Some Exciting and Randomness stuff

First off I want to apologize, I have been really really busy this week and I am behind on posting, commenting, and emails. I am playing catch up as we speak! Today we celebrated Koen's 3rd birthday. It was a blast! He specifically asked for a bubble party and a car cake. I thought it would be a fun idea for me to personally take on the task of creating this cake with wheels.....big mistake! It was a task I was not ready for to say the least. But I sucked it up and did my best. He loved it, so that's all that matters!

Here he is blowing out his 3 candles on his tank cake, fork in hand ready to dig in.

Little man had me relight them 4 times so he could keep blowing them out!

Another thing that has kept me over the top busy this week.....Kayla had to create a project for school that determines if she passes on to 5th grade. She used some wonderful MOSD products on her project, and it's currently being featured (by a proud momma, of course) on the MOSD blog! Please head on over there and leave Kayla some love. She would love to read it. And THANK YOU!!

My big announcement!! I am SO very excited about this as it is something rather new and different for me to! I received an email from Karan Gerber this morning telling me that I had made the new Sketch Design team at SKETCHABILITIES! I was so nervous when I sent my application in because I am SO SO new at sketches. I had only created 4 when I initially sent my app in. I wrote it up, hit send, and held my breath for 3 weeks...until this morning! Thank you Karan for this opportunity. You have no idea how excited I am to be doing this!!!

**Freebie Friday will be back next Friday! I have some great stuff planned!!

PeaceOut-ScrapOn-LoveAlways

MOSD - Build a Book turned Shadow Box

Hello fellow bloggers and awesome people of crafty land. It's my day to post on the MOSD blog and I have created a fun little project to share. I love MOSD perfectly shaped Build a Book pages, there is so much that you can do with them. Like today's project! Can you believe those are chipboard book pages turned shadowbox?!

To create the shadow box I used 2 Perfectly Shaped - mini scallop pages for the front and back. I covered the front with paper using a spray adhesive and cut a 4in square out of the middle. I simply painted the back mini scallop page with black acrylic paint. To get depth in the shadow box I used a Perfectly Shaped - Pudgy Rectangle cut into 1in strips and hot glued them between the front and back. So easy, and it turned out so cute!

Once I had the initial frame of the box built it was time to embellish it. I started out with the idea of using the MOSD Picto Gram Cement Truck stick on and built my box around that. I used some of new favorite young boy papers and embellies, Sassafras Apple Jack. It goes so well with my little printable robot tag that you can snag here, and the polymer clay embellies I made. Tutorial here.

Here is a side view to give you an idea of the depth of the box. What I love most about this shadowbox is how well it represents my son. I now have it hanging in his bedroom and I am sure it's something that I will treasure for a long time!

PeaceOut-ScrapOn-LoveAlways