Rock On Birthday Card
Sometimes, in my case most of the time, your day doesn’t go quite like you planned. For instance LB (little boy) stayed home from school. He has the cough, the aches, the pains and just feels like crud. That meant a day of rocking in the chair. While I’m happy to do it, it does change my day. While rocking away the morning we heard a pretty big thud upstairs. Oh, here we go. The wind is blowing like crazy today so I wondered what the damage was. Unfortunately is was death by Windex. A bird did a kamikaze straight into my living room window. Needless to say he left some of himself on the window and the rest of himself on the deck. Yuck. So cleaning that was diversion number 2 for the day.
After the diversions I still had to come up for a birthday card for my daughter’s friend. My day had be less than inspirational so I am glad that I have sites like Mojo Monday that have card sketches and stacks of DCWV that make your projects work when you don’t have a truly creative moment.
Today’s card is from Mojo Monday Card Challenge 225. Paper by DCWV Rock star Card stack, bling and brads, and stamp from Walmart. The Rock Star Stack is flocked and had glitter and shiny paper. It is a great stack to work on teen projects.
And Here is the Rest of the Story, the O,V, E Part
A couple of days ago I showed you my L on a Shelf. Well today I finished up the rest of the the word. I used my “Bird Cage” cutting files to finish up my Valentine home decor project. I used paper from the Die Cuts with a View Be Mine stack, Tattered Angel silver glitter mist, chalk, my heart Cuttlebug embossing folder and a little embroidery thread for the bows. I love a good DCWV paper stack because you don’t have to worry about selecting papers and hoping the colors go together.
L is for the way you look at me . . .
L
O is for the only one I see . . .
O made with Bird Cage cutting files
V is very, very extraordinary . . .
Made with cutting files from the Bird Cage collection
E is even more than anyone that you adore . . .
E with Bird Cage cutting files
Love is all that I can give to you.
The cutting files are found in the Adams Acres Store. The Bird Cage collection. The cutting files are available in SVG, PDF, MTC and SCAL.
Candy Coat Your Mantle Not Your Hips
My adventure to the dollar store the other day netted me more than frames for my Love signs it also allowed me to adorn my mantle with a little foo foo too.
dollar store vases
This is my upstairs mantle. The vases are from the dollar store the one in the middle was a Goodwill find. So my total is
Vases $4.50.
I also grabbed some of those pretty glass beads to fill the small square vases.
Glass Beads $2
and some silk/nylon flowers. 2 bunchs
Flowers $2
Glass beads $1 each vase
What to do about filling the other vases that won’t cost a fortune. Viola Candy Corn. Wally World aka Walmart had pink and white candy corn for $2.50 per tub. It took 2 tubs to fill all the vases. If the candy is in the vases it is not on my hips and that as Martha would say, “Is a good thing.”
Candy Corn $5
Candy that Won't Go on the Hips
So the total for my new mantle decor is $13.50. That is a really good start to my mantle decorating on the cheap.
(I’m not counting the candles I had those on hand)
I have a few more projects up my sleeve to add to my mantle. Check back to see how the mantel turns out.
L on a Shelf
Well we have all hear of “Elf on a Shelf,” but today I am talking about “L on a Shelf.” Let the Valentine decorating begin. I made a run to the local Dollar Tree today and came back with a few sacks full of frames, flowers, glass vases, potpourri and some of the pretty glass fillers. I have this one shelf on my built in bookcase that I have designated as the holiday shelf. Each holiday it is getting some new holiday foo foo. This month I have it in my head to transform some white photo frames into my main attraction.
L on a Shelf
So here we go. The first letter I worked on is the letter “L” of course. I took papers from the Die Cuts with a View Be Mine collection. I embossed the based page with a heart Cuttlebug Folder. The cutting files for the L the heart and the border are FREEBIES and you will find them below ready for download. The frame the heart and the L all received a spritz of Tattered Angel. The Black Letter received silver and the frame and the heart received pink. I looped embroidery thread together tied it with another thread and cut the edges to fit. I attached the thread with a silver brad. Everything was popped into my dollar store frame and put on the shelf.
L cutting files are found in the Adams Acres Store
Please download the cutting files below and check back as I will be sharing the O, V, and E in the next few days. The files are in MTC, PDF, PNG, SCAL AND SVG formats.
Low Fat Soda Cupcakes
I do not have the mindset to make New Year’s resoltions. I know there is no possible way that I would stick to any of them. I have started to eat better and get on the treadmill a little more often but that has to do more with vanity. Lots of big family events coming up that will require me to be in photos. I usually like to stay behind the camera. Well that is not an option so turning the big 4-0 in December and the thought of being in family pics in May has given me a little more drive to eat better and work out a little harder. While perusing Pinterest I came across these soda cupcakes.
Soda Cupcakes
There are promoted to be 2 pts on the Weight Watchers Plus program. Knowing a little about the program I know that 2 pts is pretty darn good. So if it is good enough for Weight Watchers they are probably good enough for me.
