Crafty Rene

Crafty Rene

Sunday, December 11, 2016

The youngest Nguyen in the family


This brother-in-law's son youngest child, Asher.  I  used a large 4 inch round punch, gesso mixed with yellow paint, stencil, ribbon, charm of rattle, flowers, yellow paper, butterfly and butterfly stamp, etc.



Sunday, December 4, 2016

My Card/pocket lettter friend

This is my friend Mary Joyce. We were pocket letter friend and  we became card friends.   I made her a mixed media scrapbook page.


St. Nicholas

I gave this to a friend for Xmas and we exchanged Christmas Card.

Christmas card


Vintage Christmas Prima


Mr. Claus and little girl


Christmas card


Christmas Tag card

I saw mixed canvas like this, but not in a Xmas theme.  I made it into a mixed medial Christmas card of tags.

My mother-in-law at the age of !8

I used gesso, chipboard, flower, trim, butterfly buttons and made this for Su Pham, my mother-mother-in-law.


Mr. Snowman

A card I made for friend who I am doing card exchange with for Xmas 2016.


Tuesday, November 29, 2016

Santa Claus


Enchanting




This is me.   I used a vine around the photo, flowers, trim, fiber, gesso to make flowers, butterflies, a button, distressed the edges,  and a clock.   I am new at mixed media and I love it.   I am in  Scrap Africa Sketch challenge.  http://scrapafrica.blogspot.ie/2016/11/scrap-africa-sketch-challenge-no80.html




Fall boy



My oldest son Tai.  I used flowers, leaves, Tim Holtz's wood panel, stencil for the tree branches.  I am playing along with Creative Embellishments Http://creativeembellishments.com/blog/?p=9512








Please Smile Bray

My Brayden refused to smile. He was tired and it was time of his nap.  We were going take family photo first, but once his mother gave him a candy cane he started smiling.


My airman

My oldest son and his younger brother Caleb.   This is the day of his Air Force graduation, April 15, 2016.  I used a stamp for the stars, washi tape, and red strips of paper.



My grandson Brayden

I used a lol tags, few flowers, gesso and buttons.  I think he's charming, handsome and beautiful.


My older son Tai


My older son Tai has star quality.   He's a good guy with big heart.  This tradition layout using stars and buttons.

Sunday, November 13, 2016

Fall Fun

This is my grandson, Brayden and with his friend at the pumpkin patch.  I was inspired by the fall colors.  I am playing along with Creative Embellishments  https://creativeembellishments.com/blog/?p=9512.  I used Tim Holtz's leaf die and embossing folder, distress the edges, used distressed stickles.




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My Daughter Partying with Friends

My daughter  went Dalton, Ohio to a  Halloween party.  She was with a group of friends.  They all dressed up as military women on 29th of October.

A Digi Character!

This is the Digi character of me.   I drawn by Robert Jackson, the artist out of Arizona.   I can't color well, so I had another crafty friend named Peachy Lamb color it for me using Copic markers.   I used flowers, heavy gesso, gelatos  metal frame, metal buttons, wooden butterfly,  trim, fibers, paper leaves, and a Tim Holtz 's stencil.