Sea You Later!!

Happy Tuesday everyone!  Hope you had a lovely weekend!  I must say I'm SUPER EXCITED this week because its in the mid-70's and 80's all week...WAHOOOO about darn time I say!  So I tried to get a bunch of work & cleaning done yesterday so I can sit out in the sun a bit and work in the garden...this gal needs some SUN-time!  Hubby leaves on Wed for work travel and then he's in Augusta, GA for the Masters (that's golf...hohum boring to me lol) so he can hobknob with Tiger Woods I guess LOL!  Funny thing is, it will be warmer here than in GA while he's there...heehee.  We also got to eat outside on the patio last night for the first time in 2013...I love, love eating outside and we try to do it as much as possible when the weather is nice.  Plan on eating out there tonight too!

We had a crazy Sunday...we were at the Orioles game in Baltimore on Sunday afternoon and it was beautiful weather and fun even if we lost (boohoo).  Then we stopped by a local crab-place in Baltimore to pick up CrabFest-NFL Draft tix for the 25th...its Alexa's 17th birthday on the 25th and she wanted to spend it at Jimmy's Seafood watching the NFL Draft.  Why you ask???  Well she's obsessed with sports like the rest of us AND some of the Ravens football players are hosting the event AND we get to eat crabs and that's what she wanted....'nuff said? LOL!  Then we hauled arse down to DC to catch the Washington Capitals hockey game Sunday evening...we have front row seats along the glass so good seats AND I get to yell loudly.  I'm a loud fan...I'm a passionate fan...and I don't give 2 poo-poos who is there, if I gotta yell I gotta yell LOL.  I yelled at the refs that night for a HORRIBLE call and got us on TV...not once but a few times AND a highfive from one of the players thru the glass hee hee.  Hubby just sits to the side and claps cuz' he says I handle all the trash-talkin' and yelling for him ;)  So we didn't get home until 12:30 am so I must say I'm still a bit drowsy from all that craziness.  Never a dull moment here I tell ya.....

Pics from the weekend:

Starting April 26th thru April 29th the CMC Classroom 

will be celebrating it's 3rd Birthday!  

So all are welcome to come on over and join us in the fun festivities!  We will have lots of fun games & challenges along with some AMAZING prizes that you can win!!  

Go HERE and join our Birthday Group to stay in the "know" :)

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Sea You Later!

This is my project for today's

 Magnolia-licious Tuesday Challenge at the Challenge Blog.  

Its all about "Buttons, Bows & Beads...or All Three"!  I used 2 outta 3...I did a bow of sorts (mine is a frayed one) and beads (aka pearls) on mine!  I used "Dangling Sea Tilda" from the 2010 Bon Voyage Collection (seen here)...I had never used this cutie before but I had used the one with Edwin.  The Bon Voyage Collection remains one of my all time favorite from Magnolia.  You can hop over to the Challenge Blog Here and see the DT gals fabulous projects and join in on the fun too!

I'm entering this into the following fab challenges: 

Make It Monday (anything goes)

Card Mania Challenges (punches & dies)

Crafty Bloggers Network (anything goes)

Lexi's Creations (punches/dies)

MarkerPOP Challenge (anything goes)

Mema's Crafts Monday Challenge (anything goes) 

Stamps + Fun= Creativity (girly) 

 

I kept the style a bit shabby-chic and antiquated...love that look!  The papers are by Prima called "Printerly"...loved the mix of aqua, cream and blacks in this pack of pretty papers.  The tag with the frayed bow in the back is from 7 Gypsies that I inked a bit.  All the papers got inked with Distress Ink in Old Paper.  The fun clock cut-out is an SCACD die called "Classic Timepiece" and the sentiment is by Magnolia as well.  The ribbon is some tea-stained ribbon I got a bit ago on Etsy...love the crumpled, vintage look of it.  The black photo-corners were done with a Spellbinders oval tag die I had...I diecut it out of black cs and then cut it in half and glued it to my paper.  Then I added my "beads" ala champagne colored pearls to the inside....I love to use my dies in many different ways like this.  The aqua mat behind the main image was die cut and then embossed with a ledger-embossing folder and inked.

"Dangling Sea Tilda" was colored with Copics:  BG75,BG72,BG11,BG10 / E11,E00,R20 / W9,W7,W5,W3,W1 / E43,E42,E40 / E47,E31,E50.  I added some Stickles to her shirt and shoes and then Diamond Glaze to the anchor and hat band for shine.  I also inked her a bit around the edges with the DI Old Paper too!

That's all for me today...hope you liked this cutie pop and please stop by the Challenge Blog to see the DT's work and to join in on the challenge!!