The Greatest Artist

The Greatest Artist
By: Udiah

God is the greatest artist
To whom no one can compare,
Streaking sunsets very beautiful,
Painting rainbows in the air.

Brushing green the hillside scene,
Blotting blue the sky above,
Splashing flowers 'cross the ground beneath,
Shading white clouds with His glove.

Of the wonders God has made
There is none that is so fair
As the smile He paints upon your face
When you realize He's there.

This page took me several hours.

1) cut the 4x6 photo in the largest circle possible using the Coluzzle
2) Use a compass to draw a larger circle
3) Drew the flower within the circle to determine six equidistant points on the circle.
4) Use the Bazzil in Stitchz large circle and put it along the line of the flower petals and punched holes for the stitching.
5) Also use it and a pencil to mark spots for the gems.
6) Cut a larger circle with the coluzzle and marked a line along which to write the poem in the colors of the rainbow, (except for the purple and orange because I didn't have a pen the right size for those colors)
7) Use the large colouzze circle to cut scraps of cardstock the colors of the rainbow and place those along the inner circle using glossy accents to attach them to each other before attaching to the page.
8) Use the large Coluzzle to cut a white circle from cardstock that's bigger than the picture but still shows the photo.
9) Use the Bazzil in Stitchz large circle template to punch holes in the white cardstock and use thread to stitch the rainbow.
10) Use sharpies to color clear gems the colors I don't have the colors for.
11) Use tiny drops of glossy accents to attach the gems

One of a Kind

I was itching to create SOMETHING today. I've been going through creative withdrawals lately. This is what I did after work today. I was inspired by this tutorial http://withfeathersandsequins.blogspot.com/2011/04/small-and-whiteclean-and-brightyou-look.html to make this card. I love the sunburst look. I just changed it to a square card because I want to use up a package of cards and envelopes I got at Michael's for fifty cents. I used scraps for everything except for the flower. The centerpiece is actually a Stampin' Up punch, and the stamp which I embossed is also by Stampin' Up

Kitchen Chairs

BEFORE:

A couple of years ago, a guy I was dating got me a set of 6 chairs. They are very functional, even though they aren't very pretty, and don't really match anything in my house. I've been thinking about recovering them for a long time, but it's so hard to pick a color and a fabric, and then you have to find the time and money for the material, the staple gun, etc. I finally decided to use the colors on my dishes as inspiration for the chairs and started buying the fabric one yard at a time. I didn't even know if one yard of fabric would be enough, but I finally decided it would...the fabric was $10/yard, but I had coupons, so I only spent $5-$6/yard, and I only got 4 yards. Donna let me borrow her staple gun, so I got new chairs for less than $25! They certainly don't look like a professional did them (in my opinion), but they look a lot better than they did!

AFTER:

My first wordbook

I've wanted to do one of these for a couple of years now, but haven't been uber motivated, until... one of my best friends got married on New Year's Day and was kind enough to ask me to take a picture or two, so I had plenty to choose from... and then I got Basic Grey's Euphoria Collection, and was dying to use it. So once I decided that was what I was going to do, there was no stopping the creative process! I decided on a font and figured out the size and worked a few hours on cutting everything out...(The word is her new last name), then I modge podged the pp onto thin chipboard and modge podged over that to seal it,


For the edges, I used an embossing pen and silver embossing powder to add the silver color that was in her wedding. That took quite a few hours, I could only emboss a few inches at a time.


I have been dying to make these flowers I made for the front of the book (and then used again on the "S", so I punched out several of them and heated up my melting pot and then dipped the punched flowers in clear UTEE. There's definitely room for my improvement, but they look good. And I thought it was very cool the way the piece of the flourish bling that I put on the front looks like a heart.


on the next page I put a sticker but it didn't 'pop' the way I wanted, so I used a white souffle pen to outline it.


On the next set of pages, I used the nestabilities to cut out the pictures and mats, then used them again to ink the inside part so the outside part stood out a little bit more, and I used bling on a sticker for the date.


Here is a close-up of the "S" with a faux glass flower and bling.


I had this beaded trim left over from another project and decided it looks perfect for a wedding album, Tut attaching it was a little bit tricky. I used two big glue dots and decided to cover them with flowers I made with punches.


I used the garden trellis edge punch to create this look, and used more punched flowers to decorate it.


The "O" was the hardest one to cut out, getting the inside perfect. On this side I used small punched flowers and bling to decorate


Stickles...not sure if there's a project of mine which is complete w/o lovely stickles.


I tried to balance the fibers and ribbon that I attached to the 'O' wires by placing some ribbon on the "P"

TFL. It's way past my bedtime, so I don't know if this makes much sense. I've caught myself typing things that were nonsensical, but need to sleep so I'll proof read in the morning.

1-6-2011

After Alex came home from school today, he told me that they were going to have the Christmas concert in a couple of hours. It had been canceled due to snow in December.

1-5-2011

Mishal filling out an application at Taco Bell. She wants to make her own money so she can buy clothes, etc. Unfortunately, she has to be 16 to work there. But they told her to come back when she turns 16.

1-4-2011

This time of year, this is the view I have most of the time...I wake up and turn the computer on the very first thing. I take a couple of short breaks during the day, but work until time to go to bed. Today I worked 17 Hours.