Showing posts with label crafting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label crafting. Show all posts

Friday, February 17, 2012

Loving My ZIG Pens!!!

ZIG Pens Are One of the BEST
Pens Around....

These are just a few of mine that I pulled out to get some pictures of. I use them to doodle, journal, make line drawings, and many other types of  fanzigulous fun!!!
Do you own any ZIG pens and how do YOU use them? 




My ZIG Pens!!!




I was going through all of my journaling pens the other day, organizing them and got all of my ZIG pens in one place and the colors are so pretty!! I love using these pens for journaling, doodling and tons of other things in my crafting endeavors. If you don't have any of these wonderful pens, you should definitely invest in some, including a Black one! They are the greatest pens for journaling out there.

Friday, June 10, 2011

A Treasure Chest with LSG!

I made this fun project using one of those chests that you can get at Michael's or Hobby Lobby. It had a Parisian theme on it with the Eiffel tower and all and I just didn't like it. So I decided to do a Treasure Chest on it using Lindy's Stamp Gang Products. I used mostly the Magical Mica powders after I had established the base of the chest but also used Moon Shadow Ink and some of the Starburst Stains. I entered it into the LSG "Under the Sea" Contest, and there were so many wonderful entries.
Here are a few pictures I took of the Treasure Chest and it's contents...





Here is a video from YouTube of the chest....



I hope you enjoy this project!
Have a wonderfully, crafty day!
The Distressed Crafter
Kellye
LaceAndMetal

Sunday, May 1, 2011

Spring has Sprung!!!

Spring time has come to my house!! My backyard is in full bloom and looking beautiful. The tree that had what we thought were surely some sort of fake cherry blossom tree has turned out to surprisingly be an actual cherry tree with cherries hanging everywhere!!! I love my garden and like to spend time out there. I keep looking for just the right place to hang my hammock so I can lay out there and watch YT videos but haven't quite found it yet. I've had lots of requests for some pictures of my backyard so I'm going to show some today. I recently took both of Maggie Holmes' photography classes and went from shooting in Auto Mode to Manual Mode in a matter of 3 weeks! It was amazing and it is so much fun to see how easy it really is to use a camera to get what you want out of it.  =)



This rose bush actually does not even grown on my property. It is creeping over my fence line from the neighbor next door and I've actually got it trellised on the other side of my walk way to create a rose archway through it. It is filling out and will look wonderful next year. I got in an awful fight with it doing the first trellis though....



This is a pot of thyme that I planted last week. In the right side of the photo you can see a grape leave from the grapevine I had growing in the bed behind the pot of thyme.


In this pot I have planted some strawberries alongside some chamomile that was already growing there.



Calla lilies growing wild in my backyard.



Cherry blossom tree in full bloom. I don't have a lens for my camera that I can use to get a full view of this tree even standing inside my house, which makes me want to get another lens for my camera really badly.



Dieffenbachia sprouting up naturally in my flower bed in the back yard. It is now almost two feet tall.



Chicks and hens blasting out of the container I've got them in.


Flowers that came up on their own under my cherry tree. Oddly purple and white are the colors of my husbands workplace. Yahoo!


Tomato blooms on plant that I planted recently.


Purple blooms of two different kinds of scented begonias. When you rub the leaves you can smell the yummy smell of citrus.



This is where the rose vines come over onto my side of the fence. The bush to the right I have yet to identify. My back door is just to the right of it.


Red bloom from the bush from the picture above that I have yet to identify. If anyone out there knows what it is, drop me a note!


One of two grapevines I have growing in my backyard. They were already there when I moved in in January but were pretty dead looking then. After lots of rain and fertilizer they are looking much better.


My newly established compost bin. I LOVE it.


Cherries hanging from a branch of the tree.

I hope in the next few weeks to be once again crafting full steam ahead. My arm is doing better, but is very sore from the exercises I have to do. I am just very grateful that it isn't nerve damage or anything worse. I'd rather be hurt for 6-8 weeks than lose an arm! I can get back to crating in a bit. *laugh*
Everyone have a blessed weekend and take care of each other.
Kellye
The Distressed Crafter
LaceAndMetal Designs

Monday, December 27, 2010

My New Craft Room!

Ok, I am moving starting in a couple of weeks but I already have access to the house and my new craft room rocks!!! It's about TWICE the size of my old one. I am going to decorate it and want to share that journey with you here and on my Youtube channel, LaceAndMetal. The pictures below show the room right after the hardwood floors had been refinished and the house had been repainted. Love, Love, hardwood floors!! There is NO carpet in this house and I am so glad. With two little yorkies in the house it is much better with hardwood floors. They are house trained, but dogs do get smelly and the smell gets in the carpet sometimes. I'd rather just avoid it all together. =)

This picture is right inside the door of the craft room. The little area that is recessed right there is almost 2 feet deep and about 4 feet long. I am thinking about putting a butcher block table there for my Imagine.



