Flower-Covered Marquee Letter for Wild Orchid Crafts

Hello, everyone and happy Monday!! I hope you had a wonderful weekend!! It's my turn to post on the Wild Orchid Crafts blog and I'd love for you to stop by if you have time :) This month, the designers were challenged to create projects outside our norm, so today, I have a home decor project to share with you featuring several Wild Orchid Crafts flowers and embellishments.

So, when I had the idea to decorate the letter, I had my niece Lexi in mind. I thought I'd pretty up the L for her. Then when I finished, I thought, pink, flowers, why not just keep it for myself??!! Lexi never has to know if was supposed to be for her ;) But then my Mom saw it and said, "Oh, did you make that for me?" Her name is Lana :)  So, to decorate my Mom's letter, I painted it pink and used papers from Lemoncraft on the inside. I covered the outside using Andy Skinner's Mega Crackle technique.

I used an assortment of flowers to cover the letter, including Lotus, Cottage Roses, Trellis Roses, Lily Flowers, Apple Blossoms, Hip Rosebuds, Sweetheart Blossoms and Open Roses.I also used Small Double Stamens, Pearl Sprays, Flat Back Pearl String and White Mulberry Paper Leaves.

And here it is lit up:

Wild Orchid Crafts Products Used:

Pink Mist Hydrangea Blooms (35mm) ~ MKX-695

Pink Mist Hydrangea Blooms (50mm) ~ MKX-695

2-Tone Baby Pink/Ivory Lotus Mulberry Paper Flowers ~ MKX-351

Mixed Pink Tone Mulberry Paper Trellis Roses (35mm) ~ MKX-092

Mixed Pink Tone Mulberry Paper Trellis Roses (40mm) ~ MKX-092

Mixed Pink Mulberry Paper Cottage Roses (25mm) ~ QVR-043

Pink Mist Mulberry Paper Cottage Roses (25mm) ~ MKX-666

Mixed Pink Tone Hip Rosebuds ~ GST-014

Mixed Pink Mulberry Paper Lilies ~ MKX-129

Light Pink Mulberry Paper Lilies ~ MKX-136

Baby Pink Mulberry Paper Sweetheart Roses ~ MKX-347

Mixed Pink Mulberry Paper Apple Blossoms ~ MKX-211 

Pale Pink Mulberry Paper Open Roses (15mm) - MKX-005

Pale Pink Mulberry Paper Open Roses (20mm) - MKX-005

Small Baby Pink Double Stamens ~ MKX-266

Flat Back White Pearl String MKX-613

White Pearl Spray ~ MKX-539

White Mulberry Paper Leaves With Stem (30mm) ~ MKX-450

White Mulberry Paper Leaves (40mm) ~ MKX-449

Thanks so much for stopping by!!

Have a great day :)
 

Decorate to Celebrate #31 - Any Party Theme!!

Happy Wednesday!! It's time for another super-fun challenge at Decorate to Celebrate!! For Challenge #31, we are asking you to create any project to be used as a party decoration for an ANY PARTY THEME!! Let's celebrate everything wonderful about whatever you are celebrating today with your table decorations, party banners, pennants, yard signs, cupcakes, party favors and more!! :)

For my party celebration today, I chose a House Warming Party, so I created this decorative birdhouse.

Everything was cut in cardboard first and the Brenda Walton K&Company papers were adhered with Mod Podge. The shape is a Spellbinders Grand Labels 4. For the center piece, I measured the length and then scored it at 1/2" on either side to hot glue it to the front and back pieces. The shingles are Spellbinders Banner Basics 3 dies.

The decorative trim along the roof line is a Spellbinders Fleur de Lis Doily Accents die. The hole was cut with a Spellbinders Standard Circles die, and then a Spellbinders Fancy Labels Three die was used to decorates the hole.

The banner is a Spellbinders Mix'd Media Elements die, inked with New Sprout Memento Ink. "Home" is from K Andrew Designs All About Family stamp set:

Click HERE to purchase this set or to see her entire line of stamps.

I am entering this in Joyful Stamper Inspire Me Fridays #70 - Anything Goes.

Now it's your turn!! Head on over to Decorate to Celebrate to see the incredible projects my talented Design Team sisters have created for today's challenge, then link up your Any Party Theme decorations. I can't wait to see what you create :)

Blends Join Hands Blog Hop!! Fabulous prizes!!

Hi everyone and welcome to the BLENDS JOIN HANDS Blog Hop, hosted by the fabulous Jessica of Jessica's Craft Shaque!! Jessica is celebrating her 1 year blogaversary (Happy Blogaversary, Jessica!!) and has invited her nearest and dearest Blends (Blog + Friends) to join in her celebration! Each Blend has selected one of Jessica's past creations to inspire us to create a new project!

If you've hopped along from Cindy at Tools of a Cropping Queen, then you are in the right place!! If you are just joining me from your dashboard, or reading this via email, please be sure to CLICK HERE to start at the beginning with Jessica's blog!!

