Canvas Decor

After cleaning and purging my room recently, I decided that I wanted to add some handmade
decor to my craft area.  I had saved a catchy saying that I found on the web and used it as the basis for my creating.  To start, I took a small 8x10 canvas and proceeded to add some embellishments.  I layered on a scrap piece of a telephone book page, painted it and then adhered it to my canvas.

Next, I added two strips of cardstock, some of my scrap writing paper that I

write little snippets of notes, wood letters(that I painted) and then I took a clear

script stamp and covered the canvas randomly. I also added some

doodles and lastly one of my hand-drawn artsy flowers. I can't wait

to display it in my craft space.

Getting my Summer Craft On

Well it's here, summer vacation. What a wonderful time for me. I get 2 and a half months off with stress-free living. Well, at  least a little less dtressful. So what am I doing? Crafting my little hands and brain away. Check out my IG account(button right) to see what I'm doing. I dusted off my Imagine and it is working double duty helping me to create stickers for my planners. What's next? I guess some awesome projects are just ahead. So stay tuned

May Photo Journal

Just finished my May photo journal pages:

National Scrapbooking Day

For National Scrapbook Day, I worked on March and April pages in my photo journal book.  Check out these pages:

Spring Crop in Marietta, Ga

On April 25, 2015, three crafty friends and myself traveled about 3 hours to a crop in Marietta, Ga.  The crop was hosted by none other than Tiare Smith of Scraps of Color, a crafting .ning site. We arrived there around ten- thirty after a bout with some bad weather.  After unloading our supplies, we got right down to business.  Lunch and dinner was provided as well as prizes and entertainment, i.e. dancing by some of the crafty ladies.  Here are just a few pictures from our trip.

Checking my List

Are you a person that likes to write LISTS?  I don't. Well, I didn't.  Recently I jumped on the listers bandwagon.  Over on Instagram there is a listers challenge titled, "ListersGottaList".  So each day there is a prompt that helps you to reflect on things that happened or is happening in your life.  All you have to do is write your answers down in a list format.  The fun part is that you can add some flair to the page by adding simple or lots of embellishments.  In other words, you can just make a simple list or you can really spice it up.  The challenge started April 1st.  Some of the listers bought journals or other books to house their creation but I made my own.  For the cover, I used "The Denim Stack" and added some alpha letters for the title.

For the inside pages, I used craft cardstick.  Below are a few of the pages, prompts I did:

Another fun thing about this challenge is that you can do the prompts at your own pace, you don't have to do it everyday.  (But it is so much fun that you will want to) You can just double up the next day or the next.  So if you think you don't like lists, try this challenge and you may change your attitude about making a list.  Then, go over to Instagram and look for #ListersGottaList and start your own list and also see what lists other creative people are sharing.  It's really a lot of fun!

A Different Kind of Paper Bag Album

Last weekend I was inspired to create a different kind of mini album.  It was inspired by  Shellye McDaniel at Papered Cottage.  I had so much fun putting this little gem together.  I used some manila envelopes and regular lunch paper bags.  Then I layered on the embellishments.  I also used my trusty sewing machine to bind it all together.