Music Room

I love this room... Everything except the love seat has been found at a thrift store or garage sale or I got for FREE.  The love seat I already had and recovered myself (the instructions for that will follow at a later date).  The rocking chair is awaiting the same treatment..I just have to be in the mood....as I'm a bit OCD and can't leave it unfinished once I start so for now it sits unstarted.
I wanted a wall of mirrors and I just kept looking at thrift stores until I found enough to fit the wall.  I like how it looks for now but I'm pretty sure that I'll be refinishing some of the mirrors.  (some have already been painted)  The 115 year old antique piano is my favorite.  It was filthy and black when I got it but it has surpassed my dreams...  All of the furniture pieces have been repainted.    The old window panes I've had for years and yes they were FREE...Someone had replaced the windows in their house and trash day made them mine!!!   I could go on all day about all the great finds and refinishes in this room but you'll just have to wait for another day...

sizzix blog hop

 Welcome to Eileen Hulls Fresh Vintage Blog hop.   I was asked by my friend Bonnie to make something with Eileen Hull's Vase Die.  We decided together to make crowns.  I have an eight year old daughter who wanted to help so we made ours little girly with silver and bling.
1.  Adelaide drew a design
2.  Cut out three of  Eileen's Vase Dies
3.  Spray Painted the pieces
4.  Added Bling in an alternating pink and white pattern (Adelaide's plan)  and attached the round piece to the inside
5.  We added sequin trims and rosette ribbon.

  

 

Sizzix ScoreBoards XL Die - Vase, 3-D

Pop-Up Valentine's Cards with Karen Burniston dies

Hey there time to make some valentine cards with Karen's dies.


First I'm used the 3-D Hear Card to make a Butterfly greeting.  My daughter and I glittered the "wings" and also used some valentine doilies to give the wings some dimension.  We added antennae and googly eyes to the pop-up head to make the butterfly sweet.  I really like this die.

Adelaide also used the plain heart portion of this die to make her valentines for her class... We just cut a bunch of them she attached a glittery doily and stuck a lollipop in between the two pieces.  Voila simple and hand made. 

The next card is using Karen's "Hearts-A-Plenty 3-D  Pop-Up Die."  Since I've only used pop-ups a couple times I definitely needed to read the directions but once I followed them step by step it was a breeze.  We are a military family and finally live in a place that has snow so I played on my kids' love of snow...to send "snow much love" to family.  Once assembled I placed the die in a simple card using frosty colors and a couple dangly snowflakes.

CHA Samples for Sizzix Designer Karen Burniston

Hey there I am sooo excited that I got to participate in this little adventure.  Thank you Karen and Bonnie.
Ok so what adventure??  I got to make samples with brand new not even released die shapes designed by Karen Burniston for Sizzix.   As I'm still new to blogging my text is all up here above the pictures so you'll have to scroll down and figure out which one I'm describing.

The first picture is a flower pop-up die that I have glittered and attached to a small gift box that I covered in coordinating paper and blinged the sides.  When one pulls the stem the flower pops open and displays the text "a gift for you".

Next I have a card that I made with neutral colors for grandpa.  On the front is one of Karen's new dies and then inside is her scalloped circle pop-up die and a small celebrate die.  Both of these are also new dies.

Now for the colorful card with the butterfly on front.  I actually made the butterfly with one of Karen's new flourish dies  I simply used two and placed them together by one edge and twisted the top part so that it would look like antennae  add a little bling and voila a butterfly.  Inside of the card is Karen's new floating frames pop-up die  and on top of the frame set I stapled her new fold out balloon die.

Ok next I made a simple scrapbook page using a new pull-out/pop-up tag die.  I featured my twins with the neighbors dogs the four love each other so and I don't have to take care of dogs we just get to enjoy them I've even made one of Justus' chores to clean their pen and walk them.  Also, cures them of begging me for a dog.

On to the next card fold out thingy I did.  I am the most excited about this one.  I actually used 7 of Karen's new die shapes for this fold out card.  First the card is tri-fold so that I could use two pop-up dies.  In the center of the card is a pop-up cupcake die that I embellished with satin flowers that I made myself by burning circles of satin and sewing them together then added a few beads for a pretty center.  At the top of the card I used a scalloped edge pop-up die that I put one of her small flourishes on to give my word SWEET a base.  To the left of sweet I used a small round scalloped die as the base of my satin flower. On the top of the fold I used her new princess crown.   On the outside of the card I used a couple flourish shapes.  Ok I know there were seven but right now I am blanking on the last two as Karen has my card in LA.

Next I have a family wheel wallhanging using Karen's new photo wheel die.  I put little pictures of my kids inside the wheel so that when you turn it you can see them and in their corresponding age in the circle.  To the left of the circle I used a family picture that we took out in the woods.  I sewed buttons around the picture to give it a little punch.  We used a necklace chain to hang it with and created a little bauble using mismatched jewelry pieces that we got at the thrift stor to hang from the center of the chain.


All in all I'm relatively pleased with the results especially considering I only had a little over two days to get all this done.  When I find my picture I will be posting a necklace I made for Karen to wear at the convention.  I used one  of her new dies on this one also!!!

Have a wonderful day  and thanks sooo much for stopping by.