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Valentine!

I know I shared these pillows I made for Halloween

and Christmas out of burlap (cuz I love me some colorful burlap)

So of course because I have an abundance of burlap

I decided to try again and make some for

VALENTINES day

and here she is

do you like it?

I used some super large stamps I have and some red paint

and used hot pink thread to sew the puppy up.

I have a few more that I am making up for the holiday

to add to my ebay store....hey and maybe some for

Easter too...gosh can't go wrong with quick sew & super cute

right?

I am linking this up to the following parties:

market yourself monday

just something I whipped up

made with love MOnday

sew cute tuesday

made by you monday

have a great Tuesday

xo

tina

HandMade Embellies

I am a scrapbooker at heart and believe

whole heartedly that one should record everyday moments.

I sometimes buy way to much "stuff" especially stickers

and flowers/ embellishments as they are called...

but this time I decided to make my own...

super simple actually...I bought this set of glue dots

from the dollar store...they are super cool in that they

don't come on a roll- they are each on their own square

12 per sheet - I thought HMMM...totally marketable

right?

So I got out my punches and flowers and played around a bit

and here is what I came up with...

Neat right?

Can you see the possibilities?

LOVE it...

O.k. well I am listing these in my ebay shop in case you just

have to have these...wink & smile

Have a great day!

I am linking this up to the following challenges:

show & tell saturday

freestyle friday

everybodys creative endeavor

xo tina

Project Life week 4

Note To SELF: Let it go...keep it SIMPLE

so in honor of that idea

here is last weeks page...
yeah not really fond of it but it captures my week.

Spent the weekend with my dad and pretty much everyday

is filled with my little boy singing, dressing up and dancing, watching you tube videos all about MICHAEL JACKSON...it's cute but

all week....argh!!!

Anyway I would love to see your project life pages...

Have a great weekend.

xo

tina

Birthday Love

I found the sweetest stamps recently at the HOBBY LOBBY

nearest me...and just fell in LOVE with the simplicity of them.

I used this first set to make a fun & colorful

BIRTHDAY card...

I gotta tell you I am really loving this color combo

it's different. Orange, pink & lime green - cool!

Now to find someone to give it too.

I gotta work on a card for my brother - his birthday is

Monday - so I need to get crackin and try and make something

MANLY...sounds silly.

Well if it is your birthday today, tomorrow or this weekend.

Happy Birthday to you.

I am linking this up to the following challenges:

abc challenge - H- Happy Birthday

anything goes - to the one I love

sisterhood of crafters - stripes {my flowers :)}

Have a lovely Friday.

xo

tina

Easy up-do

no not your HAIR...

Valentines day is one of those holidays that I don't have a box filled

with decorations that I take out and put out every year.

I kind of wing it and make NEW stuff each year...but this year I wanted

to start making some "YEARLY" decorations...

so here is my first up-do - {re-do}

I bought these frosted glass votives at a yard sale for 50 cents each and they were

nice enough as they were but I decided to add some paint

and a little LOVE to them

here is what I started out with:

vases - MS red paint for glass - sponge dauber - & some punch outs

oh yeah and to make it easier I decided using stickers(the negative)

Here is what came out after I took the negative parts of the stickers off

except for the centers -- see the white goop left from the stickers - don't panic

it comes off pretty easily...at least that what my hubby said (wink& smile)

But hey - for a little bit of effort - here you go a fun set of votives

of which I can keep year after year...

Yeah me - what have you been up to?

Leave me a comment and I will come by and visit you...

I am linking this up to the following parties:

whatever goes wednesdays

wednesday wowzers

tutes & tips tuesdays

what i whipped up wednesdays

have a fab night

xo

tina

Pure Sweetness

sometimes it's the littlest bit of sunshine that really makes my whole day worth it.

what makes things even better are when those rays of sunshine are from strangers

people that are my blogging neighbors...you think that you have to physically know someone

to really connect, but then you meet cool fellow bloggers that you

connect with - without even ever meeting face to face...

