Roses With Love

Here is a card that is made using Rose Stencil from Faber Castell..  

First I traced the design on white paper then used watercolors to paint the roses.  I was feeling like making something different today.  Then I found this interesting challenge on Pie lane, luckily there were some hours left for the challenge to close.  

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Symbolic Love jewelry in The Garden of Adin

Symbolic Love jewelry 

in The Garden of Adin

(Click the picture to see this magnificent Flemish Heart pendant.)

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One of the most peculiar and wide spread Flemish pieces of regional jewelry is a diamond heart pendant, the so-called "Vlaams hart" (Dutch for “Flemish heart"). These hearts were fashionable in the 19th century and mostly made in gold backed silver (see also the silver on gold technique). A Flemish heart is a heart shaped field set with rose cut diamonds and/or senelles hanging under a crowning. 

There are two sorts of crownings possible:

1) The crowing is a crown and then it is build up from horizontal, diamond embellished, tendrils that are resting on a smooth surfaced ajour cut band with flattened little rhombic bars. The tendrils from the top incline slightly over this ajour cut band towards the actual cross emphasizing the unity of the jewel.

2) The crowing as love trophy. A collection of four elements, a torch and quiver that are crossing each other, a bow that is horizontal mingled with them and all held together by a laurel. The slightly upwards direction of both ends of the bow refers to the St. Andrew's cross. Torch, quiver and bow are typical attributes to Amor (Eros) and the laurel refers to the triumph of love. This combination was already in use with the old Greek and Romans and later of course in the Renaissance and had a enormous success in France in the Louis XVI period (1774-1793). 

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Flip Flop

Flip Flop card for a special friend . ..

When open it becomes a butterfly..

Another view..

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It's a new dawn, it's a new day and I'm feeling good....in The Garden of Adin

It's a new dawn, it's a new day and I'm feeling good....

in The Garden of Adin

(Click the picture to see this charming ring.) 

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The first lab-produced gem stones were already made in the 19th Century !Auguste Victor Louis Verneuil was a French chemist (1856-1913). He invented a type of blowpipe (chalumeau) with which he was the first to lab produce rubies. This process is also sometimes referred to as 'flame fusion'. His results were published in 1904. The apparatus is still used today (sometimes in banks of several hundred units) to make synthetic varieties of corundum and other synthetic gemstones. 

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Hide and Seek in The Garden Of Adin

Hide and Seek

in The Garden Of Adin

(Click the picture to see this charming ring.) 

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Art Deco is an eclectic artistic and design style which had its origins in Paris in the first decades of the 20th century. The style originated in the 1920s and continued to be employed until after World War II. The term "art deco" first saw wide use after an exhibition in 1966, referring to the 1925 Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes that was the culmination of high-end style moderne in Paris. Led by the best designers in the decorative arts such as fashion, and interior design, Art Deco affected all areas of design throughout the 1920s and 1930s, including architecture and industrial design, as well as the visual arts such as painting, the graphic arts and film. At the time, this style was seen as elegant, glamorous, functional and modern. 

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Timeless Treasures Class at Scrapbook Generation

2-page, 12 X 12 layout

Close up of page 1

Close up of page 2

Timeless Treasures Class

April 19, 2012 @ 2:00 PM

at 

Scrapbook Generation

Springfield, MO

Supplies list: Craft mat, Distress Inks & Blending Tool, paper cutter, scissors, favorite adhesive(s), ruler, and pencil. Optional: Zip Dry Paper Glue and Antique Linen Distress Ink.

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Christmas Tree

This is a Christmas tree layout .. a snow covered and decorated Christmas tree, all shinny and glittery .. 

 This is how the tree looks without the tag..

 The upper layer of the tree slides and underneath is a simple tree which is perfect space for journal.

Other side of the tag..

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Citrine Sunrise Splendour at The Garden Of Adin

Citrine Sunrise Splendour

at The Garden Of Adin

(Click the picture to see this engagement ring with citrine of almost 10 crt.) 

Petty pretty jewelry trivia

 

Quartz is the second-most-abundant mineral in the Earth's continental crust with many different varieties, one of them called Citrine. The color of Citrine ranges from a pale yellow to brown. Because natural citrines are extremely rare, most commercial citrines are heat-treated amethyst. The name Citrine is derived from Latin citrina which means "yellow" and the Irish word for quartz is "grian cloch", which means "stone of the sun". 

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Snow Globe

Here is a Snow Globe, I wanted to make something that goes well with snowman in the photo so I made Snow Globe.  I tried to make the photo a part of the Snow Globe.  Glitter is in between two clear sheets so it is quite fun to shake it and see the snow (glitter) fall.. 

Tag can be easily pulled out using the ribbon..

Other side of the tag..

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Gazebo

 I so much wanted to make Gazebo and I finally did that.  Decorated the Gazebo with loads of flowers & glitter..

Inside it has space for journal .. the tags comes out from behind .. 

Other side of the tag..

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Gifts

These are some Gifts I received from ICR ... yeppee!!!  

 Another package .. very pretty butterflies are flowers Itsy Bitsy is the sponsor

So, thanks to ICR and Itsy Bitsy!

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Plum Blossoms and other beauties in The Garden Of Adin

Plum Blossoms and other beauties 

in The Garden Of Adin

(Click the picture to see this beautiful Art Nouveau pendant/necklace)

 Plum Blossom Jewelry

When everything has faded they alone shine forth,

encroaching the charms of lesser styles... 

Freely rendered from an old Chinese poem "Plum Blossoms".

(read also our explanation on Art Nouveau Jewellery)

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