A Creating Day

Hi there!

I hope you have all been doing well!

I spent a few day in the woods at our cabin getting some "quiet time" and now I'm back and doing some paper crafting today.

I felt like getting down and dirty with the glitter. That stuff is always flying everywhere but I just LOVE it! My dogs even had some glitz on their back when I finished these flowers today.

These are my flowers that I named SPARKLERS for obvious reasons. I used two shades of blue on this first set and then a really pretty lavendar in the next picture. Just love them!

I also made a flower card this afternoon.

Each layer I decided to do something different on for a nice layered effect. The bottom layer was stamped with black ink and then I added clear iridescent glitter here and there on the petals. I hand cut around each petal too. The next petal layer I used my sizzix die for the patterned paper shape and then glued that on black and cut around it. The center was printed (as well as the stem) from printable stamps I bought on The Cutting Cafe'. I used my metallic gel pens and made a few accents and then glittered the center flower with a complimentary turquoise glitter. I glued each layer with 3D glue dots. I decided to also get out the sewing machine and do a nice thread border. It was fun to sew on paper!

I thought the ribbons at the bottom added a nice finishing touch to this card.

I think I'll start dinner and relax for the night. I wish you all a nice enjoyable weekend and I'll see you next week!

Acrylic Christmas Card for 2008

I love the new look of the acrylic cards so I decided to attempt using acrylic for this years' Christmas card. I cut a transparency to size using my Fiskar's cutter and then the score wheel for the fold line.

The mirror paper is embossed with a Sizzix embossing plate in a snowflake pattern and is attached to the front of the card. I die cut the snowflakes and then embellished them with crystal glitter and crystal stickles.

The "Happy Holidays!" is stamped with black Stazon ink on the front of the acrylic. The snowman paper was attached to the front from the underside so it would show through. I just love the Basic Grey Figgy line from last year!

The mirror paper is from Club Scrap. This is the first time I have used it and I love how easy it shows the embossing and reflection. It is truly like a real mirror!

For the inside sentiment I just diecur a circle and again used the black Stazon ink with an acrylic stamp....added a blue satin bow with a mini glue dot and it was complete.

This is the inside of the front top cover. I added some contrasting patterned paper from the same Basic Grey line and embossed some white cardstock for a textured effect throughout the cover.

TFL!

LOVE LOVE LOVE these!

Now that the Thanksgiving holiday has come and gone......

(we had a WONDERFUL time visiting with our little grandson Eli and combining his first birthday party with turkey day)

it is now time to stick my nose to the grindstone and work continually on this scrapbook room. I have just finished the deconstruction.

WHAT A MESS! I tore down all the moldings from inside the closet and spackled, sanded, respackled, sanded....repeat until it is ready for paint. I put two coats of a moisture barrier on the ceiling of the closet to keep all the insulation dry up there. I had already put 2 coats on the room ceiling when it was a bedroom and wasn't crazy enough to try to even touch that closet disaster.


Let me tell you the history of this closet!!!! First of all this home was new when I was 12 years old. We moved here (my parents, grandmother and me) from Detroit in 1967. Yes...that makes me 53 years old now :-) Wow has time flown. My father retired and moved upnorth to his home in the woods (mom had previous passed away from brain cancer) and I purchased the home back from him. Actually my first husband and I had purchased the home. Then after 25 years of marriage that came to an end, we divorced and I repurchased it again to keep it in the family. I am now remarried to an awesome man named Tom and he has helped me redo this whole house and make it a home me so it feels like a new place for us. Only good memories now ;-) The work he does is just beautiful. I'll have to post some pics of the decks he has put on our home and then he dropped an awesome spa on top for a relaxation spot. He's a super duper guy!!!! With children coming back home from college, or just back home back and then back again, with and without grandchildren accompanying them, this "guest" bedroom has seen many visitors. It actually was my bedroom at 12 years old. You can imagine the accumulation of goodies that closet has had. I found material and patterns for suits that I never made LOL! Funny thing is that I still love the pattern and the material but not enough to come out of retirement and wear suits and heels again....nope no way !!!!

I took one entire day and emptied that entire horrid closet. It was a step back in time to say the least but here it is when I was done...ugly, empty and very small but I have BIG plans for this area.
I am now in the process of putting on 2 coats of paint and the storage shelves. I will take a pic of that when it is complete. I will continue moving onto the room with paint and wallpaper next. It's been fun actually seeing some progress.

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I know I'm a bit behind the times and most of you have all the fancy electronic cutters (I'm sooo envious) but I still just have the Sizzix BigKick and love it. I know there is a Pazzles in my future though LOL! I was cruising around the Joann fabrics website a couple weeks ago and found Sizzix's storage boxes on sale for a pretty good price. For those of you who don't know about them they are not cardboard but heavy duty wood covered in a nice linen fabric. They come in 3 colors....I chose the beige because the room is going to be dark walnut with warm pumpkin colored walls. I love the plastic dividers inside to keep each die seperated. Pretty cool design and I just LOVE THESE, hence the title to this post.

TFL...have a super week.