Simple Woman’s Daybook

FOR TODAY September 21, 2010

Outside my window...beautiful, sunny cool day. 
I am thinking...I need to go to the store.
I am thankful for...Marion from my ABC swap for sending me some nice things to use on my pages.
From the kitchen...frozen dinner.  What I make most nights.
I am wearing...gray dress.
I am creating...finishing up my “V” page for the ABC book.
I am going...to finish my pages.
I am reading...the same two books.  I haven’t been reading much lately. :-(
I am hoping...to have a great week.
I am hearing...Dr Phil.
Around the house...feeling good about the things that I’m getting done!!!
One of my favorite things...chocolate cake.
A few plans for the rest of the week:  get my dresser finished up.
Here is a picture or thought I am sharing..beautiful red roses from my garden and a bug.

If you would like to take part each Tuesday, go to the Simple Woman’s Daybook blog and share your link.

Blessings,

Christine

Halloween

I won the items for this next card in the Paper Maniac blog hop.  As soon as I opened the package, I new what I was going to make.  I watercolored the house because I new that I could do a sunset with watercolors.  Wasn’t sure if I could with Copics.  I colored the beautifully dressed witch with Copics and then applied Distress Ink over her because she was too bright.  I distressed everything you see except the fence (which was cut with my Cricut).  I wanted more color in the paper and I didn’t have any black lace, so there ya’ go.  Customized supplies!!! 

And that’s it.  I’m off to the grocery store as soon as the news is over.  You may have noticed that I updated my weight loss tracker.  The first time around didn’t work out very well.  I lost about seven pounds before going to Brave Girls and then didn’t get back on it.  I’m starting over with Biggest Losers as they start the new season.  Hopefully, I will have lost my 33 pounds along with the hundreds that the lose.

I have been keeping up my walking since Brave Girls camp.  That’s two months.  Speaking of Brave Girls camp, I’ve signed up for camp next fall.  I would love it if some of you could come and join me!  Obviously, I loved my experience since I’m going again!!!

I hope you  all had a great weekend and have a good start to the week!

Blessings,

Christine

Deets:
Medium-watercolor, Copics, ink; Image-Artistic Outpost; Ink-Stazon, Palette, Distress Ink; Paper-The Girl Paperie; Buttons-PTI; Cricut-Heritage cartridge; Stamp-Making Memories, Other from stash-lace.

Challenges:
Artistic Outpost Referral
Sir Stampalot--All distressed
Gingerloft Challenge--Happy haunting
Paper Sundaes--Fall or Halloween colors

Wishes

Once again, I was able to play along with Linda’s Compendium of Curiosities Challenge.  While I was at the store the other day, I picked up a couple of Tim’s masks for the current challenge, Masks Basics but do you think I could find them when I was ready to make my tag. No-ooo!  But I used some butterfly stencils that I had instead.  I am loving Linda’s challenge because I’m trying a lot of things that I wouldn’t normally do.  I decided to make a tag this time because I wasn’t really sure what I was doing so let’s just start small. 

I started by sponging Victorian Velvet Distress Ink over a couple of butterfly stencils and then some Spun Sugar around the butterflies.  Then I inked Tumbled Glass on the surrounding areas with some more Victorian Velvet around the edges.  I stamped the sentiment with Versamark and then used Distress embossing powder.  Some of the embossing powder stuck to the butterflies and other surrounding ink that was still not quite dry, but it was a happy accident.  I really liked how it turned out.  I made a couple of rosettes out of wrinkly rayon seam binding with a MS butterfly and button.  For a complete “fly by the seat of my pants” creation, I really like how it turned out.  Isn’t it great when that happens!!!!

That’s all for now!  I hope your weekend is going well so far!

Blessings,

Christine

Deets:
Medium-ink; Sentiment-Tim Holtz; Ink-Distress Ink and Distress Embossing Powder; Paper-PTI Cardstock; Buttons-PTI; Punch-Martha Stewart; Other from stash-rayon seam binding died with watercolor paint.

