My entry into Sabrina Ann's YT sexy man valentine challenge

Good morning everyone. I hope you all are doing well and for those of you that have been hit by the winter storms, I hope you all are staying safe and warm. Today I want to share with you my entry into Sabrina's sexy man valentine challenge. This challenge was really a challenge for me as I created a tag for my entry and tags are a little out of my comfort zone. The rules for the challenge are to create a card or tag. Must use the color pink and or red. Must list 3 things that you admire about that person, and to use a heart. Here is the link to her video if you would like to play along. http://youtu.be/l-LQfYXrG_Q . You can play along even if you don't do videos and you have until Feb 3 to submit your entry. Her video has all the details there as well.

So here is the tag I created.

I just love how this tag turned out. For my sexy man, I decided to make a tag using an image of Paul Walker. So for the 3 things I admire him for was he was a generous person, a very talented actor, and I could admire his looks all day long. Lol. The base of this tag was created using chipboard. The pattern paper I used is from wild rose studio "letters from Paris" collection. Gorgeous papers. The lace is and foam heart are from www.zibbet.com/divinelaces. The pearl trim was a gift from my friend barb. The pearl flourishes are from recollections. The two roses are from mb treasurista store. The heart chipboard is a maya road hear that I painted pink and then added glitter to and I crocheted the three hearts in the top right corner. I think I have covered everything. This tag is up on my YT channel if I have left anything out. Thank you for stopping by and I hope you have a beautiful day. 

Hugs, 

Shan

B&W mini album, altered candle stick, and altered binder clip photo holder

Good morning again. So I guess I lied when I said in the last post that it was all for me today. I realized that these projects never got posted either. So I want to quickly share with you a mini album, a altered candle light, and a binder clip photo holder I made for my cousin. If you have any questions, just leave me a comment below. I also have a video on my YT channel that shows more details. You will find my YT channel on the right sidebar of this blog. Thank you all for stopping by.

Altered dollar store ornaments

For Good morning all. I know it's been awhile since my last post. Problem is, my laptop has been so slow and I am always on my iPad. I have tried uploading photos from my iPad before with no luck. So here I am at 2:55 am and I can't sleep so I decided to look thru the App Store to see if there was any apps that would help me post directly from iPad. If this post does post, you know it was a success. Lol

So enough of my ranting. I hope you all had a wonderful christmas. We live over 2000 miles from our family so it was a very quiet christmas as home. Below are some altered dollar store ornaments I created this year. I was hoping for an all pink and white tree, but that didn't happen this year. Oh well. There is always next year. 

This ornament was originally a hot pink glittered ornament. I took some acetone and pour a bit into a coffee can and let it sit in there for about 10 seconds and used an old wash rag to wipe away the glitter and repeated this process a couple of times. Super easy. Then I used gesso to cover the snowflake in white and added some crystal stickles once it was dried. I then hot glued some Venice lace trim around the center that I had dyed pink and added a shabby chic rosette on top of the trim. I then glued a clay flower to the center of the rosette and added some pink gems along the outside of the snowflake. Easy breezy and I think it turned out beautifully.

For this reindeer I did the same process as above and used 2 venise trims to his neck along with a little snip of a feather, some pearl stamen, and some beautiful paper roses. Then finished it off by adding a tiny pink gem to his nose. 

Well that's all from me for now. I hope you all have an amazing new year filled with many beautiful blessings. Thank you for stopping by and for your support. It means the world to me. 

Hugs, 

Shan

Lots of Beautiful Projects

Good morning everyone.

 I hope you all are having a beautiful weekend. It is really REALLY cold here this morning. It is now 27 degrees and they are possibly calling for snow on Tuesday night into Wednesday morning. I don't know that I am going to hold my breath for that one yet. The weather forecast here seems to change hourly. 

 I know that I have been slacking on my blog lately. I really wish I could post from my Ipad as my laptop seems to always go so slow, so needless to say I am not on it much. I wanted to share with you all some wonderful projects I have been working on over the last week. A good friend and I decided to make a few ornaments for eachother for Christmas and I have also altered a little something extra.

For the first ornament, I altered a key from Michaels. 

