Fall Plate Redo

Good Morning crafters

Today I want to show you how to re-purpose something.  I just love to recycle and reuse things I would normally throw away.  Now, I would not have thrown these away and if I didn't have them on hand, I would have gone to my local thrift store and purchased them...LOL  So we recently sold the Winnebago :(  I'm very sad because she was a long time friend.  We pretty much drove her to death, but she gave us lots of memories so that's a good thing.  Now I don't know if we will be getting another camper or if we are truly gonna start roughing it again (in tents), but either way, we have the entire winter to think about it.  I just know come spring time next year I'm gonna get sad again...
So with that said, we had to clean her out before selling her and I had another "household" in that camper.  Everything from linens to dishes is now trying to find a home inside my home or donated to the local thrift store?  I did send some stuff with the kids that they didn't have, but the majority is trying to find a place in my garage because I just can't seem to part with it.  While I was going through the stuff I came across these plastic like plates that we ate from.  Again, the memories of sitting around the campfire eating dinner...oh I miss camping already.  So as I was packing them into a box I got an idea...I wonder if I can paint them?  I'm sure I can....so I tried it

Here is the plate before and I already had the paint on hand

it did take two coats for the front

and I only did one for the back...because

do you really care what the back looks like?

The I created a word jumble of sort with my SCAL 3

and cut it on vinyl using my E-Craft.  

After weeding it, I used plain contact paper that I got at 

my local Dollar Tree as transfer tape.  This roll has gone a LONG way...

I burnished it really good

and placed it on my plate and burnished it really good again

Added a plate hanger that I also got at the Dollar Tree and

voila...a beautiful wall decor.  I finally made something for myself.

I absolutely love this...this might make a great 

Housewarming gift for someone...

I'm linked this up at Someday Crafts and Allthingsfee  

Some great ideas over there

Pictures and Project

Good morning,
was I missed?  so I am back from the most wonderful Boundary Water's trip yet.  We had almost perfect weather, and when it did rain, it was the first night while we were in bed already.  NO humidity and the sunrises and sunsets were to die for.  God's country for sure.  Each day this week I will include a couple, ok, maybe more than a couple, of pictures of our trip with my post.  So here goes (picture heavy):

This is how we had to pack...our van, which we would normally take on this type of a vacation decided to get a hiccup and we just didn't have the time before vacation to figure out what was wrong with it, so stuff it in the trunk of the Taurus and add 4 people in the car.  Eu veh!!!

Dried foods and essentials.  Hopefully we catch fish!!!

Day pack with fishing gear and granola bars for 

on the water in case the little one get hungry

Our new water filtration system.  You have to pump

the water out of the lake and then flush it with some type

of filtration system or boil it.  

Red bag, clothes for after Boundary Waters

Green duffle, cooking and eating utensils and hubbies clothes.  

A bucket for water, anchors and misc other "needed" items

Camo duffel with a water tight bag stuffed inside of it with food

Orange pack, our oldest's clothes and sleeping bag

Backpack, youngest's clothes

Blue pack, my clothes with sleeping bag attached

Two tents, canoe seats with back rest, fishing net,

my blue day pack, hubbies red day pack

Leach bucket and mosquito hat nets in black bag

5 fishing rods 

empty trunk

full trunk

and what didn't fit in the trunk got shoved between me 

and the youngest and on the floor at our feet.

We made it work...now hopefully we can get it all back into the car after we are done.  Drive up to Boundary Waters was fabulous.  We hit a bit of weather half way there, but nothing major.

So now onto my project - at the end of July I had posted a shaker card I made with this adorable "fishy" file that I got from Adams Acres.  You can get the file here at Diecut Designers for $1.  I am a designer for Adams Acres and love working with her files.  They cut very well and are very versatile.  It also worked so very well with the Summer Splashtastic stamp set from Getting Cricky.

After I cut the fishies out on my E-Craft I added clear contact paper to the back of the fishies and then glittered ontop of it.  I saw this technique a while ago and I cannot remember where I saw this, but she had an awesome video showing exactly what she did.  I've searched and searched and for the life of me I cannot find it.  If you know who's idea this was, or if it was yours, please add a comment and I will for sure link up to you!!!  I just loved this technique.  I also added an Everyday character face from Peachy Keen and then stamped my sentiment on the umbrella.

I also added a google eye and inked around the edges of the fish.

I added some glue to the brown cardstock and then added embossing powder and heated it up to create "sand".  I really like how this turned out.

Now remember, Kristal over at Getting Cricky will be announcing her new DT today sometime.  I am so excited to be working with these fabulous women.  Also don't forget that she also has her new stamps out  for pre-order.  You can find all the details here.

Here are the new sets.  Hopefully I will have mine the end of this week or early next and I can start showing you some new projects:

Coffee & Tea Mix & Match  

Sympathetic Sayings (Larger set)

Winged Things: Mix & Match

(Bonus frame & images)