Homegrownart's Blog

Happy Sunday!!

homegrownart — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 01:43:04 +0000

Hi Ya’ll,

Getting ready to export my blog to thehomegrownart.com/blog.

Praying that I will make this a smooth transition.

Cross your fingers….

Fall is here, or is it?

homegrownart — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 04:18:27 +0000

Quite a foggy evening in Cascais, Portugal yesterday. Anyone knows what that means?

So Happy to Be Back!

homegrownart — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:05:22 +0000

Wow! I have totally been neglecting my blog. It so happens that I have had to take care of my number one priority- my boys! The summer holidays had me pretty occupied with playdates, swim lessons, beach days, just plain ‘feeling like a bum’ days, outings to visit the Lisbon Oceanarium, the Estoril Arts and Craft shows, Barbeques, the list goes on, not to mention the normal day to day activities to run a home. The saying is true: “Time flies when you are having fun!” I sure enjoy having fun, but do not like so much when the time flies.

Enough of that! I have a bunch of new crafting projects that I worked on in between the busy activities. I will be putting these up to share, shortly. For now though, I just wanted to stop in and make a note that I am still alive and doing well.

Next week, I plan to upload some new SCAL.scut files, that you should find useful.

Take care and catch you later.

Check out My Card Slide Show!

homegrownart — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 19:55:30 +0000

Pretty Spring Card Tutorial

homegrownart — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 13:47:40 +0000

Here is a card-making video done by Kristina Werner. She is super talented, and I wanted to share one of her video tutorials with you. Enjoy!

more about "Pretty Spring Card Tutorial", posted with vodpod

Gate Fold Card Tutorial

homegrownart — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 12:58:08 +0000

Testing how to import Vodpod videos to my blog. This is a really neat tutorial by Dawn. Love her videos. Enjoy!

more about "Gate Fold Card Tutorial", posted with vodpod

My Tribute to MJ

homegrownart — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 08:38:26 +0000

Its all in the news on every station. Even here in Portugal, every station seems to be paying tribute to Michael Jackson. I heard the news 315am on June 26th when I woke up to do some work. The news was shocking and sad for me. My heart always went out for this “poor” man that I have only met through his music.

It all started when I heard the song “Beat It” as a child. I would listen to the song over and over. Back then it was just a song being song by Michael Jackson, a pretty cool looking guy by my standards. We did not have cable tv, so I am sure it was just a photo of him that I saw. I never knew how I would grow to love his music and his dance moves.

Well, now he is gone. But his music will definitely live on in my world, like many of my other favorite artist, such as, Bob Marley, Al Green, Barry White, Luther Vandross, just to name a few-too many.

MJ, I pray that God’s angels and saints welcome you with open arms, no strings attached. Rest in peace, Michael.

Happy Father’s Day

homegrownart — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 22:17:35 +0000

Just a quick note and shout out to all the Dads, Pa, papas, whatever name you go by. God bless you on this special day.

HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY

homegrownart — Sun, 10 May 2009 13:02:34 +0000

Happy Mother’s day to all of you mommy’s out there that are celebrating Mother’s day today. Last week was mother’s day here in Portugal and it was a lovely day. So then, I am celebrating two weeks in a row, hehehe!!

Happy Mother's Day

Today I made this card for all of you that are reading this blog. I love how it turned out and thanks to my friend K, who gave me the idea to coordinate the base CS (card stock) and and the DP (designer paper). I stamped the flower on white CS and then stamped again on another piece of white CS. I cut out the sides of the flower and popped up on dimensionals. One of the leaf was done in the same way. Next, I used my 2-way glue pen on the edges of the flower and a leaf, and then sprinkled the glitter. I made sure to cut the DP in and area to capture the flowers. Each strip of paper is cut to 2 1/2″ x 5 1/2″. The ribbon was tied to the lower portion of the stamped flower strip. I used Scrapbook adhesives Ez-runner to apply the DP strips to the green base CS. The entire stamped flower strip is popped up on dimensionals. And Whalaaa! A beautiful card made for you.

Happy Mother's Day

Ok, the card is a 6×6. I used DCWV DP (Spring ’09 Glitter stack) and CS (Metallic Stack).
Stamps set is Bodacious Bouqet from SU (Stampin’ Up!)
Inks: SU Summer Sun (flower), Certainly Celery (stem), Bashful blue (for inking the edges)
Chalk: Pebbles Inc Pearlescent Chalks for chalking the flower background (love this stuff!)
Ribbon: American Crafts
Glitter: Stampendous ultrafine glitter

Thanks for looking. Bless!

Free Curvy Frame .scut file

homegrownart — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 01:00:21 +0000

Hi Crafters, here is curvy frame.scut file I created that will make a fabulous frame for your cards, or that you can use on your scrapbook pages. I know that it would be a great idea for me to post a project where I used the file also. Anyhow, that is why there are backlinks. If you use this frame, send me a jpeg of it. Alternatively, you can send a link of the page on your blog, and I will gladly backlink it here on this post. Send Mail

Have fun creating!!