This key was originally white with a bit of brushed gold over it and I wasnt really liking the look of it so I started by heating the key up with my heat gun and dumped a bit of white embossing powder over it, then reheated. Unfortunately it wasnt covering too well so while it was still hot, I rolled it into some UTEE. It gave kinda a beaded effect that I really like so while the UTEE was still hot, I poured a bunch of white glitter on it and I really like the texture it gave to the key. Next I took a piece of tulle and tied it into a bow and glued it to the key. Then I added a little strand of pearls and added a feather over it. I had ordered this beautiful little cherub from a etsy store and was hoarding it but knew it would be the perfect fit for this key. So I glittered up her little wings and used a really light pink copic marker to give her rosey cheeks and lips. The little rose is from I am roses and i glued that down and added a bit of glitter to that as well. I finished it off by adding a bit of seambinding to the key along with a sparkle bead to hang the key from. 

Next up is an altered matchbox I created. 

Now this is the first time I have altered a matchbox and this was a real challenge for me. I am not sure if I really liked the way that this came out.  I first started by painting the match box with some gesso then I added some vintage paper ( it was from a 1895 German paper i purchased on eBay some time ago) and I used mod podge to glue that down. I then took some crocheted lace and adhered that on top of the vintage paper. I trimed the edges of the box with some flat back pearls that I had purchased from Sa Crafters and then created a little tiny rosette out of some small doilies. I created a little angel pearl dangle for the bottom of the box and used some pearls and wire for it to hang from.

Now this 3rd ornament I really love. 

Well actually one of these are for her and the other I am keeping for myself. I first created the larger heart as a trial heart. I have had a small piece of this adorable fabric in my stash for 5 years not exactly sure what I wanted to use it for. But when I thought about trying this, I knew it was the perfect fabric for it. I do have a video up of the larger heart if you wish to see it in further detail here.

Last but not least, I altered a little battery operated light for her.

This is another project that I absolutely love. Again, if you would like to hear how this is created I have a video explaining all the details here.

Thank you for stopping by and I hope you have a wonderful weekend.

Hugs and Blessings to you all. 

Shan

Inspired By Stamping Inspiration Challenge #65

Good morning everyone. 

Today I wanted to share with you a card I made for another Inspired by Stamping Inspiration Challege. I just love the colors in this challenge and i think the papers work nicely. If you chose to play along, you still have until the 24th of September to get your entries in and dont worry, if you do not own any of their amazing stamps, you can still play along. 

Here is the inspiration photo:

And here is the card I made for the challenge:

 Isnt it just darling?

My friends birthday is coming up on the 29th so I wanted to make her a special little card. I hope she likes it. This card measures 5½ x 5½ in. I started with a textured tan card stock and layered these beautiful papers from Authentique "Cherish" collection. I added a doily that I had painted with a light pearl green watercolor to and cut out a heart shape from the tan card stock. I ran the heart cut out thru my sizzix with a cuttlebug embossing folder then layered it on top of the doily. This adorable stamp is from The Greeting Farm and it is a set called "Lovey Dovey". I paper pieced her clothes and the little heart in her hair from the same pattern paper used in the card. The beautiful Birthday Sentiment is from Inspired By Stamping called "Big Wishes". 

I crocheted a little 5 petal flower and added a little flat back pearl to the center. I am really happy with the way this card turned out. 

Remember, Inspired by stamping is having a blog hop right now and will run for 2 weeks. If you would like to hop along with them, you can join them here.

Thank you for stopping by and I hope you all are enjoying  your weekend.

Hugs and Blessings,

Shan

Inspired By Stamping Inspiration Challenge #66

Good morning everyone. 

I dont know about you, but I am so happy it is Friday! Don't get me wrong, I don't live a busy life style as I am a stay at home mom but the weekends give me an opportunity to sleep in! Sad part about it is, I am so used to waking up at 5 am every morning that when the weekend comes around, my body says " hey lady, time to get up." lol

So today I want to share with you a card I made for a challenge over at Inspired By Stamping. 

