WINNER of BerryBleu tag Giveaway!

Congrats to Karen!!!

Who's comment is posted below for winning these lovely tags by Berry Bleu!!! Please email your address at sayitsbyu@yahoo.com  titled "TAG GIVEAWAY".......and these lovely tags will be sent your way! Congrats to you! Your going to adore these tags!

Karen said...

Lovely tags! Would love to win them. They would be beautiful on the album I am making for my mom who is fighting lung cancer and has never smoked. We used to sew together when I was little and have a very close relationship. I want to do the album for her to show her how much she means to me and how much I love and respect her before she passes away. Love the tags!

Wandering Wednesday

So, I love Wednesdays. They are soo much fun to me to show you all different blogs or sites that I enjoy.

 Today, I think I shall share with you all a gal I just adore. I love looking through her galleries as well as just everything she does. Each wed. she does a video called Inspiration Wednesday. Donna Downey!! Now she has an all around amazing blog and website. she sells alot of the things she used on ehr website for great low prices.

I love her blog because even though I never buy kits or classes or anything like that I can still watch her videos (she's got tons in her archives), or look through her past projects and feel an overwhelming amount of inspiration hit my like bricks to the head! Just love it.

Here is her website! http://donnadowney.typepad.com/simply_me/ 

From here you can navigate through the taps at the top to see different things!

Check it out and get inspired!

Don't forget about the August giveaway you can find the details about here: August Giveaway

Last weeks giveaway of some amazing tags and this months Color challenge: COLOR CHALLENGE & Weekly Giveaway

Alittle of This & That

Sometimes, I just like to sit and look around. See what I can come up with that creatively grabs me! This is one of those moments, while playing with some of the yellow and greys for the August Color Challenge, I grabbed this cleat vase.. I have a billion of them from flowers. I've seem them painted from the inside many times, which I knew is the direction I wanted to head in. However, I wanted something a bit different. This is what I came up with. The possibilities are once again literally endless.

I made grey  circles on the inside of the vase. LET THEM DRY before continuing.

Then begin painting. You maybe want to let it dry and then apply a 2nd coat if the paint is too opaque. 

I love how un-perfect it is. I am keeping some scissors in it by my die cutting station.

Motivation Monday

Been a busy weekend around here. I got a few lovelies made and alot of stuff done for the kiddos. They begin school tomorrow. I love being a mom and love my kids.. but tomorrow can't get here soon enough! I can't wait for some time to me this week!!

Ok, so I did get a few 15 minute layouts done. I love 15 minute layouts because they let you feel productive and don't take up all of your day!!  Check them out below!

These layouts are showcasing this months giveaway-- Basic Grey's Out of Print collection!! I also worked on some more color challenge items and projects for tutorials this week. Very excited to share them all with you this week.

Don't forget about the August giveaway you can find the details about here: August Giveaway

Last weeks giveaway of some amazing tags and this months Color challenge: COLOR CHALLENGE & Weekly Giveaway

Fun Friday: Showcasing August Challenge Colors

Alrighty ladies, I've been busy playing with some new techniques and the fun August Color combo! It's soo messy, soo outside the box funky fresh creation! I took pictures along the way to show you all how I did it! Check it out and then get in that crafty area and get messy! This creation was totally messy and just playing with color like a little kid again! First are the finished product and then a little picture tutorial with instructions to walk you through this messy free art creation.

Ok now, here are the step by step instructions, I forewarn you. This is a very messy project but soooo fun!

I began with a sheet of adhesive backed cork paper! I painted the entire piece in white paint.

Ok, now here comes the MESSY part! I then took different yellow and grey crayons and ran them through a glue gun. I choose one that is older that I really don't use anymore. Clear all glue from the gun and then shove a crayon in there!

I didn't get a pic of this but just hold the glue gun at the top of the cork paper and then squeeze! I kept the paper held up, so I got this great drippage! When putting in the next color crayon.. I shoved it in! Cause the little splats of wax you see! I then added some yellow duct tape for color and texture!

Then I began adding some random staples and embellishments.

I added some thickers that I had painted grey. I used Helmar's Scrap dots on the back of them to get some great pop on them!

I then, pulled of the adhesive backing and attached the entire sheet to a thick piece of cardboard. So, this way I can use it as a cork board. While the sheet was cork it obviously was not thick enough to stick tacks into. Now it is!

Now if running crayons through your glue gun is just too much for you... here is an alternative! simply hold the crayon and then let it drip from top as you melt it or let it melt and them blow the wax off the crayon to the page as I did for even more of an affect!

And here you have it, I also added some random messy stamping and little clusters of embellishments.