Every little thing....

.....you do matters so much....

quote from Brave Girls Club...

As this is my last post as a design team member for Linnie Blooms...I wanted to spotlight the wonderful community of Brave Girls Club......I do not know if I will ever make it to one of their awesome camps {...dream....}, but I totally BEEEEEEEElieve in their concept!

Using a Linnie Blooms canvas blank...flowers...& leaves, I have colored with spray inks {heidi swapp...yum!} and Faber Castel gelatos {oh my goodness....cannot get enough of these!!}..layered it all together...some fun pompoms from my stash...oh and  snotexture applied thru PUNCHINELLA{yes...I am addicted to this}

Topped off with a Melissa Frances hanger I received in my Linnie Blooms rep kit.

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It's been an experience...I will never forget!

creative blessings,
debbie

What's in the Tea Leaves?

Well....as much as I enjoy my cup of coffee in the morning...I do so also enjoy my YOGI tea...

and so attached to each  tea bag is a tag with positive sayings/quotes/wordage.

Not to let ANYTHING go to waste ...I have been collecting these little pieces...for my art:

Soooooooooooo...I made a tag...with the tea tag "leaves"...and a Linnie Blooms butterfly, turned into a sweet yellow buttercup for spring!....a little piece of art!

Now, I am on a roll....I have had some mini frames( 4"x5") in my stash for MANY years..that I took and shabbed up, and with an ATC size piece of chipboard, I painted, layered & collaged up 2 more TEA ARTs!

*****I adhered these to the topside of the frame for a different look*****

I used the Linnie Blooms house and the owl ...super cute product!!

Beeeeeeeeeeeeee sure to check out The Linnie Blooms shop...she is adding more fun & yummys all the time!....

creative blessings, 

debbie

Simple bunting using linnie blooms canvas shapes... with Leeann Pearce

Hello Linnie Blooms fans... I hope you all had a wonderful valentines day yesterday. I'm sure there was lots of I LOVE YOU and chocolate and wine and kisses and and and....

This month also happens to be the month that I was married we will be celebrating 12 years!

-ain't that just sweet!

Anyway I decide to create a little off the page project for my home, I've had this pink paislee tray for a while and really wanted to semi embellish it.

My intention was to keep it simple with little color ... because I plan to display amazingly  awesome photos I have captured of my children.

"Simply Bunting using linnie blooms canvas shapes"

Step 1: Gather an assortment of shapes and line them up and machine stitch.

Step 2:  Add a tiny bit of detail to them. A stamped pattern and a couple of wooden buttons hand-stitched on.

That's it, told you it was simple!

Now just add it to your embellish tray, photo frame, scrapbook page or card. 

Totally up to you.

Thanks Leeann Pearce

MY BLOG: http://thepaintbrushgoesspottie.blogspot.com.au/

Ready to fly!

Soaring is not on my "to do" list lately. More like "squeeze in some crafty time when I can". However, this ink-speckled bird is ready to fly! When I was shopping at Linnie Blooms in July, my items were given to me in a plain Kraft gift bag. I told Linda Barutha (Linnie Blooms owner) that the bag would come back to her eventually. I kept my promise and went wild! I zentangled with a fine point Sharpie on a square blank and then added Distress Inks to this bird and its wing (which also doubles as a leaf shape). Sharpies, Distress Inks...is there anything these Linnie Blooms shapes can't withstand?

And why stop there? I crinkle folded some border punch cut strips and attached them onto the bottom of the bag. I also spy a paper doily, a butterfly and flower (both punched from an old book), a little spritzing, and don't forget the burlap scrap!

How about you? Ready to soar or just squeezing in some crafty time when you can? Hope it's the first one!

~Kelly

Introducing Linnie Blooms Mixed Stitch

Last Friday I was a vendor at CREATE Mixed Media Retreat's Artist Vendor Faire.  My favorite thing that I did all evening was to educate people on my "Mixed Stitch" products.  The above project was created WITHOUT SEWING.  I absolutely LOVE the look of mixing fabric and paper.  The combination of me coming from a papercrafting background and loving the look of sewing but being less than good at sewing, I needed to create some products that allow me to get the look I want but are as easy for me to do as papercrafting.

Introducing Linnie Blooms Mixed Stitch.  My blanks and shapes make it so easy to create a project like the one above WITHOUT SEWING!  I started with one of my Linnie Blooms Long Blanks.


My Long Blanks have cotton fabric on the back, recycled book paper inside and duck natural canvas on the front.  You can color the canvas with anything!  Acrylics, markers, sprays, gelatos, pastels, inks...ANYTHING!  Then, use some basic mixed media techniques like stamping, stencils, embossing, brayering, doodling, ANYTHING that you can do on paper, you can do on this canvas.

I colored my Linnie sunflower shapes with Faber-Casetell Gelatos and adhered them with Fabric Fusion adhesive.  I colored the Linnie Texture and leaf shapes with Gelatos and water, and attached those to the Long Blank using Tim Holtz' Tiny Attacher.  End result -- NO SEWING!  But it sure looks like I did!
           

I hope you will checkout my Linnie Blanks and Shapes and give Mixed Stitch a try!  And, I'll let you in on a little secret...more Linnie products are going to be released very soon!!  Yay!!

Want to win a FREE Linnie Long Blank and Shapes to try it yourself?  Simply share this post either on your blog, facebook or tweet and leave me a comment here with your name and how you shared it.  You earn an entry into the raffle for every way you share!  I'll pick a winner MONDAY, LABOR DAY, SEPTEMBER 2ND.  Good luck!