Stuck On You Sketches In the Garden Mixed-Media Canvas Layout



In the Garden
Using a 12x12 canvas
and a sketch by SuePup
You can view her blog at
http://suepup.blogspot.com/



The picture is of Dusty in 2009, we always have a big garden and we all work in it,
I so enjoy taking pictures of the children in the garden.
I have used a Prima butterfly pick, Prima flowers, Silhouette SD for the circle, the title, and iron gate.
Skeleton leaves, 7 Gypsies , DCWV, Graphic 45, MME papers used. Basic Grey card

Martha Stewart punches, Creative Imaginations rub-ons, tags, Tim Holtz stamps,
Tattered Angels butterfly and magnify glass.
I added Artlenz to the magnify glass.
The quote is so perfect
Many things grow in the garden that were never sown there.
~Thomas Fuller, Gnomolgia 1732

Using a 12x12 primed canvas collect your supplies, and papers.
I always use Golden Paints

Apply using the Traci Bautista collage glue
I buy mine from Joann's

Apply stamps and inks

paints, drying with a heat gun

design to your liking

here was the finished canvas before papers were applied to make the layout

Ink your edges

decide how you would like to lay them
I placed the iron gate down after the first layer



Apply using adhesive and a hot glue gun for the flowers

Hello all,

Yep you know it....I just can't seem to post as much this time of year...with gardening, school projects and all the other goodies I have going on......which at this point is toooooo much!!! This week brings you the SOUS using one of Suepup's sketches....some Amazing sketches she has. be sure to check out her blog http://suepup.blogspot.com/ .  Every other week SOUS has a new sketch and a challenge so be sure to join us. Then every other week we have a tutorial on some amazing ideas and techniques...be sure to check them out. I like to hang pictures up on the wall and thought I should do a 12x12 layout on a canvas, so I did....and since this week was the beginning of week 1 at Christy Tomlinson's She Art class. I thought well yeah perfect timing......a wonderful class a must!!!!

 Having all that inspiration running through I have put together a small tutorial to get you started on making 12x12 canvas layouts and then you can hang them or gift them. Fun and so touchable....lol!! You know I like texture and thickness....so these are perfect for that. Not to mention painterly fun!!!!

So get those paints out and have a great time!!! Hope you have a super weekend!!! Cyber Hugs, Dawn



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Christmas Bliss Card with Swiss Pixies Birgitta and Recipe #12 Divinity

Swiss Pixie Card Using Basic Grey Jovial Collection

Christmas Bliss

Close Up of Flower made on the Silhouette using many sizes

The Tim Holtz Ticket

Ingredients for Divinity

Mix sugar, corn syrup, salt, and water on stove top stirring until sugar is dissolved

While the sugar mixture is reaching temp beat eggs until s

Temp must 252 Degrees F hard -ball stage

When temp reached pour slowly into bowl of egg whites

Mix until the shine is gone

Enjoy!!!

              Hello I am serious late today but I had to go out to do some Christmas shopping while hubby was willing to go. We met Beverly for lunch which was very nice. Continued on our quest for gifts.....we did pretty good today I must say.  Wanted to bring you the card as promised, and for the challenge over at A Spoonful of Sugar Challenges such awesome cards on the challenges...check them out. The card is made using the Basic Grey Jovial pp line....oh so pretty.  I used Copics to color the Swiss Pixies Santa Birgitta by C.C. Designs...so cute. Also used the Prisma colors to shade with. The ball on her hat is made using Marvy liquid applique, she outlined with the Copic Spica glitter pens. I cut the oval shape with the Silhouette and the poinsettia, I resized the poinsettia and took it apart. The leaves are on old holly leaf die from Quickutz. Inked using Tim Holtz Distress Inks, the stick pin, ticket and flourish are all Tim Holtz. The lace is Webster's Pages and the punch is a MS punch loopy. The cardstock is American Crafts. Glitz on the poinsettia flower make it sparkle. Hope you like it.
                The recipe is #12 wow, getting so close my kids ask me everyday "How much longer until Christmas?" Thank goodness to my awesome blogger friend Sherry at Aunt Elmo's World for putting up the countdown to Christmas or I would have to think everyday LOL!! Thanks Sherry I added it to my blog too!!
The recipe comes from my Great-Grandmother Faye her Divinity recipe, my aunt loves it so much and we really like it with the walnuts but my aunt wants it plain. I have made this jut for her. So tasty and sweet. We really like it.....but watch out it can be addicting...LOL!!
Faye's Divinity
2 egg whites, at room temperature
1/2 cup of light corn syrup
1/2 cup of water
2 cups of sugar
a pinch of salt
1 tsp. of vanilla
1 cup of chopped walnuts (optional)
Using parchment paper line a pan or counter with to place candy on when allowing to cool. Separate the egg whites in a bowl that you will use to pour sugar mixture into. Have everything ready and move quick it also helpful to have an extra hand at making this just for basic needs while working.  Mix sugar, salt, water and corn syrup into a pan and cook on medium-high heat stirring until sugar is dissolved then allow to boil using your candy thermometer watch as temp rises to 252F Degrees the hard-ball stage. While sugar mixture is reaching temp using a hand mixer stiffen up the eggs but not dry.  When temp is reached slowly pour mixture into eggs and mix using a hand mixer on high speed. Continue beating adding in vanilla and the walnuts if you choose to at this point. Once mixture become not "shiny" anymore spoon unto the parchment paper allow to cool completely. This "divine" mixture can be kept in an airtight container for two weeks or frozen between parchment papers.
I hope you enjoyed this recipe. Have a wonderful night! Hugs, Dawn Gallop

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Haunted Spirit House for the Love of Halloween

Full View



Back view




Inside view (clay pot)





Front door




front door skull view





Inside drawer handmade pants



A sunrise this week in my front yard

Carol Owen signing my copy of her books

Carol Owen and I

Wizard Hats pre cooked

Wizard Hats cooked
see recipe below.

