Tiffany, I've emailed you directly and let Kelly know. Now let's party:
Thursday, January 31, 2013
BFF Open House Link Party #90
Happy Friday Eve everyone and welcome to this week's BFF Open House. Before we get started, the winner of the Elite Blog Design giveaway sponsored by Kelly of Kelly's Avenue Designs is : Tiffany!
Tiffany, I've emailed you directly and let Kelly know. Now let's party:
Tiffany, I've emailed you directly and let Kelly know. Now let's party:
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Bejeweled and Altered Mini Composition Book
This is one of those projects that was born of necessity. Just because something has a practical use, doesn't mean it can't be pretty right?
On the personal side, I am supposed to be watching my blood pressure. Haven't been the best at that and with the New Year, I'm trying to be more diligent. I'm sure there's a whiz bang iPhone app that I could use but sometimes you just need to go old school. So I altered a mini comp book to keep right next to my sphygmometer er, blood pressure thingy. It's 4.5 by 3.25 so I can easily drop it in my handbag when I go show my doctor how diligent I've been.
I pulled a sheet of paper from my stash, traced around my book, cut, glued on w/ Mod Podge .
Of course that wasn't nearly enough stuff. I chose this great wood and metal pendant by Blue Moon Beads as my journal's focal point. Its flowery design went well with the paper:
Glued it to the center of one of flower on the front and then added coordinating black and white washi tape from my stash. As a closure for my journal. I slapped some of the washi tape onto a binder clip. See? Practical and pretty!
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Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Chalkboard and Vinyl Bar Sign
I debated about keeping it for a Valentine’s present but here’s how that would go:
I’d make it, we’d be out somewhere, guarantee he’d see something and buy it , then what? How do I know? Almost 22 years of marriage. I know. And first thing he said when I showed it to him was “ I was thinking it needed a sign”.
So for this super easy project you will need :
- A canvas ( this one is 10x10)
- Paint in your choice of color
- Chalkboard paper or you can paint a square or you could use chalkboard vinyl. I found self adhesive chalkboard paper in the kids crafts section at Michaels
- Vinyl
- Vinyl cutter or stencils and Xacto knife
Cut my chalkboard paper to 8x8 and even though it’s self adhesive. slapped some Mod Podge on the back to make it extra secure.
On the off chance I’m not the last person in the crafterverse who’s made a chalkboard project, you should “prime” your chalkboard surface by covering it with chalk then wiping off.
Monday, January 28, 2013
Double Strand Hammered Metal Connector Necklace
I made this necklace ( shown here doubled) with Blue Moon Beads and Bead Landing chain. The lightbulb went off yesterday when I was wearing it and someone asked me if I made it. That made me start thinking about when I made it and I realized I never posted it!
Whenever I’m making jewelry, I gather up what I think I’m going to use so here are the things I started with. The blue grey beads came in a pack of 23 coordinating pieces as shown on the card.
A mind is a terrible thing to lose!
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BFF Open House #89 Wrap Up and Features
Thanks as always to everyone who linked up at last week’s BFF Open House. No shortage of talent and great ideas that’s for sure. Can you believe January’s almost over already? I am really not ready to see Easter stuff out so soon but I did at JoAnn’s and spotted Reeses Peanut Butter Eggs at the grocery store! Can we get through Valentine’s Day first please?
Speaking of which, take a look at this cute burlap and paper Valentine’s banner from Artsy VaVa:
LOVE!
Doreen from Altered Artworks gives us a sneak peek into her Valentine’s Workshop where she is hard at work. Some lucky recipient will get this :
Doreen has a tutorial so you can make one for your own special someone.
Now sit down. I mean it. Because you will pass out over this week’s chocolate feature and I don’t want anyone to get hurt. OK ready?
It’s a Kit Kat cake! Jenn from Rook No17 made this incredible creation. I am so in awe of it , it needs another pic:
Leaves me speechless!
Hope you all have a wonderful and creative week and hope to see you all back again on Friday!
Speaking of which, take a look at this cute burlap and paper Valentine’s banner from Artsy VaVa:
These Valentine’s mailboxes from Fonda at Southern Scraps would go great with the banner and are so stinkin cute!
I’ve written about how much I love black and white. I also have a thing for French writing and chalkboard. Betsy from My Salvaged Treasures brings all of these elements together in made over cases.
Doreen from Altered Artworks gives us a sneak peek into her Valentine’s Workshop where she is hard at work. Some lucky recipient will get this :
Now sit down. I mean it. Because you will pass out over this week’s chocolate feature and I don’t want anyone to get hurt. OK ready?
Hope you all have a wonderful and creative week and hope to see you all back again on Friday!
Thursday, January 24, 2013
BFF Open House Link Party #89 and Giveaway!
And I thought last week went by fast! College Boy's settled back in at school and celebrated his 2nd birthday away from home. Does that make him 2?
Before we get to the party, I have a fun giveaway for you this week. Sweet Kelly, from Kelly's Avenue Designs recently hosted a giveaway of one of her Elite Design Packages. Well yours truly won but my schedule's so crazy right now I don't have time to really think about this properly. I hate people waiting for me and Kelly has been nice enough to let me "giveaway the giveway" to one of you, my readers! Thank you Kelly! Won't you pop over to her place and say hi?
Before we get to the party, I have a fun giveaway for you this week. Sweet Kelly, from Kelly's Avenue Designs recently hosted a giveaway of one of her Elite Design Packages. Well yours truly won but my schedule's so crazy right now I don't have time to really think about this properly. I hate people waiting for me and Kelly has been nice enough to let me "giveaway the giveway" to one of you, my readers! Thank you Kelly! Won't you pop over to her place and say hi?
The giveaway is open to all Blogger bloggers ( so no Wordpress or other platforms) and here are the details:
Good luck!! Now on with the party.
Kraft and Yellow Sympathy Card
My inspiration for this color combo came from a dimensional sticker from the David Tutera Celebrate It card collection.
Covered a blank card with the yellow panel, applied the rub ons, mounted the brown and tan panels, applied a rub on to the Sympathy sticker, embellished with coordinating washi tape and finished with an embossed chip board bird from my stash. Waste not want not, I also used scraps from the embossed brown panel to decorate the card.
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