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so very excited....

I am so very excited, this is my third week guest designing with the city crafter challenge blog, it has been so much fun working with all the girls at city crafter, their challenges are always interesting and the design team always creates wonderful, wonderful projects...

This week the challenge came in the form of a wonderful sketch to work with, this is my rendition... I truly hope you enjoy, it has been so much fun designing for this blog, thank you once again Kirsty and all the wonderful girls at city crafter...
I absolutely love these papers from "glitz", the colors are a bit out of my comfort zone but I just LoVe them...
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What a wonderful three weeks it has been, thank you, thank you...

xoxo

lizzi

Guest Designing again...

I am so very excited to guest designing again at the city crafter challenge blog, I absolutely love making cards and this is just a dream come true... this week the challenge is "pretty inside and out" what a wonderful challenge, so often we forget about the inside of the card and yes the inside is as important as the outside... I decided to make a shabby little card with the central focus on "love"... I absolutely love these papers by girls paperie, the frame is melissa frances and the sentiment is crafty secrets... I don't know if you can see but I used a clear glaze on the inside of the frame for extra glam.... and the inside is just fun... hope you enjoy....
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I have simpley loved being the guest designer for city crafter, what a dream come true for me, so very glad you stopped by to visit as you can see I am truly in love with PinK, PaRiS, and anything ShaBby!!! 

XoXo

lizzi

I have a dream....

How those words resonate... if only we could all see the dream... what a world it would be.... no color, no hatred, just peace and harmony, we must move forward and keep that dream in our hearts for always and forever... 

thank you martin luther king, hope lives within our hearts...

A little saturday inspiration.....

Just a little inspiration sprinkled onto this lovely saturday morining....
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beautiful things surround us always... all we have to do is look...
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beautiful things.....

 

xoxo

lizzi

My latest muse....

I have been searching for months, looking for the right brown leather handbag.... finding absolutely nothing that I really "like" and is worth at least 250.00, so searching through my closet I found an old stone mountain bag that was very, very plain.... So I decided to embellish it, to make it me, I just love the way this came out, wish it was a bit bigger but all in all it's more me than anything in the stores.... what a fun project and absolutely free.....
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I adhered this lace to a plain piece of the leather... i love the vintage feel it created...
I'm thinking these might be fun to look for at used clothing stores, embellishing and selling them on etsy.... hmmmmm...
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it's always fun to come up with something totally new and unique from something old....
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enjoy.....

lizzi

WoW... Guest Designing this week.....

I am so excited to be guest designing this week at city crafter, they are a weekly challenge blog featuring wonderful card artists.... their projects are always intriquing... invoking wonderful creations... I tend to have a shabby vintage style when it comes to cardmaking, I have an album on my sidebar that includes a lot of the cards I have made in the past, I also paint, make jewelry and am inspired by photographs, I hope you enjoy visiting my blog I am so happy you stopped by, this is truly a dream come true...
I absolutely love this image, we were asked to use a digital image from bugaboo stamps, this is "thelma", I really wanted to showcase her so i colored her in and cut her out, I also used a clear glaze over the colored images to make the color more permanent, I think she really has presence!! This week also was titled "save the date", so I made a banner at the top to highlight my oldest daughters up coming birthdate!...
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I also did a second project... this card uses martha steward papers and not as much of the vintage shabby style my projects usually have...
You can't really see how beautiful this sparkle paper is from martha stewart, it really is wonderful...
I am so very happy you stopped by, it is heartwarming to be guest designing and to have people view my work....

xOxO

lizzi

It's funny how things change, one minute we are in one life situation and the next we are in another.  Feelings that once were,  are distorted, misshapen, maybe; seen clearly for the first time, bringing us to a new place, uncharted waters, scarey, yet a sense of calm, relief, peace.....
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hoping beyond hope to be in a new place this new year, to have new dreams, new horizons, new aspirations... to close this chapter that i thought was a book, a lifetime, to make my world what it was meant to be from god...  hoping everyone has a wonderful new year and a smashing new year's eve!!!... i will be working but wishing for more...

A little of this, a little of that.....

and some wonderful friday inspiration, it's amazing to me where pictures can take you, how they fill your mind with memories, new thoughts, and absolute wonder....

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Once we find our way, we are not lost....
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I may not be there yet, but I am closer than I was yesturday....
and the ride... well it has been wonderful....
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Until next time, let the journey begin.....

Wishing you were somehow here again...

Knowing that you never will.... fighting back tears... wishing you were somehow here...
I have not forgotten your face, your smile, your eyes... I miss them dearly.... for they are engraved upon my heart...                                                        lizzi

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I have visited you each and every day in my mind.......................
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Wishing you were somehow here again, waiting to meet you once again, I miss you dad each and every day that passes.... remembering always.....

to have and to hold, from this day forward...  I have always dreamed these words would be said unto me... but now... they are like snowflakes in the wind....  a distant memory....
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there is something so wonderful, so beautiful, so magical... about falling in love... it is the 'staying in love' that is the hardest...
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happiness is like a buttefly:  the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn  your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.. henry david thoreau
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I think my soul resides in a much earlier time, one where love and romance were mused by men like shakespear...
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