Green Tara DT October

“Building The Family Castle”

By Linda Thompson

Welcome this time around I thought I would bring a little summer into our Spring. I spotted these wonderful little beach themed charms from Green Tara & had to do something with them.

I painted the charms white and once dry sanded some of the paint off leaving the indentations with paint it gave them a more worn and weathered look.

Taking the Natural Jute ribbon I made a bow, I snipped the ends with scissors and then used my fingers to lightly fray the ends and added some white paint to age it a little.

I choose 2 colours in the cobweb ribbon and instead of cutting it I just ripped it apart this helped to fray the edges and give me random sized pieces. I used a texture paste with sand as the base on the page and pushed the pieces of cobweb ribbon into the texture paste here and there leaving some sticking up while others lay flat.

I wanted a big yellow flower but I didn’t have one so I used a mustard Damask flower from the new range and added some white paint to soften it a little as the gold didn’t quite work. Using a selection of other flowers including 7cm petals, roses & spring flowers adding a little white paint to the darker coloured flowers.

Adding a little string finished off the top of the page and a few random mini flowers thru the page.

Green Tara Products Used

Natural Jute Ribbon 15mm CODE: RB17Nat15

Metalic Sea Charms CODE: SCh25

Damask 8cm Fabric and Organza Flower Mustard CODE: XF9225Mu

Cobweb Coffee 10m Roll CODE: RB6772Co

Cobweb Ivory 10m Roll CODE: RB6772Iv

Spring Flowers from Packs "Allamanda" Green CODE: IF2A1a - Periwinkle" Green
CODE: IF2P1a - White/Yellow/Orange CODE: IPA12b

1.5cm Flower Pale Blue CODE: FDVPB

1.5cm Flower Gold CODE: FDVGo

Cherry Blossoms 2 Tone Blue CODE: FLC22BPB

Cherry Blossoms Blue CODE: FLC22B

7cm Petals, Liquid CODE: FDS021Liq

Gardenia Turquoise CODE: FDV054Tu

Gardenia White CODE: FDV054Wh

Mint Apple Blossoms CODE: FDV044Mi

Roses Lime Green CODE: FDR003LG

Roses Turquoise CODE: FDR003Tu

Paper String Liquid CODE: PSLiq

Extra Products used

Prima & MME papers, Thickers, Creative Imaginations alphas, Heidi Swapp plastic alphas, Kaiser paints, Texture paste with sand.

“Making a Splash”

By Linda Thompson

Thought I would put some colour into the day, here I have used a couple of the new ribbons along with the new Laurel flower.

The Laurel flower wasn't quite the color I wanted so I sprayed it with glimmer chalk in yellow and added a little blue to the edges so it would blend in more with the colours of the page. I have also sprayed a couple of the other flowers to give a blue gardenia red tips & a red apple blossom sprayed with yellow softens the colour.

Using the new organza flower ribbon I trimmed one side close to the flowers to use as a decorative border.

I created a big bow using the new organza polka dot ribbon, I found the white dots were to bright so I soften them with some yellow spray then lightly wiping with a tissue removing the colour from the ribbon but it still stayed on the dots.

Taking a red flower spray I twisted it around a cup to create a circle. I then used enough rat tail cord that went around the same cup twice and added ribbon stiff to it, once dry I was able to twist it around the flower spray and crate 2 circles the same size as the spray.

Green Tara Products Used

Laurel 8cm Silk and Oraganza Flowers Cream/Yellow CODE: XF9218CY

Red Apple Blossoms CODE: FDV044R

Turquoise/White Apple Blossoms CODE: FDV044Tu/W

Cherry Blossoms White CODE: FLC22Wh - sprayed orange & yellow

Cherry Blossoms 2 Tone Blue CODE: FLC22BPB

Gardenia Turquoise CODE: FDV054Tu - sprayed yellow and given red tips

Gardenia White CODE: FDV054Wh - sprayed orange and blue

1.5cm Roses Blue CODE: FDR003B

1.5cm Roses Lime Green CODE: FDR003LG

Light Brown Roses 2cm CODE: FDR006LB

Organza Flower Wire Edged Turquoise/Lime Green CODE: RB326TuLG

Rat Tail Cord 50m roll Red CODE: RB1204R

Flower Sprays Red CODE: PFSTR

Extra Products used

Bo Bunny papers & chipboard word, thickers, MLSB alphas, Glimmer mist & Chalkboard.

