Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Creepie Cute

Hey guys, It's Wednesday, the last wednesday of the month and also the day before 31 Days of Halloween starts!!!!  Ok so this week on WWATC our sponsor is Creepie Cute Stamps and the challenge theme is Orange and Black!!!  Gettin ya in the mood for Halloween!!!

Here is what I made:


Wednesday, September 23, 2015

Furry Friends

Hello Lovelies, it's Wednesday and you know what that means?  YEP a new Wicked Wednesday ATC Challenge!!!  This week our sponsor is Fred, She said and our theme is Furry Friends!!!  So many different things could be done with that!!!  Come join us at WWATC this week and show us what Furry Friends means to you!!!  Here is what I made, to see more you have to go over to WWATC!!!


Wednesday, September 16, 2015

WWATC

Hey guys, it's time for a new WWATC challenge!!!  This week our sponsor is That Craft Place and the challenge is to use NUMBERS on your ATC!!!  Please head over to the WWATC blog to see who the winner from last weeks challenge was and also to see the awesome inspiration from the other DT members!!!  Here is what I made... 

She only has 5 things to say, can you guess what they are!!!!!  LOL


Wednesday, September 9, 2015

Cowgirls

Hey guys, it's wednesday and you know what that means... yep Wicked Wednesday ATC has a new challenge!!!  This week our sponsor is Crafty Sentiments.  

The challenge this week is Cowgirls/Cowboys.  Here is what I made...

Head on over to WWATC so see the other DT inspiration and join us in our challenge!!!

Tuesday, September 8, 2015

Old to New(ish)

I did a thing y'all!!!  Like a super cool, at least to me, thing!!!   I took an old dresser I have had since I was in like 8th grade! and revamped it to use in my studio!!!  I mean this thing has been through a lot... Lots and lots of moves, a daughter who used it cause it would fit in her room, back to me and staying in my closet holding my lingerie, ok who am I kidding, it has 7 drawers and 4 of them are socks!!!  LOL

Anyway, I had been seeing all these PINs on Pinterest about people revamping old furniture without sanding and let's all be honest here, who in the hell wants to sand anything?, not me for sure!!!!

So I bought the primer that everyone said use, it was 20$ a gallon at my Lowe's, got the paint colors I wanted and had the hubby cart it off to the shop so I didn't have to paint in the house!   So here I go, taking off all the hardware and wiping the dust off of the whole thing then I start priming it, that's when I thought hey take pictures!!!  So here are the pictures I took the first day...

This primer stuff works pretty good, although because you didn't sand, you need like a gazillion coats, OK 3 but still that's a lot of priming!!!  Oh and use a foam roller for the love of sanity, use a foam roller!!!!!!!  So I got everything primed and let it dry, painted the drawer fronts in my color of choice, and then added a coat or 2, OK 2 , of white paint on top of the white primer on the main part of the dresser.....  took the hubby and the son to Lowe's to pick out new hardware for the drawers and some dinner!!!  YAY food!  Get back out to the shop only to realize that I didn't take those little feet off and prime or paint those... also the hardware didn't fit, was to small!!!

So hubby took the feet off and we started on those, realized that the hardware was to small and because of where I live and it being a Sunday night everything was closed... so I knew that I wasn't getting the dresser finished that night or that week for that matter since I would have to order hardware to get the correct length.... now about ordering hardware for my dresser that is 4 inches, cause the store doesn't sell that length.. do you know how expensive that shit is???  Like seriously!!!  So I decided that was not going to happen because let's just say three mortgages!!!  I went and found a can of metallic silver spray paint in the stash in the garage and also a can of primer + paint in white for the little feet I still had to do and went to town finishing it up!


  Isn't it cute!!!!!!!!  Now it's in the studio holding 12x12 paper because that's what I needed it for!!!

Now that that is all finished I would probably try the spray paint with primer or paint with primer first before I got the primer again, but since I have about 90% of that gallon of primer left, I will use it  to finish up the few other projects I still want to tackle in the craft room!!!

Wednesday, September 2, 2015

WWATC

Hello Lovelies,

It's Wednesday again and you know that means another Wicked Wednesday ATC challenge right!!  This week our sponsor is the fantabulous Vera Lane!  I LOVE LOVE LOVE those images!!! 

I've created two ATCs this week!  I used my color pencils to color them both and a bit of dylusions on the backgrounds as this weeks challenge is sprays or inks!!!


Yes they are both colored with color pencils, both of them use some of the same colors.  I just love playing with the different looks you can achieve with colored pencils!!!  Come join us at WWATC for this weeks challenge!!!!