Now I have to say this was REALLY a challenge for me as I don't usually work with these colors and was real limited on what I had. But I think I made it work and I am really happy with the way that it turned out. If you want to play along, you have until the 24th of Sept to get your entries in. You do not need to use one of their products at this time and there are 2 other color challenges going on as well. Also make sure you head on over to the blog as they have a blog hop going on today and will run for 2 weeks. 

Here is the challenge I entered. 

And this is my card:

I cant believe I didn't use any lace or flowers on this! I think it still turned out adorable. 

For this card I layered black and yellow card-stock. I did have one sheet of yellow and white gingham pattern paper that I have had in my stash for a gazillion years. lol OK not really that long but I would have to say for at least 7 years. EEK. I used a Martha Stewart border punch as well as an ek success photo corner punch. I used a scalloped circle and layered it with a white circle that had score tape  on it and added white fine glitter to. Then i took a bee sticker and layered it on top of the white glitter and used yellow fine glitter to the body as well as silver fine glitter to the wings. The beautiful Sentiment stamp is from Inspired by Stamping "Big Notes" set.

Thank you for stopping by and I hope you all have a wonderful weekend. 

Hugs and Blessings,

Shan

Card for a friend

Good evening everyone.

 I hope you all are having a beautiful week. I have had a cold for the last 2 weeks and this darn cough just wont seem to go away. I have been bored out of my mind being in bed so much so I decided to make a card for a dear friend of mine. I just love how it turned out. 

Isn't it beautiful?

 This card measures 5½  x 5½.

First I started with some pink card-stock. I then layered it with the beautiful pattern paper from the Bo Bunny Isabelle Collection. I glued a doily to the center that I had picked up from Michaels in the baking department. I added a die-cut from the paper collection and used pop dots to  give it some dimension. The image is from the Greeting farm and she is Dressy Ebony. I colored her with copic markers and paper pieced her dress from the same collection of papers. I think her little outfit is adorable. I also used pop dots behind her to pop her up. The pink Rosette I have had in my stash for a couple years now. I'm sorry, I do not remember what store I purchased it from. I cut apart some Venise Lace I had and tucked it under the rosette. They look a bit like little leaves. I also tucked in a few strands of pearls that I had picked up from AC Moore and then added a beautiful clay rose to the center of the rosette. The filigree corners I got from ButterBee Scraps. They were a copper color so I heated them up with my heat tool and poured on white embossing powder. The butterfly's were punched with the Martha Stewart 3 in 1 butterfly punch and I finished the card off with a beautiful sentiment stamp by Inspired By Stamping  . If you haven't been to their store, Make sure you check it out. They have some AMAZING stamps that are perfect for all occasions.

Thank you for stopping by and I hope you all have a wonderful week. 

Hugs and Blessings,

Shan

Pumpkin Marci Halloween Card

Good morning everyone. 

Yesterday everyone in the house woke up with a sore throat and I also have a cough. Ugh I hate being sick. So to pass my boredom yesterday I went into the craft room and created my very first criss cross card. I just love how it turned out. 

I used the adorable Pumpkin Marci Digi from La-La Land crafts. When I saw her in the shop I knew I had to get her to make my mom a halloween card as when I was a little girl she made me a pumpkin costume almost identical to Marcis. I used basic black cardstock from Michaels which measure 5.5in x 5.5 in. The pattern paper is from K & Company. The web border punch is by Martha Stewart and the doily is from the baking department at Michaels. I used a Lindy Stamp gang spray to color the doily. The webbed trim I picked up on ebay a few years ago and wish that I had it in more colors. Love it! The bling on the doily was some that I had in my stash. 

Below is a start to finish video on how I created this card. 

Thank you for stopping by and I hope you all have a beautiful week. 

Hugs and Blessings,

Shan

Amazing Canvas Kits For Sale

Good morning all. 

Not here to share anything I made today but to spread the word about some beautiful Canvas kits that are for sale over at http://www.zibbet.com/craftytexaswoman . She has other great items in her shop as well. I hope you all stop by her zibbet shop and take a look. 

Here are 4 of the kits she has up for sale. 

I dont know about you, but I am certainly drooling. So hurry over and check out her store.

I hope you all have a beautifully blessed week. 