Challenges:
Compendium of Curiosities Challenge at Studio L3--Basic masking
Flutterby Wednesday--buttons
Cute Card Thursday--Bird or butterfly
Daring Cardmakers--Come fly with me
Stampin’ for the Weekend--Tag it
Papertake Weekly --

My Pink Home

I thought it would be fun today to give you a tour of my (imaginary) pink home.  

Welcome! 

I bought a new dress for the occasion.  Do you like it?  Okay, let’s start the tour.  

Of course here is the living room.  Don’t you just love our new pink sofa?  If you need a drink, the bar is on your left.  Help yourself.  

The dining room is right over here.  We won’t be eating in here today, it’s such a lovely evening we’ll be dining outside.

Just through here is our lovely kitchen.  The maid has her daughter helping us out with dinner tonight. 

Shall we go upstairs?   My bedroom is simply to die for!  I sleep so beautifully in here.

And of course, the restroom is to your right. You’ll find anything that you will need during your visit.  

Now let’s go outside and sit on the patio until dinner is served.  We’ll grab a cocktail on the way.

I hope you enjoyed your visit!  I’ll see you next Saturday for some more lovely pink to be shared on Pink Saturday hosted by the lovely Beverly at How Sweet the Sound.

Blessings,

Christine

Autumn Lady

McMahon Five Designs has some nice seasonal images.  I’ll be getting started on some of there beautiful Christmas images soon—some great digis!!!  But for today I have the beautiful Autumn digi stamp.  Doesn’t she look like the State Fair Queen?  She’s just beautiful!!!  I used some Basic Grey Kioshi paper and these beautiful Prima Autumn Leaves.  I love these leaves.  You get 24 leaves and they are beautifully embosses and have such a nice color range.  You need to go over to M5D and check it out!!!

My next project is going to be from the stuff I won at Paper Maniac that I posted about yesterday.  I can’t wait to dig in!!!

I hope you all have a great Friday and an even better weekend!

Blessings,

Christine

Deets:
Medium-Copics; Image-McMahon Five Designs; Paper-Basic Grey; Ribbon-Papertrey Ink; Buttons-Papertrey Ink; Punch-Paper Studio; Cuttlebug-Nestabilities.

Challenges:
Gingersnap Creations Spicy Supply--Punches
Pollycraft Monday--Autumn colors
A Spoon Full of Sugar--Fall colors
Creative Card Crew--Autumn or fall
Delightful Sketches--use ribbon and inspiration
Sketch Saturday--sketch

 Every comment left until September 23 will be entered to win my Birthday giveaway.

I’m a lucky girl…

in a lot of ways.  Today I want to talk about this:  I won the grand prize on the Paper Maniac blog hop.  All of this was in a box that arrived today from Patti.  Lots of paper, stamps, paint, dies, even that cute little Xyron.  I can only guess at the value. Now, time for a commercial break.  I love to shop at Paper Maniac.  I place an order at least once month to get my Copic fix and many other goodies as well.  They have Copic kit club where they send you ten (I think) pens plus tutorials on a given subject.  They also send a link to a video tutorial.  How cool is that?

Plus, she stocks so many wonderful products and and many of them at a discount.  What can be better than that, you ask?  You get free shipping on your order over $75.00 and she sends the order out the very next day.  Her customer service is excellent.  Last month I accidently ordered the prior month Copic kit and she emailed me to check if I had made a mistake.  She already new that I had that kit!!!  Now, that is personalized service!

I hope your day is as good as mine!  Thanks for coming buy today!

 Every comment left until September 23 will be entered to win my Birthday giveaway.

