A Better look....

This is a card that was on my desk last Wednesday when I did the WOYWW party!  I just wanted to give you a better look at this one.  I just love the sweet image from G45 and the sentiment also and I handmade the flowers and dipped the centers in glitter.

I have been busy working on stripping wall paper from a bathroom and I've been down on my knees, not a bad thing and up on a ladder until this tired old body was screaming calf rope!  So I just sat for a whole day and looked at the wall and I could see the color I was wanting in my mind.  A sort of soft yellow very close to these yellow flowers.

Thus I have not been in my craft room much in the last several days.  Hoping I can finish up this week and have a wonderful fresh happy bathroom soon!

WOYWW 251

Good morning everyone!  It is Wednesday and time once again to share my work desk with you.  Each week we take a picture of our desks, blog about it and link up at Julia's blog. Next we can visit each others space just by clicking on the names.  It is such fun and I am forever grateful to Julia for starting this as well as continuing to try and keep all us duckies in a row!

We have been experiencing a true East Tennessee Spring here.  Two days ago it was 73 degrees and yesterday there was lots of wind and blowing snow showers.  Quite a contrast don't you think?  I took this photo yesterday afternoon but it looks the same this morning.

As you can see, my desk is pretty clean here. A couple of cards I have been working on and a tag I did for the Heartfelt Creations Alumni Blog Hop.   I laid my new Tim Holtz 9.5 inch shears down beside my older, shorter ones and I have to say these longer shears are going to have a favorite spot on my desk as well.

Well I'm off to visit.  Hope your day is fabulous and that you get to be creative in some way.  And as always take a moment, just for you and "Breathe"!

Heartfelt Creations March Alumni Design Team Blog Hop

Good morning everyone and Welcome to the March Alumni Design Team Blog Hop for Heartfelt Creations.  I loved being on the design team and this allows me to still be a part of the Heartfelt Family.  So join us and follow along on the blog hop and leave comments along the way.  You may be selected to win a $25 gift certificate for product on the Heartfelt Creations Online Store!  You have until midnight on March 28 to leave your comments and the winner of the gift certificate will be announced on March 29, 2014.  Good luck to all of you!

Those of you who know me, know that I love making tags!  Here is my latest using pretty papers from Heartfelt Creations along with some of their gorgeous flowers and my latest additions to my collection, the Timeless Clocks and die!  I can envision so many uses for these wonderful stamps and dies.  Just another incentive to join in the blog hop.  If you are the winner of the $25 gift certificate you could purchase these stamps and dies!

Here is a list of the participating Alumni Team Members for you to follow along.  

Amarilys Doria

Cibele Glazer

Giovana Smith

Deneen Treble

Caroline Duncan

Loretta Lock 

Glenda Brooks..You are here!

Lee Ann Barrett

Mary Faus 

Candy Slabaugh
Alissa Wells
Emilia van den Heuvel
Lisa Allen

So there you have it!  Be sure and leave a comment on as many of these blogs as you can and it will increase your chances of winning!  How cool would it be to win the $25 gift certificate!

Supply list:

HCDP1 234 Daphne Paper Collection

HCPC 3592 Timeless Clock PreCut Set

HCD 744 Once Upon a Time Die

HCD 728 Timeless Armour Die

HCPC 3533 Sun Kissed Fleur Precut Set

HCD 734 Sun Kissed Fleur Die

Seam Binding

Cream/White card stock

Ranger Distress Inks

1/2 pearls

glue

Happy Easter.....

Good morning everyone and welcome!  Have another cuppa and lets visit for a little while!  Before you know it Easter will be upon us!  I don't have many Easter stamps and so I decided to let my Graphic 45 do the heavy lifting here this morning.  I even printed out the sentiment from my computer and I had these little homemade flowers shaped and ready to go.  All I had to do was stamp and cut out the leaves and they are ready to accent these cuties!

I love how this turned out!  It's quite simple but gets the job done with a pow!  Well it has turned into Monday all day long and half the night!  So let's get with it and get to moving!

