Painting Furniture

Found these two night stands or small dressers whatever you want to call them.  Picked them up at one of our local thrift stores they were in great shape needed a little tlc, loved the hardware.  These are going into a spare room at our office we have students who are about to finish their vet degree ,so they a place to sleep for a couple of weeks while they ride and learn with our vets....anyway I had done the room in a seascape idea the comforter has shells on it the lampshade I covered with a piece of scapbook paper tore it up and modpodged it on.  As far as these pieces painted wiht Behr Premium Plus Gulf Winds which is a light teal color. it has a primer and color in it so no sanding or anything...love that.  I used what I call a drybrush technique where there is paint in the brush but not a lot so that is has a sort of not completely painted  there is some brown showing through in most places.  Think these are going to look great in the room taking them in tomorrow will probably post agains so can get a reaction..sorry for my lack of posting lately been doing all sorts of things beside scrapping and painting.

Valentines Time!

Was looking for some new Valentines cards for this year, saw a great card on youtube from SprinkleNSparkle.com(removed the link since it must have been taken down but the creator) Valentine card video.  It was a multi-heart folded card, could not find any instructions or a pattern so decided to make my own.  Started out in inkscape first, ended up just opening up SCAL and using the heart shape that was more uniform to make this card.  There is also a cute wonky looking one which I also used.  The printed papers I used were from Kraft Love Words CCP2313, the other 2 were from Jillibean Hearty Barley collection. Quick Cooking Barley and Canola Oil   The hardest thing to get figured out is the opposite side of the half heart, when your using just plain paper there is just stamping to make a different look for the paper but when your setting up the printed stuff then u get that if I turn it over I get the opposite one I need. That did not seem to happen so I guess need to take a step back, since I made so many they sort of ended up working out ...through trial and error.    After getting all the parts glued on I started decorating with gel pens.  I love those things used a black one and my opaque white one to write on the sentiments all over the card just had fun with it.

The link for the SCAL download is here this scal includes and extra heart like on the fronts of these cards on the right , I cut out the double small hearts on the inside needing to put the larger single heart on front.Hopefully you have a s much fun making these as I did.  Can't wait to get them out.

Found another reason to post

Well got annoyed last night was looking for an svg for a gift card.  So I found a plain one one but that was not what I wanted, of course wanted on with something Christmas theme, nothing elaborate.  So I have been busy today making 3 new gift card holders with snowflakes on them. I have snowflake 1, snowflake 2, and snowflake 3.  I also did photos did not really detail them wanted to get them out here in case someone else was doing a little last minute gifting and had no where to look. Hope these help someone out, will probably be making some for  birthdays shortly since these were easy once I got the main shape down.  Just realized did not take the pictures in order so you can not tell which card is which.  The Green one is flake 2, the red card is flake number 1 so that leaves the blue on which is flake # 3.

Going to the Fair

 Finally got the pages for the fair done, got my Tilt-a Whirl a feature spot and a pic my husband got of me worked out great as an addition to the ride.  We also of course rode the bumper cars blurry as the pics were I got one of my husband driving and used him for the paper piece one too.  The next pictures if I can get this right is the pictures with bumper car booklet and the paper piecing of the car with husband added.

There is more to finessing pics into a blog than it is cracked up to be Next Pics are of the Tilt-a Whirl and the page and the larger paper piecing.
Oh well you get the gist of what I am doing, did not the paper piecing turn out great with me in the car....Good shot Robert. looks like I am really sitting in the thing...  The paper I used for all of these pics from
Strictly Scrapbooking but it appears to have already closed.  Just bought this paper in September when they were here for the Expo.  There is not any evidence of the papers name on the scaps I have left so we are all out of luck finding anymore.  I may be able to get a name forgot my daughter bought some think it is in storage since she just moved down here 6 months ago and is building a house now.  If so I will post it here.  Have a Merry Christmas and Happy new year since I will probably not post anything until after holidays.  My daughter had the paper with her and not in storage so the cool Fair paper is from Best Creations and it is called Loops and Scoops found it at a place called Scrap Your Trip this will take you to the page where you could order some if you like.  When I did the I pretty much bought 1 page of each since the Ferris wheel and roller coaster gets cut out completely and then u have to mount them on another page, the site appears to have plenty in stock, have fun.

Done with Turkey back to the Fair!

Was done with our Thanksgiving dinner early since it is just my husband and I ...Started watching football and had the tilt-a-Whirl on my mind since last night since I finally got around to printing my pics from the fair.  So I decided to build a Tilt-a Whirl since could not find a decent looking piece of clip art went to work...used one of my own pictures that I had taken and started from the ride up.  I think it turned out pretty good, right up there with my bumper car.  The SVG for the Tilt-a Whirl is here.I hope you have a much fun with it as I did I did do a little ink enhancing with it since it had a lot of detail that would have caused some really small snivels, and I do not do snivels if I can help it. Did a little chalking too along the upper part of the hood,and the leather head part.  Have fun...Cindy

Icicle and Goo drip SVG

Saw all the people looking for the SVG of the Icicle and Goo drip so thought I might as well post them so whoever wants them can get them. If you want the Icicle and the goo drip go here.  They are both in the same file they are not grouped so you can copy or paste them to separate files if you wish.

Turkey Card

Okay I have been bitten by the make a turkey card bug, saw the Gobble till you Wobble on the web, was not liking cutting it out from a cartridge since I do not own that many I am kinda a DIY person so...I made one myself.  He is so cute, made the feathers from a leaf I found made it three different sizes and then made a shadow to mount the whole bird on  drew in the legs.  The legs will be on the svg but decided it would be a booger to glue them on so they got tossed .  The paper for the one set of leaves I have gotten emails about so the name of the paper was a Heidi Grace harvest card stock flower.  Tried to find it on line to give you a link but it appears to be not there, had purchased mine at AC Moore. I just cut them the parts out tonight and put them together in about an hour.  The back round I used was an idea Tricia Morris had done on Club scrap where she stamped a bunch of stamps in back round and then colored it here and there with inks.  Have fun making these guys they were a blast.....Happy Thanksgiving it is around the corner got to get these in mail tomorrow....get your svg for the turkey here.

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