Amaryllisroze

AlphaStamps Giveaway Time!

2011-12-29T05:11:00.004-06:00

The folks over at AlphaStamps are having some awesome giveaways this week! Check them out.

http://www.alphastamps.com/blog/?p=3221

Christmas Tin

2011-12-08T20:45:00.003-06:00

I joined a Vintage Christmas Altoid Tin swap over on Craftster.org
I was partnered with the brilliant Killam_Creative and this is what I came up with for her.

The husband cut a hole in the lid with the Dremel and I used strips of balsa to build the little window.

The lights, tin, garland around the outside, the tree behind Santa and the toys in front of him and the star on the top of the tree all came from AlphaStamps.com. Everything else I found in my stash.

'Tis the Season...already!?

2011-11-26T11:15:00.005-06:00

The leftovers have all been put away, which means my denial of the fact that Christmas is creeping up on us has done no good yet again. There is even some snow showers in our forecast for later this week. It was almost 70 degrees yesterday! I'm so not ready for this.

But, because I can't fight the inevitable, these are some little ornaments I made for a swap on the AlphaStamps Yahoo Group. I love the little Brownie stamps. Their chicken legs and big bellies crack me up.

(AlphaStamps has a great sale going on right now with some awesome giveaways!)

Another Give Away!

2011-10-31T09:45:00.002-05:00

Time for another awesome AlphaStamps giveaway! These goodies should not be missed!

http://www.alphastamps.com/blog/?p=2635

Halloween!

2011-09-30T20:34:00.005-05:00

These are some things I whipped up for AlphaStamps. I'm not sure which is my favorite, but I'm leaning towards the hat.

Sacred Heart Shrine

2011-09-30T20:28:00.003-05:00

AlphaStamps sells these wonderful little scared heart shrines. They've got several styles and at the moment, this is my favorite. I took some cheapy craft paint and a stylus and went to town making dots. Its kind of reminds me of oaxacan wood carvings.

Maybe I'll try adding some metal to the one with the wings next!

New AlphaStamps Challenge!

2011-09-11T12:31:00.005-05:00

Check out the new challenge at AlphaStamps. You could win 10 of their fabulous collage sheets!

"Use any of the adorable kitties from the Catnip Kittys Collage Sheet and a Ginormous Manila Tag to create a Halloween-themed piece of artwork! We’re looking for creative fabulousness (and some spooky cats)!

Submissions are due by NOON (PST) Sunday, September 25th (2011). Voting will be open from September 28th - midnight October 5th, with the challenge winners posted on Saturday, October 8th. (2 winners! Popular vote and Editor’s Pick.)"

Don't forget!

2011-08-09T05:46:00.005-05:00

Make some cool art - win some awesome stuff!
See the attached blog post for all the halloween goodies.

http://www.alphastamps.com/blog/?p=2122

Another Great AlphaStamps Giveaway

2011-07-24T11:13:00.002-05:00

Check out the awesome giveaway from AlphaStamps! That prize pack is full of spooky goodness!

http://www.alphastamps.com/blog/?p=2122

Contest!

2011-07-20T22:29:00.002-05:00

The advent calendar I made for AlphaStamps is in a contest. Please go vote if you've got the Twitter thing. (I have to admit I don't know how Twitter works with the @ and # things. Yes, its kind of embarrassing)

http://www.craftster.org/blog/the-craft-hobby-association-and-craftster-tweet-off/

Thanks!

Circus Swaps on Alpha Stamps

2011-06-12T13:25:00.004-05:00

The gang at Alpha Stamps is hosting a couple of circus themed swaps. (the link http://www.alphastamps.com/index.html ) Here are some pieces I put together for them.

Garden Fairy Swap on Alphastamps.com

2011-04-03T10:22:00.004-05:00

These were created for the Garden Fairy swap on AlphaStamps.com. Pretty much everything I used can be found there.

