Birthday Decorations for our ART PARTY

Well my babies are growing up.... and this past weekend we celebrated Keely's 4th birthday and Cole's 2nd birthday! I can hardly believe how fast the years have passed.

We had an Art party and I wanted to share a few of the decorations with everyone.

Center Piece

To make this I started with a white tin with handles. Place floral foam inside to insert the skewer flowers and paint brushes. I used kitchen skewers and painted them green for the stems of the flowers. Using my Cricut I cut different sizes of two different flowers. Stacking the flowers one over another I added buttons and glued them to the skewers. The balls are some wood accents I panted and glued the the skewers. Paint bushes dipped in paint and left to dry were added too. For the filler I cut different colors of paper into small strips. Then using my paper crimper to give the wave effect. To decorate the tin I printed DREAM, BELIEVE, PLAY, CREATE, INSPIRE & IMAGINE onto clear sticker paper.

Crayon Holder & Covered Crayons

I used old ribbon spools to make this crayon holder. I just cut the end of the spools in half and covered with paper. I also inked the edges of the spool. To cover the crayons, I printed labels with the words INSPIRE, PLAY, CREATE, IMAGINE, DREAM & BELIEVE. I also did the same think to the chalk using full sheets of sticker paper.

Junkitz Projects

Well, April was my last month on the Croppers Cottage Design Team.... I had a wonderful time and will miss being apart of the talented team terribly. I cant wait see what the new and fabulous team has in store for the upcoming year!


I can say that April Designs were my favorite from the whole year. It didn't hurt that I had the yummy Junkits Salsa papers to work with! And with birthdays on my mind I couldn't help myself... so take a look at the cards and altered projects I made for my final farewell from the Croppers Cottage Design Team. I also want to thank my wonderful team mates, each and everyone of you made working on this team a blast!

Altered wooden basket

Altered box
(I'm going to use this for a gift card)

Cards

Layouts

Party Hat

Winner of the Junkitz Sneak Peek

And the winner is...............


Well first let me tell you what was in the photo, by the way these were some very creative answers. I'll have to try some of the others answers out. Okay.....it's a party hat! Great guessing, I'll post full photos of the hat tomorrow. And I'll have the photos of the rest of my projects here too!




Now back to the winner.........













fairhill25 Kathy, email me your address and I'll get your goodies out asap!

What I'm working on....

well I've been devouring the new Basic Grey Stella Ruby paper! So completely fantastic! And I've also been playing with the new Basic Grey [un] dressed chipboard Precision File set. This is a must have set for any paper craft er! The possibilities are endless for these clever little things! And to have everything packaged together... just fabulous! I cant even start to tell you how many many things I've altered with the products. Well if you can wait just a week or two I'll post them in early May.

Other news, I've been making birthday invites for my two little ones. This year we decided to have their birthday parties together. They are 2 years and 10 days apart. We are having an Art Party. I made the invites in the shape of an artist palette, I used white rub-ons over white paper. On the invite I include a paint brush and watercolor paint along with instructions detailing how to paint the palette to discover the details of the party. The white rub-ons act as a resist and then show up perfectly. I'll post a photo of the invites (I didn't take one yet).

Junkitz Sneak Peek

Junkitz is the April Sponsor at Croppers Cottage. Be sure to check out the Croppers Cottage gallery for all of the wonderfully creative and inspiring ideas the Design Team came up with using the Salsa line from Junkitz. Here is a sneak peek at mine, I'll be loading ALL 7 of my creations on April 25th. Be sure to check them out.

Lets make this fun, post what you think the photo below is and I'll draw a random name on the 25th. You have until midnight (cst) on the 24th to guess. You don't have to get it correct you just have to guess!

Chasing Butterflies by Daisy D's

I just loved working with this line! It had such a fun summer feel! How can you not feel creative and inspired by these papers? They have a classic vintage appeal. The simple understated colors just seem to call out to me " create something, build, reinvent, construct, imagine, fabricate, just make something beautiful with me. " I felt I was able to use this line in so many different ways and each time I got a different feeling from the project. Some were whimsical others just playful. No matter what the feeling is, I just adored working with them! As you can tell I devoured this line. I have a ton of projects finished but still have paper left... What a catastrophe, to have too much paper! If we could always be so lucky.

This is my oldest daughter, she somehow, found the Halloween makeup and went to town! Then proceeded to tell me she was "sick"

My little girl, well I wish! She's never been the girly girl type and this photo shows it best. While she does have on cute princess pjs, she's a tomboy at heart. Her dad got her a new helmet for her four wheeler. What girl would smile with glee for that? And it's not even a pink helmet. Now that would make a mom proud!