Hello again,
I know it has been one of those weeks....getting class stuff ready for teaching, DT projects, and finishing up other projects.  Not to mention this is the week before Halloween and alot of activities.  We have been having fun getting ready for Halloween. Despite this continued leg pain...I still try to keep going .  The recipe I wanted to share with ya...for the day. Recipe can be found fbnr.com magazine Vol. 7, No. 18, October 31, 2002 edition. These are a favorite of the children. Found on page 44 of the magazine cookbook they call them Abracadabra Hats.....we call them wizard hats, big Harry Potter fans here!!!!!
                        Abracadabra Hats
         1 package of Pillsbury Crescent rolls
      1/2 teaspoon dried basil leaves (I used Italian seasoning)                                                                        16 turkey pepperoni slices (I used a star and biscuit cutter to make stars/moons)
          salami sticks (I use cheese sticks and or turkey cocktail wienie's)
     2 cups pizza or marinara sauce (I serve with angel hair pasta)
                                  
I use my Pampered Chef stone, roll out the dinner rolls preheat oven to 375* roll the wienie's up into the wide ends to create a brim. I have also used cheese sticks. Sprinkle with spices,  Cut out the moons/stars and place on top of hats.  Bake for 12 minutes.Just toooo tooo cute!!

The Halloween spirit house I have created started with a trip to Ornamentea  where I signed up for a class with Carol Owen. An amazing artist who also has a book and is in several others books as a guest artist. She signed my books, and taught us a tremendous amount of knowledge. We all had a blast met some awesome ladies. Pam treated us for lunch on Sunday, thanks Pam! Carol and I had lunch together at McDonald's Saturday together. Just fun fun fun!! It was well needed relaxing weekend. We made our spirit house on Saturday and finished up the drawer on Sunday and of course some decorating. As usual all my goodies are at home so I wait until I get home to decorate. I worked on it Monday and finished up on Tuesday...found out the challenge of the week over at Simon Says Stamp was something scary...well I think I covered that!!!
So this creation is entered in that awesome challenge. There are of course Tim Holtz products, Golden paints, Martha Stewart punches, copper roof with the Sizzix TH die used thru the Cuttlebug. Patina, dollar store skulls, the tiny skulls are handmade by me using paper clay. Copics used to color them airbrushed. The sign in the back is Pink Paislee. I hope you like it!! Have a WONDERFUL HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!
Dawn Gallop

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Hoppy Easter

Hello everyone, well I finished this last night. I had had the bunnies cut for a time now, and the flock from Stampendous on the bunny for over a week. The alphas are Quickutz Reuse. The pp are from Reminisce. Their new Easter Friends and Easter Bunny collection. Too cute, Right???
ADORABLE!!!! As soon as I saw it, had to have it!! I popped the bunny off twice, flocked him, and inked him. The Bazzill cardstock and the Martha Stewart punches for fun. TFL!!! Have a WONDERFUL Weekend!! Dawn

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A Sister is... The Skies the Limit ~Two Chicks Designs~

Hello again, this lo was made using the March kit from Two Chicks Designs or use the link
http://www.twochicksdesigns.com/default.asp The kit this month is chocked full of scrappy goodness!!! Love these KaiserCraft pp's that Christie the Head Chick has picked out. Love it!!!
Since I used KaiserCraft pp's I decided to use a March sketch over at KaiserCraft's Blog or check the link out http://www.kaisercraft.net/blog/ you will love their blog. I used all the goodies from the kit and one of the Chick'n Noodles which is a whole cute little take out box of ribbon, hence the ribbon on the page. They are adorable and chocked full of awesome little gems, buttons, ribbons, flowers, etc. You will love it.
The lo is of my oldest dd Alexis who will be 21 in a few weeks, yeah!!! and of Dusty who is 19 months old now. From last summer, you can just see the love they have for each other, is how I came up with the title. A Sister is.... the skies the limit. I also used a few MS punches and inks. TFL!!!! Hope you have A Beautiful Day!!! Hugs, Dawn

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Howdy ~Two Chicks~

Hello I finished this lo today. Using the wonderful kit from Two Chicks Designs. Here is the link, http://www.twochicksdesigns.com/default.asp. The March kit is already for sale, and I just received mine today...and Oh my it is yummy!!! Fabulous!! Also check the blog out http://twochicksdesigns.typepad.com/ . The pic is of my dear sweet Colby from 2007. The boys are always dressing like cowboys. I used the Cricut from Celebrations cart to cut the banner at 1 3/4. Everything came from the Feb. kit at Two Chicks. The fringe was made using the MS scissors. TFL, Have a WONDERFUL Day, Dawn

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