Not only will  you see some awesome projects inspired by our hostess along the way, but there will be some AMAZING prizes up for grabs!!

Stephanie of Whimsical Designs is our Grand Prize Sponsor! One Random Hopper will be selected to win the entire New Release of Whimsical Designs Stamps! This is a fabulous stamp set with wonderful and unique images and sentiments. You are sure to find a sentiment to fit every occasion!!

Julie K of A Little Bit of Bling and 3 Girl JAM is also a Prize Sponsor! One Random Hopper will be selected to win the entire Valentine's Day Bundle! This colors are vibrant and the prices are outstanding!!

Jessica is also offering not 1, not 2, but . . . 3 Unity Stamp Goody Bags to 3 lucky Hoppers!!! Each bag is filled with 16 random Unity Stamps!! PLUS, she is offering 2 Lucky Hoppers 1 set (5 per set) of her Handmade Corsage Pins for you to use in your own creations!!

But that's not all!! For a final prize to a lovely Hopper she will offer one $10 Gift Certificate to be used at Pink By Design!!

Aren't those prizes amazing??!! And, there is SURE to be more awesome CANDY along the way!! I have some, too :)

Now to my project!! I had a really hard time choosing which project to use because all of Jessica's are so gorgeous!! I decided on one she featured on her blog on February 20, 2011. See her original post HERE!

Jessica's beautiful wall hanging is actually double-sided, but I made mine one-sided. Those of you that attended the Getting Cricky U R So Sweet Blog Hop on Friday might have seen my note about finding a sale at Michaels on a bundle of 10 canvases. Well, here is project two of ten :)

I prepped this canvas the same way I did my project on Friday...I Mod Podged old sheet music to the canvas and then sponged over it with white and burnt umber paint. I printed the flag on vellum and secured it with Mod Podge. You can't tell in the picture, but you can see through to the sheet music in person. I cut the stars from George and Basic Shapes on DCWV Metallic Copper paper, scored them and popped them up with foam tape.

The circle is a Spellbinders Nestabilities die. I have a large wooden stamp with the words of America the Beautiful and I stamped that on the circle with Tim Holtz Faded Jeans Distress Ink. I inked the edges with Fired Brick Distress Ink and lightly stamped Old Paper Distress Ink over the rest of the circle. I hand-cut the envelope, ran it through the Cuttlebug with the Stars Embossing folder and inked it with the same two distress inks. I attached a grommet with my Crop-a-Dile and threaded ribbon through, including some all-American blue jean ribbon :) I added some ivory tulle behind and attached the circle with foam tape.

For the three sentiments, I printed out a border from Elegant Edges and attached two together with foam tape for dimension. I stamped America the Beautiful on them as well and inked the paper with Old Paper Distress Ink. Another reason I was excited to recreate this project was the chance to use my K Andrew Designs Freedom Isn't Free stamp set...the very first K Andrew Designs stamps that I owned!! All three sentiments plus "Freedom" on the circle are from this stamp set!

I have BLOG CANDY!! All you have to do to be eligible to win this beautiful paper package and matching flowers is:

1. Be a follower
2. Leave a comment with a way to contact you

That's it!! Easy Peasy!! I will announce a winner via Random.org on Thursday, January 26th! PLUS, I have two other BLOG CANDY giveaways going on right now!!

• To enter to win a Cricut cart, click HERE!!
• To enter to win a K Andrew Designs stamp set, click HERE!!

I want to sincerely thank Jessica for inviting me to help celebrate her blogaversary!! Your next stop is Beckie at Just B Creative Crazy!  Here is the entire lineup in case you get lost along the way!!

1. Jessica - Jessica's Craft Shaque http://jessicascraftshaque.blogspot.com
2. Candace - Scrappin' 2 Lil Princesses http://scrappin2littleprincesses.blogspot.com/
3. Luisa - Creative Designs by Luisa http://www.creativedesignsbyluisa.com/
4. Cindy - Tools of a Cropping Queen http://toolsofacropingqueen.blogspot.com/
5. Lisa - A Mermaid's Crafts http://indymermaid.blogspot.com/ < YOU ARE HERE
6. Beckie - Just B Creative Crazy http://justbcreativecrazy.blogspot.com/   < NEXT STOP
7. Julie - A Little Bit of Bling / 3 Girl JAM http://jk-littlebitofbling.blogspot.com/
8. Carri - Double Click Connections http://doubleclickconnections.blogspot.com/
9. Sonia - Cards, Crafts, and Kids Projects http://cardsandschoolprojects.blogspot.com/
10. Cindy - cre8ivecindy http://cre8ivecindy.blogspot.com/
11. Robin - The Cricut Scrapper http://thecricutscrapper.blogspot.com/
12. Nataliya - Love Crafts Forever http://lovecraftsforever.blogspot.com/
13. Stephanie - Whimsical Designs http://www.whimsical-designs.com/