Tiny Little Tin

2011-04-03T10:16:00.004-05:00

My pal Kristin & I like to do little weekend swaps every now and then. We come up with an idea on Friday and have to have the finished item in the mail on Monday. This is our most recent one. It started as a mint tin, not unlike an altoid tin, but smaller. Much smaller. The overall size is 2 3/8 by about 1 5/8.

All of the paper I used came from the Graphic45 "Le Cirque" line.

VIP Swap

2011-04-03T10:00:00.007-05:00

As usual, I made these items for a swap on Craftster. Most of my work is created either for swaps or for Alpha Stamps design team. I tend to have trouble with creating without a specific reason why.

Anyway...the point of this swap was to create items for the recipient to know how oh, so very important they are.

A VIP bunting to so everyone can see how important she is.

A close up of one of the pennants

An important party hat.

A little bird to do her bidding.

The papers used are all by Graphic45 and the glitter is Distress Stickles. Pretty much everything I used can be found on AlphaStamps.com

AlphaStamps Giveaway

2010-12-26T10:09:00.001-06:00

Check out the great giveaway at AlphaStamps.

http://www.alphastamps.com/blog/?p=1086

Steampunk Advent Calendar

2010-12-08T11:22:00.004-06:00

This is the steampunk advent calendar I came up with for the AlphaStamps Design Team, using Graphic45 "Steampunk Debutante" paper and a billion bits and pieces from Alpha (including a bunch of Tim Holtz products). I have to say this was the most labor intensive thing I've done to day and I think its my favorite as well.

In the second picture you can see the side of the box. I used a dimensional paint to create the soldered seams and rivets to beef up the steampunkiness of it. The overall size is about 12 inches by 12 inches and each little drawer is right around 2x2.

Steampunk Debutante

2010-12-05T09:12:00.003-06:00

I made some items for the AlphaStamps Design Team using Graphic45's Steampunk Debutante paper and a ton of metal bit and pieces from AlphaStamps.

The roses on the first piece were made with the G45 paper. They were a blast make and I really love out they turned out.

Angel Slide Mailer

2010-10-23T10:23:00.002-05:00

This is a slide mailer I made for the Alpha Stamps Design team. I love how the gold leaf covered the mailer. It gave it a great antique look.

Products used:
Angel Collage Sheets
Gold Leaf (scroll to the bottom of the page)
Slide Mailer

Altered Canvas

2010-10-11T12:47:00.002-05:00

This is an altered canvas I made as a birthday gift. Its 6x6 and about 1.5 inches deep so it will stand upright by itself.

Alpha Stamps Warm, Spicy “Autumn Colors” Giveaway

2010-10-09T10:16:00.002-05:00

I love fall! (even though its supposed to get close to 90 degrees here today. Blech)

Check out this great giveaway from Alpha Stamps.

http://www.alphastamps.com/blog/?p=659

AlphaStamps.com Halloween Slide Mailer Swap

2010-10-02T10:40:00.003-05:00

I joined a swap on Alphastamps.com for Halloween Slide Mailers. I managed to take some spectacularly bad photos of these for some reason, but here's what I came up with.

I really like the one with the devil skelly peaking thru the window on the outside and the little skellies on the inside. You can't tell from the photo but there is a sheet of mica between the window frame and the picture of the skelly on the front.
(I wasn't able to get a good picture of the inside of the 3rd one so I didn't bother to put it up)

Most of the supplies I used can be found on these pages:
Halloween Collage Sheets
Paper Theatre Collage Sheets
Slide Mailers
Black Dresden Trim
BEWARE and black fence stickers
Poison Rubber Stamp Set

Alpha Stamps Giveaway!

2010-09-05T23:08:00.001-05:00

Alpha Stamps is having a great giveaway. Read more about it here.

http://www.alphastamps.com/blog/?p=630

Catching up

2010-08-24T21:44:00.006-05:00

Some miscellaneous projects from the past few months...

