Mom's Chair

Hallo,
  Well a nice and WINDY day today here in NW Florida but not as much rain as I had expected, most of that seems to have stayed to the easy of us.
  Showing you a little projest that I finished off this weekend to send to a friend of mine who lost her Mom this spring.
  I found the phrase from Serendipity just a month or so ago and just loved it. I had 2 friends lose their Mom's this spring so all the more reason to add this atmp to my collection!!!
  The rose in the backround are from Stampin Up - colored with copics.
   The chair is from Flourishes - also colored with copics and cut out with Spellbinders dies (scalloped layer is a pretty purple although it doesn't show up well in the photo.
   The phrase was embossed onto vellum.
   I found this old frame at one of my favorite thrift stores and loved the old fashioned look to it and the gold color!

 Well all for me today - headed off to work tonight.
   Take Care
         Tera

Red, red rose....

 Hallo,
   A rainy saturday am today.....my DD's softball games got rained out last night so I came home and putter around in the craft room, finishing off this frame I have been working on.
  I have had a couple friends loose their Mom's lately and this phrase from Serendipity Stamps is so sweet!!!!
  I paired the phrase with an old stamp from Stampin Up. I stamped the background several times with memento london fog gray ink and then stamped the rose 3 more times on seperate pieces of cardstock. I colored 2 of them completely - with copics - and the third I just colored the roses and leaves. I used the third piece to do some paper tole on the main rose.
  I stamped the phrase onto vellum and embossed in black.
   All for me today - DD is working, DS is playing paintball (probably in the rain) and DH will be out and about too....I am headed off after lunch to a class at a local art gallery doing some work with encaustic wax which I have never tried before but looks like it could be fun!!!
    I will have this frame up on the Etsy site today - I plan to do a couple more versions sometime soon.....

   Take Care and have a great weekend!!!
        Tera

Roses in Winter

Hallo,
  A quick post for you today - headed off to work in a bit....
Hot and sunny here in NW Florida today but the humidity was down today so that was nice!!! Our local town festival was this weekend with the Pirates landing this afternoon to take over the town and distribute 'booty' (beads, cups, t-shirts and yes moon pies - of course) I went downtown with DH and wandered around for a bit and then we got lunch. I had to miss the landing this time due to a need for me to get a nap before work tonight.

I did this frame up to send to a friend who just recently lost her sweet Mamma. Shortly after I heard, I was looking at a stamp store that I hadn't looked at in awhile - Serendipity Stamps -  and saw the phrase stamp and HAD to get it!!!.
  The flowers are peonies instead of roses because my friends Mom had a ton of peonies at her house.
  The peony stamp is from Impression Obsession. I tried to color them very light so the phrase would really stand out but yet still have pretty color.
    My friend loves vintage things, so I thought she would love this beautiful old frame!
   I love going to garage sales and thrift stores and finding classic old frames like this one to give new life to - recycle, repurpose and renew :)
   I have one more frame that I need to make up for a classmate of mine who also lost her Mom in the last couple months - that one will be done with roses and I may add a stamp from one of my new sets from Flourishes that has a whicker chair with a book on it because my classmates Mom loved roses and reading (among other things).
   All for today - should be back on Monday - have a great weekend!!!!
       Tera