Henna Hands - working my mehndi/mehendi skills and techniques

Hello readers.

I would love to share with you all my latest henna hand designs. I have been working and practicing on my lines. Thicker and thinner, details and bold. These are the latest works for hands and palms. Please leave a comment below with your thoughts.

Lotus Palm

 

Back of Lotus Palm

  

Playing around with More of an abstract henna

 Henna Cuff and Paisley Design

Thank you for viewing. Please leave a comment with your thoughts below. I love to know what I can do to get better at my craft as well as if I am creating a style people like.

Some of my other Henna:
Henna Hands - lotus, paisley, fun
Hand and Matching Foot
Henna for Homecoming
Henna Belly Blessing (baby shower)
Special Occasion Henna and Gilding
Classic Car Henna


PS: All my henna is made by hand in my own home.  I use all natural ingredients and essential oils. No PPD is used here and none of my henna is black henna or dangerous. I worn all my customers about PPD henna aka: Black Henna, be an informed consumer and be safe!

Blessings!

Party Time Tuesday Coordinator

"You are scraping your house!" - Off the Page Project Entryway

After showing this to one of my friends he stated... "You are scraping your house!"

I have not been scrapbooking lately since our move. Mainly due to the fact that my stuff is still in boxes so I thought I would share with you all the creative things I have been doing around my house. The walls were in dire need for attention. There were eight kids and three adults living here with white contractor grade flat paint in every room. If you look closely there are places in the "BEFORE" pic that has three colors; cream, white and gray on the walls, where the previous owners tried to "touch up" paint.

The design on the side was free handed and the ceiling was created on a piece of paper... scanned into the computer and printed out in a larger size then used as a template.

How it was done:

1) The paints are Olympic semi gloss from Lowe's... the base coat is called Sandpiper and the darker flourish is a mix of their Covered Wagon color and some white (all are left over paints from the kitchen and living room).

2) I drew the flourish on the wall with a pencil, using a home made compass created from a shoelace and two pencils to create the larger curves. I would wrap the shoelace around one of the pencils to make the smaller curves.

3) Hand painting with an art brush the Covered Wagon color that was mixed with some white.

4) After painting the flourish I "distressed the corners with just white paint and a scrub brush to add some streaks and distressing textures.

5) Then I took the Covered Wagon color and mixed it with a faux finish glaze (a translucent medium about 1/2 glaze and 1/2 paint.) I applied the glaze with an old rag. Just kinda washed it onto the wall making sure there were no dark spots left behind.

Live in 2009

This is my New Years resolution page. Things I want to accomplish this year. I am excited because this is my first time putting this down on paper.

One of the fun things on this LO is the Resolutions are incorporated in the design elements. Thanks to Microsoft word art and clip art.

New Technique: I tried out the silk flower folding technique for the first time on this LO. They are located to the left of the Pic. I folded 2-3 layers of petals and then stickled them I also added the bottom greenery part from the original flower.

I loved the way Robinzberdz from Scrapbook.com did the boarder with the three layers and the punch on her LO called "Priceless Memories". The photo editing was inspired by Kaye222 and her beautiful daughters.

Details for Live in 2009:
The Top right:
Here is a detail of the flourish with one of my resolutions on it. "Laugh a bit more. I need to remember how to enjoy life to it's fullest." Also in this section there is a closeup of the chipboard element. I just lightly inked this with a chocolate brown then used an iridescent orange glitter glue over it. This stickles style glue was a light compliment to the copper brads. There is also the letters here "How I ..." These were printed on white card stock off of the computer and then cut apart. You can also see a close up of the boarder style I loved from Robinberdz. This is is three contrasting papers using the same boarder punch.

Top Right:
Here is most of the title. The chipboard letters and numbers were finished in the same way as the design element on top of the photo in the last detail. Here you can see the three strips of PP I used to add a bit more dimension to the background. You can also get a glimpse of the free hand drawn heart done in the burgundy PP. All my PPs were inked along the edges with the chocolate brown ink pad from Stamping up.

Bottom Right:
Here is a detail of where I put two of my other resolutions. "NO Fear!" and my "Hand over control of the camera" they were printed up along this clip art flourish boarder. I then distressed the edge and added the brads and the stickles in the heart shapes. The same orange iridescent stickles were added with a brush on all of the flower petals. A coordinating spring green color of stickles was added to the leaves to highlight the veins as seen here.

It is being submitted to the Cosmo Cricket Jan challenge.

Update: 1st place in the CC JAN challenge
Made top 4th/83 in flower challenge

A New Pair of Shoes Can Change Your Life

Welcome readers,

Ah my little Cinderella. These pictures were taken on her 4th birthday. She received a Cinderella princess dress from us that morning. She was so excited to get it she had to ware it all day. My mother was here in town and spent a day out with each of my children separately. My mother took them both to Build - A - Bear workshop. After choosing her cuddly pink teddy bear, Trinity had to pick the Cinderella Dress to match her own.

Of course she also had to have the glass slippers for the bear because as we all know... "Cinderella is proof that a new pair of shoes can change your life." This was created for the Quote of the month challenge and the heat embossing for Jan.

The shoes behind this quote are the glass slippers for the bear. Thought that was cute. And the Cinderella coach... *brags-a-bit* Made it MYSELF... hehe... sorry but I am soooo excited that it turned out so well.

The journaling reads around the yellow boarder in a pale pink so it is hard to see in this shot:
January 12, 2009 Trinity's 4th birthday ~ MeMaw took her to build a bear workshop. Trinity picked out the pink Teddy bear. Once the bear was filled with love she chose the Cinderella outfit to match her own. Of course no outfit is complete without a new pair of shoes. After dressing the bear we filled out her birth certificate and Bell Bear was adopted into our family. We all had such a wonderful day.

