Happy Birthday Beautiful - Zeus and Zoe May Challenge

Happy Saturday Everyone!  Today I'm sharing my May challenge layout inspired by Riikka's gorgeous mood board.  Here is the LINK to the challenge in case you wanna take a look at the mood board and check out the fabulous prizes that this month's sponsors May Arts and Couture Creations are giving away to the winners.

My sweet little grand daughter just turned one and when I saw Riikka's board, I knew these pics of her birthday would be perfect.  I stayed with the soft pinks mixed with white and a tiny punch of fuchsia.  (You know I just couldn't resist adding a bright bold color, lol).

The base of layout is pink Bazzill, then a distressed layer of My Mind's Eye Lost & Found and on top of that is a piece of 7 Dots Studio, Love Me Hopefully from my Zeus and Zoe kit.  The 7 Dots paper had really cute medallions on it so I cut all of them out to use as embellishments.  I punched the top and bottom with a Martha Stewart scallop punch.  Next I stenciled some dots here and there with gesso and gave the edges a light white wash.  

To matte my photo, I used some of the Paper Reflections accordion tags and a vintage handwritten letter.    Then I layered the circles that I cut out and a couple of the beautiful vintage crotchet trims from my Zeus and Zoe kit.  

I painted over some of the gold buttons and the Prima Ruby Violet flowers to tone them down to match my layout.

I added a bow on her giant cupcake cake using some May Arts ribbon.

To finish off my layout, I added my usual doodling around the edges.  I just really like the idea of framing my projects and doodling does the trick for me.

Thanks so much for joining me today, I hope I've inspired you to play along with our May Challenge!

HAVE A BEAUTIFUL DAY!!!

Honey Cake Birdhouse

Hello, Hello!!  I hope your're have a wonderful day :D

Today I've got a super simple but very cute little bird house to share with you today:

Isn't that sweet!  This is a little wooden birdhouse that I picked at Michaels.  I covered in some papers from the My Mind's Eye Six by Six Honey Cake paper pad along with some scraps from my stash.

It was a bit of a challenge to the papers on good but I finally got them to stay and coated them with a light white wash.

To finish it off, I simply added some scraps of fabric and some Stickles for a little bit of shine.  So there you have it, simple but oh so cute!!

Before I head out, I'd like to send out a warm WELCOME to my newest bloggie friend Barry!  Thanks for following along Barry!  

Have a WONDERFUL day and THANKS so much for stopping by!!!!

I entered this project in the D.L Art Thankful Thursday Challenge: #102 Use Red or Pink.

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The Simon Says Stamp and Show Challenge: Seeing Stars

Make a Wish!

Happy Wednesday!  I hope your week is going smooth so far, ours has been great.  We celebrated my grandson's 2nd birthday on Monday so I spent yesterday with him enjoying his new toys.  I got some really great pictures too and wanted to scrapbook.  So I pulled out my little portable HP photo printer (my big one broke) and started printing some pics.  It's been so long since I scrapbooked that I didn't know where to start, lol.  Then I realized that I should just do what I do on all my other projects, doodle, stencil, fussy cut and mist!  

The background paper is BoBunny and I doodled around all the edges.  Next I pulled out the Donna Downey stencil that came in my PWP January Mixed Media kit, some gesso and randomly stenciled. I have to tell you, I've used a lot of stencils and this has to be one of the best ones I've used.  It was thicker and stayed to really good as I was stenciling.  

I cut some scraps of yellow and red papers, ran them through my sewing machine and inked the edges.  I matted my photos with paper from the My Mind's Eye Party Time Paper Pack and of course I had to add a little cardboard.  I used a lot of stickers off of the Deja Views Birthday pack.

I used Mickey and Friends to cut the number two.  To finished things off I did some journaling.  It felt really good to do some scrapbooking.  I definately need to start scrapping our special moments again.  Thanks so much for stopping by, HAVE A BEAUTIFUL DAY!!

Peace on Earth Reindeer

Hey there friends, today I have a fun new project to share with you.  This is a wooden reindeer hanger from Micheals.

I bought this weeks ago but had no idea what I would do with it.  Last night I sat down in my studio not really feeling crafty but I forced myself to create something and I'm so glad I did.  I used MME Lost & Found on the antlers and SEI Alpine Frost on the face.  Next I outlined the antlers with a ZIG writer in chocolate and inked all the edges with TH Vintage Photo. 

I used the Cricut Stand & Salute cartridge for the banner.  It's cut at one inch and inked with TH Vintage photo.  The stamp I used is by PWP and can be found on the Christmas Sentiments Cling Stamp set and the Typed Wishes Cling Stamp set.