Hugs, 

Shan   

Cards

Good evening everyone. Tonight I wanted to share with you a few cards I have made in the last couple of weeks. I know I am late posting these but I can not post from my ipad and this laptop is really REALLY slow. So I am not on it much. 

Also I wanted to let you all know that I am trying my hand at card sketches. If you are interested in checking them out you can find them at SketchesByShan.Blogspot.Com . Would love to hear what you think of if you use one would love to see what you created with it. 

Now on to my cards..

First up is a card that I made for a friend using a digi stamp by Sherri Baldy.

I think these images are so adorable. 

Paper: Trimcraft Premium paper pad 6x6 called Spring Feast

Card stock: Craft paper

Image: Digital stamp by Sherri Baldy on etsy

Clock die cut: sent to me from a friend

Butterfly: Martha Stewart punch

Burlap Trim: Ordered off a zibbet store

Flower: Recollections white flower 

Flower sprayed with Shimmerz

Pearl: Recollections

Coloring: Copic Markers

The second card I made was inspired by a all white card on Pinterest. 

I made this card for a friend of mine as a get well card as she had surgery.

Cardstock: White from Michaels

Embossing folder: Cuddlebug

Punches: Scalloped, Circle, and a Martha Stewart Butterfly Punch

Trim: was sent in a RAK by Lineca

Pearl hearts: ordered from Ebay

My 3rd card is a Black and white just because card that I made for my mom. This card was also inspired from a card on Pinterest. 

Cardstock: in Black and White from Michaels

Punches: Lace border punch and butterfly punch both from Martha Stewart. 

Lace and trim: Trim From Hobby Lobby and Lace from my stash

Scalloped squares: Storybook Cricut Cart

Flowers: I am roses petals I took apart from rose

Stamp: Won in a contest several years ago but have no clue who the maker is.

Pearl: Recollections

My last card was a card I created for my BFF in California.

Paper: Prima

DieCut: Storybook Cricut Cart

Punch: Martha Stewart border punch

Image: Saturated Canary

Rosette: Tim Holtz trim

Pearls: Recollections

Metal Filagree Corner: Purchased from Butter Bee Scraps on Zibbet

Coloring: With my Copic Markers

Heart Gems: Ebay

Thank you so much for stopping by.

I hope you all had a fantastic weekend.

♥Big Hugs & Many Blessings♥

Shan

6x6 Layout

Good afternoon everyone. 

I wanted to quickly stop by and share with you a layout I created today. It has been a little over 4 years since I last worked on a scrapbook page and I have to say that I was a little worried about how it would turn out. My friend Barb introduced me to a wonderful site http://creatingthecraftylife.com/ .They have a sketch challenge right now that really inspired me to make a page. If you havent visited the site, you might want to check it out. They have wonderful challenges, swaps, classes, and lots of inspiration. 

Here is the page I created:

For those of you that have been following me know that I am totally in love with Pion Design paper. It is my absolute favorite. Isnt it just gorgeous? So as I am sure you have guessed I used
Pion Design paper for this layout. I distressed all the edges of the paper first with my prima distress tool then went around it with a color box chalk ink in a light brown. The roses are from I am Roses and for the larger rose, I colored it with a Shimmerz spritz spray called Treasured Hymn. I added a few loose pearls around the roses and cut out a flourish using the Cheery Lynn die (mini fanciful flourish-left). I cut it up into pieces and glued then down under the roses. I also added a piece of it to the left side of the card. The bird is one of the tiny wooden embellishments from Prima and I went over it with the same chalk ink that I used to distress the edges of the paper. The bow is a lace bow sticker by Jolees. I am so very happy with the way my page turned out.  Below is the sketch that I followed for this layout. 

 Beautiful sketch right?!?!?

Anyways I hope you come join in on this wonderful challenge. 

Thank you so much for stopping by and I hope you have a beautiful day.

Hugs

Shan

Card, Mini, and Altered Box

Good morning everyone. I know its been awhile since my last post but I am having issues trying to type up a post thru my google chrome. I guess I can not complain to much as I am finally able to post thru internet explorer. So today I have 3 projects to share with you. The first is a card and paperbag mini wallet I made for my mother in law. For The card and the mini I used the Authentique Cherish collection. This paper is absolutely gorgeous and has a lot of tags and cutouts for grandparents which made this paper perfect for this project.

