Early Halloween Crafting and a Literary Statement

OK, these are last weeks projects. I am a little behind on posting...
The Little Bitties made these cute embellished hair combs to get ready for Halloween Wear! The Bigger Divas made a Literary Necklace, paper beads made from both decorative paper and pages from and old novel gleaned from the throw away pile at the thrift store. One of my Divas asked..."Queen La Diva, Were you SUPPOSED to cut up that book?" Yes, I stressed the importance of not cutting up valid books, and it did take me a while to get the nerve to cut this one, but it was destined to the trash, and I figured it could have a new life to be used in several of our projects. Actually one of my favorite hobbies is reading old thrown away books I dig out of discard piles. Some of my fav stories are from these unwanted treasures! Good Carline reading!

Sisters In Creativity!

This is our class Tee Shirt! Since we are a group of girls who get together and create, I think of us as a sorority. So, I designed this tee with our "Greek" letters, to represent Di Va Do's DVD! Cute huh? By the way, I stenciled the shirts myself in hot pink with, of course, glitter!

Crafty Updates!

We have been busy for a few weeks! I wanted to update everyone on our projects!
The Little Bitties made "Diva Dough", our version of pink play dough with glitter!
The Big Girls made an oil painted collage of a paper cupcake.
The next week, our cute terry Bath Mitts were a fun stitching and fusing project for both classes! The Little Bitties made a pig design and the Big Girls made a hip abstract blue and brown design. The older girls made a blue salt scrub to use in the bath as well!
This week we made these cute painting projects: LB's made the "Colorpillar", a color mixing exercise, that turned into a cute collage. The Biggies made this beautiful stenciled knit scarf with the Brown Chandelier design. I love the freezer paper technique!

Now I have to think of something to top all of this for next week!

You Crack Me Up!

This week, we made the darling "You Crack Me Up" picture frame project. First we painted a black frame with crackle medium, then pink (of course) paint. After the crackleing, we decoupaged random strips of torn decorative papers around the frame to add some texture and depth of colors & patterns. After sealing, we were ready to put our fav pics in our funky new frames! The older class was able to be more creative with the colors, and choosing their own decorative elements.
Hugs, QLD and Miss Cadley

WHEW!!!! OH, SNAP!!!!!

Our First class was....um....WOW!
We were fully packed with excited girls yesterday! We actually had alot more show up than we expected, so we even ran over in time to get everyone's project finished. So many cute girls, so many returning as well as newbies.
Our project was an adorable "Snap Link" necklace we made by snapping the vintage
1960's plastic snap links together in fun retro colors, and then adding a handmade pendant made from a wood base with decoupaged art paper and a fun vintage initial all tied up with cute fall ribbon! So cool and fun for back to school wear!
Thanks girls, we'll hand out tee's next week at class! ( I decided to wait until EVERYONE could get their shirt at the same time so no tears for the walk ins)
Hugs, Queen La Diva and Miss Cadley

Diva Do Start Day 2009!!!!!

Hey Divas! Our First day for classes is August 18! I am SOOO excited to see all of my Diva Girls! We have such cute projects planned for this year! The first one is my Fav! See you all at 3:00 on Tuesday! Love & Hugs, Queen La Diva and Miss Cadley

Our First Fall Project is Set!!!

I can't tell you what it is, you know the drill. But our first project for our Fall classes is all ready...but it is Top Secret! I just LOVE to Surprise my Divas!!!
I will give you a hint though...
IT'S A SNAP!! Tee Hee QLD