Pink Ladies Tree

Good morning Crafties,

I totally forgot to post this tree I made right before Christmas.  I made a similar tree a couple of years ago and you can view the entire tutorial HERE.

Here's a quick recap of what we do:

We are a group of Ladies and Gents that get together every Sunday to throw darts and raise money for cancer.  We donate $500, a blanket (that is handmade by one of our Pink Ladies) and sometimes a plant or flowers each time to a "local person" with cancer primarily to help with everyday expenses.  That could be anything from personal items, groceries or gas to get to and from doctor appointments.  It's their money and they can do whatever they want with it.  We occasionally also hold fundraisers to obtain funds that we then give away.

We had our Christmas party and I made this tree for our table as a centerpiece.  I printed the ribbons onto pink cardstock and cut the "Snowflake" using my cricut.

Now the pictures really do not do this tree justice, but it did turn out pretty cool.

Now while Christmas has been long over, this tree is still up at the bar.  Troy, our bar owner and sponsor of the Pink Ladies says it represents the Pink Ladies all year long, not just at Christmas time!  It just thrills me when I know people like my creations.

As always, have a great day and God Bless.

$12,500 donated in 2014

Good morning friends,

Today I wanted to share a quick post on a Glass Etching Project I made for our Pink Ladies Dart Team!  If you don't already know what the Pink Ladies are all about, let me give you a quick background.  We are a group of Ladies and Gents that get together every Sunday to throw darts and raise money for cancer.  We donate $500, a blanket (that is handmade by one of our Pink Ladies) and sometimes a plant or flowers each time to a "local person" with cancer primarily to help with everyday expenses.  That could be anything from personal items, groceries or gas to get to and from doctor appointments.  It's their money and they can do whatever they want with it.  We occasionally also hold fundraisers to obtain funds that we then give away.

We started this in April of 2014 and by New Years Eve 2014 we gave away $12,500.  

Can you say WOW!!!!

I wanted to give our bar owner who does a tremendous job something to hang in the bar 

to commemorate the accomplishment and let's see what I did:

This is our logo and I cut it using my cricut from some scrap pink vinyl I had left over 

from making all the window decals that we also sold to raise money.  

I laid that on a piece of glass from a frame.

Using the Armour Etch (ing) cream, I slathered a generous amount 

over the vinyl and let it sit for about 10 minutes.

I wanted to commemorate the amount and the date we did that in so I cut that all out 

also on my cricut from Dollar Tree contact paper.  Do NOT waste your precious vinyl.

again slathering a generous amount over the top ...

I do scrape the excessive off with a brush or used credit card and put it right back into my bottle.

NO WASTE!

I then laid the glass over the top of some metallic scrapbook paper and there you have it!

I hope you liked my post today and  if you are at all inclined to donate you can do so by going HERE.

You can find the Bottom's Up Pink Ladies facebook page HERE and we are on Twitter @BUPINKLADIES!

As always, have a great day and God Bless!

Lucky "U" 7 Simon Says challenge

Good morning,


I'm here today to show you a card I made for the challenge over at Simon Says.  The Monday challenge was "Lucky".  Since Monday was St. Patty's Day they thought that would be an appropriate challenge.  I say "yes"!

I started with a green background and distressed it a wee bit with some black ink directly to paper.  Normally I like to make everything even.  Layering my paper directly in the middle, nothing off balanced but I decided to get a little funky and go a wee bit off balanced.  Not that I was off balanced on Monday, LOL!

I knew I wanted to use the clover (mold) that I created with from my "pink ladies" necklace that I created.  I used up all my clover charms and luckily I created a mold so I can duplicate that lovely clover over and over and over again.  When you create a mold with Amazing Crafting Products Mold Putty you will never have to buy another embellishment.

Here are the ribbons I made for the St. Patty's Day Parade and you can read all about how I made these here.

Here is my mold 

and here is my finished resin poured clover painted with two shades of acrylic paint and highlighted with some black ink. I also did NOT pour my clover to it's entirety so that it isn't as bulky as the original.  

 I then glued it to a "lucky" coin I found on the parade route.  

Yes, I will pick up anything interesting on the street.   

I had a few of the horseshoes that I created with Amazing Casting Resin and Alumilite silver metallic powder  on hand and you can see my original post here.  When I am pouring molds I will usually pour a few at a time so that I have embellishments on hand at all times. 