Blessings,

Christine

Why dinosaurs are extinct

Willow’s Book

I love this image—loved it the first time I saw it, ordered it and hadn’t used it since.  I worked on organizing stamps a bit yesterday and came across it and set it to the side so I could ink her up for my next card.  As of I’ve said a few times, and as you’ve probably noticed, my art has moved into a more vintage/shabby chic style but I still love some of my cute stamps.  Elizabeth Bell, Magnolias, Paper Makeup Stamps and The Greeting Farm.  I really have narrowed it down to those companies.  And, come to think of it, just about any of those images would work for a shabby chic card! 

So, here’s my card for today.  Pretty straight forward.  Same things I do with most cards, colored her with Copics, added pearls and flowers colored with the Copics to match.  I need to get a few more Copics in the kind of peach color family.  I only have one color so it’s hard to do much shading but I got it done!  But this time, I did some paper piecing.  Where, you ask?  Her apron, I say!  I cut it out with the kinda’ solid Basic Grey paper.  After I put it on, I thought it needed some shading so I did some shading with C1.  It looked much better!!!

I had kind of a lazy weekend.  I haven’t been feeling very motivated but I did get a couple of artsy things going.  Including coloring this little girl last night.  Not very productive but a nice one anyway!!!

I hope you had a great Monday!!!  I have lots to do tomorrow and I’m getting up early to get started.  I’m going to run my errands and get my ABC book finished so that I can package it up and send it in the mail on Wednesday!  Phew!

Blessings,

Christine

Deets:
Medium-Copics; Image-Whiff of Joy; Ink-Momento; Paper-Basic Grey; Flowers-Wild Orchid Crafts; Pearls-KaiserCraft; Punch-Martha Stewart, EK Success.

Challenges:
Etsy Inspired--
Whoopsi Daisy--Pile of the flowers
The Pink Elephant--Back to school
ABC Challenge--charms
Creative Belli--Old stamps
Whiff of Joy Challenge--layers
C.R.A.F.T. Challenge--
Basic Grey Challenge--paper piecing
Card Patterns--sketch

Cheeky Nurse

I love The Greetings Farm’s cheeky girls and the nurse is no exception!  Isn’t she sweet!  I love coloring The Greeting Farm images.  They are so much fun!

I kind of put my dresser projects on the back burner this weekend so I’ll be back to it this week!  I can’t wait to see how it turns out!  I’ll be showing it off for sure!!!

I’ll be adding another prize to my giveaway in a few minutes and don’t forget….

 Every comment left until September 23 will be entered to win my Birthday giveaway.

Blessings,

Christine Nay

Deets:
Medium-Copics; Image-The Greeting Farm; Ink-Momento; Paper-Papertrey Ink; Flowers-Wild Orchid Crafts; Pearls-stash; Cuttlebug-Nestabillities, Swiss Dots embossing folder.

Challenges:
A Pocket Full of Posies--Floral fantasy
Lexi’s Creations--Flower power
Nutshells--Pretty in pink
The Play Date Café--
Cupcake Inspiration--

Spooky

I got a slow start on the Compendium of Curiosities Challenge hosted by Linda at Studio L3, but I’ve participated in every challenge since.  Well, I was late on one.  Only by an hour or two, but it had closed anyway!  So, this weeks challenge is to use the Grungepaper Flowers technique and her is my try at it.  I almost blew it but I had a happy mistake.  I pulled out what I thought was my gel medium and started attaching small pieces of book print to the grungepaper.  Well, guess what?  It wasn’t gel medium it was gesso.  So, I decided to go with it and applied the Distress Ink anyway and cut out the flowers.  Yay, it worked great.  It gave an even more grungy look because the layers on the flowers came apaprt a bit. 

I typed out the work “spooky” in a scary looking font, colored it with Copics and then attached pins to the letters using Glossy Accents.  A lot of Glossy Accents to fill in each pin top.  I stamped some Tim Holtz stamps with various colors of Distress Ink and used a little Foilage flower to the center of the grungepaper flower.  I really like how it turned out!!!  A fun Halloween tag!

