Mother's Day Week: Prize Winning Women

I hope all of you sip & savor every moment of this weekend. Whether you are celebrating your own Motherhood, or others'....savor those Prize Winning Moms in your life!  

I savor each project my Creative Team sends in & today I wanted to share what Nancy & Rosemary created!

Look at these brilliant & creative Mother's Day Cards/ Paper Ribbon Corsages that Nancy made with the new Rhonna Designs kit!

She said they a card-turned-corsage. I just love that! Such a clever & fabulous idea! Thanks Nancy! 

And, Rosemary is simply amazing...check out these gorgeous Mother's Day cards she made out of various Rhonna Designs kits. Rosemary is so great...she created her own little Printable with my art to create a super simple card! LOVE how she incorporated the Chevron Tool kit with the Prize Winning Mom Printables along with touches of Spring Circus flowers and the Mini Seals brushes...*you can even see how she used the Chevron Tool  kit Tag brush to say 'Mom Card'....she's amazing, isn't she?

Any woman is lucky to get this gorgeous card! I love how my Creative Team has shared ideas on how to celebrate Motherhood....and Womanhood. Ya know? We are so blessed to be woman!!!

Womanhood really is amazing! I believe each of us has a purpose & mission here. Again...my favorite quote by Marianne Williamson:

"Our greatest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our greatest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, fabulous, gorgeous, talented? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. You're playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that's within us. It's not just in some of us. It's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we automatically give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fears, our presence automatically liberates others."

I have mentioned it before, but I'm sooo thankful to be a part of the Moms Best Network...a whole site devoted to celebrating & empowering women! They have officially launched their site so be sure to sign up for their newsletter so you can keep up with what they are doing to empower women!

After all, as women, "....{when} we let our own light shine, we automatically give other people permission to do the same."

Let's share that light. 

Let's uplift and inspire everyone we come into contact!

Let's *sparkle*....

Happy Mother's Day to ALL women! 

You. 

Are. 

Amazing!

Mother's Day Week: Creative Gift Giving

Today is all about creative gift giving.  Whether it's a mini book, scrapbook, photo album/frame, or any kind of 'memoir' for your mothers....you can create lovely hybrid gifts with Rhonna Designs! LOOK at this fabulous pillow Susan created with the Spring Circus kits! I'm seriously LOVING how creative she is!

 My Creative Team is amazing! I love each of them & love how they uplift & inspire me & you in their own special way!  Thanks, Susan!

and....As much as I wanted to create gifts for these posts...alas, life got in the way, so I'm sharing some of my past creations....that I STILL love!

I am still in love with this Mother's Day book I created 6 years ago when I was a Garden Girl over at Two Peas in a Bucket!  A 6x12 book created out of cut up manilla file folders & a bunch of my *vintage* papers, ribbons, rub-ons & stamps when I was with Autumn Leaves. *wink* looooong ago!

And, this 'creative gift giving' carousel I did back in 2009 for House of 3.  I still love it. & I still have one more carousel...hmm...might need to break it out & create 'Rhonna Designs' style! I think it would be perfect with the NEW Prize Winning Mom kit! Don't you?

Mother's Day Week: Hybrid Mother's Day Cards

Today we'll focus on Mother's Day cards.  If you've got a long distance special women, you'll want a card for sure! OR, how about a beautiful handmade card to accompany your thoughtful gift?  Creative Team member, Jamie Pate created this gorgeous hybrid Mother's Day card with Rhonna Designs kits! I LOVE it!

Jamie's got the supplies & steps on her blog...go check it out!

I mean, really? sequins, glitter, ribbon, doilies AND the printed out delish combo of Rhonna Designs kits! She's brill!

There are so many fabulous kits on Rhonna Designs to create cards...You can use any of the Printables & adapt them. I LOVE the recent Spring Circus Printable Cards...they are so whimsical with a vintage flair!

Simply print, cut, create!  I love the blank cards, you can slip a photo in there, or write your sentiments in there. How about your children drawing a picture in there for their grandma? So cute!

And, I can totally see one of these fab Silhouettes in the NEW kit: Prize Winning Mom! Love all of the sayings here, too!

How about a creative approach to the kits? This kit: A Year To Follow Your Heart has a bunch of 6x8 pages in the kit that would make GORGEOUS cards! 

