Lindy Stamp Gang's Birthday Blog Hop

Hi Everyone!

Today Lindy Stamp Gang is hosting a Birthday Blog Hop and celebrating Lindy's Birthday through May 4th. The hop begins at Lindy Stamp Gang's Blog and ends at Jo's Blog. There will be fun birthday presents hidden in the designers blog, therefore be sure to stop by everyone's blog and leave a comment.

I thought it would be fun to create a three tier cake with a mini album. I purchased a set of three boxes at my local Micheals to create my cake. Each box was first painted with Gesso and then painted over with Apple Barrel Antique Parchment acrylic paint. I adhered Prima Nature Garden design paper on top and stenciled each of the lids with Prima's stencils and Modeling Paste. I layered the top/bottom of the boxes with some beautiful Vintage laces and flat back pearls. The large Roses were sprayed with Salt Water Taffy, and the smaller roses with Whale Watch Blue. The leaves I sprayed with Sea Grass Green and the small flowers with Clam Bake Beige. I love the Swallowtail Butterfly brass charms and place one on each of the boxes which I painted Gesso to soften up the charm. I created a handmade flower for the top of the cake and added a Happy Birthday banner. Once all my cakes were completed, I sprayed Scintillating Silver on the entire cake and just love all the shimmer. A cake wouldn't be complete without a mini album inside. I create a fabric lace mini album and place it in the bottom box. I just love all the laces and handmade butterfly I added on the cover of the mini.

Thank you so much for stopping by and now it time to check out Kate's blog. Have fun hopping!

Hoppy Easter Candy Cup Favor

Hi Everyone!

I'm just loving the new Tim Holtz Tapered Fringe Alterations die. I instantly wanted to create an Easter favor with a chocolate bunny. I die cut the Tapered Fringe die with Crepe paper and sprayed the Lindy Stamp Gang Flat Fabio Greased Lightnin Green to create the grass and also added mini white flowers that was sprayed with Starburst Clam Bake Beige. I just love how its the perfect shade of green. I die cut the Sizzix XL Candy Cup die with DCWV Dear Jane Stack and filled the bottom with some American Moss. This paper stack is just gorgeous. I wrapped white seam binding which I sprayed with Scintillating Silver and added a white rose from I Am Roses that was also sprayed with Flat Fabio Pink Ladies Pink. I slightly sprayed the rose to give it a two-toned look. On the front of the candy cup, I fussy cut out one of the images from the stack and created a banner with the stamped sentiment Hoppy Easter. This makes a fun favor for your kids and their friends.

Art to the Eggstreme Contest!!!

Are you ready for another contest?
There are so many beautiful ways to color and decorate eggs but have you used Lindy's Stamp Gang to color and decorate your eggs? I thought it would be fun to create a Shabby Chic egg and just had to put my egg in a birds nest. I first painted the white plastic egg with Liquitex Gesso as my base coat. I then painted the entire egg with the color Patina by folkArt. I slightly painted Blanc Anitque also by folkArt for the third layer therefore I can still see the Patina color. I sprayed Salt Water Taffy and Scintillating Silver and added modeling paste by Liquitex and The Crafters workshop Ledger stencil. For the last layer of my egg, I added some trim from my local Hobby Lobby and a ribbon buckle with a flatback pearl. On my bird nest I sprayed the center flower with Salt Water Taffy and Scintillating Silver to coordinate with my egg. The mini roses and leaves by I Am Roses were also sprayed with Scintillating Silver for that added shimmer. Be sure to join Lindy Stamp Gang's Eggstreme Contest and we look forward to all your decorated eggs.


Rules:
1 entry per person.
Use Lindy's Stamp Gang Products to color and/or decorate.
Color and/or decorate any kind of egg/s (styrofoam, paper mache, real, plastic, foil, etc.)
Use: Paint, mediums, paper, lace, fabric, trims, ribbons, beads, paper, etc.


Contest starts now and ends on March 31st 2013 at midnight.


There will be 3 winners!
1st prize will get $50.00 gift certificate
2nd & 3rd prize will get $25.00 gift certificates.


The Lindy's Stamp Gang design team will vote for our favorite's and announce the


winners on April 5th 2013.