Maya Road & Epiphany Crafts

Hiya Sweetie Peas! Happy Wednesday! I hope your weeks are going well so far. We are still trying to adjust to being back on a school schedule, and I have to say that so far, I’m not doing too well. It’s extremely hard to get back to a strict routine after a lazy summer of being a slug-a-bug. Sigh……..how I miss summer vacation already!

It’s Maya Road week on the Epiphany Crafts blog.  And talk about a fun match-up, right? Maya Road has so many awesome products to play with. Paired up with Epiphany’s great shapes and tools, there’s just no end to creative inspiration.

I,  in my attempts to beat the back-to-school blues, have made another Halloween card using lots of Maya Road goodies like their kraft envelopes, round kraft typography numbers, and scalloped chipboard. And of course I dressed it up with custom button and bubble caps made with the Round 14 and Round 25 Shape Studio Tools.

There’s nothing like a little Halloween to cheer me right up!

For a complete supply list and full photo step-by-steps for creating this card, please visit the Epiphany Crafts blog. And if you’d like the chance to win a free seat in Cathy Zielske’s 10 Tips for Type! Class (Class starts September 6th!), be sure to leave a comment while you are there. The winner will be drawn and announced this Friday. Good luck everyone!

And before I go, I have one last photo to share with you. It’s my two munchies on their first day of school.

Love that Nik has her big brother to show her the ropes at high school. Love that they have this one last year together. Just love them both to pieces!

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House & Home

Hello everyone! Wishing you a happy Wednesday from sunny California!  We are having such a fantastic time on our vacation here.  The last 4 days in a row have found me making road trips to Moraga, Sacramento and yesterday, to Santa Cruz to visit old stomping grounds and good friends. I’ve met up with college friends that I haven’t seen in 24 years and my oldest and bestest friend from back in 2nd grade. It’s been wonderful, and it’s been a whirlwind, and I think pretty soon, I’m going to need a vacation from my vacation.  Cause all this traveling around is wearing me out.

Today I have a fun project to share featuring the current challenge at The Shabby Tea Room.  This week’s challenge, House & Home, is to create a project inspired from this lovely photo.

I used the colors from the photo and the sweet house as inspiration for a framed project using a simple shadow box I picked up at my local big box craft store.

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I used the Marine Star and Silver Star pens from the Stardust Gelly Roll set to add sparkle and shine to the patterned papers in my design. The Silver Star adds a silver lining to the hand-cut clouds and accents the centers of the floral motifs in the roof paper.  Marine Star colors the leaves on the Life is Good rub-on, dots the “siding” of the house facade, and outlines the windows and doors. Once you start playing with these pens, it’s hard to stop!

Papers are Girls’  Paperie and Creative Imaginations IOD. I also used an old rub-on from Daisy D’s for the sentiment and trims from Webster’s Pages. The house shape itself is from a chipboard mini album from Maya Road, and I created the flowers from dictionary paper using 5 layers of paper punched with a flower punch. Also making an appearance is several vintage buttons from my stash.

Thanks so much for stopping by and paying me a visit! I so hope to get a chance to come visit YOU soon.  I’ve been missing you!

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