NOEL Christmas card.

Today Practical Scrappers is showcasing Christmas cards from us designers. Here’s the card that I made:

I used Basic Grey paper (reindeer), a Dear Lizzy poinsettia sticker, and the NOEL is actually a glittered transparency from Fancy Pants.  I used my edge distresser (Heidi  Swapp) on the reindeer paper for the first time ever successfully!  I don’t know why I had so much trouble getting the hang of this thing!

See the edges?

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Family Tree Canvas….crafting with kids!

My daughter is in the 6th grade and has already had to do so many projects since school started it’s borderline ridiculous.  One of them was doing her family tree with just immediate family members and on this one she could have help from parents, so I had fun working with her.  She drew her tree onto a canvas (16×20) in pencil and then outlined it with Sharpie paint pens.  Then I cracked open my paints and painted it all in for her. 

Here’s my favorite part:  The Heidi Swapp brown paint is so thick I was able to make it look like actual bark.  I love the texture!

Isn’t that fabulous? 

And here’s the finished project with all her leaves and photos of her family included on it.  I think it turned out great.

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Fall Decor – paper doily banner.

I took these paper doilies from Dollar Tree….

 and this American Crafts ribbon (from my shop)….

and made THIS fall banner for my fireplace mantel!

I simply alternated the types of leaves and fed the ribbon through the holes in them.  Easy!

What do you think?

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Girl Scouts yarn doll.

This is a doll my daughter made at her Girl Scouts meeting a couple of weeks ago.  They’re decorating a Christmas tree for an annual Festival of Trees coming up.  Each girl made one of these dolls and they’re going to be holding hands in a circle hanging on the tree.  I think that sounds pretty neat and can’t wait to see their tree. 

I have no idea how Summer actually made the doll’s body, but I made the outfit for her.  Can you tell it’s a Girl Scouts uniform?  And “made” the outfit is a pretty loose term.  I cut a piece of green felt to look like an apron (her idea) and used a hole punch to punch 2 holes in the apron, fed some red ribbon through it and then tied it tied in the back so it would stay on.  I also glued a half of a small paper doily just to add a little something.  I then cut a strip of the felt to be the sash.  Those tiny little round stickers are actually from K & Company’s Girl Scouts line and they’re supposed to be badges/patches.

What do you think?

Live Laugh Love.

This is the last page to the scrapbook I was hired to make of a little girl to wife.  This is her favorite photo from their engagement photo shoot, and I love it.  I used some chipboard embellishments from Echo Park (and others) and added Stickles to some of them to sparkle them up. 

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Oh! I forgot to show you the cover of the scrapbook.

When the customer gave it to me, it only had the flowers on it and instead of ribbon the binding was raffia that was pretty sad looking.  I changed that out to pretty pink satin ribbon, added the metal plaque and the chipboard butterflies (with straight pins for antennae)

and added Stickles just a tiny bit to the flowers for some sparkle. Yes, I like sparkle!

And that’s all she wrote!

Sweetheart.

I realized I still have 2 more pages to show you of the book I was hired to make of a little girl’s childhood to wife. 

How cute is she?

altered lamp….spooky spiders!

A few months ago I found these awesome Ikea lamps at a Goodwill store for $7.99.  There were 3 of them.  I love them so much I wish there had been more. 

I found these spider web templates last year at the Mr. Printables website and printed them out onto a transparency.  Then I just taped them to the lamp.  In the photos you can see the scotch tape, but in real life you couldn’t see it.  The only trouble I had was the template didn’t fill up my whole transparency (8.5×11), because it’s actually meant to be wrapped around a pillar candle or a glass candle holder, but I just put a pumpkin in front of the lamp and hoped nobody would notice.  ha ha!  I will have to see if I can figure out how to fix that before next year. 

Here we are:

 It would actually be pretty cool to paint a spiderweb like these directly onto the lamps, but then I’d only be able to use them at Halloween.  Will have to see if I can find more at Goodwill!

Happy Fall Crow Card.

Here’s a cute card I made for someone last week.  I used a crow digital stamp from Scrappin Doodles (they provide free stamps every Friday). 

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I used a black patterned paper scrap for my background and a yellow leaf paper doily from the Dollar Tree store.  He’s holding the little flag that I made by using a sewing straight pin with a yellow head and attaching the flag I wrote on with a glue dot.  I also used Stickles on the lines of the pumpkins and the crow’s beak and feet to add a bit of sparkle.

Oh!  I also glued on a couple googly eyes (with eyelashes!) just for fun.  What do you think?

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Pansy anniversary card.

Back in August I showed you a card I made for my hubby after his surgery.  He was in a lot of pain and kept calling himself a pansy because he couldn’t take it, so I made him a pansy get well card.  You can see that here if you missed it.  I had actually intended to make him another later, but never got around to it and then decided after I looked at it closer that these 2 birds could be lovebirds and I used it for an anniversary card last month!

Of course, my favorite thing Stickles makes it sparkly.  Here’s another angle.

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See?  I love what you can do with a tiny little bottle of glittery glue!

Breast cancer awareness pumpkin.

Recently when I was making my jeweled Prima pumpkins, I decided to also make a breast cancer pumpkin in honor of Anita and Aunt Teresa.  I took the same route as the pink bra I made in 2008.  Here is the pumpkin before:

I bought a $2 pumpkin at the dollar store, tore all the stuff off of it, painted it pink with acrylic paint, and then covered it with pink Prima flowers. I stuck them on using Mod Podge.

 And here’s what it looks like now:

I used mostly all the same color pink but threw in a few lighter colored flowers here and there.  I rolled up a piece of dark green vellum and stuck it on the top for the stem.

Cute, huh?

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