Lucky

O mY GoSh!!!!!!!  Has it really been over 3 months since I've posted something new?!?!?!?  Yikes!!!  Well, I apologize.  I haven't been crafting much this summer because it's just too darn HOT in my craft room!!  Also, back in May (the last time I scrapped or did anything remotely creative) I left my scrapbook room window open for a couple of weeks.  You might say, "So what?"  Well...I live on a dirt road and when people drive by they kick up the dirt and it gently floats and lands wherever it may...even if it's not invited.  It filtered it's way....ever. so. slowly, through my window and made itself at home on EVERY SINGLE flat surface in my room!!!!  UGH, what a mess!!!!!!!!  Now, it's finally clean and I'm feeling the creative juices flowing again!! YAY!!  So, after finally finishing the dusting from Hell...I created....THIS...

It's a shadow box that I found at T.J. Maxx and I've had forevah!!!  Finally found the perfect use for it!  I've always wanted to make a scrapbook page with everything in the center and clean, blank edges.  My husband and I haven't taken a vacation together in years and this year we both took the same week off and went away for a week!!  It was so nice to reconnect!!  Just what we needed. We went to Hampton Beach in Hampton, NH.  I just love the ocean and miss it so much living in the Green Mountains of VT!!  

I bought a few 5$ grab bag kits from Donna Downey and used almost every single piece in the kit for this page!  I definitely need to grab a few more of those kits!!  They're awesome!!

A few months ago I bought a bunch of Chip Art Stamps found here: 

http://www.artsyfindings.com/GCD-Studios_c18.htm

I used the heart stamp to decorate the bird chipboard and then painted it with olive green acrylic paint, stickles and then sprayed it with glimmer mist.  I sprayed way too much on so I turned it over and pressed it into some scrap paper....and wasn't thinking that it would "act" like a stamp!!  I love happy "mistakes"!!  A new way to use my Chip Art Stamps...make my own stamps!!!!

I hope all of you have been enjoying your summer so far and are feeling LUCKY like me!!!   

Unspoken Love

A mother's day gift

I bought a Pandora bracelet for my mother last Mother's Day and I'm so glad I did!  That woman is impossible to shop for...so now I have endless gift possibilities by way of charms!!  WHEW!!!   Anyway...I bought her a couple of new charms for her bracelet this year.  One for Mother's Day and the other for her birthday with falls on May 5th.  So, I wanted to make something extra special to present them in.  I searched high and low and finally found instructions on how to make this cute box...at first glance I thought it would be very difficult, but to my surprise and delight it wasn't!!!!  WHEW again!!!   Here is a link to the printable instructions: http://www.scor-pal.com/metric2/Metric%20Box%20with%204%20Drawers%20tutorial.pdf

Each side of the box has four drawers about the size of a matchbox!  I used a brad to act as the drawer pull.  The roses I made by hand and you can find the tutorial on www.fabulouslyartsy.com  I just love making these roses!!!  I can't wait to give this to my mom on Sunday!!!  Happy Mother's Day ladies!!!!  And gents...DON'T forget mother's or your baby momma's!!!!!!!!!

A second Caardvarks Challenge card

Here's another card for the monochromatic Caardvarks challenge.  The vellum is really purple, I couldn't for the life of me get my picture to take a proper picture!!!  

A Caardvark's challenge card

The challenge was to make a monochromatic card.  I used some scraps that I had left over to make the squares for the background.  I stamped the leaves for the tree on 3 different colors of cardstock, cut them out and glued them on to add dimension to the leaves.  The birds were stamped on polka-dotted patterned paper as well.  I heat embossed the music notes and the sentiment.  The ribbon is just plain old ribbon that I overlapped and adhered with glue dots.  

Thinking Of You!!!

I just got my new Unity KOM in the mail the other day and just had to use this girl with the umbrella!!  I used a few stamps from several other KOM's to complete the card...now I just need to find someone to send it to!!!    That is always a question my husband asks...what are you going to do with it?   I don't know!!!!!   I don't make the cards to send them really...I love each and every one and sometimes really hate to part with them.  If I really like how one comes out I sometimes make 2!!!!   Anyone else do that?   Anyway, I've been "thinking of you"...all of you out there in blogland and I hope you're all well and enjoying Springtime!!!  

A Spring inspired card

I was so inspired by the beautiful Spring-like weather we had today, so I decided to make this card.  I used Bazzil paper piercing guides to make the flowers and leaves.  The bird and saying is from Unity Stamp Co.   WHO ELSE?????  :)   I hope you had nice weather where you live!!!!  Bring on the sunshine, birds and flowers....I'll even welcome a few mosquito bites about now!!!!!!   Blessings!!!!!