Smeared&Smudged April Member Blog Hop | Egg-cellent Eggs

 Hi everyone! Today I'm participating with the Smeared & Smudged members in a fun egg-themed blog hop! We had to STAMP on an egg! SO FUN! You know I love decorating eggs...with tangles or decoupage or paint! This time I began with a fresh farm egg from our friends Stephanie and Shawn--they have literally 3½-4 dozen eggs a day so we've been enjoying these yummy home grown delicacies. I pierced the top and bottom of the egg and blew it out so my art would last--last time people got upset when I boiled the eggs first, decorated them, photographed them and then cracked and peeled them for egg salad! sometimes art is temporary!

With a chalk ink I used an acrylic stamp so that it would conform to the curves of the egg. After getting a good impression, I dusted the egg with my favorite Victorian Bronze Emboss Enamel from Globecraft & Piccolo and heat set the powder. ♥

To finish off my egg, I added a Piccolo Chocolate Bunny coated with enamel and gears. The stand is a wooden spool embossed with Victorian Bronze and wrapped with pink burlap string! I LOVE how he turned out! I hope you enjoy my project! Please be sure to stop by all of the other hoppers along the way! 

April Monthly Member Blog Hop

Black Dragon
leslierahye
Paulette
Susan
Jane
Lisa

Shell

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NEW RELEASE | A Lucky Pendant

  Happy Wednesday everyone! Today on the Globecraft&Piccolo Blog I am sharing with you some of the FABULOUS new release Piccolos!!! I am so excited about my project today!! 

 I began by embossing St Patty's Day Accents by applying Enamel Powder Adhesive and dusting with Mossy Glen and Shamrock Dreams Emboss Enamel. The lighter color is the Shamrock Dreams color. Emboss the Vintage Corner Flourish with Victorian Bronze. The rectangle bezel is embossed with Aged White. I added multiple layers and laid 3size 8 beads into the melted enamel. Once cooled, I applied more enamel adhesive and Aged White powder to coat the beads. While the enamel is still hot, I sprinkled Victorian Bronze over the beads to repeat the color in the pendant.

Piccolos were adhered to the Bezel with Glastique and the edge of the Bezel was colored with an alcohol marker. Next I used Enamel Powder Adhesive to add Aged White powder to two metal washers. I heat set the washers and added more powder to build up a "donut" shape. Remember heated metal is H O T! be sure it is cooled completely before touching. The donuts were also edged in green alcohol ink. Burlap string was colored with the same alcohol ink to coordinate it to the pendant. The washers were tied on and a mini shamrock was adhered to the dangling washers with Glastique.

I used a piece of leather for the necklace, threading it through the eye of the bezel and the Victorian Corner Flourish 

Globecraft & Piccolo Products used

Enamel Powder AGED WHITE*
Enamel Powder MOSSY GLEN
Enamel Powder SHAMROCK DREAMS
Enamel Powder VICTORIAN BRONZE
Enamel Powder Adhesive Fluid
St. Patty's Day Accents A149*
Vintage Corner Flourishes A157*
Rectangle Bezels (pack of 4) B111
Glastique GLOSS Finishing Glaze 2 oz.

*=new release item

I hope you enjoyed my project! Thank you for stopping by today!

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Best Chick in Show with VLVS!

Happy Saturday Everyone! Leslierahye here and in my part of the world the season has changed to Spring and we are about a week away from Easter. That means we will have lots of Easter events in the community and at the school celebrating the Spring Holiday. When I saw the May Arts Ribbons that the Viva Las VegaStamp team were given to work with, the wide twill ribbon looked like it needed to be made into some sort of winner ribbon! So, I bring you the award for Best Chick in Show! Hop on over to the Viva Las VegaStamp! Blog to check out all the details!

I hope you enjoy my project! Thank you for looking! 

A N N O U N C I N G

Join us all week starting Monday the 25th on the Viva Las VegaStamps! and Clearsnap blogs for inspiration using beautiful stamps and beautiful inks! 

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Ten on Ten Challenge | April 2♥12

This 10th day was a busy day but had moments of beauty and grandeur. I love capturing photos of our spring flowers in my neighborhood and tonight was the first preseason baseball game! Go Cubs! I LOVE this time of year!
Ten on Ten Challenge is a challenge that Rebekah runs on her blog A bit of Sunshine. Challenge yourself to take 1 day a month to document your day in photographs.

leslierahye--Ten on Ten--April 2012

Thank you for looking!

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leslierahye's Hippity Steampunk Easter Blog Hop!

Welcome to leslierahye's Hippity Steampunk Easter Blog Hop! I am leslierahye and in this hop we are celebrating Spring & Easter--Steampunk Style! I love Spring and all the holidays and am a huge fan of Steampunk. I have gathered together a group of awesome steampunk artists and am as excited to see their creations as I'm sure you are!!!  This is a one day hop. Below you will find links to everyone on the hop, you can start at the beginning and hop through in order. Be sure and check out all the stops as some have blog candy!!

For my spring project I combined a couple of my favorite things! I love Steampunk that IS why we're here after all! I love projects with eggs--it's very springing and fun to do. I love Zentangling, and in particular I am highly inspired by the work of Sandra Strait--who also happens to be a teammate of mine on the Viva Las Vegastamps! Design Team! Her work is amazing. She recently wrote an article for VLVS about how she creates her Steampunk tangles that she does with the awesome Steampunk Stamps available through Viva Las Vegastamps! This article inspired me to create some of the original tangles that Sandra made on my own project!!

The process of creating this design is available to watch in a video that I created this evening while filling in for my friend and co-streamer Amanda Marks.  I hope you enjoy it!
note to train hobbyists: the rubble that I refer to is really ballast my train-hobbyist son corrected me! Thank you Will for helping Mommy look smarter! :)

 I am offering a blog giveaway today from my favorite crafty store cutnpastememories.com

I will draw on Monday the 9th for one lucky winner to receive a $15 gift certificate to her store! Please leave a comment to be included in the drawing!

Thank you for stopping by! Please enjoy the rest of the hop!

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