Holiday Paint Party

This fall season I will be doing Paint Parties for anyone interested! I have several seasonal paintings to choose from that will go with all of your holiday decor! Whether it be Halloween, Thanksgiving, or Christmas, there is sure to be something that you'd like to call a piece of your own as I will instruct and guide you and your guests with basic techniques to have you painting like a pro in no time! By the end of the party you'll be taking home a beautiful, custom piece of art that will look fantastic hanging on your wall among the rest of your holiday decor!
All of the materials are provided so all there is for you to do is provide refreshments, guests and the space needed! The cost is $20 per person and there must be a minimum of 5 guests! Looking forward to PAINTING and PARTYING with you soon!
Please email me at laceyherring@yahoo.com or call 318.237.9121 to book your party now!


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Cricut Tip

Looking for a particular image on any of the hundreds of hundreds cricut cartridges but don't know which ones have it???
Check out cricutsearch.com!
Just type in the name of the image into the search bar and all of the carts with this images with come up!!!!
Hope this helps!!!


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Final Preview

Here is the final preview for what you will find at my table this Saturday at the Patriot Arts and Crafts Show.

This is one of several journals to be sold on Saturday! Hope you enjoy!

Front Cover



Inside Front Cover & Bookmark



Inside Front Cover


Back Cover



Please come out to West Ridge Middle School this Saturday from 8-5 to see me and all of the rest spring inspired things I have made for you!

Another Sneak Peak

Busy, busy getting ready for the Patriot Art Show this weekend at West Ridge Middle School!
Here are a few things to be looking forward to at my table!










Hope to see you THIS Saturday between 8am-5pm at the Patriot Art Show at West Ridge Middle School!

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I've been up to something!

Getting ready for the Patriot Art Show next weekend at West Ridge Middle School! Here is a sneak peak!







You'll have to come see me to check out the rest of my goodies!

PATRIOT ART SHOW
WEST RIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL
SATURDAY MARCH 26th
8am-5pm

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They're here!!!!

FINALLY!!! My new business cards have arrived in the mail today! I'm so excited to have them in my hands!


And this gets me even more excited about selling my creations at the Patriot Spring Festival next Saturday March 26th from 8-5 at West Ridge Middle School! I hope you can make it there! Be sure to stop by my table to pick up something 'spring inspired' to take home with you!

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Long Lost Post

Reviewing my recent posts I realized i was missing one! I'm not sure what happened but it was completely lost. So here I am posting it again! :)

SATURDAY MARCH 12, 2011

I went to a baby shower for a baby girl and the decorations were so cute! There were red, black and white polka dots everywhere! They used a die cut machine to make large polka dot confetti! It was adorable and I'm stealing the idea for the next shower/party I throw! When I came home I was so inspired by the cute polka dots that I decided to make a ladybug card.



I also want to announce my challenge this month! Being that it is National Craft Month, I've decided to challenge myself to use nothing but scraps from my scrap box for all my cards! If i could get away with it for my scrapbooking I'd do that too! But since my scrapbooking is so specific to certain occasions I don't think I could get away with that. Anyway, here are a few more cards I've done for my challenge!
Enjoy and be inspired!












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Scrap Challenge

Well, I've been doing pretty good on my scrap challenge. I made A LOT of cards today and the only thing I used for them that didn't come from my scrap box was the card bases, (the actual card itself). And I can honestly say that these are some of the CUTEST cards I have ever made! P.S. I'll let you in on a little secret I've discovered: A GREAT way to use up your scraps, scraps of ANY size, is to cut out images from your Cricut that require layering! Wow! Have I used A LOT of scrap paper from cutting out layers!? What an awesome way to save paper!
So here are the cards I've made today:













Now, I think they all turned out super cute but these last three are my favorites of the day!








Cartridges used: (all lites) Sugar and Spice & Live Simply.

Hope you are inspired!!!! Happy National Craft Month and happy scrapping!!!

Owl Show You What I Made Today!

Don't you like my little pun???
I made an OWL card today! I'm going to a baby shower tomorrow for a friend 'hoo' is having a little girl and owls are so in right now that I just couldn't resist the cute little owl image from one of my newest cricut lite cartridges, Sugar and Spice. This cartridge is a must have for baby girls! So many sweet images perfect for scrapbook pages, nursery projects and so much more. It's only $39.99 at Wal Mart. I took advantage of the Micheal's Cricut Cartridge Clearance sale in January and used the Wal Mart price matching policy and got all my cricut lites for $10 a piece!
Any'hoo', (ha! I just can't help myself!) here is the picture of the baby shower owl card I made.


(That's my new $1 stamp from Michaels!)
I also made this card using my NEW PINK ATG GUN!!!!! Yaaayyyyyy!!!!! I finally broke down and bought one at Michael's using a 40% off coupon! I'm SO EXCITED to start using it for my projects! I now have the ATG Gun and the Glue Glider Pro gun. The GGP gun is smaller and easier to pack then the ATG gun. And they honestly both work equally wonderfully in my opinion. However, the ATG gun is overall much less expensive then the GGP. the refills for the ATG are only like $3 a box which contains 2 refills in it and that's much better then the GGP refills which are $8 a piece!
Once again, ANY'HOO', that's my little comparison of the two. And now here's a pic of my new ATG Gun.