Recently I met a wonderful blogger with a really cool blog

jeanna from drama queen seams

just a normal comment left and now we kind of keep in touch via comments..

just the basics that all us bloggers do...

well today she gave me a fun award

sweet right?

so there are a bunch of rules and I truly could never pick JUST 15 people that deserve this award

but please know that all you that stop by my blog - regulars or new I GIVE this award to you

it's because of your versatility that I continue to visit you and leave comments...

Thank you Jeanna for the award - you rock!

Have a wonderful Wednesday.

tina

Playing with Paper #2

I LOVE to play with paper and I especially LOVE to play on days like today.

It's rainy & cold out and I am snuggled up indoors in front of the fire - cutting and

pasting and making pretty things...

Here is my second project - along the lines of the first project

yes a banner..sorry but I am feeling those right now.

Here is what I started with and I used my CRICUT

 (I know - it has been used more in the last few weeks than ever before)

these pieces are actually cut using my XL sizzix pennant die all these pieces are part of the die...

cool right & easy!

I then used my cricut and cut out these letters from my new

cherry limeade cartridge and I even went so far as to cut it's silhouette...

watch out - I am on a roll.

the pennants come with holes in the corners so it was all easy to string.

My banner reads SWEET VALENTINE

here is an UP CLOSE shot the letter mats are in black so it gives just the slightest

definition - I guess when you take the time to do something right it always looks alot better

then if you only did a little ---

I can't wait to share my easy and quick mantel re-do tomorrow...

dollar items and my fun banner - can't get cheaper and cuter...

I am linking this up to the following parties this week:

market yourself monday

craft-o-maniac

just something I whipped up

mad for crafts

inspire me fridays

have a lovely night

xo

tina

Playing with PAPER

part 1:

I love me some scrapbooking papers. I have a small hoard of papers and tons of left over scraps from cards & Layouts that I just can't part with so I decided to lay around and made some fun projects that you can make really quick and they are all perfectly done in time for the Valentine Holiday coming up.

I will be doing this in parts so today is part 1 - one:

this is pretty easy - I had a bunch of fun left over scraps of paper by Cosmo Cricket 

The Chemistry line and it is double sided which is in MY opinion the best paper to use that way 

it doesn't matter which way the heart falls you will still have something fun to look at.

So just take any heart punch and just punch out a bunch of hearts from your paper then 

just sew right through it all. this banner is about 6 feet long and is draped over my hutch

but I could see bunches of this in a horizontal line and used as streamers hanging in a door way 

or in the kitchen above the diner table -

Just adds a dab of LOVELY in small areas - pure sweetness. 

Stay tunes for Part 2 tomorrow...

I am linking this banner to the following parties

whatever goes wednesday

sweet peas & bumble bees

we did it wednesdays

wednesday wowzers

tues & tips tuesdays

what i whipped wednesday

a crafty soiree

Have a great day!

xo

tina

5 Reasons...

I LOVE YOU

I love making little scrapbooks and here is one perfect for the upcoming

Holiday---the LOVE day - Feb 14th 2012

I made this using a a keychain style mini album and used some

yummy papers from Cosmo Cricket and some handmade embellishments.

I titled it

TOP 5 REASONS I LOVE YOU

this is the back view

{I added some fun rub-ons}

on each page I used a prima flowers (to match) and a number

circle sticker from JBS to number each "REASON"

I think this would be a great little personal album to give to your

sweetheart or perhaps cute-sy it up for a special little person(your child)

I am listing this in my ebay shop tonight - in case you love it but don't think I can do it!

I am linking this up to the following parties:

market yourself mondays

craft-o-maniac

just something I whipped up

made with love monday

one project at a time

xo

have a great evening

tina



FEELING SWEET

Cute Puppy right

another fun image from the monthly progressive challenge over at

CDAC - check it out and play along

 

sweet right?

left it really simple and kind of neutral could work for either a guy or girl.

I am linking this up to the progressive challenge over at CDAC

have a great Sunday

tina

Project Life - week 2

I have been checking out several different bloggers that are participating

in Project Life 2012 and are taking the simple route and even Becky Higgins says that this is all about

getting back to basics and simple scrapbooking. I realize that I don't have ANY

of the pieces from Becky Higgins and well no real reason other than just

haven't purchased them...but I - being the scrapbooker- that I am DO have

a ton of stuff - so I am improvising and really trying to be about the moment &

the photos...not the stuff...so what do you think?

