Easy Chalkboard Place Cards with Spellbinders

Hello, friends! I hope you had a wonderful weekend and I hope those of you in the US enjoyed your Mother's Day weekend! It was a gorgeous weekend here and I was lucky enough to spend LOTS of time outside! Love that!

I have a super fun tutorial over on the Spellbinders® blog to share with you today! I created these fun place cards using a couple of die sets and the popular chalkboard look!



Seriously, you guys. These are SO MUCH FUN to create and they would be perfect for a garden party, wedding, shower, and so much more! Head on over to check them out and let me know what you think!

Have a Happy!

Grandma's Cupboard

I am up over on the Spellbinders® blog with a tutorial for this pretty Grandma's Cupboard project! Be sure to head on over to check it out!

In other news, today is the Red Sox home opener!!! I would SO rather be AT the game, but that didn't work out this year, so I will wear my Red Sox shirt and cheer loudly enough for them to hear me at Fenway. That works, right? I'd say so. HA!

Have a Happy!

TAG! You're It!

***This is my second post of the day! Please check out my Pinecone card showcasing the new stamps from CAS-ual Fridays Stamps! I kind of love it and want you all to see it. K? K. Thanks. Luvs!***

Hello, FRIENDS! Today began with sunshine, a pair of Toms on my feet, and an absolutely ridiculously good hair day, so you know what? I am pretty darn sure it is going to be a FANTASTIC day! Let's make it happen! And to add to that fantastic day, we have a fun new challenge for you over on the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Blog! This week we are playing TAG! Yup! We want to see tags as your creation, in your creation, on your creation, whatever! Just show us a tag! The design team is playing with Tim Holtz products this week. If you have them we'd love to see you rock them, but if not, that's cool, you don't have to use them to play along!



Yup. So you know that happy little CAS box I live in from time to time. Well, I BUSTED that sucker wide open for this challenge! Jumped right on out of the box and went full on mixed media style. I should write a song about it. Psy can sing it. It's gonna be a hit, folks, so get ready for Mixed Media Style: The Song to hit your local radio stations!



So, you can find the products I used in the links below (or just by browsing the fabulous Simon Says Stamp Store), but I want to talk technique for a minute. I used multiple colors of distress inks, applied with the cute little round applicator thingy (yup...totally the technical term) on a standard shipping tag. I then splashed a bit of water on that, which has this neat little reaction and causes those light spots you see. I added some stamped and embossed flowers, then some stamped (and rather messy, mind you) rows of dots before attaching the metal pieces. I also used inks to dye the ribbon and I love that piece so much I think I could hug it. Seriously, though... if you haven't tried to do some of this stuff, it really isn't hard to do... even I managed. HA!

AND... now it's YOUR turn! Create a tag or a project with a tag and link it up to the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge blog for your chance to win a $50 Gift Certificate to the Simon Says Stamp Store! Woot! Woot!

And dude, Have a Happy.

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Mother Earth

Today Stampendous! has joined up with Wee Scapes to show you how fun it can be to combine some really great products! I pulled out a few fun things to create my Mother Earth piece for you today.


The skirt is created from a moss paper that I stamped and embossed with Stampendous Foliate Cube stamp. I added punched grass paper circles around the skirt before adhering the stamped butterflies from the Charm Collection set.


May Arts burlap string and lace finish off her skirt quite nicely!


The base is covered with a lovely sheet of foliage from Wee-Scapes.


And a bit of grass finishes out the neckline. I hope you have enjoyed my Mother Earth piece today! Please visit the Stampendous! blog and the others participating in today's hop!

Kanti - She sings with the birds

I am excited to introduce to you my newest art doll.  This, my dear friends, is Kanti.

Kanti:  Algonquin name meaning sings.







Kanti is a clay and paper mache doll on a wire armature.  She is adorned in beautiful jewelry and glitter and her skirt is constructed of vintage sheet music and flowers.




I am so in love with this doll it is actually a little hard to talk about her.  I don't know how to describe her, as every time I look at her I just sigh because she is so lovely!




This is her back.  She has wonderful feathers and tiny little flower wings.  She wants to fly with the birds.  She is named for their song, afterall.




She sings their song.  The song of the birds.  She is always singing.




Her song is beautiful, as is her form.




Can you hear her?

Please leave a comment and tell me what you think.

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