& of course...all of the cute little journaling cards in that kit...that would be darling as a coupon book!

But, if you are still unsure about Rhonna Designs & printing out...here's a fab FREE gift for you: my 2012 Mother's Day card. **for personal use only- no redistributing** 

LOVE them all...I'd love to see YOUR Mother's Day cards created with Rhonna Designs...share, ok?

Happy Creating!

Mother's Day Week: DIY Paper Prize Ribbons

This week's Creative Team Tuesday is such a fun DIY project by Melissa Mortenson. She created these amazing Paper Prize Ribbons with Rhonna Designs! I'm in LOVE withe them!

Melissa created these Prize Ribbons for the Kentucky Derby celebrations last week.  I love the colors & how she incorporated the Spring Circus kits, Quatrefoil, Chevron & the Number Junque kits! Brilliant, Melissa!

So, as I was looking at these, I was totally inspired & thought how wonderful these would be for "World's Best Mom", "No. 1 Mom", "Happy Mother's Day", etc. So, HER creations were the inspiration behind the new kit: Prize Winning Mom.  

It's a 3 page Printables kit along with 25 brushes/digital stamps....Complete with word art, scalloped circles, & LOVE the cute silhouette moms in there! 

We'll put out a Newsletter tonight &....there will be a FREE download kit in there w/ this NEW kit..so, you will want to be on the Newsletter Subscription. (To sign up, just go to Rhonna Designs...look under the Hot Air Balloon & sign up!)

Super easy to create, these paper Lollies are so cute! Here's a video tutorial I did on how to make them! Just adapt it like Melissa did...die cut edges , add little flowers ( I LOVE HER HORSES), & add cut papers for the ribbons...OR real ribbons! If you really want it to be a pin, simply add a pin back! Voila!

So, let's get creating our Mother's Day Prize Ribbons for all the amazing women we know in our lives! 

cReative team Tuesday...Halloween cRafting.

It's October & one of my favoRite months for crafting.  This hybrid Halloween craft is so fabulous! Check out how cReative Team Memeber, Melissa Mortenson created a hostess gift for all of the witches in your life with Rhonna Designs Spooky Junque!

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Tulle. Hat. glitter.  She's got it all going...isn't it fun?

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I love this to pieces...so clever. So, if you want a step by step on HOW to make this...hop on your broomstick & fly on over to Melissa's blog for all of the details!

until next time...

p.s. aaaannnddd...check out the fun little feature over at Design Editor! Thanks so much!

DIY Fall Felt Flowers

Ok, this is for my mom...I'd realized I hadn't blogged about these yet & she wanted to see them! I was telling her about a couple of things that were fun about this project.

1. Felt. It has a lovely Autumnal feeling to it & you all know how much I adore flowers to accessorize my outfits.... but..I only had an off white color laying around...

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2. Glimmer Mist. I tried it out on my flowers & ya know what? I LOVE the effect it has. Since I started these flowers, I've purchased other felt in colors (like the above heather grey) & some other fabric (the chartreuse I wanted was difficult to achieve with the mist), but isn't it cool to see HOW the Tattered Angels Chalkboard Glimmer Mist works ON the blue rosette? ( I used Peacock on it!)

The Chalkboard Glimmer Mist soaks right into the felt so wonderfully. I love the look...kind of a soft suede look, ya know? Look at how this pink flower turned out...it's the Cotton Candy & it looks so fab! I love it!

A while back one of my Creativity Exercises was getting inspiration online..I had found this pillow at Z Gallerie & could not get it out of my head...and then I had a bunch of birthdays coming up so I got to work & made a ton of gifts! &....a few pillows like this.

 

They did not cost  $99.95 *wink*.

I love the way they turned out...I started out making clips & brooches..

but, of course, we've worn them in our hair, on our lapels, purses, shoes & even making a Fall Garland out of them! I have so many around here...LOL...we are being overtaken by these little fluffy, cozy flowers!

so, mom...this little DIY photo fest was for you! love you!

& happy Fall....*made some butternut squash soup & roasted cauliflower & it was easy, healthy & delicious!*

now I want to make some pumpkin butter...a tradition for my birthday!

**ETA:  NOw, you can purchase the HOW-TO video & step by step workshop downloads on Rhonna Designs...so, YOU can make these, too!