A Tim Holtz inspired ATC sized canvas

12x12 canvas for a swap on Craftster

4x4 Page

3x4 canvas

Steampunk ATCs

2010-05-16T17:40:00.003-05:00

These are for a swap on AlphaStamps' Yahoo group.

Heart canvas

2010-03-18T09:45:00.002-05:00

Heart canvas 008, originally uploaded by amaryllisroze.

This piece started as a plain artist canvas. I mounted a paper mache box on the back of the canvas, inside the wood frame then cut a whole in the canvas itself to create the niche.

I covered the whole thing with molding paste, a texture paste and several kind of paint.

The heart is made from celluclay and the corners are some Tim Holtz pieces that I nailed on and banged the heck out of with a hammer.

I really love how it turned and and I'm really glad that I get to keep this one.

(this is the first post I've created using Flickr's "blog this" feature. My image is apparently too big so the edge is cut off. If you click on it, it will take you to the whole image on Flickr.)

Creative Time & Space

2010-02-16T12:48:00.002-06:00

This book looks really amazing.
You can enter to win it here.

http://www.blueskysunburn.com/2010/02/win-free-copy-of-creative-time-and.html

Valentine Matchbox Challenge on Craftster

2010-01-24T19:23:00.005-06:00

Specimen No. 1

2009-12-07T21:58:00.004-06:00

This is an old book cover and a bunch of random found objects.

I think I'm happier with this piece than any I've done in a very long time. The best part is that I did this one completely because I wanted to, not because it was for someone else.

(I can't get decent pictures of it tonight. I'll try again on the weekend when I can do it during the day instead of at night.)

Chunky Houses

2009-11-05T13:41:00.002-06:00

I forgot about these...they're from a chunky house swap on Craftster in July. I love how they turned out.

Its been awhile....

2009-11-05T13:22:00.002-06:00

These are a couple of items I did for a small vintage Halloween swap on Craftster.

I've been in a crafty slump for the better part of a year now. There are so many excuses I could come up with but it really boils down to the fact that I'm totally disorganized and my work space is an overwhelming mess. I did the "cleanup" in July, which turned out to be an effort in futility. Within days my space was a total wreck again. Its still a wreck. I walk in there, take one look at the mess, turn right around and walk back out.

I also have an issue with creating anything that isn't for a specific purpose, like a swap. I don't know when the last time I created something just for the sake of doing it. I have a piece sitting on my table right now that isn't destined for some far off destination and I'm set on finishing it by Sunday night. Its just in the early stages but I already like it and I think its got potential to be a cool piece. Now to get it off the table and turned into a finished piece, hanging on my wall. (I even know where I want to hang it when its done!)

Hopefully there will be pictures posted by Monday morning. I'm crossing my fingers.

The craft room...

2009-07-05T21:05:00.004-05:00

The sad part is that this was taken after I worked on cleaning it for 4 days.

Swap Items for Rackycoo.

2009-06-08T15:04:00.004-05:00

Here are the items I made for Rackycoo for the Invite Your Partner Swap on Craftster.

The Essence of a Woman

2009-04-11T18:25:00.008-05:00

This was made for a challenge on Craftster's paper craft board. The only rules were that it had to be made mostly of paper and the theme was "Woman/The Female Form."

I decided to take some very simple elements that make up a woman and make a 4x4 chunky book. The covers are chipboard and I used my super awesome Bind-It-All machine to bind it.

Triptych for GingerQuilts

2009-04-11T18:21:00.002-05:00

Round 3 of houses

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Houses for Craftster's Round 2 of the Chunky House swap.

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"True" book box

2009-04-11T18:09:00.002-05:00

This was made using some clip art from an old Somerset magazine.

Little fairy house

2009-01-25T10:15:00.004-06:00

I made this for a swap on Craftster. Its about a 4 inch cube. There is a battery operated tea light in the bottom so it glows from inside.

I wish I had done something else with the inside of the front wall so the cut edge of the fairy panel wasn't so obvious when it was light. Ah well...something to remember for next time.

