Silly Bandz no longer on the loose...

Have the Silly Bandz craze invaded your home yet?  I tried to keep them from our home in a passive way but alas, they have creeped in.  My girls receive them from friends, from Sunday School teachers and now they have convinced me to purchase a set for them...on sale of course.  Rule #1: If I see a Silly Bandz left on the floor...it's next home is the trash can.  Rule #2: Make sure the first part of rule #1 doesn't happen. 


So I thought I'd help the girls out a bit on their quest to collect and keep their Silly Bandz.  I found these two little boxes in a clearance pile at a local craft store and decided to dress them up and offer them to the girls for their new wrist fad.  They each picked out a picture from the Die Cut Card sheet of my Delovely Deluxe kit and I colored it in and dressed up their boxes.  I'll seal them with acrylic spray to hopefully prevent some wear and tear from the use they'll get. 

Here's another top view.

And the Copic colors I used.

So, had the Silly Bandz craze hit your house yet?  What is the latest fad where you are?


Wood boxes: AC Moore
Copic Sketch Markers
Paper: Patterned Paper (Cosmo Cricket Delovely)
Flower:  Prima
Punch: Arched Lattice Martha Stewart border  punch
Ranger Ink Liquid Pearls: Lemon Yellow 
Misc: Ribbon, Pop Dots, Glossy Accents
 

Summer is here and I think it's Delovely!

It's hot, hot, hot and so I'm indoors scrapping away.  The girls have been begging me to decorate a bird house for them and I've been so inspired by bird tags my friend Donna has been creating, so I paired this wooden birdhouse with the Cosmo Cricket Delovely Deluxe kit from Lil' Lambs Boutique and stayed up until 3:00am to finish it.  I know...I just couldn't stop once I had started.  The bright, vibrant, Summer colors in this kit were perfect for our Avian Abode. Thanks to my lovely daughters for the use of their "peepers" for the photo shoot.

To create the roof shingles, I punched the small floral paper with the Threading Water punch by Fiskars.  The edges are inked with Distress ink (Worn Lipstick used here).  Tip...Tip...Tip...I got this awesome tip from my Swirly Sister Jan on using border punches in a circular pattern. I can't believe I never thought of this. You can read her full tip here.  Basically, I snipped the back edge of the border punch so I could slightly fold the scallops as I adhered around the circular roof.  Thanks Jan!  I plucked the birdie from the die cut card sheet, backed him with the yellow floral paper and attached him to the roof.  Isn't he so whimsical?

The bigger scalloped roof shingles are made using template packaging of all things.  You never know what you can reuse.  I grabbed the packaging and traced the edge onto the small floral paper, cut and inked the edges.  This line has wonderful floral patterns and I used the big floral pattern to cut out flower flourishes.  They are backed with the yellow floral patterned paper and then pop dotted to the walls of the bird house.  

The tiny fence  was created using a border punch by Martha Stewart.  It made a wonderful bottom border for my faux bird bath.  The kit comes with Doodlebug Sugar Coating that I used to create my sparkly water around the bottom.

Finally, to finish off the project, I grabbed this Summery sentiment from my JustRite Seeds of Kindness stamp collection.  To create the dual tone impression, first place your sentiment on the JustRite Wood Block stamper and ink with Black Archival ink.  Next, place your border onto the Wood Block and then ink with Prussian Blue Chalk ink being careful not to touch the center.  Stamp your impression and there you have it...dual colors.  I attached a sparkly dragonfly charm and the JustRite tag to the roof with jump rings.

I'm not done with this kit yet.  I sitll have plenty left for several more projects which I hope to get put up this week.  Have a wonderful weekend!

Wedding Gift for my Friend

I'm pretty sure this is safe to post here, since my friend is the Groom and I seriously doubt he is here checking out my scrapping blog. So here we go. This wedding is unique to me, in that, the Bride & Groom sent out their gift request in their invitation. Attendees are requested to give their favorite bottle of wine to the couple. Tags for the gift givers name were included. How neat is that?

The Mini Album, I made and posted here earlier. It is based on the "Love" Chapter in the Bible - I Corinthians 13. Close ups can be seen here. I used one of the wine carriers we received as a gift, at our wedding, and recovered it to match the mini album. Finally, I made a coordinating card to go with the gift theme. I used the Basic Grey Wisteria Paper Kit.

I marbled purple cardstock for the top of the wine carrier. This is pretty easy to do. I used 3 colors of Distress Ink (Milled Lavender, Dusty Concord, Walnut Stain) and 1 colored Prisma Pencil. I started with the lightest color Distress Ink and swirled it on the paper with a makeup sponge. Next I dabbed on the other two colors sporadically with a makeup sponge and then used a clear part of the sponge to blend them slightly. Next, I took a pale purple colored Prisma pencil and drew in my marbeling lines. A blending stick can soften the harsh edges. I love this effect and just wish my dear husband would let me do our house walls!!

Below is a close up of the coordinating card. In keeping with the wedding theme, I paper pieced a wine barrel, wine glass, wine bottle and red grapes, of course.

It's a bit hard to see here in the picture, but I added Glossy Accents to the wine bottle, glass and grapes for an epoxied effect.

Here's toasting a glass to my friend and his lovely bride. May you have an abundance of God's blessings and a long, happy life together!