Adorable Dry Erase Board - Mambi Monday

It always feels good to get a little praise, right? I wanted to celebrate little "happy moments" here at my house and thought a changeable dry erase board would be perfect. 

I knew the new me & my BIG ideas jumbo stickers would be perfect. These stickers are SO much fun. The package I have called Inspirational, had this circular High Five sticker that I fell in love with. It was perfect! (You can find these cute jumbos at Michaels or in the mambi shop.)

I grabbed a $1 frame from my stash. It was already painted a really fun, bright aqua. I found a grid patterned paper in the Cool Kid mambi 12 x 12 paper stack. I used a strip of red paper with silver stars along the top to anchor the sticker. I peeled off the sticker and laid it down. Put everything back into the frame and I was done. SO fast! SO stinkin' cute! It took maybe 10 minutes, which in my book makes it even better. :)

Now, I (or anyone else in my family) can grab a dry erase marker and spread a little praise in our house. Of course we like to tell each other all the time. But, it's just a wee bit more exciting to write it down. 

So, GO...go right now and make your own!

Spread some praise. :)

Happy Creating!!

Altered Book Art Journal

Happy Sunday!

I sure am loving an extra hour of daylight today (I will gladly sacrifice an hour of sleep for it too). Are you loving it!? With my extra hour, I decided to work on a few projects. I have a bunch on the table. But, I thought I would quickly share the first page in an altered book journal I started.

 

 

I always have a stack of old books on hand for journals & mini albums. So I grabbed one from the bunch. I did glue the pages together with gel medium a couple of weeks ago to give the pages more strength. This is the first page created on the inside cover. I am really feeling a happy palette of springy colors like blues, yellows, pinks and oranges (adoring coral lately too!).

 

I needed this little reminder today. Sometimes I forget. ;)

 

Have a glorious start to your week my friends!

Inspiring Mixed Media mambi Word Art Frame

 

I always LOVE quick, easy projects, don't you!? The best part of this project was using something I already had in my house and I am sure you do too. I found an old frame I had laying around and decided I wanted to give it new life.

 

SO, the first thing you need to do is go grab an old frame. If you are like me, you probably have one sitting on a shelf that every time you pass..you think, "I need to do something with that!" Now is the time! :) Mine does not even have the glass anymore which is perfect.

 

Grab that frame, put on your favorite music and  begin to glue old book pages to it using gel medium or Mod Podge. Once that dries add some gesso. Now the fun really starts. Pull out your acrylic paint (I grabbed for some of my favorite shades of blue & sea green) and start adding some color. I love using my fingers. I really love the control it gives me.

 

 

Once the color was added in several layers, I added some white paint through some fabulous stencils I picked up last week. I also raided my embellishment drawer and found a Recollections metal piece perfect for the top after a coat of gesso. A couple of Recollections flowers for the bottom corner really finished off the frame. :)

 

What to fill the frame with was super easy. I mean...absolutely simple. The me & my BIG ideas 12 x12 paper SHEETS and their various different cards have SO MANY inspirational quotes to choose from. I knew that I wanted something super positive to hang where my cute kiddies could get a quick little "pep talk" for the day. How great is this one? I actually cut out just a portion for this one. I love it. It makes me smile. :)

 

All I did was add some pretty turquoise mambi paper to some cardboard. Then I mounted this fabulous quote to some gorgeous greenish wood grain paper. Finally put it together with some pop dots and it is ready to go! I love it!

 

I hope you like it too. :)

Happy Creating!

 

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