I added a receipt from John's Incredible Pizza in the upper left corner

and have been adding some CS mats to my photos

lots of journaling on small tags and some smaller

embellishments - but keeping it real simple.

I am doing all my own printing of photos on my home printer.

and lots of my OWN writing...

The other day - I left this out on the couch while I put my son to sleep and my

hubby came home and found my album and told me he read it and thought it was really neat.

He thinks it's cool that I am planning on covering a year week by week.

I think that is approval enough - and quite the compliment from my hubbs...

I believe it is a job well done so far...

LOVE this whole idea.

I am linking this up to the following parties:

If you are playing along would love to see what you got going so far...

have a great weekend - xo

tina

 

Guess What?

here's what...

{wink&smile}

with my scrapbooking paper out I decided I would try something fun & new..

so I made this fun little banner

I had really wanted to go with a new baby theme but then I thought the colors

were so very Valentine-y! All I did was use some glue stick to add the paper to the banner

shapes, cut around it and punched my holes for hanging.

Then I used my oval punch and cut out a background for the letters

I cut my letters with my cricut --yeah another attempt at using my tools.

then added my letter with glue stick as well. I hung the banners on some bakers twine

and added some fun prima flowers to different sides of the letters and on each end of the banners

I added some extra ribbons to give it a little poof...

Gotta tell you that I am loving playing with my papers and embellishments.

There are so many fun things I can do with it all. One of which is scrapbooking.

I am happily going back to playing for the sake of playing and what a feeling that leaves me in.

I am linking thi sup to the following parties:

what I whipped up wednesday

a crafty soiree

strut your stuff

hookin up with house of hepworths

Have a great week.

xo

tina



Personal Challenge

I decided to give myself a personal challenge - which I gotta tell you

I am not really good at. I have a hard time keeping to things.

But I know this will make me happy if I can complete it...

I want to try and scrapbook 1 page a week - that's really not much right?

Imagine if I can get a page a week for one year - that'll be 52 new scrapbook pages to

be proud of come Christmas 2012...So here is my first page - that I did last week

This is a page I made from our recent trip to Oregon over Thanksgiving break 2011

I titled it A DREAM REALIZED

because that is where I DREAM of moving in a few years.

I printed my photos in 3 x 5 size so that I could add a bunch of different

snap shots from our trip...

A little bit of all the different things we did - which I have embedded in my mind

and are things I look forward to living by someday.  I love a page with lots of photos.

But I gotta tell you sometimes one PERFECT photo can be enough too....

O.k. week 1 done...

I am linking this up to the following parties:

scrapping everyday miracles

have a great day!

xo

tina

from ordinary

to NOT so ordinary...

Before Christmas a friend of mine had asked me to make her some plain sachets out of muslin & burlap - and well I finally got them to her last week. She was thrilled...not sure why but

maybe it was because of the way I had them wrapped..Cute right?

Made them in a 4 x 4 square and left the seams on the outside

Here is the muslin one and i think I may make a bunch of these up and put them

in my etsy shop. These are nice to scent as you like...something light in color of course.

Being the crafty chica that I am - I kept a few for myself and

decided to pretty dem' up a bit and added some brown satin ribbon and some pink lace.

I like it alot and I can see these all stashed in my drawers making my goodies smell delish!!!!

My friend said she got them scented and used lavender essential oil on the muslin ones

and cedar & patchouli on the burlap ones....sweet and how personal right?

Well, just another idea to try ---

these would make great gifts all stacked up

Here's wishing you a sweet week...

I am linking this up to the following parties this week:

sew cute tuesday

made with love monday

what I whipped up wednesday

one project at a time

too cute tuesday

show me what you got 

xo

tina

Have a HEART

just a little pun on words...

But since Valentine's Day is just around the corner I thought I would

get a jump start on my crafting and of course hearts came to mind FIRST

I am also on this kick with burlap - it began in December

and I can't make enough with it.

I especially love this key burlap...cool right?

