By The Sea Birthday

Today is a high school friend's birthday and she loves the ocean! She is a retired teacher and her vacations are always spend at the ocean. Her birthday card this year is this triple panel pop up card from Mixed up Crafts. I used Graphic 45's By the Sea collection which is always fun to use. I have actually made 3 of these for friend's and family. This card measures 5x7 which is a great size for a card and gives you a lot of space to put your sentiment and, of course, decorate! If you want to make this card just go to youtube and search for Mised up Craft, triple panel pop up card. In my previous post, I mentioned that Sisters Designs is getting ready for another craft fair at the end of April. Pictured below are some projects that I have been working on for the fair.

These rolling pins I bought at Goodwill and decorated them with IOD transfers and the words are done with my Cricut. I love how they came out and I think I am going to sell them but sometimes it is hard to part with my creations! Love them!

Now these bookends were given to me and they were all black. I don't have a before picture (which I wish I did!) but here is the after pictures when I painted them with Waverly mineral chalk paint. It is done with the baking soda technique to give it a more dimensional effect. I added some embellishments such as metal giraffes, cardstock from Graphic 45 and then I did seal it. Love how these came out too. These will be at the craft fair. Because tomorrow is April 1st I better get busy for the fair. I still have a few more things to do!

Winter Birthdays

Here are a couple of cards that I made for some friends birthdays in the past month.

These polar bears from MFT are the cutest! Love using them for birthday cards and this card is a Z-fold card for a special friend's birthday! This stamp set is great for Christmas cards too.

This card is called a Mountain Fold Card. The tutorial is from Frenchie that I saw on Pinterest. She does a great job explaining it and here is the Graphic 45 Ocean Blue is one of my favorite paper collections and I used it for this card as Lynn is a beach girl! My sisters and I are getting ready for another craft fair in April so I wanted to show you some of the things that I have been working on for the fair. I love finding things from vintage stores and Goodwill to repurpose. Magazine holders is one of my latest passions to repurpose because you can use them for other things than magazines as you will see below. The kitchen isn't the only place you can use them. You can also use them in the bathroom for holding towels or just use them to hold floral arrangements. Wish us luck on our fair next month!

Catching up!

We headed South on February 1st to get some warm weather for a month. We stayed in New Smyrna on the Beach to get some views and walking on their beautiful beach. It was a beautiful week there. We did some cruising to the Bahamas and then headed to North Port to visit my sister and her husband, and lastly we stayed the last week in Kissimmee on a golf course. It was a great vacation-beautiful weather! Here are a bunch of pictures from our travels in Florida!