Pomegranate Liqueur Part 2

I recently posted about making pomegranate 
liquor (click HERE to read previous post) 
from the pomegranates off our tree. 

After letting the juice and alcohol steep the 

specified amount of time I just finished 

bottling my Pomegranate liquor. I did make a 

change to the recipe and instead of adding lemon 

peel I added orange zest. They'll need to

age a bit longer before it can be consumed.

Above are the labels I created for the bottles. Since I couldn't find the actual bottle labels I have! I used Avery brand name tag labels then sealed them with PYM II.
The bottles are from specialty bottles.com or you can find decorative bottles at your craft store.


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Download a freebie background I made 
using a picture of pomegranate arils by 
clicking the image above to download 
and print from your computer.


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Christmas Gift Idea #1

Looking for Christmas gift giving ideas 
this is a fun little gift idea for kids and 
adults a like! Create your own unique 
Tic-Tack-Toe board


Click HERE to watch my videos 
on how I created the above game board
or to purchase your own kit!




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Christmas Gift Ideas

Formica Keychains
I thought I'd re post a past project to 
help inspire you to create for the holidays.


Click HERE to go to the tutorial


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Christmas in July

  Hey did that title get your attention? I thought I'd share what I'm working on....since the holidays will be here before we know it! Yes, I know it doesn't seem like it, but you all know it happens faster then a blinking twinkle light!  So I'm trying to get a head start on projects now....you know that old saying....the road is paved with good intentions! ;-)

 Here's a new mini sketchbook I've added to other ones I've created (see previous posts HERE).  These make great gifts to give or to create and sell if your participating in a holiday boutique.

 Here's a new whimsical drawings for Halloween I've started.  I don't usually show a before picture, but I thought it might be fun for you to see the transformation as I erase get her just right for me to color.  Again, I'm trying to get a jump on the holidays.

Lastly, here's a canvas I'm still working on.  It started out with a paper napkin background and I've since added several layers of glaze and paint and will add several more layers, I'm sure, before I'm finished. This will probably be either a Christmas gift or a piece for resale for the holidays.


Maybe this will inspire you 
to start thinking of gift 
ideas now and you too can 
get a jump on things.

 So there you have
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Christmas Felt Banner

I've started making some felt banners for a Christmas Boutique I'm participating in. With this particular one I used pre stiffened felt and misted the center triangles with Tahoe Turquoise Color Mists. I was really pleased with how well the felt takes my Color Mists. The pre stiffened felt works so much better then the regular craft felt (it's much easier to cut or punch through).

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Formica Tile Tutorial

Formica Keychains

Sorry I've been so quiet life has reared it's ugly head again! What the heck is up with that!? I did manage to get this tutorial finished it's been rolling around in the back of my head along with all the rocks! With Christmas (yes you read that right) just around the corner (hey, don't shoot the messenger) and the economy the way it is. All the more reason to start making some gifts for those special people in your lives.

Click HERE to view my tutorial.

Freebie Image

Click on the above image to download your Vintage soda label to use in your art.

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Homemade Christmas Gifts Part 2

I thought I'd share my finished tag added to the bottle of Mead (see previous post). I added a bit of history on one side and on the other side I added how to drink mead. Nothing too fancy just a bit of info for the novice mead drinker ;-)

I had a few people ask me what I used for the labels. I bought some gum backed labels that are made for bottling. Most brewing companies sell labels, just google it. I then printed them out with my handy dandy HP ink jet printer and then sealed them with what else but PYM II they are now waterproof! At first I was going to use full size sticker paper labels found at the office supply store, but I'm glad I didn't because I could just see my labels being all catty wampus and with the gum backed labels you can just slide them around until you get them nice and straight.

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Homemade Christmas Gifts

Are the best, aren't they!

It's not always easy, but we try to make some homemade Christmas gifts each year for friends and family. Since hubby likes to brew his own Ale and Beer, he decided to try his hand at making a batch of honey Mead for us to give as gifts this season, and boy did it turn out tasty!

(Click HERE to read more about Mead).

