It's Beginning To Look Like Christmas

This is one and only swap I am participating in this Christmas,

and it is in the mail!

 

en-JOY a Lovely Sunday,

and Your Blessings,

Kerly

 

Swapping Is Fun!

 

 

You know how much I love a good swap.

These are the things I have created

for the March swaps I joined.

 

Speaking of swaps,

I hope all of our

"Pink, Black, and Bling"

swappers have their ATCs in the mail,

today is the due date.

 

en-JOY a sweet weekend,

Kimberly

Valentine Swap #3

 

 

 

Another Valentine's swap at

blissfullARTswaps.

This is the cabinet card I altered for the swap.

 

 

 

 

This card was one of the first I ever purchased,

it has been in my stash for years,

and I have used copies of the couple many times.

 

It was time to let it go.

 

I hand colored the image with a combination of distress markers and pencils.

 

Thank you for visiting.

enJOY a sweet today my friends,

Kimberly

OOPS!

The new and correct tags for

blissfullARTswaps'

Valentine Tag Swap

I signed up for quite a few Valentine swaps this year,

excited to be crafting again!

The first rule of this group is that your work must include a vintage photo image.

This was the first tag I created for the swap.

Does this look like a vintage photo image to you?

Me either.

Luckily, I caught my error in time.

 

JOYful creating

& enJOY Your Blessings,

Kimberly

I am knee deep in end of year bookkeeping and reporting,

so I love that I can steal away to my studio

for a little creative time.

These tags are for a swap at

blissfullARTswaps.

 

Note to my ATC swappers,

ATCs are to be postmarked by tomorrow.

You can check the status of your ATCs on my right sidebar.

Please let me know if you need to drop out.

 

enJOY a lovely weekend,

and Your Blessings,

Kimberly

French General Envelope Swap at

Marie Antoinette Mail Art Group:

 

 

 

The swap returns will be turned into mini books.

 

 

Here's a look at how I wrapped the Jane Austin Journal that I created for

blissfullARTswaps Yahoo Group:

 

and this is the journal:

 

 

en-JOY Your Blessings,

Kimberly

 

 

Bathing Beauty Spoolie Swap

Here she is,

my summer gal,

isn't she a beauty?

(Sorry for these pictures,

they were taken on a grey and rainy day.)

 

I purchase a beautiful plastic fish garland years ago,

and keep using the bits and pieces as need arises.

The pink fish and bubble beads are from the garland.

 

This was for another fun swap with

blissfullARTswap Yahoo Group.

 

Thank you to all for visiting.

 

enJOY Your Blessings,

Kimberly

Steampunk Journal Swap

I created this Steampunk Journal

for my partner in my latest swap with

blissfullARTswaps Yahoo Group.

 

enJOY a beautiful week,

and Your Blessings,

Kimberly

Altered Doll Swap

I decided to go Steampunk for my latest swap with

blissfullARTswaps.

A Tim Holtz Charlotte doll

sports a black velvet and lace ensemble,

 a vintage top hat, some funky wings,

 and brass glasses.

She is perched atop a vintage office stamp.

 

Thank you for visiting today.

 

enJOY Your Blessings,

Kimberly

Reverse Painting On Glass, A Simple How-To

I joined blissfullARTswaps'

Alice Charm Swap.

I wanted to try something new

and thought I would share my technique here.

No. 1

I used antique eyeglass lenses,

but you can use microscope slides

or any other glass you think might work.

Be sure that your glass is clean.

 

No. 2

Stamp image on flat side of lens,

using StazOn ink.

 

No. 3

Use a heat gun to set ink,

or allow drying time according to manufacturer's directions.

No. 4

Select the colors of acrylic paint you want to use.

 

No. 5

Working over the stamped image

and using one paint color at a time,

fill in one area of the image.

 

No. 6

Use heat gun to set paint.

Allow glass to completely cool

before proceeding to the next area to be painted.

 

No. 7, 8, and 9

Repeat No. 5 & 6 for each color.

It will look like a hot mess on the side you are working on.

 

No. 10

Cover the entire surface with your background color,

and dry with the heat gun.

 

No. 11

Repeat No. 10.

You may need to repeat this a third time.

The background color should be opaque when dry.

 

No. 12

Once dried and cool,

flip over the lens to be amazed!

No. 13

This shows that I am not the neatest painter.

You should clean the edge of the lens,

I use my fingernail to scrape any overflow of paint.

 

No. 14

Cut a piece of paper to fit the back of the lens.

 

No. 15

Make a "sandwich" of the three layers,

painted lens - paper - clear lens.

No. 16

Using copper foil tape,

wrap the edge of the "sandwich."

 

No. 17

I am not going to give a lesson in soldering,

I am by no means an expert.

(you only need to enlarge these photos to be assured of that fact)

There are plenty of great tutorials out there.

 

No. 18

After all are soldered,

give them a good cleaning with glass cleaner.

Here are mine,

ready to go!

 

I am sharing at:

 

I hope you give this a try.

It really is so simple,

and I think the results are very sweet.

 

enJOY Your Blessings,

Kimberly

Alice's Tea Party

 

 

This is the piece I created for

Alice's Tea Party Altered Tin Swap at

blissfullARTswaps.

 

I will share the gorgeous tin I received later in the week.

 

I am joining Terri at:

 

 

enJOY Your Blessings,

Kimberly

 

 

Beautiful March Mail

52 Weeks,

52 Artists,

52 Trades

ATCs by Jewels, Erica, and Robin

blissfullARTswaps' Egg Shaped ATCs

ATCs by Janet, Peggy, and Wendy A

blissfullARTswaps' Springtime In A Teacup Swap

by Wendy A

&

Marie Antoinette Mail Art Group's

Easter/Spring Mini Matchbox Greeting Swap

by Melanie

 

This was a lovely surprise.

Donna recently scored a collection of vintage prayer cards

and decided to share them with me.

You meet the nicest people in the blogging world!

 

Thank you so very much to each and every one of these ladies

for sharing their talent and love of creating,

you are all a treasure.

 

enJOY A Beautiful April,

and Your Blessings,

Kimberly

Springtime In A Teacup Swap

at blissfullARTswaps group

 

This is what I created for my swap partner, Wendy.

I will share the beautiful teacup that Wendy sent me,

and all of the other wonderful swap returns I have received

next week.  It is a post that will knock your socks off!

 

linking to:

  and

Terri's Tea Cup Tuesday

 

enJOY a lovely weekend, my sweet friends,

& Your Blessings,

Kimberly

September Swap Returns

 

Beautiful Mermaid ATCs

from the

blissfullARTswap Yahoo group.

You can revisit my ATCs here.

 

Edgar Allan Poe ATCs,

also from

blissfullARTswap Yahoo group.

My ATCs are pictured here.

 

This gorgeous altered cabinet card and pumpkin bag

were created by Holly.

We were swap partners and Caroline was our host.

You can revisit the pieces I sent to Holly here.

The five pictures above are from

JoAnne's wonderful

Altered Ancestors Halloween Edition Swap.

All of my "family" can be seen here.

This lovely ATC is my #1 return

in my

52 weeks, 52 artists, 52 trades.

You can see the card I sent to Karla here.

 

Thank you to the amazing group of swap hostesses,

as well as the wonderful artists who sent me such treasures.

 

enJOY Your Blessings,

Kimberly