Nostalgia - I miss you

Hi! I know, I just posted something about Nostalgia a few hours ago. Now I am posting something about it again. Just what I said in the earlier post, I am having so much fun in doing this one. This time, I used a water color pencil. I can't get enough of using different kinds of mediums. Why I never used them when I was young? Why only now that I am already on my 30's. Well, it only proves that you're never too old to try something new.

1) Feathers are on trends right now so I decided to draw my feather and ink bottle with a book.

2) I color it using Faber-Castell Watercolour Pencils

3) I used a wet brush to dissolve the pencil color into brilliant water color.

4) I added some stamp images from Hero Arts Stamp and stick some doily to finish my art.

Thank you for looking and have a great day!

xoxo,
Vanessa

Nostalgia

Happy Chinese New Year to all! Today, I just want to share a page I made on my art journal. I had fun doing this one. It didn't make me think at all. No rules, nothing to follow... Just what I am feeling while doing it.

Materials : Faber-Castell Oil Pastel

Nostalgic - 1) unhappy about being away and longing for familiar things or persons. -2) A bittesweet longing for things, persons of the past.

Thank you for your time looking!

xoxo,
Vanessa

Art Journal Pages

Good day! Time flies so fast... it's already February. I didn't notice it because we were so busy. I know I always say that I am busy but I really am. Only this time not about my crafting. It's because we were looking for a place to stay. The owner's son will use the unit, so yeah, this is not good news at all. We will send 95% of my things (scrapbooking stuffs) in Philippines. I've only left with some paints, papers and my notebooks. I won't be able to make scrapbook pages that much anymore. I decided that I would continue doing my art journal, and that is what I am going to share with you guys today. I made a few pages already after my first and I am happy with the outcome for a first timer.

Thank you for looking and have a great day!

xoxo,
Vanessa

My First "Art Journal" - DANCE

Happy new year! How did you celebrate your Christmas and New year? Any resolution? Me, I had a wonderful time with our family back in Manila. We did a lot of things in a span of 2 weeks. Resolution, hmmm not that I really have. But for all I know I promise myself to finish my Art Journal. Yes, I started my art journal and that's what I wanted to share with everyone. My sister gave me 3 of her past Starbucks planner which she didn't use at all... so it is still brand new in a way. Well, I decided to use those as my "Art Journal". Hope you will like what you will see... thanks!

First, put gesso on your planner/notebook... let it dry.

Using Oil Pastel ( I used Faber-Castell), color the gesso-ed pages of your planner/notebook.

Put gesso on top of your colored pages.

If you are not satisfy with your current background, color it again(repeat the process), until you achieve the color background that you want.

Prepare other material that you wish to add on your journal. It can be stamp images, embellies or magazine/paper cut-outs. Here, I used a stamp image from Hero Arts

Here, I punch out a cloud (Fiskar puncher) on a patterned paper (Prima) and color it with oil pastel (Faber-Castell) and Gesso-ed it (Studio).

Thank you for your time looking and I hope that I inspire you once again.

xoxo,
Vanessa

Handmade Pouch

Good day! Today, I will share with you my masterpiece! Yes, it is my masterpiece as I made it all by hand. It took me 2 days to finish it and a total of 10 hours. If only I have a sewing machine :( Anyways, I am still proud of my work as this is the first time I made something like this. It is really out of my comfort zone ( same with the choker necklace), for I am a scrapbooker, not a painter, not a jewelry maker and not a pouch maker. I know, I am trying it all. But what can I do, crafting is so fun. Anyways, below are the steps on how I did my pouch. I used my spellbinder dies to be able to make this project. Happy looking!

Position your dies on your felt and roll it to your machine. I used 2 colors of felt (blue and purple). Cut total of 16 doily shapes.

Use a smaller die to cut a shape to be put on the center of your big doily. Repeat step 1

Position the small cut-out on top of the big cut-out.

Stitch the 2 cut-outs together. Alternate the colors.

Draw a square on the big doily/circle cut-out.

Start stitching two big doilies/circles, following the line.

Stitch a total of 8 doilies. Two rows, 4 on each row. Make sure you have two sets.

Cut a rectangle shape that when you fold would be the same size of your stitched doily.

Cut another rectangle shape, this time just 1/3 of the width of your first rectangle.

Attach the 2 rectangles by stitching it together and connect/stich the sides.

Stich the end of thin rectangle :)

On the end of the rectange, position the zipper.

Stitch the zipper.

Attach the doily on each side of the pouch. Stitch both sides and below. The top part would be left open to serve as a pocket.

My Handmade Pouch :)

Thank you for your time looking and I hope that I inspire you once again :) Happy crafting!

xoxo,
Vanessa

Choker necklace

Good morning! Today, I would like to share with you a necklace I made out of paper and felt. Why these materials? Well, these are the available ones I have and I know that I need to make use of it. I hope you like it...

Apply gesso on the felt

After applying gesso, stick the paper on it.

Position the dies on the felt side and roll it to your machine. I used my Spellbinder dies to make my nacklace. Aren't they beautiful? :)

After rolling it to the machine, you will have the cut out pc ( you have to roll it a few times for it to comes out, otherwise you will have to help it by cutting using scissors)

Position the cut-outs according to the design that you want.

Punch holes to the connectors and put eyelets on it. Start connecting it using the jump rings.

Prepare your ribbon or chains to make a necklace.

You can get a pendant of unused brooch to add to your necklace. This flower is an earing.

Connect the ribbon or chain and the center piece for your necklace.

Add some beads or crystals.

Finish product.

Thank you for your time looking and I hope I inspire you today!

xoxo,
Vanessa

Ornaments

Good morning! Whew, I didn't notice how long it has been since I last posted. Not that I'd been lazy again. The truth was I was busy with so many things including my crafts. I did quite well last October and November creating. I tried painting and for a newbie I would say that I did a good job. Well, who else would love my work? Of course me! I am my first fan, ha ha ha :)) But seriously, it was so fun. Scrapbooking, drawing, painting, crafting, and I did my first necklace. Oh yeah, I am trying it all that I really have no time to blog. Though of course I would love you to see what I did. But will post them a bit later. Maybe you are thinking what made me post this time? Well, yesterday morning ( Dec. 12, 2012), I was browsing at Crate Paper blog and I saw their challenge about making ornaments. I was so inspired that I haven't thought of doing my own for our Christmas deco. So right away, I grabbed all my available materials and did what's exactly on my mind upon hearing the word "ornament".

Materials used: Papers - Crate Paper, Stickers - Crate Paper, Ribbons - Prima & American Crafts, Round Styrofoam, Tissue paper tube, Wire, Chipboard (for the wings) and Thread/floss

Thank you for looking!

xoxo,
Vanessa