A Summer Bookmark

I Love Bingo!!!

Hubby thinks I should actually be about 65 years old....

But I Love Bingo!!!!

So when I saw the Bingo 2 Week challenge over at shoppingourstash I KNEW I was going to participate!

Of course I also love saturated canary's challenge, so for my first combo challenge, I did this little beauty

For SC the challenge this week is bookmark, 

it's perfect for that summer book I'll be picking up soon!

For the Bingo challenge I had to incorporate glitter, pearls, distressing, blue, and flower...

I love the glitter in her hair... feels like she got some sand stuck in her locks

I also got a chance to use my new denami stamps that you may remember I won in a blog hop last weekend.. That's the little butterfly, embossed and painted with pearl watercolors!
I also incorporated some of the twine I got in that same win from the twinery to the ribbon's at the top of the bookmark..

The pearls and flower I tied together in my handmade flower which is also blue

There is some distressing on the edges of the bookmark, and I also used ranger distress inks and a little punchinella on the side of the bookmark. 

I hope you love my summer bookmark!  

What is your favorite book??  How would you make a bookmark for it? 

Flowers??? How thoughtful

Sometimes I find myself wandering around those big box stores admiring the pretty "spare parts" 

the wonderful flowers that look flawless.....

I pick them up and do my best to try to figure out how they were made....

I of course picture a big factory where these flowers are churned out by the thousands... 

I CAN do it! 

So I decided to try.... 

1. Pick out your fabric.... Satin seems to work best but you can use any kind you want.

2. Cut circles from your fabric.  These can be as big or small as you would like, but you want them to get progressively smaller.

3. Light your candle.

4. Burn just the edges of the fabric.  If you're using satin you will notice how the edges start to curl up.

5. Layer your burnt circles with the largest on the bottom.  There are many ways to finish off the flower.  You can glue the circles together, you can sew them, you could punch a hole in them and use a brad to hold them all together.

Voila!  You have a beautiful hand made flower to add to your art project! 

I like to make them while sitting on my couch watching my favorite show... then they are all ready to go when you start a new project!

Inspiration Monday

I hope to bring you some inspiration for your art...

Hope to make this a weekly blog post

Today is simple

A Fire Hydrant outside my local Joann's 

Inspiration can come from the color, or the landscape, or even the bolts...

Draw, paint, journal or smash* something

Just create

When it gets hot in the desert

It's Summer....

Maybe not where you are... 

But here in the "Valley of the Sun" 

It's Summer....

Today it will be 105

I'm not kidding

Last week it was 106...

See I'm not kidding, and it was only 2:39 in the afternoon.. it got up to 108...

What's a girl to do??

This is what

What do you do when you know it's finally summer?

Do you jump in the pool?

Do you hide in your house with the shades closed??

Turn it into art... Draw it, paint it, Smash* it!  Enjoy your summer...
P.S. May 23rd is Slurp-free day... that's right... go to 7-11 and get your free slurpee... from 11 am - 7 pm... And no, I don't get paid to give them advertizing... I just LOVE a Slurpee!!  And anything free.. ha
 

Altered Composition Book

This week I have been hard at work altering a composition book 

for a swap with the sensational scrappers of the west valley.  If you're in the Phoenix area look us up!!

It's a great bunch of crafters!

If you remember I had questioned what vintage was here.  Well, this is my answer.

So on to the eye candy...

Altered Composition book

The directions said to add at least 3 things to the cover... I think I did that and more just on the "vintage" section....

Scrabble letter embellishments

Love the twine!!  Can't wait for my box of goodies coming soon.. filled with twine for sure from the twinery.

Handmade "burn" flower

This beauty I made all from hand... Hopefully a tutorial will be coming soon! 

A super easy project you can do while watching tv even!

Handmade Envelope

The inside cover had a handmade "pocket" 

The directions also said that inside at least 25 pages should have some kind of "embellishment"

This sweet page has a simple sentiment.

I hope you love this book!  Feel free to email me if you have any questions about how I did any of the work...

What would you do

I'm a winner!

Yep!

That's right, I'm a winner!  

This past weekend I followed a blog hop (find it here)

I got to be inspired by all the wonderful blogs out there!

Tonight after a little bit of craft shopping I came home to watch a tutorial on how to use my new Adirondack Acrylic Paint Dabbers....

I then remembered the blog hop I entered and figured I might as well check to see if I could possibly be the winner.... 

And there on the winners page was my face smiling back at me!!!  I couldn't believe it!!!  No seriously, I couldn't believe it!!!  I NEVER win anything!!!!

This is a preview of the prize pack... 

I feel like the luckiest girl on the planet!!  I was literally just planning a trip back to the bakery to get some more bakers twine....

Well and for the canolli too! 

Stay tuned for how I use this great prize!!!

Busy... Busy... Busy...

Hey everyone out there in blogland!

I know I have been MIA for the last few days..

I was house/dog sitting for my mother in law, plus working 12 hours shifts

means I haven't been able to post.

I know, it makes me sad too!

However I'm putting a little teaser out there..

Tonight is my art group, it's Holly's Make and Take

She is a super talented and creative lady, and a blogger too!! 

You can find her site here.

I hope to have a post about that fun group meet up tomorrow,

Today I'll leave you with this pic of my work girls!

It's game 2 of the coyote's playoffs

We work for the city where they are located, and it's fun to support the local teams! 

I made the shirts... Just a quick iron on!

Tomorrow starts my weekend, so I'll have lots of blog love the next couple of days...

As they say in Dear John,

 I'll See ya soon then..