Freebie Friday - Poppy

Every year as a child I remember going to the VFW with my grandmother and we would make paper red poppies.  My memory of this is vague but I do remember a bunch of red crape paper and floral wire, a lot of laughing and candy.  Those veterans always had candy till this day I associate butterscotch hard candy with helping at the VFW as a child.

I always try to go to shopping somewhere the weekend before Memorial Day so I can make my donation and get my poppy.  I even got my kids into getting  the flowers, my daughter asked me this week when can she get her red flower from the nice guys outside the store.  I told her soon.

Tomorrow is the Operation Write Home Blog Hop which is an amazing blog hop for an amazing cause.  If you have any spare time this weekend please hop on through and and leave some love (I will also have a special Freebie for the Blog Hop.)

I hope everyone has a wonderful Memorial Day Weekend, my family and I will be hosting a neighborhood BBQ with family and friends.  It is important to remember why we celebrate Memorial Day and I hope y'all take a moment to remember those and their families who sacrificed so much for us.

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Freebie Friday - Forget-Me-Not

I am on a flower kick recently and with Mother's Day on Sunday I thought I would add to my flowers. I drew Forget-Me-Nots in honor of my great-grandmother.  Mimi (my great grandma) loved Forget-Me-Nots matter of fact the first one I ever saw was on her grave.  Over the years I never thought much about them until I got a packet of seeds in the mail with a note from my grandma.

"Now that you are a mother you will always look for ways to be remembered long after you are gone.  The seeds are for Forget-Me-Nots, Mimi's favorite flower.  She would go around with a packet of seeds and sprinkle them unsuspectedly as she passed (like a seed bomb).  So I am giving you the seeds to remember Mimi and to make the most of those Forget-Me-Not moments.  Love, Grandma Dona"

I never met Mimi, I knew of her she was a fabulous cook, a nurse, and she had a beautiful voice.  This story of the seeds helped me make a connection with her, a connection I never had before.  I love to think about Mimi walking (dancing) along sprinkling seeds along the way.

I hope everyone has a wonderful Mother's Day, I will hopefully get to spend time in my garden digging in the dirt, sipping Mint Juleps (it sounds so good).

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Don't forget about our Giveaway if we reach 150 Fans on Facebook I will be doing a Giveaway!  We will also be doing a second Giveaway if we reach 50 Followers on our blog!

Freebie Friday - Irises

I love irises they were the flowers for my wedding.  I have had problems growing them in the Deep South, I am sure if winter would have actually visited us this year they might have bloomed.  I am aware that some people are still in winter mode (the U.P. of Michigan and Northern Minnesota) and Florida is already in summer, we are having a pleasant spring (almost too pleasant) which means July and August are going to be brutal.

I hope everyone has a lovely weekend we have a busy weekend but it should be fun!

Don't forget about our Giveaway if we reach 150 Fans on Facebook I will be doing a Giveaway!  We will also be doing a second Giveaway if we reach 50 Followers on our blog!

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Secret Garden

This box was decorated using The Fuschia Flowers paper package that was given as a free gift to attendees of The Odd Show Live's National Scrapbook Day Extravaganza.  You can find a very similar set of papers in the Tangerine Tango Flowers digital paper pack .  I decoupaged the box with two of the polka dotted papers and also cut out some flowers from the flowered paper and decoupaged those on as well.  I created 3D embellishments using the same polka dotted papers and some inked and crimped cardstock. I lined the inside with velvet backed paper.  Inside the top lid I put a secret garden for the added whimsy.  Who can resist the beauty of fuschia and black together?

You can watch me getting this project started on my ustream channel Dawn's Craft Riot.

Project Design: Dawn Taylor
Digital Paper Design: Amanda Marks
Dollarstore - wooden box, velvet backed paper
Deco Art - crafters acrylic paint
Staples - paper, cardstock
Ranger -  Tim Holtz distress ink
Beacon - 3-in-1 advanced craft glue, fast finish decoupage
Duck Brand - double sided tape
Miracle Products - Miracle Podge

Freebie Friday Week 9 from A.J.'s Digi Shoppe™

   
A.J.'s Digi Shoppe™ is a proud supporter of Operation Write Home.  They are in desperate need for cards for our Service Men and Women.  The next couple of weeks I will be offering Freebies decicated to their call for Mother's Day Cards.  Please if you have a moment or are creating a card create an extra card to send to Operation Write Home.  Our Service Men and Women deserve it!

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Freebie Friday Week 8 from A.J.'s Digi Shoppe™

Flower Paper Pack Click the Photo to Download!

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