Happy Summer fellow crafters! Natasha here and I hope you are all enjoying the warm weather and relaxing time with your families, but don't forget to squeeze in a little crafting time for yourself. :o) Today I would like to share a project I made using Pink Paislee's Butterfly Garden Collection and The Dusty Attic's Large Storage Drawers. This storage set is easy to assemble and decorate. It comes with sixteen drawers, but I removed four drawers so that I could further alter my project. The entire drawer set was painted with white acrylic paint. It was then misted and masked using Glimmer Mist. I adhered several hand-made flowers, as well as flowers and bling made by Prima, to the sides of my project. This flower was hand-made using coordinating papers. You can find a tutorial for this flower HERE. All of the chipboard elements including the vine, butterflies, ornate corners and mini words are also made by The Dusty Attic. I attached Foundations Metal Feet by Tim Holtz to the bottom corners of my project. I also added a Rose Trim by Prima to the open spaces. This chipboard vine is one of my favorite chippies! It is so delicate and intricate. I inked it with Distress Ink and highlighted each leaf with coordinating Stickles. Before I go, I would like to show you how I organize my clear stamps. I store my stamps in Cropper Hopper Unmounted Stamp Books. I labeled each stamp book using divider tabs and hung them on a Clip It Up Wall Mount. The smaller stamps are stored in CD jewel cases that are organized in pull-out trays. I also created a stamp catalog by scanning the transparencies that came with each stamp set. This helps me see which stamps I own and I can find them more easily. That's all for today! Thanks for stopping by to take a peek at my project. Have a beautiful day! Natasha

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Ana Rivera said...

I just love how you decorated this Clip It Up. I would also alter my Clip It Up with my three daughters and my mom. Like you, my mom passed away and my daughters love reminiscing about what they miss the most of their grandmother. This would be a lovely way to display my mom's pictures with my daughters. Like I commented on MME blog, I get my inspiration through paper and embellishments. When I come across beautiful papers it makes me want to create something special. Thanks for such great ideas.

Misty thanks for such an inspiring post we all have someone special who has touched our life's and changed it for the better. What a great way to honor them.

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When Renee and Carolyn sent this Clip It Up Main Base  to me along with the gorgeous Stella and Rose "Hazel" collection...I was immediately overwhelmed with memories of my Grandmother. 

The colors and patterns, along with the beautiful embellishments made me want to Alter this Clip It Up in honor of her memory.  She was the one who taught me to crochet. She taught me to take beautiful pictures.  She taught me to preserve my photos in albums.  She is the one who taught me to read patterns, mix colors, and create beautiful works of art long before I even started school. Many, many hours were spent in her living room, in her favorite chair creating yet another beautiful masterpiece by only the light light of the lamp on her side table. She was my mentor...my inspiration, and my reason for having the love of all things ART.

My Grandmother is gone now, but her memory will live in my heart forever.  She was my inspiration for altering this Clip It Up Main base. 

To begin, I disassembled my unit and spray painted all of the parts with an antique ivory. 

I reassembled it when it had dried, and added in all of the beautiful "Stella and Rose" papers and embellies.

For the center rod, I used the roller from and empty roll of gift wrap and slipped it over the unit's rod to create an alterable post.

 

Everything has a good layer of Mod Podge on it to seal it in and protect it. 

Once all papers were in place and sealed in, I added in all of the embellies that said "Grandma" to me. 

The lacy edges, the strand of pearls, the hand made flowers and the store bought ones...

But most of all...the Lamp.  The lamp is front and center on this Clip It Up  Main base ...because it is the ONE constant in all of my memories of my beautiful Grandmother, whom I love and miss dearly.

Altering this unit was not only fun, but therapeutic.  I drew my inspiration from the most unlikely of sources.  Now, this piece holds more value to me than it would if it were just another "random project."

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What Clip It Up  would you altered ?  and where do you draw your inspiration from?  

Misty

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Hello everyone,

 Sarah here again to share with you some really fun projects that I created with the BoBunny Ad Lib collection. BoBunny was so kind and generous to have sent me this bright and cheery collection. I love the fun color combination of the BoBunny Ad Lib collection and just couldn’t resist the coordinating chipboard, stickers, and rub ons. First, I took some light teal spray paint to my Clip It Up Main Base, and then really decked it out with lots of BoBunny pattern paper and chipboard embellishments.

I am so thrilled with all of the fun colors on this Clip It Up  Main Base that I had to add even more color. Now, this Clip It Up holds all of my fabric that I have folded into about 6”x12” pieces and hung them with the Clip It Up metals clips.

I also couldn’t resist creating a layout with this fun Ad Lib collection. My daughter’s last day of school photos that she snapped of herself walking down our street on the way to her bus were just perfect to use with this line.

I hope that you all have had just as much fun altering your Clip It Ups as I have, and if you have yet to alter a Clip It Up then you must give it a try!!

Have a wonderful day!

 Sarah

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A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken.  ~James Dent