Super quick and easy I sewed up some hearts and left the seam on the

outside then filled'er up with some polyfil

and then the fun part - EMBELLISHING them

Here is the back - secret: I sewed the hole heart then made a slit in the front of the heart

to stuff then I stitched it up close - the BOW covers up the stitching

You can use just about any bits of trim and really go to town with these hearts

I kept them simple - I think I thought the hearts were already too busy with the keys 

 to add to much more.

I can see these with some sweet tags and a special little note for someone special

or perhaps just to put up some love in your studio...

These perties measure 7 inches tall from point to top of heart & 5 inches wide...

I am linking these up to the following parties:

market yourself mondays

craft-o-maniac

made by you monday

just something I whipped up

mad in crafts

tutes & tips tuesdays

xo

tina



embracing the camera

I think this is something that we all have trouble with.

I know I am usually the one behind the camera - my choice ALWAYS!

But I would LOVE to be in photos with my family and that is something

I need to work on and I am starting this year...

I am playing along with the anderson crew

& embracing the camera

here are some of my everyday iphone photos...

yes puffing the cheeks is VERY un-sexy!

no pictures please---haha

I'm going to try really hard to get out from behind the crew...more this year, and

be front and center...

I will be linking this up at

the anderson crew

have a great weekend...

 

PROJECT LIFE

Have you heard of project life? I have and have wanted to play along for some years now

and well this is the year to...DO things differently...so here I go taking the plunge to

try and keep up with this year long journal/scrapbook.

I gotta tell you how this started...I had been thinking about playing along but

truthfully didn't have the money to buy the products from the

BECKY HIGGINS shop so I kind of let that be my decision maker for along while

then on a recent trip to GW...I came upon this brown binder and inside were these fun

photo holders different then any other I had seen and guess what they looked alot the

ones used in project life...so I bought it for 5.99 - score and even better now I could

participate...

gotta tell you that it came in this ugly brown binder and I will

tackle that later but can you see how many photo protectors it came with?

totally a years worth I am sure

here is my first page featuring the first week of January

see how the photo slots are different sizes and directions...LOVE that

and I am thrilled that I can play along this year.

Have a great weekend.

linking this up to the following parties:

freestyle friday

a crafty soiree

xo

tina



My Word for 2012

Five days late to post but I had my word picked out already...

Have you picked your word for the year yet?

I know there are a gazillion words I could have chosen especially

a word that could have been more socially admired but I needed to

stick with a word that inspired me...and was TRUE to me...

so I chose

This is my journal page I created to represent my WORD...

it says it all - this year I want

to THINK differently than I did last year.

I want to ACT differently than I did last year

I want to BE different than I was last year...

I LOVE me but there are things I want to change or make

better......and that word is DIFFERENT...

I have already started BEing different and watching what I eat and exercising more

and I am working really hard to ACT differently, especially towards my kids

I need to work on having more patience and relax with them more...

I am praying that this year is way DIFFERENT than last year...

Here's wishing you a GREAT year!!!

xo

tina



DA MOJO IS IN DA' HOUSE

love the start of a new year...

the ideas and the plans

the wishes and the dreams! It all seems so incredibly exciting.

I officially started my exercise routine with a good friend of mine...

she is fit and is all about the yoga so we took a 4 mile hike on Sunday (the 1st)

then today we went on a 3 mile run/walk...boy am I sore...but happy.

I feel like my artsy mojo came back and I got on a crafty painting session.

I sat at my desk and made these beauties...

what do you think?

I am feeling pretty proud of these babies...and to prove it to myself

I listed a bunch of my small bits of art in my ebay shop

(click on the link at the top left)

Well hope your year has started off wonderfully...and that you set your goals high

have a fabulous night...

I am linking this up to the following parties:

ta-da tuesdays

something I whipped up

market yourself mondays

a project at a time

xo

tina



What a great day!

With today being the first of the NEW year...gotta tell you that today was pretty great.

Took a hike with 2 great pals of mine for 3 hours then came home & got the family ready and we took off to the beach. It was the most beautiful day ever & no crowds --- now if all days are like today this year is going to be fabulous!

Here' wishing you all a great year!!!
xo
Tina

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Here's wishing that you get all you wish for this year

HAPPY 2012----

xo