Altered Shabby Chic Teacup Pin Cushion

Beautiful Altered Teacup Pin cushion......I altered my own tea cup and saucer that I was displaying in my kitchen.....Thought it would be prettier in my scrapbook room....all "jazzed up".......These things are sooooo addicting ....and if you think making the stick pins will keep you buzzzzzzy...try altering the cup and saucer.  I was inspired by so many youtubers and others that altered a teacup and saucer...I just had to give it a try......Now I know I will have to make more of these .....they make great pieces for my candy station ....and they are functional..(Yep ...a stickpin holder...)..so now  I can continue to make and collect the stickpins ...which are just as addicitng  as the altered cup and saucer.......Check out my pics....Gorgeous huh???????.........Remember to check out your local thrift shops for thrifty finds that you can alter into beautiful show pieces........TFL 

Altered Paintbrush

This was a fun swap.   I participated in a swap where we altered paintbrushes....(hehe...) ...Yep...Now these were really fun to alter...Watch out all of you DIYers....We are prettying up everything (smile).  I choose to alter the paintbrush using a TH alterations die.  I did use two TH die pieces, stamped the filmstrip tape and merge it between the two dies.....So the filstrip actually has images on it.....For the paintbrush I covered  it in Gesso......... I used TH acrylic paint ...to give it some colour....I also used quite a few embellies to pretty it up......I was inspired by quite a few of the altered paintbrushes that I saw on Pinterest.....I was totally surprised by some of the ideas..There are very creative folks out there ....Very inspiring...So though this was my first try at making one of these ...I will be making more....I made this one for a swap...So of course ...I have to make one for me.......So....what do you think???...Is this something you would give a try????......How did I do altering this one......?...What do you think??????

(Altered Paintbrush )

Altered Dressform-Charlene Gibson inspired

Wow....It's been a minute......but, I'm back.......Just wanted to share a few things that I have been doing.....I found this Youtuber (charlenegibson) and I thought her work was superb...Thanks for the inspiration Charlene........Though I did not want to go through the entire process that she went through in making the paper pulp...I found a work around.  The dressform is a Micheal's dressform..($7.99...but of course use a coupon).......(I covered it with Tim Holtz washi tape...... and the body of the dress was made from paper mache.  Charlene made her paper pulp from scratch...I sort of cheated (hehe..).  I purchased paper pulp from ACMoore ($9.99...again...don't forget your coupon...)....You know the kind that you add water to....Yeah...instant paper pulp...(hehe..) .I made the bottom of the dress using tulle....I hot glued it around the dressform...stripped it ...and applied heat using my heatgun..The heat makes the tulle curl.........Another lil technique I learned from a youtuber (nanajl54)......And here is my completed dressform.....I sooo enjoyed this project......Give it a try....Now to find something to do with the rest of that paper mache......Charlene you may have started something here...(hehe...)...I know as much as I like dressforms....I'll  be making more of these..I also did a youtube video it does not show you how to make the paper pulp...but you can check charlene's video out  and she shows you how to make that...... .... So ....what do you think??????

Front View

This is the back.......of the dressform

"Dare 2 Dream"- Altered Cigar Box

One more to go ...and I am through.  This is number 17 of the 18 boxes I altered.  Wow...that was a lot and a lot of work.....But I enjoyed evry moment of it making these boxes..........I noticed that a lot of the ladies favored kelly green.......and red.......Each and everyone distinctively different........The ladies are so very proud of their cigar boxes....( I don't think they even know what they are...(hehe..)......and it makes me happy that I could make them happy with my li'l piece of art.............One more and I am "Almost" done though......for this round anyway.......(hehe)...Yeah...they keep me busy.........I think I am going to move them away from the cigar boxes.......I just have to think of something else that they would like......(hehe...)..This cigar box also has her name on the front of it.....I used Thickers in the same color....but forgot to take a pic of that image...I made her one initially and she gave it away .....and ordered another.....I wanted to make sure she did not give this one away.......so I personalized it with her name...(hehe...)

"Believe" Altered 9x20 Shadow Box

I completed this shadow box last week. I had given it to the person that I made it for before I was able to take a pic of it....so I asked her if she could leave it at work until I came back this week....Yay....she did ......This was not a Valentine's project ...though it looks like it....But February is her birthday....and she loves "red"........I added a couple of SaCrafters inspired projects (Roman Clock and a window frame)...and really like the way it turned out....She loved it.....So yeah...I'm happy...The shadow box measures 9x20.......I used the weathered wood technique..and stamped it with a music note stamp using black  Stazon  ink, I also used a couple of the M's  metal embellishments......TFL.....

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