This picture shows the view outside the window in my craft room showing the back yard. Plenty of space for the doggies and I can watch them play while I craft. =)


This shows the corner across from the door to the craft room and the window that looks out into the backyard.


This picture shows the length of the room from one end to the other, from the end where the door going into the craft room is. It looks pretty short in the pic but it's actually about 14 ft. The wall going across in the picture is about 11 feet. Yay!


I hope all of you enjoy following along while I redo my room and decorate it so that it brings me as much inspiration as possible so that it may bring more inspiration and creativity I can share with you.
Thanks to all of you who subscribe to my Youtube Channel, LaceAndMetal, and to this Blog.


Sunday, December 26, 2010

New Tim Toy!! Vagabond Heaven

Welcome bloggers!!!

I got a new toy this week and wanted to share the unveiling with you...
I plan on making many things with this item and sharing them with all of you in
the coming year.
With the many wonderful Tim Holtz Sizzix Alterations dies, the projects will be limited only to
the imagination contained in our minds.
I hope you will join me on my journey with Tim and his wonderful products.

Welcome to the Distressed Crafter.





I am in LOVE with this machine!!!


It is so versatile! I can't wait to try my Texture Fades in it and try out more of the great Alterations dies as well as my regular old sizzix and cuttlebug dies. It is pretty compact and doesn't really need a dedicated space in a craft area. You can store it away and pull it out only when you need it! Great for crafters with small creating spaces.

I am moving next month so I hope to be able to keep up with my blog posts, but they may be a little slow for awhile. I have a lot of things to do to prepare for the move, but my craft room is so much bigger and I can't wait to get into it and decorate it. I want it to be a room that I feel comfortable and find tons of inspiration in. I can't wait to show you videos when I finally get it set up too! Stay tuned! 

In the meantime, don't forget to subscribe to my Blog and my Youtube Channel, LaceAndMetal. I will be having a Gift-Away for both when I get 50 subscribers. In other words, after I get 50 subscribers in my blog I will have a gift-away for it and when I get 50 for my Youtube Channel I will have one for it.
I hope the rest of your holiday season is bright and happy and your New Year Shines Bright!
Kellye
The Distressed Crafter


Friday, December 24, 2010

All Crafters and Scrappers...Welcome to my Blog!

Welcome to my Crafting/Scrapping Blog scrappers and crafters everywhere! I am so thrilled to finally get my Blog started and begin sharing information with all of you. My intent is to make video tutorials of all kinds of scrapping and crafting projects and techniques, product reviews, and other special content. I want to inspire, educate, share, and amuse you so that you never leave my Blog feeling unfulfilled. I want to build a community of artists who become friends as well as inspirations to each other. I hope that you will subscribe to my Blog and begin to share my journey with me. It will be an exciting journey, but a journey with ups and downs, as we all have in our lives. I invite you to share your ups and downs with me as I share mine with you. It will be an honor to follow along in your artistic endeavors as I share mine with you. I encourage you to share your creations with me. I always love to see my fellow crafters works of art!

GIFT-AWAY AFTER FIRST 50 SUBSCRIBERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Since I am very new to blogging and Youtube, when I obtain my first 50 subscribers I will be having a gift-away on my Blog and my Youtube Channel, LaceAndMetal.  I have not decided what the gift will be yet, but will announce it in the near future. My Blog and my Youtube channel have become a very important part of my life and I hope you will join me and tell your friends to join as well. 

Soon, I will begin sharing my creative projects, product reviews, hauls and other exciting things on both my Blog and Youtube. I can't wait to get started on this and my first video should be up in early January 2011. I really hope you like my videos and that I can teach you things that you have not learned yet or put a spin on some things you may have already learned.

Now just a bit about me....

My name is Kellye, I have been married for almost 13 years to Jim. I have one son, Chris and two step-sons, Julian and Ethan. I live in northern California, but my home is the State of Texas. I'm no spring chicken anymore, but I'm not an old hag either. =) I do tend to hang around with people younger than I am and I do not act my age unless the situation calls for it. *sigh* I will post a picture of myself soon. I am going to try and schedule a shoot soon so I can get a recent picture that is decent. :) I am a retired respiratory therapist and stay at home while my husband works very hard to make a living for us.
I have health issues that prevent me from working, so it's a great blessing that he is able to make enough income for me to be able to stay at home and enjoy my art/crafting.

I also enjoy reading, gardening, travel, all kinds of education, my yorkies Gabby and Bayleigh, sailing,
teaching scrapbooking to others, learning about all kinds of products and how they can be used, cooking,
and sewing.

I also want to wish everyone a Happy Holiday and a wonderful New Year in 2011! The new year dawns bright and I have high hopes for it to be one of the best years of my life.

Kellye the Distressed Crafter