 

Stamp: The Greeting Farm: Blush Babette

Roses: I am Roses

Sprays: Shimmerz

Pearls: Glass pearls from my stash

Butterflies and diecut circle: both came from a swap that I colored with Copics

Markers: Copics

 

 

Lace: Walmart

Ribbon roses: I peeled these off of a roll of sheer ribbon

Pearl Trim: Sa Crafters

Flatback Pearl hearts: Received in a swap

Butterfly: Recollections that I sprayed with some Shimmerz spritz

 

If you would like to see the inside of both these projects, I have a video that I will link below.

Card and paperbag mini wallet.

 

For my 3 project, I have altered a old pencil box style box for a dear friend of mine.

 

 Top view of box:

For this Box I used my all time favorite paper by Pion Design. I just love the soft romantic feel of this paper. The paper totally inspired me to make this beautiful heart with the pearls in the center. For the heart I started with a hallow chipboard heart from maya Road and covered the heart with the same paper as the box. I traced the heart with a piece of paper and glued it to the back of the heart and then added pearls to the center until I was happy with the look. I then filled the heart with glossy accents and added some to the top of the pearls which I love how it turned out. Kinda looks like the pearls were melting together in there and then topped it off with this beautiful key. I used a flourish die from cheery lynn designs and had colored the diecuts, I am roses Roses, Butterfly, and the metal corner pieces with a pearl watercolor paint that I purchased from amazon. I also added more of the beautiful glass pearls around the butterfly.

This is a view of the sides of the box. I added a beautiful metal piece that I added gesso on then went over with more of that beautiful watercolor to and added another I am roses small rose to the center of. The rose is also colored with the same watercolors. Then I added this beautiful flatback pearl trim from Sa Crafters. For the feet on the bottom of the box I used these beautiful flower bead caps and adhered them upside down. I really love how that turned out.

This is how the front of the box looks. I added a beautiful Prima resin piece that I had covered with gesso and again the watercolor paint on and some more of that beautiful Sa Crafters pearl trim.

 

Below is a link to the video of this box.

Altered Pencil Box

 

Thank you for stopping by and I hope you have a beautifully blessed day.

Hugs,

Shan

 

 

Fathers Day Card.

Hello!

I am back to quickly share with you a fathers day card that I had made for my father.

I really love how it turned out.

 

Papers: Creative Imaginations

Dies: Spellbinders and memory box hot air balloon

Twine: From my stash

Metal corners: Recollections

Pearls: Recollections

Other: Glossy accents, alpha stamps, and chalk ink

 

Thank you for stopping by. I hope you have a beautiful day.

Hugs

Tiny wire heart wreath embellishment

Good afternoon everyone. I hope you all are having an amazing week. I haven't been crafting much lately as we are preparing for a visit from my in laws in a couple of weeks and we can't wait to see everyone. And to be totally honest, my craft room is a disaster and I really need to get it cleaned up. I was able to work on a tiny heart wreath today as I have been going crazy not being able to craft. I just love how this turned out.

For this wreath, I used some green wire a friend had sent to me long ago. Im sorry i am not sure of the gauge of the wire but it is extremely easy to bend. So I twisted two pieces together and formed the shape of a heart. Then I painted over the heart with gesso and then a layer of white paint. I then took 2 clear wheat sprays and used a copic marker to color them pink and hot glued them to the wire frame. Then i started layering the roses over the wire gluing them down with my hot glue gun.The center rose was a paper rose from AC Moore and the rest of the roses are from I am roses. I then cut up a few pearl stamens and glued those into place. I also added stickles and glitter to the top of the heart and used stickles on the roses. This project was fairly quick to make. The longest part was allowing the gesso to dry. 

Thank you for stopping by. I hope you have a fantastic week. 

Hugs

You gotta check it out.

Good morning all. I'm not here to share a project at the moment but I did want to let you all know about an amazing shop on zibbet. Most of you probably already know about her but for those of you that don't, Sa crafters has a fantastic shop with prices you can't beat, and let me tell you...every time I order, I always have my order on just a few days. Just thought id share with you all as who doesn't love having crafting goodness that doesn't make you go broke. Hope you all check her out. Have a beautiful weekend. 

