Monday, May 23, 2011

One of a Kind




I was itching to create SOMETHING today. I've been going through creative withdrawals lately. This is what I did after work today. I was inspired by this tutorial http://withfeathersandsequins.blogspot.com/2011/04/small-and-whiteclean-and-brightyou-look.html to make this card. I love the sunburst look. I just changed it to a square card because I want to use up a package of cards and envelopes I got at Michael's for fifty cents. I used scraps for everything except for the flower. The centerpiece is actually a Stampin' Up punch, and the stamp which I embossed is also by Stampin' Up

Thursday, April 14, 2011

Kitchen Chairs

BEFORE:

A couple of years ago, a guy I was dating got me a set of 6 chairs. They are very functional, even though they aren't very pretty, and don't really match anything in my house. I've been thinking about recovering them for a long time, but it's so hard to pick a color and a fabric, and then you have to find the time and money for the material, the staple gun, etc. I finally decided to use the colors on my dishes as inspiration for the chairs and started buying the fabric one yard at a time. I didn't even know if one yard of fabric would be enough, but I finally decided it would...the fabric was $10/yard, but I had coupons, so I only spent $5-$6/yard, and I only got 4 yards. Donna let me borrow her staple gun, so I got new chairs for less than $25! They certainly don't look like a professional did them (in my opinion), but they look a lot better than they did!

AFTER:



Monday, March 21, 2011

My first wordbook


I've wanted to do one of these for a couple of years now, but haven't been uber motivated, until... one of my best friends got married on New Year's Day and was kind enough to ask me to take a picture or two, so I had plenty to choose from... and then I got Basic Grey's Euphoria Collection, and was dying to use it. So once I decided that was what I was going to do, there was no stopping the creative process! I decided on a font and figured out the size and worked a few hours on cutting everything out...(The word is her new last name), then I modge podged the pp onto thin chipboard and modge podged over that to seal it,


For the edges, I used an embossing pen and silver embossing powder to add the silver color that was in her wedding. That took quite a few hours, I could only emboss a few inches at a time.


I have been dying to make these flowers I made for the front of the book (and then used again on the "S", so I punched out several of them and heated up my melting pot and then dipped the punched flowers in clear UTEE. There's definitely room for my improvement, but they look good. And I thought it was very cool the way the piece of the flourish bling that I put on the front looks like a heart.


on the next page I put a sticker but it didn't 'pop' the way I wanted, so I used a white souffle pen to outline it.


On the next set of pages, I used the nestabilities to cut out the pictures and mats, then used them again to ink the inside part so the outside part stood out a little bit more, and I used bling on a sticker for the date.


Here is a close-up of the "S" with a faux glass flower and bling.


I had this beaded trim left over from another project and decided it looks perfect for a wedding album, Tut attaching it was a little bit tricky. I used two big glue dots and decided to cover them with flowers I made with punches.


I used the garden trellis edge punch to create this look, and used more punched flowers to decorate it.


The "O" was the hardest one to cut out, getting the inside perfect. On this side I used small punched flowers and bling to decorate


Stickles...not sure if there's a project of mine which is complete w/o lovely stickles.


I tried to balance the fibers and ribbon that I attached to the 'O' wires by placing some ribbon on the "P"

TFL. It's way past my bedtime, so I don't know if this makes much sense. I've caught myself typing things that were nonsensical, but need to sleep so I'll proof read in the morning.

Saturday, January 8, 2011

1-6-2011


After Alex came home from school today, he told me that they were going to have the Christmas concert in a couple of hours. It had been canceled due to snow in December.

1-5-2011


Mishal filling out an application at Taco Bell. She wants to make her own money so she can buy clothes, etc. Unfortunately, she has to be 16 to work there. But they told her to come back when she turns 16.

1-4-2011


This time of year, this is the view I have most of the time...I wake up and turn the computer on the very first thing. I take a couple of short breaks during the day, but work until time to go to bed. Today I worked 17 Hours.

1-3-2011


Tonight after dropping Alex off at Scouts, Mishal and I went to Taco Bell and then shopping at Rue 21. Before leaving, she had told me she just wanted to check out the sales. She tried on a few tops, but then got mad at me when I didn't buy her anything, even some underwear.