Now that it's bottled I needed to make

a label for the bottles and some tags

(I'm still working on the tags).

Here's the finished label, which I will also be

entering in the fair, along with hubby's

mead, this summer.
Don't the bottles look pretty with their
labels? All that's left is to add their tags
and ribbon and they'll be good to go!

Does anyone know of a good

snack recipe to go with the Mead?

Here's the original label I made and then decided to remake it. I'm really happy I did, I love the finished one much better!

If you haven't tasted mead and like the flavor of honey I highly recommend checking online or with your local liquor store and trying some, it's quite yummy!

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Christmas Cupcake Fairy

I just got these adorable cupcake trinket boxes and coffee mugs in, and couldn't resist making one into a perched cupcake fairy! This would make another EZ Christmas gift idea!

Check out how I created this wee cupcake fairy HERE.

You can also click HERE to see more cupcake trinket boxes and mugs in OTM's Christmas Boutique.

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Christmas Gift Project #2

You might think wooden dominos are just for playing with! Nope, instead I have another EZ Christmas project as promised. Click HERE to see my tutorial on making an altered domino necklace or keyring. They're so much fun to make you won't want to stop.

Christmas Gift Project

Here's a couple of EZ Christmas ornaments/neckwear I made recently (they could also be made to use as a gift tag). I started with metal label plates, I don't know about you, but I have lots of these that I had good intentions of using them, but didn't so did what any altered artist would do and found another use for them. This is from one of my quick and easy Christmas gift projects.

I used the following
SUPPLIES:

Star Punchinella 

Book Plates

Bull Nose Clip or
Mini Binder Clips

Image from a Christmas Card

(or stamp your own words on a Blank Ticket)

Ribbon

White Paint or Gesso

Extra Fine Fairy Glitter Dust
Wood Bead *Optional

Glass Charm *optional

I used the star punchinella as a stencil and a make up sponge and white paint  to stamp onto the bookplate and then sprinkled with extra fine glitter dust before the paint dried. You could also use an unmounted stamp  such as a script or snowflake design instead.  For the image I used a  ticket on one necklace and an image I traced around from an old Christmas card on the other necklace.  I also originally used a bull nose clip for the hanger, but you could also use mini binder clips such as these here.

The idea here is to use what you have on hand or what you have available.

Fun Play Day and Christmas Gift Idea

My niece was home for a visit from Notre Dame this week and we had a fun play day together where she made some Christmas gifts she could take back and give to her friends. She misted away using the Color Mists on mini canvas journals, then adding label brackets she colored with paint pens, next she added paper tags on the pages to separate for the alphabet. We sealed them with PYM II as the finale! Before she knew it she had 4 cute little address books to give to her friends. It took her all of 1 1/2 hours to make them accounting for drying time and all (we cheated and used a heat gun).

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Quick Christmas Gift Idea

Here's simple & quick Christmas gift idea I

created using the following items:

• Bisque medallion (6 shapes to choose from)
• Rub-on
• Brass face charm
• Crystal Lacquer
• Chalk Inks
• Gold Leafing Paint Pen
• Leather Lacing
• PYM II

I used a large size rub-on image I had for the front of the necklace (make sure that the rub-on you use is a sticky one,use a brand you know to work well for you--I used a Rebecca Sower rub-on that came in a tin). I then removed the excess rub-on after smoothing around the edge of the medallion. Next I added chalk inks to the sides and the back (instead of chalk inks you can use paints, glazes, watercolors and pigment inks). I then made a puddle of the gold leafing paint on some acetate slide my rubber stamp through the paint and stamped onto the back side of the medallion. To finish it off I adhered a brass face using Crystal Lacquer and then sprayed it with PYM II to seal it and hung it from a piece of leather lacing (you can find this at most craft and bead stores).

*Alternative ideas decorating your bisque shapes*

• Paint with Acrylic paints
• Collage an image using gel medium or lament adhesive such as Crystal Lacquer
• Emboss using a rubber stamp image, embossing ink and embossing powder