paper banner

So here is the love banner I finished this am!!  I am pretty pleased with the way it turned out this time!  Just did a bit more embellishing.At first I was gonna add the x and the o like above but then decided to eliminate it altogether.

 Love the little birds on it! 

layering is one of my favo things to do especially with altered chipboard pieces.  

Some pretty flourishes my favo stamps to use!!  on each heart and some distressing! 

Finished and ready to take to the shop and hang er up!! 

Have a blessed day!! the very last day of  2011~~ 

HUGS

Darlene

~~LIVE LIFE JOYFULLY~~and SIMPLY~~

playing with paper day

Hey yall!!  So are ya goin out and celebrating tomorrow night?  WE are doing exactly what we love to do and what we have done for the past several years!!! ..............stayin home with the boys!!  since neither one of us can stay up til midnight anyway it works great to lay around at home.  And I am just not feeling quite back to myself yet still have a stinkin nasty cold but alot better than last week I tell ya!! 
I worked in my studio today, finished painting the large standing sign that is gonna sit on the sidwalk infront of the shop and also a small one to put above the door.  Plus I also finished up a paper banner that spells out handmades and I so ooooooooooo love it!!

I had left over large chipboard letters from a previous project and it just worked out that I had all but one for this banner.  I had to cut a couple apart to make a second a but you really cant tell. 

Vintage seam binding in white and brown are gathered on the bottom edge of each tag, oh and the backround is just old pages from a book added to file folder tags. 

I also added some silver glass glitter along the edges of tags for some paper "bling" ya know, ;) wink wink!!  buttons and some little white flowers I inked with pink. 

  When I put it up at shop I will take a pic of it all together, it is pouring outside so I couldnt hang it on the outside anywhere. 

This is another banner I am putting together but not sure if I am happy with the embellishments so glad I didnt glue anything yet.  My Minds Eye lost and found papers are just my favo favo!!  I bought a bunch of them last week and the 3 oversized tags have one sheet on them.  The back side of this cardstock page is a nice dark red and white polka dot so I cut the hearts from them, have a couple more hearts to put on this.  Edges have been inked with distressing ink by Tim Holtz (another favo favo product) and K&CO paper pack with various ephemera and images.  I am gonna finish this up later. 

it doesnt show too good but the swirls and letters have red glitter on them. 

love the flourishes and also the little red sparkly banner

After inking the edges with antiquing gel I outlined the cut outs in black then also stamped various images on with chestnut brown. 

so that was all I got done today, and plan on a productive weekend.  Painting and playing with more papers!! GLORIOUS!!!  

So hope yall have a very safe and happy new years!! 2012 here we come!! 

~~HUGS~~

Darlene

~~LIVE LIFE JOYFULLY~~and SIMPLY~~

Spring banner

HAPPY WED YALL!!

Well it was raining when I let the boys outside and an hour later now it is realllllyyyy snowin!! the ground is all white again!!    I think I heard we may see just a couple of inches today.??  that is ok!!  we had so much rain and melting snow lately we dont need any more rain!!  In fact I will post pics of our road a couple of miles north of us, the southbound lane is completely gone!  there is a creek that runs under it and goes out to the lake well over the years the erosion has been so bad we been wondering when this might hapen and it did now.  I am glad noone got hurt the last time a couple of years ago we had some really bad storms and heavy heavy downpours that the whole road was gone in the middle of the night! 2 people lost their lives while  delivering the morning paper and didnt see or realyze the road was gone.  That was really horrific we felt so bad fo those people and their families.  Very tragic and so sad.   I am thankful this is just one lane and like I said noone was injured!!

I started out cutting out the circles from an old hymnal book and then distressed the edges and also inked the edges with some Tim Holtz's distressing ink in green.

The letters are cut with my cricut from some My Minds Eye green paper, they needed something a bit more so with Tim's green ink I stamped a flowery image over the letter.  It gives nice dimension to it. 

Then made little rosettes for the bottom of each one, added a flower and gem and some fibers.    I did distress each of the banner pieces with antiquing medium and also used a mini flourish stamp on the left corner of each one too.  

This was made for a friend and is on it's way to her now!

