The new catalog of Phase 2 of the Decor Elements is available now.  Contact me if you want a copy mailed to you.  This is the Season of Thanks in the small size (12" x 7 5/8") in black lettering.  I bought a shadow box, lined it with 12"x12" Designer Series Paper.  I took some silk leaves and used giant glue dots to adhere them.  I put the Decor Elements words towards the left side of the glass, so the words are more legible and it looks more balanced.  This was a project shown at Convention.  They put autumn looking potpourri in their shadow box.  I decided I didn’t want the mess and smell of potpourri, hence the silk leaves.  A simple twist on this project would be to cut the three phrases apart and make three separate frames. 

Tags: Decor Elements, Decorating

My daughter-in-law, Jade, put the Manhattan flower decor elements on the living room wall.  She did a great job!  No surprise, but my son isn’t sure about having flowers on their walls.  I just laughed when I heard that because I don’t think these flowers look too feminine at all!

One of my downline, Sandy, demo’d this project at my manager’s Stamp Share last week.  Much to my surprise, after the meeting she gave it to me!  She used a dark brown frame with riding hood red cardstock, Bella Rose designer series paper (die cut), chocolate chip cardstock and photo corners punch, chocolate chip taffeta ribbon and the pretties kit.  She used a chocolate colored Classic "S" Decor Elements on the glass.

Sandy used a hat pin and clutch, round pearls, clear round bead, spacer bead and white flower.  All these supplies are included in the pretties kit.  She colored the white flower using riding hood red ink and a blender pen.  Don’t you just love the attention to detail?  Thanks Sandy!

Tags: Decor Elements

At Convention, we saw this Spooky Spider Decor Elements cookie jar on display.  It is so cute!  The cookie jar is from Wal-Mart.  It was very easy to rub the medium-sized Spooky Spider on the outside of the cookie jar.  

Here is a close-up of the tag.  The base is a circle piece of chipboard, covered with retired designer series paper from last year (you could use orange cardstock).  Then I punched a basic black circle.  Stamped the image from Batty for You stamp set on whisper white cardstock in basic black ink.  Punched the center out and raised it with a dimensional.  Attached the stamped image to the black circle.  Added an eyelet at the top with linen thread and attached it to pumpkin pie 1/2" striped grosgrain ribbon.

Tags: Halloween