Buttons and Roses galore

Well I have been keeping busy with my craft show stuff in between life so here are the newest necklaces in COLOR.  Unfortunately these will be very limited because I'm having a hard time finding colored buttons.  I will be doing some antique store shopping and my mom gave me the idea of going to Salvation army to get them off shirts when I can't find them by the bag.  As for the rose pins there are 56 in total which you see above.  Then you might notice a poker chip that isn't a necklace that's because I made it into a pin!! I'm considering making a few of them for the show.  and last but not least are my rose bobby pins.  They look amazing in an undo.  I'm currently wearing a special one I made in my pony tail.

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A rose filled night

So this evening I sat down to produce some roses.  These roses will become pins and headbands for my upcoming craft fair I don't have the ribbons that I need to do the headbands at the moment or the pin pieces for the pins so now all I have to do is put the items together and glue.  The hardest part is complete.  I want to do a couple dozen more but I have cut more paper.  I'll probably do that tomorrow night after a very busy day.  Then I can do what I just did sit down and pop together some more.  Right now I'm playing with some different things to create the color.  I'm adding color to just the edges one the top three (pink, green and purple) and then the two lower pictures (purple) are glimmer misted.  The first I went heavy with the mist but the last one I went really light.  I will have to do a bunch more with glimmer mist.  I'm liking how they are coming out.  Now my fingers are covered in ink and clear accents.  Oh well.

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button necklaces and rose pins

I'm preparing for a craft fair May 22nd.  So I started working last night on producing button necklaces to sell.  They are made of mostly vintage buttons, thread, and hook and eye latches.  I love making them!! The roses are actually pins that I made a couple weeks ago that I never took a picture of.  I have to make a lot more before the fair.  I have headbands, pins and button necklaces in my future!! lol

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I hit the mother load lol

Today was a really fun day with my friends, we searched high and low for amazing deals on everything from fun stuff to play with to decoration for the home.  I don't have much space left in my room for stuff so I kept it to stuff to play with, so I ended up with a haul.  first is my new emphera including two scrap packets from artifacts, a german book, a year book from Mechanicville High School 1953, some trims (from the generous Peggy), some adorable baby paperdolls and what not.  Nexy was this beautiful necklace from Artifacts.  I was looking the different Eiffel Towers and I liked another one but I flipped this one and saw that it had a black cat on it and I thought to myself this is the one cause I will be able to wear Raven where ever I go.  

This is one of my favorite finds.  It was a little present for my dad when he was little he had a Zippy ape and he chewed the fingers off.  So when ever we got to antique fests or garage sales we have our eyes peeled for them and he is the first one I have seen other then my dad's orignal which is in the picture also in the photo.  

My biggest score of the day are for my collection.  I have a huge collection of cabbies and I haven't brought any new friends  into my collection for months but I found these guys for a price that made me very happy.  $25 for them all.  I had a ton of fun wandering with my friends and finding treasures.  

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April Showers bring May flowers

So here is my take on the April Showers bring May flowers swap for the vintage room.  The requirement for the page was you had to have an umbrella on it.  So I used my vintage lady stamp from Paperwishes catalog.  I painted the scene in the background and stamped the Eiffel tower and the birds.  To finish off the page I added the prima flowers on the bottom (my favorite flowers from prima!!).  I sometimes over think things and I was looking at it yesterday thinking "I love it but it seems too simple, too easy"  It took me only a half hour to an hour.  Sometimes a piece of art takes me days and some times minutes.  I find it weird how easily things are sometimes and soooo difficult others. Pin It Now!

More Close to my heart demos

I have been trying to get in my craft room but lately it has been very difficult because we have been doing major renovations on the garage that is on our property.  We don't even know how it was standing.  Two of the walls were completely rotted out and were probably only held up by two 2x4s.  Scary!!! It could have collapsed on my dogs who's leash was right there.  We completely replaced two of the four walls and put on new boards and we will be siding it soon.  My dad is currently running the electricity.  I'm happy to know that it is now structurally sound.  In between doing our big project I have been making time to create the demos for the vendor fair next week.  I fit this mini album cover and 12x12 page in.  I think they came out pretty good.  The Layout is using the Twitterpaded paper pack and stickers.  The mini album is using Grace paper pack.  

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May 4th my best friend and I are going to a "Ladies Night Out" Vendor Fair where we are showcasing Close to my Heart products and she will be selling pre-made cards as well as some Close to my heart stamps and items that are available in the Catalog.  To help her out (in case you are wondering "her" is my friend Tabitha) I'm doing demos using the product I have in my house (which weird cause I never limit myself to "Just" Close to my heart product).  This is the My Creation Cube that is featured in the back of the catalog.  It is a 5x5 cube that you receive completely flat and it comes in white.  You just add ink, paper and your favorite photos and it becomes this beautiful home deco piece you can have sitting in any room of your house for friends and family to enjoy.  I used the "Grace" paper pack, mini medley's,  ink (Honey, Twilight, Cocoa, and Barn Red) Stamps sets ("Grown with Love", "TLC", "Extreme Caps").  It was a quick and easy project that only took me a few hours and it would make a beautiful presents for a friend or family member.  And an AWESOME mother's day present hint,hint... 

So come visit us May 4th at the Site Solutions Worldwide Office 333 Kingsley Road Burnt Hills, NY from 5:30-8pm. Pin It Now!