Thursday, September 1, 2011

Living Room Wall Before & After

I've been meaning to get around to this post for quite awhile now.  So let's just get to it.  I live in a row house so I have long walls in my rooms, so they can be quite the challenge.  So with all the inspirational photos on Pinterest I decided to tackle my living room wall again.  So here is the bad cell phone photo of the before.  


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and here is after


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Here is my husband bitching while hanging my shelves


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So I am in love with how it turned out.  The shelves are 4ft long so that will give you some perspective on the size of the whole thing.  Here are some close ups.


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so a little bit about some of the things on here.  The shelves are from Ikea, in the photo section.


a.  I made this huge frame using Crate Paper Portrait collection and Glue Arts Vinyl.  Tutorial here


b.  Print by Steph Wheeler. Here.


c.  Pinterest inspiration project for American Crafts.  Here


d.  Another Pinterest Inspiration project I made using wire, Maya Road ribbon and Butterflies.  Original project here


e.  Birdhouse in a stick.  More pics here


f.  I bought this C on ebay from a shop that sells old movie theater marquee letters.  So cool, here


g.  I picked this wire C up on etsy, here.


h.  Vintage printers tray tutorial, here. 


i.  Clock made from a record, here.


j.  I have one of Jamie's original books.  See her blog here


k.  My father in law laser cut this car from sheet metal wayyyy back when. 


l.  I picked up this bike at the goodwill, isn't it cool?!


 



Friday, August 26, 2011

Design School + Jenni Bowlin & Maya Road

TGIF.  I think?  I think I might be glad when it is Monday of next week.  Hurricane Irene is going to show her face this weekend, so if you don't hear back from me within a week send out a search party LOL.  So for the weekend I leave you with a project I made for Two Peas in a Bucket's Design School.  I used a lot of Jenni Bowlin, Websters Pages and new Maya Road !  The canvas butterflies are by far my favorite :)  You can read the full write up here at TwoPeas.  Take care and stay dry if you in the east!


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Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Inspired by Pinterest + American Crafts

Just a quick post to show you a fun project I made for American Crafts Thickers week last month.  Full post here


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Monday, August 15, 2011

American Crafts + Me

I am so excited to be with American Crafts for a second term.  I truly love this company and their products! I can't wait to see what the other girls cook up!  If you have a minute stop by and check their blogs out won't ya?




 


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INTERNATIONAL                                                                     


Cindy Stevens – from New Brunswick, Canada


Lilith Eeckles – from Bertogne, Belgium


Michelle Clement – from British Columbia, Canada


Piradee Talvanna – from Singapore


Revlie Schuit – from Roelofarendsveen, The Netherlands


Shimelle Laine – from London, England


 


UNITED STATES


Amy Heller – from Newtown, CT


Cindy Tobey – from Kentwood, MI


Corrie Jones – from Dallas, GA


Heidi Sonboul – from Torrance, CA


Jamie Harper – from Phoenix, AZ


Jenny Chesnick – from Brooklyn, MD


Leah Farquharson – from Lauderhill, FL


Leslie Ashe – from Fort Worth, TX


Mandy Koeppen – from Hastings, MI


Melissa Mann – from Pensacola, FL


Paige Evans – from South Pasadena, CA


Pamella Brown – from Santa Rosa Beach, FL


Rahel Menig  – from Gilroy, CA


Suzy Plantamura – from Laguna Niguel, CA


 


 




 



Thursday, August 11, 2011

Two Peas Seeds - Webster's Pages & Jenni Bowlin

Just stopping by to post my Two Peas Seed for this week.  I am really loving this pattern paper!  I happen to have gotten it in a warehouse sale from Websters I am so glad I did!


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The large silhouette is a rub-on that I put on pattern paper then cut out and attached using U-Cut foam.


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isn't that stamp precious?  I stamped then fussy cut it out to mimic the design of the other silhouette on the page.


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