"Life Began In A Garden" Mixed Media Vignette

Happy Monday everyone, today I'm here for a design team project for Art Anthology. One of my favorite things to do with art is create vintage, old, shabby pieces. I have always loved rusty things, antiques, well worn pieces. So today I have for you a T!m Holtz Vignette with a makeover. 

I have a process video below for your pleasure so you can watch my creative process. I have a few fun techniques to use for aging your projects. Also the supplies from Art Anthology that I used will be listed in the video description. 

The paper line I used is Stamperia "Garden" and I did some fussy cutting then gave the pieces a coat of crackle varnish on top. 

Here you can see the peeled paint technique as well as the wonderful job the crackle varnish does. And then when added with Art Anthology's mediums you really can achieve a weathered look. 

Here is wishing you a week filled with peace and joy. Thank you for stopping by. xoxo Toni

Embroidery Hoop Shaker for ReneaBouquets

Hi everyone, it's my turn for a ReneaBouquets design team project and I decided to create a shaker embroidery hoop. Filled with pretties from ReneaBouquets store. 

Lots of Beautiful Board from the store and I left it in its beautiful natural state. 

The butterfly inside the shaker is a brand new style called Musical Note Butterfly and it's just gorgeous. 

With the addition of the pretty flowers with a bit of microbeads sprinkled on top and of course one of the exquisite butterflies from the store as well.  Hope you enjoyed. For your pleasure I have also included a step by step video. Happy crafting !

Entering this project in the following challenges: 

TIO'S-Springtime 

Shabby Chic Altered Tea Pot for ReneaBouquets

Hi everyone, today I have for you a design team project for ReneaBouquets and I decided to alter one of Prima's new teapot frames. I started by dry brushing the teapot with white gesso and then highlighting some of the areas with silver metallic EP. 

For the inside of the teapot I placed one of ReneaBouquets Beautiful Board clock faces and used G45 Imagine paper line to back it. Coffee stained a doily tucked inside and embellished with some of ReneaBouquets gorgeous butterflies and flowers. The silver spoon and teacup on the bottom are part of ReneaBouquets Princess Trinket line. 

On the top of the teapot I placed ReneaBouquets Printed Beautiful Board "Tea With Me".  It's so easy to create a shabby piece with all of ReneaBouquet items in the store HERE. 

For your pleasure I have created a process video below.... so grab a cup of tea and sit back and enjoy ! Supplies used from ReneaBouquets store are listed in the video information below. xoxo

Entered this piece in the following creative challenges: 

Simon Says: Feminine/Girly 

Love to Create-Anything Goes

Creative Artiste-Anything Goes #47

AInkyMess-#28 Anything Goes Mixed Media

Altered Art Journal Cover

Hi crafty peeps... Today I have for you a design team project for Art Anthology and I'm dressing up the front of my art journal.

 I titled the front of my journal  "Anthology". I felt is was fitting:  Merriam Webster says:  anthology  noun an·​thol·​o·​gy  Definition of anthology  1: a collection of selected literary pieces or passages or works of art or music. 

Adding texture to the front was grungeboard letters, latex lace and Mud Paste ran through 2 different stencils. 

The painting process as well as adding the Colorations can be viewed below in my video for your pleasure. I appreciate you stopping by and taking the time to view my blog. Hope you were inspired and will give this easy technique a try. Creatively yours, Toni

Entering this piece in the following challenges: 

Creative Artiste #45-Mixed Media Anything Goes 

Altered Gift Boxes for ReneaBouquets Guest Design Team

What a fun time I have had as guest designer for ReneaBouquets this month. Having the opportunity to work with the gorgeous products from their store has been such a treat. Today I have my last guest design team project for this month and it's some cute little boxes I altered to put gifts in for some friends.

I purchased these little boxes at Michaels for $1.50 I believe and they are the perfect size to put a special little something in for a gift. With Christmas right around the corner I new I needed to grab a few of these and alter. 

I started off first by coloring each box with a different DI ink and then went to town on embellishing each one differently with ReneaBouquet Beautiful Boards and flowers. 

Each flower was dipped in melted UTEE to give a pretty glass-like appearance. 

A list of supplied used from ReneaBouquets is listed in my video below. I hope you take a moment and drop by the store, you will be amazed at her products. Wishing you days of creative bliss !

ReneaBouquets store: https://www.reneabouquets.com/shop-c5em ReneaBouquets Blog: https://www.reneabouquets.com/ ReneaBouquets Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/Artis..

Steampunk Wooden Case To Hold Embellishments

I love having fun containers to house my art goodies and I really needed a new case for my steampunk trinkets. I found this box on clearance for $5.00 and thought it would be perfect for all my goodies. 

