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Monday, April 26, 2010

Wall Hanging

Hi and Happy Monday everyone!! It has been crazy busy around here. My sweet hubbie was gone for 5 days on a baseball trip which meant that I was here with the kids myself. We had lots of sporting events and birthday parties and stuff going on. It was fun, but busy! I even missed baking for my Sweet Melissa Sunday group. I just couldn't fit it all in.

Today I want to share a wall hanging I made for my office at work. The April 3 Scrappy Boys Trio kit came with a chipboard album that I turned into a wall hanging for my office.


I loved the shape of the chipboard pieces. For the first piece, I painted it with crackle paint and I like how you can see the embossing design from the chipboard through the crackle paint.


I made some accordian flowers with the paper from Kaisercraft in the kit. I just love these colors. Before scoring the paper, I used my threading water punch on one side of the strip of paper. I then scored between the scallops and brought it all together.


After getting the hang of these flowers, they are really fun!! I cut the flourishes out using my Cricut.



I used some of my latest favorite photos of my kids at the park. My daughter's hair is all over the place, but I love it anyway!! This was fun to put together and I really love those accordian flowers. They are pretty bulky and I shy away from putting them in my scrapbookings, but I do love using them for altered items.

Hope you all had a great weekend. Thanks for stopping by!!

17 comments:

  1. What a wonderful wall hanging! It's going to look great in your office! TFS!

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  2. Oh I love this Mara...Your so talented!! Thank you so much for leaving me such nice comments..I miss everybody in blog land!!

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  3. wow Mara I love this so clean and fressh and pretty

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  4. I love this! The colors and flowers and flourishes and of course the adorable pics of your cuties are all ljust perfect:) I also loved seeing those gorgeous cookies you made, yummo!

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  5. Love it Mara! What a fun piece of art to get to look at & enjoy while at work! Sounds like you & your kiddos had a great time! :) TFS

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  6. Very pretty wall hanging. Seeing those happy, smiling faces at work will make your day :)

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  7. What a great wall hanging!! Fantastic!

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  8. Such a great altered project. The accordian flowers are one of my faves too and I really like the different techniques on the chipboard base. Beautiful way to showcase two of the cutest kiddos on the planet.

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  9. oooh! i just love this! esp the colors and fab details like the flowers!!!

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  10. super cute! Love that flower.

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  11. This. is. awesome. Will you make me one if I send you the photos? I want one on my office wall! *grin*

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  12. Gorgeous wall hanging Mara! I love those accordian flowers, they look perfect. Mine never turn out that good, lol.

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  13. What a cute piece of art...You are so creative!

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  14. Wow, what a wonderful wall hanging!

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  15. Mara this turned out FABULOUS!!! I LOVE it!!! What cute photos of the kiddos!
    Hope your day is GREAT!

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