, one by one

I added a third strip using my EKSuccess Punch (the green outside strip).

Thank you for stopping by,
Roberta


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