All Dressed Up for the Easter Parade

Hello everyone! I'm bringing you a little SUGARY SWEET Easter Greetings today with this stamped hanging Easter greeting! I've created this to play along with the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers SOSS #30 - E is for Easter Challenge... this is not so much snarky this time but I think I might get a cavity from all the candy coated colors in this Easter Bunny.

This yellow Easter egg decor has been sitting in my craft drawer for ages waiting to be altered - and it's finally been put to crafty use... with stamped goodness and glittery pens! To see more about how I created this CLICK HERE to jump over to see the details on the Viva Las VegaStamps! Blog.

Have a Happy Easter!

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Stamps from Viva Las VegaStamps: "Fancy Bunny" #17610, "Easter" #18114, "Best Wishes" #826, and "Washi Lines Background" #19073. Other Supplies: painted cardstock using Ranger Distress Stains; Versafine Black Pigment Ink; green and purple dye inks; Miracle Sheet Adhesive; 3/4" Miracle Tape; Sakura of America Gelly Roll Stardust Pens; waterbrush; Faber-Castell Pitt Pens; and Offray organza ribbon.

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Thanks for dropping by! Have a fantastic Day! :) Sb

For the LOVE of a Man... and a GOOD PRANK!

It's April Fool's Day and I'm sharing a little devilish project today! All last week social media was buzzing with ideas and photos of creative pranks for April Fool's Day. I came across a cute prank which involved painting a bar of soap with clear nail polish to seal and replace in the soap dish... resulting in soap that doesn't work. LOL!!!

This is so hilarious...

and I'm taking it one step further!

I certainly don't have the patience to sit and methodically paint a bar of soap with nail polish - BUT - with my Amazing Casting Products... I could pull this one off! I thought this would be the perfect prank against my husband. Timing couldn't have been better! Over the weekend I hijacked our halfway used bar of soap from the shower.

I have my Amazing Mold Putty at the ready to mold a dummy bar of soap casted in a mixture of Amazing Casting Resin, Alumilite Pearlescent Powder, and Fluorescent "FLO" Green Dye.

Can you tell the real from the FAKE???

Before molding your bar of soap in Amazing Mold Putty – make sure that the soap is dry and totally free of moisture {meaning not fresh from the soap dish}. I prepared a batch of Amazing Mold Putty following the easy instructions and pressed around my bar of soap. Then I prepared a batch of Amazing Casting Resin mixed with Alumilite Pearlescent Powder and two drops of the Fluorescent "FLO" Green Dye... when cured, this gives a perfect minty green with a bit of variagated swirls – just like a real bar of soap. In about 15 minutes my cast resin duplicate was cured and ready for it's debut!

After a little sanding with emory board, I sprayed the resin piece with olive oil spray, then buffed with a towel to mimick the sheen of the soap and to gloss up the sanded edges. It even weighs about the same as my used bar of soap original.

I'm really impressed with how real this fabulous FAUX soap looks and feels. I made the swap and replaced the faux soap in the shower. Bahahahahahhahaha! It totally fooled the hubs. It's not often that I'm the one pulling off a prank... there's nothing like some good harmless fun!

Thanks for dropping by... hope you have a fantastically fun day! Sb ;)

Winding Things Up for Inspiration at the #Altered Pinewood Derby!

Hello everyone! Today I'm sharing a special little project that was totally just for fun... between friends - and I'm totally in love with this creation!

A while back, Tina Walker announced she was hosting a Pine Wood Derby Challenge and gathered some creative friends to join in the fun. The idea was to all start with the same blank Pine Wood Derby car, and alter it however we were inspired and everyone's resulting cars are so amazing!

This is the blank Pinewood Derby kit we all started with... 

A wedge of wood, four wheels and four nails for axles... so full of potential!

I gathered a bunch of items from my stash of embellishments, leftovers from other projects, watch parts, recycled bits and found objects to alter my dream racer. The base of my car is collaged with a monoprinted deli paper, one of many that I made in a Nathalie Kalbach workshop a few months back.

I used Mod Podge to collage it to the car, wrapping around like a present. I love how it blends from black, to blue to purple - with all the painterly effects and none of the mess, so I can get to embellishing all the faster!

I had loads of potential items to junque up my car... but once I mounted the SIMPLIFY tag on the back bumper as license plate... my muse waived the flag "less is more". Two resin cast bolt caps are the lights flanking the simplify plate. An assortment of embellishments and watch parts clustered into a gear mechanism formation to meet up to the horizontal gears on top.

This was so fun to create. I'm quite pleased with my whimsical racer topped with a vintage winder key... enjoy all the details!

The rims of the wheels are capped off with recycled watch parts.

The front fender is half of a hinge clasp from a cigar box accented with mini adhesive pearls and a recycled watch gear cluster for hood ornament.

The large gears holding the winder are an assortment of recycled gears from adhesive runners, metal craft gears, and found recycled rusty metal pieces all stacked and fitted together. I can acutally spin and turn these around... too FUN!!!

This section is one piece I knew right off the bat would be the feature... this recycled mini square watch face with a leftover stamped eye inside; mounted on top of a partially altered mah jong tile received in a goodie box from a creative friend long ago.

A section of chain that was in with my stash of recycled watch bits and an "INSPIRE" tops off this car. My vintage key came with this purple string tied to it... I left it as it is my tiny scarf tied for good luck!

Thanks for dropping by! Please click on the boxes below to jump over and see the other fantastic creations for the Altered Pinewood Derby. If you are inspired to create your own, please leave me a comment and share your link for us to see - we would totally love it! Have a fabulously creative day! Sb  :)

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