~Court Hearing Yesterday~

Hello...it's Friday night...and I'm sitting here catching up on emails and thought I would do a little update on the court case for the drunk driver that killed Ian this summer.
The District Attorney has decided to file "Second Degree Murder" charges. I updated Ian's blog for the family tonight so you can go there to read more information. This is a BIG deal. A really big deal. It could drastically change the sentence that Shannon Shimp will recieve when convicted.
Please keep our family in your prayers. Also my father-in-law lost his father a few weeks ago and my mother-in-law lost her sister on Saturday. Please say some extra prayers for them. As if losing Ian wasn't hard enough, they now have more loss to deal with.
For more details go to ~In Memory of Ian Kinney~ .

Goodwill Wire Basket meet Kenner Road, Kenner Road meet Goodwill Wire Basket...now be nice to each other!!

I picked up this wire basket at the Goodwill a couple of weeks ago. I believe it was around $2. Love it. I used pieces of the Kenner Road kit (black seam ribbon, vintage Bingo card, Butterfly and game piece, to be exact) to make a little holder for all my vintage stuff.
I used the Maya Road Jonathon letters and a Maya Road Crown that I covered with Pink Paislee glitter (that stuff is far too fun to be legal)...to add that little extra something! I also used these paper fasteners by 7Gypsies to help hold the card onto the wire. Perfect use for them!
Just wanted to share!

~Vintage Ribbon Treasure~Another Goodwill Find!

Ok, what could this bag possibly hold? It's a pretty big ziplock...hard to tell from a picture as you have no scale... Anyway, stopped at the Goodwill today, I know BIG surprise. Just ran in...on one hand hoping that I would find a treasure andon the other hand hoping that I wouldn't find a thing to save my pocketbook.
I found this bag of ribbon and other sewing odds & ends. I waited until I got home to open it...and WOW...a big ziplock can hold a TON of stuff.

Some days I have good strokes of luck...and today was just one of them! I have been buying the Martha Stewart seam ribbon...for like $4ish (is that a word?) a roll...and look at ALL the seam ribbon that I got today for less then $5 (cause don't forget that I get 10% off for being a military spouse)....a very small benefit to having a husband that is never home....encourages you to go out and spend all your seapay at the Goodwill...works for me..although I'd rather have him home.
There are some great vintage images on some of the snap packaging. Very cool little kids that I fully plan on using!
You know...I should start a Thrift Store Thursday...seriously..cause I really do get good buys and I make cool schtuff with the finds that I bring home...I have one all made up and ready to post that I did with my Kenner Road kit..maybe tomorrow!
Anyway, have a great night!
~K

~Happy World Card Making Day ~

Saturday, besides being my girls Ice Skating Birthday party is also World Card Making Day! Who knew! So in celebration of that Pink Paislee is doing another blog hop. No prizes being sent out this time but lots of pretty cards with instructions!
So...I do a lot of scrapbooking, altering etc...but I am not a very talented card maker. This I know. I even try to psyche myself out and pretend like I'm doing the cover of a mini album. Not working....but today I just used the elements that are my favorites right now (glitter and tulle)....and are my staples(Pink Paislee and Maya Road)....and went for it.. I could think of worse things to do on any given afternoon.
So, come and visit the Pink Paislee Blog for sneaks and links to all our DT members cards and blogs...they all have full instructions on them...just follow the links!
So for the Pink Paislee Card Blog Hop we are supposed to write instructions...so here goes.


