Mojo Blog Hop --Day 4

Happy Thursday to you all and welcome to day 4 of our mojolicious blog hop!! Today Nicole will be bringing the scrappy treats. Nicole has the sweetest scrapbooking and card making style, I'm sure you will find a treasure of girly inspiration on her blog. She is also a great Copic user, something I hope to learn from her soon. So be sure to stop by her Scrapinsweetheart blog to see what she has in store for us today.

Happy Crafting!

Mojo Blog Hop-- Day 3

I hope everyone is ready for day three of our mojolicious blog hop!! Today's hop is by L. Akins of LSA Design Studios. She's very creative and has a lovely style of papercrafting. So be sure to take a look at what she created for today's portion of our five day hop and then take a browse through her previous work, you will surely be inspired.

Happy Crafting!

Mojo Blog Hop -- Day 2

First, let me wish you all a very sweet, romantic, loving and blissfull

Valentine's day!

Now, let's get on to day 2 of this mojolicious blog hop. BUT, hop no further because you are here:)

Today, I bring to you an altered cigar box. I almost had a rough time altering this box only because my hands kept wanting to alter it for myself *selfish thoughts* LOL

This is a before picture of the cigar box. And what I love most about the cigar boxes I have, NONE of them smell like tabacco at all. Thank goodness for that. Also, I never knew that cigar boxes came in so many different shapes and designs. I love these things!

I created this box for my husband to use on his nightstand for any number of little items he may want to place in it. He can place his watch or wedding ring in it or maybe something more personal like a scripture he may be meditating on. However, I'm certain a fishing jig or two will end up in it.

Inside the box, I placed felt as the box liner.

I so adore this little sentiment inside

Upclose of the inside lid of the box.

I also created a mini tag book and inserted it in the pocket on the inside of the lid. This is where I ended up going a bit traditional with the colors...surprised me too:)

I heart this box and he was very pleased with it. I'm so grateful to have a husband that's so supportive and encouraging of what I do. When I'm crafting he often steps into my studio just to see what I'm creating. He's always saying I don't have enough "stuff", so when am I taking you to get more. Funny I think that's a creative way to keep on getting his hunting/fishing stuff:)

I've also included a couple of pics of us inside along with some personal notes to the hubster:)

Upclose of the pocket

This is the front of the box. I really like library card holder and he's going to love all the houndstooth stamping on the box.

Side of the box

Over all I'm so loving this box I created for him. And I know he will cherish it:)

Supplies:

Cardstock: MME plaid/light green; PTI Fine Linen and Kraft

Stamps: Glitz houndstooth

Ink/Paint: Tim Holtz walnut stain distress; Acrylic paint in linen, coffee bean and antique gold; TH distress crackle paint; Multi-medium gesso primer and black gesso

Other: Spare Parts lock and key brad; magis mesh; metallic brads; graphics fairy image, feathers, michaels brand gems; K&Company metal key; K&Company Ephemera pack; Kaiser Craft timeless lamp post rub on; Antique white felt; Ki Keepsake pocket; doily heart; Prima crystals; Pearls in gold and gray; Tim Holtz memo pins

Mini book Supplies:

Cardstock: The Paper Studio, My Mind's Eye (I think) French Flea Market; MME Lost and Found Union Square 6X6 design pad; Papertrey Ink Pure Poppy and Kraft

Ink: Tim Holtz antique linen distress;Silver and Candy Cane Stickles

Other: Hemp cord, Pearls, mini heart punch, lace

**I used more products than are listed, but I didn't jot down everything used between my stops and goes of creating**

Happy Crafting!!

Let the Mojo Begin--Day 1

Happy Valentine's Week!! Are you ready to be inspired?? Well, today begins a week long mojolicious blog hop. And today your inspiration is coming from Kim of My Life up Close and Personal. Now you talking about crafty inspiration, Kim's work is always beautiful. Oh and may I add she made LO of the week on the Swirlydoos blog. CONGRATS Kim!!!

So click on over to Kim's blog and take a peek at what she created for day 1 of our 5 day mojo/inspiration hop. Then be sure to take a peek at the beautiful LO she created on the Swirlydoos blog.

Our hope during this week is to share our love of papercrafting, and while doing so, inspire you to create something fabulous as well.

Happy Hopping!!

Hopping in Last Minute--Card Challenge

Nothing like jumping in on the tail end of a challenge huh? This has been some kinda week and the weekend seemed to only last 2 hours, lol. I guess when you have so much to get done and you only have a weekend to get it all completed, seems like time just flies by. I'm in such need of a mini vacation no cell phone, just me and the hubster...we're actually working on that now *shhh don't tell anybody*

Enough chatter, let's get on to the challenge...