It has worked out that I have been able to combine my Compendium of Curiosities challenge with the new Simon Says Stamp and Show challenge as well.  The SSSS challenge is to make a project for one of the upcoming holidays.  What a perfect wat to combine the challenges!!!

Blessings,

Christine

 Every comment left until September 23 will be entered to win my Birthday giveaway.

Challenges:
Simon Says Stamp and Show and Simon Says--Upcoming holiday
Compendium of Curiosities Challenge Studio L3--Grunge paper flowers
The Shabby Tea Room--tag
Sir Stampalot--All distressed
Everybody Art Challenge--Handmade flowers
Tuesday Taggers--Book (book paper on flowers)
Charisma Cardz--Something new
Paper Play--Autumn
The Stampman Challenge--Distressing
Allsorts--Colors of autumn

In Remembrance

Of 9-11-01 

1.  Flag raising at the site of the Twin Towers

2.  The Pentagon

3.  Pennsylvania

4.  Twin Towers Memorial

5.  New York Fire Department Memorial

6.  Twin Towers Prior to 9-11-01

7.  The Pentagon Memorial

8.  Teardrop Memorial donated by Russia and sits in New Jersey across the Harbor from the Twin Tower site.

9.  Firefighter’s tattoo

Please take a moment of silence for all those who perished on 9-11-2001 and for their families and loved ones.

Blessings,

Christine

Let the Paper Do the Work

When I saw this beautiful Prima Fairy Flora paper, I just couldn’t bare to cut into it, so I just cut it down to size and let IT be the card!  And talking about Prima, everything you see, except the sentiment, is Prima and is available in the McMahon Five Designs store.  The pretty pink and green trim is Prima Jemie ribbon and the beautiful butterfly can be found here.  The yellow velvet ribbon is also Prima, but isn’t available in the store.  The sentiment is PTI.

Sue has gotten a lot of new things in the store.  She sent me some fun things, plus I order a lot more!!!  I can’t wait to share them with you!!!

I hope you have a great Friday!!!

Blessings,

Christine

Thursday Thunks

Wow, it’s been a long time since I posted Thursday Thunks, but I think it’s about time I started again.

The TT questions are brought to you by Bud, the color of Meg Ryan's Blouse and the number 33.

 

1. From whom did you get your last e-mail? I really have no idea.  Probably one of the many mailing lists that I’m on.

 

 

 

2. What is the most recent movie that you have seen in a theater?  Okay, these questions shouldn’t be this hard by I seldom go to the theatre.  Oh, now I remember—Toy Story 3.  So funny!!!  Ya, I know, I should go to the movie more often.

3. Have you ever seen a ghost?  I haven’t seen a ghost but I have heard one.  I used to live in the upstairs of a house that was known to have a ghost.  One night, I woke up when I heard someone running up the stairs as fast as she could.  If someone was running up the stairs like that, it would have been impossible to not run into the wall or for me not to see them from my vantage point.  Very strange.  Several people who had lived there had either, seen, heard, or had other evidence of her presence. 

 

4. Ever loved someone so much it made you cry?  Sadly, more than once.  Don’t you feel bad for me now? 

 

 

5. What are you most afraid of?  That’s a hard one.  Heights—they really make me nervous.  Snakes—yuck!  But, I think it must be poisonous spiders.  I don’t mind spiders in general but put me near a black widow-ewww!!!  I would scream and run as far as I could!!!  I’m really finding a hard time being funny with these questions!!!

 

 

6. What do you do when you are bored?  Watch TV, usually while I’m working on an artsy project!!!

 

 

7. Other than the author of this mess of a meme, whose blog are you most curious to see their answers? It’s been so long since I’ve participated, I wouldn’t even be able to guess!!!

 

8. Name three things from your bucket list. I don’t have a bucket list.  I do have a lot more art in me and one of these days, I would like to right my novel.  I know, just sit down and right it!!!

