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Thursday, October 1st, 2009
I thought it would be fun to share the instructions for a project I just finished. It’s a paper Tussy Mussy for Halloween. Tussy Mussy’s are a Victorian era hanging cone usually for flowers but this one holds candy.
Start with a 12×12 piece of pattern paper or cardstock, mine has bats on it, flip it to the back side and turn it so one corner faces towards you and with a pencil draw a half circle from the left corner to the right corner then cut along your lines. Here’s a picture of what it should look like.
Next apply adhesive down one long side of the back of the cut paper and roll the other side toward the adhesive forming a cone shape.
Next apply adhesive around the top outside opening of the cone and wrap tinsel garland around, I wrapped twice.
Cut a small piece of the tinsel garland and roll it into a ball, adhere it to the bottom of the cone with a strong adhesive.
Next attach a 7″ long piece of ribbon inside the top of the cone, use a strong adhesive or brads to attach it.
Next add a stamped decoration or tag to the front, I used my Cuttlebug and Spellbinders Tag#1 to die cut and emboss a grey tag and a smaller white tag. I stamped a cute Moon and Kitty stamp on the white tag and colored it with glitter gel pens and edged it with a black marker, then layered it onto the grey tag and colored around the edges of the grey tag with a glitter pen too. I also added brads to the tag for some embellishment and then attached it to the cone with foam dots.
Fill with candy and hang it on someone specials door!
If you make one too please send me a link!
Tags:candy, cone, halloween, how to, instructions, paper, project, tussy mussy
Posted in 3D and Assemblage, Hanging Collage, Misc. Collage | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009
This recent collage of mine was very influenced by mixed media artist Catherine Moore, her mixture of every day items to make clothing and art dolls is very inspiring to me. I also used the Paper Fashions Fantasy book I gave away recently for the top of the dress and one of the hangers that comes with the book, this shows you can use the book in a very artsy way not just for cute fairytale princesses 🙂
It’s on a 5″ x 7″ canvas board I painted brown. I made the top of the dress from inked vintage paper with a vintage button tied with hemp string, the skirt of the dress is a bird cage printed on a transparency with a red bird inside. Tied to the hanger with hemp string is a tiny tag that says “(cage ‘d”. The background is vintage music sheet and it’s embellished with a piece of vintage measuring stick and a quote on tattered fabric from Emily Dickinson that says “Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the Soul”. I’m really happy with the results!
close up of the dress:
Tags:bird cage, button, catherine moore, collage, emily dickinson, hanger, hope, mixed media, music sheet, quote, vintage paper
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Friday, September 11th, 2009
Here’s a fun wooden shadow box I made recently. I painted the box grey and then painted crackle paint over that and then inked it to add some more age to it. I had some neat silver tinsel garland and adhered that around the edges of the box. Inside the box I turned an image of a little girl into a witch by adding a black hat and broom and also added a silver smiling moon charm and some black alphabet beads that spell out “Happy Halloween”.
Tags:altered, box, collage, crackle paint, grey, halloween, moon, tinsel, witch
Posted in 3D and Assemblage, Altered Boxes | 2 Comments »
Friday, September 4th, 2009
I had a cute little paper mache book ornament that I’d been hanging on to, not sure what to do with it and I finally got the idea to make it into a spellbook for Halloween. I painted the entire book grey and then added crackle paint to the outside, and adhered silver tinsels around the sides. On the front I added an image of a little girl and put a purple witches hat eyelet on her head, I put a purple rhinestone in the hole of the eyelet to cover it up:) I stamped a few skulls on the front with Staz-on ink and added pink and purple rhinestones to their eyes. On the side I added a vintage looking stamped label and wrote “Spellbook”. I thought inside the little witch could be hiding a secret and so I filled a tiny glass bottle with beads and glitter and added some fibers to the top and a tiny label that says “poison” *insert evil witchy laugh* 😉 I think it turned out cute!
Tags:altered, book, crackle paint, halloween, paper mache', spell book, witch
Posted in 3D and Assemblage, Altered Books, Misc. Collage | 1 Comment »
Friday, July 17th, 2009
Here’s a shrine box I recently finished, I reused a mint tin and painted it brown and then added book pages from a vintage French text book to the insides and front. I added a small metal frame with a picture of the Eiffel Tower on the front of the box. On the inside left did a collage with some torn vintage travel tickets, postage stamp and postage cancellation rubber stamp. On the right side I did a collage of a woman standing in front of the Eiffel Tower wearing a big lovely hat, I added words from the French book that say “Yes, it’s a beautiful hat”, another postage cancellation and a souvenir sticker.
