04-24-2014

Make your own Herb Garden

Herb Garden 1

I had no idea if this was actually going to work when I started this project but I was super impressed with it actually did!  I don’t have the best green thumb and didn’t have the highest expectations for myself.  I purchase terracotta pots and saucers at the store.  I painted them a pretty blue that I had and used chalkboard paint for the tops so I can write which herb is in them.  Then I planted the seats and waited and waited.  Pretty soon they were growing!

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It has taken about two weeks for me to get to this much sprouting but I am pretty excited for them!

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12-27-2013

Some Handstamped Silver

I pray y’all had a wonderful and joyous Christmas and are settling down from the holiday. I love stamping silver (when I don’t mess up!) and here are some more creations.

guitar picks

Silver guitar picks.  I am really not sure if they are actual able to be used because I know people are picky with the size of the guitar pick but I did it more for a sentimental gift over actually being used :)

necklace

 

This was a necklace someone asked me to create.  It still needs one more disc at the bottom but I didn’t have the size on hand.  I love how the stacking turned out.

11-03-2013

Dog Silhouette

Doing a dog silhouette has been on my list of things to do for a long time.  I haven’t done one for Pancake but I did one the other day for my best friend Brianne.  She has an adorable white Coton de Tulear named Kirby.  I grabbed a picture off her instagram (it would have to do as Kirby lives in Arizona with Brianne and that is a little too far to go take a picture!) and traced, cut and glued.  Just a little random happy.  I think next time I would probably make the dog silhouette in a solid color and the background in the busy color.

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05-29-2013

Loving Chalk Lettering? [Collection of free fonts]

So considering chalkboard printables are all over the blogs & pinterest I wanted to compile a list of the fonts I have found.  Many bloggers have put together their favorites and I wanted to go ahead and put all of those in a list so I can make sure to download them all.  I figured you may want to download them all too!  These are the ones that are used most commonly.  Please let me know if there are others I should add!

FONTS

5th grade cursive / a gentle touch /  ank / appleberry / ari pencil roman / a song for jennifer / birmingham / blackboard / blockography /

 

 bounty / bright future / calamity jane / carte blanche / chalk hand lettering / chalk outline / chenier / ck cursive / clementine sketch / contribute /

covington shadow / crayon crumble / de louisville / english essay / eraser / faustina / fff tusj / frenchy / grutch shaded / handwriting draft /

 

handy george / homemade apple / jack story / jailbird jenna / janda stylish script / jf ringmaster / kg eyes wide open / kg skinny latte / kg ten thousand reasons / kraft nine /

 

lighthouse / made with b / marcelle / marketing script / monbijoux / mtf epicneoretrodraw / octin vintage / orange juice /

 

peach sundress / platform shoes / problems / respective / return to sender / road movie / roskrift / sail / schalk / simplicity /

 

sketch block / some weatz / soul handwriting / soy milk / stroke dimensionsunshine in my soul / tafelschrift / teen spirit / the only exception / thinking of you /

 

underwood 1913 / vaguely repulsive / viper nora / windsor hand / you are loved /

BACKGROUNDS

Lil Boy Blue (black & green) / the scrap shoppe / HG Designs Chalkboard Shapes /

Apple Keynote has chalkboard as one of the built in backgrounds

EMBELLISHMENTS

Bergamotkg flavor & frames /  mtf heart doodleschluss vignetten /

Also, don’t forget you can always make your own font, check out the tutorial here.  Or Kevin & Amanda has lots of fabulous handwritten fonts.