I just love this layout of my girls. You see this is a rare event, they are being nice to each other. Most of the time one is telling on the other or taking something from the other. (If you look close it could be the beginning of a headlock, a sneak attack waiting to happen. But it wasn't) It was taken the day of my oldest daughters birthday party. So maybe she was in a good mood and felt like being nice....

This is a new size for me, 6 x 12. It was fast and fun. I'm going to hang it in my office.

Pinwheels and flowers

More from the April Obsessions in a box from Scrapbook Obsessions.

This is a wooden box that I'm going to use to hold the cards I create. I found it at a local thrift store for pennies.

Now for some cards!

Happy April

April Obsessions in a box. Here are some projects and layout from Scrapbook Obsessions April Kit.

This started out as a plain smoke colored acrylic mail sorter. As I've said before, KI Memories Gloo, is my glue of choice. It works every time.

I'll post some more photos tomorrow of another altered item and some cards

Enjoy the Rainbow

Here is my entry for this months Prima Contest. Check them out for monthly contest. PRIMA.
















I hope you Enjoy the Rainbow of colors! And that the colors inspires you to create!

Sweet Gracie....

My sister in law Emily and her husband Tim adopted a sweet baby girl last week and her name is Gracie. To welcome her to the family I made her a few goodies. Enjoy!

This is a hat box My sister in law Melissa gave me. She just knew I could do "something" with it! I will be putting lots more goodies and gifts inside this and mailing it to Gracie. I've included the before photo and some close ups of the top. I used Stampin up papers, I have tons of older papers that I need to use! I also used my Cricut for the name. Mermaid Tears flowers, American Crafts rub ons, Fancy Pants frame, Added a bit of ink and ribbon and there you go, I have a sweet box.

I just love the look of this paper! The inside of the hat box was pale green and white dots, so I didn't alter it.

Here is an Album I did for her.

And a few pages in the album.

I was in the mood for Chocolate and my Stash was empty soooooooooo..................

I made another one of those cakes! Someone take the recipe away from me. If you want to make one for yourself I posted the recipe over at Cottage Croppers. Best Chocolate Fudge Cake Recipe, its at the bottom of the post on pg 1.

Its a Kraft Food Magazine Recipe, If you don't get this magazine you should head over to Kraft Foods and sign up! It a FREE Magazine packed with lots and lots of great tips and recipes.

It's been busy around here the last week. We had 4 family members with birthdays, Craig and I just had our anniversary on Sunday and Next week is Katelyns Spring Break. So It doesn't look like things will be slowing down anytime soon.

I was just at Croppers Cottage and they have TONS of new stuff in! Check out the cool Extreme Boy papers and Salsa Celebration by Junkitz!!! Junkitz is the April Sponsor for the DT at the Cottage! We will be working with the Salsa Collection! Its bright and happy. I see some summer pages!

I've been working on some layouts and other projects for Scrapbook Obsessions. Lots of fun with the new Daisy D's Chasing Butterflies papers. This line is so fun, it reminds me of when I was a kid. So summer looking! So be on the lookout for them, I'll be posting them sometime April.

Have your Cake and Eat it too!

Thats what I did today! And I loved every bite of it! Anyone want to come over for some cake? There's a little left.

How do you measure Success?

Here is another project from Scrapbook Obsessions March 2007 Kit. And I used my Cricut to cut out ALL those words!!

Rusty Pickle

Don't ya just love Rusty Pickle? I know I loved working with their

products this month!Here are the Altered Items for this

month at Croppers Cottage .

BIG THANKS to RUSTY PICKLE for the

wonderful products that we worked with this month.

Altered "Sweet Baby" frame and Altered wooden sheep

using Old McDonald Line

Altered Mini Clipboard

Scrapbook Obsessions......

Thats what this hobby is.... an Obsession!

If you haven't stopped by Scrapbook Obsessions now is a great time,

They are getting the April 2007 Kit ready to ship! Take a look!

Here are a few items I created with the amazing March 2007 Kit.

This is a Door Sign for my son's room. I love the papers in this kit, the blues and greens are great for boys & Girls! Now my girls each want a sign for their room. I used a canvas for this. Painted the canvas and used rub-ons and lots of ink!

Okay, if your like me you alter all these really neat things... then never know what your going to do with them. Well I am now decorating my Scraproom with most of them! As you can tell this is my new ink storage. I found this case at the local thrift store. I removed all the hardware before I covered it. And my #1 glue that I use for altered Items...... is KI MEMORIES GLOO its the best glue I've found for altering things. Now it dries fast but it holds!!!

Last but not least is the album cover I made for my son. This was a white album I got at CKC Nashville, last year. I used Walnut Ink Crystals
(FYI a little goes a long way) from Scrap Arts and dyed the cover.
After I added the rub ons I used Krylon Matte Finish spry so they wouldn't flake off.