Create with your favorite scissors...

Just a quick post to remind you to check in at Scrap It Girl today. We are doing are "Favorite Things Friday" and this week we are showing off our favorite scissors.  Mine are these small, very precise, very SHARP Fiskars Micro-tips.  I have the mis-shapen finger tips to prove it.  Join the fun...you also will see you have one more day to enter the May Challenge at Scrap It Girl, which is to be inspired by "Mother" or "Mother Nature" in your project.

~Kelly

Create with glitter...

Sometimes, just a little bit of sparkle is all you need.  Anything more than a little, tends to leave me covered in glitter from head to toe!  So, when I recently found this giant fleur de lis stamp, I thought it would be perfect for some monogrammed stationary cards for my dear friend's birthday.

These one inch size letters in Cooper font from Unique Laser Designs are just the perfect size for these cards, and they are thin enough that they don't add a lot weight to the card.  The card will still slide right into an envelope.  I simply spread a thin layer of glue over the letter and then sprinkled on some micro-fine glitter.

The gray cards were stamped with clear ink and then heat embossed with white embossing powder, and the green ones were stamped with olive ink and then heat embossed with clear embossing powder. 

Speaking of envelopes, I added some washi tape on the flaps of these for an added surprise of color and a hint for what the recipient will find inside.

So, are you like me?  

Is just a little bit of sparkle and glitter enough for you?  

Or, can you never have enough?

~Kelly

Create for a family connected...

Literally...for a family connected.  Connected with a bit of hot glue.  

I have totally been neglecting my scrapbooking, because I keep playing with these wood shapes from Unique Laser Designs.  Being on their Design Team is awesome, but they keep adding new items to their inventory and I keep adding to my very long wish list!   Every time I think I am ready to sit down and get some serious scrapping done, I think of something new to do with these shapes. As soon as I saw these frames, I knew I wanted to connect them for a collage.

Even though I think they would be spectacular unpainted, I decided to add some vibrant hues with acrylic paint and turn my photos to black and white. 

Connecting these intricate frames was a bit tricky, but after some experimentation, I found that hot glue covered with some acrylic packaging scraps seemed to be the best way to go. You can see a close-up on this picture above.

You know Mother's Day is right around the corner...

I'm giving this to myself!

~Kelly

Create simply for Mom...

Sometimes simple is best.  Simple can be elegant.  Simple can be cute.  Simple can be perfect.  All these describe my mom so this card is simple perfect for her.  The Scrap It Girl Challenge for May is "Mother" or "Mother Nature" and I seem to have gotten both of these topics into these cards.  

Groovy Deb from the "rogue" FiskaFriends at Facebook gave us a challenge to use this simply happy card that she found at Splitcoaststampers.  I'm thinking it would be so fabulous using sport-balls for the circles (baseball, soccer, basketball)...I never seem to have enough "boy" cards in my stash.  I also need to make a wedding shower card and I think I will use this design for inspiration for that one too.  I'll show you all my takes on it in the future.

I liked this simple design so much, that I just simply decided to use it for cards for my grandma and mother-in-law in addition to my mom.  None of them follow my blog so my secret is safe!

~Kelly

Create and play tag...

Chalk art is hot, hot, HOT right now, and I am incorporating some wood tags from Unique Laser Designs into the trend.  

I covered the tags with 4 coats of  chalkboard paint and let them dry for a few hours.

To decorate and give them that "chalkboard" look, I used white acrylic paint and a white gel pen.  You can also spot that there is an adorable red heart from Unique Laser Designs that I pre-colored/scratched with a burgundy gel pen and then pressed into a red ink pad.  The "mom" and the "Jennifer" on these tags are written with real chalk and can be erased and re-used.  So cute and perfect timing for Mother's Day--don't you think?  I'm going to hang that "I (heart) Mom" tag on a big hanging basket of flowers for my mom.

Have you made your mom something yet?

~Kelly

Create for a teacher...

We are taking over my mom's blog today just to show you our creation using the large size "ballerinas" set from  Unique Laser Designs.  We painted a rectangle canvas (I think this is 12"x24") with swishes of white, purple, and pink acrylic paint. There are black and white rectangles on the outside that give it a fun edge.We painted the ballerinas with black acrylic paint and glued them onto the canvas after it dried.

We made this as a gift for our most awesome dance teacher Emily. The quote reads, "We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once"~Nietzsche

Remember to join in the April challenge at the Unique Laser Designs blog, you can find all the info HERE.  You can play along even if you do not have any wood embellishments from Unique Laser Designs (yet!)--just use wood or chipboard on your creation and link it up HERE.

Katie and Rachel

Create in a circle...

I have been on a "wreath kick" lately.  Some of my door decorations have seen better days and I decided that I needed to add something fresh and bright since the calendar says SPRING (I am trying really hard to ignore the snowflakes blowing through the air today).  

I added some ribbon and material scraps to an embroidery hoop (this one is 10 inches in diameter) and it makes a happy home for these decorative bunnies from Unique Laser Designs.  I just added some bright spring colors (sage green, coral, orchid, and periwinkle blue) with acrylic paint and then hot glued them onto the grassy hoop.  A lacey bow finishes it off and my door has gotten a much needed spring makeover.  This project is so quick and easy and you could do this with any of the adorable shapes from Unique Laser Designs (like the bees, butterflies, or birds)--check them out HERE.

Don't forget about the April Challenge on the Unique Laser Designs blog.  You can join in the fun by showing us your creation made with any wood or chipboard embellishment.  You can play along even if you haven't ordered anything from Unique Laser Designs (yet!).


So, does your door need a makeover?  Please share--I'd love to see the "big reveal"!

~Kelly