"The Red Door"

A few weeks ago I posted a "Top Secret" post on a project my husband and I were doing (see photo above). Yesterday the project was complete! I'm not sure Mr. J is totally sold on it but I LOVE it! I would love to hear your opinion :)

My love for vintage items is very evident to anyone who knows me, hence my blog name, Attic Inspired Crafter.

This part of our garden is actually at the entrance to our long driveway. Chose red as that's the colour of our other house doors, the shelf on the door is from old barn boards, the little basket and heart on door were purchased for pennies at a yard sale. The picket fence is from pallets. So in total this project costs $22.

A few more photo's of this project. It will be so much fun to decorate for each season!

This is another project Mr. J did using pallet boards. Got this idea from pinterest and it sits between two large flowers bed.

Fun Interactive Cards

This year I had two grad cards to make and I just couldn't wait to use this fun die and stamp set from Technique Tuesday. Now that the recipients have received the cards I can now share :)

It's the Pull Strip Die and the Smile Border Stamps on top which fits perfectly with many different options. I also used Tim Holtz/Sizzix Celebration Words die for the word "Congrats", the graduation hat was hand drawn and cut.

Please check with your LSS for the products used here if you like to have them for yourself.

Gardener Album/Journal

With Fathers Day around the corner I thought I would design something for the man in your life. With that said this is the perfect gift for any Gardner!

Using paper from Canvas Corp, I had fun creating and colouring!  To watch a video showing the different pages and features of this mini album please click here.

 Most Gardner's like to keep track of their planting plan, weather during planting, yield of harvest, etc.  This gift idea covers all that plus gives the recipient a storage case and a very memorable gift from the heart.

Products used from the Canvas Corp:

Printed Burlap; Papers from the The Watering Can line: Garden Sayings; Seed Packets; Birds & Bees ; Bikes & Baskets; Journal Lines; Green & Ivory Lattace; Green & Ivory Dot Reverse; Green & Ivory Ribbon Stripe; Green & Ivory French Linen; Kraft Card Stock

 More pictures of the Album:

Publication Notice!!

Scrap n Art on-line Magazine has featured "In This Moment" in this months publication!!

This is a wonderful on-line magazine that offers lots of inspiration and ideas. Be sure to follow them on social media.

I'm feeling privileged to be featured :)

Find me by clicking on "Monthly Reader Submissions", clicking again on the same title and scrolling down.

Path to Happiness

Using alcohol inks, stencils, alcohol blending solution, water color crayons and the

beautiful Magenta Stamps, this card was created.

Stamps: Fuchsia, Thistle, Happiness is

Stencil: Beehives

Totally Nifty!

Abby was such a trooper when she had to have her wisdom teeth out and followed instructions to the T. This included wearing not so attractive ice packs. Of course I could resist in taking a few photo's and I waited for almost 3 years before scrapping them :)

I used Basic Grey Hipster line for this and their embellishments and I used the following lay-out from Let's Get Sketchy

Hanging with my Concert Buddy!

Christina is my favorite concert buddy and has been for many years! We try to attend as many as we can and to date haven't done too badly!

This single page lay-out using Kaiser Kraft 75 Cent Collection was done at a Keith Urban concert at the Halifax metro centre. We had awesome seats and enjoyed the show very much! I also used Tim Holtz Framelit Honeycomb, Spellbinder Hexagon, Distress ink Vintage Photo, a background stamp of glass stain and a few wooded embellishments from Maya Road.

To help create the lay-out I used the following sketch from Sketchabilities #124