Blooming Ideas

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

It's a Bead Soup Party!

Lori Anderson of Pretty Things is having a Bead Soup Party.... follow the link on my side bar to sign up. How it will work is....

First, you must have a blog!

Next, email her letting her know you want to go to the Bead Soup Party.

On January 11th, She'll contact everyone with your Party Partner and list all the Party Blogs.

You'll then send your Party Partner a Party Pack:
~ A focal
~ Some coordinating spacers or beads
~ A special clasp (not just a lobster claw)

When you get your package of beads, you make something with it, take a picture, and post it on your blog on February 1st. Then hop around to all the Party Blogs to see what everybody made!

Thursday, December 24, 2009

Let Us All Eat Cake!

Here is what my pages look like for the

Marie Antoinette Mail Art group

6 x 6 Lacey Cake pages swap.

Cake Page Front

Background paper was clear embossed and

rubbed pink ink on and then wiped off.

Then stamped other images on in a Chocolate brown.

Laces, ribbons, rhinestones, flowers and pearls

were used for the cake layers.

Sample of the cake page backs

Embellished slightly different.

Personalized with each ladies first name initial.

Opens to reveal a yummy cake recipe I can't even begin to tell you the many hours I have spent making these.
And I could have spent even more adding more things
and more touches.
I had to stop myself and say okay your done.
It was a pleasure to make the 10 pages for the ladies.
Unfortunately one of the ladies wasn't able to continue.
So I have an extra page. Oh well.
Perhaps I'll use it for the cover of the book.
If I decide to make it into a book.
I could also hang them all together.
I have had some peaks of a few of the cakes that are already done.
But you have to wait until next year when I get all of them
to see what the rest of the ladies came up with.
No biggy it's just a few weeks away.