So Sweet~

Aw~here is a sweet one~this is my son with his nephew.  Holding him, letting him enjoy the out doors and fresh air!  What a beautiful day~  I used October Afternoon and American Crafts and Cosmo Cricket for the title.  This is quick little blog post~just wanted to share this sweet moment with you!!! See you soon for Try it Tuesday!

Our Mother's~

I have seen so many touching tributes to mothers this week~so I wanted to add ours to the tributes!!! This is my sweet mom~she is a knitter, her specialty is "hats"!!! She has so many other attributes. She is a caregiver for my dad, she teaches Sunday School , she walks every morning, she inspires me to be better in ways she will never know.  She is the perfect one to be "my mom".  The layout I did of her is titled "you are beautifully made" ~you are mom!!  I used Jenni Bowlin, Cosmo Cricket, antique trim, Prima and Thickers by American Crafts.  I will love you forever!!!

This is my sweet mother-in-law.  She is a sewer, a great cook, she is caregiver to my father-in-law, she is active in her church, she is a sister and she is my friend!  She, like my own mother, has always encouraged me in my crafty "dreams"~you are perfect for this family!!!  I titled her  layout "you were handpicked to be our mom"!  I used Jenni Bowlin, Prima, trim, American Crafts and Cosmo Cricket for my supplies!! I am so blessed to have you as my mother-in-law ~ you are loved!

Have a wonderful Mother's Day to all the Mothers {I have two of the sweetest daughter-in-laws}!! They are such good moms!!  See you soon!!!

A vintage cutie~

My project yesterday!!  I hope it does what it is intended to do INSPIRE you to be creative!!!  I used the Jenni Bowlin tart tins that I picked up at CraftCrossing ~ our awesome craft store!!! No kidding it rocks!!

I found this saucer in the shop~yes, really and glued an old thread spool to the saucer, using Helmar's 450 Quick Dry Adhesive. I covered the inside of the spool with some vintage material, that just happened to match my saucer ~ I was really happy about that!!!

I repeated the process on the other two spools~I used Helmar's Professional Acid Free Glue to hold the material in place~it took just a few seconds to grab and hold.  Then I glued them to the base of the tart tins and stacked them.  I am almost out of Helmar's 450 Quick Dry Adhesive but was able to get enough out of the bottle with a pop-sickle stick to complete this vintage cutie! 

It is going to hold my Jenni Bowlin buttons ***sigh*** love those buttons!!!  All of these super products are at CraftCrossing!!!  Give Pam a call and I'm sure she will save it for you~ Hope to see you this weekend for NSD at CraftCrossing~all day fun planned!! Thanks for stopping in ~

enjoy~

Try it Tuesday~re-purposed "lunch pail"

Welcome to Try it Tuesday.   This has been my project for the last two days.  I was determined to make this into a useful piece of crafty storage ~ so lets begin the journey.   A friend gave me this old lunch pail~it was surely headed to the dump.  I "liked" it immediately and I started thinking of ways to use it. This is what  came up with~

I first added some felt circles, that I cut from my Spellbinder die ~ so it would not scratch up my counter top.  I used Helmar's 450 Quick Dry Adhesive to glue them on the bottom of the pail.

From left to right ~ the first picture is the top of the lunch pail with an old book cover glued to the top.~ made a nice landing place for my embellishments.  Helmar 450 Quick Dry Adhesive is what I used most of the time when I refer to glue.  The second photo is a picture of the inside of the lid. I used the cover of an old dictionary and glued it in ( the four corners).  I don't have a picture of this but the bottom cover is in the bottom of the pail.  The third picture is of the dividers ~I covered some plastic dividers that I had with old dictionary paper.  Inked up the edges and made a Dymo label for the top.  The last picture is showing file set up for all of my mini alphabet letters.  My lettering of choice ~ well, for now anyway!

Then I started on the decorations that were going to sit on the book cover, of the lid.  I used my Tim Holtz die, Jenni Bowlin Acrylic Paint Dabber's, and Helmar's Professional Acid Free Glue to build my center piece~ so to speak.  I took a shaped pieced of cardstock and covered it with the old dictionary paper ( I watered down the Helmar's Acid Free ever so slightly to glue my old dictionary paper down), inked up the edges and used the Crop-a-dile to place my holes(for the ribbon).  I glued everything to my base(the wing on the bird I used Helmar's Scrap Dots) so it would have dimension.

I ended up adding some Prima and silk ribbon~which I just adore!!!

I then made a little mini tag using the same products to hang from the latch hardware.

Here is the complete project~

I am enjoying using my vintage lunch pail for storage for my mini alphabets.  I love to take something old and give it new life.  I hope you have enjoyed this and are encouraged to rescue something old and give it a new purpose~where ever that might be.  Thanks for stopping in and have a wonderful day!

Butterflies with Darkroom Door~

I took a break from a project I have been working on and made some cards out of my scrap bag.  These are Mother's Day cards~love using my scraps, it's like free cards:):) Cards without cutting a sheet of cardstock~like I said free cards!

The ribbon is silk and worked perfect for these cards.  I used the Darkroom Door Butterfly stamp set for my images!!! All I can say is beautiful!  I have all sorts of ideas for this stamp set, so lovely!

For you local people CraftCrossing has a great selection of  Darkroom Door products.  The stamps are red rubber and the images are so clear when stamped.  This set is fast becoming a favorite of mine~my fifth, I think........ Oh my!

I used the same idea that I used for the cards and made these tags.  The flowers are glued on using Helmars Acid Free Glue.  Takes no time to dry and keeps you  working~love that!  For you local gals CraftCrossing has Helmar Products on order.  The glue will be in the house shortly:):)!!

These tags were fun to make and the butterfly has so much detail ~a clean  stamped image everytime.  I stamped extras and cut those out to add dimension to the cards and tags.  A little machinne sewing adds interest to the cards and tags.  And a little tip~when you don't have the right color of pearl for the center of your flower~ just color it with a sharpie, works everytime!  Thanks for stopping by and I'll see you for Try it Tuesday~it's gonna be good!!!

home.SWEET.home~

I decided not to let all of those pictures, I took yesterday, go to waste. I should do something with them~well this is the something I did.    I created a collage of all the pictures, using Picasa.  The paper I used is g.c.d./Melody Ross~Artsy.Urban!!  Love this paper... It is an inspiration all its own.

The large butterfly is flocked ~so cool!!!  These photos are of some of my favorite junkin' finds and crafty finds~they provide many hours of inspiration for me.  This layout will look great in my "scrappy" place and continue to inspire me in many ways.  Just a side note ~ I had several comments on the church bird house.  My hubby built that for me for my birthday many years ago.It is signed and dated by him~a one of a kind piece of art.

The jadeite dishes are my favorite color~my mom and mother-in-law gifted me with many of these. and one last side note ~ the cowboy boot is a children's size 3, I have one. I saved it from the trash!! It was in the bottom of a bag that came from goodwill~I felt like I hit the lotto when I found it!! Thank you for all of your kind comments~I loved sharing my home with you all.

My Day in Photos~

See more photos here.