Miscellaneous Project & Happy Birthday

Good evening. Today has been a housework day, and when I finish this post, then I'm off to do some visiting. I wanted to share a little project that's been in the works - and since I normally don't do "projects" - this is a bit of a departure from me. This is a vase done with paint and alcohol inks.

 

 

This vase was purchased as a pair colored graphite black. I liked the shape of the vase. So....got sprayed with  bright gold paint. Used alcohol inks in the red shades, to dab red pretty much on all surfaces. Liked the way it turned out. (daughter still has hers black). The vases lived in red & gold sitting in our basement tv room for some years. There's a lot of red pillows & such like in that room because it's rather dark. The red is cheery.

 

While we've been cleaning & decluttering, I removed some 'stuff' from the hearth in our living room/den on the main floor. The white fireplace in that room has smokey blue slate tiles surrounding the opening and covering the hearth. Decided we'd spray one of the vases a hammered silver, use some blue alcohol inks to dab around to dull up the silver. I'm not sure this is the final blue the vase will stay. I'm debating whether to pour a little blue Dylusions ink into a shallow pan, use the dabber felt to darken the blue even more.

While I was taking photos this evening, I bumped into the blue vase and broke a bit off one of the little curly-ques. Think it can be glued back, but if not, it's turned toward the back and nobody but Moi will know it's broken. Thought I'd live with this shade of blue for a few days before deciding to try the Dylusions. I don't know if that ink will work on metals...will have to do some research.

OK...now for yet one more 4th of July card:

 

 

For my international visitors, sorry for all the grunch of 4th of July holiday cards. Did a bunch, got them mailed today (LATE!) so I'll share over the next few days. This one was easy: old pattern paper from stash - stars die cut with a Creatopia star die (think S/Binders makes that, not sure). Everything on this card is bits & pieces (ah, snippets!) and it was the last of the cards that I finished ..Whew!

 

Also added a pretty 4th of July card this evening to the Friends' Cards page too,  if you've time to look.

 

Last, but definitely not least: today was Our Darnell's birthday, so I hope you will take a moment to pop in & wish her a wonderful day. She has a nice graphic on her sidebar - but guess who just now saw it????It has her birthdate and asks "when is yours?". I think that's a great idea, so that those of us who 'know each other' can send some love & good wishes. Darnell is so talented - her blog is always one that makes you smile. She inspired me with the idea to provide links to new followers - except I don't know how to add the pictures! Heck I'm doing good to get the links done properly! I've borrowed lots of other good ideas from Our Darnell, and plan to keep on! (as long as she'll allow it).  And she's always willing to help out with the technical problems. A real Blog Angel!

 

 HAPPY BIRTHDAY DARNELL! 

 

It's been a while since I got over to Pixie's Snippets Playground, soooo....I'm going to take my little snippety holiday card over for Week 131 to see if Parsnip will like it. Maybe he'll let me sneak in with this one.  G'nite and thanks for joining me. Ya'll have a great evening. Hugs