Aug 29 2011
Planning a wedding shower, baby shower, birthday party, holiday dinner, you pick the occasion and you can decorate tealight candles. You can decorate them simple or elaborate. Here is an adorable sample from a recent stamping event. Wrapping ribbon around the tealight candle is the easiest way to cover the sides. Then use your punches and Big Shot embosslits to decorate.
Aug 15 2011
One of my favorite things to do is to make projects to decorate my home with. If the project involves family photographs, then that is a bonus! I have been working on and off on this project for a few months. I wanted to work on it and finish it in one day, but life gets busy. I had tucked it away in my craft cupboards and found it last night while I was looking for something else (go figure). I decided to finish it last night.
The shadow box is 12 1/2" x 12 1/2". The six compartments are about 4" x 6". I didn't adhere each little scrapbook page to the shadowbox. I want to be able to remove these some day and give them to each grandgirl to frame. The supplies used to make this shadowbox are from Stampin' Up!, except for the Scrabble pieces. (Note: The key, black lace and ribbon roses are now retired.) The empty shadowbox was a gift, so you could search the Internet to find them.
These three sweeties are my grandgirls. The tradition we have in our family is when they are between 12-15 months old, we take photographs of them playing with family heirlooms and antiques. The whole idea is to take candid photographs of the grandgirls' natural curiosity.
Here are the individual 4" x 6" sections with a close up of some of the details.
I love this project. It brings tears to my eyes when I look at it and the sweet memories flood back into my mind. I can't wait to show it to the grandgirls. They are now 7 1/2, 4 and 19 months.
To order the products used to make this project, please contact me.
Aug 04 2011
I got the itch the other day to make something with this little wooden box that I had been saving. It is 8 1/2" long by 3" wide by 1 1/2" deep. There is an antique porcelain knob at the top.
I had been sorting some old family pictures and decided to do some miniature scrapbook pages for the three sections of this box. I decided to shabby and distress the pages. The box was a little too deep for my photo's. It took me a while to rummage through my stuff to find the perfect thing to use. [drum roll please]
The 116802 Circle Treat Cups worked great. They have adhesive on one side, which stuck nicely to the wood shelf.
Here are my three miniature scrapbook pages of my grandparents and parents.
And here is the finished project. I love it!
Supplies Used:
121878 First Edition Specialty Designer Series Paper
118762 Distressing Essentials
109070 Whisper White 3/8" Taffeta Ribbon
104199 Linen Thread
117190 Jewelry Tag Punch
118874 2 3/8" Scallop Circle Punch
120175 Vintage Wallpaper embossing folder
118764 Vintage Trinkets
109857 Mini Library Clips
118763 Mini Vintage Tags
119247 Basic Pearls
Jul 25 2011
Here is a 12" x 12" shadow box created by a demonstrator who submitted it for the annual Stampin' Up! Artisan Award. She didn't win the award. That didn't matter to me because I found it to be beautiful.
Do you want to know how she made it? On My Digital Studio, the digital software! Yowza! She had four copies printed and then cut up three of the copies to add the three layers of dimensions to it.
My fingers are just itching to create one of these! I think I need a creative assistant to make all my projects because my brain doesn't want to turn off or empty these ideas out of it. LOL
Jul 23 2011
This framed quilt piece caught my eye hanging on one of the Convention displays. No surprise, since I love quilts, flowers and the shabby chic look. They used the 121817 Springtime Vintage Designer Fabric to make this and added some buttons, ribbons and fabric flowers. What I'm amazed at is they took the word "happiness" from the 111644 Heard from the Heart stamp set, enlarged it and embroidered it on the fabric. This would make such a unique piece of art for your walls or a beautiful gift to give someone!