Thanks for stopping by see you next time Linda xxx



Yippeeeee

My page below for the Color Room received a feature spot on their site, I couldn't be happier. Great news for a first attempt.

The Color Room



My first attempt at a Color Room Palette

New Green Tara Flower in green

Prima Flower & Green Tara Roses

Papers - Kaiser, webster, Prima & DCWV, Texture paste with flakes, Kaiser paint, dew drops ink, Flowers - Petaloo, Prima & Green Tara, Alphas - Heidi Swapp, Adorn it, Lil Davis, Misc - doily, white flower stem & buttons.

'Slip Slide'N & Carefree'

Green Tara Spring Flowers



Fancy Pants papers, glimmer mist & chalk, misc chipboard circle, dew drop inks, Thickers, Basic Grey Alphas & Green Tara Spring flowers

Another birthday (s) roll around, this month we have 2

Briony turns 10 with her home made Bumble Bee cake



And it's my 39th birthday and my beautiful 16yr old daughter Coral-lee made me my very own birthday cake.

Green Tara September DT work

I brought a set of 3 lamps quite cheap from Target a few months ago thinking I would just get something better at a later date, but while turning them on one night it came to me like a light bulb, I could alter them.

You could create this 2 ways, doing it the way I did which I must admit was a little hard but I found it easier to judge what it would look like at the end. Or you can decorate your paper while it is flat on your table and glue the completed item to the shade frame.

Starting with some paper I wrapped it around the lamp, it didn't quite go all the way around and I ended up with 2 joins so I just made sure they were both close to the back of the lamp and tried to match the paper up as best as I could, I used 450 quick dry glue to attach the paper directly to the shade but you could remove the old shade and attach the paper to the metal frame.

Using one of the wide laces Green Tara has on offer I glimmer misted them to create the perfect colour and attached it to the top of my shade I left a small part overlap the top of the frame to cover up the edge of the paper and give it a neater appearance, as it was a small side table lamp you would often see the top.

Then picking out my flowers, all Green Tara of course. I started arranging them using a removable adhesive, this allowed them to stay put but also make it easy to remove to move them around, once I was happy I glued them on once again using the 450 quick dry glue.

Then added pieces or ribbon, a small cut off from the lace, one of the new Green Tara Butterflies and paper swirls, then beaded trim to the bottom and finished it of with Green Tara silver sprays and the new Green Tara Silver Diamante Trim.

I left the stand alone as I want to add a wooden base but you can match flowers and embellishments down the stand and to the base.

Green Tara Products Used

Wave Silver Diamante Trim 10m CODE: RBY25 - Used around the bottom edge.

12mm Round Silver Diamante Trim 10m CODE: RBY36 - I cut this up and added 3 here and there.

25mm Lattice 10m roll White CODE: RB6735Wh - I used a few pieces of this trim here and there.

