Hey there! I have a fun project to share with you today! You may know that I went last week to visit my friend Pam for a few days (and to meet my friend, Jenn from Canada, for the first time). While I was there, we did a decent amount of kicking back and relaxing which felt soooo good. (Thanks, Pam!) One morning, Pam and I were both lounging, feet up, laptops on our laps, checking email and bopping around to our favorite blogs, when I came across a new series of posts that Christine Middlecamp is doing and I immediately had to show Pam. We were so inspired by the adorable little doily embellies that Christine had been making using Martha Stewarts "Die-Cut Lace Tags", that we decided to run right out to Michael's, buy the Martha tags and come home and make our own doily embellies! FUN! I don't know how long we were in the studio.....several hours, I'd say, but it was so much fun just creating these little embellishments that we could frame or use on projects or whatever! So......I thought it'd be fun to do a little series this week here at the blog-o and show you various cards that I'm using these little embellies on.
For today, I decided to use this pink felt flower embellie. I used the large die from the Beautiful Blooms II #1 die collection and die cut 5 flowers from raspberry fizz felt. One at a time, I scrunched them up in the centers, stitched 4 of them together with a needle and button twine just at their centers, and then stitched them all to the 5th flower which I left flat. Then, I adhered that big ole vintage-y pure poppy button to the center with a big piece of Scor-Tape, and then added red rhinestones the the center of the button. I distressed the edges of the Martha tag with a bit of vintage touch tea dye ink and adhered the felty flower directly to the Martha tag with more Scor-Tape.
And here's how I used this little beauty on a card! I started with a white card base, stitched a bit of patterned paper from the Simple Valentine collection and added my flower embellie. The sentiment is one I stamped using the Big & Bold Wishes stamp set and I inked up all of the edges with more vintage touch tea dye ink for a bit of a distressed look.
I know it's hard to capture in the photo, but the rhinestones on the button just sparkle in real life! Such a pretty little flower.
Before I go, I thought I'd show you a few pictures from my little get-away. Our first day together, we went shopping and stopped at Maggiano's for lunch. Have you had Maggiano's?? It's a-ma-zing. LOVE. (Dear Maggiano's, please open a restaurant in Kansas City. Thank you.) This is Pam on the left, me in the middle and Jenn on the right. Now, if the server taking this photo had chosen to, she could have stood up to take this photo, thus eliminating the camera strap, water glasses, bread bowl and sugar holder from the photo and instead captured the three HUGE plates of lasagna we had in front of us (which is what we asked her to get a picture of) but alas, she instead chose to SQUAT in front of our table to snap this photo.......and we all know that when you've asked someone to do you a favor and take a photo of you, you can hardly tell her exactly how to take said photo......and so, you just politely say thank you and wish you had more photoshop skills so you could completely remove all of the 'clutter' from the photo yourself! Hahaha!! But at least you get the idea.....right?? ;)
This is Jenn and me and our twinsie glasses. I got to do Jenn's make-up both mornings that she was there......what fun! AND, we had a ball shopping for make-up at MAC.....and Sephora.....and ULTA. LOL. Jenn's totally gone glam now!
Ahhh........the breakfast of champions. After all, the box says "America runs on Dunkin'".
Pam and I dropped Jenn off at the airport and then had serious plans to stop off at Dunkin' Donuts for a few Munchkins (donut holes). When we stood at the counter to order, I thought Pam would order like 6 Munchkins....3 for each of us. But no -- she ordered a box of 25! Well who am I to argue with MORE munchkins? So I did all I could to help her eat those 25 munchkins over the next day or so......munchkins for breakfast, munchkins for dessert after lunch, munchkins for a bedtime snack, etc., etc. I didn't want her to have to bear the burden of eating them all herself. I'm super kind like that.
Here's Pam in her studio -- she calls it The Zone. I had so much fun working in The Zone with her, making our little embellies. I'm not sure if she'll invite me back though....I used plenty of her supplies. Hee.
And lastly, here is me with Gracie (left) and Sophie (middle). Sophie loved me. Gracie tolerated me. Hahaha! Actually, she just took longer to warm up to me than Sophie did but goodness, these girls are sweet. They climb right up on the back of the couch to lay behind your head while you're sitting on the couch.....or they climb right up in your lap and wait patiently for you to pet them! Haha. Oh.....and they snore. A lot. Loudly. Just sayin'.....
Thanks so much, Pam, for such a fun girly getaway!
And thanks to all of YOU for stopping by to visit me today! Hope you're doing well! Whatchya been up to???
{Hey There supplies}
Paper: stamper's select white, hawaiian shores, simple valentine
Stamps: Big & Bold Wishes
Ink: hawaiian shores, vintage touch tea dye
Other: raspberry fizz felt, beautiful blooms II #1 die collection, pure poppy button, button twine, red rhinestones, Martha Stewart die-cut lace tag, sewing machine/thread
