More blog candy...

Hello There,

I have found another blog candy giveaway and I wanted to share it with you...

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I hope you check these out...

Blessings 
Sherry

New blog I found

Hello there,

I hope you are well, I have found a wonderful new blog that has some great card ideas and she is having a give away and I wanted to share it with you:

http://pinkpuds.blogspot.com/

this give away is open to everyone and I hope you check out her blog...it's adorable...

blessings
Sherry

WAW: "We Love Him"

Hello There,

I am starting to get back on track with crafting.  I spent the day yesterday cleaning up my craft room and I must say it feels great to be organized again.

I made this card and have enclosed three different views of this card to show the colors, embossed papers and details...

This view shows off the gold embossed paper, and the buttons that I punched out with a Martha Stewart punch, I used a Martha Stewart punch for the bottom border...but unfortunately Martha Stewart punches are not labeled so I can tell you what they are...

I love the detail in this view of the dimensional butterflies that I have added..


I am going to enter this card in:

wordartwednesday.blogspot.com---challenge #44

crafts4eternity.blogspot.com/2012/08/r87-less-is-more.html---Crafts 4 Eternity


Blessings
Sherry

Marie's Shadowbox Memories

Hello There,

We have recently lost Mamaw and her homegoing was a wonderful time of peace, reflection and joy that she is in the arms of her Savior now and is no longer suffering.  She was 87yrs. when she passed and I wanted to do something to remember her life....

So I found a few old photos and made some demensional lay-outs and put them in shadow boxes.  They were a wonderful addition to the service...and we placed them by the door to the entrance of the funeral room where you sign in and stuff.

 I have now been approached to make some on consignment and we will see how this works out...

I have heard people exclaim that this is a art form, a work of art, and art that heals....I think I like the term art that heals...because preserving precious memories of our loved ones truly does ease the pain of feeling seperated from them.

This is Lester and Marie Gardner when they were teenagers and just gotten married...she was 17yrs. and he was 18yrs.  Lester went to be with the Lord about 9yrs. ago, and has been waiting for her.  I made the roses and cherry blossoms in this lay-out...

This is a photo of them that the whole extended family just loves.  They were married 62yrs. and still going strong when he passed...They truly endured the TESTS of time...
I made the roses and cherry blossoms in this lay-out to...

This is Marie as a young girl and I just love the way vintage photo's of children look, they are truly timeless...she was born in 1925 and I think she is between 4-5 yrs...

This is a close up of the flower spray...I made the roses, and cherry blossoms and daisies...

and this is Marie when she is about 27yrs... I just love this picture of her....I made all the roses in this layout...

I hope you have enjoyed these and if you have any questions on these projects leave me a comment and I will try to help...

Blessings
Sherry

Volleyball Decorations for Rebecca's Team

Hello There,

Well, Rebecca has been in school for about three weeks so far and volleyball season is well under way.  There are 13 girls on the team this year...

This is Rebecca's first high school sports year and it's going to be awesome...I have been busy making some gym wall and locker decorations for the girls and coaches...

This is the gym wall decoration for the main coach of the team...

This is for one of the girls that is like a cheerleader and a line judge for the team ... the little white sticker is for gluing on her picture which I don't have yet...

These are the volleyballs that are going in the main gym on the wall for the girls...

These are the locker decorations that will be placed on their lockers and they keep them up for the whole year....The names have gold over the black paper which is not showing up well in the pictures but the effect is beautiful...each girl has her name and jersey number on their volleyballs for the lockers...the paw prints are used all over the school and they are the "LIONS"...


The creed that I always use on their posters and cards is:

Lions don't quit...we find our ROAR and finish it

I do love to do this for her teams, and I hope this gives you some ideas to use for your own teams...


Blessings
Sherry

How to Bling Out a backpack

Hello There,

Rebecca is officially a ninth grader...and she wanted to start the year off with an awesome one of a kind backback...sooooo....we went shopping....

Well, we wound up at Sports Authority and we had in hand a Under Armour backpack but when we went to look at socks, she found this backpack....it's pink inside and she said "Wow, it's like
a magical world of awesomeness...."  So we got the "magical world of awesomeness "backpack...I'm a firm believer in buying my kids school supplies that will make it more fun for them and my girls always enjoy the process of school supply shopping, buying a new backpack and a cool lunchbox....


Then we went to Hobby Lobby and Michaels and this is what we found for "BLING"...

These embroidery letters are for spelling out her name on the backpack...

The blue rhinestones are for blinging out the pawprint...blue is the main school color...and the softball patch is well, it's Rebecca....nuff said...

These ribbons are for decorating the handle...and the larger one is for a bow...she's into bow's right now...

She has been playing volleyball since the 5th grade and is now on the Jr. Varsity team and occasionally plays in some of the Varsity games...this is going on her gym bag...

This patch is going on her gym bag....

She is on the Varsity and Jr. Varsity volleyball teams...

This pawprint is going on her gymbag as well...

Now for the assembly process...

We used the letters to put her name on the backpack...can you tell she is pleased...

Now she is carefully tying off the ribbons on her handle....

The ribbons were very tedious...but the effect is awesome....

Now the backpack is officially "Blinged out for High School" and she is pleased...

Now she is ready for the first day of High School...

I always take a picture of the first day of school...

Seriously....this is the picture she wanted....and she did a great job...don't you think...

Backpack feels great and she loves her gym bag too....and I just love my girl...

Blessings 

Sherry