Oil Rubbed Bronze

I finished the lamp that I was working on, I was going to take pictures of where I have it sitting but it is in front of a window and the back lighting was awful and I coudn't get a good picture of it so I set up a tray table in our entrance way and we had the front door open so the light came through nicely.

Here is a before shot of the lamp, I had it set up in the garage and was allready to start spraying when I realized I didn't have a before shot of the lamp, so the shade isn't on it but you can get an idea.

I found this idea through pinterest here is the link to the blog with all the instructions in case you want to give this a try.

Here it is after, I wanted you to see the whole thing with the lamp shade and all, here are a few close up shots of it too.

If you have a lamp or anything that you want a new look but don't want to go spend the money to buy new this is a great alternative.  After doing this my hubby asked if I was going to do the same thing for the lighting over our dining room table, and I said yea I would like to give it a try.

The can says it works on Wood, metal, plastic and masonry, so you are limited only by your imagination.  I think the girl mentioned that she bought hers at Lowe's but I found mine at Walmart for cheaper, and I am guessing this lamp took maybe half the can, but I put two coats on it, and waited 24 hours between coats.

I am putting the finishing touches on the night stand I painted and will be showing that soon.

Thanks for stopping by,
Connie

Mothers Day

Well I hope this card makes it to my mother in law, she says she never received the Easter card I sent so I sure hope she was able to get this.

I don't know if you can tell by the picture, I just downloaded it so I didn't know how these turned out but there is a few layers of dimension on the flowers.

HOTP Enchanted Garden 3-D Paper tole foil diecuts for the framing and the flowers.

Darcies JCS 149 sentiment embossed with gold embossing powder

My Mind's Eye Paris & co. paper pack

Lace

Faux stitching with signa white pen

This picture was a little closer shot of the dimension.

I have been very busy today doing some projects that I saw on Pinterest, I hope to have them done tomorrow and post on Monday, check back to see :)

Thanks so much for stopping by,
Connie

Wreath

I made this for my girlfriend, her favorite colors are pink and green, Like me :)  but I felt it need more colors so my hubby suggested the yellow :)

I forgot to measure the grapevine wreath before giving it to her but I think it was a 6 " wreath.

The roses (pink) are made from Tim Holtz Tattered Florals die, using K&co. Classic K papers.

The yellow flowers are from Spellbinders Carnation Creations as well as the dark green leaves. I used Cosmo Cricket papers for the carnations.

Spellbinders Foliage die for the rose leaves using DCWV Old world stack.

McGill Pine punch for the sprigs used scraps for those in different colors so they weren't all the same shade.

Spellbinders Romantic Rectangles and Lattice Rectangles dies for the verse.  I used Tim Holtz Memo pins on the top and bottom of the framing to help hold it on to the wreath as well as Hot Glue which I used to attach everything to the wreath.

Our Daily Bread designs Faith Stamp set for the verse.

Ribbon and button finish it off.

I just finished picking two of the large size cool whip dishes of strawberries from my garden, I hadn't been out there for a few days because of all the rain and some of the strawberries had to be thrown into the yard for the birds to eat, we will be having strawberry shortcake for our dessert tonight :)

Hope you all are enjoying your week,
Thanks so much for taking the time out to stop by and for your sweet comments,
Connie

May Challenge

In my cardmaking group it was my turn to come up with a challenge, and I challenged everyone to use their old tools.  There is always new gadgets that come out that makes things quicker and more accurate and we tend to let the old tools get pushed back and never used.

On my card I used Pioneer brand decorative scissor for the scallops around my banner.  Remember when we first started and we had to use them if we wanted any type of border around our images, now we slap in a die or cut something on our cricuts ect.

My mind's eye, A Beautiful life paper
Hero Arts, Friendly Flags stamps set
Inkadinkado Floral flourishes stamp set (main image)
Spellbinder Circle and Lacey circles dies
Martha Stewart butterflies punch w/gemstones
Hero Arts, Birthay messages stamp set (sentiment)
Yarn for the banner

The card idea came from Amy Sheffers Blog , sorry I don't have a link to the actual card.

Maybe you will drag out some of your tools that have been long forgotten and give them another try :)

Well it's raining once again, we need to get our shed and deck painted they both need it, we have all the supplies, now we are just hoping for some rain free days, so that we can get it done before it gets too hot.

Hope your week is starting off well,
Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by,
Connie

Jasmine frame

I took a trip to a scrap store over in Kimmswick, Mo. last week and picked up some more Memory Box dies and here is one of them, I hadn't seen it before and didn't exactly know how I was going to use it, which is very unlike me, if I don't have a person or thing in mind I usually don't buy it but I just loved the delicate look of this die.

Memory Box Jasmine frame die

Ek success flowers w/ sunshine yellow flower soft centers and Martha Stewart leaf punch that I cut apart and embossed veins in the leaves, rhinestones on the flowers on frame

Basic Grey Kiosh paper

Spellbinders Ribbon Tags Trio die w/ doodlebug designs sentiment

Dashes and Dots Ribbon

We are having more storms today, but so far no hail, thank goodness.
Hope you all enjoy a wonderful weekend!

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by,
Connie