Supply List-
Silver Berry Pixee Stix by Pink Paislee
Blueberry Pixee Stix by Pink Paislee
Pink Paislee Pop Fashion Shapes Topsiders
Office Lingo Lunch Hour paper by Pink Paislee
Vintage Moon- Moon Glade paper by Pink Paislee
Fashion Script Alpha-white by Pink Paislee
Pop Fashion Accents-Metallic Silver pressons by Pink Paislee
Vintage Moon Accents-Metallic Silver Pressons by Pink Paislee
white tulle
aqua crepe paper (from party supply)
stapler
Maya Road chipboard numbers
Maya Road crown
Glue made for glitter
Fabri-Tac
Scallop Scissors
black pen

Instructions-
1) Using glitter glue, cover crown and the number 16. Sprinkle glitter on top (Silverberry for 16 and Blueberry for the crown), shake off excess and set aside to dry.
2) Cut a piece of Office Lingo Lunch Hour paper into a 6 x 4.5 inch rectangle. Fold in half.
3) Cut a strip of the aqua crepe paper. Fold it into pleats (for the life of me, I can't think of a better explanation for this) and staple in place. Once you have a line of it, trim to fit card width. Adhere to bottom edge of card with Fabri-Tac (or whatever your favorite adhesive is). Once you have it in place, use scallop scissors and trim bottom.
4)Adhere Topsider border to the line where the paper meets the crepe paper ruffle.
5)Mount Topsider oval scallop shape on top of a piece of Vintage Moon-Moon Glade paper. Adhere lightly, and trim around edge with scallop edge scissors. Once trimmed, glue all the way down to Moon Glade paper shape. Glue whole scallop oval piece to center of card.
6)Outline outside edge of card with black pen.
7) Using silver pressons, embellish topsiders and top border of card.
8) Adhere crown and 16 glittered chipboard pieces to topsider, being sure to leave enough space for "sweet" letters.
9) Apply letters to spell "sweet" in between glittered pieces at a slight curve.
10) Tie tulle bow around bottom of card.
11)Add paper strips on inside of card to cover staples.
Done!

~Tips on using background type pressons~

So, not that you asked...but I did a little tiny tutorial on using the Pink Paislee background pattern type of pressons.
I was working on a layout the other day...with my kit from Kenner Road (Yummy) and got to the end and it just needed a little something sumthin....some little added touch... It needed some script pressons.
So using the Vintage Moon Accents pressons I decided to fill in the left side of my page. The only thing is..that I didn't want to cover my flower and make the pressons look blocky. So using a Sharpie pen, this is what I did.
Laid it over my paper- Traced the outline of the flower pattern with a permanent pen.- Cut out the outlined area And placed the trimmed to my pattern presson right where I needed it to be and rubbed it on...I slipped a little and got a boo boo on one of my leaves.... So, I used this to pick it up! Tape most always works...but sometimes it doesn't...and be careful not to pick up your rubons that you DON'T want picked it. Be careful with it...but it does work really well.










Have a Great Day!!

~K

~Gypsy Rose~ Another Goodwill flower find..

I swear that I need to just move into the local Goodwill. They have tons of couches, I'd be comfy, right? I love that place. They call me the flower lady now....and don't even make me show my military ID for my military discount...they just know. Should I be embarrassed?

Anyway, I went in there the other day and they had these 2 wreaths...with the most beautiful cabbage roses and yellow roses on them. I had to buy them just to take apart...here is the wreath (Please ignore the background clutter, i took this in my scrapbook room, which is NEVER presentable).



Anyway, so last night I was working on a Pink Paislee project and really wanted to do something with one of the cabbage roses. I used a page from the Maya Road Scallop Edge book and made a wall hanging. I was going to use a quote about roses on the Pink Paislee Topsider...but couldn't find on that fit or that I liked...
So next to me in a pile I spied this picture of My Aunt when she was little dressed up like a gypsy for Halloween. Perfect! Even more perfect is that it fit on the topsider perfectly...just a meant to be project.


I used the Vintage Moon Line by Pink Paislee.

I didn't use the label sticker for the topsider, I saved it for a different project and just painted the edges and covered it with paper.




I love the way it turned out and now I am 1 Christmas present down and a zillion to go!

I also did this page with Vintage Moon. Simple and quick, but still fun.




That's it...have a Great Saturday!!

I have Pink Paislee Blog today.....

If you want to see the whole project go to the Pink Paislee Blog for a ton more pictures!!
~Katie