Precocious Paper Blog Hop!!!

Hello!  And welcome to the first stop on the Precocious Paper Etsy-versary Blog Hop!  Tessa is celebrating 4 years on Etsy this week and there has been a whole lot of giveaways going on!  First off I want to congratulate her on an awesome 4 years!  I want to share my favorite Precocious Product!  I absolutely LOVE the felt roses!  I was so excited to see them when I got my first package of awesomeness to play with!!

 They are so versatile and you can pair them up with any prima flower and they are just the best.  Did you also know that they are a green product? The felt is actually made from recycled water bottles!  How neat is that?  And the leaves are made from organic wool.  I have incorporated them into many layouts and projects that I have done and everyone always complements them! 

I also think the best part about them is the price!  You get 6 roses and 3 leaves for $3.25.  And if you take advantage right now of the buy 3 and get the 4th free you can get 24 roses for under $10.  That's a deal!  These are all the amazing examples of the roses the store right now!  You could also message her if there are colors you'd like and you don't see!  She can put together a custom order for you!  So make sure you go check them out here.


Here are a few layouts that I did using the white felt flowers.  Remember that my layouts are 8x8 so you can see the size of the flowers.  This layout is using the large white felt rose.

And in this layout I used the small white felt rose.  I just love the leaves too!  
 

 Thank you for stopping by!  Make sure you leave me a comment letting me know that you were here and also on the Precocious Paper blog when you are done hopping to be entered in to win the prize!! :)


The next stop on the hop is Elise's Blog!! Enjoy and thanks again for stopping by!!!!

Playing along at TPV

I can't believe that it's been over a year since I've been on the TPV design team and I haven't participated in a challenge :(  I saw the tic-tac-toe challenge up and decided I would play along!  So I created this layout :)

The picture is of me :)  on my 1st birthday, my mom had this awesome panda cake made as a smash cake for me. :)  The object of the challenge is to get 3 in a row.  Here is the challenge board, I chose 1. Use all the Rainbow Colors, 2. Use 2 border punches and 3. Make a layout.  I totally love how it came out :)

I'm Published AGAIN!

 Hello everyone!  Sorry I've been slacking on the posting lately!  It's been crazy around here!  Do you all remember this lovely album from August that I made for Tessa from Precocious Paper's 30th Birthday Blog Hop?  Well guess what......

 

It was published!  On 4 pages! LOL!  How cool is that?!  I'm totally upset because they didn't list Precocious Paper for the flowers and I totally listed them on my info sheet :(  Sorry Tessa, but it is front and center! LOL!  So make sure that you stop by and pick the spring issue of create: mini albums... just look for this...

 

Speaking of Precocious Paper, there's an Etsy-versary celebration going on right now!!!  Everything in the store is buy 3 and get the 4th FREE!!!  In fact there is something going on everyday this week!  Make sure you come back on Friday for the Blog Hop!!!!!  So go check it out now :) 

My First Precocious Project :)

Hi there!  I'm happy to share with you this fun project that I created for my first DT project at Precocious Paper!  Tessa blessed me with so many yummy goodies that I just had to create something fabulous.  While at the Paper Niche I saw this amazing stationery set that Natasha had created and well, I just couldn't resist making something similar!

It's this awesome little stationery box!  You remove the top and this is what you find :)  It's so fun!  And not to mention the product was amazing to work with :)

So inside I have little pockets for cards, tags, and stamps and even made a little note pad :)

I used the sweet spots for these tags!  So super cute :)

 

The mini cards with more sweet spots and amazing felt rose :)

And here are the cards.  The one above is my favorite with the butterfly doily!

It was so much fun being able to create with Precocious Paper products!  Make sure you stop by the blog and the etsy store so you can see all the yummy goodies!!!!  Now I've got to go make some cupcakes!!

Playing at the Niche with Beatriz & Kaiser Craft

Last night at about 11:30 Beatriz (From Amazing Grace) and I started on this amazing Kaiser Craft Family Tree that we made a Valentine's Tree.  We painted the wood brown and then embossed it with Bronze Metal Art thick embossing powder, and it just gave it amazing texture.  The we decorated the little ovals with the amazing new Kissing Booth from Basic Grey.  Here are some close ups of them!

 

 This is the Tim Holtz bird cage that I made, thought it would be perfect hanging on our tree :)

 

 This is another one that I made, I love the little bird, he's so friggin cute!

 

This one is my favorite that I made, I love how I made it like a little shadow box with the lace around the edges. 

 

 This one is fun, I used bloomers in the back as a ruffle!

 

 Beatriz made this one, I just LOVE it!  It's probably my favorite one she made!

 

 This is another one Beatriz made, it's too cute!

Our beautiful creation is on display at the Paper Niche for those of you who are local in South Florida, and it's so much prettier in person!!!  Can't believe I have to wait until March to play with Beatriz again!  I've got a few more projects we made together I'll share later on in the week!!

I'm Published :)

If any of you happened to pick up the Cricut Home Decor magazine, you might of stumbled across something!  I found out a few months ago that I was being published in this issue, the funny thing is that the pictures I took last minute of something that I had originally made for my art room and hadn't even posted on my blog before!  So needless to say that I was super excited!  I've submitted two things to be published, and both of them got picked!!  The next one I've got coming out is in April in the Create Idea Books: Spring Mini Albums!

Look there I am!!  The hardest part was trying to remember all the items that I used and the steps in doing so!  I didn't think you had to be that detailed when I originally submitted!  But when you get the form to send in with your items for photographing it's like 3 pages!
 

Here is the full shot of the banner!  I miss it!  It's been gone for like 6 months already!  I should get it back in a month or so!!  
 

 Here are the close up pictures!  Thank you for taking the time to check it out :) 

Altered Jewlery Box & Some News!!!

I made this altered Jewelry box for my mom for Christmas!  She totally loved it!  It's Prima!  I fell in love with this line when I was at the Niche and bought the art papers to line the trays with.  The nest is Melissa Frances and is totally the perfect size for the box.  Around the box is ripped and running stitches muslin that looks super cool!

 

Totally excited with how it turned out and so was Mom!!  The box I purchased at Michael's for $7.99 with a 50% coupon, so $4... not to shabby!  I have a few more projects that I need to photograph!

I'm also super excited to announce that I was selected to be on the Precocious Paper Design Team!!  I'm very excited to be on the team and am so looking forward to working with some amazing products!!!