Flower Bar

Happy fri-yay!

Working my way to sunday, worked on the "flower bar"

today.  Used the chalkboard I had on hand to create the

little sign as well as the cute baskets to fill with the paper

cones for guests to put their flowers in.

Tomorrow I will pick up fresh flowers for the shower for guests

to put into their cones. 

The little cones are made with crumb cake cardstock that I rolled into

the cones and added the kids monogram and bows. 

I adhered the cones by stapling them. 

A friend of the kids designed their monogram which they

have used on their wedding invites and other items.

 I bought these stickers on amazon and pressed the monogram into them. 

I wish we were going to be having good weather, but

it sadly looks like it will be cloudy and rainy.

The flowers will be the bright spot along with the celebration of the

shower!

Have a great weekend!

Painted champagne bottles

Good morning!

We are all things bridal shower over here!

If you've just joined me, my youngest is getting married the end of June so we are in full swing everything weddings over here between my wedding coordinating job and her beautiful nuptials. 

And if you are thinking,  I wonder if Julie is coordinating her daughter's wedding, well, I am not!  

As I should not!  so I am getting to enjoy and reap all the fun 

while it is being handled by another coordinator!

But the upcoming shower,  I get to host and create beauty for that so here we go!

The bride to be requested these painted champagne bottles, 

very on trend for showers of all kinds right now.

I picked up the brand Chandon with the gold

and got out my acrylic paint and brushes. 

As intimidating as this my look or seem it is quite fun and easy.

Using a brush you just stroke the paint inward to create the petals and leaves.  I just randomly added them around the bottles. 

Luckily I have only 3 to paint. 

I painted full white flowers that you see here then turned the bottle and painted half peach flowers in the empty spaces.  The rest of the bottle I filled with sage leaves.  You can't make a mistake as once you apply the paint if you don't like the look take your paper towel and wipe it off and try again.  

You can also practice a few flowers on a piece of  paper before you go to the bottle. 

I also used a gold ink pen to make the little centers of the flowers.

Aren't they fun?

Would you try this? 

Flourish through the Word luncheon

This past saturday was out annual Flourish through the Word

women's luncheon.

It started off with some excitment, our fearless leader/mentor

Marjie Shaefer fell an hour before the conference.

Her foot swelled up and she had to be put into a wheel chair

for the luncheon.  She was such a trooper to the end

of the conference, and we hoping and praying her foot

is going to be okay.

Some of the lovelies I get to walk alongside.

Remember those 300 colored flowers I made?

They were for the luncheon.  

the tables were so pretty. 

I missed taking pictures of all the food, salads, fruits,

but LOOK at these desserts! Come on, there goes

eating healthly~

How beautiful are these floral sugar cookies?

Too good to eat for sure. 

It was a spirit filled morning with worship, speakers,

silent auction donations and FOOD and fun!

It's our last hurrah before the summer begins

before Flourish meets back up in the fall.

If you are local and looking for a women's ministry

this is for you! 

You can message me for the details. 

More dry embossing

Back this saturday with another dry embossing card

with a larger heart shape.

I used a very large heart framelit.

The edges I tore a bit and then stamped the image

at the top.  Added some gold twinning. 

Try this dry embossing, super fun! 

Dry embossing

Happy thursday!

Let's try something new, but old that I thought I'd bring back around for fun.  Dry embossing....

To do this technique you can use any of your shaped framelits

or it you don't have any framelits you could draw a heart on paper

and cut it out to use as a template in place of the framelit.

For this project you will need the framelit shape of your choice,

a envelope and a stylus tool.

Take your envelope and slide the framelit under the closure

of the envelope. Taking the stylus tool gently trace around the 

heart image to create the heart.  

Like you see above here, just slowly trace around the image

Once done, you flip the envelope closure over and see the raised 

heart on the envelope!

How sweet it that!

I stamped the back of the envelope with

"yay for love" 

I'm using them for bridal shower and an aniversary card

that I plan to send out. 

Do you like this technique? Would you try it?

Hello Baby!

Happy wednesday,

I went in search of some baby shower wrapping paper and found this colorful stripped paper.  Super cute!

So I decided I had to make a card to match it.

I looked through my paper stash and was able to 

coordinate the colors!

How fun is that!

I backed the white paper with some glimmer

gold paper and then cut the colors in 1" strips.

It looks like the paper!  

Now to add my favorite vintage baby stamp to the card

and it's ready to gift.  

Possibly one of my favorite stamps,

this photo stamp looks so real. 

I used the gold twine to tie around the card.

So precious. 

Breakfast recipe

Good morning!

Here's a yummy brekkie dish you can really sink your teeth into.

This was so delish and as I always say, super easy!

I guess I am the easy girl!  hahaha!

Start by preheating the over at 350

Take any type of baking dish and use some cooking spray on the bottom.

Ingredients:

3 eggs

1/3 cup cottage cheese

1/2 cup of spinach

Protein of your choice, I used ham

1/2 c of cheese, I used havarti

salt and pepper

one 8" tortilla

Instructions:

Spray pan then line the pan with the tortilla and fill it with

the eggs that you will beat with a fork before pouring over the tortilla

Sprinkle a couple of tablespoons of cottage cheese the spinach, cheese and ham over the egg and also add a little garlic powder and salt and pepper.   Bake in over til eggs are done- 15-20 mins.

Enjoy!!!