Mad Tea Party Last Minute Gift

Hello All!

Keri Sallee here with my last project for 2014. How crazy is that? 

Last week talked about taking a little "me" time and how it's good not only for the mind and body, but also for the projects you're trying to do. Did you try to take a little time of refreshing? I hope so.

With CHA 2015 fast approaching, I wanted to share a project that I did for the first CHA I had the privilege of making projects for Marion.

I was looking at it and I thought "WOW...this would make a perfect DIY, last-minute gift." So I thought I would share it with you today.

I simply took scraps from the "Mad Tea Party" collection and made stripes for my background.

I added a "bouquet" of rolled paper flowers (again...from scraps) and added leaves cut from canvas.

In honor of this collection being all about Alice in Wonderland, I took a quote from the original book: "Who in the World am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle." I used black sticker letters by 7Gypsies.

Easy Peasy! Depending on the number of flowers you made, you could easily make this in 30 minutes to an hour.

Don't have that much time? Cluster some ready made flowers (maybe sprayed with a little Color Lab?!) around a quote and put it in a glassless frame. This is actually an 8.5 x 11 document frame from Wal-mart that cost me about $2.

Have more time? Ink it up! Add some bling or some Junque and Gems or splashes of Color Lab. There possibilities are endless...as are the people who would enjoy a little homemade gift that features their favorite quote.

I hope you are remembering to take time for you during the crazy holiday season.

Have a blessed Christmas and I look forward to spending more time with you in 2015. 

XOXO,

KERI

Home sweet Home- by Ana Paula Leal

Hello, 

Ana Paula today bringing you a project to decorate your home in a shabby style 

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I bought this frame from my favorite woodworker,
it is divided into small frames that I lined with beautiful papers by  Marion Smith Design.

 
After  I lined each fund, I painted the frame with diluted white paint,
and , to give a patina effect,
the entire set was sanded after dry well.

 
The project was decorated with beautiful paper flowers Petaloo and small  resin roses by Marion  Smith

 
Beautiful metal ornaments gave an additional charm to the piece,
which emphasized soft colors and delicate embellishments.

 

Is ready to hang on a wall and convey the message that this is:

 a sweet and pleasant home.

 

Thanks for looking our blog!

Ana Paula Leal

Layout "You make me Smile" by Ana Paula Leal

 Hello, Ana Paula is back,

 
bringing to you today one layout  

with beautiful collections of Marion Smith designs

 
A very feminine layout, with elements that remind us  the sweet childhood.

 
Delicate shades of pink and blue give  sweetness to this page

 
 give it a retro look .

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supplies:

Junk & Gems Marion Smith Designs

Wild & free paper

Carmie Paper

Selfie Portrait Paper

Nonsense Paper

Garment District 6X6 paper pack

Doillies by Marion Smith Designs

Petaloo Flowers -Botanica Collection

Petaloo Flowers - Flora Doodles

Spring Shadowbox - by Tonya Gibbs

Hi everyone, I hope your week is off to a great start. With the weather so frigid everywhere, I wanted to create something that reminded me of spring.  I dug through some old photos and found this 5x7 of my niece Averie, and a 9x9 Shadowbox that I've been hoarding. 

It all started with a mixed media tag. I bought some of the Faber Castell Design Memory Craft glaze and wanted to experiment with it.  I love to experiment on tags, and then I try to make something with the tag.   On this tag, I used modeling paste and a stencil to get the hexagons.  Then painted the entire card with a soft green paint. Then I mixed the glaze with a gold colored acrylic, wiped it across the entire tag. Waited a few minutes then used a baby wipe to clean it off. The glaze actually stayed in the recessed areas, and helped to provide shadows on my tag.    I then started playing with some of the left overs from other Marion Smith projects, and used Marion's Hot Air Balloon stamp to create a pattern for the balloon on the tag.  The little girl and the saying were cut from the Mad Tea Party collection. 

Since the saying talks about seeds that grow I decided to build a little garden scene for my little girl to stand.   I used a vine as my base, then made a few flowers to cover the vine.

I removed the glass from the shadow box, and built my floral spray to spill out over the frame's edge.  I stitched together some punched scraps from Marion's Mad Tea Party line to create the banner that I placed across the top of the frame.

I just love how this frame turned out, and it is going to look fabulous on my wall. 

Thanks for stopping in today,

Tonya Gibbs

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