Creations With Christina

The Craft Loft Is My Happy Place and a blog hop

Hi Everyone,
I’m super excited to be a part of Jo’s Blogaversary Blog Hop. Jo has been a long time follower of my blog and I was so thrilled when she asked me to participate in celebrating her 4th Blogaversary. Happy 4th Jo!

Our challenge was to make anything but a card. So with my new space I thought it needed a sign to welcome visitors to my loft. Here’s what I made.

I started off with a blank wooden sign I picked up from Hobby Lobby and painted it with a coat of gesso. Each of the 4 boards are painted in different shades of my favorite color blue and then dry brushed with the base color from the board below it. I hope I’m describing that correctly.
Here are the colors I used: (the paints are all by Folkart) Sky Blue, Jamaican Sea, Deep Ocean Blue, and Cayman Blue.
The letters are white stickers from Hobby Lobby by the Paper Studio Company. I added a coat of matte medium to keep them from peeling off in the future. Plus I moved them so many times trying to  line it up perfectly that some of the corners lost their stickiness. 

I also added some flowers using a Prima flower pack I found at Hobby Lobby as well as a canvas flower. I hot glued those to the upper and lower corners. 
My quote is inspired by some quotes I’ve seen on Pinterest.  

Jo is giving away prizes during the hop…Here’s how it works.

  • All hoppers must leave a comment and subscribe to each designer’s blog to be eligible to win prizes
  • Hoppers will have until 11:59PM on May 6th to leave comments and winners will be announced on May 7th on Jo’s Blog (Jo’s Scrap Shack)
and here are the prizes you could win!
Sponsors & Prizes
  1. Jo’s Scrap Shack – $15 Silhouette Store 
  2. Scrapper’s Delight’s – 3 Digital Stamps
  3. DoubleClick Connections– 3 bags of Skittles
  4. Sunny Studio Stamps– $20 gift voucher
  5. Little Blue Button Stamps– $15 gift voucher
  6. Lawn Fawn– 1 Stamp Set & a 6×6 paper pad-
  7. Bugaboo Digital Stamps– $30 gift voucher


The hop starts on Jo’s blog
If you missed Millie…she’s before me in the hop…Click HERE
Now head over to Darlene. You can find her HERE
and under my signature you can find all the stops for this fun hop. 

Thanks everyone for stopping by and I hope you have fun on the blog hop.
Hugs
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    Day 1- May 3rd
    Blog starts off –Jo’s Scrap Shack 
    Day 2- May 4th
    Blog starts off- Jo’s Scrap Shack

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    5. Oh Christina this sign for your craft loft is just beautiful! The different shades of blue are gorgeous all next to one another. It looks ombre and I think that was the look you were going for by the way you described it. The shades flow together beautifully. I love the little floral clusters you created for the corners and your quote is just perfect, truly is perfect. I want to thank you so very much for participating in my 4th year blogaversary celebration! It means so very much to me. You have been a huge inspiration for me throughout the years and to have you by my side this year is truly an honor. So thank you! Hugs,Joxox 🙂

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    17. This sign is beautiful!! And it will definitely make you smile each time you enter your crafty space. Love the color (as blues are my favorites, too) and the ombre look is fabulous.

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    20. Love your pretty sign. Looks wonderful with ombre colors and the sweet flowers. We all can relate to the sentiment!!So glad to be a follower of your blog!!!<3 Jjwoolbright at gmail dot comHerPeacefulGarden.blogspot.com

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