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4/28/2009

Motherly Love

With Mother's Day coming up, I got in the spirit to make a "Mom" album. The hardest part of this album was coming up with a clever title. Last year my Mother's Day album was titled "My Mother, My Best Friend," I don't like to use the same title twice, so I tried to come up with something different. Luckily my cousin Amy helped me with that! We were scrapping this past weekend and she said "How about Motherly Love?" It worked! I think this album turned out to be a very beautiful album. I used Basic Grey's "Porcelain" line of paper and packed it full of lace, pearls, flowers, and beautiful "Mom" inspired quotes.

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Don't Forget! Mother's Day is May 10!

4/24/2009

I Love "Going Green!"

After altering the Prima Flower jars the other night, I decided to try my hand at another recycling project! I had some soup cans sitting on my counter and I wanted to see what I could do with them.

First, I cleaned the cans and then painted them with my Making Memories Acrylic paints that I had laying out. I ended up putting 2 coats of paint on them, and then spraying them with glitter and sealing it with Mod Podge {a MUCH better solution than clear fingernail polish!}

Once the cans were completely dried, I cut out little flowers & leaves with my Cricut and adhered them to bamboo skewers {I used a hot glue gun to do this}

Then I cut down a piece of styrofoam and glued it into the bottoms of the cans.

I cut the ends of the skewers to the size that I wanted and put them in place in the styrofoam. Next I added some crinkled paper to give it that grassy feel {you can get this in the gift wrap section at Target or Walmart for about $1}

To finish them off, I added some glitter to the "grass" and tied little bows around the cans.

These make a very fun and cute project. I have done several in the past using little metal pails {you can find samples of those at http://www.papercreationsbyemily.com} The good thing about these little flowers is that they will live forever! They make great centerpieces and very pretty decorations! Try one for yourself, they are so simple to make!

Oh yeah, I almost forgot... I am giving these away on the MLDT blog! CLICK HERE to enter and win!!!

4/22/2009

Happy Earth Day!

It seems like EVERYONE is "Going Green" nowdays! Especially this week since today is Earth Day! The ebay design team that I'm on (MLDT) has also decided to Go Green this week! Here is my contribution to the challenge:

I had some old prima flower jars that I was saving back for a rainy day, so I decided to "recycle" them for the challenge! You can also see a line of Making Memories paints, I haven't used them in years, so I also dug them out for this little project.

I actually had a lot of fun with this and I think the lids turned out very pretty after I sprayed them with glitter and added a clear coat {as you can see, I used nail polish... the fumes kind of got to me!!!}

I used some scrap paper that I had laying around from the Basic Grey "Urban Prarie" line {I've been using it for my Cruise album as well}

The jars say "Live, Love, Laugh, Believe, Dream, Create"

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4/18/2009

Friday Night Crop!

Last night I went to Archiver's with Margaret from MLDT and we cropped our little hearts out! Archiver's has a "Scrap Mania" every Friday and Saturday night from 5-11pm, and for $15 you get a spot to crop, a free little goodie bag, and yummy dinner with a desert {Last night it was Tuscani Pasta from Pizza Hut and brownies! mmmm!}... anyways, it's lots of fun! If you have an Archiver's store near, I suggest you give it a try! We had another lady at our table who was simply amazed at what we did and our ebay sales. She was really nice. I enjoy going and meeting new people as well and seeing their work.

I guess I'm really just a slow scrapper... I finished an album that I had been working on for ebay. Here is that album, I think it turned out nice!

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Last night Margaret and I decided that we would work on some of our own stuff and actually crop photos and get them on pages. I haven't done this in probably 2 years, I've been more focused on albums and eBay work and haven't found time to scrap my own photos. So last night I decided to start on my cruise album... I finished 1 page, but it's a very beautiful 1 page! I feel that it looks more like a 2nd side of a 2 page spread... so I guess I need to work on that 1st page sometime soon!

This is my album that I bought last summer for 50% off. I thought it would be a nice vacation album! I did manage to get one of my photos in the front picture slot!

Here is my lonely little page. I must say though, it is a great start to my cruise album! I used Basic Grey's "Urban Prarie" paper line and I plan to use it throughout the whole album. The page isn't 100% finished, I think I need to add the journaling {see where I left a spot for that?}, and it also needs a few more embellishments.

I also bought a new border punch yesterday and I LOVE it!!! It's by EK Success and it's a little Beach punch! Too cute! I used it on my page above.

4/12/2009

Works in Progress

Here are a few albums that I have been working on {and finished} this past week. I just thought I would show a little of the progression on them. I will try to take better {and more} pics the next time I do a progress report! :-) Note: these really don't show much progress, the second one especially, it just shows the papers and elements I picked out for the album! lol I promise to take more pics next time!

Home Is Where The Heart Is {Chipboard Shape Album}: