Lemonade & Sunshine!

Happy Wednesday to you all and Happy 1/2 way thru the week already!!  How is the weather treating you lately?  It's been beautiful here but supposed to cool off a bit this weekend--bummer, I like it HOT!  I know some of you have been in the path of terrible storms, tornadoes and flooding so sending out cyber hugz to you all if you are struggling with the after effects of those!  The weather lately in the past 2 years has just been crazy--me thinks "global warming" is a real thing after all, how 'bout you?

I have a slide-show of our Disney pictures and some birthday gifts I received at the end of this post if you are interested (if you get this in your email you have to come to the actual blog site to see the pics)!  I don't have many of hubby & I together in Disney yet--I ordered a few from Disney that they took (love that Photopass you can get there) so I'll share those next week when they come in.  The weather was very humid and the hotel water very SOFT so my hair was limpy-loo the whole time, lol--it was crazy!  My hubby is always subjected to "posing" in goofy poses for me, but he's always a good sport--so hope you get some laughs.  Also make sure and see his HUGE DINNER he ate one night, lol!  And we have been to Disney 5 times together so we knew what we wanted to do and see while there and were able to hit all the Disney parks in a leisurely way--having lots of fun along the way!

NewsBitz:

-I am crazy working on some new You-Tube Copic Videos and the Color Me Creative Class 4 this week, so my posts this week and next will be sporadic so I can get them all completed for you!  As soon as everything is done, I will announce it here!

-Bday Blog Candy Post below (from Tues)--you have to search for it within the post and enter by Friday! LOL!

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Lemonade & Sunshine

Today I have a fun project to share with you all that is filled with sunshine!  I have had this beautiful new Lockhart Stamp for a bit--it was just waiting for me to use it, hee hee!  I'm not really an apron kinda girl when I cook, but I probably should be cuz' I can be kinda messy, lol! But I love the look of them and always remember my mom wearing them when I was younger--so vintage & cool!  This stamp is called "Daisy Apron" and it would look fabulous paper pieced as well.  I created one of these awesome desk caddies (see a tutorial here) that I have been seeing around the web lately.  I thought this would be a fabulous gift set for Mother's Day, a Wedding Shower or just for a friend--you could fill the caddy up with fun gifts or leave it empty. I envision this sitting on a desk in the kitchen holding some paper & fun pens and recipe cards :o)  The papers I used are from Basic Grey's "Nook & Pantry" collection.

Don't these colors just emit summertime fun? Crisp lettuce green, lemon yellow and apple red are just FUN!  I colored the apron to match these sweet papers (Y15,Y11,Y000/R27,R22,R20/YG25,YG03,YG000).  The pretty red trimming was done with my Martha Stewart border punch (a new one) and the green background was embossed with the swiss dots CB folder.  And that yellow panel is a new SB's nestability die "Labels 11"--I just got a few new ones and I love this set--then I ran it thru another CB embossing folder.  A bow made with my Bow Easy finishes it off nicely--oh, the edges of the dp were distressed with my new (fabulous I must say) Zutter Distress Tool HERE (great price of $32 too--amended from the $27, oopsie that was with my discount, sorry).

Aren't these desk caddies the coolest?  And you make it with just one sheet of 12x12" cs, some adhesive (I used Scor-Tape), hole punch and patterned paper--very easy to make.  The tutorial I found is HERE, but there are a lot out there so who the original inventor is I haven't a clue, lol (but I think it was a guy if I remember reading correctly)!  Kudos to him!  Again I used more of my BG "Nook & Pantry" papers to decorate the outside of my caddy, made some more paper trimming with my MS punch and then topped it off with some large daisies and bow!

I know I'll be making more of these soon--for many different occasions! So fun and easy to do and perfect for anyone!  If you use a double-sided cs then the inside can be decorative too!  Hope you enjoyed these projects today and maybe are inspired to create one for yourself or someone special!

Disney 2010 Slideshow: (click to make larger)


Have a fabulous day!