New technique: paper rolling - I used this around the edge of the boarder.

Cinderella's Coach finished on the print out from the comp I used as a pattern.

The coach pumpkin including the door is 5 piece of Cinderella Blue CS - 3 pieces of pixie dust vellum - two pieces of white CS - 7 pieces of gold CS - a 4" clip of pink lace.

The Undercarriage - is 8 pieces of Cinderella blue CS

I heat embossed the C on the door and the iridescent sparkles on the undercarriage.

Stickles - The lamp on the top and the side of the door were stickled, as well as the silver on the bottom of the pumpkin and the foot stool.

I used the Zig Painty gold and silver marker to outline each piece of the coach and to draw each of the eight pieces of the thin undercarriage before embossing it.

Thanks for enjoying this with me!

USAF

This Layout or project has been published in Scrapbook News & Review. If you wish to see it please click on the "Out for Publication" image below. Thank you! ~ Grace ~
USAF Basic Training Graduation with the family. These are pics of me and my soon to be hubby (at the time). My mom and his parents.

This was done as an example for the Military challenge- Jan I am hosting monthly at scrapbook.com. The requirements needed were stars, stripes and ribbon. I feel as if I cheated though because I got them all done in one element.

The other challenge was the Jan scrap lift where I lifted user name on Scrapbook.com Bobecca77's LO "Party".

The is a simple yet beautiful way tou scrapbook. However I used to scrap this way it is now a challenge for me to achieve a simple elegance like this. Just for the record my hubby wanted more "fanciness"... thought it was funny. I said it was a "challenge" and I needed to challenge myself to have some control to make it simple. I have a tendency to over do things.

Details:
The Flag ribbon is 4.5" wide and each of the photos was outlined in the silver Zig Painty. The silver stars are confetti and the letters are made of a silver card stock. Though there is a sentimental attachment to the stencil the letters were traced from...

When I was back home over the Christmas holiday I spent some time at my Grandparents house. This was a visit that was hard for me. I hope this is not the case but my Grandfather is not doing well and that possibly might have been the last time I will see him. While I was helping arround the house I stumbled across these letter stincils that my grandmother has been keeping for ages. I used to play with them when I was a child. I used to live in there house with my mother when our times were hard. It might sound silly but when I see or use these thin blue sheets of plastic I remember fried chicken dinners. Hambugers with homade sweet pickles and homade icecream with the oldfashon salt machiene. I also remember my dear departed Uncle Lee who was much older then I but had down syndrome and was many times my playmate and my drawing companion. May he rest in peace and may his angel wings let him fly as high and as free as he ever dreamed.

Godbless and Thanks for Looking!

Windsome Eyes

Happy New year! I am going to as of this date, and my first Layout of 2009, upload all of these to my blog as well as the descriptions.
This is my beautiful darling daughter on a wonderful day out on the lake. She loves the camera and was posing for me while we were out on the boat. The trip was so wonderful. We spent the weekend with dear friends and our little family.
I was inspired by a challenge on Scrapbook.com for this Layout. It is a great weekly challenge I participate in a lot so you will hear me mention it over and over again on this blog. The Challenge for this week was the start of a new round of the ABC challenge. Each week three letters of the alphabet are used to inspire three elements of a LO. They could be a technique or a shape or anything the hostes can think of that would be used on a LO. This weeks letters were ABC:

• A – Alphabet, you must use letters as embellishments on your layout. You must use at least five random letters, but there is no max limit. The letters cannot spell a word. (Your title and journaling do not count.) - Letters Used are STZGF All in and around the flowers and flourishes.
• B – Black, you must use paper with the color black on it. - I used an embossed black for the two circles behind the pic corners.
• C – Chalk, you must use chalk in some way on your layout. - This is not my best chalking job but I used them in my LO by taking a light brown chalk to the flowers to tone them down so they coordinate better with the PP I chose.

The title was inspired by another challenge called Word of the month Challenge for Jan - the word is:

• Winsome (win-some): – adjective - sweetly or innocently charming; winning; engaging: a winsome smile.

The journaling reads:
Your eyes glisten like the sun on the ... breaking waves of Lake New Hogan, CA.

The Details:
Top Right:
The background was created with a black marble rub-on from EK Success. Here in the pic you can see the detailing of the large flower/alpha cluster. These alphabets are from the Target 1$ bin for their valentine line. The flowers are also 1$ from the dollar store and the gold brad centers are from Stampin' up. The gold flourishes were cut from a 3" wide christmas ribbon left over from a present.

Bottom left:
In This detail you can see the secondary patterned paper from a costco paper pack. This shape was free handed with three sides shaped like the brackets {}. I perfer to freehand a lot of my shapes to customise the size of them as well as making my layouts unique to me. I inked the edge of it with a navy blue. You can also see in this pic the smaller flower cluster. This is Created the same way as the larger one just placed to bring your eye down to the title. The "windosme" was created by inking chipboard black and blinging it up with a few blue stars. I also used my favorite pen ever... the Zig Painty gold and silver oil pen. This was just to soften up the edges of these leters.

Bottom Right:
Here you can see the black embossed paper that was used to qualify this layout for the ABC challenge. I lightly ran a gold inkpad over the top of it to catch the embossed design and give it a litte glimmer. It was then outlined with the Zig Painty. Also notice the picture was framed with a blue and white ric rack.

Thank you all for looking I hope you enjoyed it.

Update: This LO won the ABC challenge 1st place. Top 3 in the Jan Rub-on challenge out of 38.