You know you want to cool down your foot fast when you stick it in a hotel toilet!
I used the Random Number Generator to choose the winner of the Operation Write Home Valentine Blog Hop and the winner is Erin Glee! Congratulations Erin! Erin wrote...
Please remember that there are deadlines for Holiday cards. The Christmas card deadline has passed and the deadline to get your Valentine Day cards in is January 7th.
Please take a moment and vote daily for OWH craft for a cause at JoAnns you can vote HERE
To enter to win some great blog candy all you have to do is leave a comment with your email address with this post (the comment button is at the TOP of the post) I will be picking a winner at random on Monday morning. Please feel free to become a follower or a subscriber, I have lots new ideas and tutorials posted almost daily. Good Luck!
Your next stop will be Kate at Hello From Kate Enjoy!
On November 13th I will be participating in the Operation Write Home Valentine Blog Hop!!!
Just stop on by to see a great Valentine's Day Card project with a video tutorial. I will also be having a wonderful giveaway that day. Just stop on by and check it out.
I have loved creating cards for OWH and have already begun making my next batch for the troops. I'm so excited that I stumbled across this opportunity for the Blog Hop. How much fun!!! If you are interested in being in the hop you can find out more and sign up at http://www.owhhomefrontblog.org/
My last Blog Hop I printed up all the comments and cut the out and pulled one out well that went through a ton of paper. So this time I decided to use the Random Number Generator to decide on a winner. I will have it come up with a number and then I will start with the first post left and count down to the number generated to be the winner.
The number pulled was 97
And the WINNER of the 9/11 Blog Hop is Vanessa
CONGRATULATIONS VANESSA!!!
Vanessa wrote: love your layouts that you made. So inspiring. I've been to DC and seen the Korean memorial and I felt the same way when I saw....speechless. My husband just recently deployed and knowing that there are so many people out there who still care about our soldiers means a lot!! I am following your blog and thanks for participating in the blog hop.
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The first photo is of the WW II Memorial. My friend Julie used the computer there to look up her Grandfather's name (he served in that war). A useful photo tip I love to use is to use a photo as a brochure holder. Just back the photo with cardstock and adhere the sides and bottom. Now you can still access the brochure without taking up valuable photo space. .JPG)
The Field of Stars...The Freedom Wall has a reflecting pool just below. The 4,000 Gold Stars honors more than 400,000 lives lost during the World War II. So moving when you see all those stars. .JPG)
The Korean War Memorial was by far the most touching for me because you could actually see the faces of the soldiers. I can not explain the emotions that you feel when you walk around this memorial. I would highly recommend it. Since working on my family tree and knowing my family has been in these wars, I am even more proud of every soldier and every family that has someone serving our country. .JPG)
The Vietnam Wall Memorial was so incredibly long and just filled with name after name. To add some interest to the photo we all posed for the picture and I took the photo of our reflection in the wall like we were giving all the soldiers a big hug. .JPG)
Four American eagles hold a suspended laurel wreath in the Baldaccino Sculpture.
And the winner is ......Brenda!!!! Congratulations Brenda! Everyone had great comments, I loved reading all of them. Keep them coming. :) I would like to share Brenda's comment that she wrote for the blog hop: "Oh my what a wonderful party picnic idea. I've made some of your ideas, but I have now gotten more ideas from you. I love the straw and frisbee ideas. Wonderful!!! I have been a follower for some time and I am truley glad I am." That was so sweet Brenda, Thank You! Keep posted I will keep bringing you new ideas. My head is full of them. I only wish I could make them as fast as I can think of them. LOL
PICNIC "pic'nic (pik'nik), n. (origin uncertain) 1. A kind of fashionable social entertainment at which each person contributed food to a common table; now, an excursion or pleasure party in which the members partake of refreshments together, usually in the open air, the food being either carried by themselves or provided by one or more individuals for the party." (Webster's New International Dictionary)
Above is my color inspiration, these are papers from K & Company and I just love the bright pinks and pretty summer colors. I wanted to use those throughout my project so you will see my models (which were cut from the Block Party cartridge) are wearing them and I used them in the other decorations. I used flocking for the hair on 2 of them and Adirondack gold paint dabber for the other, check out the cute earrings on the girl with the jeans. I hope you get some great ideas. Let's start with something to eat...the recipe card is from From My Kitchen and you can download the recipe HERE
My lovely models are showing you the straw toppers I made using the Storybook cartridge. I simply cut the shape out of one color and the shadow out of another. I stamped the top piece to give it some texture, I used a different stamp for each -but you don't have to. I thought it would be great to put the guests name on the back of the flower so you know who's drink is who's. I glued the sides of the flower and left a space in the middle so the straw could slip through when dry. Mmm.. Yummy picnic cocktails.
I used the bird from the Wall Decor and More cartridge for the pink frisbee and the curly tree from the Heritage cartridge for the green frisbee. I got these great colors by using the alcohol inks on the Cricut cuttables vinyl and then cutting it. They turned out great!
And the winner of the frisbee contest is....Indy!!!
This adorable cupcake is made with Lite Cupcake Wrappers and the topper is made from the Storybook cartridge the leaf is cut from the Plantin Schoolbook cartridge. Way too cute!!! .JPG)
I used Shrink Film to create these super cool wine glass charms. I used alcohol ink to ink the plastic and then I wrote the name on it with a white paint pen. The hole to run the metal ring through was punched with my Crop-A-Dile. Finally, I heated it with my heat gun to "shrink" it. I show in the photo below the before and after sizes of the charms. They were cut from the Storybook cartridge, remember to multi-cut when using Shrink Film. .JPG)
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I loved the look of the alcohol inks so much that I went with it some more and decorated this pink water bottle from the dollar store. I inked the ProvoCraft Cuttables vinyl with alcohol inks in greens to create this beautiful green color. I then cut the bird border from the Wall Decor and More cartridge. It easily adheres to the bottle. You can now make custom vinyl in any color. Just think of all the possibilities...
I backed the green fabric with Steam-A-Steam and then cut it into 32 - 3" squares. I ironed them onto the center of my tablecloth creating a checkerboard pattern. For my checker pieces I created ants to go with my picnic theme. Since there is no ant on any cartridge I made my own using the George and Basic Shapes. You can get the file HERE
My models are now ready to retire from their modeling career and will now find a spot on a scrapbook page, one of the K & Company papers will be just perfect. You will see them in an upcoming post...right after I enjoy my picnic.
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