Easter memories

Lastnight I was going through old pictures of my kids when I came across Easter pictures of my son Mario at the age of 2. Made me a litte weepy.He's now 26 yrs.old & it makes you wonder where the time goes.

My scraps basket

I wanted to come up with a catchy name for my easter basket.Lastnight or this morning (4a.m.) when I went to post it nothing was coming to me and that's probably because it WAS 4 a.m. and I was feeling a little tired! This morning I sat down with my cup of coffee to post and I thought to myself you need to put up the pictures of your scraps basket. There it was. Scraps basket! maybe not so catchy, but it best describes the materials I used in making this. It started out as a bird nest which I made out of the box stuffing paper from my stamping up order. In my collage class Sunday we were joking about keeping that stuffing or tossing it and I said I felt like I could make a cool dress with it by scrunching it & misting it. Instead I misted it & made into a birds nest/basket. The eggs In it I started out by taking toilet paper rolls & them cut into 3 pieces. Then stuffed them with paper and started taking strips of a paper bag brushed with watered down mod podge. Then I starting shaping them into an egg shape. Basically paper mache. When I finished the eggs I sped up the drying process with my heating tool because I'm a little on the impatient side. I first painted them & didn't like the way that looked at all so thats when I got the idea of using buttons to cover them. For an impatient person that took too long so I only did one egg covered with buttons. I loved it but no way was I gonna do all three eggs. The other two eggs I covered with pieces of old shirts that I have in my fabric stash. Then I added a little bling by adding old jewelery pieces to one & sequin flowers to the other. I made grass out of green crepe paper that I cut with my martha stewart scissors that cuts in strips. The handle to the basket I've had forever. Some ribbon on the trim, a bow on the side, a few flowers & Ta da! I had a beautiful, one of a kind easter basket. It's crazy what all we can make with scraps, a little creativity, & alot of imagination.

Spring in the classroom

Today Spring was in the air & in the classroom! It was our dc collage class this afternoon and I think this might be one of my favorites. Everyone really stepped out of their comfort zones and ended of with collages to be proud of. Thank you ladies for making time for some fun time in the classroom! I really enjoyed my time with you all & hope to see you soon.

Saturday scrap page

Tonight usual get together.Fried fish,hushpuppies,& fries for dinner. Sounds healthy huh? Not so much. Boy was it yummy! Anyway,after stuffing myself I wasn't sure what I was gonna work on. I started with putting my kits together for tomorrows dc collage class. Then I found a great picture of my daughters & some of their girlfriends. My new stampin' up paper that I got from Tessa came in & I really wanted to use it.That's just what I did. In my layout I also used jenni bowlin buttons, prima flowers & lace trim. I love the way it turned out. Very girly without a drop of pink in it!

Barbie Fun

Saturday I had the usual gang over for dinner & crafting. I wasn't really sure what I was gonna work on when my friend Kristen started talking about some barbie pictures a co-worker had on her computer or something like that. She said the dresses were so pretty. I said well, "What do the dresses look like?" Long story short she found the pictures on the computer & I said, I thought I could draw them. We decided to put them on 11x14 canvas. Kristen didn't finish hers but I just finished my tonight. It was a fun relaxing project. As a kid I loved playing Barbies. I loved dressing them, & I had everything from clothes to cars, to the Barbie townhouse. Remember that? Oh ya. I had it all. So this project kind of made me think back to those fun days. I used acrylic paints, copic markers, Toulle for the dress along with flowers on her skirt. I also used a ton of stickles because I love bling!

Saturday fun

I had my usual saturday night gang over for food & fun. Tonight the menu was simple. Hor'deurves. Of course I ate too much & will no doubt have to try & work it off at the gym this week. I have been working on a really funky, fun project.I put the finishing touches on it tonight & I have to say I like it alot. In it I used Tim Holtz gears, watch faces, prima flowers, butterflies, & buttons.I first started with a canvas & gesso to prime it. I picked my background colors & it just took off from there.I started painted my ladies face & gave her a bee hive sort of hair do because I knew I wanted to layer it with gears,& flowers. I love the look of steampunk & have wanted to do a project with this as a theme for a while. I had so much fun with this project but now that it's done I have to think of another fun new project.