Mother's Day Shaker Card

Hello!

I have been busy over the last few days.  I went to the Scrapbook Expo yesterday-and was totally inspired by the examples and products.  There was so much to see!  It's nice to see the Expo getting bigger.  In years past it has been smaller, but it's definitely growing now. :)

One of my favorite booths is Queen and Company.  They are always so bright and cheerful.  Everything is organized by color-so it's hard not to want 1 of everything.

For my mom this Mother's Day, I made this shaker card.  The flower paper came from a magazine gift.  Everything else is Queen and Co.  I mad the 2 little flowers at the top with a paper punch.  All of the fun sequins inside the shaker are Queen and Co as well.  The sentiment is a stamp from Stampin Up (I think).

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Just us Girls: 392 Mother

Creative with Stamps: 14 Flowers

Brown Sugar: 249 Mothers Day

Thank you for stopping by today!  And early Happy Mother's Day to all of you moms out there.  

Geometric Happy Birthday

Hello Everybody!

I was inspired by the challenge at "Just Us Girls" to make this card.  Their challenge is Geometric.

I used some Stampin Up stuff that a friend of mind kindly gifted me a while back.  The papers are SU chocolate chip and regal rose and so are the stamp colors.  The white is from Michaels (when they are $2 a pack-you know the ones) ;)

The sentiment is also SU and the circles are from Inkadinkado.  I used their square placing system also to start the pattern of circles and then I filled in the rest.  I also added a brown ribbon.  I don't know about you but I feel successful when I can incorporate ribbon onto a project. :)

The flowers are Tim Holtzs tattered florals and the circle is from spellbinders.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

"Just Us Girls" Geometric

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: For a Special Lady/Girl

Seize the Birthday: Anything Goes

Thank you for stopping by!  Until next time my friends...be happy! :)

July 4th Wall Hanging

Hello Everybody,

I couldn't wait to get this posted and share with you!  I am submitting my wall hanging into 4 challenges:

1. Studio L3-A Compendium of Curiosities Volume II-Page 37 Tissue Wrap Flower Challenge 10.  The sponsor this week is The Funkie Junkie Boutique with a gift card for $25 to their shop.  So there is still a little time to play-so c'mon!

2. Simon Says Stamp and Show-A Bit of Brown!  There is a little spot on the right hand bottom corner that the cardboard is exposed and the burlap is a light brown and peaks out through some of the distress ink.  They are giving a $50 gift card to their store.

3. Our Creative Corner-Buttons and Burlap or Bow or Both-I used burlap to hang my art piece, and I put 3 buttons on the right side.

4. Just Us Girls-Red White and Blue

Here it is:

Here it is hanging on the wall.  Scroll on down, and I'll show you a few highlights!

My husband received this seed circular in the mail (it's an advertisement like a catalog).  I had flipped through it and made sure that when he was done that it didn't get thrown away.

It has some colored pages but the best are these black and white ones.  I know that I have paper that looks like this but I should save that ;)

The circular is the same size as my piece of cardboard.  So I took a piece out of the book and used Hodge Podge to glue it onto my cardboard.

Back in May I went to the Scrapbook Expo and bought this cool "paper" at Tall Mouse.

They also had these glitter sheets and bling sheets.  It was an awesome booth!

So I painted a place on my paper with white paint to help make the red pop.

I used my tiny attacher (Tim Holtz) to put the "paper" on my project.  I think I just used 2 little staples and knew I was going to cover them up.

Then I put glittery blue and silver behind my picture.  I used craft glue dots to adhere my picture.  Craft dots are big and thick sort of like a 3-D dot.  I added brad stars and buttons.  The July is made from Making Memories stickers.  The year is from Kaiser rub-ons.

Here's the burlap that I used to hang the wall hanging.

I used faded jeans and red brick to color the burlap.

Here are the tissue flowers.  They are so much fun to make!

I used red and blue distress ink on the background paper and the sealed it with Modge Podge.  I don't know if the paper will turn (it probably will unless it was sealed).

Here a close up of the buttons and the bit of brown down by the grapes in the right hand corner.

Here my project again.  Thank you for stopping by!  Until next time my friends...time to get out the  red, white, and blue!