Facebook Challenge for October - Altered Puzzle

Good morning! I wanted to share this month's challenge for Gina's Designs Craft Group on Facebook.

We will be making altered puzzle pieces.

You only need to alter one puzzle piece to enter the challenge, but feel free to make as many as you would like! There are no limits to the entries.

All you need to do is join the Facebook group to participate; it's free to join.

The winner of the monthly challenge will receive a $10.00 Gift card for Gina's Designs Laser Cuts.
Please keep in mind you DO NOT  need to use Gina's chipboard on the challenges!

 This is a puzzle that I created for a swap with some of my crafty friends.

 This one belongs to Diana. She loves green!

 This puzzle belongs to Kim. She loves feathers and wings :)

 The lovely Amy belongs to this one. She's all about the pink!

This awesome puzzle belongs to Mary. So many little cool pieces of art!

and...last but not least, this puzzle belongs to Gina!

If you are interested in the puzzle that we all used, here is the link

20 Piece Puzzle

Other Gina's Designs products used-

Spooky Shape Set

Honeycomb & Bees small

Garden Fairies Small

Butterflies and Dragonflies 
Dressform 2 Miniature shape set
Coffee & Tea Shape Set
Parisian Shape Set

Happy Crafting!!! 

Altered Bottle by Guest DT Heather

 
Hello friends, Heather here today with my altered fairy bottle.

 

 

I  altered this bottle first with silver foil tape that I embossed with an embossing folder and then applied it to the bottle and added all of Gina's wonderful products to accent the bottle.

 

 

Here is a close up of one of the dressforms from the dressform mini set. 

 

I also used the same metal foil technique on the leaves you see in the photos above.

 

...And finally, here is my lovely fairy resting at the top of the bottle with a glittery gold tones to add to the metallic look of the bottle.

I hope you enjoyed visiting my fairy resting place!

Heather :)

 

Gina's Designs Items Used

Garden Fairies Large

Chain Border

Dressform Mini

Feather Shape Set

Steampunk Doily

Gear Shape Set

 

Other Items Used

Metal Foil Tape

Craftsupplies1 Flowers

 

 

Guest Designers Heather and Amador

Hello, its Heather here today, I am very excited to be Guest Designing for Gina's Designs this month !!! 

I have created this project using the Postage Stamp Shadow Box, it came with instructions and was very simple to assemble. 

I painted it pink before assembling it, then I glued paper from the The Paper Studio-Kellerkurtz & Company collection. 

I then added my embellishments, such as laces and flowers from Craftsupplies1.   I also added one of Gina's dress forms to the piece as well and painted it a lovely shabby pink color.

I had so much fun creating this, and I am looking forward to sharing more projects with you all this month, thanks for looking!

You can find more details on this project on my YouTube Channel, I have created a video for it, which you can find HERE

Gina's Designs Items Used

Postage Stamp Shadow Box

Dressform 2 Shape Set

Other Items and Embellishments

Craftsupplies1

Amador Bustamante is our second guest designer this month. 

 Amador's first project used the Memory Keeping Organizer. 

 Amador said "I wanted to show how else to use this awesome organizer. 

I used an old metal sign to create the backing.

 I wanted to make it look like a cute vintage style display for a boutique.

 I added painted and distressed metal legs 

to give it more height and give it more of that boutique look."

Check out Amador's video!

Amador used:

Memory Keeper Organizer 
Tilda Happiness is Homemade paper pad
Tilda Tiny Treasures paper pad

A Themed Shadowbox by Donna and a Spooky Altered Book Box by Deann

Hello Friends!  Today we have two amazing projects to share, first up is Donna with another of our October cross promotional projects.

Welcome scrappy friends! Today I am sharing a 7 x 7 Shadow Box from Gina's Designs along with a gorgeous brown fabric rose spray from Craftsupplies1.

 

I just love the pearl sprays!

I used two sizes of the new Layered Flourishes. These are so cool! I painted the top and bottom pieces with white gesso. For the top piece of the small flourish, I used a walnut stain distress paint dabber, then lightly rubbed on Inka Gold when the paint was dry.

 

I used weathered wood crackle paint on the top piece of the large flourish. The large flourish is straight like the smaller version, but I cut it in half to make a "corner" I used weathered wood crackle paint on the top piece of the large flourish. The large flourish is straight like the smaller version, but I cut it in half to make a "corner" flourish.

All of the dress forms were covered with white gesso and then painted with distress crackle paint.

