Aleene's® Jewelry & Metal Glue™ bangle bracelet

I am a sucker for anything vintage, recyled or pink and here is a hip new take on a bangle bracelet for those who love those things too! It’s from I Love to Create blog and all you need for this luxuriously simple bangle bracelet is Aleene’s® Jewelry & Metal Glue™, wire clippers, four broaches, and a metal bangle bracelet! Voila! The adhesive gel instanly and permanantly bonds the jewelry together, and won’t run!  Make a great project on the fly that looks like you bought it in a boutique. No one will know the difference,(other than handmade is usually better).

Aleene's® Jewelry & Metal Glue™

Tulip® SuperBIG™ One-Step Tie-Dye Kit™ Onsies project

I found this adorable one of a kind onesie tie dye project on Tulips® I love to Create Blog today and can’t wait to try it out on some of our little white onseies! For this project all you need is the article of clothing, a Tulip® SuperBIG™ One-Step Tie-Dye Kit™, a rubber band and a plastic tablecloth, (or you could use a drop cloth or trash bag). I hope to do a turquoise and brown for one and a pink and tan for the other onesie I have. The Super Big kit contains all of the colors and can dye up to 24 shirts! Probably double that if you are just doing little onesies! Have fun. Peace ya’ll

Tulip® SuperBIG™ One-Step Tie-Dye Kit™

Claire Selby handmade tag "Three Generations of Beach Beauty"

Kard Krazy blog has a Tag Tuesday challenge every week and for this week the challenge is: Postcards. Enter any kind of paper craft utilizing postcards. For my entry, “Three Generations of Beach Beauty“, I was inspired by my mom and grandma who each collected and made cards throughout my life! One of the recurring themes to my art is the beach, we all grew up on Galveston Island so I used these things as the backdrop for my tag. The vintage postcard Beauty is one I collected in ’98, my mom collected the fibers, and my grandma collected the vintage paper I used.  My entry uses a pale peach and turquoise colorway of dye inks over vintage paper. Voila!  Inter-generational Art!

Claire Selby handmade tag "Three Generations of Beach Beauty"

Claire Selby paper artist, Winner of ArtChix Studios Valenitne Eco Shape Challenge

Yeah! I’m the Winner of the fabulous Art Chix Postage set from Helga! Thank you so much to all of my friends, family and fans who voted for me last month in ArtChix Studio’s Eco Shape challenge. You can check out my entries Here on my blog and on Helga’s My Artistic Life Blog. My Daughter is also excited because some of the sheets will go to her Girl Scout troop! I’m super excited to use the sheets in my cards and ATcs and I hope to offer some ATCs as a giveaway soon for my Pinkdilla fans.

Claire Selby One of A Kind quilted ATC kits for sale

My Daughter and I had such a great time at International Quilt Festival Houston last month we even got interviewed by Ned Hibberd about trading cards for Fox News Houston!

Yeah, I’ve Got Your Quilt Right Here: MyFoxHOUSTON.com

I was inspired to put together one of a kind quilted ATC Kits for Sale using some of the techniques I picked up, as well as the Amy Butler fabric, Halo threads and embellishment trims I purchased. We had fun at the Cloth Paper Scissors’ ATC Trading Post wall. I got to trade several of my collage cards with some great ladies there and we also got to meet another mother/ daughter team of artists, Judy Coates Perez and Nina Perez. Judy has a gorgeous tree skirt pattern available for free download on the Quilting Arts magazine site.

Trading Post

Trading ATCs

Gerri Plummer( my mom) an artist & quilter in the Cloth Paper Scissors booth

Claire Selby- trading cards I got from Festival

Nina and Judy Coates Perez cards, so pretty

Claire Selby in front of Judy Coates Perez tree skirt in the Cloth, Paper, Scissors booth