The top is glass so on the underside I added alcohol inks and then random steampunk stamps were applied. The "Mister" image is actually underneath the glass, so I used alcohol blending solution to move the inks around so the image would show through. 

The inside I left completely alone and filled with wonderfulness for my next projects !

The Steampunk title was burnt into the wood using Walnut Hollow wood burning kit. 

Frame was painted black and then enhance with Art Alchemy Waxes.  I have a video for your viewing pleasure. Hope you take a moment to view. I am new with YOUTUBE so would love for you to subscribe to my channel if you have enjoyed this video. Thank you for stopping by. 

This project to be entered in the following challenges:

AInkyMess#23-Anything Goes Mixed Media

 Mixed Media Art-Inspired by the colors and the old used brushes. 

Rhedds Creative Spirit - Alter Something 

Love to Create #11 - Mixed Media 

Creative Artiste #41Mixed Media 

SanDee & Amelies Steampunk - Summer Special 2018

Altered Lamp Steampunk Style

Hi everyone... hope you are having a creative month. Today my project is for Art Anthology featuring their wonderful Rust Paste Set.  

I purchased a lamp recently at a home decor store and wanted to alter it for my craftroom, here is how it began. 

I also purchased these children goggles at the dollar store to alter as well. 

With the addition of lots of metal pieces from my visits to the junk yard, thrift stores, etc. and chipboard pieces, as well as items I picked up at the hardware store, I think the lamp came together well. 

Art Anthology's paints are so versatile and easy to use. This piece was difficult to photograph but I hope you get the idea. 

Here is a shot of it outside, and the complete tutorial can be viewed HERE for my process. 

Hope you enjoyed and are inspired to use our Rust Paste Sets. To purchase them you can go to our shop HERE. 

Altered Art Supply Containers with Toni

Hi crafty peeps, today I'm up on the blog to share a project for Art Anthology and some inspiration for altering containers to hold your art supplies. I love organizing and I really enjoy using my supplies when they are in pretty containers. So let's get started. 

I had this empty peanut plastic container and it was the perfect size to fit all my sea shells so I knew I wanted to give it a face lift. 

Adding sculpture medium to fishnet prepared the outside of the container perfectly. Below is a complete Snapguide tutorial to show you more photos and the step x step process. 

The lid was altered with sea shells, net, a metal light house, sea horses etc. These were also added to the sides of the container, then everything was given a nice coat of white gesso to prep for Art Anthology's Shimmering Inks and Patina Texture Set. 

The patina texture set adds such gorgeous under the sea colors and the shimmering inks give such a pretty mossy appeal. 

Art stones in assorted sizes were also added for texture and interest. 

Containers are always so much fun to alter and I hope you will give it a try. Below are a couple other containers that were altered to hold more crafty bits. 

Wooden box altered to hold my steampunk embellishments

Bubble gum machine altered to hold crafting pearls.

I will be entering this project in the following creative challenges: 

Mixed Media Place -Inspired by the colors, the water and the fishnet

Mixed Media Monthly #44 - Ring in the New Year  -with a new year comes new organization of craft supplies. 

Creative Artiste-Anything Mixed Media 

Rhedds Creative Spirit - Mixed Media Altered Art

Check out How to Decorate Your Craft Supply Containers by Toni Burks-Grijalva on Snapguide.

Peace On Earth Lighted Clock by Toni

Merry Christmas everyone, it's that time of year where there just seems to be a bit of magic in the air. I had this idea in my head that I wanted to create a wintery scene that would depict the magic of Christmas .  

I decided to use my T!m Holtz assemblage clock and applying the new product from Art Anthology which is oxidized silver paste set. First I added some metal wings to the clock and then textured it with mud texture paste. 

The inside was filled with special little items, like bottle brush trees, ideology deer and paper dolls, as well as homemade snow. Below is a full tutorial so you can view the process to make this fun clock. 

Here is a photo of the clock without the lights on. Still looks so pretty I think. Icicles were created by dripping hot glue and allowed to dry. 

Here is a photo of the back of the clock with the battery pack. 

Wishing you a holiday season filled with peace and love. Thank you for stopping by. xoxo Toni

This project will be entered into the following challenges: 

Emerald Creek - Anything Goes 

Words and Paintery - 

Mixed Media And Art - 

Frilly and Funky - Most Memorable Gift (My passion for art given to me by my mother)

Rhedds Creative Spirit - Anything Goes

Check out How to Create Lighted Winter Clock by Toni Burks-Grijalva on Snapguide.