I made a little Christmas Ornament!!!

I made this little Christmas ornament out of a dollar plain wooden ornament from Michaels.  I had so much fun with it.  I painted it with a coat of off white paint, then covered it in Tim Holtz Tissue Tape, and then applied a coat of decoupage medium to the whole thing.  Then I covered it in Martha Stewart's White Marble glitter.  Then I added embellishments-mother of pearl buttons, a fleur-de-lis to honor my husband's french heritage, and different ribbons that I had in my stash.  I glittered some Tim Holtz grungeboard letters and the top of the ornament in Martha Stewart's white gold glitter.  Then I took some chipboard wings, covered them in Tim Holtz Tissue Tape, applied a coat of decoupage medium, and then started to paint and scrape gold paint, red interference shimmer spray, and then blue shimmer spray.  When that had all dried I applied another coat of decoupage medium and then sprinkled Martha Stewart's coarse white glitter over the wings.  When they were dry I hot-glued them to the little house.  I am soooooooooooooooo in love with this ornament.  It turned out even better than the vision I had in my head.  I think I'll start a new tradition, where I make one special ornament every year.  FUN!!!!!

Lil Angel

This is a layout with pictures from when William was just 5 days old, and soooooooo tiny and perfect and sweet!  He's a big 18.4 lb. 4 month old now!!!

Anime style girl!!!

I took an online class by Danita, an artist that I really like, and this is how my girl turned out!  She's kind of me in a lot of ways, although I dyed my hair red instead of blue!  I love how I am the mama butterfly and then the little baby stroller has the baby butterfly!  Baby William is my little baby butter!  And of course there is the "Big C" lurking in the background...I had a lot of fun fingerpainting distress ink into rock candy crackle paint!  Very happy hands that day!!!

Lifebook 2013

http://tinyurl.com/lifebookdanita
I can't wait to take this class!

William is Born!!! (Scrapbook Layout)

At long last I have created something!  William is now 3 months old and just adorable.  This layout captures those amazing moments as he was born and just after...hopefully more layouts and art to come!!!

Huge Giveaway!!!!!!!!!!

In honor of World Cardmaking Day, which I believe was yesterday, Pamela's World of Scrap is giving away a huge prize on her blog.  Here's the link: http://www.pamelasworldofscrap.blogspot.com/2012/10/huge-wcmd-giveaway.html
Good Luck!!!

Lots of news!!!!!! Cancer, etc...

No artsy pictures today as we are currently "in-between" cameras...Baby William is 2 months old now and perfectly delicious, delightful, and adorable...all 16 pounds of him!!!!  I just found out that I have thyroid cancer, a minor, treatable cancer and will have surgery in 2 days to remove my entire thyroid.  That is a very difficult thing to deal with, with taking care of a new baby.  But I am managing incredibly well with the help of Mr. Awesome Hubby!!!  I also have a new, CRAZY-FUN haircut in defiance of the cancer.  But no pictures of it yet due to the whole no camera situation. Sunday I started a new painting in my sketchbook and last night I made an entire scrapbook layout!!!!! (I just have to do the journaling)  The first art I've created in 3 months and it feels soooooooooooooooo good.  That's life these days in a nutshell...