Lucy's Kitchen of Recipes

Scrapbook News and Review Magazine  is hosting 7 days of artsy fun in our newsletter. Today is the 2nd day and mine was featured and here you go. Hearts Forever Arch By Lucy Chesna Hearts Forver by Lucy Chesna Supplies Pearls: Recollections; Butterfly; Recollections; Stamp: Queen Kat; Ink: Ranger; Gel: Golden; Other: Sewing pattern tissue, flower, fabric tape, image from internet, chipboard, muslin Supplies Arch Background stamp Sewing pattern tissue Gel medium Sponge brush Vintage picture Distress Inks- Antique and Black Soot Scissors Embellishments Step One: Brush a good amount of gel medium and crumble up the sewing pattern tissues (about 3 pieces) Step Two: Brush on 1st layer, add more gel medium and continue till all 3 pieces are on top of each other Step Three: Trim off all around and sand the edges; Let it dry Step Four : Ink the edges with Antique distress ink and then stamp the background imge with Black Soot distress ink; Let it dry Step Five: T

Roni Johnson is an amazing mixed media designer and I cant wait to get her book for my Mother's Day gift( I knew its coming..lol) She has over 500,000 visits in her blog and she is giving away some amazing stuff Here is the link http://inkstainswithroni.blogspot.com/2011/04/half-million-visits-huge-give-way.html Get over there...You have till May 15th

Here is my tutorial for OWSE Explosion Box Tutorial By Lucy Chesna Supply List: 4- 12x12 sheets of cardstock Various patterned paper to decorate Adhesive Scoring tool Paper trimmer To create the box Step 1: Take 3 of the cardstock and cut as then as follows ·          Bottom layer stays at 12 x 12 ·          2 nd layer cut it to 11 x 11 ·          3 rd later cut it to 10 x 10 Step 2: Score the 3 pieces of cardstock as follows and each side has to be scored ·          12 x12 score 4 inches in all sides ·          11 x 11 score 3 ¾ in all sides ·          10 x 10 score at 3 ½ in all sides Step 3: Cut the corners all 3 sheets. They will look like this. Step 4: glue the middle panels and adhere then on top of each other. The larger is the bottom layer then the 11 x 11 and then the smaller one. You are ready to embellish the panels. To create the lid of the box Step 5: Cut the last piece to 8 x 8 and score it 2 inches all around Step 6: Do not cut the corners but score it diagon