Baptism Frame

Good morning,

I'm here with another fun project for the Robin's Nest.  This is my last post for them and I cannot tell you how sad I am to be leaving this fabulous Design Team, but with summer here I will be very busy.  I have enjoyed my time with them and showing you all the wonderful products The Robin's Nest has to offer.  Remember, everything I show case for them you can find here plus a lot more.

So for today I will show you an easy way to dress up a plaque.  I purchased this in the clearance section with this project in mind.  The original plaque was a bit dinged up and scratched, but for 50 cents I couldn't pass it up.

I repainted it with some black acrylic paint.  While that was drying... 

I cut out a cross with my cricut again using these fabulous papers from the Robin's Nest.  I love the sparkle in their glitter papers. 

I also cut out a border for the outside of this plague and embossed it also.  Then I ran my ink pad slightly over the raised areas to give it a bit more depth.

Glued everything onto it and of course, the best part is adding the embellishments. 

I added round dew drops and also the diamond dew drops which we are featuring this month and are on sale.  I added them to the ribbon to give it a sort of a burst affect.  Love how this turned out.  Please be sure to head on over to their On-line store and check out all the fun colors of diamond drops they have.  You will be amazed at all the fun colors.

As always, have a great day and God Bless.

Plaque

Good morning and welcome to another Robin's Nest post.  The papers they have are incredible and this month the Flame Collection is 20% off. There is so much versatility.  Here is a plaque I was commissioned to make.  My business is picking up more and more and for that I am very thankful.  A coworker asked me to make something "Harley Davidson" for her bff.  I remembered these papers I had gotten from the Robin's Nest and knew exactly what I wanted to do for her.  This is how I started:

I started with one of my trays 

and painted it black actually I had to do 3 coats.

I used my cricut to cut out some diamond shapes in orange paper 

and I cut their names inside of the "symbol" from vinyl and layered it over orange cardstock.

I used a piece of foam core and glued a photo page onto it

For this month's project we received a punch.  I had never seen one of these before and I cannot tell you how much fun this is.  I will lead you step by step through the process. 

This is what it looks like 

Find the placement of your paper  

add your "bubble" top

add the safety cap and close the lid 

Now put some pressure on it and "punch" 

Open it up and out comes your bubble topped embellishment. 

Cool huh? 

I added orange paper over the black acrylic paint with mod podge.  I added the black diamond shaped dew drops onto the orange diamond cut outs 

and added some of the rest of the "flame" papers to the edge of the "picture" frame. 

She really loved how this turned out.  She plans on putting a picture of her friends on their "Harley" into the photo holder.  I hope I've inspired  you again to alter something and make it into something you love.

As always, have a great day and God Bless.

Daisy Barrettes anyone?

We received these fabulous Eastery colored cardstock in our packets.  I cannot get over how much I LOVE these papers.  I love all the glittery and sparkly that the Robin's Nest has in their paper.  Did you know all these papers are handglittered.  How do they do that?

First I selected these two wonderful papers and you can find them here
The glitter papers are so nummy looking.

I cut the daisies out using my cricut.  Then I needed to manipulate the papers a bit.  Using an old mousepad I laid the "flowers" on it upside down and used a maker to manipulate the paper by making circular motions on it.  You will "knock" off a little bit of the glitter, but not much to make a difference.  These papers really hold their glitz.  Then flip your flower over and do that same on the other side.  Now I needed the flowers to be double sided, but since the back of this cardstock is white I "mod podged" two flowers together.

Since the papers are onesided, I cut them out twice and modpodged them together.

Now comes the fun part...I mod podged each flower to give it a sturdy base, but yet flexible.  Then after they were dried I glued the double sided flower to the plain flower.  I added some dew drops with a different color center and added 3d crystal lacquer.  I just love what this crystal lacquer does to the centers.  I did sprinkle just a tiny bit of matching glitter ontop for added glitz.

Then I added a barrette to the back of the papers and turned them into barrettes for the girls. 

Aren't they just lovely?  See, you can even use paper to create barrettes. 

Here are just a few pictures showing off the girls with their barrettes.  It's pretty hard to keep a 3 and 1 year old interested in having their pictures taken, but the whole experience was pretty fun.

Now, a couple of weeks ago we participated in a blog hop for the Robin's Nest and my winner was:

Embley Veronica embleyveronica@evnoechel.com

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Please send an email to robinsnestscrap@gmail.com to claim your prize

Head on over to the Robin's Nest to see if you are a winner from the other blogs and also to find out who the Grand Prize winner is.

As always, have a great day and God Bless.

As always, have a great day and god bless.

Robin's Nest blog hop DAISIES

Good morning and welcome to the Robin's Nest blog hop ALL ABOUT DAISIES.  If you came from Juraci you are in the right place.  If you stumbled upon my post today, you should start at the beginning with Robin.

Today's hop is all about daisies and I just wasn't sure what I could bring to the table for this one.  Not that I don't like daisies, I just didn't know what I wanted to make...A scrapbook layout? - I didn't have any pictures to go with the daisy theme.  a card? - I haven't made a card in sooo long (so I could use up some scraps?).  Instead I opted for this super easy project.  I started with this fabulous Shocking Pink Glitter Sorbet paper.  I just love all the glimmer in this paper.  Did you know they hand glitter all their paper?
                             

I cut 3 strips of the paper at 1 by 12 inches and used my 

Martha Stewart scoring board and scored 1/2 sections

and then I flipped the paper over and scored at 1/4 inch.  

This makes folding accordian style so much simpler. 

Then I hotglued the sections together to make those famous medallions.  

I have made a lot of these and really enjoy the look, 

but I wanted to put a spin on these. 

I then punched out a starburst out of the Kiwi Glitter Sorbet.  

This is such yummy paper.  I really cannot get over how sparkly it is.

and hot glued it to the center to keep the medallion together.

but here is my twist.  CUT it apart.  

Just cut all the peaks just to the starburst.  

This kinda gives it more depth and makes it a bit fuller. 

Sounds weird, but it's true and I think it represents a daisy like look.

Then I hotglued stems to the back of the medallions from my stash 

I added some 3d crystal lacquer and of course... 

tiny dew drops.

And here is my trio of Live, Love, Laugh 

I love how these turned out and I hope you enjoyed a 

"new" spin on an old craft. 

Now for some blog candy...Each Blog will give a prize package "Daisey Package" value at $15 will include Tear drop, paper, and embellishments. 1 Grand Prize will get $25 toward the on-line store, winner will be picked by Rachel on the Robin Nest Blog. Winner will be posted the Sunday April 21st on Robin's Nest blog. Please make sure to become a follower and leave a comment to win the blog candy...

Now head on over to Michelle

Here is a complete list of all the blogs involved in this hop.

As always, have a great day and God Bless.