 

9. Who was the last person who complimented you on how you looked, that actually was a surprise?  Sad but true, I can’t remember. :-(  I spend most of my days by myself so I don’t get much of a chance for complements.

 

10. Do you remember Berleen? I must start playing along more.  I didn’t even know Berleen went missing!!!!

11. What was the last concert that you attended where the band was much better than you imagined?  Jewell.  I wasn’t a big fan at the time, but a bunch of the ladies were going so I tagged along.  It was great!!!

12. What’s the next band you’re either planning to see or want to? I have become an even bigger fan of Jewell of late.  Love the song “A Life Uncommon” and would love to hear her perform it live!!!  I would also love to see Toby Keith.

 

13. What were the last things do you imagine that Kimber threw off the roof? A pink flamingo lawn ornament!!!  There’s a story behind that.  When I lived in Omaha, a cop friend of mine had a house warming party and everybody brought her a pink flamingo lawn ornament for a house warming gift.  As the party got into the night, one of the neighbors called 911 because a bunch of guys were on the roof.  Of course, since most of the people at the party were police, they never came.  When she got up the next morning, her pink flamingos were all on the roof!!!

That’s all for this week!!!  If you'd like to play along, just go on over to the Thursday Thunks blog to pickup the questions and link your answers up!!!  It’s fun, why not play along!!!

Blessings,

Christine

No Project Today

I’ve been working very hard on my dresser this week.  I spent three or four hours each of Tuesday and Wednesday sanding.  Whoever was the first person to put paint down on that dresser, did not take the time to prime or sand it.  Or if they did, they did a very poor job of it.  As I sand, parts of the paint peels off and becomes a glue like substance with the heat caused by the sander. 

Needless to say, I wish I would have stripped it instead.  I didn’t because there are damaged places on the dresser that I can either sand down or fill in.  I’ve done a bit of both. 

I’m sore and tired today after all that sanding and was kinda’ happy when I woke up and it was rainy and cold.  Keeps me away from the dresser for the day, which is a good thing.  I was getting very frustrated.  I only have one more side to sand then I’m going to buy a Dremmell tool to do some of the intricate work and it will be ready to paint.

Hopefully I will be finished with the dresser in time for my sister to come by and help me move things around for the next step in my plan!!!  She is going to Utah for Peach Days on Friday.

This week is a reflective week for me.  I received my new heart in the wee hours of September 6, a Wednesday. When I was put on the list for a heart transplant in July 2007, I had a very strong feeling that I would get my heart while my family was already gathered in Utah for some other event and my sister, Alice, had the feeling that I would get my heart about fall time.  We both told my friends that at a party the night before I left for Utah,  Alice and Alicia (my niece) were already coming for Peach Days in Brigham City 2 days after I got “the call.”  Mom rode up with them so she could visit me at the hospital.  I was still pretty sick and couldn’t have visitors much so they were even able to still attend Peach Days.  Isn't it strange how things work out like that!

  Want a funny story about the night in the hospital while I was waiting for surgery?  People were all very confused when I checked in at the hospital after the 45 minute drive to the University of Utah.  I checked in and they sent me to surgery to check in.  They took my name and information but had no idea what to do with me.  After sitting in the surgical waiting room for what seemed like for…ev…er, one of the cardiology students (for the fellowship program) came and found me.  I was getting a little worried that I was missing out on my heart!!!

Little did I know, that organ transplantation is a hurry up and wait!  I finally got in the correct room in the cardiac intensive care unit where I had a wonderful nurse that had dealt a lot with heart transplant patients.  Once I got settled, my brother in law left so that my sister could come to stay with me.  They sent me off to take the pre-operative shower with some special soap and started giving me IV meds to counteract some of the meds, especially the blood thinners, that I was already on and to get some immunosuppressants in my body prior to the surgery.  I had an allergic reaction to at least one thing (I’m think the soap) and got a very itchy, welted rash behind my ears.  They called a doctor to take a look and decided to add some Benadryl to my iv meds.  Which really was a good thing because I then slept until I later woke up needing to go potty, bad.

