Breast Cancer Awareness Container

Good morning...

Today I'm going to show you a quick project I made for Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

Container from my stash 

Vinyled the word "Hope" with the Fiolex Girls 

font and my SCAL 3  

The ribbon is made from with a cookie cutter and Creative Paperclay®,

cuddlebug folder, and Terri Sproul Mixers

I am very happy with how this came out.  

I am entering this project over at Altered Pages Challenge.

DT Announcement

Good morning everyone... so glad you all came back to join me on another adventure.  As many of  you  know, I used to be on the DT for Creative Paperclay®. When my term was up I did not reapply because I had a lot going on in my personal life.  I was sad to leave the team, but things come up and ... well you all know how it goes if you've been following my previous posts.  So about a month ago, Terri, the DT leader for Creative Paperclay® put out another request.  Well, I applied, a bit late, but I applied.  I really didn't think I'd get back on the team since my project was 12 hours late...lol.  BUT I did and here I am to start showing you what I've been up to again.  I really have to say, even when I wasn't on the DT I was still using my paperclay.  I LOVE this stuff.  It is so versatile and since I am a multi media crafter, meaning I use about  everything and anything and try almost everything I can incorporate my paperclay into almost any project I do.  Today I am going to show you how to make a personalized pin.

 

We go to a lot of airshows and they are forever handing out trinkets.  Last summer Austyn received this pin from FED EX and I took it from him.  Remember, I will use about anything to craft with.  Anyhow...I used my Amazing Mold Putty to make a mold.  Yes, if you remembered correctly I used to be on the DT for them also and now I am running out of this stuff.  Luckily my Michaels carries it, so pretty soon I will have to use my 40% coupon to purchase some more :(

Then I pressed my paperclay into the mold.  I DO NOT leave my paperclay in the mold very long.  I like to ease it out of the mold and let it completely air dry.  I do flip it occasionally and it usually takes about 24 hours to dry, depending on the thickness of course. 

First I used a tiny emery board to get into all the crevices and made everything smooth.  Then I painted the wings in this white Pearl Metallic paint.  I got this on clearance for .59 cents and it gives it the most beautiful sheen.  I wish the pictures were better, but I lost my camera and have to use my phone right now.

After the paint was dry I added a Extreme glitter Acrylic paint to the Wings ONLY.  

It really highlights the wings 

Then I printed a picture of little Miss Alexis and white copy paper and attached it to the center with the 3d Crystal Lacquer.  Again I wish you could really see how glassy this is.  I also sealed the entire piece with the lacquer and it really gives it a finished look. 

After everything was nice and dry, which, with the crystal lacquer doesn't take long to dry at all, I glued a pin  to the back of the piece with my E6000 glue to make sure I get a good solid bond. 

and here is Miss Alexis on my shirt.  

Now, I hope you liked my little tutorial and remember, I am giving something away each time I put up a post.  Today's giveaway is for these wings made out of paperclay.  I will just be sending you the actual piece made out of clay.  You can paint it, sparkle it and use it any which way you want.

This is what you will receive...

Also, remember, that paperclay is very light weight, so you can add this to a card or a scrapbook layout.  You can do whatever you choose with it.  If you win this and use it and post it on your blog or wherever, please send me a link and I will link back to you.

Now how do you win this?  Well here are the rules:

You have 5 chances to win these wings.

1.  Become a follower and let me know but if you already are just leave me a comment stating so.

2.  Leave a comment about my post and tell me what you might do with this.

3.  Tweet about my giveaway and leave a comment below with your tweet URL

4.  Facebook about my giveaway and comment below with your FB URL.

5.  Follow me on pinterest and let me know so I can follow you back.

I will announce the winner next Monday, October 29th right here.
So last week I made a post about my zipper pulls and I didn't get as much of a response.  Either no one saw them or they just didn't like them.  So I decided since I only had two comments I would give each of them one.  So, Nanette and Edwina, please send me an email at burffrau @ gmail dot com to claim your zipper pulls.  Put winner in the subject line so that it doesn't get lost in all my other junk.  :)

Zipper Pulls

Good morning

Today I wanted to share a quick post of something I made with my Amazing Mold Putty and Resin.  I love using this stuff.  As you might remember, I was on the DT for the Amazing Mold Putty and loved it.  While I was on the DT I was sent quite a bit of the Putty and I've been hoarding it a little.  I've actually made a lot of molds and now I am trying to preserve it as much as possible.  LOL  I'm so afraid of running out, but I will be using a 40% coupon from Michaels when I do run out.  I've already made sure my Michaels carries it, but  if you want some and your Michaels doesn't carry it, you can order it here.  So anyway...onto my project:

I had a ribbon pin 

and created a mold  

then I mixed up some resin and added

a bit of Terri Sproul's Mixers. 

