Walk in the Wild Birthday

Seems like we have a lot of birthdays to celebrate in September, so here is my latest creation for one of our friends using the Walk in the Wild stamp set (130354/130357) I really like to use the Walk in the Wild stamp set for the guys in my life and when paired with Sweater Weather Designer Series Paper from the Holiday Catalog, I think it’s a great combination for all those fall birthdays I’ve got on my calendar.

Walk in the Wild

Since this is for a guy who is a hunter I wanted to make the card look a bit more aged and rustic. So I used our Stampin’ Distress Tool to really rough up the edges of my mats along with sponging everything.  And to add a little more texture I just did some tearing on the edge of my card stock to allow the wonderful Sweater Weather Designer Series Paper to show that I used as my inspiration for my color choices.

I really like the way this card turned out. Want to see another card I created using the Walk in the Wild stamp set? Click HERE.

Supplies:

Stamp Set: Walk in the Wild (130354/130357)

Inks:  Chocolate Chip (126979) and Sahara Sand Classic Ink (126976)

Paper: Sweater Weather Designer Series Paper (132184), Sahara Sand (121043), Soft Sky (131203), and Very Vanilla (101650)

Accessories: Stampin’ Distress Tool (127562), Stampin’ Sponges101610), and Dimensionals (104430)

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Dying Clothes Pins Video

Oops… I’m rather embarrassed; when I shared my Photo Clothes Line project with you last week and the accompanying video I didn’t update the YouTube Channel so the video didn’t work. Sorry – the problem has been fixed so you’re able to watch my Dying Clothes Pins Video at this time. You can watch it below, or if you prefer you can Click HERE to see my entire Photo Clothes Line Post with the accompanying video.

Photo Clothes Line

Here is my final project that I created for my daughter’s dorm room, a Photo Clothes Line using  Dyed Clothes Pins – I wanted to have a way for her to hang pictures of friends and family easily. Especially since nothing seems to be sticking to her dorm walls I was able to hang this project up easily with push pins.

Photo Clothes Line (1)

First I created three different photo clothes lines for her to hang photos and such from using these cute little Floral Frames Framelits. (Framelits aren’t really designed to cut anything other than paper, but I decided to take the risk and give it a try and it worked).

Then for a touch of the whimsical I added butterflies using the Beautiful Butterflies Bigz Die. I simply used my Crop-a-Dile to punch some holes and added some silver wire that I could bend and shape the way I wanted across her wall. It wasn’t the floral wire that I have used in the past, but since I couldn’t find any last minute on the way to Milledgeville, I figured this would have to do in a pinch. I’m not really happy with the wire so I’ll replace it the next time I visit with the floral wire I found afterwards.

Here is a closer photo of part of the photo clothes line hopefully you can see the butterflies better. The room is really narrow so it was tough to get a shot straight on of the entire thing.

Photo Clothes Line (2)

Finally I used the Dyed Clothes Pins I made to hang the photos that I attached to my coordinating photo mats. Kaitlin seems to be happy with the look and final splash of color to her room.

And of course Dad wanted to make sure his baby girl had a picture or two of him – lol. So here is one of them he chose from this spring in her graduation dress on with Larry’s other baby, his 1969 Cutlass. (Poor guy, he’s not missing her at all, ya right – he keeps asking me if she has called. I know he is counting down till fall break!)

Does this dress look familiar? It should, it is just like the one on the cover of our catalog – just in Calypso Coral. Something Kaitlin rolled her eyes at when I pointed it out to her.

Photo Clothes Line Close up

Want to learn how I created the matching color clothes pins? Why not check out my latest video, Dying Clothes Pins.

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This last photo is of her seating area and the finished French memo boards I showed you in an earlier post. She now has lots of different places to tuck her mementos and items she wants to save.

French Memo Board in Dorm room

Kaitlin seemed very pleased when she got back to her dorm room and found I had spent some time cleaning, organizing and hanging up things while she was at class. I know she is really spoiled, right? But between her finishing up the season with Drum Corp, her heavy class load, and chest pain I felt I could spoil her a little. Even her suite mate thought that it was pretty cool of her mom to do that for her (Whew right, didn’t want to embarrass the kid!)

Supplies:

Paper: Regals Designer Series Paper Stack (130139), Polka Dot Parade Designer Series Paper (126902), Island Indigo Card Stock (122923), and Rich Razzleberry Card Stock (115316)

Accessories: Island Indigo Classic Stampin’ Refill (122932), Rich Razzleberry Classic Stampin’ Refill (115664) and Mini Clothes Pins

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Use Mystery Hostess Code 64XT62GT when placing your order and your name will be entered into my Mystery Hostess Drawing. This Mystery Hostess Code 64XT62GT will be good through Saturday, October 5th. The number of hostess will depend on the total sales and I’ll be drawing a hostess for every $150 in sales.

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