While I was in the restroom, the transplant team came to get me.  I got back in the room and they asked, “Are your ready?”   I said, “Sure, let’s go,”  and headed out of the room.  The nurse asked them if they were going to let me walk?  They decided that wouldn’t be good, what if I fell and hurt myself before surgery.  All I really wanted was to lie down somewhere because I was incredibly sleepy all doped up on Benadryl.  The nurse, once again, suggested that they take me in the bed since they will need it to get me back into the room post surgery.  I’m sure glad she had her senses with her!!!  As we left the room, she called out, “Have a good change of heart!”  Does that sound familiar to anyone?  That’s why I named my blog Change of Heart.  I didn’t realize it was going to mainly be a art/craft blog when I started it.  I was just going to right down what I do all the time.  Well, that is what I’m doing, but what I do all the time is CREATE!!!

When I got into the operating room and they were prepping me, the anesthesiologist was about to put me out when they realized I hadn’t signed the consent.  If I hadn’t been so drugged up, I might have gotten a little concerned at this point but all I wanted to do was sign and go to sleep!!!  That Benadryl made the whole thing a lot easier on me.  I’m about to undergo A HEART TRANSPLANT and don’t have a care in the world!!!  But, none of those guys were the actual doc that would perform the surgery.  He was on his way with my heart. 

I do kind of enjoy watching things on TV about heart transplants, but they are seldom true.  At least in my case and I think in most cases, the surgeon to perform the transplant is the doctor the harvests the organ.  One of the soap operas I watch has a story line about heart transplant and it’s so interesting to see how many things that don’t hold true.  This time, they are doing a pretty good job!

I really appreciate that you all stop by each day and leave such wonderful comments for me!  And don’t forget…

Every comment left until September 23 will be entered to win my Birthday Blog giveaway.  I’ll be posting about another item added for one more winner later this week, probably Friday!!!

Blessings,

Christine

Simple Woman’s Daybook September 7, 2010

FOR TODAY September 7, 2010

Outside my window...sunny and beautiful!
I am thinking...about everything I’ll be doing today.
I am thankful for...my artistic talent.
From the kitchen...no cooking today.
I am wearing...my painting clothes—gray paints and t-shirt.
I am creating...my “V” page for the ABC book.
I am going...to finish sanding the dresser and do some yard work.
I am reading...same two books.  I haven’t been doing much reading lately.
I am hoping...to get the dresser sanded today.
I am hearing...sounds of plumbers digging up the neighbors yard.
Around the house...just working on painting projects.
One of my favorite things...my sister’s help.
A few plans for the rest of the week:  sanding, painting dresser; painting studio wall and then sand and paint other dresser.
Here is a picture for thought I am sharing...My dresser before!  I took the handles of before taking the photo.  It also had a decorative piece on the top that I already taken off and sanded.  Yesterday I got the top two drawers sanded and hope to get the rest sanded today.  Now I’m of to work on it again!!!

If you would like to take part each Tuesday, go to the Simple Woman’s Daybook blog and share your link.

Blessings,

Christine

Don’t forget to comment for another chance to win my birthday giveaway!

Butterfly Wishes

I can’t believe that I hadn’t found grunge board/paper before now.  But now that I have, I only have one complaint.  It stinks!!!  I mean it has an unpleasant odor!  But, it’s a dream to craft with!  Plus, I love another thing Tim Holtz related.  This bird cage die!!!  It even works with butterflies.  While I was working on the lawn today, I found two butterflies that were having a hard time flying.  I brought each one onto the deck and placed them on the table and when I got back, they were gone.  I sure hope they were okay!!!

Happy Labor Day everyone.  I hope you have some fun plans!!!

