JOY wall art tutorial

Happy Tuesday! Christmas is almost here and it's also one of my favorite times of the year...I love the smell of fresh pine and baked cookies. Tomorrow we will go out to a tree farm and cut a nice pinetree. Thursday night after dinner we will decorate it with wonderful ornaments that I'm working on. The colors I have choosen for this year are brown, red, green and rust...

I made a wall decoration using items from the dollar store and some scrapbooking supplies.

Here is what you will need:
1. Silver trays- dollar store
2. Oval doilies- dollar store
3. Ribbon- dollar store
4. Flowers and leaves- dollar store
5. Tim Holtz distressing ink
6. Martha Stewart- glitter
7. Cricut
8. Story book cartridge
9. Cardstock
10. Glue
11. Scissors
12. Crop a dile

Instructions:

1. Using your crop a dile make two holes on each of the silver trays
2. Ink your doilies using Tim Holtz ink adhere to tray
3. Cut your letters from cardstock and add glitter

4. Once the letters are dry adhere to doilie

5. Add ribbon and make a bow

6. Glue green leaves and flower to the bow
7. Hang and enjoy

I will have more Christmas decoration tutorials on the days to come so stay tuned.

2 Sketches 4 You Challenge~Beau~

The weather is horrible today...so it was the perfect time to create a card for the 2 Sketches 4 you challenge. I really like the way this one turned out. I used Basic Grey paper, Martha Stewart glitter, Life Journey's sticker, Michael's rub on and pearls. Thanks for looking...

Wire Flower Tutorial

Did you like the flowers I created for the challenge at Let's get Shabby??? well if you did here are the instructions.

What you need:
Floral wire
Glue
Ribbon
Glimmer Mist or Alcohol ink
Scissors
Candle or liquid Fray
Patience

Here are the steps:
1. Determine the size of flower you want and figure out how big you want the petals to be. I made mine using around 4" of wire but it's totally up to you. The best thing to do is to play with different sizes.
2. Create a petal using the floral wire.
3. Glue the floral wire to ribbon and let it dry for at least 2 hrs. Make sure the wire is completely glued to the ribbon. After two hours or so cut around the wire.
4. Carefully "run" petals using a candle or use fraying glue.
5. Ink or mist petals with Tattered Angels glitter mist or Tim Holtz ink
6. Gather 2 petals, twist; then gather 3 more twist. Put the two groups together and done!
7. Now for the fun part...embellish you flower(s) with pearls, buttons, glitter or just about anything...

Let's get Shabby Challenge #5

Hi!! I hope everyone is having lots of fun preparing for Thanks Giving. At my house it's a tradition to sit down, give thanks and have a fabulous dinner. This month's challenge at Let's get Shabby is to make our own embellishments. I have created three wonderful flowers and leaves using wire, ribbon, glue, Tattered Angels spray mist, Tim Holtz alcohol inks and pearls. I will have a tutorial. I hope you enjoy it...

Products used: Tim Holtz alcohol ink and distressing inks and stamp, Tattered Angels spray mist and chipboard, Prima pearls,Martha Stewart punch,flower wire, Acid free tacky glue, Misc music sheet (from a book printed in 1820), Corecolor cardstock and color box ink.

Make Time Stand Still

Oh only if we had the power to stop time...our children would always stay little, we would stay young (hmmm), parents would never part, grandparents would spoil us forever...I told my daghter one day "I don't want you to grow up, I want you to be my little girl forever" so now she goes around telling people that her mom told her she has to stay little...lol

Have a beautiful Day

Happy Monday! I received many goodies from Bluemoon Scrapbooking so I created two
wonderful cards based on Kazan's and Laura's sketch. Here is what I came up with...
The first card I used K&Co chipboard and paper, Martha Stewart punch and glitter, misc flower, lace, ribbon and cardboard.

For the second card I used K& Co papers, Websters pages days of the week journal spots,Maya Road sheer clock, Melissa Frances rose accent, Cricut and George cartridge.