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Do you attend classes of any kind? I had the help of two wonderful assistants to teach a class of flower making to 65 incredible women. The ladies said over and over, I have no artistic skills, I am not creative, but WOW,  were they ever! I was so pleased and excited for them.  They had big smiles and were so proud of what they accomplished. 65 women all with different flowers!   Our oldest creator is 80 years young (and way snarky!) and our youngest was 3 months old who spent most of the time napping. This lovely creation was made by a woman with handicaps, she DID IT! Our Example Boards         Thank you to Roberta Thomas for inviting us to participate in an annual gathering in Arizona.  We had guests from Alaska, Wyoming, Connecticut, Maryland, New Mexico, Montana, Washington and of course, ARIZONA. They really did JUST RUN WITH IT! Thanks for stopping by,  Jean ...

Let's celebrate the flowers that Spring brings us - Summer brings even more blooms. I do love to see smiling faces and we had that!   There are so many variations of paper flowers to be made, we have several styles for you to enjoy. I was privileged to teach a paper flower class and the lovely ladies who attended were so very much fun!   All work for the Arizona Cardinals Football team .  Their jobs are intense and require precision and VERY LEFT BRAIN functions. I told them they had to check that at the door because we were going to get loose and funky! Here are some of the photos.  I do believe they taught me a few things!   The "group leader or Mother Hen" brought all the toolbox needs and then some!  Work talk was discouraged and laughter was the main focus.  We excelled at that for sure!  Each lady  became more adventurous and creative as we went along.  They laughed and showed off...

Who doesn't love huge colorful flowers? Well, let's make some! Gather up a bunch of patterned papers...card stock works best, but by all means, add in some  Vintage Music Sheets  or other papers that you love.  This is a great way to use up scraps because the largest piece of paper I am using here is 6x6 so size does not matter.  You can do 8x8 or even 12 x 12!  As long as you have a perfect square you are all set.  This is great to work on when you feel like creating something, but you are not sure what.  Just grab pretty papers and start cutting petal shapes.  You can store them in a baggie or envelope and they will be ready to go when the mood strikes.  You can make a ton of these little guys while binging your fav Netflix.  This pic below represents a very small number of petals that I have cut recently...there are many more behind the scenes.  ;-)  To get the flower shape you will take your square of paper and...

It seems like everyone has chickens anymore! Here are a few tags for the love of chickens. These tags incorporated sprays ( Maya Mist ), assorted Papers, collage #1832 Vintage Chickens, ephemera, ribbons and florals . Come back and visit often!

I wanted to go pretty this month.   And since we could just "run with it".... ATC's are one of my favorite things to make as I love to collage. First I found some images I liked. One was a lady image from my old stash and the other was a gorgeous rose tag which I loved the colour of. The rose tag is from the collage sheet  Floral tags  which has lots and lots of gorgeous printable tags. I adore them all. I decided to use some scraps of paper I had too. I painted the ATC base in a rust color and then painted an oval scrap I had in the same color. I scrunched up another scrap of white paper I had left over and then distressed with brown ink then scrunched again and repeated. The effect is lovely and I cut to fit the ATC and adhered it with glue.  I already had the images printed so I cut the lady into an oval shape, applying the rose tag onto the scrunched background. To finish it off I used some watercolour paint to enhance the lady image and ...

Spring seems to have finally arrived for most everyone.  YIPPEE! I have dimensional ATC's for your viewing today. I do like using up older papers for sweet little ATC's. I die cut the flowers on a Cricut, I cut the leaves from one of our papers, used another paper as my background.   I then used a pentel pen to doodle around the flowers and leaves.  I also like to corner round most things, it echoes the rounded flowers. A bit more of the same but with a different background paper.  Less doodling due to the busy background.   Just paper, scissors and glue and VOILA! I also want to share some of our blooms around the house.    These grace our front and backyards and make me so very happy due to the bright colors.  The birds, bees, and butterflies like them too.        The RED Hibiscus is a full 9 inches across! Here's to Happy days of Spring and summer. T...

We have a big selection of what  we call HAPPY BANNERS ™ You can choose your color scheme and we will send precut pieces plus embellishments for a 6 panel Banner. Here are some examples for you: The BEST part is, they are only 6.99 per set! Click here to order

Rebirth, Renewal and Refresh The  vernal equinox , also called the  Spring Equinox , marking the beginning of spring in the Northern Hemisphere, occurs on Tuesday, March 20 at 12:15  P.M. EDT.  On this day, the Sun rises due east and sets due west. In the Southern Hemisphere, this date marks the  autumnal equinox . Spring is associated with rebirth and renewal, therefore Easter is such an iconic Holiday.  The Easter date travels as it is based on the approximate time of the   Jewish Passover,  which was celebrated on the first   full moon   following the vernal equinox. This soon led to Christians celebrating Easter on different dates. At the end of the 2nd century, some churches celebrated Easter on the day of the Passover, while others celebrated it on the following  Sunday . Flowers play such an important role for Spring and Easter, that is why I chose to create a floral stenciled project this week.  ...