(I will touch on these a bit more later)

Then I made a mold of my rubber keychain that I have had laying around forever. Remember, I am a hoarder and have a really hard time throwing anything away...just ask my hubby.  This time I did

not add the Terri Sproul Mixers because I wanted the colors to be a bit different.  Instead I painted the

piece once it was cured.  If you paint it while it's still warm the color sets up a lot better.  I love these mixers.

Here they are...I glued the "ribbon" over the hole of the keychain and then added a jump ring.  I also used my stamp set to stamp the word "fight" on each "keychain" and attached a small jewel as the dot for the "i".  I then attached some chain and different beads to it to make them into zipper pulls.  I have one on my purse and get quite a few compliments on it.  I really like the way they turned out and... 

since I go overboard and make more than I need to I am giving one of these away to one of you.  

You have 5 chances to win one of these zipper pulls.

1.  Become a follower and let me know but if you already are just leave me a comment stating so.

2.  Leave a comment about my post and tell me which zipper pull you'd like, silver or gold, with your email address like this name @ aol dot com

3.  Tweet about my giveaway and leave a comment below with your tweet URL

4.  Facebook about my giveaway and comment below with your FB URL.

5.  Follow me on pinterest and let me know so I can follow you back.

I will announce the winner next Monday, October 22nd right here.

Now to last week's giveaway.  The Winner is....

NanetteOctober 8, 2012 10:31 AM

Happy Birthday and Welcome Back! Your flowers are beautiful!

Please send me an email to burffrau @ gmail dot com and send me your address so I can get this in the mail to you.  Please put winner in the subject line so it doesn't get deleted by accident.

So I hope you have enjoyed my post and I hope to see you all again real soon.  

As always, God Bless and have a great day!!!

Wedding Flowers

Good Morning everyone,

What a fabulous day it is here.  Today is my birthday and it's my reason for being back here with you all.  I promised myself to come back into the blog world and no better day to start than on my birthday.  I probably won't be here on a daily basis, but more on a weekly one and I am planning on a few giveaways each time I post and I will tell you why in a minute.  As you know I've been missing for about a year with a post here and there, but now I am back and ready to show you some projects I've been making over the past year.  Since last fall a lot has happened and I will be touching on a few things in certain posts as they will pertain to the project I am showcasing.  I have definitely been crafting, but not blogging.  I love to craft and there for a while I was doing something literally every day and posting about it.  It was fun, but it also became like a third job and I was getting pretty stressed out.  I don't know how some of you do it...working full time, maybe kids at home, crafting and making blog posts.  It seems like my blog post where taking me hours with editing pictures, doing the step by step instructions and then the actual posting of it.  Last fall I took on a new job and 3 months into that job I became a manager.  Yeah, great for me, but it meant different responsibilities and having to learn quite a bit.  I also took on a small company for whom I am   doing their accounting.  I can do MOST of it at home, which is great, but it is still work.  I love what I do, but there just aren't enough hours in the day some times...So, when I could get some crafting time in, of course I jumped at it, but then it didn't leave me any time to blog about it.  I did take as many pictures as possible and saved them into folders so that some day I may start blogging again, and now is that someday.

Now today's project is actually one from this last weekend.  A few months ago a co-worker informed me that her daughter was getting married, and since I have done so many "crafty" things for work, did I know anything about making bouquets, etc.  Well, of course I do...LOL.  Actually my mom is the flower expert and I have learned a lot from her.  Plus I worked for a wholesale flower company for years and learned a lot from the designers, so, Yes was my answer.  We got together and they selected the flowers and this is what I came up with.

Brides Maid's bouquets 

Bridal Bouquet 

She was so beautiful

I cannot believe I forgot to take pictures of the boutonniers and corsages.  I am so mad at myself, but it was a pretty overwhelming day.

As my gift to them I etched their name and wedding date on a pair of wine glasses and used some of the flowers to adorn the stems.  I just used green floral tape to attach them and they will easily come off to wash them, but as the bride informed me, they can be hand washed and will stay like this forever.  The bride and groom where very happy with them 

Yeah, I'm happy with them also.

Now for my giveaway...