This was a really fun project! I hope you will take a look at the cute Themed Shadow Boxes and the NEW Layered Flourishes! 

Thank you so much for taking time today to stop by Gina's!!!!

 Gina's Designs 

Layered Border - Victoria Large (coming soon)

Layered Border - Victoria Small (coming soon)

7 x 7 Themed Shadowbox

Dress Forms 2 Miniature Shape Set

Dress Forms 2 Shape Set

Craftsupplies1

Brown fabric rose spray with pearls

Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/shop/Craftsupplies1
Zibbet: http://www.zibbet.com/Craftsupplies1  

Other Products

Prima - Madeline paper

Petaloo - Small flowers

White gesso

Crackle  


Next up is Deann with a Halloween project she has created with one of our book boxes.  She has used the box in a fun and unique way!

Good morning, Deann Here with a Spooky Book Of Spells!

I used a Book Box- Small to make my Spell Book. On the cover I added one of the Spiderweb Shape Sets and a spider ring.  I wrote the word spells in hot glue. To try this yourself, let the hot glue dry, then cover with masking tape. Use a stylus or something with a round tip to emboss around all of the raised areas. Add a coat of Gesso, when dry add Dark Brown or Black craft paint. I rubbed Gold paint over the raised parts.

The inside of the box has been painted Black. I made a dimensional grave yard scene inside 

 I used a Raven from the Spooky Shape Set.

 This would look so cool sitting open on a book shelf!

I used the small box but there are three sizes to play with :)

(((HUGS)))

Deann

Products used:

Book Box Small

Art Storage Cabinet by Mary

Happy July! Thanks for stopping by the blog today. What I have for you today is the Art Storage Cabinet. This unit will give you plenty of storage space! (Sorry, I am moving this weekend and am down to the bare minimums in my craft room!  I promise, I will have this unit stuffed before the month is over!)

 

 

 Along two of the sides you will find a long cubbie. As you can see by the picture, it will hold larger items, such as can of hair spray and mod podge!

 

 You will find two large drawers on each of the other sides of the unit. The drawers are big enough to house ink pads from Stampin' up and still have room left in the drawer!

 

 The top has two cubbies as well. Next week I will be showing you a new design that will fit into one of the top cubbies!

 

  For those of you that have the Ultimate Storage Tower, the Art Storage Cabinet sits on top of the Tower. What a great pair!

For more pictures please visit my blog HERE.

Gina's Designs Products Used

Art Storage Cabinet

Dressforms 2 Miniature Shape Set

Vintage Seamstress Shape Set

Cardstock Doily Set Intricates

Other Items Used

Knobs: local hardware store

Metal Filigree: ButterBeeScraps

Ink: Distressed Ink: Walnut Stain

Embossing Powder: Zing-Chestnut, Stampendous-Aged Ivory,Ranger Black

Paper:KellerKurtz and Company (Hobby Lobby)

Lace: Suhafuha and my stash

Mardi Gras Layout by Kathi and some ATC's by Melissa

Today we have two projects to share.  First up is Kathi with an inventive way to use the chipboard masks that you have seen decorated this month by all of the Design Team members in celebration of Mardi Gras.

Hi everyone, Kathi here, thanks for joining me today,  I have created  a 12 X 12 layout using one of the new masquerade masks  from Gina's store..  The masks come in several shapes and are ready to decorate.

I added two of the smaller masks as photo mats. I added the paper to the mask and the ran it through the big shot with an embossing folder.  I sanded the raised area's and used Lindy's Stamp Gang spray on the lace. I added feathers beads & flowers to the left top of the mask, and I shaped the mask raising the nose area. I added a very thin paper flower laser cuts (from Korea) A gift from my mother-in-law 30 years ago. 

I hope you liked my project today, thanks for stopping by and don't forget to visit Gina's Store.

Supplies used: Gina's Designs:

Masks Shape Set

Other supplies used:
Graphic 45 paper
Feathers
WOC flowers
beaded trim from Suhafuha
Martha Stewart Punches
Tim Holtz embossing folder


Next up is Melissa with some gorgeous and unusual ATC's.

Hi everyone, Melissa here.  One reason I find the chipboard such a pleasure to work with is their versatility. I can change their original theme to fit which ever one I want.

Gina's Designs chipboard used:

String Alongs-Gothic

String Alongs-Alice

Birds Shape Set

Dressforms 2 Miniature Shape Set

Thanks for looking!