I created this card early this morning..like before day break (my best and most favorite time to create). This card was created for submission to the Mojo Monday challenge. This is one of those cards you make and almost hate to give away...that's why you have to create two:)

Supplies:

Cardstock: Papertrey Ink - Lemon Tart, Fine Linen and True Black

Ink: Studio G and TH Distress inks and I also used my glittery gelly roll pens to color the butterfly

Stamps: Pink Paislee Butterfly Garden, Making Memories Wedding stamp set

Other: Graphics Fairy Image, K&Company Empera pack (Bird image), Offray lace, American Crafts ribbon, Recollections black pearls

Get ready yall!! I'm so excited, tomorrow starts my week long Valentine mojo blog hop!!! Woot Woot!!

Happy Crafting!

Altered Photo Tray "Boys Only"

I'm so happy that I can be patient with my purchases. I started to purchase this tray about a year ago, but my frugalness kept me from making the purchase. While shopping in Michaels a few weeks ago, I ran across two of these trays sitting on the shelf marked down to $4.99...of course I grabbed them both! Aaron quickly said one of those are for me! LOL

When we made it home he took his to his room...unaltered. His only request before I altered it was that I use a picture of him with his brother in the tray. I used a picture they took while Karohn was here on leave. This is from their brother's day out together.

I still have a couple of elements I would like to add to the tray, like a metal A+ to add to the grade card and the word love on the journaling sprout.

I love shopping the wooden section of Michaels for pieces I can use on my LO's or alter projects like this for a pop of dimension and it's an unexpected object.

Confession...I've been hoarding these fragment pieces. When I use them it's sparingly because I love them so. I have all of the shapes displayed on my vision board and the ones I'm going to use in my embellishment box. When the "to be used" stash is gone I will NOT be using the ones on my vision board:) Maybe I should go purchase another box huh? LOL

Supplies: 7 Gypsies photo tray; PP - TPC Studio, Simple Stories, Crate Paper; Magic Mesh, twine, Pink Paislee wooden letters, K&Co Metal keys, Michaels brand wooden buttons, Basic Grey journaling sprout; ticket; wooden baseball and bat (wood craft from Michaels), eyelits, clip, black pearls, MM findings, TH fragment shaped pieces, JoAnn's brand alpha charms, Spare Parts mini bottle caps, corrigated chipboard, acrylic paint, cricut (cut the letter "A"), Graphic 45 (I think) clock piece, Spare parts arrows and brad, ribbon and Spare parts shaped metal.

I so enjoyed creating this tray for Aaron and he couldn't wait for it to be completed.

Happy Crafting!

Titleless LO + an Update

I've finally completed my first vintage feel, floral filled LO and I'm loving it! This is a bit of a twist of style for me, I probably won't pick this up as a new scrapping style but I plan on completing a few more LO's of it's kind.

Mostly all of the supplies used are from my Swirlydoo's kit (I can't remember but I think it was an October kit). I almost hated to use it, everything was so pretty.

Products used: PTI Kraft cardstock, Glitz Vintage blue stripe and vintage blue polka, lace, Distress stickles in tattered rose and shabby shutters, TH distresser, Studio G ink, Kaiser Craft Coconut paper blooms, Prima yellow and cream roses, scroll, K & Co metal keys, Prima color crystals, Unknown floral leaves, and Recollections Pearl clusters

I've been toying with adding these letters or purchasing more to use instead. The letters are Heidi Swapp's Lemonde stand chip in white. I used some Joann's brand acrylic paint to tone down the white and distress ink on the edges, then added some distress crackle paint in rock candy. I haven't glued the letters down yet, still trying to decide if I like those letters with this LO or not.

Next..remember the flower necklace peek I did a couple weeks ago?

Well I've worn the darn thing and forgot to take pictures for the update. As simple as it was and as simple as I thought it looked, people kept asking me where I got it from and saying they like it *smile*
I think the flower was the toughest part for me, for some reason I think my fabric glue has lost it's power. It just wouldn't hold it's form--UGH!! But in the end I forced it to work out.

Supplies: Silver chain, rope clasp closure (oops forgot to take a pic of that), jump rings, beads and felt. I so adore my felt choice, it's called denim and it seemed a bit thinker than your normal sheets of felt. I think the color is great also.

Happy Crafting!