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Free Mother's Day Printable-Vingtage Mother/Child Tags

I created these tags as a printable recently..
Thought I would share them here..
This is a PDF file...
Enjoy..
Dare

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One of my newest creations: Self Portrait on Canvas

I've recently started branching into mixed-media art, and hope to start doing mixed media art journaling.

This is a piece that I worked on awhile first by doing a drawing, and I am not much of a drawer.

Second by doing a digital and finally by putting it all together in this canvas I titled " Transformation"

I tried to do a photo transfer on the background of the canvas board after I painted it, well that didn't work to well- so I decided to go with using a printable transparency for ink jet printers and printed off the main photo.

So now how do I make it appear as if it was painted on and not just laid on top.  I took a bone folder while my background paint- I used acrylic paint-was still wet and rubbed over the transparency til it picked up the texture from the background.. that looked pretty cool. Then I added more of the purple paint to the top, coming back with some white and just pouncing it onto the canvas and transparency.

Next I added the butterfly mask using liquid lead for the outline and stickles for the colors. Added some bling to finish it off.

But I still had space to play with so out came the Wild Orchid Craft Roses, in white which I sprayed with Lindy's Stamp Gang,  French Lilac Spray. I also added some smaller Roses as well from Prima.

The ostrich feathers from Consumer crafts seem to be a great edition to the canvas as well so on they went.

Then I said I need a few more butterflies so  I added the three small butterflies I had purchased from Consumer Crafts which were white, that again I hit with French Lilac Spray. The larger butterfly from the Dollar Tree,  already had silver glitter, and bling, but of course I had to hit that with some Lindy's too.

All in all I am happy with how this turned out and loved that I figured out how to make it work after I failed in my first attempt with transferring a printed image to canvas.  Just grab your fave digital software, and a printable Transparency sheet and little paint and some embellishments and see what you can come up with.. if you mess up keep going like I did and you may surprise yourself.

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Dare

My Disorganized Organized Chaos

The Craft Room of Shame Award should go to me, if there was such an award.
I've spent money and time and time and money trying to get organized, so I can find things.
When I think I've got it, I find out quicly I don't..

My biggest issues with my current solution, which was to buy tons of plastic shoe boxes, is not being able to easily find things despite writing on the outside of the box and the fact they are clear. Then you have all the tiny things like beads, and glitter and bling and such that get lost in the chaos. I really thought this was going to be the greatest thing when I bought all these tubs and stuffed them full.  Not being able to quickly find stuff, and having to make sure boxes stacked on boxes do not fall on my head when I need one on the bottom is no fun at all.

I know one problem I have is not putting things away correctly, that I know I really need to work on. The other problem that I have no way of changing is my room is very very small, about the size of a walk-in closet. It is actually a side porch that I use for my craft room, one day I hope to have a bigger room but until then, I live with the chaos and clutter of a way too tiny space that I wish I could make more user friendly.

I have crates that hold paper, which is another huge problem, the paper seems to run away from me and the way it is organized I can't find what I want without having to pull stacks of paper off a shelf and go through it, by the time I finish hunting down everything I want to use for a project I'm too tired to do the project.

Have you ever found yourself too tired to do a project after spending so much time looking for what you need, it's discouraging and makes you loose your mojo really quickly.

I now have 3 large tubs that currently will not fit in my craft room sitting in my living room.. Yes it migrates crafty stuff, it certainly does.. I believe it has a mind of its own.. and it will not be contained.. LOL

I will continue to fight the war to contain my crafty stuff, although I seem to be constantly loosing the battle..

Dare

 It's not fun when stuff falls on your head.. Nope not fun at all.

 My Desk has become a catch all, as I try to find places for stuff that has migrated to other parts of the house.
and behind that is the Tower of Paper that seems will never be tamed.

The one thing I like about my room is the curtain rods on the wall that I hang my ribbon on..

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