More Inspirational Quote Projects

 Hello all!

My last post was about some inspirational quote projects

that I made for our scrapping/crafting studio.

Today I have a few more to show you.

This is one of the walls at My Happy Place.

The banner at the top says CREATE,

I made that banner quite a while ago and it was 

hanging in a different spot, so we moved that over on

this wall.

The background of this piece was created

 with watercolor crayons.  I colored a few colors onto

my craft mat, added water and 'smooched' the 

watercolor paper into the color to pick it up.

After it was dried I used my light box to 

trace the words and painted them with 

pearlescent watercolors.

I adhered the project to a piece of matting and strung

the ribbon through holes around the sides and to make

the hanger.

This one was done by stamping the flowers onto

Bristol Paper.

I love the smooth surface of this paper for coloring.

I used VersaFine Onyx Black ink for the stamping,

did the coloring with my Fantasia Colored Pencils.

The words were painted with pearlescent watercolors.

This last piece was the start of my whole

"journey" into making these projects.

It started with this inspiration

from Kristina Werner.

As I said in my last blog post,

It's all about 

Inspiration not Re-creation.

I'm not as talented as she is,

so I used my light box to trace 

the words that I had printed onto a 

piece of computer paper using

pearlescent watercolors.

(Can you tell that I love them?)

The background was made 

with the 'smooching' technique I 

mentioned above using Distress Inks.

Thanks for stopping by today to see what I've

been up to.

I hope you'll come again soon.

I have one more project to show you in this

"series" ..... well, until I get some more done that is.

I hope you are enjoying them and have gotten some 

inspiration from them.

Until next time:

Make Pretty Things!

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Inspirational Quote Projects

Hello my blog friends!

A while ago I showed you this project

and I wasn't sure how I was going to hang it.

Well I figured it out.

What I did was put the 12x12 project into a scrapbook

page protector, I used some scrap matting to cut 

strips for the top of the piece.

I punched holes where the holes were in the 

page protector and adhered the project between

2 strips of matting with ATG tape.

I then used a ribbon to make a hanger.

Here is a close up of the final project.

My daughter and I went over to 

My Happy Place,

the scrapbooking/crafting studio that a 

couple friends and I run, to hang it and some

others that I've made.

Here is Kelsie, bravely standing on the table

to find the correct spot for this piece.

"How's this Mom?"

Perfect placement!

These 3 that I'm showing you today are all

on walls at the end of the tables where we create.

The next wall says Laugh, unfortunately, my camera

dies and I didn't get a picture with the whole wall,

but this is the one I placed there. 

Not sure if you can read that last line, 

it says

"Projects Half Done"

Don't we all have some of those?

I had fun creating the elements on this,

but it was difficult to leave things half done.

That little knitting project was fun.

I took a couple bamboo skewers and made little 

knitting needles and knitted that piece with 

embroidery cotton and rolled up a little ball of it

to glue onto this project.  

The last one is the word Create and I thought this was 

appropriate for that wall.

This hangs right above the end of the table where I always

work.  I do draw a lot of inspiration from different

beautiful things and projects that others have done.

I think it's very important to remember this,

use it as inspiration and don't try to 

re-create it.  I think trying to re-create things exactly

makes for disappointment.

Inspiration is the key,

see something and then put your own twist on it.

For all these projects I stamped or traced onto the

paper and colored with colored pencils.

For the last one, the writing was painted on with

pearlescent watercolors.

That's it for today.

All in all, Kelsie and I hung 7 projects.

I have a few more in the works and will be posting 

them all in my next few posts.

I like the idea of having some inspirational projects

hanging where we are creating.

I sure hope the ladies at 

My Happy Place

will enjoy them.

I had a wonderful time creating them and plan to 

make plenty more.

I hope you have enjoyed my projects and are 

inspired in some way by them.

Thanks for stopping by today,

hope you'll stop by again soon.

Now go create something and have fun! 

Note the links are only to give a reference so you can

see what the products are.
I didn't necessarily purchase from these sites,

and you may find better prices elsewhere.

I am in no way promoting any particular site.