Link Up For Pink Challenge #2

Happy Thursday all!

I am so happy to be part of the Link Up For Pink design team!!! Our mission is to help raise awareness about breast cancer. We want to remind all the ladies how important it is to get your mammograms!! Early detection is the key.

We'd like to invite you to participate in Challenge #2 over at our blog. You can create anything you wish as long as it has some pink and has breast cancer awareness as the theme. The design team has come up with some fabulous inspiration for you, so please stop by and check it out.

Our sponsor for this challenge is A Day For Daisies and we'd like to shout out a big thank you to them!!!

I hope you will stop by their shop and take a look around, they have the most wonderful digital images to create with!! The Prize: for the challenge is a $12 voucher to their store.  A random winner will be announced on Friday, 6/8.

For my projects I used their digital image - Girl Power. I also used digital paper designed by Yolie which you can get free from LUFP !

For my first project I made a card:

Supplies used : cardstock - white, pink; patterned papers - Bitty Dot Basics by Papertrey Inc., striped paper - SEI; digital paper by Yolie - LUFP; Copic Markers; border punch - Fiskars; fornt - LD Kazaam; Labels Eight Nestabilities by Spellbinder; Precision Pen by American Crafts; rhinestones - Kaiser Craft; digital image - Girl Power by A Day For Daisies; Pop Dots.

For my second project I made a necklace. After I had colored and cut out my Girl Power image I scanned  it before attaching it to my card. I saved it as a JPG, resized it and printed it. Then I cut it to fit my pendant. I also made a dangle with some Swarovski crystals, silver findings and a silver ribbon charm.

Supplies used - Sterling Plated Pendant from Jill MacKay collection; digital image - Girl power by A Day For Daisies; necklace chain by Lost and Found; crystals, findings, ribbon charm - my stash.

Thanks for stopping by and taking a peek at my projects! Now hop on over to Link Up For Pink!!

Off to Australia.....

My daughter flew to Australia for a business trip on Friday!! I know you are all feeling very sorry for her having to go to Australia on business, LOL. Anyway I wanted to send her off with a little piece of me since I couldn't go with her in person. I saw this wonderful altered box in one of my Paper Craft magazines that I though would be perfect.  I crafted her a necklace, to wear on her venture, to put inside.

Supplies used: box - recycled Coldwater Creek jewelry box; patterned papers from Tim Holtz Crowded Attic paper pad; plate from Tim Holtz Ornate Plates; ink - brown by ColorBox; fonts - CAC Champagne, Bickham Script Pro, AppleGothic; heart punches - Fiskars, Martha Stewart; rhinestone - Kaiser Craft; trim - my stash; sewing machine; chain - Bead Landing from Michaels; Memory Frame by Inkssentials for Ranger; jewelry findings- Michaels; crystals - my stash; dictionary page; heart rhinestone - Martha Stewart; Glossy Accents.

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Vintage Groove Necklaces

I would like to preface this post with the obvious fact that I am not a professional photographer! I tried many different locations along with numerous backgrounds and could not seem to get pictures of these necklaces that made me happy. Please forgive me and I hope you can get some semblance of an idea what they really look like. Anyway, on to my post.

I made these necklaces as Mother's Day gifts for some special Mothers in my life! I am entering these into the challenge at Celebrate The Occasion in which the theme this week is Mother's Day and you are to create a card, layout or project for Mother's Day. I hope this qualifies as a project, although it is not paper crafting.

All of you paper crafters out there are very familiar with the company Making Memories. Well, Making Memories has a jewelry making line called Vintage Groove and they have all kinds of cute baubles, connectors, chains, clasps, etc. Most of these necklaces were made with pieces from the Vintage Groove line, although I did add some actual gemstones such as Amethyst chips, Agate nuggets and Amazonite stones. I had a blast making them and they were fairly easy! Great project for beginners at jewelry making.

Thanks for taking a peek and I always appreciate your comments! They mean a great deal to me!