Feeling a bit naughty....

...but not in a fun way! I feel a bit like a teenager who is out past curfew....any minute someone is going to start yelling "Where have you been!!??!" But summer is drawing to an end...the kids go back to school on Wednesday...I have to admit it is time...they are starting to drive me crazy!

But just cause I have not posted, does not mean I have not been creating....here are some of the things I have been working on this past month....

Finished my quilt top from Crazy Mom Quilts quilt a long.

Hosted a state recipe swap on Two Peas for which I made all these cards...

Plus a few more that did not get photographed.

I also hosted a cupcake, picnic and a copycat recipe swap as well. I made these cards for it:

I decorated my front table...which is not anything great, but it I liked the feel of it. I have had that Roses vinyl forever...so I was really glad to use it!

I also made this cute little guy!

It is a empty spool of thread that I could not bring myself to throw away.

So I turned it into a mini album

Doesn't it look cute next to my J!

Some up coming projects I have in the works include some aprons from these fabrics

Some Halloween Spudnut recipe cards from this fun paper..

Completing these three quilt tops...

And finishing this quilt that I started for my dads birthday.

I am also hosting another fun swap on Two Peas....it is for a 12 days of Christmas quilt...I am still looking for a few more swappers. If you are interested check it out here.

What a productive week!

Is is amazed how much I can get done when there are not a hundred school functions...oh and your hours get cut at work! Not good, now my craft funds are even more limited....but I did get a lot done!

Designed and sewed my fourth of July quilt top....LOVING it! And as promised, this one is all mine!!

Started on my July set for my front door.....

Made my cupcake recipe cards for a swap I am hosting on Two Peas

Did some awesome hair dos on Taya, thanks to A Princess and Her Hair

And I redesigned my blog and my mom, Rosy Cheeks, blog.

I am feeling accomplished! On the list for this weekend, besides clean, laundry and errands (boring!) is to start quilting my 4th of July quilt and get a few more recipe card groups done....well I am off to the grocery store!

Happy Crafting!

Added note: I am linking this post up with Craftaholics Anonymous

June Table

I finished up my front table decor last night.

These cute little ants were the inspiration behind it all. Being low on funds, everything was made with things I had on hand.

                                  

I started with the watermelon in the frame. It is paper pieced with

scrapbook paper. Then I spray painted a dollar store frame silver. I lined the frame with mat board with sheet music and used pop dots to make it stand out a bit, which is hard to tell from the picture.

Next came the ribbon topiary.

I found this cute idea here and LOVED it! I am in the works to make one just like this for the fourth of July.

Then I did some blocks with more paper piecing and a touch of the ribbon from the topiary.

The hardest part was something for my front door. I had no wreath and no funds to buy one. I came up with this.

Its not my most favorite thing I have ever put on the front door, but it works. The cone is made from scrapbook paper that I modge podged over to help make it a bit sturdier. The pink flowers a paper hearts folded to look like petals.

Over all, its not my favorite front table ever,but it will work until I can put up my 4th of July stuff!

I am linking this up to:

SYTYC...

I made it through the first round! I was a little nervous there for a bit! Did you guess which was mine....



Yup, the butterfly shadow box. I have to admit, the folksy was really challenging for me. I love how it turned out, regardless of the fact I was towards the bottom.

And the butterflies inspired all the cute things I made for my front entry table and the wreath. I have been dying to post this for two weeks, but knew it would be a give away to which was my entry...so here is what I made to go with it....



The blocks...

introduce the papers. I may have admitted this before, but I am a paper hoarder. I love paper! It is really hard for me to cut it up...I mean, I know I can buy more, but what if I come up with something better that I could have used it on?

With that said, I love how all the papers combine, the perfect colors to kick off summer!

The topiary is a foam ball covered with "flowers", more on those in a minute...

some use buttons for the center, some use pearl beads and some have pins for the center. I used a branch from my tree as the pole. It took a lot of hot glue to stick it in place...actually this whole project took a lot of hot glue...

The birds nest

was my original idea for the folksy entry....but it just didn't feel folksy enough. The "nest" is burlap that was bathed in a mixture of mod podge and water


then molded around a plastic wrapped bowl



and left to harden and dry.

The birds are made with Muslim, that I hand dyed with Kool aid,

yup Kool Aid..with a just enough water to cover the fabric. I love how vibrant they turned out!

The wreath

started with a dollar store wreath. I hot glued flowers all around it, using the same types as I did from the topiary. I then used wire to make a few of the butterflies

float around the wreath....I sprinkled the butterflies throughout all of the projects.

The flowers used in all of the projects was an idea I found in Scrapbooks,etc.
If you look closely,

you can see that they are hearts, that are folded in half, then folded back in on itself and then opened up. Then they are hot glued onto a circle and finished with the different centers. I had so much fun trying different layers, and combinations to make all kinds of different flowers.

This week I have been working on "Bella" for my Hug them All project.


And been quilting away with Obsessively Stichings my first quilt...quilt along.


I am really excited about next weeks round on SYTYC be sure to check it out on Monday when a new theme is introduced and all the new crafts are posted and if you can take a minute to vote.

I am linking this post to:

SYTYC...

I made it through the first round! I was a little nervous there for a bit! Did you guess which was mine....



Yup, the butterfly shadow box. I have to admit, the folksy was really challenging for me. I love how it turned out, regardless of the fact I was towards the bottom.

And the butterflies inspired all the cute things I made for my front entry table and the wreath. I have been dying to post this for two weeks, but knew it would be a give away to which was my entry...so here is what I made to go with it....



The blocks...

introduce the papers. I may have admitted this before, but I am a paper hoarder. I love paper! It is really hard for me to cut it up...I mean, I know I can buy more, but what if I come up with something better that I could have used it on?

With that said, I love how all the papers combine, the perfect colors to kick off summer!

The topiary is a foam ball covered with "flowers", more on those in a minute...

some use buttons for the center, some use pearl beads and some have pins for the center. I used a branch from my tree as the pole. It took a lot of hot glue to stick it in place...actually this whole project took a lot of hot glue...

The birds nest

was my original idea for the folksy entry....but it just didn't feel folksy enough. The "nest" is burlap that was bathed in a mixture of mod podge and water


then molded around a plastic wrapped bowl



and left to harden and dry.

The birds are made with Muslim, that I hand dyed with Kool aid,

yup Kool Aid..with a just enough water to cover the fabric. I love how vibrant they turned out!

The wreath

started with a dollar store wreath. I hot glued flowers all around it, using the same types as I did from the topiary. I then used wire to make a few of the butterflies

float around the wreath....I sprinkled the butterflies throughout all of the projects.

The flowers used in all of the projects was an idea I found in Scrapbooks,etc.
If you look closely,

you can see that they are hearts, that are folded in half, then folded back in on itself and then opened up. Then they are hot glued onto a circle and finished with the different centers. I had so much fun trying different layers, and combinations to make all kinds of different flowers.

This week I have been working on "Bella" for my Hug them All project.


And been quilting away with Obsessively Stichings my first quilt...quilt along.


I am really excited about next weeks round on SYTYC be sure to check it out on Monday when a new theme is introduced and all the new crafts are posted and if you can take a minute to vote.