Creative Juices are Flowing!

Mark's creation for Holly for her birthday!!!!  Turned out very cool.  Here is the finished product:

Now I will show you the process.....find an old canvas at the thrift store.

Print out your words using the font of your choice.  Then cut the letters out of contact paper.  Here Mark is trying to decide how to place the letters. 

 Once you have the letters placed in position and they are all set, then sponge paint with black paint.

 It will really look great in Holly's house with her black furniture accent pieces.  Do you think she will like it?  I do!  Good job, Mark!

Mark is not the only one who has been busy.  In honor of Holly's birthday, Lindsey and I were planning a girls pinterest day.  I have really been looking forward to getting together with my girls.  One day at work I was doodling and decided to draw me and the girls.  Now this is a throw back from my Junior High days.  I used to draw girls in their prom dresses! Ha! Don't know why, but I would draw the fancy dresses and the big hairdos.  So, what do you think?

 I did two, one for each of the girls.  I put them on canvas and watercolored them.  These are not the finished product.  I shaded the glasses, added the color and a little more detail.  It was fun and I think will remind them of our fun day together!

We started with a luncheon of chicken salad on croissant rolls, fruit salad, pasta salad, and an orange slushy drink.  Lindsey brought Whoppers candy and M&M's, too.  Oh, and brownies.

Here are pictures of our projects:

It is not finished drying here and the picture does not look as good as the real thing.  You can read it much better in real life.  The phrase is very Price.  "Life Is Better in Flip Flops!"  Holly and I both used this method - on the white canvas we wrote with a hot glue gun.  Let it dry then painted a solid color on it.
Here is mine:
The color is mushroom,  not gray like the picture makes it look.  Do you like the saying?

Lindsey did a newlywed thing - at least that is what Holly told her!  :)  It is not finished in this picture.  She wrote in script "love" just under the "i".

So our day was fun.  It ended with dinner with the boys. We had a shrimp dinner and a angel food rolled strawberry cake.