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Special Guest Special Gift

Last nights class was all about hot pink and green, shoes, Mother's day, cupcakes and a whole lot of fun. 

On top of all that we had a very special guest.  Her name is Maria and she came all the way from Peachtree City, Georgia.  She is a very dear friend to the Queen of Art, the talented Catherine Moore.  I hope we did not wear her out.  She was a delight to have in class and  hope she comes back soon.  Thank You for coming Maria!

This is Maria hard at work.  She is painting a coat of green paint on her shoe.  She did a wonderful job.  I hope her shoe made it back on the plane in one piece.  

Every shoe was a little different. 

This shoe was made for the daughter, so instead of the paper doll head she used a picture of her daughter. It really turned out cute.

BLurry but I wanted you to see that this will be going to a graduate!

Well that is the special guest and the class of special gals that made these wonderful shoes.

The SPECIAL GIFT.................when Maria arrived she had in her hand this sweet little box with a note!  To me from Catherine.  Look what was inside................

Catherine made this beautiful bracelet for me with my name, birds, silver feathers and pearls!  It is absolutely beautiful and so Catherine.  Thank You Catherine for always being so generous with your talent and gifts.  It will be treasured always.

So that is the special evening a few of us enjoyed at the Paper Crown this week.

Enjoy your weekend everyone.  Head out to your local farmers market!  
     

 

shoes shoes shoes

Getting ready for this shoe class this coming Thursday evening............! 

all primed and ready to be painted and jazzed up........I will show  pictures of the finished shoes on friday, so stop back by to see what a little paint. glitter, glue, rhinestones and paper dolls look like inside an old worn out shoe.

 Inside this little goodie bag is all you need to transform those ugly white shoes.  Just you wait and see.

A while back I came across this company on Pam Garrisons blog.  If you are in need of ribbon or any kind of labels for your hand made art work go to this website. They have so many wonderful ribbon to pick from it was really hard to decide.  Go check it out.    
 
 

Meeting Baby Mac for the first time.............

How SWEET is this....................Uncle Adam!

Three weeks old now. 

Hope everyone enjoyed this spring weekend!
  
 
 

   

Happy Birthday Friend

Hope you had a Happy Birthday today Franc........................!  We all had fun celebrating at the Paper Crown yesterday!  

Happy Thursday

Love those Wal-Mart flowers.................... 

Glimmer Mist Background

Some of you know I am not a real technique person when it comes to trying out all the new products that are out there, ( I like to cut and paste) but I have wanted to try the Glimmer Mist by Tattered Angels. I picked out a couple of colors and started just spraying the backgrounds on these little girl door hangers.  I kinda like what it does.....gives a little shine and color. The pictures above I used the color Patina. I know you can do so much with these and they have so many colors.  If you live in the OKC area, the Paper crown carries these in all colors . 

   

Girdie's back at the Paper Crown

Girdie went on a little winter vacation and she is back!  Valentines day was her last time to show off........So now that winter is over she has decided to make a return to the store and she is all decked out and going green.........newspaper!  And she has slimmed down a bit.  ( I took the chicken wire off around the skirt)

 
Shot from outside and through the window....a little glare......sorry you cannot see her crown!

For her crown I used 2 file folders and glued them together and made a circle.  Cut off the top and made the points to look like a crown.  Covered with news paper...... cut strips of news paper and folded them accordian style  to make the bottom edge and glued it down with my glue gun.  Wadded up strips and clued around the top edge.  The flowers are strips of paper and stapeled together to make it look like a flower.  Cut the leaves and on one side glued a pipe cleaner down the middle and another piece of paper over the pipe cleaner.... used pinking shears to trim around the leaves.  I also used SMOOCH in gold and touched up around the edges.  I added some awesome feathers a friend (Thanks Naomi) had given to me .........So that is how I made the crown.  If you have  questions on the design HA HA please email me.

Come by the Paper Crown and take a look!  She would love to see you.......... 

 

   

I Apologize........

Okay girls I apologize if you headed up to the Paper Crown today to pick up paper that you thought had the little 4th of July girl on it.  I thought I  said the background paper and not the picture of the girl....if you did, I am sorry if I mislead you to believe that the girl was on that paper......Sometimes I don't explain what I mean and I apologize. 

SORRY!
   

More Red White and Blue.......................

These little cuties are approximately 20x8 and 20x11 matt board so they would be sturdy enough to stand on the floor, table or mantel............     

 

Patriotic Cutie

 



Another July 4th project............I am loving the new paper line " the girls' paperie by Margie....it is called Vintage Travel.  The last post on the Twinkle Toes book I used this same paper for the back ground.  You can get the paper at the Paper Crown if any is left. This entire line is double sided and great for your Travel Journals or Scrapbooking for your summer vacations photos.......

Hope you are enjoying your weekend!