And here is our road situation.

I never tire of looking at this beautiful lake.  Each and every day it changes so much and the colors are so vivd around it.  Not too many icebergs left now so we are nearing spring!!  YEAH!! 

So hope yall have a wondeful wed and be safe!! 

I did want to take a minute to mention the FENNVILLE BLACKHAWKS boys basketball team and how incredibly proud we are of each and everyone of you guys!  GREAT JOB LAST NIGHT again another win!! WOO HOO!!  Great bunch of guys we have in our town!

GOOD LUCK on friday at another game!!

SATURDAY GLENN MARKET 9-2

at the Glenn Community Center  114th Ave

HUGS

Darlene

~~LIVE LIFE JOYFULLY~~and SIMPLY~~

Playin around Sunday

PAPER CLAY IS FUN TO PLAY WITH!!

LOVIN THIS BIRD I MADE~

A big cheery sunday hello!!!

Well I FINALLY played around with some paperclay today!! now I bought this pkg 2 years ago with the hopes of making something, put it in a drawer in my studio!! (i know big mistake when things are hidden away and out of sight we tend to forget about them) so while siftin thru some things I came across it and thought hmmmmmmmm wonder if it is still good. WELL it is really fun to use!! This is everything I cut out for the moment to see how they end up after painting. This stuff is just drying but I love the look. THE BIRD turned out just too cute cant wait to paint him up!!!! Maybe blue with a bit of red? It was fun to sit and play with this stuff, I also stamped a few words on the long pieces that I am goin to paint up and seal and hopefully make them into neckalces, the bracket is goin ontop of an altered journal book i am working on for a friend maybe the flowers too. The word love turned out so cool they are stamped on then I went over the letters with an embossing tool to make them a bit deeper and stand out more.

THEN I finished up a banner for the flower shop!! OK I AM NOT usually using such bright bold colors you know i am a true prim grubby kind of gal but we wanted something for in a big window at the shop that would STAND out!! well i think my mom and i picked out the perfect colors for this flower banner!~ I think it will look great as the shop outside is light grey too. I made all the accordian flowers on the bottoms and added some ribbons, a bit of distressing using Tim Holtz black distressing ink, and some great lime green crepe paper I found in a card/party store!! I ran it under my sewing machine to make it gather then cut the edges with some decorative scissors, I THINK IT SCREAMS BRIGHT AND BOLD!! LOL

Ok so I am off to finish up a couple of swap gifts for a dear friend Marla!! and hopefully will get all my paper clay things painted up.

HAVE A BLESSED SATURDAY YALL!!

~HUGS~~

Darlene

FABO FRIDAY

This is my hubby favo bread that i came up with. The glaze has a bit of a hint of almond and is topped off with some chopped pistachio nuts.

Homemade glazed pistachio bread!! for sale in mysweetserendipity etsy shoppe http://mysweetserendipity.etsy.com/

I made this quick banner for one of the front windows on my new shoppe!! I love it!! love the pink of cource but it has a vintagey/retro feel with the embellishes!!! I took white crepe paper and sewed it on my machine gathering along, made all the accordian flowers on the bottoms and then handcut the letters out of paper added some "BLING" pink glitter to each one and then put them on white pieces, to stand out I added foam pop dots to each letter.

Old recycled pieces of ribbons are added and a couple buttons. Each triangle is distressed a bit using Tim Holtz distressing ink in black.

What do yall think??

Have you been on flikr?? OH My gosh I have been putting pics there of some of my altered stuff and scrappy stuff and all I can say is WOW! there are so many cool pics and SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO many talented paper artists out there it is truly amazing. chick em out if ya get a chance!!! I could spend ALL day in there believe me!! BUT i have to get off here as my mom,brother and I are goin out to lunch today and also doin a bit of grocery shopping then back home to play for the weekend!! AND sunday it my birthday!! YEPPER BUT NOT another year older i might add!! ROFL~~in my 30's and lovin it so much will stay here awhile longer!! LOL!! AGE IS JUST A NUMBER ANYWAY!! Well i hope yall have a super wonderful blessed weekend just in case i dont get back on here.

~HUGS~~

thanks again for visiting my blog~~