23cm Silver/Acrylic Teardrop Spray, Smoke CODE: XB30526S

15cm Flower/Leaf Spray,Green/Gold CODE: XB28557GG

Gold Paper Leaves 3.5cm CODE: LA15Go

Copper Paper Leaves 3.5cm CODE: LA15C

White Paper Leaves. 3.5cm CODE: LA15Wh

White Paper Leaves 2.5cm CODE: LA12Wh

Rain Forest Velvet and Organza Butterfly 3cm Bronze CODE: XP0780Br

Poppy 8cm Organza Flowers Ivory 12 pcs CODE: XF9212Iv

Tutu 5cm Organza and Pearl Flowers Lime 12 pcs CODE: XF9227Li

Tutu 5cm Organza and Pearl Flowers Ivory 12 pcs CODE: XF9227Iv

Camellia 8cm Paper flowers Peach 12 pcs CODE: XF9219Pe

Gardenia Ivory CODE: FDV054Iv

Gardenia Peach CODE: FDV054Pe

Gardenia White CODE: FDV054Wh

Ivory Apple Blossoms CODE: FDV044Iv

Cherry Blossoms Cream CODE: FLC22C

Cherry Blossoms White CODE: FLC22Wh

Light Brown Roses 2cm CODE: FDR006LB

1.5cm Roses Green CODE: FDR003Gr

1.5cm Roses Lime Green CODE: FDR003LG

New Green Tara Design Team

We have eight new faces & four returning from our original team.

So without further ado, let me introduce you to our new team,

who will start on 1st October

May I also take this opportunity to thank everyone

who took the time to apply.

New Green Tara Design Team

Heather Jacob Australia

Kim Price Australia

Kelly Foster USA

Rachael Funnell Australia

Vicky Varvadouka Greece

Shona Keehn Canada

Mariemily Canada

Natasha Naranjo USA

Returning DT

Mistra Hoolahan Australia

Linda Thompson Australia

Jan Rankine Australia

Di Garling Australia (Team Co ordinator)



Green Tara & Prima Marketing Lamp Shade

Miles of Smiles 



More Green Tara Projects

"Mannequin Fairy"

I have had this paper Mache mannequin floating around my house for several years with full intentions to alter her but it always just seamed to hard, well this time I found her & I set myself a goal to either finish her or throw her out once and for all. I am glad I did finish her although now I need to find her a very safe home for her from all the sticky fingers in my house.

I started with a mannequin with a paper body on a wooden stand that stands aprox 50cm high. I painted the body with gesso and started with the top half of her body using mulberry paper cut into small squares. I used modge podge to glue the pieces into a shirt pattern around the top of the bodice then doing the same with the bottom half this time using an old paper pattern brought at an opp shop. Setting aside over night to dry.

Using a strip of fabric and a strip of mesh creating her skirt, by putting mesh under the material it gives the skirt more flair. I attached the material etc with dress pins that had a pearl on the top, just sticking them straight into the mannequins body with a little force.

Then you can go about adding more details. I used Green Tara Paper String around her collar and then the rosettes & lace & ribbon as a belt with some left to dangle, also adding a bow in Green Tara ribbon. Wooden flourish was distressed with white crackle paint and mini roses had just the tips rubbed on an ink pad to give them a little colour.

Wings were created using some tattered angels chips and glimmer mist and random feathers from junk shop.

Green Tara Products used.....

Paper String - white CODE: PSWh - to create top neck line

Herringbone Ribbon - Dusty Pink CODE: RB405DP - to create ribbon bow

Bud n bow ribbon - ivory CODE: RB6761Iv - to create the belt and sash

12x12 milled mulberry (Unryo) - mint CODE: 1212MMi10 - to create the bodice top

3cm roses - ivory CODE: FDR024Iv - tips have been inked in teal

2cm roses - white CODE: FDR009Wh - tips have been inked in teal

1.5cm roses - Lavender CODE: FDR003L

Gardenia flower - Cherry CODE: FDV054Ch - bottom of stand

Poppy flower - sea green CODE: XF9212SG - bottom of stand

"No Name Page" Please help me name this page!!!

This is an early 1980's photo of me, no idea when it was taken or the details surrounding the time, my mind had drawn a blank so please if you have any ideas on a title please do share.

I wanted to use some paper I had stashed away for years, something you would probably look at now and say oh bin it how ugly lol. So I started with a lime green piece of paper that came with flocked flowers on it, I then added some texture paste with a credit card over 3/4 of the page to the right where the photo is, and added some spray mists to tone down the green of the paper to make it a little more yellow,

I then used a glimmer mist butterfly screen and more glimmer mist to create the butterfly and a few more drops of the teal mist here and there just to add very small details of colour and to help highlight the teal flowers.

