Mother's day was last weekend, however, I've been a little busy and haven't had the opportunity to upload what I ended up making for my mom. I decided to make her a shadow box and necklace.
I ended up getting a deal at Michael's on the shadow boxes... three for $12! The rest of the supplies I had previously purchased. I had chipboard that I had bought at the scrapbook expo, and I chose to distress them...
These are the pieces before I did anything to them. I wanted to do something that was beachy since my mom loves the beach.
This chipboard was used for the picture. I used Tim Holtz distressing ink and used a green and blue palate, with "vintage" marks. 
This is a more detailed picture of the chipboard. I didn't distress the middle because the picture is going to cover it up.
This is the finished product! Everything was distressed, and then I bought netting at JoAnn's for a little touch of the sea! (It's in the bottom right corner)
These are pictures of both sides of the necklace that I made for my mom. Once again, carrying on with a beach theme. The pictures are a little blurry, but she loved the necklace!
As a side note: the lightning won against boston last night, 5-2! Go bolts! Classes start back up tomorrow... so goodbye short-lived summer, see you again in july!