Now, be sure to leave a comment since all comments left until September 23 will count towards an entry into my candy.  And please, send your friends over, the more individual entered in the giveaway, the more items I will be giving away.  How does that sound!  Yay!!!

Have you been tellin’ your friends!!!  Wee need lots more people to come by so I can add lots more prizes.  Send everyone you know on over!!!

Blessings,

Christine

Deets:
Sentiment-Crafty Sentiments; Ink-Memento; Paper-DCWV; Gems-KaiserCraft; Cuttlebug-butterfly die and emboss, Sizzix Tim Holtz die; Other from stash-ribbon.

Challenges:
Flutter By Wednesday--Birthday card with this sketch
Stampin’ for the Weekend--Shabby or vintage
One Stop Craft--
Gingerloft Challenge--Anything goes

Now is the Time

I’ve been working on a few more Brave Girl projects lately and have one to share with you tonight!!! (In case anyone is counting, this is going to count as my Sunday post!)

This is something that I must constantly remind myself.

Now is the Time!!!

I’m entering this into the Simon Says Stamp and Show challenge and the Compendium of Curiosities challenge with Linda. I used, October Afternoon paper, a MS butterfly punch, GCD Studio chipboard butterfly, KaiserCraft pearls (colored Copics) some vintage seam binding (flower) and lots of acrylic paint and Mod Podge!

I can famously put off things that are a little too hard to do, or might be scary, even though I know that it is something that I must do. I made this canvas to remind me that it is time! Don’t put it off another minute!!! Maybe it will help with this hanging on my wall to see everyday.

I have been working on it. Today, not only did I make this piece, but I emptied the dresser in my bedroom and then had my sister help me carry the dresser out on the deck. I bought the dresser several years ago with the intention of refinishing it. Like many things around my home, I buy them with an intention and since I didn’t have the strength and health to do them, they remained undone. I’m really trying to turn that around.

So, I’m refinishing my bedroom dresser and moving it into the living room temporarily. I will then move one of the dressers in my studio onto the deck, do some painting in my studio and then moving the newly refinished dresser into the studio. Phew!!!! I want to get all this done THIS WEEK. After that, I will still have one dresser on the deck, right. I’ll refinish that one and move it into the bedroom. The second dresser is much bigger than the first one so I want to switch places. I need more space in the bedroom to get organized.

So that’s my week in a nutshell!!! It’s very ambitious for me but I know that I can get it done. And during rest breaks, I need to gather and assemble 27 alphabet pages using the letter “V.” I’m in an alphabet book swap. It has been fun to plan my page using things that begin with the letter V. The pages should be in a vintage kinda’ theme. I found a digi stamp (thanks TLC) of a violet flower fairy that is perfect for the front of the card. There are a ton of details involved but I think I have it all figured out. I’m going to make one copy of each side and then take it to a copy center for the 27 copies of each side. Then I’m going to glue the pages together with a glue stick and add the details. I hope everybody likes it. I have made everything in the color violet (with a little green). What I haven’t figured out how to do is add the color vermillion. I know that a bright orange is the complementary color to violet and I really want to add it.

Okay, enough about my upcoming week. I hope you’ve got a good one planned as well!!!

Now, be sure to leave a comment since all comments left until September 23 will count towards an entry into my candy. And please, send your friends over, the more individual entered in the giveaway, the more items I will be giving away. How does that sound! Yay!!!

Blessings,

Christine

Another Post…

just for you!!!

Remember—Comments on every post during the month until September 23 will be counted towards the blog candy!!!

I’ve promised myself to post every single day until my birthday so I can give you as many chance as possible to enter into my giveaway.  Aren’t I nice?  So what’s on the agenda today, you ask?  The old time photo of my sister’s and I that we had taken at the fair!  These photos are so much fun and it was fun to take with the sisters.  Notice, I am the sheriff with my six shooters ready to go!!!  We had wished that we did this on the way into the fair instead of on the way out.  We were tired and sore but it was still a lot of fun!!!

