Wednesday Morning Post for February 8th

Good morning friends!  I have been on a scrappin' roll lately.  Yes, I have been avoiding my chair re-upholstering project, sort of.  I did finish removing all the staples and bits of fabric this week and decided to refinish the legs and make them sexy so I had to sand them down and paint them.  They are waiting on a second coat, I have used melamine paint and it is taking quite a while to dry, but worth the wait.  Once I'm done the legs I will start with the actual re-upholstering.  I can't wait to share the finished project with you.

The first project of the day is my mom's birthday card.  I still haven't given it to her, I should have just mailed it.  We were supposed to be going out for dinner as a large group together but it hasn't happened yet.  She is dying to see it.  She's probably disappointed right now, the card isn't too fancy but I just had to play with the words.  I bought this stamp set at Up the Street Scrapbooking, it is from Unity stamps/Jillibean Soup and is called Apple Cheddar (you will be seeing more from this set).  The greeting is mostly computer generated but I did stamp the word Gnome.  I used my Spellbinders to die cut the label, the crocheted flower is part of a larger embellishment that I disassembled because I didn't like it as is, and used as two separate parts.  All other supplies are SU!  The DSP is from the Play Date series.  Sorry about the wait mom, at least you don't know what is on the inside...

Don't you just "Love" this page?  The layout for this one is an original idea (yay me!).  This is another kit from My Mind's Eye called Love Me (of course).  I just loved the papers in it and sort of impulsively bought it.  I'm not a big V-day kinda girl but I thought I should make a page for the loves of my life, yes, the three men who mean the most to me.  I even had to do a special photo shoot just so that I had photos for the page.  There is quite a bit going on on this page from the layered border strips, to the twine-tied tag and the brads, titles and other embellishments.  I think this is the first time (or maybe second) that I have used black and white photos on a layout, but I think the vintage feel of the paper just called for it, don't you?

Supplies: epoxy brads, chipboard heart, glitter, Cherry Cobbler twine, spiral punch, scallop border punch (Stampin' Up!); double scallop border punch (Martha Stewart); Alpha Stickers (October Afternoon); brads (Jovial by Basic Grey); button (Jenni Bowlin); all other supplies MME Love Me kit

This next page is a bit of a mish mash of stuff.  The background paper I bought out of the clearance bucket last summer (Basic Grey), the die cut stickers (Curio by Basic Grey) and the star burst paper are from the Up the Street monthly kit Let the Sun Shine kit from way back, the die cut alpha stickers are from another UtS kit Bookworm (Oxford by Basic Grey), the Soft Suede DSP strip, black cardstock and all the buttons are from Stampin' Up!  I love how this page turned out.  For this one I started off with a Pagemaps sketch from February 2012 that was actually an 8 1/2"x11" layout that I converted to a 12x12 layout.  The photos that I used on my page were taken at the Conservation Area (actually so were the photos for the previous page as well) while we were out on a walk.  I was able to snap so many awesome photos of my boys that day.

Are you tired out from reading yet?  I bet you are!  Thanks for visiting me in cyberspace, I hope you come back and visit again next week.  Unfortunately our visits have to be bring your own coffee/tea, but I enjoy spending time with you.  Until next week... E