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I am a stay-at-home mom. I have been married to my handsome and wonderful husband for over 14 years. Right now he's battling stomach/esophagus cancer. So I do my best to craft when I can. I have two wonderful boys. My oldest, Garett, is 24 and served 5 years in the Navy. He's been home since the beginning of the year (2014). We are very proud of him. My youngest, "DJ", is 13 and in the 8th grade. I have two Border Collie mix dogs (Koda and Rugu), one Calico cat (Hydie), one orange Tabby cat (Bosley), one Tea Cup Chihuahua (Gigi...I LOVE her sooo much), a Chiweinnie (Lily....sweetest dog ever), and a Jack Russell/Chihuahua (Connor....AAALL boy).

Monday, January 5, 2015

The ADORNit and Mountain Plains Crafters Blog Hop

Hello and thank you for join me on a really exciting Blog Hop. Mountain Plains Crafters and ADORNit have teamed up to show you some exciting new products and what you can do with them. We have so many wonderful projects to show you.
This adorable card I made was created using ADORNit's "Art Play" Paintables. Special paper, like watercolor paper, with pre-printed images on it for you to color in using whatever medium you desire. With my image,  I used water color pencils. There was enough space at the top that it left enough room for me to add a name. So that's just what I did and it fits PERFECT!!  There are so many images printed on these 12x12 pages, you'll have something to last you forever.


For this project, we were given wood pieces to create with called Shaped Surfaces. We were also given sheets of 12x12 papers with printed phrases of ALL kinds called Prints. But this is one of my favorites. I mean what crafter wouldn't agree?  I painted the wood piece with blue to match the blue in "my" and "room"  and Mod Podged a doily that was my husband's when he was in the hospital for his cancer surgery (They were under his food cups). Then I also used the adorable fabrics we were given and stitched up some really cute and easy flowers to add with my other embellishments.


This was a very quick and easy project to make. I took my bottle cap heart and cut out some ADORNit Blender Paper that matched the colors in my picture.  I made the little flowers out of the yellow ADORNit fabric and the bow out of some ADORNit fabric as well. 


This is my absolute favorite project. I saw something similar like this at Pier1 and fell in love with it, so you can imagine my delight when I saw this in my Print package. So I made a trip to the home improvement store and picked up 9 large paint stir sticks, 2 small paint stir sticks, a couple of packages of eye hooks, and a piece of scrap moulding. I cut all the rules into strips and Mod Podged them onto my cut and sanded stir sticks. I used the small sticks as a frame in back.  Add little jute to hang it up with and a lovely bow made from ADORNit's adorable fabrics. 

Well that's it. Thanks for stopping by. I hope I have inspired a lot of you to get out and get creating!!

My clue is L

Next up is the great and wonderful Pam

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12 comments:

  1. thanks for sharing Sheryl... you already know how much i love your bun bun card. I hope that they love it too!!!

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  2. Super lovely work! Your Home Depot project spoke to me, too. Great work, my friend.

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  3. This is a great hop. So many cute and fun things to make. It's been a treat to see so many wonderful, decorative pieces.
    thanks for sharing.

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  4. All your projects are great, but your paint stick one is amazing. It made me want to run out and go get some paint sticks myself. Great job.

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  5. And.....you knock it outta the park!

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    1. I just noticed the dangling scissors on the craft room plaque. Darling!

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  6. All of you have such great creations! I can't pick a favorite on yours! Toss between the paint stick sign and the heart magnet!

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  7. Sheryl, I love your creations and am so happy to see some of your work again. My favorite is the bunny card, but I really like the photo of you and your husband in the heart tins.

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  8. Your Craft Room wall hanging made me smile --- I have taken the little doily that a local restaurant puts in the handle of their Decaf coffee mugs and used them on cards .... And they are already stained !! Lovely projects, Sheryl.... Your Family Rules could be sold at Hobby Lobby or Pier 1 !!! Perfect !!

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  9. Sheryl, your bunny card is so cute!! I also love all the rest of your projects. The pic of you n your hubby is so sweet :)

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  10. Love your craft room
    plaque! Great work on
    all.
    Carla from Utah

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