FD "Quotes" Blog Hop

This post is pinned to the top until Wednesday the 31st, the winner of the Gelatos will be announced on August 1st. :)

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Hi everyone and thanks for joining us today for the Frosted Design's blog hop. If you're hopping in order than you just came from Debbie's blog  http://lovelifeslittlepleasures.blogspot.com/!

 

1. You need to hop to every blog on the list.

2. Leave a comment on the Frosted Design's blog telling us that you completed the hop.

3. Complete a Quote project and link it up to the inlinkz on their post!  Your project must contain all or part of this quote:

 "It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all."  Author:  Laura Ingalls Wilder

For my project using the quote, I took some Gelli print paper and covered a switch plate. First I ran the paper through the printer for the quote and then placed it over the plate to adhere it down. The flowers are also from my Gelli print paper and cut using the Cricut machine. The last touches were adding the vintage button and doodling around the edges.

If you get lost on the way here is the order of the blog hop:

Debbie  http://lovelifeslittlepleasures.blogspot.com/

Sandee  http://inthehillsofnorthcarolina.blogspot.com/ ( you are here )

Katie  http://www.vintagevixencrafts.blogspot.com/

Joni  http://www.joniparkerstuff.blogspot.com/

Tamra   http://www.tamrascraftypapercreations.blogspot.com/

Lydia  http://www.kiwimumscraps.blogspot.com/

Anita  http://theflamingochronicals.blogspot.com/

Artful Delight  http://artfuldelight.blogspot.com/

Words or Whatever (please like their Facebook page)

Frosted Designs http://www.frosteddesigns.blogspot.com/2013/07/quote-blog-hop.html

The hop begins at 12:01 am, Central Standard Time on July 26, 2013 and will end at 11:59 pm, Central Standard Time on July 31, 2013. Winner of the Frosted Design Blog Hop will be announced on their blog, August 1st.

I also have a small prize of my own to offer :)

A set of Faber Castell's Gelatos! 

Be a member of my blog, and leave me a comment to win.

I'll announce the winner on August 1st!

 The next person on the hop is Katie  http://www.vintagevixencrafts.blogspot.com/

Have fun!!

Try it on Tuesday - Collage with a twist: must include some script

I love collaging, there is just something fun about getting all gluey and messy!

I wrote a post called "Box Artist" the other day because I am always humbled and amazed when someone buys them. I never thought of myself as a box "designer" but I now received my first commissioned box so I'm extremely thrilled.

Like most of my boxes, they have tops that are held together by Velcro. I love using the MS doilies because they are actually quite sturdy.

The ribbon on this one is adhered onto the bottom of the box to keep it from slipping. I also didn't have to do anything to the inside of the box except paint it as she is wrapping the gift in tissue paper to put inside it.

Here is an up-close of the collage, I tore book test and a scrapbook paper into sections and glued them on, next a layer of printable butterflies

followed by a layer of tissue paper to soften the effect.

entering this in:
Creative Inspirations: Inspired by Anything Goes
Moxie Fab's - Tuesday's Trigger: It's Collagical

 Martha Stewart - miniature doilies
Apple Barrel - acrylic paint
velvet ribbon - stash
K & Co. - paper
flower, and fluffy "thing" - JoAnn's

Here are the butterflies, feel free to use them,

 they were a free printable that I got from Donna Downey.

Codswallop:

 words or language having no meaning or conveying no intelligible ideas; drivel

( Does that mean that supercalifragilisticexpialidocious is a bunch of codswallop? )
trying saying that fast, lol

pronunciation
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Paper Smooches Sparks challenge - Anything Goes
 
Chocolate, Coffee & Cards - # 44 ~ Animals
Craftin Desert Divas - Birthday Linky Party
Creative Inspirations - Inspired by: Anything Goes

 After stamping the pelican and coloring him in with distress stains, I cut around his beak so I could slide the tail of the balloon around his beak and then let the balloon "float" out of the Polaroid frame using LSD for support.

Paper Smooches - Surf and Turf stamp
Little Yellow Bicycle - paper, frame, heart
CARDZTV - sentiment stamp
Faber Castell - PITT pen
Helmar - Liquid Scrapdot
Ranger - Distress Stains
Cricut - Everday Paperdolls cartridge

Buffoonery: noun

foolish or playful behavior or practice

pronunciation
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Chocolate, Coffee & Cards -  44 ~ Animals

Sparkles Monthly Challenge - #46 * Autumn Colours *

Craftin Desert Diva's - Craft It Up & Link It Up Party #11

Jo's Scrap Shack - #10 Bling it Up

I added some bling for the leaves in the tree

Did a little bit of masking for the 3 stamps.