I really want to get in on the Simon Says Stamp and Show challenge plus the Linda’s Compendium of Curiosities challenge so I’m off to get to work.  Maybe I’ll have another post today!!!

Blessings,

Christine

First Day Homework

Remember—Comments on every post during the month until September 23 will be counted towards the blog candy!!!

Didn’t you hate it when the teachers would give you homework on the first day of school!  This little girl is having a hard time concentrating on her homework with all the leaves blowing around her!  This is the adorable Melissa stamp that you can find at McMahon Five Designs.  It’s by D’Amour Allure stamp which you can find exclusively at M5D.  I also used a Prima Gallery Rose-Violet and some KaiserCraft pearls (colored with Copics) that you can get at M5D.

The Brave Girls Club launched a new blog/website yesterday.  Melody wrote the first post and when I read it last night it brought tears to my eyes.  She has such a talent for writing what needs to be heard by so many people!  It really helped me.  I had a busy day today but I did find a couple of hours to work on some Brave Girl art!  You can check out the Brave Girl blog here.  I can’t wait for her next post.  If you would like some daily Brave Girl inspiration, sign up for the newsletter where a daily truth will be sent to your inbox.  I can’t tell you how many days I have read just what I needed to get my patooty up off my comfy chair and do something!!!

Blessings,

Christine

Deets:
Medium-Copics; Image-D‘Amour Allure; Ink-Momento; Paper-Basic Grey; Flowers-Prima, Petaloo (leaves); Pearls-KaiserCraft; Ribbon-stash; Button-Papertrey Ink; Punch-EK Success;

Challenges:
Really Reasonable Ribbon-flowers
A Crafty Little Place-Anything goes
Creative Card Crew-Back to school
Papertake Weekly-Just the one (Flower)
Cupcake Inspiration-
Sketchy Colors-

Pom-Pom Birdhouse!

I’ve been working on this project for a couple of weeks now.  When I saw the challenge at the CSI Project, I decided to finish it up. Paint this, podge that, more paint, more podge, some pretty trims and were done!!!  And yes, podge is a verb.  Mod Podge that is!  Did I mention how much I love Mod Podge?  I really became a fan at Brave Girls camp.  I have gone through a 16 oz bottle of Mod Podge since going to BGC just 6 weeks ago!!!

I saw this cute little birdhouse at Hobby Lobby while on a shopping trip a couple of weeks ago and couldn’t resist it.  Once I got it home and got the base coat on it, I decided to podge (using outdoor Mod Podge) some Basic Grey paper onto it.  I punched several 1 inch circles and podged them to the roof.

Then I set it by my desk for a couple of days trying to decided what further to do with it.  I decided on the pom-pom fringe and new that I wanted to do some kind of flower/grass treatment to the bottom of the house.  I didn’t want to do punched flowers and grass because I wanted to still be able to use it outside so I wanted to use some kind of trim.  When I went to Joann’s to by the pom-pom trim, I scoured the trim isle for about 20 minutes trying to decide what to do.  When I saw the rick rack I thought that would be cute grass, but didn’t know what to do for the flowers.  I finally decided on this lace that I colored with green and pink Copics.  The floral trim has a little star thingy between each flower that I colored green to look kind of fern like.

I really like how it turned out.  I bought a hook to put in the top, but I couldn’t find it to add it before the photo.  I can’t wait to hang this in my garden next spring.  In the meantime, it’ll make a nice decoration in my living room!

I’ll be back in the morning with my McMahon Five Designs card (a day late). 

Blessings,

Christine

It’s September 1st!

And that means it’s my birthday month.  Do you know what that means?  Blog candy!!!

I’m working on putting some things together for you.  It will include paper, albums, ribbon, stamps—who knows what else!!!

Stay tuned for the official post!  Yay, I can’t wait!!!