out takes from the photo shoot

this is Pepper helping out

the two kittens love to get in the pictures

Ginger getting groomed for her close-up

this is Gingers manager/agent Henry

now everyone is getting in the shot

we really know who the star is in this one.

It's finished yahooooo!

Well this is the finished product, I hot glued the flowers and brushed a "diamond wash" over all the frames.  

you can see the diamond wash better here. I combined water, glue, and glitter in a jar and brused the wash all over the frames.

It came out even better than I expected. I had such fun making it and Camille loves it. My next challenge is to figure how to attach the frames and hang it on her wall.

I have a new project I am working

I got a great idea for decorating my daughters wall. Lucky for me my dear friend Ginny has been giving me soooo many wonderful treasures, I had enough wooden frames to make a name sign (I needed seven). 

I got these frames from my dear friend Ginny

I cut backgrounds for the frames

I used some cardboard to cut out the letters to my daughters name.

I painted the frames and letters a variety of colors using acrylic paint. 

here are the letters in the frames

I pulled out the punches it was time to make some flowers

these are the shapes I used. 

for me I choose the colors I want the paint the flowers, then punch out the shape and then paint them. I used to paint after I assembled the flowers but the petals stuck together and I was having to use my heat tool a lot.

after the shapes are colored I punch a hole for the brad and layer the shapes

a tip: start with the smallest shape first then add as many petals as you like.  

using a variety of shapes and kinds of paper you get a different looking flower

this is a sample of what is to come. I love the bling on the letter,  Camille came up with that one.

This is a far as I got with the project this weekend, I try to keep working on it as the week progresses.

I hope you enjoyed this take good care Cheers -Cyn \l"/

a new addition to the halloween cards

halloween cards

Well I got a huge jump start (for me) on my Halloween Stamp Club challenge.  I am having a good day just letting the creative juices flow. Kids are letting me play, husband is busy doing other things.  I picked up some really cute things at the dollar spot at Joanns last night. They have paper, stamps, ink, ribbon, and even some tiny punches( I resisted them). Here's what I came up with so far. 

This is a black card with a semi circle of yellow for the moon. I stamped the bat and embossed it in black.  I stamped the sentiment and cut out some of the candy corns from the patterned paper. I made a ruffel from the patternded paper and added orange ribbon. The bat and sentiment are popped up with mounting tape.

this started from an orange card, I punched the "fence" piece from a Martha Stewart punch (I got at Ross for 4 bucks YEAH!) I used embrodery floss for the bow. I embossed the bat in black and gold glitter.  I distressed the edges using my black stamp pad.  The sentiment and bat are popped up.

This one is on the same orange paper, I folded a book page like a fan, and sponged it in orange and black.  I used the same punch to make the fence.  The moon is stamped and cut out and mounted. I samped the bat in black and popped it up.  I free handed the spider web. 

here they are as a trio.

I got help from my sweet and very talented daughter.  She came up with the idea that we should use the same supplies and make each others card. It was a wonderful idea and was a total success.

this is hers for me.

here they are together

I also had help from Nenis.

I stamped the spiderweb for the background on purple carrdstock, created a ruffle from patterned paper added glitter and embrodiery floss, I stamped the pumpkin and cut out. I stamped the sentiment and layered patterned and cardstock paper.  To make the card pop I added some purple bling. 

I embossed the web in silver and the sentiment too. I stamped the bat and pumpkins and cut out. I punched out the banner and stamped boo on it.

a close up of the piece

I added back ground stamping  and embossing, to break up all the white space.

had some help from Ginger 

I used a small doilley(sp) to mask some of its lacy shapes, I did it in pink here

I masked in light blue here

I hot glued the embellishments here, it took quite a while because my OCD took over. I finally just had to glue the first one down and go from there. I freed myself as I call it.

the judges agree that they really like my piece.

close up on the wall

 From here down I went crazy with the close-ups. If you have any questiuons feel free to leave a comment.

Punched flowers using  glossy colored book paper.

here is a layered flower using mulberry paper and book pages

clear embossed butterfly stamped on black paper

most of these are rolled pattern paper flower roses, also you can see the doilley I used in the masking process. Nothing ever waisted.