Creating With Wendy

Hello Everyone,  A few years back I drew and made a flower girl paper doll. She was one of my first paper dolls and after going through my paper doll journal, I realised I hadn't added one of her to it. So this project is about adding my flower girl to my paper doll journal and using up some of the scrap BoBunny patterned papers I had left over from other projects. What I used in this project: *My Doll Art Journal *A selection of BoBunny patterned papers *Black Marker *Pva glue OR glue stick *A selection of Kaisercraft paints *some buttons / decorations of your choice *Flower stamps from my supplies *Vintage Ink pad I used a pattern of my flowergirl I drew a few years back. As seen below and I cut a couple of each piece from the left over BoBunny patterned papers. The papers are wonderful to mix and match together. Once I had my individual pieces cut out I chose the ones I wanted to use to make my flower girl paper doll. I gave the edges ...

Hello Everyone, This project is a 'carry on' from the Bead Dangle I had previously made. I classed my bead dangle as my 'seed' and now I am making a journal that grew from that seed (the bead dangle). So much inspiration came to me after making the paper layered beads, I really needed to make something for them to hang from. And the beautiful selection of BoBunny papers were actually crying out to me..."Put me in a journal....put me in a journal..." heehee! So that's exactly what I did. I gave myself a challenge to use only the patterned BoBunny papers to decorate the journal with. the papers made wonderful tags and cut outs to put on the pages. I did run out of ephemera and I ended up using a couple of images from a magazine. This journal was a little different for me and it's actually the first one I have made using a corset spine. So, it was a bit of 'trial and error' but in the end...there were no errors and it turned out so pretty...

 Hello Everyone!   My project for Aunty Vera this time round is one of my all time favourite projects. I love, love, love making layered paper beads. Handmade beads are just a perfect addition to any handmade journals or even using them by hanging them from your handbag or even on a key ring, they just look so dang pretty! WHAT I USED: *Outside In Easter Egg Stackables from Lawn Fawn (The smallest die, just the perfect size) *PVA glue *Paint colour of your choice for edging *A selection of BoBunny Pattern Papers *Dimensional Magic  ModPodge *A length of chain *Jump rings *Recycled beads from an old necklace as an added interest *Recycled cardboard Did I happen to mention this project is one of my all time favourite projects to make!!! Heehee!! I started by cutting out the smallest egg die shape from the Lawn Fawn Outside In Easter Egg Stackables. And when I say cut out, I mean heaps and heaps and heaps of the egg shape from the recycled cardboard. ...

Hello Everyone, Today I have an easy way to make your own Easter Baskets for your children or in my case for my grandchildren. On a recent shopping trip I managed to pick up some of these cardboard boxes from one of our local 'cheapo' stores. After seeing them, I thought they would look great decorated, adding some sort of handle and making up some Easter baskets from them. Once I got them home, I couldn't wait to start decorating and creating! WHAT I USED:  *Pre-made box shown above *White Gesso *BoBunny selection of patterned papers *Coloured cardboard *Aunty Vera Easter Egg Washi Tape *Brads (to hold handles on) *Selection of Prima Flowers *Cut out words from BoBunny Cottontail Pastel 12x12 Patterned Paper *Celebrate Easter Chip Board Accents from Echo Park *Distress Ink Brushed Corduroy *Glue *Outside In Easter Egg Stackables from Lawn Fawns I started by giving the edges of the boxes a coat with some white gesso. I wasn't too ...

Hello Everyone ! So excited to start this month  making a few projects in the Easter theme. This project was a rather easy and fun one. I had some small wooden letters in my own stash for a couple of years and the letters combined made the word 'CREATE'. I was having a play around with them and realised if I could pick up the letter 'S', I would be able to have two words made from the same letters: that being 'EASTER' AND 'CREATES'. How fun is that! This is one of the finished decorated letter words... What I Used: * A selection of BoBunny Pattern Papers *PVA Glue (any wet glue) *A Destressing tool *Nuvo Crystal Drops *A selection of Prima flowers *Vintage coloured ink *Turquoise coloured paint (Kaisercraft brand) *Aunty Vera Washy Tape- Easter Egg Pattern *Doodlebug Shape Sprinkles-Bunnys I started by getting every letter and flipping it over and tracing around it's shape on the BoBunny patterned paper. I...

Hello Everyone, Time to get 'wacky' with a hand drawn paper art doll using left over scraps from the Photo Play papers. What you will need: *scrap papers from Photo Play *white scrap cardboard (for lips) *double sided tape *glue stick or wet glue *a black and white marker *WOW embossing powder-Primary Red *Distress Embossing Ink *threads for hair *button for belt buckle *your choice of paints (for journal page) *paint brayer (optional) *hole punch for hair To start you need to design your art doll on some paper. You can make it as 'wacky' as you like, the 'wackier' the better. Below is my sketch of the art doll I will be using. Once you have decided on the design of your art doll. You cut out the main pieces and make a template from the by gluing them down on to some recycled cardboard. So I cut the head in two and the body shape, then cut the eye shape and nose shape as well as the mouth shape. Having my temp...