Petaloo Color Me Crazy & Ranger Ink ~ Mini Wreath

May 16, 2013

When I saw the Petaloo Color Me Crazy Chip­board Fairies (1581–004) I knew I had to make a lit­tle some­thing for my nieces to...

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Petaloo Color Me Crazy & Ranger Ink Week

May 14, 2013

All this week on the Petaloo Blog, Petaloo is show­cas­ing guest design­ers using their Color Me Crazy Line that have been altered...

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Hemp & Vintage Button Bracelet

Apr 18, 2013

This is my new favorite bracelet. I plan on wear­ing it every sin­gle day. If you want to make one it’s super sim­ple. All you...

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Dazzle-It Bracelet & Charm Tutorials

Apr 8, 2013

One thing I love is being asked to cre­ate items with prod­ucts I have never used before. I’m always up for the chal­lenge and...

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Altering Paper Mache Eggs

Mar 11, 2013

I altered these paper mache eggs from start to fin­ish in less than an hour. These paper mache eggs mea­sure approx­i­mately...

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Glittering Thrift Store Vases and Bottles

Jan 28, 2013

This was a fun late night, last minute project I decided to do since I’ve seen this tech­nique many times pinned on Pin­ter­est....

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Reindeer Ornament

Dec 4, 2012

Isn’t this orna­ment cute. I love the whimsy style and think my nieces will too. So let me tell you how this orna­ment came about...

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Texas Big + Funky = My Kinda Charm

Oct 31, 2012

Oh good­ness where do I start to tell you about this charm. I had so much fun mak­ing it but darn 4 days to com­plete some­thing...

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Metal Gift Tag

Oct 18, 2012

This year, I plan on using what I already have on hand to cre­ate name tags for all my gifts. All you need are a few punches,...

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Archived Halloween & Fall Projects

Oct 17, 2012

With fall finally get­ting ready to hit my lit­tle neck of the woods.  I thought it would be fun to do some dig­ging in my...

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Altering Vintage Keys

Oct 16, 2012

Alter­ing vin­tage keys is super sim­ple and since you can find them in so many dif­fer­ent shapes and sizes hav­ing sev­eral...

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Love ~ Canvas

Aug 31, 2012

Before I share this can­vas tuto­r­ial which is super fun and not dif­fi­cult to recre­ate at all I want to let you know about...

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Homemade Hand & Body Scrubs

Jun 29, 2012

Each day while Made­lyn is vis­it­ing I’m doing some kind of fun craft or project with her. Yes­ter­day, she made some...

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Rose Shaped Crayons

Jun 27, 2012

Made­lyn had such a fun time cre­at­ing these rose shaped crayons. All you need is crayons and gosh do I ever have a stash of...

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Craft Day with Madelyn

Jun 26, 2012

Made­lyn, niece #2 is vis­it­ing this week. Each day we have a craft day so yes­ter­day, we made a birth­day ban­ner and party...

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Fun Encaustic Background

Apr 19, 2012

This back­ground is super fun to cre­ate and sur­pris­ingly easy. All you need are 5 col­ored crayons, 1 white crayon, 1 mini...

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Make n Take Giveaway

Feb 7, 2012

The last day of CHA-W, I showed lots of peo­ple how to cre­ate this super cute flower pin. You use about 12″ of Maya Road Satin...

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Year In Review ~ UTEE

Jan 4, 2012

When I was asked to cre­ate some projects using Ultra Thick Emboss­ing Enamel (UTEE) I had no idea I would fall in love with this...

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UTEE Love

Dec 15, 2011

One thing I love to do is look in the $1 sec­tion at Tar­get, in Thrift Stores or in the clear­ance aisle for sil­i­cone bak­ing...

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Miniature Charms

Dec 14, 2011

I’ve been hav­ing fun cre­at­ing these minia­ture charms in between work­ing on CHA projects and other design com­mit­ments....

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Domino Art

Dec 8, 2011

Each time I use a domino it brings me back to how I acquired them… One day as I was tak­ing Ans­ley some­place after school...

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