How many mixed-media artists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

2009-01-07T21:45:00.002-06:00

Five. One to scour flea markets for the perfect vintage light bulb, one to collage over it with found papers, one to age it further with walnut crystals, one to give it nice highlights with Treasure Gold rub-ons and one to stick it in the socket with E6000 heavy-duty adhesive. It doesn't work but it looks wonderful and sells on Etsy.com for $45.

(I didn't write it, I saw it in a book and it cracked me up. It could be the Benadryl's fault, though)

2009

2009-01-04T21:09:00.002-06:00

This past year (since we moved into the new house in December of 2007) has not been the best year for me, craft-wise. My goal for this year is to really get back into the thick of things and create some really awesome work.

I'm not going to say its a resolution. I never keep those.

12 Day of Christmas

2009-01-04T21:02:00.004-06:00

This is what I made my sis for Christmas. Each block is one of the 12 days of Christmas. I couldn't get a good picture that shows the colors correctly.

2009-01-04T20:43:00.005-06:00

These are some chunky houses made for some swaps on Craftster (of course)
#5 is my favorite, I think.

Triptych

2008-11-25T22:25:00.004-06:00

I think this is the piece that I am most proud of. The clowns are hanging by threads in niches that are about 3/4" deep. I think the over all size is about 9 inches tall.
I know the niches on the sides are 2" by 4".

It was made for a swap so I didn't get to keep it. I think I'm going to make a similar piece to keep.

Halloween ATC Swap

2008-10-23T20:12:00.005-05:00

These are the ATCs I made for the Halloween ATC swap on Craftster.

Trick or Treat Tin

2008-10-23T20:04:00.005-05:00

This is the tin I made for Crafty_Dame for a swap on Craftster. She wanted "Victorian Goth." The special bits are the weasel bones & beetle wings.

Crafty Bitch - My big summer project

2008-09-26T21:15:00.003-05:00

Rackycoo and I decided to do a personal swap for an shrine in an altoid tin. She wanted the theme of "Crafty Bitch". After much hemming and hawing and digging thru google image searchs, I hit on the idea of using St. Catherine (the patron saint of artists) in a more modern persona, a.k.a., Crafty Bitch. Inside the tin is a prayer card, two tea light candles, a bottle of glitter with a teeny pair of scissors tied to it with a piece of ribbon.

Then I called upon my brilliant friend Sandy to help me come up with something to put on a "prayer card". This was the result:

O Miraculous Crafty Bitch, we prostrate
before Your Image and beseech You to cast
your inspiring look on our troubled scissors.

Let Your tender Heart, so inclined to glitter and ribbon,
be softened by our prayers and grant us that spark of
genius for which we ardently implore You.
Take from us all dried-out glue, all dull cardstock
and misplaced stamp pads with which we are laden.
For Your Sacred Craftiness's sake, hear our prayers
and send us inspiration and aid that we may praise You,
with Michael's and Hobby Lobby, for ever and ever. Amen.

Trying to catch up

2008-09-26T21:01:00.004-05:00

I guess its time to catch up. I just realized I haven't posted since June. I spent the majority of the summer in a total craft funk that I'm finally beginning to haul my big ol' bum out of. Most of this post will be tags for a swap on Craftster and a couple of other random projects.

Another masthead/header thing

2008-06-04T21:35:00.000-05:00

A handful of recent projects

2008-06-04T21:28:00.006-05:00

Religios Icon for the Hannah Grey Design Team

Altered Ancestor piece I made for PhizzyChick

Altered Ancestor piece I made for AlteredMommy

My final tip in page for the tip in swap

Playing around with Photoshop

2008-06-03T21:43:00.004-05:00

Some mastheads I'm playing with...

More stuff

2008-05-10T11:41:00.003-05:00

More Tip In and Chunky book pages for swaps on Craftster

2008-04-02T21:38:00.006-05:00

Newest Chunky Pages, Tip In Page and some Inchies

2008-03-21T09:57:00.003-05:00

Why can I never take a straight picture of anything? Everything always crooked.

