Graduation Shadowbox!

Hi everyone! I'm hosting Mixed Media Monday today at the Paper Wings Productions blog, The Aviary, so please check it out. 

It's graduation season and today I have the perfect gift for this high school rite of passage. I will be attending a special young lady's graduation in a few weeks and I wanted to create a memento to help her remember this special day.  Not that she is likely to ever forget the final day of mind numbing classes, bad lunches, crazy teachers..... but hopefully this little gift will help!

I purchased the shadowbox at Archivers and left it black as it is one of her schools colors. I took her graduation announcement and cut it up to use as decoration in some of the boxes and then combined them with fabulous Paper Wings Productions stamps.

The largest box has a gorgeous damask background from the Backgrounds Cling stamp set that I also embossed with a few flourishes from Flourish Fun One in glossy black.  It also features a sweet little banner embossed in silver and colored with Copic Markers and some poms from Happy Day stamped in lilac.  I added in a grad cap cut with my Cricut and some painted and glitter misted stars. The perfect sentiment is from the Earth & Sky set.

I wanted to showcase her school logo cut directly from the announcement.  I only added a couple of stamped flourishes from the Flourish Fun One set. I had to girly this box up so I added some rolled flowers on a background of silver and purple confetti from Happy Day.

The final box again features more of the pretty poms embossed in silver and colored in shades of purple and more flourishes.  Plus a few clear crystals for a bit of bling!

I hope you enjoyed my Mixed Media Monday project and that it inspires you to create handcrafted gifts for the grads in your life. Please visit the Paper Wings Productions store for these fabulous stamps and more and check out the
beautiful PWP blog, The Aviary and see what our other great designers have created!

Thanks for checking out my blog! Bee Happy!! 

The Paper Wings Productions supplies used: 

 

InLinkz.com

Mother's Day gift for Grandma!

Hi everyone!  I know Mother's day has passed but I had to wait to post these pics in case some special ladies saw them before they received them! I will actually have a couple of posts because this first one has a lot of pictures so I hope you enjoy the show.  

I created this card box and a collection of cards for my Grandma's Mother's Day gift.  Funny story though- as I was getting this post ready, editing all of the card pictures I suddenly realized I never took a picture of her actual Mother's Day card!!  OMG I couldn't believe I had forgotten that very important picture. Plus, it was a beautiful card featuring Quilters Sampler from Paper Trey Ink, a thread card and a darling hat pin.  Oh well, I will have to ask my Grandma to take a picture of it, send it to me and I will post it at a later time:)

My Grandma is one of my biggest fans so I love to create cards for her.  In fact, when she received her gift and had admired her collection of handmade goodies she commented that she wanted to keep all of them and not give any out to her friends!  Love her! 

The gorgeous card holder I created from a tutorial on Split Coast Stampers using the beautiful  'Greenhouse Gala' paper from Stampin Up!  The flower closure on the front was created with lots of PaperTrey Ink flower dies.  I first cut them out then spritzed them with water and crinkled them all up.  Once dry, I unfolded them and stacked them together with a brad in the center.  Beautiful!  This box is big enough to hold 10 cards and envelopes but it is snug.  I did add a layer of chipboard onto the bottom to help with the weight.

This is the whole collection of cards that I included.  Some Birthday, some Hello and a couple of Get Well - I had so much fun creating all of these.  Below are my favorites.......

 A sweet Thank You card featuring PTI's special Funky Floral stamp set and Notched Flower and Framed Out #1 dies.  The polka dotted paper is also from PTI and the leaves are from MFT Dienamics Royal Leaves.

  

  

This Get well card uses some stamps from PTI's Quilters Sampler and some cute paper from Echo Park.  Love the rulers in the background- perfect for the sewing theme!

I used the new and never inked Pretty Poppies stamp set and Poppies & Leaves dies from My Favorite things to create this Thinking of You card. I colored in the centers of the poppies with a black marker and added some liquid pearls.