Here is a 6x6 glass mirror that I etched the word LOVE onto. I will be doing random giveaways, sometimes they will pertain to the project that I made or maybe just a random giveaway.  

You have 5 chances to win this mirror.

1.  Become a follower and let me know but if you already are just leave me a comment stating so.

2.  Leave a comment about my post with your email address like this name @ aol dot com

3.  Tweet about my giveaway and leave a comment below with your tweet URL

4.  Facebook about my giveaway and comment below with your FB URL.

5.  Follow me on pinterest and let me know so I can follow you back.

I will announce the winner next Monday, October 15th right here.

So I hope you have enjoyed my post and I hope to see you all again real soon.  

As always, God Bless and have a great day!!!

Good morning...

Are you stunned to see me?  Yeah, me too.  I've been missing in action for so long it took me almost half an hour just to figure out the "new" blogger.  My world has been pretty crazy since last fall.  ALOT has happened, not all good, but not all bad either.  I will probably tell you a little bit at a time with my new posts, but for today I just wanted to share a project I made.  I wanted to to reapply for the DT at Creative Paper Clay, but as my life is...time got away from me.  I was supposed to have this post up yesterday, but alas, I didn't.  Since I made the project, I thought I'd post it anyway.

I took a plastic napkin ring

Rolled out my paper clay between two skewers to

keep the clay even 

covered my plastic napkin ring with it and rolled it

over a wood grain texture plate 

and painted it brown 

then I made a mold with my Amazing Mold Putty from

an earring of a leaf

added my paperclay to it 

once the paper clay dried I sanded the leaf a bit  

and painted and glued the leaves to my covered

napkin ring. 

I think these will be so cute for the upcoming 

Thanksgiving dinner.

So I hope you've enjoyed the project, even though I was late for the Design Team, I thought I'd share it with you anyway.  If you have never heard of Creative Paperclay, go check out the blog here.

Now, I am going to start blogging on a more regular basis starting next week sometime.  I have a few fresh ideas for some giveaways and I will tell you all about it in the very near future.  Leave me a comment on my project and you will be the first in line for a "surprise".

Birthday Hop

Hello and welcome to My-O's 32 Birthday Blog Hop! Shannon is turning 32 and what better thing to do then have a hop with us crafty people to celebrate!! If you stumbled upon this hop by chance, excellent!! Just make sure you start back at the beginning to give Shannon, the birthday girl, some warm wishes and for a chance to win some awesome yummy candy!! If you came here from 

Sylvia you are on the right track.

Now I wanted to try something I hadn't done before. Remember how I used to be on the design team for Amazing Mold Putty? Well, since I love this stuff so much I created a mold using a Happy Birthday rubber stamp. It's a square foam one and it worked like a charm, (hehehe). You will understand the pun in a minute. Once the mold set up I then paint brushed some green pearl ex into the lettering

 and poured the clear cast resin. It did need to set up for about 29 hours, but it was well worth the wait.

 I also added a green rhinestone to it. It submerged into the clear cast resin and looks awesome. My picture taking ability is just not that good. Do you see how the pearl ex highlights the wording? Isn't that just awesome? I then drilled a hole into the side of the casted piece with my dremel and added a keychain to it.

 Here is the backside of the keychain. See the words are protruding out from the back. Very unique looking.

 Well no birthday is complete without a card. I created this card especially with Shannon in mind. She loves the color green so I did the background with green inkpad, added some cardstock out of my scrap bin. The flowers were in my "to be used some day" bin and I added some homemade stick pins. I also used the same stamp that I created the keychain from for the sentiment.

So I want to thank Shannon for inviting me to her birthday hop and I hope you have found my project interesting.

Thanks for hopping along today. Your next stop in the festivites is Diane

Shannon- http://my-o-scrappin.blogspot.com

Kacee-http://youhadmeatscrap.blogspot.com

Amy- http://www.lovetocrop.com

Rhonda- http://www.scraphappenswithrhonda.blogspot.com/

Lisa - http://indymermaid.blogspot.com

Oma Gloria - http://omascrafts.blogspot.com

Ashley- http://theglamoroussideofscrapping.blogspot.com

Janet- http://www.ladyluvbug.blogspot.com/

Paula- http://preciouspagesbypaula.blogspot.com/

Shelly-http://kccroppers.blogspot.com

Jamie-http://thesassyprincess.blogspot.com

Sylvia-http://bellascrapbookdesigns.blogspot.com

Brenda- http://createbyburffrau.blogspot.com

Diana-http://daisylovecreations.blogspot.com

Chris- http://puppykissesandpaperdreams.blogspot.com/
Maria- http://marlm-creativebydesign.blogspot.com/