I also seem to be on a blue/green kick.

Bear with me

2008-03-20T06:04:00.001-05:00

I've decided to do some work on the blog, making it a bit more my style.

I also changed the name from Sentimementos to Amaryllisroze, because that's what most people on the interwebs know me as, but rest assured, I'm still me!

Hannah Grey Design Team

2008-03-18T11:04:00.006-05:00

I've been chosen to be part of the Hannah Grey design team!

If you want to shop for unique, funky supplies, this is the place to go.

http://www.hannahgrey.com/shop

(I'm having issues at the moment and can't get the link to work for some silly reason)

For my sister

2008-02-27T10:32:00.001-06:00

I made this for my sister. The girl in the picture is our mom when she was about 4 or 5 years old and the woman behind her is her mother. I couldn't get a good picture without glare on the photo.

More Tip In and Chunky pages

2008-02-27T10:23:00.002-06:00

This is a selection of tip in pages and chunky book pages for a couple of swaps on Craftster.

Alpha Stamps Blog

2008-02-15T12:20:00.002-06:00

Here is the post on Alpha Stamp's blog with the outcome of my "Guest Designer" work!

http://www.alphastamps.com/blog/?p=106

Alpha Stamps Guest Designer

2008-02-04T11:07:00.000-06:00

The lovely ladies at Alpha Stamps invited me to be a guest designer. They sent me a bunch of their products and I get to try them out. These are a few of the projects I've finished using their collage sheets and stamps.

I think the ATC with the puzzle piece is my favorite. Its just so soft & pretty.

Art is Life hat

2008-01-16T13:37:00.000-06:00

Craftster is having a challenge on the paper craft board. The idea is to make something out of sheet music. This is what I came up with, but I don't think its finished yet. It still looks naked in some way. I'm not sure what it needs.

Tip In Pages

2007-12-27T12:27:00.001-06:00

I've been working on a "Tip In" swap on Craftster. These are some of the pages I've done lately.

This is the cover of my book.

This is the Zetti page I did for Babbetto

The page I did for Minanina -

And Colorfuldayz

And finally, Little Green Dragonfly...

Merry Christmas!

2007-12-21T10:00:00.001-06:00

House buying

2007-12-05T07:41:00.000-06:00

I've hardly done any crafting for 2 months because I've been buying a house. We move this weekend and at the moment, have boxes literally stacked to the ceiling.

Needless to say there has been very limited crafting time.

Hopefully I'll post more after the first of the year!

Thank you!

2007-09-24T06:01:00.000-05:00

I want to thank everyone who came and saw me at Strange Folk over the weekend! What a day!

If you liked something you saw but didn't buy it or are interested in it, but in a different color or something like that, give me a shout. I do custom work.

Also, I'll be adding some vintage Halloween and Day of the Dead items to my Etsy shop soon, so check back and see what's there. I hope to get them up this week!

There will be some noisemakers, pumpkin heads, jewelry boxes, etc. There will also be some new Halloween canvas boards...those were super popular!

Amaryllisroze's Etsy shop (also known as Amy Rozeboom)

If you were interested in the ATC swap that didn't happen, give me a shout about that too and we can do a direct trade. Most of the cards I've posted here have been traded, but it will give you a good example of my style and I can make something unique for you.

8x8 Halloween canvas board

2007-09-16T12:37:00.001-05:00

Another Pumpkin Head.

2007-09-16T10:51:00.001-05:00

Pumpkin Head!

2007-09-15T22:03:00.000-05:00

Masquerade

2007-09-13T08:52:00.000-05:00

I've branched out...kind of. This one is 8x8 (not including the crepe paper) instead of 5x7. I'm very diverse.

Girl Witch

2007-09-02T08:20:00.001-05:00

Here's another little 5x7 canvas board.

