taking a completely ruined card table and springing into new life

Getting ready to create !

 Putting on my DALI face, this is what this poor table looked like

faithful mod podge , applying the first layer, these are art papers

 My husband helps out, painting the exposed edge with metallic blue, then a glitter combination is applied

Added a Rhinestone peace sign per my daughters instructions

Finished table, very pretty, and spring like,

ARTsy FARTsy FreindZ-suticase lovers!

This page is currently under construction and development . A badge is being created to be award to all called to the compulsion and obsession to transform absconded traveling cases into something extraordinary, funky, functional and artistic.

♥fellow artists who are recycling creatively♥

Newest work from Victoria Pandora

See spanning the years of Decoupage here

Three graces fairie blessed  

From VictoriaPandora

Travel with grace. 

La Magick Continue 

Hand painted decoupage vintage suitcase

From VictoriaPandora

This sturdy vintage suitcase was found in near perfect condition and designed for the great escape.
Whether you are running away to the circus or just need a place for your cat to sleep, this suitcase is heirloom quality and can be handed down for generations.

I discovered this artists work when I found her work from this collection that was featured on etsy. I simply adore her use of the beloved suitcase! As a cat lover myself how charming is this? In fact she, has inspired me to take my hand on a tarot table, my husband and I talked about it yesterday and after I finish up my projects that are in my studio right now(violin case, deer antlers and my first shadow box suitcase) then I move on, we have a few ideas.

The first found suitcase fellow
ARTsy FARTsy Freind
who not only love suitcases but cats too.

From lovenostalgicwhimsy

ABOUT

• lovenostalgicwhimsy
• South Langley, BC, Canada

"My love of creating things out of other things borders on insanity...Seriously! I am absolutely addicted to thrift shops, garage sales, attics and basements. Other people may see worthless junk but I see everything as something."



"Hours upon hours are spent rummaging and salvaging, searching for that lost and forgotten thing (treasure to me) It has even protruded my dreams. Endless thrift shops and old homes full of curios, trinkets and vintage suitcases! My love!"

From lovenostalgicwhimsy

Mine too, I hope one day to collaborate with this artist

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ANOTHER KINDRED SOUL 

who loves SUITCASES 

mod-podge and whimsy

ABOUT

• RhinestoneArmadillo
  Lone Oak, Texas, United States

From RhinestoneArmadillo

This vintage Samsonite suitcase is decoupaged with illustrations from vintage Little Golden Books, "The Little Red Caboose", and "The Fire Truck".

This vintage American Tourister (Tiara style) suitcase is decoupaged with illustrations from

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antique VIOLIN CASE

ANTIQUE VIOLIN CASE

The case is made of wood with green velvet inside and a thin leather alligator hide, rusty hinges, duck tape and the side wood was all coming out, it was pretty shot.







I have done SEVERAL GUITAR cases and was commission once to do a violin case, my husband Mike from Patriot Log Home Builders wanted to do this very old wood violin case that he has held on to for many years.

It was his idea to use the music sheets. I play classic piano and have allot of sheet music, we choose a single piece from my BACH book. Mike had the cleaver idea to burn the edges, which he did. As you can see we are still in the design phase.My husband patiently cleaned and repaired the case before I began its treatment. He is between jobs right now and at times we like to work together.



This project has sat for quite a while as since then , I decided it was time to finish up my Groovy 1960s inspired guitar case, which I did just yesterday in fact. It was one night over a few beers with my husband, sitting in my studio when it hit me that I had to take my suitcases to a new level.

I wanted to cut a whole in them and my husband right then and there got out his jug saw and did it for me. See this process here.

The excitement of these projects have over shadowed the violin case. This is how I often work however, several projects going on at one time. As drying time and other factors play in it enables me to keep busy for hours at a time, which is how I like to work. Yesterday I started a 9:00 A. M. and finished up around 8:00 in the evening, I was bushed dead tried but I finished my self portrait and it is my favorite suitcase to date.



Today , Saturday afternoon I will spend most of the day as well in my studio. My oldest daughter, after seeing what I did for my 15 year old daughter on her birthday ,

the face-lift of the dresser wants me to make her an end table for her collage dorm, so I might start that today. She wants it in similar papers and thankfully I still have some left over.

Recycled art makes it to 2 collections PINK AND BLUE

There are many talent curators of collections currently working very hard , recently my recycled vintage stool, one of my favorites was added to this charming and very magical treasury.

Wild Women Dont Get The Blues

Curated By: SofiNos-Designs

ArtFire.com

Handmade Gifts

This is a collection from etsy which features one of my favorite suitcases, find it for sale here rather simple to make really it was just an awful lot of glitter, layers and layers in fact and black acrylic paint and varnish. I love all the pink in this ! Nice job!