Soda Cupcakes 2 pts
I used a super moist Pilsbury boxed cake and a 12 oz bottle of Dr. Pepper. The batter was a little darker but tasted good. I baked them for 20 minutes at 350 degrees. The original recipe mentioned you could get only 17 but I was able to get a full 24 cupcakes.
Cupcakes
My 11 year old said they were good. My 14 year old said they tasted like Dr. Pepper. No butter, no oil, no egg added to you are saving yourself a ton of calories as well as a ton of fat. I think you can use just about any soda for this. I don’t know if you can or can’t use diet soda. I haven’t tried it yet but maybe that will be my weekend activity.
Make a Wish
I hope everyone had a good time going through the blog from the “Based on a Book Blog Hop.” The next blog hop will be the “Word Wide Marriage Hop,” on February 12th. My darling niece turned 15 this past weekend so the card I have for you today did double duty. For one it is my submission to Mojo Monday Card Challenge 223 and it was sent with love to wish my niece an amazing 15th year.
Made with file from the Bird Cage Collection
So here is the recipe
- Cutting Files from “The Bird Cage Collection”
- Patterned paper from DCWV Be Mine Stack
- Ribbon from my stash
I edged the paper with Antique Linen Distress Ink.
I also used chalk and rubbed it on the die cuts. The effect gave the die cuts more depth.
The stamp was a $.99 stamped picked up from Walmart.
Based on a Book Blog Hop
Wahoo!!!!! The Based on a Book Blog Hop has arrived. This is the first of many blog hops I have scheduled for 2012. You came from
Ashley – http://
Charity – http://adamsacres.com/ (You are Here)
Suzi – http://
For this blog we were supposed to create something based on a book. Well I have read the book to my kids a million times and watched the movie about a million and one times. So without further adeu I bring you my take on Cinderella.
I have created a set of Cinderella SVG files converted to MTC, PDF and SCAL for you. They are available in the Adams Acres Store.
Cinderella Set
Castle from Cinderella Set
Carriage from Cinderella Set
In honor of this awesome blog hop I am giving 2 sets of the Cinderella collection away. One set will go to a commenter (Please Comment Below). One set will go to one of my Facebook Followers.
But wait there’s more. Our blog sponsor has a prize too. Leave a comment here and on every blog in the hop then stop by Tanya’s blog and leave a comment with the title of a book you would like if you are selected as the winner of the “Based on a Book Blog Hop.” Thanks for stopping by enjoy the rest of the blogs. Your next blog is Suzi’s – http://
For stopping by today I am giving away the Cinderella Border for FREE.
Border from Cinderella Set
Valentine Wreath Number 1
Funny thing inspiration. You can’t control it. I know I should be finishing my project for the “Based on a Book Blog Hop,” that starts tomorrow right here on Adams Acres, but then what would I do at 2 AM. LOL!!!!!!!
The thing I found inspiration for today was a reclaimed wreath. I found this heart shaped wreath at the Good Will store for $2. It was covered in stapled, rafia bows. I should have taken a before and after shot but I was to excited to revive the wreath. I could see through all the hunter green, blue and dusty burgundy bows there was a heart just waiting for a new life.
After picking all the bows off I found the wreath. In my stash I had some toile ribbon left over from a project a couple of months ago. 9 ft covered the first half then a trip to JoAnn’s for another 9 ft.
After returning I wrapped and pinned the rest of the ribbon onto the wreath. I found some roses that I always get at the Dollar Store and stash for just the right occasion, pinned those to the wreath as well. A little wired ribbon and Voila the first Valentine decoration of the season is now hung on my front door.
I hope this helps you find some inspiration to reclaim and revive a project or two from your stash or maybe a yard sale.
You’re Sweet
First week of January 2012 is nearly in the books. I think I have recoverd from the holidays. The tree is down and the house has been completely de-Chirstmased. Now it’s time to get out he pink, red and white for the Valentine’s season. This is my first Valentine card. I put it together with a card sketch from Mojo Monday.
I also used a small daisy cut from my new “Bird Cage” set. I will have more examples of these cuts but they are fantastic if I do say so myself. The cuts are available in SVG, PDF, MTC and SCUT
Based on a Book Blog Hop
Hello Ladies and Gents
Are you getting back to real life yet? I need to get back asap. I have a jam packed year coming up on AdamsAcres.com.
Here’s what’s happening
January 14 – Sponsoring Based on a Book Blog Hop
Based On a Book Blog Hop
February – Sponsoring Worldwide Marriage Blog Hop
March - Sponsoring It’s a Green Thing Blog Hop
May – Being featured as an Artisit over on the Make The Cut Forum
With Blog Hops and features coming up that means you the visitor will see plenty of prizes, gifts and freebies coming up not to mention some fantasitic cutting files and projects in the Adams Acres Store.
I looking forward to exciting things to come in 2012.
Have a Happy New Year Everyone
Charity Adams
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