WHAT IS CREATIVITY?? Creativity is Endless - You Can Make it if You Can Imagine It....

Good morning everyone and welcome to the second Festive Friday Blog Hop 2012.   It has been a challenge for me to create Christmas cards when Valentines day is so close and all you see everywhere is heart decorations and Christmas is so far away, but it was so nice to give out the cards I made last year to my friends and family, now I get to make a lot more and more people will get these.  Hope you enjoy looking at all the cards made by everyone, so please make sure you  start at the beginning of the hop -  So make sure you start with  Terri's site   http://terrisproul.blogspot.com/2011/11/festive-friday.html . Did you come here from  http://www.stinkydogdesigns.blogspot.com / ?, if not please go back and start from the beginning.  So I got a personal die cutting machine, and decided to play with it - after all it is my first time I make my own shapes - I had the chance to play around with some ink pads, some other products to ma...

Here is the blank Mask I started with (three in  a pack) I did cut the eyes out a bit more because they  were way too small, I was not able to see so had to adjust just enough. - first step: paint the entire front of the mask, did about two coats -second step : painted the entire mask with pink glitter paint you see here -third step: used gloss mod podge to adhere the sequins one by one to the front of the mask - used black, silver and purple sequins, once the podge dried I went over the entire mask once again with the mod podge to make sure all sequins don't fall off  and to seal the paints used. Final step:  used hot glue to adhere all the feathers and gems used to complete the mask - sure wish I had  the hot glue helpers - sure burned my fingers way too many times.   Here is a picture of the other products used, besides the paints and the  mask.  Here is another mask I made - here you can see the paints I used for th...

A friend asked me to make her a mask for a fund raising event and the theme is mardi gras - so this past weekend we had a pretty bad storm on Friday- so I decided to make the mask, well once just wasn't enough, so I made a total of six.  I decided to use sequins in different colors, mod podge, hot glue, mardi gras bead necklaces, some gems I had on hand, and some paper. I did painted one - but after I used the mod podge glimmer in gold - it covered the paint - it was my first time using this new mod podge product - it was ok, no problem there, now I know that it actually looks like paint when it dries - unlike the other mod podge products that dry clear. There were no patterns to follow, just did whatever came to mind at the moment, now I liked the end result on all the masks, but my favorites are the ones I used the white paper with black felt flowers. Leave a comment and tell me what you think, this is the first time making these type of masks, and have to admit it was fun...

Good morning everyone and welcome to the  Festive Friday Blog Hop 2012.   Please make sure t o start at the beginning  back to Terri's site  http://terrisproul.blogspot.com/2011/11/festive-friday.html . Did you come here from  http://www.stinkydogdesigns.blogspot.com / ?, if not please go back and start from the beginning.  This is the first hop for 2012, looking forwards to making cards all year long.  Make sure to stop and look at every one's Christmas cards, enjoy! I'm so sorry for the delay but had computer problems at home today.  Here is my card, it is very simple but I like the ornaments. this is my first Christmas card for 2012 Here are all the supplies I used - the paper is from Martha's holiday stack Thank you for stopping by, and please  make sure to stop at Diane Tuggle's blog  http://stampininthevilliage.blogspot.com/

 RINGS, RINGS, RINGS........ you just can't have too many rings, not ever!!!! I LOVE making jewelry- and I love big Rings, specially if they have crystals - or should I say if I use crystals.  Above is a picture of the last rings I've done. I've done rings using wire, nylon thread, and now using Plaids ring findings, and Apoxie Sculpt.   Below I will add a couple of pictures showing all the materials used to make these rings.  Now as you can see, all I needed to make the ring was the apoxie, the crystals and Plaids silver ring finding, now since I used the clear crystals, I used the gray apoxie, I didn't like how the gray looked against all the sparkle from the crystals - so I used Tim's silver and with a blotter brush I brushed all the exposed apoxie on the ring, now it is silvery sparkly and LOVE wearing it - specially on a sunny day - you can see all the glittery lights just floating around.  Here is how the ring looked after the apoxie dried...

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