Eggs

- Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Behind again! And so that was the case with the eggs. It happened again this year. The eggs didn't get dyed til after midnight Easter morning. The kids were up.Well, Corey wasn't, but didn't mind getting up to see who had the ugliest egg and try to make one of his own. So it wasn't like I had to drag them out of bed or anything. 1/6 isn't bad. lol.

I did get a chance to get crafty with my own eggs. I hunted every place I coould think of for the container that was supposed to contain the Easter stuff. Alas! The container was found! But in it was not what I was hunting. Go figure! No eggs and 5 missing Easter baskets. Huh!?! What did I do with it? I still don't have a clue. I get so ticked off at myself for that. Especially when you know you have something, can't find it, have to buy more. Don't you hate that?
So, off I went to HL on another egg hunt and left with more than just eggs!
I know you see these things on soooo many blogs lately, but I wanted to do it too! : ) 


I didn't get a shot of the paper mache eggs before.
I painted a base coat of white acrylic paint, then the robin's egg blue.
On this I didn't like the look or the feel (chalky), so I added a little bit of gel medium to the paint.
I liked the sheen it gave the eggs.
With an old toothbrush and a little bit of water added (enough to make it thinner) to the burnt umber paint,
I tapped the brush on my hand for the bigger splats,
ran my finger across the bristles to get it to splatter the brown like a mist.
That's it.

The tray and the green flowers came from the $ Tree.
I LOVE those trays. I use them whenever I have the chance.
(And oh the ideas I have for them!)
Lime green stickles went on some of the green petals (not crazy about it)
I cut flowers on the cricut after buying punches that just wouldn't do it.
Crumpled them up. Uncrumpled(?) them, inked them and used the glue
so the layers of the flowers would stay in place.

Now, the eggs are in a baggie in the Easter Container
with baskets that I had to purchase once again.
How much u wanna bet that next year, I'll find what I was looking for this year
and won't be able to find the blue eggs and baskets?


ATC Feb/Valentine

Labels: - Thursday, March 4, 2010

Yes, I know Valentine's Day is in February.
Yes, I know it's March now.
I looked at this for days and days 

before I could get some idea of what to do next.
I finally gave up trying to plan and just started to play.


I'm not happy witht he hearts. My kids helped me so..on they went!
The background stamps are Stampabilities. I'm not sure about the others.
Ink is StazOn, pink cardstock and some glimmer mist (which you can't see from the pic).

Fleur de Lis ATC

Labels: - Monday, February 22, 2010

Geez, it's been way too long since I've posted! I haven't been very creative lately. But I did manage to make a few things since November. Ok....so, remember how I went to that stamp group meet up/ ATC swap? And I enjoyed myself so much that I was definitely going back? Ummm..yeah..I haven't made it to another swap since. I'm really really really hoping to go next month. But I did manage to make some cards for the Jan. and Feb swap. January's theme was the Fleur de Lis in honor of our N.O. Saints.

Musical

- Sunday, November 1, 2009



A $3 frame and some paper and a lil ribbon and ........ta daaaaaa!


Come in and Sit a Spell

Labels: , , - Friday, October 23, 2009

I wanted something just a lil festive to get in the spirit of Halloween.
The letters were cut using the Blackletter cart.

Collage frame

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I got this frame from Wal Mart awhile back for $10. It sat there for..oh I don't know how long, but it was long. The hardest part was getting my kids to sit still long enough to take a good picture. I love the paper I used (paper studio). I bought so much of this stuff, it's sick. This took 30 minutes max to do because I kept cutting the paper wrong. But it's good enough for now and it's finally on the wall.

First ATC Swap

Labels: - Saturday, October 17, 2009

I love drooling over these small pieces of art that can inspire anything from a scrapbook page to home decor.
I have been wanting to get started on making some of my own for about a year now. I introduced my kids to the idea of them, but they rather make them out of flash cards, being that they are just a tad bit bigger. Soon I'll put some of their little works of art on here.

So a friend of mine ( Hi Dee! ) joined a stamp group in New Orleans recently and she asked me last Friday if I wanted to go to a swap on Saturday. I'd never been to one and I'm glad I took her up on the offer.
I started too feel a little intimidated b/c this is a stamp group and I haven't done much stamping. The one I created is the witch on the black cardstock. You can't see how much it sparkles in this pic, so I will be posting another. I don't think I did too bad for my first go-round. The themes were breast cancer awareness or Halloween.


I had a wonderful time! I met some really nice ladies and just enjoyed myself. I couldn't believe how relaxing it was for me. I was so proud of the goodies I collected to bring home to show my kids who were making their own while I was gone! They think it's just the coolest thing. They made some pretty cool stuff too!

These are the ones that I got permission to post from Pat, Lorraine, Brenda, Connie, Jan, Sue, Sandra, myself, and Dee. Thanks ladies!

My kind of ribbon candy

- Monday, October 12, 2009

I found out the hard way that I need to see my stuff in order to use it. I bought all kinds of boxes to store stuff in. It worked for some things, but not for everything. I like to see what I have. Organizing craft supplies gets tough when you don't have a craft room and are working in shared spaces in your home. I still have a long way to go. This isn't all of the ribbon..just the 238.




I put the rolled ribbon in glass canisters and large jars. And it's pretty! They are on a bookshelf in my living room. That's good for me b/c I love to look at ribbon. I'm sure I'll move them around here and there til I get it right. See the 7Gypsies ATC holders? Had to have them!. That was last year. And they're still naked.

238 rolls of ribbon

- Friday, October 9, 2009

I am a ribbon junkie. It's almost embarrassing. Will I ever use it all? No. But that doesn't stop me from hoarding and buying. I do use it, just not that much. I took the ribbon off of the spools they were on and put them on clothes pins (the round ones) and some on dowels and some are just rolled tightly.


The EEK that got tweaked

Labels: , , - Thursday, October 1, 2009




Ha ha! I crack myself up with my funnies! EEk - tweak- get it?!? So...I added tule (sp?), some rhinestone stickers and a strip of ribbon to the eek. I can't decide whether it's an almost sexy eek or if it's a ballerina eek. Oh well..I got irritated with it so that's how I left it. My poor BOO...nothing was done to it.
I told the kiddos they couldn't have any candy corn until they said how pretty it was. Yeah, a few of them looked at me like I was crazy.

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