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Thursday, June 27, 2013

June is Busting Out With Flowers Blog Hop

Flowers are in bloom as the warm summer air dances lightly across the yards and fields and this blog hop is all about the flowers. Please join this creative bunch as they show off their creations with flowers. Jearise, from Lorby's World, is our hostess.  Please, make sure you begin at her site and read carefully because she will have a give-away going on with this hop and all the details are on her blog. Now flower power away . . .

WHAT????? Has someone lost their mind??? Lynne is in a flower blog hop????? You have to be kidding!!!! Lynne who one year planted silk flowers in her window boxes and only watered to keep them clean!!!! Lynne who is Dr. Keforkian when it comes to growing flowers!!!!! Alright, now that I have that out of my system . . . .

I actually have not one but two projects for you!!! Yes, I did say two!!!

My first project is something that can be made in a total of 15 minutes and makes a great little something to take to a friend in the hospital as a cheer-me-up bouquet or a thinking of you!!!


RECIPE:
  • Supply list: suckers, Styrofoam egg or ball, paper, empty juice container or flower pot
  • Cover juice container with paper, add pretty bow with sentiment, “Wishing you a Sunshiney day”, from Create with TLC with added Darice 3D effect butterfly stickers  


  • Cut flowers with hole in center – I used Cricut Plantin Cartridge on page 76 cut at 2.75 inches and used 10 flowers
  • Optional chalking around edges  


  • Shape flowers by curling petals  


  • Insert suckers in flowers, insert in Styrofoam  


  • Butterfly Stick-Pin made previously using supplies from Miriam's Crafting Supplies (tutorial on how to make previously shown May 17th, Tutorial Friday for Miriam's Crafting Supplies, Decorative Butterfly Stick-Pin)  

      

  • Viola and happy flower bouquet
My next project is a frame using flowers from Cricut Giant Flowers Cartridge. DANGER WILL ROBINSON, cartridge directions SUCK!! Now, that I got that out of my system . . . .


RECIPE:
  • Poppy cut using Cricut Giant Flowers Cartridge cut at 3.25 and 2.5 inches using Recollections cardstock and chalked around edges  

     

  • Pansy cut using Cricut Giant Flowers Cartridge cut at 2.25 inches using Recollections cardstock and chalked around edges with a black and gold button for the center  


  • Leaves cut in various sizes using Cricut Giant Flowers Cartridge and chalked around edges
  • Violets were cut using Cricut Plantin Cartridge cut at 2.25 inches using Recollections cardstock and chalked around edges with pearls from Miriam’s Crafting Supplies in the center
  • Wooden frame is from Michael’s which cost a whole dollar – covered with Recollections Fashionable Chic Paper Stack and chalked around edges
  • Flowers were hot-glued onto frame
  • Sentiment, “When hands reach out in friendship hearts are touched with joy”, from Create with TLC with rounded corners matted on matching paper that covered wooden frame  


  • VIOLA, lovely gift for a dear friend . . . shhhhhh don’t tell her!

     

Have I amazed and astounded you making my flowery projects??? I want to thank you for stopping to smell the flowers and down the path to Anita but just watch out for the bees while sniffing the flowers. The line-up is included just in case you get lost along the way . . . .

Lissa Marie ~ www.somanycrafts.com

God Bless you and thank you ever sew much for stopping by today! I love reading comments and would love to read yours . . . .
Much love, hugs, and friendship,


Lynne

Sunday, June 23, 2013

Peppa Mint Candy Cane and I are Guest Designer for Lacy Sunshine!!!!

It’s Eleanor and Pickles Anniversary at the Lacy Sunshine Blog and I’ve been selected to be the Guest Designer!!! I’m sew thrilled!!!

Heather Valentin offered Peppa Mint Candy Cane to use for my creation and thus the creative juices started to flow with a little help from Create with TLC - this is my project!!!!



Recipe:
  • Paper used for card is K&Company Secret Santa
  • Card is an easel card which was made using Make the Cut welding two (2) ovals together and folding the top part in half to attach the separate oval to display the digi.  


  • Peppa Mint Candy Cane was colored using Spectrum Noir Markers with accents using gelly pens and was fussy-cut around the edges
  • Bakery twine was wrapped around the separate oval before attaching to the folded top part of the card
  • Darice Glossy Accents were used to hi-light the candy cane to glisten
  • Sentiment, “Adding a little twist to your holiday”, was from Create with TLC  


  • Pearls were added from Miriam’s Crafting Supplies
  • Bling was added on sentiment and front of card
  •  . . . and viola I now have 2 Christmas cards ready for 2013~~~
God Bless you and thank you ever sew much for stopping by today! I love reading comments and would love to read yours . . . .
Much love, hugs, and friendship
Lynne

Saturday, June 22, 2013

Miriam's Crafting Supplies Metal Challenge

When I was on Miriam’s Crafting Supplies Design Team, Miriam had sent the Design Team these beautiful corner embellishments – my problem was that I normally don’t use creatures of that design – thus came the challenge!!! Regretfully, I am no longer on any of my Design Teams due to my failing eyesight along with other health issues. I still love to create and will create projects to share with you . . . .thank you for your love and patience.


For my project, I had purchased at one time or another a cute little “memory book” measuring 5 x 4 inches which became the purrfect placing of the metal corner pieces along with a few other embellishments . . .


Recipe:
  •  One (1) 5x4 inch Darice Finishing Accents Mini Memory Book  

  • Tim Holtz Distress Markers colored the spine of the memory along with the edges   


  • Background is from Create with TLC which I have watermarked as it was a freebie at one time was glued on the front of the memory book  


  • 4 - Copper Toned Corner Embellishments are glued onto the edges of the memory book and overlap at the points  


  • Small Bronzed Tone Elongated embellishment was glued on the spine of the memory book  


  • Accented with pearls in the center of the elongated piece along with on either side
  • Organza flower which was found on Ebay for a super price finishes my notebook   


NOW - here comes my part of the challenge, remark on your comment as to how you would use this little Memory Book and I will send a lucky winner one of their own to create with . . . .


God Bless you and thank you ever sew much for stopping by today! I love reading comments and would love to read yours . . . .
Much love, hugs, and friendship

Lynne