Hero Arts - Sparkle Gems

Paper Smooches - Happy Camper stamps ( deer, sign ), Hello Fall ( tree )

Ranger - Distress Stains, stickles

Faber Castell - PITT pen

CARDZTV - sentiment stamp

repertoire: noun

a supply of skills, devices, or expedients; broadly : amount, supply

pronunciation

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Moxie Fab - Tuesday Trigger: A Painterly Palette

I loved the circles and colors, would love to have all those soft shades of paint too....mmm

~yummy~

I used a stamp in the center which I colored in with my glaze pens and then embellished it with little drops of gem stones.

Studio G - stamp

Sakura - Glaze pens

Faber Castell - PITT pen

Helmar - Gemstone Adhesive

all the cardstock came from my stash

Here's to a yummy day filled with a Painterly Palette for all of us!

fard: verb

To paint (the face) with cosmetics
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Electric Paperie - eTeam picks challenge

Teresa Jaye picked the challenge this go around and it is

Use Papers from your Kitchen in a Collage

hmmm? I knew I had napkins I could use for this challenge because I collect and hoard napkins like I do pretty scrapbook paper, lol 

So I chose this one, because it had a retro funky feel to it.

I didn't intend for this to be so Autumn looking...but the turkey along with the color combination really brings that out. Maybe because I had Shaz's color challenge on my mind is the reason I took out this napkin to use but I did try and make it not so Thanksgiving looking by adding one of my favorite sentiments:

I dream of a better world where a chicken can cross the road

without his motives being questioned.

I used some Gelli print paper for the word strips, ( love the color layers ) and painted the background out first with acrylic paint and then added a layer of twinkling H2o's over it.

I used a pearl pen for the outlining and doodling of the edges, I love that you can get different effects from this particular pen. If I lay down the dots and then gently tap my board on my table top, the drops flatten out ( inside the turkey's body ) but if I leave them alone they hardened to a nice raised edged ( the outlines and drops ).

also entering this in:

Sparkles Monthly Challenge - #46 Autumn Colors

Apple Barrel - acrylic paint

Viva Décor - Pearl pen

Copics -marker

LuminArte' - Twinkling H20's

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Paper Smooches -  July 22-28 Picture Perfect challenge

I was very drawn to the colors and to the sun, so I spritzed my background with 2 shades of ink to simulate the sun, and since it was a beach picture I was inspired to use the cute little whale. The front of the card was run through the computer to print out the sentiment.

After stamping, coloring and cutting him out I sliced my paper and slid him into the water, I could have masked it but I preferred the paper piecing route. I really like a little dimension on my cards.

Paper Smooches - Surf and Turf stamp set

Ranger - Dylusion ink sprays, Distress stains

StazOn ink

pattern paper - misc. from stash

Paper Playtime - pattern paper

Ch#15 Use Pattern Paper

Begins: Mon, Jul 22

Ends: Sun, Aug 4

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$15 Gift Cert. to The Robin's Nest
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1 set of Metal Dies or 1 Stamp Set 
(winner's choice; must have USA address) from My Craft Spot
Winner announced in the WINNERS Page Tab

Do you ever have any trouble mixing pattern paper? I use to, didn't like it one bit actually, but in the last couple of years my thinking has been turned around and now I love it. Here, for my little altered box, I mixed 2 different lines of paper. 

I have fallen in love with boxes, and evidently so have my customers at the Art MoB because this one has already sold! It is made out of the cardboard spool from Christmas ribbon. The bottom and top rounds were also cut from chipboard and attached.

Almost all my boxes come with velcro closures. 

And I paint the insides to match.

I add LSD to keep the wings up and separated so that they won't flatten out, I mean we want the recipient to see all that pretty paper!

Cricut - Paper Trimmings, p. 36 ( butterfly )

p. 52 ( circle )

My Minds Eye - pattern Paper

Prima - pattern paper ( script )

Really Reasonable Ribbon

Helmar - Liquid Scrapdots

Martha Stewart - doily

So I hope you get out your pattern paper and play along with us!