Summer Frames

Back in May I purchased these wood frames in the most darling shapes. {Pick Your Plum.com}They are a naked wood and ready to be stained or painted. I figured it would be a great summer time project for my daughter and I. She has recently out grown some of the posters she had on her bedroom wall and we needed to fill in the empty space. She picked out all her own colors, bright, just like her personality!

She and I sat down to paint them all and then I sprayed on the clear lacquer finish. "Mom, make sure you're making nice paint strokes and getting even coverage!"  "Yes, dear!" :)

The next day she had her best friends over for a fun photo shoot! She decided to print the pictures in black & white since the frames were colorful enough! Dad helped her get them up on the wall and she can easily take them down to change out the pictures when she wants to.

 

 

That was a fairly simple project to keep her busy for a week this summer. Now what will we do next week?!!



Dream Pop Mother's Day & Top Chick!

I told you I've been getting some scrapbooking done this month for National Scrapbooking! I'm practically ahead of the game considering we just celebrated Mother's Day on Sunday and I already have my pictures scrapped! I used a pattern from the Make It from Your Heart book and several different papers from the Dream Pop kit. I also stamped some fun and whimsical images & sentiments, because our photo session that day was a little bit silly!

So many fun details in this layout. The Mother's Day title was cut on the Artiste Cricut cartridge, I simply just cut off the "happy" portion at the top. I used some twine, bitty sparkles and even stamped some faux washi tape with a background stamp.

This morning while checking my emails, I received some awesome news! I had some artwork selected in the Top Ten on Heart 2 Heart Challenges Blog. In additions to that, I was chosen as the Top Chick for the month of April!!! Woo Hoo!!! There is more exciting news, but I can't tell you yet!
You can see the winning entries here.

Lastly, I will leave you with a sneak peek at the "summer~time" project we will be creating this Saturday at my Summer Card Exchange. I will post the full project and the Summer themed cards for you here soon!

Summer Time {BFF} Project

These two sweet girls have been the best of friends since 3rd grade. Sadly, my daughters BFF moved to another state in the summer before 4th grade. Luckily, she comes back to town to visit her grandparents in the winter and summer and makes sure to stop by for a short visit. Even though they are separated for a couple months at a time, they pick right up where they left off. Always full of giggles, they enjoy every minute together and never a teeny tiny disagreement between them, EVER!

To remember there time together I always take photo's and we come up with a little project to keep. This time we used pieces from the Mix-N-Mingle album.

This is the chaos after the creative process and what is left for me to clean up, because they want to spend every moment together hanging out!

This is my daughter's friends frame~

My daughters frame with lots of bright colors~

This is what we chose for the backs of them both~

Summer Scrappin'

Looking for some summertime projects? Check out the sidebar slide show for all of the summer projects I am offering through August. I will post larger pics with more detail on each of these projects as the class date approaches.

This is just one of the cards in the Summer Card Class that just screams SUMMER!