Sa crafters shop: http://www.zibbet.com/SaCrafters

Looking for fun challenges and swaps?

Good evening everyone. Not here with a project today but wanted to let you all know about a great site that has lots of fun challenges, inspiration, classes, and swaps. I hope to see you all there. 

http://creatingthecraftylife.com/

Hope you all have a beautifully blessed week.

Hugs,

Shan

Handmade Lace Flower and Some Embellishments

Good Morning everyone. Today I wanted to share with you a hand made lace flower and some embellishments I created for a friend. 

This had started out being a lace flower for a friend and ended up blooming into this beautiful creation. 

My friend Barbara loves the vintage style and I sure hope she likes it. I used alot of beautiful laces and doilies that I had in my stash and topped it with a bottle cap that I created. I also added a few strands of lace and pearls to the back.

Below are some embellishments that I created for her as well using some printable images I purchased from Etsy. 

Thank you for stopping by. I hope you have a wonderful day. 

Altered Tiny Balsa Box

Good morning everyone. I hope you all had a terrific night last night. Today I wanted to quickly share with you a Teeny Tiny little balsa box I altered. This is another project that I had completely forgotten to upload here. Things have just been really crazy here the last couple of months and I am so very glad that it is finally starting to slow down. 

Front View

 Top View

I wasn't too sure for the longest time what I was going to do with this adorable teeny tiny box but as soon as I received some washi tape that I had ordered online it all fell into place. I started out by painting this box with a light buttermilk color acrylic paint. When the paint dried, I covered the entire out side of the box with this gorgeous washi tape that I had purchased online. I added my favorite flat backed pearl trim from Sa Crafters to the outside edge of the lid and the bottom of the box. I cut apart a doily and layered it on top of the box, added a couple of skeleton leaves, and an I am Roses rose that I had colored with my favorite Lindys spray (cape cod coral). 

Below is a video on the project.

Thank you for stopping by and I hope you are having a fantastic week. 

Altered Mouse Trap Memo Holder

Good Evening all. Wanted to Quickly share a project that I made a while ago and again forgot to post of an altered mouse trap I created. I ran across these on the internet and rushed out and purchased some mouse traps. I love the way this turned out. 

For this mouse trap I started out painting the whole thing with a light buttermilk acrylic paint. I then mod podge some beautiful paper from My Minds Eye "Blush" collection and added some flat back pearl trim to the sides. I added a Tim Holtz key hole to the center and added 2 flat back pearls to it that I had purchased from Michaels dollar bin. I then added a tiny piece of a doily to the lower left corner and layered 7 I Am Roses roses to the bottom corner using beautiful sprays from Shimmerz. I added a beautiful Recollections butterfly to the middle and a bling flourish to the top. I then made a little dangle on the bottom using a Tim Holtz pearl and little dangle chain and added a Recollections key. 

Below is the video with more details and closer images. 

Thank you for stopping by and I hope you have a beautiful night. 

A wall hanging I created for a friend.

Good afternoon everyone. I hope you all are enjoying your week so far. 

I am here today to share with you a wall hanging I created for a friend a couple of months ago and silly me, I do not know how I never ended up posting photos. I love how this turned out. 

For this wall hanging I used a Maya Road heart shaped chipboard page from an album that I had purchased many years ago. I covered the chipboard with beautiful paper from My Minds Eye "Blush" collection. I added some texture to the heart using some texture paste and a stencil from Sa Crafters. I then added lace around the whole heart and created a banner that spells out her name using paper from the same collection. I added some beautiful roses from I Am Roses and added a heart and key charm to the banner. I added some feathers and layered a Prima Cherub that I painted and sprayed with Lindys stamp gang. For the bottom, I attached a bit of seam binding, a Prima dangle that I took off one of their flowers and added some pearls too, a beautiful pink crystal to the bottom and added some pearl trim. I will post the video I recorded below for better images and details to this project. 

Thank you for stopping by. I hope you have a beautiful day.