 These last two cards feature fun stamps and dies from Verve.  The top card uses the Notebook Paper stamp and die and the Making a Statement stamp set and coordinating Rounded Scallop Frame and Loopy Blooms Die.  On the bottom card, I stamped the coffee cup image from the Better With You set and paper pieced it together along with some glittery steam.

Oh how I wish I could show you all of the cards I gave her but then this post would go on forever and you would just get bored!  Believe me they were all so beautiful (tooting my own horn a bit, ha ha) and I know she will love them all.  Hopefully her friends will receive a few too!

Thanks for checking out my blog!  Bee Happy! 

 The supplies used:

InLinkz.com

Feature Friday - Details Framer

Hi everyone!  I have another Feature Friday post over at the Paper wings Productions blog, The Aviary.  Today I am featuring the charming stamp set, Details Framer.  This set has so many useful and versatile images - perfect for all sorts of paper crafting goodness!

To show off the images in this set, I created a small collage of a recent family trip to Hawaii. Just a very few of the photos we took of this fun-filled trip on the island of Maui.  We girls had so much fun by the beautiful ocean and I wanted a small memento of those days.

There are so many clever expressions in this set perfect for documenting life.

Charming fonts and accents will help you make the most of your pictures, scrapbooks or cards!

Thanks for checking out my project today.  Check out the Paper Wings Productions store for this sweet set and so many others.

The Paper Wings Productions supplies used:

InLinkz.com

Thanks for checking out my blog!  Bee Happy!!

PWP Design Team 'May Flowers' Blog Hop!

Happy Friday everyone and WELCOME to the May Paper Wings Production Design Team Blog Hop & Giveaway! This month we're featuring some floral inspired projects just in time for Mother's Day. We're also sharing some blog candy with one lucky follower!

For a chance to win all you need to do is be a follower of the Paper Wings Productions blog, The Aviary, and visit each of the participating designers blogs and leave us some love. Then leave a comment at The Aviary letting us know you completed the hop.  To increase your chances of winning: like our Facebook page and invite your friends to the hop.  Make sure you leave us a separate comment for each additional entry.  The winner will be announced at The Aviary on Tuesday, May 7, 2013.

This month our featured guest designer is the extremely talented Laura Tatsch of Laura's Crafts and More.

It's time to get this party started so grab some coffee, tea or whatever else you'd like and get comfortable! Your first stop is at our lovely guest Laura's blog- Laura's Crafts and More

**Here is the complete Line-up in case you get lost along the way**

Laura

Dana

Shay

Carrie

Tara - you are here!

Amber

Norma

Then head back to The Aviary and leave a comment!  Thanks so much for joining us. Enjoy the hop!

For my May flowers project I decided to play around with some canvas and one of my favorite PWP stamp sets, 'Flower Power'.  I created a gift set that will be perfect for any special lady on Mother's Day or anytime of the year.

The panel was painted with acrylic paint and then covered with some tissue paper.  I layered a painted doily, some textured cardboard and a rub-on along with a piece of vellum stamped in acrylic paints.  

The main feature of this is the large flower which I stamped onto the canvas and then colored with Copic markers to highlight its beauty and give it some extra color.  I added a sweet sentiment from 'Kind Words' and a few simple embellishments.

The adorable card also has a small piece of canvas stamped with more flowers from the 'Flower Power' set and it's layered with some banner flags on top of a stamped background.  I also used some Theresa Collins 'Sweet Afternoon' papers in beautiful pinks and yellows.  The sentiment is stamped from the 'Details Framer' set and the golden flower is from Prima.  I added some gold twine and a little bit of bling as the final touches.

The inside of the card has the same papers and design elements as the front.  I added one small spray of stamped flowers and it's ready for some beautiful words.

Your next stop on the hop is the ever talented Amber at  http://sew-ink.blogspot.com.  Please check out her fabulous creation as well as all of the designers and then make sure you leave a comment at The Aviary to be entered in the Paper Wings give away!

The Paper Wings Productions supplies used:

InLinkz.com

Thanks for checking out my blog!  Bee Happy!!