Sweet Summer Romance

Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day?

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May;
And summer's lease hath all too short a date.
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wand'rest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

William Shakespeare

Sweet Summer Romance Craft muses in my Etsy shop now :)

Coffee Filter Rose Tutorial

Hello All!!!! It's a Special Day today!! This will be my first Tutorial on the blog. I've had quite a few questions about what people can do once they've ordered these pretty hand dyed Coffee filter cakes from my Etsy shop.So I am going to explain step by step how you can easily create these gorgeous coffee filter roses.


Gathering your tools & Materials: You will need..Scissors, Leaves, 2 Stamens, 2 Coffee Filters, 3 inch piece of wire

Step 1: Having 2 coffee filter sitting on top of each other, Fold them in half, then in half again.

Step 2: Cut a small triangle off the bottom corner of the folded coffee filters.
This step is done so that you don't have alot of unnecessary bulk at the bottom of the rose.
Step 3: Cut 2 or 3 Scallops out of the coffee filters longer curved side...These will be the petals.
Step 4: Unfold and cut through both coffee filters in any spot. Cutting it gives you a starting point to begin curling the roses center.
Step 5: The very first curl you make will by somewhat tight then begin to get looser as you pinch the bottom of the rose and turn. You will Gather and spin the rose until you are out of your strip of coffee filter.

Step 6: Wrap your 3 inch piece of florist wire around the bottom of the rose making sure to get all layers of paper. About 1/4 of an inch up.
This is when you can leave the rose simple as it is or you can go onto the optional embellishing steps.

Optional steps: Fold two double headed stamens in the center and glue into center of rose (I use hot glue) You can also use vintage book paper cut into leaves or leaves from a fabric flower to glue onto either side of the bottom of the rose so you can not see the wire.

I hope you have tons of fun making these roses! Please let me know if you have any questions about this process. Leave me a comment or E-mail me at YourAngil@Hotmail.com

And remember...If this is just too much work..... Come and get some from my shop! :)

Etsy Wedding

Simple and Crisp yet perfectly bridal for endless wedding day uses.

Soft Pink Millinery Flowers on Coffee Dyed Tags. Flowers are from a Vintage Hat. " Te Amo" I love you Hang Tags

Gorgeous Feathered Fans to be held by each bridesmaid or to be held by the bride for wedding photos. Also, would look beautiful setting at the Guest Book table. These Chandelier tags were created for a bride who wanted to tie these personalized tags to her wedding parties gifts.
Reserved Vintage Decorative Border Designs. Add ribbon to the back to hang on chairs.

Reception Table number signs
Placecards, favors, thank you cards. These cards are made by me designing a graphic for you, I then print them out on tea stained paper.
Wedding Programs: I can design a graphic and font for your programs and print them off on many choices of colors including this tea stained resume paper.
Sweet and delicate coffee dyed Vintage lace and Vintage Jewelry Hairpins. gorgeous enough for a Wedding day but can be used to fancy up a sweet summer dress.


Grungy Glittered Garland. I can make these strands of Garland as long as you need them. Made from coffee colored coffee filter scraps, german glitter glass stars made by MemrieMare, tulle and string.
Find all these goodies and more in my Etsy Shop now!

Kaedence Rose

A simple wooden sign I purchased from Michaels for $2.00. Then painted and Embellished with a coffee dyed strip from my girls old little dress & a millinery rose.
This sweet little top I found on clearance for $2.50 . It was all white and lovely. Kaedence's Mommy loves blue so I added some frilly seam binding ribbon around the bodice.
A coffee dyed Shipping tag that I sewed a Quilted Heart from a Vintage Handmade quilt.
All of these pretty handmade Gifts for my good Friend's first daughter. Born just 2 days ago.
Welcome to the world pretty girl!

Majestic Feathers Tag Swap

My Great friend and Mother to Be Jenny at FatedFollies hosted a beautiful Swap, the Majestic Feathers Tag Swap. Which couldn't have been more perfect for me. Not only do people call me the "Tag lady" around here but I've been wanting to explore my craft supplies for purples because I am planning on creating some projects for a call for artwork for Stampington called Aubergine.


As I created these tags very late at night and packaged them all up for Jenny I forgot to photograph all of them first. To see all of the majestically decorated shipping tags you can see the beautiful blogs of Kids Napping I'm Scrapping, Sea Shells and silver,
Chaotic Creation, If I could set my soul free, Junk girl Studio, Material Gal Molly, Tammy Sprnikle, Follow your Bliss designs, The Gahan Girls, Wendy

Speaking of cool tags. I was tagged to answer these questions by my good friend Jessica at Kid's Napping I'm Scrapping. Thanks Jessica. If people don't ask you these questions every once in a while I wonder if we would even know who we were:)


What is your current obsession? Product Design for my Etsy Shop
What is your horoscope & do you relate to it? I don't believe in that stuff.
What are you wearing today? Summer Dress and a Sweater
What's the last thing you bought? 2009-2010 Monthly planner
What do you think about the person who tagged you? Jessica is just wonderful! We've been blog buddies for over a year and she creates the most wonderful Srapbooks. Everytime I'm over at her blog is a reminder to get in gear with the memorie keeping for the kids. She's extremely funny and witty. Love to talk with her!
Guilty pleasure? Naps and Oreo Blizzards
What is your must-have item for summer? Lot's of Summer Dresses and flat maryjane shoes
If you could go anywhere in the world for the next hour, where would it be? I would have my husband fly us over Paris at night to see the pretty lights in a helicopter and stop to have dinner we would eat a Pasta, Bread and Salad dinner with some White wine. Mmmm
Who do you want to meet right now? I would like to fly to California to meet the Publisher of Stampington Magazines Kellene Giloff and the girls at the Stampington offices.
What is your favorite piece of clothing from your own closet? A floor length floral summer dress
What is your dream job? I'm not exactly sure yet, I know I'm in the right field with Art and design but I have Many many other aspects of art to try like graphic design, fine art, product design, writing and so on. I would love to write a book and a design a stationary line.
What's your favorite magazine?It's a tie between Artful Blogging and Somerset Life.
What do you consider a fashion faux-pas? I consider judging peoples clothing a faux-pa
Describe your personal style. Shabby, Romantic, Simple & Lavish
What are you going to do after this? Package Etsy orders
What are you proud of? SOO many things. My husband for striving to be a better man and father, my son for learning how to rhyme words this week and for being aware of other's feelings. My daughter Valencia for learning to draw people and for having wonderful manners. My daughter Valoria for being very loving and trying everyday to have more patience. Myself for going out of my comfort zone and joining Mops & church. For not succumbing to the trap in my mind but instead starting my business from home to have fun and to feel like I was in partnership with my husband providing for our family. I'm proud of the loving and very close relashionship I've been able to maintain with my parents.