Altered Canvasses

2007-09-01T10:35:00.000-05:00

These are all based on ATCs I've made that were some of my favorites so I recreated them on 5x7 canvas board. They will all be available at Strange Folk later in the month. The King & Clown will have to go as a set because they don't make much sense otherwise.

Live ATC SWAP!!

2007-08-22T11:26:00.001-05:00

Check out the live ATC swap I'm hosting at Strange Folk next month!

http://www.strangefolkfestival.com/atcswap.html

By blood a king...

2007-08-19T12:52:00.000-05:00

I've been in a bit of a creative funk lately.
The ATC board on Craftster is having a challenge on "Illustrated Quotes." Other than a few minute details, I'm really happy with how these guys turned out. They make me happy.

Oh, and the quote is "By blood a king, in heart a clown" by Tennyson.

More Noisemakers

2007-07-30T22:05:00.000-05:00

Noisemaker

2007-07-28T15:15:00.001-05:00

My first completed item for Strange Folk! Its a vintage-style Halloween noisemaker.

Strange Folk Festival

2007-07-17T09:50:00.000-05:00

Check it out folks, Strange Folk is on its way!

ATC Queen Crown

2007-07-03T09:11:00.000-05:00

Craftster.org is hosting a challenge to make the "Queen of Craftiness Tiara". I went more the crown route. I've been making so many ATCs over the past year or so, I decided to make an ATC Queen Crown.

I'm amazed at how hard this was to make. There must have been about a dozen false starts before I finally got the base to look the way I wanted it to. The ATCs at the top and the clips that hold them are removable, if you want to go for a less formal look.

The Girls

2007-06-24T20:54:00.000-05:00

This is an ATC I made for a challenge on Craftster.

The Piece of String

2007-06-24T11:13:00.000-05:00

This is a 6x8 altered canvas. I'm thinking of adding some wire or ribbon to the top so it can be hung and possible something dangly from the bottom as well.

More ATCs

2007-06-12T14:16:00.000-05:00

Craftster Journal Ring

2007-06-03T11:41:00.000-05:00

Five other artists and I recently worked on our first round on a Journal ring.

Details can be found in this set on Flickr...
Craftster Journal ring on Flickr

Lots of ATCs

2007-06-03T11:34:00.000-05:00

Craftster swap

2007-06-03T11:12:00.000-05:00

I made this for Stifflersmom in a shrine swap on Craftster.

Rosie

2007-04-27T10:05:00.000-05:00

Butterfly House

2007-03-12T09:15:00.000-05:00

This is my latest little house.

Clara & Isabella

2007-03-08T10:55:00.000-06:00

Clara has the purple wings and Isabella has the blue-ish green ones.

Easter house

2007-03-05T19:38:00.000-06:00

New ATCs

2007-02-22T22:20:00.000-06:00

These are my most recent ATCs.

Cinderella at the Ball

2007-02-06T12:35:00.000-06:00

I was playing with German scrap borders & what-not last night and came up with this one.
She reminds me a bit of Cinderella.

Talisman

2007-02-02T08:50:00.000-06:00

I just love this creepy little guy.

Valse Rose I - IV

2007-02-02T08:47:00.000-06:00

Here is the full set I made for Stifflersmom on Craftster.

More ATCs

2007-01-18T11:01:00.000-06:00

This one I gave to my pal Sandy. Abhaya means Fearlessness in Sanskrit.

This was for a challenge of Craftster called "Clowning Around". I love him.

These next 2 are part of a set of 4 that I'm making for a trade with Stifflersmom on Craftster.
I have a set of 4 pictures of these girls and decided to make a set.

This was a random card I made and traded with RecycleMicol on Craftster.
Acutally, I'm keeping this one and made her a better one without the smudges by the letters. This is also my current favorite paper.

31 cards in 31 days.

2007-01-01T10:16:00.000-06:00

Here is a shot of the whole project.

December 31st

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December 30th

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December 29th

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December 28th

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December 27th

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December 26th

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December 25th

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December 24th

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Merry Christmas!