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Spring swap - I made some simple book marks.  I love the rosette ones.  I kept it simple and will include these as extras. 

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Glass, coffee, fabric, lights - good smells.  All hints I gave my partner...what could it be?

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Real quick post....I will be back with pictures.  I worked on a project for Kim and the project smells fabulous.  Yes I said smell.  I am used to get ink, glue, glitter and such on my hands but nothing that smells absolutely awesome.  Yay.  I am a little short on a component so I need to run out and get a little more...it is worth it.  I really like this. :)

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Insert sad face here.  Oh man. I wish I had modge podged the tray first then added the resin.  It discolored parts of the paper - not too bad though.  I will make up my mind one it has had a chance to sit a while and cure.  I hope the discoloration goes away.

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This project is in progress.  I painted the tray with two coats of cool blue regular paint. Then I did two coats of MS Aquarium pearl paint.  It gives the tray a shimmery finish.  I used paper from G45 Tropical Travelogue and Under the Boardwalk (?)  paper packs.  I inked the edges and then glued down with yes paste.  I think I am going to keep it fairly simple for design as I am a little apprehensive on the next step.  After I let everything settle I am going apply liquid resin.  I hope it turns out nice.  Then I am thinking of adding some type of sealer to the rest of the tray.  So here is a sneak peek .....

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Looks like I have a whole week of posts to catch up.  I have had a rough week, but today will be productive.  I am working on two items that are drying before I work on the next step,  so I decided that I would make something for the Easter/Spring Swap.

I had seen some butterfly embellishments and thought they were really cute.  I wanted to make some using what I had in my stash so I checked out YouTube. I love YouTube it is an awesome resource.  I found a tutorial I liked, but I made a few changes.  In the tutorial she had used some large mesh rosette trim that was already colored.  I had found in my stash some shabby chic white trim from Tim Holtz - yay!  (My trim is much smaller than what she used - but it worked).  I glimmer misted them and let dry. Then I assembled like she had in the tutorial onto the circle.  On the trim, for the antennae, I used much less than she showed.  I started mid body and went up leaving enough for the antennae, whereas she had gone the full length of the body and had some as a tail.  The other change I made was that she used I AmRoses for the length of the body.  Although they are beautiful, I just didn't have any in my stash.  What I had that was small enough was the ribbon rosettes that you can buy at Joann's or Walmart for .97 for 40.  I cut off the green ribbon leaves and placed a dollop of glue to keep them held together.  Then I just placed three of them along the length of the body. 

I decided to package them into a tin.  For smaller items I am really liking the thought of using presentations. So they don't get lost in the box or just looking lonely in a baggie.  I had a tin I found for cheap at the Salvation Army - it was grimy but not scratched. So I cleaned the sucker up and and used some spring/easter colored paper and lined bottom of the tin, the inside top, and then the top of the tin.  I added some pink bling and some flowers.  I did not have any pink flowers so I used a couple of white ones and then just inked the edges in pink to tie them in.

I'll be back with some more projects today hopefully.

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I really liked how that frame came out, so I decided to make another one.  For this frame I didn't rub the distress ink onto it so it came out a little lighter.  I kind of like it.  They are so close, so it is hard to tell though.  Then I also made this weekend some altered dominoes and some mini note cards.  I am not much of a card maker any more so it was a wee bit of a struggle to come up with a style that I thought would work.  I think they came out okay though.  I am working on some larger projects that will take some time for another swap, so I will show pictures as those get done.  For now here are some pics of what I did complete.  Now seeing the pictures, looks like I might go back and add a little more embellishment to the presentations.