Tags:box, Eiffel Tower, french, metal, mint, Paris, shrine, tin
Posted in 3D and Assemblage, Altered Boxes | 5 Comments »
Saturday, June 20th, 2009
I’ve really been inspired lately by all the collages I’ve seen that are various shades of white, I love the “shabby” look of it. So I thought I’d give it a try. I white washed most of the items with gesso, sometimes adding water sometimes just straight from the bottle. First I white washed some vintage music paper and an image of a blue bird, then stamped the bird cage on transparency using white, I adhered the bird to the paper and then using my sewing machine I stitched the transparency onto the paper using different stitches. I then white washed a pair of Tim Holtz’ grungeboard wings (if you don’t know grungeboard is sort of a flexible type of chipboard, it’s very cool to work with), tied some string through a vintage button, added them to the board along with the words “spread your wings” and then added some vintage white lace across the bottom. It’s a very different look for me but I like it alot:)
Tags:bird, button, cage, collage, cottage style, lace, mixed media, shabby chic, tim holtz, washed, white, wings
Posted in 3D and Assemblage, Collages on Canvas | 11 Comments »
Friday, June 19th, 2009
I love the shape of a house as a base for a collage, it’s warm and well, so homey:) I just finished this collage on canvas board, the background on the board is layers of Tim Holtz’ crackled paint with several colors of ink rubbed over top of the paint. I cut the shape of the house and chimney from vintage book paper, I inked the edges to make it more aged looking and added a strip from a vintage tape measure as the base of the house. I cut the roof out of black cardstock that has a white core, I then sanded it to bring out some of the white and make it look more shabby. I made a copy of a lovely Victorian photograph I have and mounted it in the middle of the house using black photo corners. I had a small piece left from timming the tape measure and added it like a house number. Before I attached the roof I added some letters cut from an vintage book, small brads and sewed on a large metal key. I think a collage like this would be the perfect house warming gift for someone moving into a new home.
Tags:canvas, collage, crackle, home, house, key, paint, tim holtz
Posted in 3D and Assemblage, Collages on Canvas | 2 Comments »
Friday, June 12th, 2009
Here’s another small altered wooden box I did using Tim Hotz’ crackle paint with a little bird collage inside and a tiny wire nest with blue bead “eggs” and vintage game pieces for feet. See the previous post for another similar box and info on how I made them:
http://www.pisforpaper.com/?p=101
inside:
front:
bottom showing feet:
Tags:altered, box, brid, crackle, eggs, house, nest, paint, shrine, wire
Posted in 3D and Assemblage, Altered Boxes | 4 Comments »
Thursday, June 11th, 2009
Here’s a fun collage with an image of the Queen of Hearts from Alice in Wonderland that I cut from a really cool old children’s pop up book I found. She’s surrounded by roses, tiny playing cards and real scrabble tiles. The background is a vintage bingo card, I added small metal eyelets to each corner that have different playing card suits. I attached red wire to the top to hang it from.
Tags:alice, altered, bingo, cards, games, hearts, playing, queen, red, scrabble, tiles, wonderland
Posted in 3D and Assemblage, Hanging Collage | 2 Comments »
Thursday, May 14th, 2009
Sorry it’s been so long since my last post, my husband was on vacation so I decided to take a little break from creating and recharge a bit:)
Here’s a couple of fun altered collages pieces of fairies caught inside glass jars. I made the collage of the a fairy on a vintage book page and inserted it into a canning jar (the kind with no writing imprinted on them) and tucked some fake grass and paper flowers inside the bottom of the jar. I then aged a tag and stamped some neat sentiments on them, one says “Evidence” the other says “Dept of Antiquities” and tied them around the jars with cool ribbons. The lid of the jar was too shiny and new looking for me so I used a sponge and added some black permanent ink to age them up a bit.
Tags:altered, captured, caught, collage, fairies, fairy, jar
Posted in 3D and Assemblage, Misc. Collage | 3 Comments »
