Woo Hoo

Loving all of our new followers!!! Averaging over 130 hits per day on the blog! Love it. Lets keep it up and see if we can reach 40 followers by the end of the month!!!!

Sharing some Layouts here for some motivation!

Good News

I have some ubber good news to share within everyone hopefully by the end of the week!!! Soo excited to share!

In the meantime lets keep those crafting tables full of projects!!! Here is an album I am working on. The cover is acrylic! Kidnapped this idea off of the Hambly blog. Love it! Worked on the cover last week for my own challenge! I love how it's coming along. I plan on still adding some bits and pieces to cover and of course filling those pages.. but wanted to give a little peek of it thus far.

I loved using a transparency on the cover and then coloring in random bricks with some paint!

Remember this months freebees!!!

April showers bring May flowers.. we'll we've certianly had our share of rain in the mid-west.. soo only fitting I offer some wonderful Botanicals.

 As the giveaway I am offering a large part of the Prima Botanical collection!!!! All you have to do is be a follower, share on facebook and leave a comment!!

Here are some pics of the Prima products that will be included. You can see them used on a project on an older post.. a Prima mini album I did as a gift for someone for mother's day.

How To Vids....chipboard and flowers

Here is my ustream.. check it out. I posted quite a few mini tutorials on how to's with chipboard fromt he basics of covering with paper. Also did some tutorials on how to make some great lace flowers and paper rossettes. Their all super easy.. super fast and waiting for you to watch.


http://www.ustream.tv/channel/sayitsbyu13


Click the link, scroll down and click the vid. you would like to watch. Still figuring out how to embed them actually in the post... lol.. so bare with me.

Sometimes...

you just have to/want to do something.. nothing big but something.. to get the juices flowing. Tonight, I was a bit bored to death... so I pulled out this little vase I bought for like 25 cents at a thrift store a bit ago.

I really didn't have any plans for it other than to play around doing something while watching my recording of "The Voice". I can't say I love it.. but I have fun playing around with it. It's different to say the least. But, def. don't love it and def. not my best work but when looking at it, it reminds me of using mists on wood.. always good thing to recall.. lol.. win some and lose some.

Here's the vase.. I sanded it down and then did a 7 gypsies wash on it.

I inked the top and bottom edges and then tore some antique book pages and inked them up a bit. I then applied them with mod podge. After getting all the pieces on I covered the entire think in mod podge.. allowed it to dry and then applied some tattered angels mist by brush to it.. almost used it as a stain. It worked wonderfully!

I love the rick coat it gave it from the mist. Then I used my heat gun to dry it cause i'm inpatient. Then I applied a single blue Prima rhinestone flourish around it.

I then stuffed some cheapo flowers inside with some hot glue.  

Like I said this is in no way a fave project nor did it turn out to be anythign I really like... lol.. but learned soem new things and occupied my time a bit with somethign creative.. lol