Stamped Faux-Quilted Home Decor Sign

Stamped Faux-Quilted Home Decor 

Please check out my project and tutorial on the Ann Butler Designs Blog this month.
Using Ann's faux-quilting stamps is an easy way to add that homey feel to any project.

The Case of the Mysterious Disappearing Photos

During our year of upheaval, renting, moving, etc I kept switching between an iPad, tablet, desktop, laptop, and cell phone, and I managed to create 2 Instagram accounts and I only recently discovered this because one day I went looking for some pics I took, and they had 'disappeared'.

Now I know they didn't disappear.

The only Instagram account I will use from now on is 

https://instagram.com/decorables

Please follow me. I will be using it a lot more now :)

Craft Leftovers Cards: 5 cards from 1 Kit

How often have you purchased a paper kit or attended a workshop and you have papers, ephemera, stickers, glue dots, etc leftover? 

Answers:

a) Tons

b) All the time

c) OMG you have no idea

d) I'm too embarrassed to say

Yes, well, I have a very large bin FULL of large, plastic, zippered bags of kit leftovers. Enough is enough, I say! :)

The kit I am using today is from a wonderful Maya Road workshop I took 1 1/2 years ago with Caroline, herself ( and yes, she is just as amazing and sweet in person). I already made 5 gorgeous cards at the workshop and today I am creating 5 'leftovers cards', and there is enough product left for several more projects!  Talk about bang for your buck!
To further challenge myself, I am not using any stamps or inks!

What did I use?

• Maya Road workshop kit leftovers
• Westcott™ titanium non-stick scissors
• trim air™ by Westcott® Titanium paper trimmer
• Jolee's boutique® cupcake stickers

Craft Leftovers Cards - Planning out the cards

Craft Leftovers Cards - Card #1

Craft Leftovers Cards - Card #2

Craft Leftovers Cards - Card #3

Craft Leftovers Cards - Card #4

Craft Leftovers Cards - Card #5

Pretty cool, huh? 

And, by the way, I did all that in about 40 minutes :) 

CHA Paper Arts+ Show - I'm Going to Chicago!

CHA Paper Arts+ Blog Hop Recap

We teamed up with 2015 CHA Paper Arts+ Show exhibitors for the CHA Paper Arts+ Blog Hop in May. During the five-day hop, CHA designers created projects with exhibitors’ products to inspire the crafting public. These projects will be displayed at the Paper Arts+ Show from July 21-23, 2015.

Congratulations to Roberta Birnbaum of DecorablesArt, who won the Blog Hop’s top prize: $500 toward travel to the Paper Arts+ Show in July! Roberta, who is a CHA member, was the first to decode and tweet the phrase that was formed from each “password” listed at the end of each Blog Hop post. The phrase was, “We can’t wait to see you in Chicagoland for the CHA Paper Arts+ Show!”

BUT Did you know... that not all the words were divulged? Yep -- 2 of the hoppers forgot to include their secret words on the posts, BUT I still figured it out!!! 

3 Craft Projects Published in Bella Crafts Quarterly

I love being affiliated with a wonderful organization like Bella Crafts Publishing. I hope you will download (FOR FREE) this great magazine, and read about the 3 different craft projects I have in the Summer issue.

The Summer issue of BellaCrafts Quarterly is now LIVE. It’s FREE and features ME http://bit.ly/BCQmag