Supply List:
Graphic 45 Sweet Sentiments and Secret Garden
Canson Watercolor base
Yellow card stock
Purple and white brads
yellow ribbon
pearls
Heartfelt Creations HCD 736 Classic Leaf Die
Heartfelt Creations HCPC 3546 Classic Leaf Precut Set

A Page from my Graphic 45 Mini Album...

Good morning everyone.  I hope you are ready for your Friday and that you are looking forward to your weekend.  I have had a busy week but haven't really accomplished much.  Sometimes I just feel like I've been spinning my wheels.

This morning I want to share another page I have finished in my Graphic 45 mini album!  I used Sweet Sentiments and Once Upon a Springtime papers to finish this page.  I also have a little metal butterfly from Graphic 45 Staples.  I ran it through my embossing machine with an embossing folder and then sprayed some color on it for just that little bit of "pop".  A handmade flower and leaves; a little lace and suddenly this becomes a thing of beauty.  I used a Spellbinders die for the top of the pocket and I slipped a little postcard down inside.  I just love the fresh colors of the papers...they really remind me of Spring!

I hope you have a wonderful Friday and a great weekend.  Now I'm off to visit some of my blog buddies!

What's on Your Workdesk? Wednesday #250

Good Wednesday morning everyone and welcome to WOYWW #250.  If you are a little confused as to what this is all about just hop over to Julia's blog and she has all the specifics about this there.  This week I didn't take a picture of my desk because it's pretty clean right now.  I've just been hanging out and taking a rest...sometimes we just need to recharge.  Instead I'm going to show you my finished canvas that was on my desk last week.  Now Mixed Media and I just don't seem to get along too well. When it comes to working on a canvas, I can't seem to know when to quite.  Suddenly it looks like it has way too many colors involved and they are not getting along.  I have another canvas so I'm going to try again.  I refuse to give up.

The message says:  My Wish and the photo is a freebie from the Internet.  Just so you know I have already gone back in and painted some more Gesso to lighten some of the colors.  It seems I am never satisfied with this type of art.  But I took this and hung it in my bedroom and low and behold it works in there so I have a new piece of art to use as a decoration in there.  Yes that's me doing a happy dance!  I think what it all boils down to is there is no set pattern as to what you do or don't do.  It's totally up to you and when you become happy with a piece then it is finished.  So I declare this piece finished!

Now I'm going over to Julia's blog and see how many of you I can visit this morning.  I never seem to get as far along as I would like.  Please forgive me if I don't make it round to all of you.  But I do keep trying!

Craft Hoarders Anonymous Challenge #4...Show us some Sparkle, Glitz or Glam!

Good morning everyone and welcome to Challenge #4 at Craft Hoarders Anonymous!

Use this photo as inspiration and show us your Sparkle, Glitz or Glam!  Go into your stash and use some of those hoarded items and create something wonderful and play along with us.  Blog about your creation and then link up with us at Craft Hoarders Anonymous!  It is just amazing that we are already at Challenge #4 of this brand new challenge blog.  Your participation has been just wonderful and I'm making new friends and getting to visit so many talented people!

Graphic 45 is our Sponsor for the whole month of March and they are really being generous with their gifts for the winners.  Another reason to play along with our challenge.  Who wouldn't love to win this wonderful prize package!

Now on to my creation for this challenge:

Can you see the tear stains on this paper?  I went into my hoard and pulled out the remaining pages of my very first Graphic 45 paper that I won in a challenge somewhere. (Once Upon a Springtime)   I used it to make a paper bag album for my sister awhile back and then I just felt I had to hold the remainder of these beautiful papers.  But this is about going into our hoards and making something so I just want you to know I did this just for you guys!  I still have 1 full page and some remnants left over and I'm afraid I may never use those.

Now you can visit the rest of the team by clicking on their names on my side bar or by going to the Craft Hoarders Anonymous Challenge blog.  Leave comments; we all love hearing from you.  Then get busy and show us some bling!  I can't wait to see what you create!

Supplies:
Graphic 45 Once Upon a Springtime paper
Spellbinders Wrought Iron Die
Zutter Distrezz-it-All
HCD 718 Decorative Chateau Gate Die (Heartfelt Creations)
Some bling from my hoard (I can't remember where I got it)
Green card stock
Cream colored card stock
Glue
glitter