Paper House Productions Easter Blog Hop

Hello friends! Today is the Easter Blog Hop at Paper House Productions and I am really excited to participate in my first Paper House Productions blog hop with all the talented ladies on the team.

You should have arrived here from Christine's blog, but if not there are no worries, simply go to the beginning on the list below.

Paper House Productions

Angel Rodrigue

Christine Meyer

Lee-Anne Thornton (You Are Here)

Lisa Moen

Melissa Larson

Sue Eldred

For my project, I created an Easter Shadowbox.  I began with a white 8X10 inch shadow box that I purchased at my local craft store.  I centered and adhered the Happy Easter Sticker onto pink background paper that I traced and cut to fit the inside of the frame.

After the Happy Easter Sticker was adhered, I added some butterfly stickers and some stickers to the outside of the shadowbox frame in each corner as shown.

Finally I added some light green tulle strips that I hot glued with a glue gun and tied a bow.  This can be hung on a wall or displayed on an easel. This came together quickly and was easy peasey. 

Be sure and enter the giveaway. 

You could win a $25 Gift Certificate from Paper House Productions!

Good luck on the giveaway. Now it's time to hop over to the talented Lisa Moen.  I'm sure she has an amazing project to inspire you.  Happy hopping!

Paper House Productions Supplies Used:

Easter Egg Hunt 3D Sticker 

Footprints 12" Double Sided Scrapbook Paper

Happy Easter 3D Tile Sticker

Mini Mixed Butterflies Puffy Sticker

Merry Christmas!

Hello friends! I just wanted to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and hope that you are blessed with all good things this season.

It is going to be a quiet one in my home this year. My adult children and their spouses are celebrating with their other families and my husband is working this entire week.  My little family consisting of my sixteen year old son, my hubby and I celebrated our Christmas a few days ago.  That's okay because I am thankful that my boy is happy and healthy again.   My youngest son has been ill since September and it's been quite difficult to say the least.  He is smiling and laughing and joking so I know he is feeling a lot better and that's the best gift a mother could want.

I am thankful that my parents are here to celebrate this season with so I will be making a turkey dinner with all the fixings on Christmas Day for them and my son and also play some games and cards after dinner.

Reflecting on this season, I have realized that I wish the Christmas spirit could be every day of the year.    I love to see strangers be kind to one another and put others before themselves.  I love to see the generosity that people have by donating gifts and toys to people that are struggling and donating to the  food banks. My goal is to make this generosity and spirit last throughout the year next year.  It's been a trying year for so many people in my area with the economic downturn in the oil and gas industry.

Thanks for stopping by my blog and following me.  I love what I do and love to inspire people to take time for what makes them happy.

My husband bought me a special tripod for my camera so that I can begin creating some process videos of my scrapbooking and crafting.  It's a new challenge for me for 2016 so I hope you will follow me in the new year.  I have a few scrappy goals for 2016 and also have some new design team news that I will be sharing on January 1 so I hope you will come back and visit then.

Enjoy the season.  See you all in 2016!

Be Bright Shadowbox

Hello friends!  I hope you are enjoying your weekend so far.  Today I wanted to share another Christmas project that I created with an  8X8 shadowbox frame, some vinyl, my Silhouette Cameo, a piece of 8x8 patterned paper and some mini ornaments.  The phrase was designed by Kerri Bradford.

I really enjoyed making this and it was my first time cutting vinyl on my Cameo.  I definitely will be making more of these for gifts.  My home resembles a timber frame style home and is quite rustic so I thought the plaid paper by October Afternoon's  "Holiday Style" Collection was perfect for this one.  I bought the 8X8 shadowbox frame at Michael's and also the ornaments being mindful not to buy too large of ornaments because the shadowbox was not very deep.  The "Be Bright" phrase was sized 6 inches wide by 6 1/2 inches long.

Thanks for stopping by! I hope you enjoyed my project.  Have a great day!

Supplies

1 Black 8X8 Shadowbox Frame  - (Michael's Arts & Crafts)

1 8X8 piece of patterned paper - Holiday Style Collection (October Afternoon) 

Diecut Phrase - Kerri Bradford Studio

Mini Ornaments - (Michael's Arts & Crafts)

Vinyl - (Silhouette America)

Electronic Die Cutting Machine - (Silhouette Cameo)