Just a couple of days ago I received my package from Amazing Crafting Products (since I'm on their design team) and recently they have partnered up with MakeLure.com.  

In my box I found 10 shades of these fabulous colors of Alumidust.

I didn't really know how to use them, but I figured I'd give it a try.  I mixed a bit of the lite green with some hairspray (later I found out they already have a binder in them so water will work just fine) and created a mist to spray on my horseshoe.  LOVE the sparkly shine!!!  I added a few green rhinestones and my lucky horseshoe was ready in about 10 minutes from casting to finished product.

I attached everything to my card front after "painting" a bit of the green acrylic paints to my accent piece.  Used some rubons of 7 and miscellaneous bursts.  I even "spilled" some left over resin onto my accent cardstock and highlighted it with some rubons, ink and more of the Alumidust mist I created.  

I had also painted my rhinestone with the acrylic paints and then just before they were completely dry I "wiped" some of the color off.  LOVE it!!! 

What I love so much about this card is that my embellishments were made with the Amazing Crafting Products and are so lightweight.  Plus, you can also make them "less bulky" by not pouring your mold to it's entire depth.

I hope you've enjoyed my card for the SimonSays Monday challenge 

and look forward to seeing you all soon again.  

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As always, have a great day and God Bless.

St. Patty/Pink Ladies Parade 2014

Top of the morning to you!

hahaha, I couldn't resist that since this post is all about St. Patty's Day.  Oh yeah, and of course Pink Ladies and Amazing Crafting Products.  Let me give you a little background of why this is so special to me.  I have been participating in a dart league designed especially as a fund raiser for Breast Cancer.  A bunch of ladies and MEN got together and formed a league where all our proceeds go to help out local people with expenses and such in fighting breast cancer.  We've raised a lot of money in the year that we've been doing this and again, all the money we raise stays local.  I love that!

Last year the league formed shortly before St. Patty's day and we participated in the St. Patty's Day Parade.  I was on the Sakura and Creative Paperclay design team at the time and I created "Pink Ribbon dart pins".  You can see the original post here.  They were a huge hit.  I sold over 25 of them and still have people asking me about them to this day.  I donated 75% of all the money to our benefit at the end of the dart season.  It felt really good to hand a check over knowing it was going to a great cause and staying LOCAL.  This year again I will be participating in the St. Patty's Day parade and wanted to make something different.  I did not go overboard and make a lot of these as they are kinda just meant for the one day, but you never know.  Some of the ladies might want one...
Here are a couple of pictures of us last year.


This is the banner of the bar that I threw out of last year and our motto "Stick it to Cancer".  The bar owner and I were a team.

This is Jane and I at her bar after one of the matches.            

A picture of our float as we are getting ready to head out to the parade route.  We even had a dartboard on our float.  It was so much fun to participate in such a great event.

This year I am throwing out of a different bar and I am also throwing with my daughter.  This will be the first time we have been on the same team.  I'm pretty excited about that.

SO back to my original post.  Again, I decided to do something different and this is how it went.

I started out with one of the Creative Paperclay ribbons I had made and created a mold of it with my Amazing Mold Putty.

then I used the  Rose Pearl Terri Sproul Mixers with the Amazing Casting Resin and made sure I mixed them up very well.  Always put your color with your Part A and mix that up well before adding your Part B

then I poured my mold(s)

I always seem to make too much so therefore I keep molds on hand that I might need to pour :)

Once the mold cured  it came out like this

Love the color!

I also added a bail while the mold was curing and it seeped to the bottom, but no doubt I could fix this  

Then I used my Martha Stewart alphabets to stamp onto my ribbon which works so very well with StazOn

I used a plastic clover charm (which I no doubt bought last year on clearance after St. Patty's day) to figure out my placement and stamped away.  Not perfect but I'm very happy with how it came out. 

I glued the clovers to the center and added a rhinestone and a pink dart over the top where the bail showed through attached them to some beads and there you have it.  My homemade St. Patty's Pink Ladies beads for my daughter and myself.  I do believe I am ready for the 2nd Annual St. Patty's Day Pink Ladies parade!

What do you think?  

I hope you've enjoyed my tutorial today and as always have a great day and God Bless!