Using mulberry paper from Green Tara and mod podge, I ripped the paper up fraying some of the pieces and then glued them down with mod podge in 3 random bunches leaving some pieces sticking up while others were glued flat and added a little glimmer mist to colour them once they had dried.

I punched around the page with a border punch and with a teal ink then inked the punched edges. Due to the ink etc slightly warping the paper as it was only a very thin sheet I then glued the whole page to a plain sheet of white cardstock and again inked the edges.

Choosing flowers from of course Green Taras wonderful selection, I arranged them around the photo and added some leaves and a couple of other embellishments to finish the page giving each flower a spray in glimmer mist before attaching them.

Green Tara Products used....

12x12 milled mulberry (Unryo) - white CODE: 1212MWh10

Leaves Paper - Green leaves in several sizes

Apple blossoms - white CODE: FDV044Wh - sprayed yellow

Apple blossoms - Pink CODE: FDV044P2

Apple blossoms - Pink/White CODE: FDV044P

Gardenia flower - Tourquoise CODE: FDV054Tu

New Camellia - Turquoise CODE: XF9219Tu

Petals in 7cm & 4cm white & pink

Lattice Ribbon - Ivory CODE: RB6735Iv



"Welcome Sign"

Using a chipboard album cover I created this Welcome sign to hang near my front door its approx 22cm wide and 16cm tall.

I painted the chipboard a pale green then applied a fiber paste which is the same as texture paste but has small pieces of fibers in it to give more texture I then repainted it in the green and inked the edges in a dark brown ink.

I also painted the lace with the same colour green & used Impasto gel to attach the lace, There are a few 7cm lime green mulberry flowers folded in half and added to the background (they are a little hidden in the end but add colour around the flower clusters) I added some ribbon to the top and bottom and then painted the whole thing in Impasto gel including over the lace, flowers & ribbon, however I did leave a couple of the mulberry flower petals sticking up along with some of the bows on the ribbon.

Taking some chipboard alphas I painted them the same green and added white crackle paint over the top, once it had dried I just chipped a bit of the crackle paint away here and there to make some of the green shin through. I then attached them with glue and painted Impasto gel over the top.

I have used a combination of Green Tara flowers including one of the new release flowers Sakura in green, these are fabric and so very cute and elegant.

Using my 3 favorite flowers Apple blossoms, gardenias & cherry blossoms to created the perfect colours I have glimmer misted some and adding small amounts of ink to others, by just lightly touching the tops of the flowers onto a ink pad. There are also a few roses thrown in here and there.

I have added some new fabric leaves in green and white here and there.

And created this wonderful spider flower from green tara string. To finish it off I used a glitter clear spray and sprayed the whole thing to give it a little sparkle.

Green Tara Products Used

Sakura Flower Lime - CODE: XF9221Li

Apple blossoms White - CODE: FDV044Tu/W, Ivory - CODE: FDV044Iv

Gardenias White - CODE: FDV054Wh, Peach - CODE: FDV054Pe

Cherry blossoms Cream - CODE: FLC22C, Peach/Cream CODE: FLC22PeC

Lace

Ribbon Butterfly on wire Lime - CODE: RB6764LG

Roses 1cm white - CODE: FDR001Wh, 1.5cm white CODE: FDR003Wh, 2cm white CODE: FDR009Wh

Fabric Leaves white - CODE: XL266Wh, Green - CODE: XL266GrP

Mulberry petals 7cm Lime - CODE: FDS021LG

String Green - CODE: PSGr

Misc- Dusty Attic gates, Twiddlybitz Alphas, Prima tile, American Crafts meta keyl, Prima pearls, Kaiser paint, Distress ink, impasto, Ranger crackle paint, fiber paste, glimmer mist.