Guess who was Mark Montano's Featured Friend yesterday?

This Girl!!!  

How exciting is that.  Ok, So here's how it happened.  I messaged him and asked him about a bail he made for some pendants, I sent him the pic of what I was making and let him know I need it pretty fast because some girls were already wanting these.  I forgot where I seen it, just remembered it was him.  But I found it flipping through the Big Ass Book of Bling before he had a chance to respond.  He asked if he could feature it and I said yes.  

Here's how I made it, I have a sheet of brass my Father-In-Law got me last year.  I used my Tim Holtz Tattered Flowers die and I had some flower middle bling stickers, They have a pearl in the middle which I removed.  My Hubby and I went shooting a couple weeks ago and I kept the spent shells.  I used my metal shears to split them and my long nose pliers to help bend them.  I bent up the flower how I like them and used E6000 to attach everything.  I found some heart shaped paper clips that I used to attach upside down to the back because I couldn't find my wire.  

I know its been a while, Im so glad to be back!

Stacey's Ribbon & Rhinestones Birthday Blog Hop

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Charlotte who said

"Oh how fun it would be to play with all that ribbon. The card is so cute. I love the colors you chose."
Charlotte please send your shipping address to ScrappyScavenger@yahoo.com, Thanks for hopping!

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Happy Birthday Stacey!!!!

In honor of Stacey's Birthday, we a having a Ribbon & Rhinestone hop, hosted by Stacey, We all know she has a lust for ribbon and rhinestones!  So if you got here from Janet you are on track!  If not please click on Stacy's blog to start at the beginning, Id hate for you to miss out on the talented inspiration!

Kaylee had a blast creating her quiet space, She is one of those children who needs a little quiet time to herself and was blessed however, with an older and younger sister.  Being the middle child, she was in need of some Mommy alone time...

Stacking her Prima flowes how she needs them

Im attaching the ribbon around the Bunk bed bars, and Prima flowers to the ribbon with eyelets

Surely we needed her help

Cut the chandelier from silver vinyl, Cricut deco cartridge, Used our pompoms from Alainah and Autumn's bday party, attached to bar with wire

Made hooks from wire to hang the rhinestones and jewels from the top bunk bars

Pink and green pillows from Dollar Tree last year, No sew Glue and Felt ribbon and trimmings, I didnt put too many ribbons so she wont be scared at night and can see better LOL

Not much room to take the pictures, I was actually standing on her dresser to get far enough to take this pic LOL!  She had so much fun, and ooh and aughed the entire time!  She had no idea just a couple jewels, wire ribbon, eyelets, and flowers could do that!

Birthday Card for Stacy mailed out tomorrow! Prima flowes, scrapsm Glitter Flowers polkadot brads, Martha Stewart ink.



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Oh soooo CUTE!!! Pretty Pumpkin!

I love pumpkins, I love everything about Pumpkins, I love their colors, their look, the perfect ones, the abnormal ones and the ugly bumpy ones, I love uniqueness of each of them, the smell, the taste, the texture and the versatility of them.  I love the time of year they are to be harvested!  Fall is my absolute favorite  season, so much so, that it is the namesake of my first born.   I have discovered that between the raccoons, opossums, and my beloved, My decorations have been destroyed.  So since I have a new car, I have to start from scratch which really don't hurt much.  More guilt for him= more scrappn' time for me.

The paper flower is from Infuse

***Money Saver Alert***

The Gems were clear, I used Bic Marks-Its orange and a light red-orange.

It is so much cheaper to have a couple sheets of clear than 10 sheets of different colors!

Using double-sided paper on this project is a must, Its a much cleaner look and you can just flip them for a different pattern.

I used 2 wire hangers

 2 needle nose pliers.

small and large eyelet

Crop a dile

3 different double-sided papers
Hemp cord

Your choice of adhesives, I used Dots and my ATG when things wouldn't work out  

Used pop out flower from Basic Gray's Infuse, and the big leaf Negative as a stencil for the leaf

Yellow-Gold Embossing powder, added a little color to it w brown Bic

Heating tool

Bic Marks It Orange, Brown, black

Martha Stewart Ink, Red Orange

Cut a top round piece to fit and trim it into a star pattern and ink it.  Ink all pieces and allow to dry before applying