Subway Art

A cool trend out there in the crafting world right now is Subway Art. I thought I'd try my hand at it and I've made a couple of attempts so far. My first piece was done for my cousin Blake's college graduation present. I just got a pretty large sized canvas...can't remember which size exactly, sorry....and I free handed the writing first using pencil and then going over with paint pen and in some places acrylic paint. It came out oookkaaay, but I guess he liked it enough...it's hanging at his house! It has all the street names and the name of the football stadium and other landmarks from around campus. If I could do it again I think I would use the school colors and maybe even throw in a logo or the mascot somewhere but for my first try and by hand (no vinyl) I'd have to say not too shabby. Check it out...

And for my second attempt at subway art...first my inspiration:

Yup! The San Francisco Giants won this little thing called the WORLD SERIES! And they just so happen to be the inspiration behind my second work of subway art! I went to Michael's during a pretty decent picture frame sale and got a plain black frame with the matte already included for about $11 or so! Basically a steal in my opinion, because it's a pretty nice frame. I think it usually ran for like $30 or something like that. This time I used my wonderful MacBook to make the subway art, turned it into a pdf and sent it off to Costco to be printed as an 8x10.

The Finished Product

And just because I loooove this picture:

Take 2

I just completed, quite possibly, the most difficult semester of my college career...maybe even educational career! (although Jr. year of HS was pretty rough too) Anyways, I thought I was starting this thing up back in May, but my little cookie side business kind of consumed my life over summer break, only to be replaced in the fall by school. So here I am, winter break has finally arrived and I would really like to give this another go! Even though school was kicking my butt for the last four months I still managed to find time for a little creativity. So I'll start back up with a round of pictures of everything I was able to squeeze in, in between Linguistics, Earth Science, and all that other important future educator knowledge! haha

My first attempt at sugar cookies with royal icing...

Coach Cookies

Coors Light Bottles

Lady GaGa Cookies

Birthday Tulle Frame

Kim's Camera Cookies

Tutu Canvas Bag

Cupcakes

Sooo cute!

Sometimes I find things on crafty blogs that I can't wait to make but I just don't have an excuse for it...this is definitely one of those times. Check it out...just found Posh Pixels Design Studio blog and I came across these wonderful, adorable, perfect for spring/summer treat bags! I think I'll have to buy some white gerbera daisies at work soon and polka-dot them, put a cute little rhinestone in the center and voila! They're just so cute, I can hardly stand it! Loooove the stickers on the kisses idea too!

Can't wait to post the pictures of the cookies I made for my friend Kim's going away party tomorrow!

A couple of weeks ago I stumbled across this blog, Treasury of Memories, there are soooo many cute ideas! My favorite: The Canvas Collection! I'm always looking for a good picture related craft. I've definitely been lagging on the picture taking the last couple of years (just ask my friend Tori) but after high school there just haven't been as many special events like there used to be. But I'm getting side tracked...here are just a few of my favorites, that inspired me the most...

I love them! Those are the three that inspired my own versions...

All I want to do is make more, more, more!

Spring is here so I needed to ditch the St. Patty's Day door decor and come up with something new. This is the third time I've used a grapevine wreath as a front door wreath. They are really inexpensive and you can do anything you want with them, the possibilities are pretty much endless. The latest wreath was this fun spring time one...

This was super easy! Michael's has the already painted little wooden bugs and flowers and I just hot glued them to the wreath. I spray painted a wooden plaque and wrote our name on it with a black paint pen. Add a little (A Lot) of tulle and more ribbon at the top and there ya go!

The one before this was our Christmas wreath...

I purchased everything for this one at the store that I work at (DFC) and wired it on.

And my first grapevine wreath creation was not for my house but for a wedding gift. The groom went to UCLA and the bride went to USC. They both played baseball/softball all their lives. So I wanted to incorporate all of those things when I decided to make them a wreath. This is what I came up with..

It's kind of hard to see the UCLA symbol because of the flash. I used the little wooden pieces that you can get at Michael's or Joann's and tied them on with ribbon. For the school logos I just Modge Podged the logo that I printed off the internet onto a plain wooden round.