I have been itching to scrapbook and hopefully it won't be long before I can scrapbook with my new toy!

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National Craft Month

March is National Craft Month and how appropriate that I'll be doing my first arts and crafts festival as a vendor during this month as well?! I'd like to say I planned that but I did not! Ha! I've been so preoccupied with Hudson's birthday party that I've hardly had time to start crafting my next items for the event, trivet sets.. Also called hotplates down here in the South! I've only done a few so far and they are looking GREAT!
The first thing I worked on before the party for this event is stationery sets. Here are a few examples:
(sorry for the bad lighting.. I'll try to do better with that next time!)












Can't wait to get some real time to do more crafting for the Patriot Arts and Craft Show... Saturday March 26th from 8am-5pm at West Ridge Middle School! Hope there is a GREAT turnout as they are trying to raise money for their art department!

Happy Crafting! Hope you are inspired to celebrate National Craft Month with me!!!

COMING SOON:
Soon I'll be posting about how to celebrate National Craft Month with quick, easy and affordable thinking out of the box projects!
Not only for celebrating, but for anyone who has little to no time to sit down and spend hours on a project!
STAY TUNED!

Birthday Favors

So, I told you I would post pics of
Hudson's birthday party favors when i finished them. Keep in mind the theme of the party is monkeys. I still have 4 left to do with a banana on the front. But I have finished 8 of them. 4 with monkeys, 4 with palm trees. I cut the images out on my Cricut using the Animal Kingdom (monkey/bananas) cartridge and the Stretch Your Imagination (palm trees) cartridge. I think the monkeys were cut at 4 inches and the palm trees at 5. Oh! And in order to make the monkeys cute I had to outline them first with my Cricut markers before cutting them out! I do not like the way Animal Kingdom has their cuts set up. I'm glad it's a borrowed cartridge! I will definitely be buying Create a Critter instead! But thanks to my aunt for letting me use it! I'd rather have that monkey then none at all!
Anyway, i think they turned out really cute!
Inside I put 4 items: monkey beach ball, mini bubbles, monkey sucker, and a monkey beanie baby! Special thanks to my wonderful mother in law who bought all but the bubbles! She's also helping with the food!
Anyway, enough is enough! Here are the pics!






Hope you are inspired today!

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My Favorite

I thought I'd share the most favorite drawing I've done so far in my drawing class. The lesson for this assignment was finding a vantage point. Where everything points to that one spot on your paper. It was a little difficult at first but once I found out where it was, it was easy sailing from there. I normally don't like to draw but this class is challenging me and bringing out a side in me that I didn't know existed! Hopefully, this drawing will make the art board like my other drawings! Enjoy!



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Birthday Banner

I completed my first birthday banner today. I have SO much to do before Hudson's first birthday on Saturday. I'm also making the favor bags for the party. It's amazing what you can do with brown paper lunch sacks! Pics to come later on those.. Not quite finished yet!
But here's a pic of the banner. Now, keep in mind, this is my FIRST banner.. And you learn with experience. I'm sure you can go to Etsy and find a cuter one.. But I think it turned out pretty cute to be my first one.






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Cricut Cartridge Sales

Now that Matt got paid and our income taxes will soon be in I am able to order my Valentine present from him! Yes, we have been on a tight budget since Christmas.. But who hasn't, right?
Anyway, my sons first birthday party is monkey themed and I have desperately been trying to get my hands on Create a Critter for the cute little monkey image it has! Doing research to try and find the best place to buy cartridges (besides Dirt Cheap!) <--------- YES! IF THERE IS A DIRT CHEAP NEAR YOU THEY OCCASIONALLY HAVE CRICUT CARTRIDGES AND CRICUT MACHINES!!!!
The best place I have found so far is cricutmachine.com.. They have cartridges some $19.95 and below! And if you use the facebook10 discount code you get 10% off! Great deal! I posted this on my facebook group page called Louisiana Scrapbookers. If you haven't checked that out and live in or near La you should join! Customcrops.com has good deals too but not as good as cricutmachine.com... They do however, have a much larger inventory on ALL things scrapbooking so they are worth checking out anyways!
If I find any other place that has great deals I will update! And if YOU know of any great deals, share the wealth!
Thanks!


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West Ridge Middle School First Annual Arts and Crafts Festival

I'm excited to be a involved in West Ridge Middle School's First Annual Arts and Crafts Festival as a vendor next month to help raise money for their art department. My professor/advisor notified me about this upcoming event and right away I was interested. My friend Chesney will be sharing a booth with me. Chesney makes one of a kind jewelry out of old, broken jewelry and other embellishments. She is amazing!!! Her work is so unique!
I've been busy getting my inventory built up for this event and am super excited about what I'll be showcasing... Stationery sets, journals and ceramic coasters. So far I've just been working on the stationery sets. They are so adorable. I've been making shaped cards with my Gypsy! Butterflies, owls, fluer de lis, flowers.. All sorts of fun shapes for Spring! They are precious!
Soon I'll post pics and more info on the event!
In the mean time I'll be designing my new business cards and product stickers! Can't wait to hand them out!

Speaking of business cards, that's the main reason I've created this blog aside from my personal blog... So that I could have a blog dedicated to my art only that could be included on my business cards for customers to see!
So many other events coming up this spring! Can't wait to jump right into them all and see what doors God has planned to open!


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