Freschetta Proud to Support Pink Giveaway Winner

Thanks to everyone who participated in the giveaway I had going from Freschetta Pizza and their campaign
Proud to Support Pink.

There can never be too many people participating the fight against breast cancer.  The winner of the giveaway is :

Unbeatable Sorbet!

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BFF Open House #25 Wrap Up and Features

Thanks to everyone who linked up at Friday’s BFF Open House! Once again, it was a fantastic collection of creativity with so many inspiring ideas! Here are just a few:
What can you do with a bag of skulls and a feather boa? Bethany at A Fish Who Likes Flowers showed us with this chic Halloween wreath she did for a friend:

And the perfect treat to go along with this delicious wreath are these tasty and tasteful ghost pops that Jenn from Rook No.17 shared:

This absolutely gorgeous ombre wreath from The Crafty Scientist is just stunning.

And finally, a fresh take on book page pumpkins from Michele at The Scrap Shoppe. I can see this up all the way through Thanksgiving.

I am in love with that frame! Thanks again all and look forward to seeing you again on Friday! Have a creative week.

Thank You Canvas Corp! Edgar Allen Poe Collage

The highlight of my week was getting an email from Jenn at Canvas Corp letting me know that I won their recent Facebook Halloween giveaway! Squeal!! I. LOVE. THEIR. STUFF! And it was even shipped out immediately and I received it on Thus! Wanna see?

An assortment of papers, a chunky canvas, a burlap canvas, notecards, clothespins, canvas and burlap banner pieces. I had to play with it immediately! My Halloween mantle already had an Edgar Allen Poe / black and neutral theme and one of the papers was Poe’s “The Raven” written on kraft paper so I got an idea to add one more piece.

I found a royalty free line drawing of Edgar Allen Poe online, downloaded, and printed on a plain piece of kraft colored cardstock. Cut and tore pieces of “The Raven” and black and white diamond Canvas Corp papers ( it was meant to be since I already used the same paper on my “Witches Ball” piece) and put on either side of the picture. Cut banner pieces from black and gold metallic scraps and put those along the top.

I cut a “P” from black vinyl using my “Wall Décor and More” Cricut cart, and also a black bird silhouette to represent a raven. The frame is a plain wood frame from Dollar Tree that I painted. To finish, I made rolled roses and freehand cut leaves from paper scraps and hot glued those to glass and frame.

I already had a piece representing “The Raven” from last year so this went perfectly with the rest of my Poe themed décor. Thank you SO much Jenn and Canvas Corp! Can’t wait to play with more from my wonderful package!

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BFF Open House Link Party #25 and BFF Marcia Beckett

This week has been a blur. Work has been nuts and left little time or energy  at the end of the day to create anything. SOOOO I’m really anxious to see what all of you creative peeps have been up to since last week. My creative soul is starving!
This week’s BFF certainly helps, by providing a feast for the eyes! Marcia Beckett is a K-6 Art teacher who keeps her own creative juices flowing through her  blog Dabblings. Marcia dabbles in a variety of things from watercolors, photography, scrapbooking, lettering, to art journals, collages and mixed media. Here are a few samples:

This piece is called “Red Configuration on Canvas” and is a mix of watercolors and gesso.
I LOVE this piece of creative lettering using watercolors. One of my favorite sections of “Somerset Studio” magazine is the lettering and exemplar section. Oh did I mention that Marcia’s been published in Somerset?

And whose day wouldn’t be brightened looking at this gorgeous sunflower?

The layers and depth are great and the washi tape around the edges really makes it pop. I hope you’ll go visit Marcia and see more of her amazing work!

Now. Party On! If you made it link it. Please link to your specific blog post and not your main page and no advertising pls? And share the party love … go visit a few other BFFs!

Ombre Fall Printables

I haven’t yet had a chance to do any ombre projects but I did play around with the idea in my graphics program! I combined that with a Fall quote and:

To download, click to bring to full size, right click to “Save As” .

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BFF Open House #24 Wrap Up and Features

Thanks all for making the weekly BFF Open House link party such a fun event. I really really love seeing what everyone’s been up to! I try to visit as many of the links as possible but this weekend got away from me and I hope you'll understand.

Here are a few items from Friday’s party, but as always, everyone is so inspiring!
If you’ve never visited Mich in LA ( then you should) you’ve probably never played her “guess the mystery thing” regular stump the blogger series. She picks an item and transforms it into a piece of jewelry and invites you to guess “the mystery thing”. I just had to feature these necklaces. And you just have to go visit to find out the “mystery thing”

After that you can pop on over to Sarah at Alderberry Hill to see how she made these adorable mummies out of potato chip cans!

From there, take a peek if you dare at Bev’s Gothic Spooky Mantle over at Flamingo Toes. Love this cameo wreath:

And then get some ideas for a fabulous  party from La-Dee-Da Creations who had great fun with some ladies from her church getting together to make Halloween crafts:

Have a wonderful week and see you all again on Friday!

Martha Paint and Vinyl Makeover!

Mr. Chocolate recently cleaned out his den and gifted me some framed pieces he replaced with other stuff. That plus a trip to Michaels 2 for $3 section gave me an idea!
I am in love with the Martha Stewart line of paints by Plaid. This frame was a plain black and I wanted to age it up a bit so I used Martha’s Satin finish Gray Wolf and dry brushed it.

Nice and aged looking now! I also love rub-ons and Michaels has a whole new collection of them in their 2 for $3 section. I couldn’t resist these cutlery images:

I cut the large fork, knife, and spoon, and put those on three sides of the mat from the picture that had been in the frame.  Then I chose a piece of scrapbook paper from my stash, and cut a cup image using the Wall Décor and More cartridge on my Expression. I cut the detailed image in brown and the shadow image in black. I put the shadow image on the paper and the detail image on top of the glass (slightly offset) to give it more depth.

Then using the same cartridge, I cut the phrase “café” in black and put this on top of the glass as well.

And now I have a new piece of art for my kitchen for the cost of about $1.50 since I had most everything on hand!

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COFFEE Creations Party At The Shabby Creek Cottage