Easter layout

Good day all,


yes, I am really here posting for real.  I have been very busy with some personal things and work keeps getting in the way also.  I recently got a promotion at work and I have been very busy working all kinds of different shifts.  It's a good thing, but I miss crafting.  Also we are doing a bit remodeling in our home so I've been without a "real" craft room for awhile.  When I have been crafting I've taken over the dining room, living room and even the bathroom at times.  LOL  My "new" craft room is almost finished.  It's nothing spectacular but its bigger than the "closet" I was in.  I would share pictures but again it's nothing spectacular and it's still not what I really want but beggers can't be choosers.
So, since rearranging I started to really get the crafting bug and I also realized I hadn't shared any pictures of my newest granddaughter.  Infact, I haven't even done any layouts of her and she just turned 5 weeks.  Bad Oma...so I decided to do a layout of the girls at Easter.  I hope you like it...
At my daughter's baby shower, my soon to be sister-in-law bought the girls matching outfits.  I do not like the color yellow much but I have to honestly say these outfits are adorable.  Since they were so springy we decided they would be perfect for their Easter picture.  Tell me what you think:

I really like it

I added some silk flowers, a basket and bunny I cut with my SCAL2 and cricut.  I made some floral picks with the girls names and added some bees and some glitz.

Here is a close up of the girls' picture.  Bella didn't like the Easter bunny last year, but she was the "big sister" this year and she did wonderful.  I reflected all of that on the journaling tag.

Here is the banner I made.  I cut egg shapes from some glitzy paper I have with my SCAL2 and cricut and glued the letters from the Best Occasions Scrap Pack.  I love this paper because it's so springy and girly.  I also added a few birdies to the "clothesline".  Now onto the unique embellishment...the clothes pins.

I made a mold of those tiny wooden clothespins with my Amazing Mold Putty.  If you remember I was on the design team for them and I still have a little bit left over.  I tell you, when I run out I know I will be using my Michaels 40% coupons religiously on this stuff.  I can make any embellishment I want and will never have to buy another.  It's so much fun making my own embellishments.

Then I mixed the Amazing Casting Resin with some flesh colored dye and poured the molds.  I can make my clothespins any color I desire...yeah!!!

Aren't they just cute?  I didn't paint the "wire" part.  Actually I didn't think of it until I had already adhered them to the layout, but its not that big of a deal.  I don't think anyway...

So, now I better get some of those pictures off my camera and printed so I can create some more layouts of Miss Alexis.  I hope she will forgive me for not having any layouts done until now.

Thanks for stopping by and make sure you come back on Monday the 23rd for a hop I am participating in.  There will be some fabulous talent like always.

Lock and Key Pendant

Good morning and welcome to my last post for Creative Paperclay®.  I am so sad to be leaving the design team, but room needs to be made for some fresh talent.  Believe me though, this is not the last you've seen of me using the paper clay.  Since I have been on the team I have found a new love and this week I am also showing another new love...

First I started with a mold I had received from Articus Studios.  Being on this design team has given me LOTS of fabulous opportunities to try different things.

I have a passion about keys.  Especially skeleton keys and this mold had just a great variety.

I pressed my clay into the mold and let it set overnight.  The next day I pulled my keys and locks out and let them air dry the rest of the way.  I always leave my clay pieces in the mold overnight so as I do not distort them trying to get them out of the mold before they are at least 3/4 of the way dry.

Then I used an emery board and sanded the keys and locks.  I even have used my dremel to get inside those little openings.  Love this tool.

Here is my key and lock all dried and sanded.  Now came the other portion of my new found passion.  Our very own Terri Sproul has come out with a new product called Mixers.  It's so awesome...you just "mix" it into some crystal lacquer and it creates a paint like product.  As soon as Terri released them I bought some and told hubby how much I loved them.  For valentine's day he surprised me with the entire product line.  I was so excited and now I have so many colors to play with.  It will also last a very long time because you don't need very much of the "mixer" at all.  Anyway...I chose the "bronze" color and a dabble of 3d crystal lacquer and this is how my new necklace looks.

Now, again I did say this is my last post for Creative Paperclay®, but if you are so inclined to see more of my creations, keep checking back here.  I have a huge project in the works and it involves my "new" craft room.  That is one of the reasons you haven't seen a lot of projects from me, but I should be back on track in a couple of weeks and joining in a few new DT teams also.