December 17, 2015
December 16, 2015
Bird Feeder Ornament
This ornament was patterned off the one at S.C.R.A.P.. The craft is designed to help you reuse some old scrap, specifically a pill bottle and a juice bottle cap.
I started off by painting my cap black and filling a mini bead bottle with bird seed. I glued the pieces together and glued on a small branch. I found a set of 3 mini birds at a local craft store, and glued one on to the branch. For the metal top, I used a circle cut from a previous year's Christmas cracker, and glued it into a cone and then glued it to the bottle. It's a bit fragile, so if I did this again I'd either use cardboard for the cone or glue the paper onto cardboard or cardstock so it's firmer.
I started off by painting my cap black and filling a mini bead bottle with bird seed. I glued the pieces together and glued on a small branch. I found a set of 3 mini birds at a local craft store, and glued one on to the branch. For the metal top, I used a circle cut from a previous year's Christmas cracker, and glued it into a cone and then glued it to the bottle. It's a bit fragile, so if I did this again I'd either use cardboard for the cone or glue the paper onto cardboard or cardstock so it's firmer.
December 15, 2015
Christmas Portal Card
This is a joke card I made for one of my husband's friends. I was looking at the peppermint stamp background and this idea came to me, fully formed. What if the twist were a black hole style portal, and a kitty were being sucked in? I really love how the second kitty is looking down and holding its hands, as if it's just done something bad.
December 13, 2015
Christmas Tree Hot Chocolate Mug Ornaments
I didn't have much time for making Christmas cards this year, so I ended up whipping some clean and simple cards. I did, however, find some time to make cute Christmas tree ornaments I'd pinned in previous years. Here's a hot chocolate mug ornament, patterned off the one by Loraine at Breakfast for Dinner.
I wasn't able to find mini plastic mugs, so I took a mini shot glass and used hot glue to make the handles. I drew a handle on a piece of scrap paper, then squeezed a think line of glue over it. The glue peeled off well, but was flat on the paper side, so I squeezed a second line of glue on the flat side so it would have dimension as well. I then glued the handle to the cup.
I painted the edges of the mug with brown paint, then when it was dry, took a circle of construction paper with the edges clipped in and carefully shoved the edges inside the mug while leaving a flat top. I painted the top and cut a hole.
Once the paper was dry I twisted a red and white pipe cleaner together and bent it into a small candy cane, snipping it to size, then glued it in and glued some white pom poms around it as marshmallows.
I wasn't able to find mini plastic mugs, so I took a mini shot glass and used hot glue to make the handles. I drew a handle on a piece of scrap paper, then squeezed a think line of glue over it. The glue peeled off well, but was flat on the paper side, so I squeezed a second line of glue on the flat side so it would have dimension as well. I then glued the handle to the cup.
I painted the edges of the mug with brown paint, then when it was dry, took a circle of construction paper with the edges clipped in and carefully shoved the edges inside the mug while leaving a flat top. I painted the top and cut a hole.
Once the paper was dry I twisted a red and white pipe cleaner together and bent it into a small candy cane, snipping it to size, then glued it in and glued some white pom poms around it as marshmallows.
October 30, 2015
Thank You Card Sets
I decided to make a bunch of Thank You cards and give sets of them away to friends for Christmas this year. Towards that end, I took a took a look at the cards I've done in the past and recreated a bunch of them with different colours and slightly different designs. Here's what I came up with.
I stamped a floral design on my card base (flowers for women, cattails for men) and then added a punched panel accross the bottom. I stamped my sentiment and added a punched butterfly or dragonfly as an accent. I used white ink on the dark pink card (as the other tones I tried seemed to clash too much). The white ink didn't come out solid, so I filled in the flowers with a white pen (I could have embossed with white as well, but I like how it turned out).
October 22, 2015
Festive Deer Card
I made this card as a submission for Simon Says Stamp's 'Wrap It Up' Challenge. I patterned it off of this card I found by Donna M on Splitcoast Gallery.
I started out by die cutting and embossing the buck from the Sue Wilson Deer Family die out of a glossy white cardstock. I die cut a piece of black cardstock to frame it. Despite the shading in the picture, the card base is white. I took a piece of Donna K patterned paper for the center panel. I didn't have any blue paper in the shade I wanted for the borders on the panel, so I coloured some white cardstock with a blue marker. I glued the two strips on and made indents in the paper where the white thread would go (if I had silver thread I'd have used that instead for this). I threaded the paper and taped it in place on the back before gluing the panel down. I used pop dots to attach the deer frame to the card.
I started out by die cutting and embossing the buck from the Sue Wilson Deer Family die out of a glossy white cardstock. I die cut a piece of black cardstock to frame it. Despite the shading in the picture, the card base is white. I took a piece of Donna K patterned paper for the center panel. I didn't have any blue paper in the shade I wanted for the borders on the panel, so I coloured some white cardstock with a blue marker. I glued the two strips on and made indents in the paper where the white thread would go (if I had silver thread I'd have used that instead for this). I threaded the paper and taped it in place on the back before gluing the panel down. I used pop dots to attach the deer frame to the card.
October 6, 2015
Purple Rose Birthday Card
I made this card for my mother's birthday. I started by stamping the two tone roses in light and dark purple on white cardstock along with the leaves. I fussy cut them out. I scored the bottom of my card panel to give it some dimension, added a piece of purple velvet ribbon and stamped my sentiment before using pop dots to attach the roses and leaves to the card. As a finishing touch I added a few crystals.
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