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Festive Friday Hop

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Welcome to another Festive Friday Hop. Thank you for joining us -make sure you start by stopping by Terri's blog at   http://terrisproul.blogspot.com  if not, please go back. You should have hopped here from Chris Hurley's blog at   http://www.stinkydogdesigns.blogspot.com/  and in case you get lost along the way there is a complete list to the right of everyone taking part of this hop. This is my little card, hope you like it. Materials used Personal die cutting machine Card stock white (for trees)/ yellow for card White embossing powder Heat gun Ink pads in green & white Silver snow flake stickers Scrapbook paper Viva décor glitter liners – Silver & Holo Iridescent Viva décor Pearl-Pen Red Gold foil tape Plaids Dimensional Magic Ad Tech dot runner I took a scrap of white paper for the back ground – I used Ad tech dot runner to glue the background. I used a couple of different green ink pads to color the trees, added some white ink and white embossing powder, us

Midnight Masquerade Dance!

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Midnight Masquerade Dance! Now this is what I like to do, help out by doing something creative.  I like helping out but my full time job is  out of state so my commuting hours are crazy.  So anyhow, I made 18 masks in three evenings, (1) I first painted all the masks (2) I mod podge all the sequins to all masks (day 3) I added all the gems, and feathers  it was a combined total of 11 hours.   Each is unique, no two are exactly alike.  I hope the school gets to sell them all, and the kids enjoy wearing them at the dance. Here are some of the materials used - missing is the hot glue sticks /gun used to glue the feathers and gems here are a few of the masks - after paint was applied, I used  plaids  products, apple barrel, extreme glitter, and the Martha's new  paints On this photo you can see I started to add the sequins by using mod podge (gloss), once the sequins were secured I sealed each with mod podge, either gloss or sparkle. Here are some of the 18 compl

Festive Friday Hop

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Welcome to another Festive Friday blog hop.  You should have started back at Terry's blog,  http://terrisproul.blogspot.com/ if you didn't make sure to go back and start from the beginning.  You should have come here from    http://www.stinkydogdesigns.blogspot.com /  if not please go back. This is my card - simple and wanted to try out my new paints.  Now please go check out Diane Tuggle's blog  http://stampininthevilliage.blogspot.com/  to see what she made.  To the right side you can see all the links on this hop, in case you need to go back.  Thanks for stopping by, and make sure to come back for the next hop.

Creating on Wood!

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I do love making jewelry, along with paper crafting, and sewing, and lots of other stuff, but I started by drawing - as  a kid and in HS, I loved to draw and paint. I love the fact that I can still do this but in different ways.  I don't do oil, water or chalk paintings any more - not because I don't like them but because I did these back when I was in HS a lot, and now I like to paint in different ways.  I love painting on everything I can paint on, including my sweat pants! LOL my daughter hates it when I wear these out on public. This is one of my most recent works - here is a wood frame that I colored using Tim Holt's alcohol Inks and perfect pearls - then I used paper products, and butterflies to finish it  This wood frame was painted using Plaids and Tim Holts products and paper products from DCWV.  I made this last year and sold at an art fair. Now lets go back a few years back and take a look at what I've done before. These photos are from some of the

Crocheting around, my way!

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I just wanted to go back a little and show some of the works I have done in the past and where I'm at today.  Now I love working with different mediums.  I've seen some amazing works on blogs, on-line and even on FB that inspire me to go in a totally new direction to what I'm used to making, this is going to take some time, because it is not easy for me step outside the line and say it's ok, there are no lines, no rules, just let it all be what it wants to be. I do some crocheting, I have in the past made the scarfs, hats, even sweaters, but I'm not there anymore, don't get me wrong, I love these- I've seen some amazingly creative crocheting on-line, but I just want to make jewelry with it - so here are a few items I've done using a crochet hook and yarn. If you start from the top left - I used two types of yarn, yet you only see the green -  this is a really pretty bracelet and  the best part is that the beads are small and light so when you wear