Scraps of Color Hearts and Roses Blog Hop: Day 3

Hi everyone:

So glad that you've joined us in the Scraps of Color Hearts and Roses Blog Hop: Day 3!  If this is your first time hopping; you've missed some great projects and should take the time to start at Day 1 here.

I, along with some other very crafty and talented women have teamed up to bring you some Valentine's and love themed projects Feb. 14th through Feb. 16th.  We hope that you've taken the time to hop along through all of the participating blogs, join up and follow them, including this one, and leave comments along the way on all of the projects.

I've done lots of projects for this hop.  It was so much fun and exciting to be a part of.  And for Day 3 of this hop, I've done a picture frame.  This one comes from my local Dollar Store.  I've painted it with black acrylic paint and added sticky flat back pearl and bling.  The metal flower was originally a hair clip that I took apart.  Can you see how the inner petals also resemble hearts?  I loved the look of these flowers so much that I bought these hair clips in sets of red, white, black, green, and purple!  And lastly, the image that I used was taken from Pinterest and colored with Copic markers.

I hope that you had a lovely, memorable Valentine's Day and weekend.
Thank you again for joining me, becoming a follower and making a comment. I really do appreciate them all. Your next stop should be http://craftysue52.blogspot.com/ to see another fabulous Valentine's project.

And don't forget to stop by on Mon., Feb. 17th to see if you won blog candy here.

Again, much love
Hugs+Kisses
Renee

*******Blog Hop Order*******

Cassie: http://www.cassiescraftcafe.blogspot.com/

QP: http://qpqueenpam.blogspot.com/

Shalana: http://scrappinwithshalana.blogspot.com/

FranCine: http://confiseriespapier.blogspot.com/

MJ: http://afrocentriccreations.blogspot.com/

Princess: 

http://www.papercraftingparadise.blogspot.com/

Tiare: http://www.iclassygirl.com/

Treva: http://www.scrappint.blogspot.com/

An'Jenic: http://anjenicgibson.blogspot.com/

Renee: http://domestikdivadesigns.blogspot.com/

Susan: http://craftysue52.blogspot.com/

Cheryl: http://www.onecraftyncpeach.blogspot.com/

Debra: http://www.cdebbiscrap.blogspot.com/

Altered Tray

Hi faithful friends!

Thanks for stopping by.  I appreciate all of your support...I really do.

Over at http://scrapsofcolor.ning.com/events/that-s-alterable-challenge-2013 we are continuing our monthly 'alter it!' challenge.  Which I am so enjoying!

This month we were to alter a tray.  And of course, I just so happen to have an old dusty and stained one available.  It's a really good size too.  I guess that's why I never tossed it out.

It took a lot of gesso and  acrylic paint  to cover up all of stains....but I finally got it covered....whew! I then added a coat of ModPodge to that.  I used patterned paper from the Color Bok Veranda stack and added a piece of lacy seam binding to cover the seam.  There is a 1inch width strand of ruffled lace around the entire outside edge of the tray. And a strand of pearl bling along the entire inside edge.  I added a final coat of ModPodge to the entire tray.  To complete the tray, I added felt pads to the bottom for stability.  By the way....Did I say how much I love, love, love this paper?! I'd like to get a stack with the same pattern in different colors if that were possible.

My daughter saw the finished product and wanted to know if it were for her house since her bedroom has these colors...wink, wink....hint, hint....After disappointing her and telling her that it was for a friend...I quickly let her off of the hook and told her "Of course it is!" To which there were no words...just a very loud "SIGH!"  It's so nice that my baby has been digging through my crafty items to find things for her house.  But she's been eyeing my paper doll collection a little too hard!!!!  I may have to make several for her.  It's hard letting go of your "first" of anything isn't?

Like I said, this monthly journey of altering every day items has been a blast....thanks Tiare....I hate to see the year end. LOL.

Until my next altered item....
Hugs+Kisses
Renee