FRIDAY'S 5 FAVES

It's Friday and time for my 5 favorite things from this past week.  These include a fave pic and Pin and COFFEE LOVE!  : )

1.  I am loving this fall weather!  It's so nice to go outside and feel fall in the air.  (Also nice not to sweat every time you walk out lol)

Please check out the page where I found this poem.  Awesome!

MRS. BONZER'S POETRY PLACE

2. I love my Cricut this week. ( every week/day actually!)

I cut my granddaughter oodles of Halloween figures to color.  She's quite the little artist!

3. My challenge with +LaDenna Lawrence  turned out quite well. The challenge was to alter any flatware. I chose spoons. It took me forever to complete the two; but I love them! These are both holiday themed; but I am working on one for my dining room that I will frame.

4.  My fave pic for the week:

This is Kari (my youngest daughter) and me at a women's health forum featuring Jamie Lee Curtis.  She is a fabulous speaker.  If you ever get a chance to hear/see her-DO IT!  

5.  My fave Pin this week:

Very hard to pick just one-so many fabulous things being made!

PINTEREST

I love the sweater cards that are being made.  I am doing a challenge this week where we have to make 5 greeting cards.  Guess what?!!

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And of course, my COFFEE LOVE!

PINTEREST

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That's it for this week-so much more I could post!  But that's another several weeks!  

Hoping everyone has a great weekend and thanks for visiting/following me!

AWESOME CHALLENGE RESULTS!

It's been over a week since my last post.  I was on a mini vacation at +LaDenna Lawrence 's in Amarillo.  We had a great time as usual-eating, crafting, shopping and laughing.

I've also been working on updating my "Where I Party" page.  I haven't figured out the html stuff yet and don't know how to make all my buttons uniform so I ended up doing links. It will have to do until I learn a little more!

While at LaDenna's we did several side-by-side challenges. It's always interesting to see what each of us do using the same materials.  
We got new Cricut cartridges and made cards.  Neither of us had ever made window cards; but they came out so pretty!!  We used Creative Cards and Wild Cards 2. 

 I love the way these bird cage window cards turned out! 

Inside of cards

My favorite of the above window cards is Santa peeking through the window!  (oops-got it in there twice!)

Inside

This is an altered Altoid tin.  Again, I used my new cartridge.

 We went "shopping" in LaDenna's garage and found some old frames.  I made the birdcage (I love them lately!) from the new cart.  I can already see this cartridge is going to be used a LOT!
The 'shelf' is painted and glittered cardboard.

 And I think this is my favorite piece of all!  As most of you know-I LOVE coffee!  This will be perfect in my kitchen once I get it painted!  Love it!!!

Here are a few of LaDenna's items so that you can see our different perceptions of each project.

This is her Altoid tin.  I love the lady!

One of her re-cycled frames.  This turned out super cute!!

And the other re-cycled frame.  We both did coffee projects; but they are so totally different!

Next week's challenge was chosen by LaDenna:

This should be INTERESTING!!


Thank you SO much for stopping by and letting me share our crafts with you!  

YET ANOTHER CHALLENGE REVEAL!!

Friday already!  Time flies when you're having fun-I guess.  lol

I visited my friend, +LaDenna Lawrence  this past weekend.  We always have a blast!  We do a lot of visiting, laughing and crafting.

For our side by side challenges, we chose to use food boxes, trays from $1 Store and paper.  We do our best to use what we have on hand.  We do a lot of re-purposing.

These are the boxes we used.  The base is made from cardboard.

I made mine to hold the TV remotes.  The papers I chose are movie themed from the Paper Studio Kellerkurtz & Company paper pack.  I love this whole pack!!  You will be seeing a lot of it!

 I attached paper cut outs to some paper medallions for decoration.

 Side view.

This is a tablet made from chip board.  We used LaDenna's new Cinch to bind it.  I have to have one!  I have a Bind It All but I really like the Cinch.

This is the Bind It All like mine.  

And this is the Cinch!  I'm going to look for one in pink and trade LaDenna-her room is pink and mine is turquoise.  : )

 This wall hanging is made from a silver tray purchased from the $1 Store. I sectioned it so I could use different papers from my new stack.  The embellishments came from my friend +Suzanne Thomas who lives in Tasmania!  She makes the most awesome cards and other fun paper crafts!  Take a peek at her page and tell her Pam sent you!  ABBY AND ALBITS SCRAPPIN SHACK   Thank you Suzanne for all the bits!  : )

 One of these butterflies is a magnet.

 And this is a mini cork board.

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These are several cards that we made. They are very simple but pretty.

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Next week's challenge will be to make 5 Christmas ornaments using our Cricuts and card stock/paper.

So glad you took time out of your busy day to stop by!

CHALLENGE REVEAL-Trash to Treasure

This week's challenge with +LaDenna Lawrence  was definitely a challenge!  lol  I knew what I wanted, but I didn't know how to get there!  Anyone ever see a vision in your head and can't figure out how to make it come true?!

Our challenge was to use the cardboard from a case of water or whatever.   We had decided on a "purse" of some sort.  So, here's my take on it.  I have some changes I am going to make-I will point them out when I get to the pics.

So here's the piece of cardboard I used for the base.

 I had this fabric in my stash from previous projects.  I Mod Podged it onto the cardboard.  I didn't love it when I did it, but after completion, it turned out okay.

Letting it dry.

I painted the inside with a mixture of Mod Podge and black acrylic paint.  

Here's the finished outside.  I added a large shiny button and glitter to bling it up a little.

I used all re-cycled materials (trash lol). 

 This is a mini album.  The purpose of my purse is to be an album full of mini albums.  lol  It will be great to put little girl photos in!

 These are the photo mats that go in the 'album'.

Every purse has to have 

face powder!  I used an empty ribbon spool. (more trash lol).

I covered it in coordinating papers.

 And here is the finished compact mini album!

 I used a chipboard coaster and made this mini notepad/album.

These photo mats provide a lot of space for photos!

 And of course, a wallet!

Photo mats.

So here's the inside.  I'm going to make some 'keys' and a couple of other accessories to fill in the gaps.  Everything is held in place with magnets right now; but that will probably change as they are not holding as well as I thought.  I'm thinking about "closing" the purse by putting sides on it and just putting accessories in it.  Have to think on this!  lol

Here is LaDenna's take on it.  I LOVE it!  

So many adorable accessories!!

I hope you enjoyed our projects.  Next weeks challenge is to use our HAPPY HAUNTINGS Cricut cartridge and make cards/decor for Halloween.  Can't wait to play with this one!

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Wishing everyone a great weekend! And thanks for coming by!

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