Showing posts with label Altered Art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Altered Art. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 14, 2019

Mermaid Altered Bottles & Good Friends!

In July, Girlfriends Gathering, gathered at my home for Summertime crafting.

It was, as always, an amazing day filled with good friends, good food and creating!

I had done some purging in my small studio and
found I had way too many bottles...so,
Altered Bottles was our artsy craft for the day.

Of course with it being Summer,
Mermaids were the theme
Lee's Altered Mermaid Bottle

Lee first tried color fairy lights to illuminate her bottle.
Followed up by switching to white fairy lights

Nora's Altered Mermaid Bottle

While searching for mermaid images, I found most
mermaids have long, flowing, curly red hair.
Few are blonde and only found two as brunettes.

Nora chose a brunette mermaid to adorn

Love this text on the backside of her bottle!
(Several of us used it too)
 

  I think the way Beth's story goes is she found her bottle at
an estate sale that morning on her way here...
her bottle was blue and perfect!
 

Here's a different view showing a wonderful Beachy tag
(I think she may have made at one of our prior Gatherings)

Kim created her mermaid bottle in
her delightful, colorful Bohemian style
painting in her mermaid image



Gail chose not to create a mermaid bottle. 
She loves purple and chose to create this beauty

Rather than a mermaid bottle, Karla worked on her
 
Click on the above links to see more of Karla's gorgeous cards.

 My mermaid bottle

It was a good day!

Thursday, January 17, 2019

Girlfriends Gathering Christmas 2018

Welcome to our Girlfriends Gathering Christmas 2018

 (L-R/F-B: Marj, Karla, Beth, Tami (me), Nora, Kim, Lee & Gail - Lindy & Corrine not shown)

Thank goodness for Marj's height and long arms
as she was able to grab a group selfie of us.

 This wonderful group of women have become friends through
the connection of Karla's Cottage 2011 Bird Song
 
These kindred friendships have been life-changing to us!
So often our lives can be swallowed up in Life itself.  
As friends it is important to connect and
nurture one another in time well spent - 
to create and inspire one another - 
to lift up one another - 
and to share good food!

So, in 2013 Girlfriends Gathering began.

I try about every 3-4 month to host at my home our gathering.  
Everyone brings food/drinks for our potluck meal.
We share from early morning to late night.
We'll create beauty in artsy projects.
And...we nurture our cherished friendships! 

Here's a peek at our recent 2018 Christmas Girlfriends Gathering
 
 The blurry flash of red hair is Corrine joining our group selfie.
Corrine was only 5 years old when Girlfriends Gathering
began.  She sure is growing up! 
  (Corrine & Miss Belle 2014)  

Many of us had hopeful intentions on participating in our
Christmas Diorama Swap, but only Gail and Lee found time to complete theirs.  
Naturally they won one another's dioramas...


 Lee created this adorable handmade paper house tealight diorama!




 Gail created this darling Winter Animals diorama with fairy lights!



  We shared in creating two projects -

Project #1 -
Pine Cone Elves
Vintage-inspired whimsical Pine Cone Elves - 
by Karla

 Winter Forest and Vintage-inspired Pine Cone Elf - 
by Karla




Adorable Pine Cone Elf Family- 
by Beth
Sweet Pine Cone Elves - 
by Lee
 
Googly-eyed Pine Cone Elf family on branch - 
by Kim
 Irish Lass Pine Cone Elf - 
by Kim
Precious Baby Girl Pine Cone Elf - 
by Nora 
 Beautiful Pine Cone Elves - 
by Nora
 My wild-hair Pine Cone Elf
Project #2 -
Butter Pat, Tea Saucer & Tart Tin Ornaments

Gail creating ornaments


 Beauties created by Gail





 These five lovelies are by Nora

My two ornaments 
Marj was working on her own project, Diamond Painting
Here's one of her finished projects
Gorgeous!

Hope your Holidays were filled with sweetness
Xoxo