Days to Remember...

You all know of my love for {Pinterest} ~ and I know you all love it, too, because I'm finding items from my blog Pinned on a regular basis! :) Two things - 1) That's super exciting for me! And 2) It's also a little frustrating! Having items pinned repeatedly when no one has commented on those posts drives me just a scosh nutty. SO....if you love something enough to Pin It ~ please take a few seconds to comment on the post and let me {know} that you love it so I don't feel like I'm blogging to no one. Please? Thanks! ;)

I noticed that I kept going back and looking at one project on my DIY Pinterest Board over and over again ~ and that made it pretty clear that I needed to go ahead and make my own. The project in question came from Andrea Steed and it's a beautiful piece of art with important family dates ~ specifically birth dates for she and her husband, their wedding date, and the birth dates of their kids. It's {personal} and pretty and perfect....so I made one of my own!



Andrea's art piece was made using her Silhouette ~ and while I have one that I {love} I also have a craft room that was, at the time I was working on this, in a total state of chaos. Lacking the patience and the clean workspace to do my own in the traditional way, I took a suggestion Andrea made on her blog and just made mine as a printable. This is what I started with...



I worked on it late one night, and when I woke up the next morning and looked at it some more, I wasn't in love with it. It needed more character and soul ~ so off I went to search for some {texture} to add to it. I found these amazing (and free!) textures on flickr, which I used to add a layer to the original piece. Once I had done that, I wasn't happy with the coloring I had been working with, so I tweaked it some more and ended up with this....



Next up, I ordered it as a 5x7 from my photo lab. I forgot to turn off the "auto correct" option from the lab, so it came back looking different than it did in the computer ~ but I'm happy with it! I popped it into a mat and frame, and here's the final product...




And now...I'm off to get some more work done on a pretty {big} project the hubband & I have been working on! :) More posts this week...I promise!