This Little Light of Mine...

Hello Friends & Followers!  I hope everyone had a relaxing and enjoyable Memorial Day Weekend and took a moment to reflect upon and thank everyone who has sacrificed to insure our freedom and how much we have to be grateful for, I know I did.  Sorry my posts have been so few & far between lately - we've been packing to prepare for a move and all the 'fun' things that accompany one!

I am featured on the Newton's Nook Blog today with a little luminary I created using an electric tea light and the lamp image from 'Around the House':

Isn't it a cute way to 'bright up' someone's day?  It's really easy too!  I simply stamped the lamp image on a sheet of navy cardstock (wanted something dark for the greatest contrast) and cut out the shade with a craft knife.  I stamped it a second time on some patterned paper and paper-pieced the base on, and then stamped the image a third time on vellum and colored in the chevrons using some alcohol markers (I let them dry overnight).  I cut around the lamp image, leaving a rim to tape into place on the back side of the navy cardstock and wrapped it around an electric tea light and - VOILA!!  Homemade luminary!  Oh yeah, I added a little glitter glue to the 'pull switch' as well, so it would show up against the navy background.  See how easy that was?  I hope you like it!  Thanks so much for stopping by!

~ Crafty Math Chick

Newton's Nook Designs May Release - Day 2

Welcome back Friends, Followers & Hoppers!  Today Jennifer is revealing an adorable set perfect for BBQ invites or scrapping those summer picnics -- Winston's BBQ:

We received an AAFES gift card as a wedding present from some of my husband's colleagues; we used it to purchase our first gas grill.  I had taken some pictures of my husband breaking it in for the first time to commemorate the occasion and knew this set would be perfect to create some journaling cards for my pocket page layout:

Here are some close ups of the 3 x 4 journaling cards I created to accompany the photos:

(I like the hamburgers framing the journaling, hee hee hee!)

The C7 marker bled a little bit, grrrr!  And the grass was in my scrap stash (we are moving soon and a lot of my craft supplies are already packed up, so I am working with what I have here).  I used red, yellow & orange markers to ink up the 'flames' coming from the grill and used a speech bubble die cut to make the grill give my hubby a compliment on his skillz (it looks like it is talking anyway, doesn't it?)

Would you like to win 'Winston's BBQ'?
This set will be given away to TWO lucky winners!!

Here's how to win:

Comment on the NND blog and Design Team and Guest blogs (see list below)!  Two winners will be chosen at random from the collective blogs' releases posts.  Make sure you check out each of their blogs and comment for your chance to win.  You will not know which blog has been chosen so the more you comment on the better your chances are of winning!  You have until Thursday, May 15th at 9 pm Central Daylight Time to comment -- winners will be announced on the blog post on Friday, May 16th. 

Check out all these awesome Design Team & Guest Blogs below to enter:

Newton's Nook Designs
Taheerah Atchia
Christine Drogt
Samantha Mann
Larissa Heskett
Crafty Math-Chick (<-- me!!)
Danielle Pandeline
Valerie Ward
Tessa Wise
Kelly Santi  - Guest Designer
Tricia Traxler - Guest Designer

Thanks so much for stopping by, I hope you liked my very first pocket page.  I hope you will enjoy the rest of the hop as you continue on to sure Danielle's blog, which is sure to delight!   

~ Crafty Math Chick

Newton's Nook Designs May Release - Day 1

Welcome back Friends, Followers & Hoppers!  Today Jennifer is revealing an adorable set perfect to accompany gifts for students, co-workers, anyone with a love of office supplies -- Around the House:

Aren't these images sweet?!!  The light bulb particularly appealed to me - when I was young a friend gave me a glass jar shaped like a light bulb filled with paper clips in a rainbow of colors.  I loved it so much I still have it to this day.  So when I saw a smaller version of the light bulb jar at Michaels I knew exactly what I was going to create for my preview of this set:

Isn't this a sweet gift for an assistant or a colleague, or a back to school present for a student or someone leaving for college or even for Administrative Professionals Day?!!  I think so!  The paper clips are this pretty shade between aqua & mint that I found in Target's Dollar Spot several months ago.  I think it came together perfectly.

Would you like to win 'Around the House'?
This set will be given away to TWO lucky winners!!

Here's how to win:

Comment on the NND blog and Design Team and Guest blogs (see list below)!  Two winners will be chosen at random from the collective blogs' releases posts.  Make sure you check out each of their blogs and comment for your chance to win.  You will not know which blog has been chosen so the more you comment on the better your chances are of winning!  You have until Thursday, May 15th at 9 pm Central Daylight Time to comment -- winners will be announced on the blog post on Friday, May 16th.

Check out all these awesome Design Team & Guest Blogs below to enter:

Newton's Nook Designs
Taheerah Atchia
Christine Drogt
Samantha Mann
Larissa Heskett
Crafty Math-Chick (<-- me!!)
Danielle Pandeline
Valerie Ward
Tessa Wise
Kelly Santi  - Guest Designer
Tricia Traxler - Guest Designer

Thanks so much for stopping by, I hope you enjoy the rest of the hop, I am sure Danielle has something fabulous for you to see.  Hope you will join me tomorrow for another NND Reveal!

~ Crafty Math Chick

For a 'hottie'

Good morning Friends & Followers!  I'm featured over the on the Newton's Nooks blog today with a little project I created using the cute little hot pepper from Love a la Carte and a lotta bling.

Here is a close up of the tag:

I thought it would be a cute addition to one of those trays when one serves breakfast in bed for their sweetie for any occasion (and Mother's Day is coming up!).  The funny thing?  No one in our house uses tabasco sauce, I bought it just for this project, LOL!!  But I have seen lots of folks using it in restaurants, especially on their eggs, that gave me the idea.
     Thanks so much for stopping by!  The great craft room pack out for our upcoming move is under way!  Wish us luck!
~ Crafty Math Chick