Weekend Warrior Projects

I was able to do a lot of crafting this weekend!  My favorite kind of weekend!  I also got to spend time with my youngest daughter going to more junk/repurposed stores which we both love. Hope you got to do some fun things too this weekend.

I have seen so many great tags lately so I decided to make one for the newest ODBD challenge (ODBDSLC218) which is to make something using 4 letters from the word "Blessings."  I used the following letters:

• B - Blue, Branch Punch, Bow, Blessings Sentiment
• L - Leaves
• E - Embossing
• S - Sentiment and Straw
• S - Sanding and Sponging
• I - Ink
• N - Nestabilities
• G - Glue (lots of it to keep that flower and twine and straw in place)

I used a sentiment from the ODBD Blessing set (a Birthday present from a sweet friend).  I am tying this tag to a candleholder to give as a hostess gift this week.  I love how it came out.

On SCS, I recommended the Inspiration Site for the Inspiration Challenge this weekend and got to play guest hostess. The site is the fun antique/repurposed item store we visited last week:  Resurrect Antiques.  Here are the cards I made for that challenge:

The above card was made using the Create a Pine Bough set from MFP and I made my rolled roses using some notebook paper my daughter wrote a rough draft a paper on.  I took the paper and coated it with a mixture of glue, TH fired brick ink, and water.  After it dried, I ran it through an embossing folder and then cut the circles I used to make the flowers.  The glue technique qualified this for a few MIX challenges on SCS too.

This card was based on a great chalkboard sign from the site - I thought it would make a great get well card.  The image is from Sassy Cheryl and is called Good Company (available at Squigglefly).

I couldn't resist playing in the SCS Mix challenge this week which was all about feathers.  I had been wanting to play with the SU! Four Feathers set I bought a few months ago.

I water-colored my bg, leaves, and feathers.  I dry embossed the bg and wet embossed the feathers ad leaves with Stampendous Frantage embossing powder.  After stamping the feathers, I cut them and distressed them.  The sentiment is from SU!   I gave this to a sweet friend who invited me to her retirement dinner last night. I sure hope she liked it.

Then I made a card for the Featured Stamper challenge on SCS today. The FS is Cheryl l Rowley and she has a great gallery at SCS.  I cased THIS card - I changed Cheryl's leaves to winter leaves and added some ice crystals. 

I am going to give this to another friend who is retiring (he invited me to his retirement dinner tomorrow night). 

Hugz!!!!