Here is a closer look at that beautiful SEI paper.  

Thank you so much for stopping by today and for all your well wishes for my father.  I truly appreciate all of your thoughts and prayers.

HAVE A TERRIFIC TUESDAY!

DIY Wall Shelf

Hey there, did you have a good weekend?!  I got some chores done, upcycled an old shelf and completed a project for PWP.  So I'm pretty happy with everything I was able to scratch off of my to do list.

This is a shelf that I use to have in our second apt years and years ago.  I dragged it around to two different houses since then, lol.  It sat in the attic of our old house and has been in our garage since we moved here over two years ago.  I even tried selling it in a garage sale but nobody wanted it, lol. 

Well, I decided it was time to give it a makeover and bring it back in.

Pretty drab right!

Here is the inside

Now for some painting magic!

I sent my DH to HM Depot with instructions to bring me a pretty blue and boy does he know me, he brought me the PERFECT shade :D

I was going to use the door but then decided I wanted to have it open instead.  So I added some pretty MME paper to help tie in the red from my studio.

Here it is up on the wall and all filled up!  See that adorable little canvas on the top shelf, my DIL made that!  Isn't it just too cute :D

Well, I hope you liked my little shelf makeover and before you toss out that old shelf; remember, a little paint does wonders!

 

HAVE A WONDERFUL MONDAY!!



New Supplies!!

I hope you had a wonderful Father's Day.  Over the weekend I had a chance to visit one of last scrapbook stores still open in my area Stamp Antonio.  I thought they had closed down but it turns out they just moved.  When I went in, I was delighted to see their new line of stamps designed by one of the owners.  I picked up several sets and some Crafters Workshop templates. 

Aren't those images great!!  I'm not sure if you can make out the stamps on the bottom left but those are day of the dead and Frida.  I can't wait to try these out on a canvas :D  I found the MME products over at Home Goods.  I always look for scrapbook supplies there because they're always priced so good. Over the weekend I also finished up my project for Heather's Blog Hop on Friday so be sure to join us for that.  There is an amazing prize pack and many prize opportunities along the way.  I'm hoping to figure out the random picker thing because I wanna get in on the giveaway action too.  ;D  Well it's time for me to tend to business so talk to ya later!!



Flags at Ft. Sam - Memorial Day

Every year the Scouts in our area come together at the Ft. Sam Houston National Cemetery to place flags on the grave sites of the men and women who have died in military service for their country.  The scouts take on the responsibility of making sure that each and every fallen solider is honored in preparation of the Memorial Day Holiday.  As a combat veteran myself, this event is especially moving.  I'm so proud of my son and all of the other scouts who participate in this event.

I used the Vintage Nation paper pack by Paper Studio, My Mind's Eye Lost & Found, K&Company Americana Stitched Adornments & Die Cut Cardstock, Ruby Red Bazzill Cardstock and Cricut Base Camp.

I cut his photo out and used pop dots to bring it out 

A hidden note to my son

Thanks for visiting my blog!

Have a Great Day!!

Light the World

I just finished up tonight's painting.  Its a 11x14 canvas and the sentiment is "You are the Light of the World".  I started this painting yesterday and I had no idea what I was gonna paint so I picked out a yellow color and immediately thought, I need circles.  Then I thought green would be a good backdrop for my circles, from there I just started looking through my stash of scraps and found left over pieces of sheet music (I can't throw any scraps away, no matter how small, I always think I can use it somewhere).  I added the doily that I used as a stamp on my last painting and the embellishment on top.  The button is an earing I found at a garage sale.  I stamped on part of the sentiment and wrote in "Light".  That's it, I have to say I'm pretty happy with the way it turned out!

I used Golden Fluid Acrylics: Green Gold & Yellow Oxide, Liquitex Soft Body Acrylic: Indian Yellow & Cadmium Yellow Medium Hue, Grumbacher Gouache: Burnt Sienna, Cray-Pass Oil Pastel: Teal and Higgins Black Magic Ink

Added the scraps of sheet music I used on another painting and attached them using Golden Gel Medium

I added the doily I used to stamp my last painting and flower I cut from My Mind's Eye Laundry Line.  I inked the edges of the flowes with Tim  Holz Distress Ink: Vintage Photo

The embellishment is from Me & My Big Ideas, Soft Spoken

The wheel is an earing I found at a garage sale

Thanks for looking!!

Jouney of the Heart

This 12x12 canvas ended up taking me two days to complete because of the heart.  It's made out of modeling clay so I had to wait for it to cure before I could paint, attach it and finish up.