Happy Easter

My heart is full of blessings today with the love of family, friends and a beautiful Easter breakfast at Church and a Service.

My heart is also sad since our oldest daughter is away from home in college and it was our first ever Easter apart from her. She was missed so much but we know she was blessed at her Church with her college friends.

hugs to all,

Happy Easter

Peggy Lee

(for more pics on this Easter Banner head over to the Artsy Addicts Blog)

"Graphic 45 Design Team 2013 Audition"

I am stepping out in faith, where ever that leads me and I am giving it a shot at the DT Call from Graphic 45! No matter what they are amazing Company with over the top "beautiful vintage" collections. So here it goes hope you all enjoy!

#1. secret keepsake box

#2 Mini Album

(video below)

#3. Springtime card

#4. Fairy playland

#5. pretty tag

#6. Congrats card

(more inspiration....)

#2. Mini Album Video

# Video on Olde Curiosity Shoppe Mini Album

Thanks for stopping by today!

Peggy Lee

**Submission for Graphic 45 Design Team 2013 Call**

Coloring seam binding with Glimmer Mist

this is a must try...super fun to match with your projects

Water Coloring with Glimmer Mist (dip and drag)

so enjoyed making these flowers....

Coin Envelope Mini Album

Here is my finished coin envelope mini album for the Artsy Addicts Blog post today. Please leave us a comment to let us know you stopped by...

Read the whole post at the end is a video sharing the finished mini.

thanks, Peggy Lee

Relaxing Play

My friend and I like to relax on a Sunday afternoon playing, creating and mixing it up in her studio. With having so much fibro pain lately I wasn't  sure if I would even be able to play today. But I was feeling pretty good so I knew that I need to keep my creating easy and relaxing so I turned to a little mixed media. Still needs a little touches but I think it turned out pretty good. I am so ready for spring and decided to draw a few flowers and of course a little bumble bee was stopping to smell the beauty.

Water coloring with Twinkling H 2 O's and water color pencils, adding some Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist Graphite for shading. Along with some stamping to help add texture. I am not totally done with this art piece yet but it's pretty to me.

I will say it was a great way to spend a Sunday afternoon. I encourage you to look around your stash and see what you have created with in a long time and dive in.

Happy Crafting, Peggy Lee

Glimmer Mist Dipping

Dipping with glimmer mist.

Die cut your flowers out of muslin.

Spray your color of glimmer mist onto a craft mat.

Take your muslin flower and dig and drag it through the puddle of glimmer mist.

Set aside to dry while you dip all your flowers.

You can use a heat tool to speed up the drying time.

Add a little pearls or bling to the centers of the muslin flower.

I use fabric tac or 3-n-1 glue.

Add to your projects and your done you've created your own embellishments.

Don't be afraid to try different mediums of texture for creating flowers.

Added little touches make a big wow!

Happy Crafting, Peggy Lee

March 1st-Missed it already!!!

Well shoot I missed March 1st already....with it being National Crafting Month I so wanted to do a blog post everyday in March and I already failed...lol
I had good intentions see yesterday I spent the morning at the doctors for my fibro pain. Then my daughter Emilee and I took off for a day of shopping for a dress for winter carnival for her school next week. Sad thing we didn't find anything living up here in the Mountains we don't have enough good stores, needless to say we are still looking and most likely will have to make the drive down south a few hours. Oh that might mean a stop at a real craft store...whoop score!!!
So after picking up my hubby from work, then eating supper and shopping at the food store we got home late and I was dog tired.
I am enjoying a lazy Saturday morning just catching up in blog land, face book, emails while my dirty dishes are screaming at me to wash them...in a few I keep saying to myself.

Even though we don't have alot of great stores up here-but who could replace this...

Just Beautiful

Now I don't have a craft for March 1st since from my busy day.

I have the second best-inspiration! NATURE

Look at the second photo above, this inspired me to paint, draw and create a mixed media canvas with branches and fake snow.

All this to say

 STOP, LOOK AROUND YOU AND DRAW FROM THAT MOVES YOU!

Happy crafting, Peggy Lee

Artsy Addicts Blog Post

Here is a sneak peak on the post I did today over at the Artsy Addicts Blog. This little mini is made using coin envelopes with Authentique papers "Lovely".

hope you enjoy....

hugs, Peggy Lee

Artsy Addicts: Mixed Media Canvas

Today is my post over at the Artsy Addicts Blog, hop on over to see more photos and a little tutorial on creating this little canvas.

A little weekend fun.

enjoy,

Peggy Lee

Canvas play: hot glue, tissue paper & glimmer mist...

this is so fun playing with glimmer mist....

Artsy Addicts Blog: Lattice Album Design by Marion Smith

Hop on over to the Artsy Addicts Blog today for my post featuring the Lattice Mini Album designed by Marion Smith for Leaky Shed Studios.

Where you can get more photos of the inside pages of the album.

A beautiful mini using the Prima Romance Novel Paper Collections by Marion.

enjoy, Peggy Lee

It's Live and Time to enjoy.....

Whoooo it's Live and Time to enjoy the New Spring/Summer CTMH Idea Book 2013!!!! Hop on over to my website here and start to enjoy all the wonderful new products that Close To My Heart has to offer and beautiful artwork to gaze upon...

Here is the link http://peggyleebaker.ctmh.com/CTMH/Content.aspx?id=%2fen%2fsitecore%2fcontent%2fOBA%2fProducts%2fOnline_Idea_Book.aspx

While your on the website check out the "While Supplies Last" here http://peggyleebaker.ctmh.com/Retail/Products.aspx?CatalogID=1702 to check out some awesome deals.

enjoy, Peggy Lee

Artsy Addicts Blog: Look at what I did...

Head over to the Artsy Addicts Blog today for my post on a creative and super fun class I took this weekend.

It's so wicked fun to take a class from someone else to learn what makes their creative mind tic....my friend Lynne taught us some creative tips and tricks....be sure to head over to the blog for more details and photos.

this makes me want to create today, how about you?

hugs, Peggy Lee

What I've been up to...31 Day Challenge

I have decided to take part in Marion Smith's 31 Day Challenge for January 2013 over on YouTube, so here is my first week videos, creating my art journal covers.

31 Day Challenge 2013 Day #1

Day #2

Day #3

Day #4

Day #5

Here is my first week on the 31 Day Challenge...stay tuned for more to come.

happy creating, Peggy Lee