Before posting the pictures of today’s project. The flower pot isn’t going to be re-posted today after all. It turns out it was so windy when I put it out side it blew over and I have to re-paint part of the project. Not a hard thing, just time consuming!
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I made this altered coaster and scallop bag for a friend’s birthday, I hope she likes this!
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I hope you guys are enjoying some nice weather.It is beautiful here! I enjoyed helping my husband with some yard work. (By helping, I mean encouraging him and taking him water)!
I hope you are all having a great Friday. After getting my home in order I sat down and did some stamping and as you see, some painting. I still have paint on my hands. Hope most of it will come off, since when Mike gets home this evening we are planning to go out for dinner.
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The small flower pot will show up in the blog again tomorrow. Once it is totally dry, I plan to apply two coats of sealer to the project then plant a small pansy inside. I will also embellish it with ribbon. This is the first time I have tried my hand at free hand painting and in the future I am sure I’ll look back and laugh at my crude work, but for a first try, it isn’t bad.
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If you are wondering what is up with those stars, well when I sit here and type up everything for the blog, the spacing looks great, I do a quick edit and spell check and post it. For the last month or so, the spacing isn’t there at all, its all screwed up, so in an attempt to keep paragraphs separated, I’ll use those darn stars!
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For the card, the base is green galore from Stamping up, the background embossing is from a new Sizzix embossing folder. If you have an AC Moore store near you, these and all the Sizzix products are 40% off. Our AC Moore also had a great selection of Easter and St. Patrick day dollar stamps, lets just say I enjoyed myself!
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The embossed piece measures 4″ X 5 1/4″ and I used barely banana card stock and pebbles sparkly chalk to embellish. It is finished simply with a green galore layer, glitter and pop dots. Of course I added a bit of ribbon as well.
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I hope you guys have a great weekend. I look forward to some time with the hubby and kid and the dogs! Blog you later, Stamp Happy!
Christy said…
What a beautiful gesture of greeting to your new neighbors. They are receiving a pretty basket of some well made goodies.
March 30, 2009 5:16 PM
Christy, please email me at ms.rhetta@verizon.net with your information so I may snail mail your goodies out to you!
This is going to be a brief morning post. Craig has been recycled back for two weeks. He is now supposed to come home between April 25 and May 1. Yes, I am very disappointed and upset that he did not pass his last test, but the only way he will learn is to fail and have to re-do.
I will try and post what I’ve been up too soon. I am working on a gift for the birthday club on SCS, it’s almost ready to go. Just a few more items and It will go postal.
I hope you guys have a great weekend. Stamp happy!
I have loved the ‘never ending’ card idea since I first viewed one on Carol Duvall show on HGTV. I have totally taken the concept in a different direction.
I have found taking a bit more time with the basics, and adding patterned papers and layers makes the entire project more fun. This one took me about two hours to complete, but well worth my efforts. The cutting and folding are not that difficult. It is actually an easy card to construct and play with.
Oh, I had a blast today with my stamping friend. She made swap cards while I worked on this beautiful creation. Thanks for a great day!
Yesterday I had a few errands to run, not the least of which was going to get my car from the shop. While on my travels, I went into Michael’s. There was a lady in the check out with her arms full of clear stamps. If you know me you can figure out by this time, I’ve turned bright red and am hollering “where did you find those?!!” She kindly pointed me in the direction of the bins in the middle of the store, and I quickly went into spaz mode trying to find as many sets as I can. I bought a bunch of extras to gift off with my birthday random act of kindness cards on splitcoast stampers.
It is over cast and raining today. The kind of weather that makes one long for a cup of hot tea and a good book. I opted for some down home house cleaning. This poor home was a might bit overdue!
If you have any questions on this project, please let me know!
Have a super evening! Stamp Happy!
I will still be drawing blog candy tomorrow. Unfortunately, as of last night Craig had failed an assignment at tech school and may not be flying home tomorrow. I still have my fingers crossed that he was able to re-take the test, but I’m not getting my hopes up at this point.
I am trying to finish up a basket of goodies for our soon to be new neighbors. They should be arriving this weekend.
Remember, blog candy will be drawn on April 3, so join in on the fun and leave those comments!
I used a coaster and designer paper I purchased from the craft store. This time I veered from the stamped and embossed butterfly and choose one I stamped with Staz on ink onto the transparency, flipped it over and colored it with a yellow copic marker. I know it looks green in the photo, but that is mostly because of the green paper it is sitting on. I chose to use a binding clip to attach the post it to the front allowing for easy use of the paper underneath.
