Decorative Letters

Hi!  I know its been a while.  The holidays are pretty crazy.  I've been really busy with some last minute shopping and orders I've been trying to finish.  Wanted to post a pic of one of my latest projects.  Made these for a client for her twin girl's bedroom. She liked them so much that she wants me to make the rest of their names.  The letters I buy are plain white.  I trace and use an exacto knife to cut the paper I'm going to use.  Then I use permanent spray adhesive to adhere the paper to the letter.  I sand down the edges to even them out, inked around them and then use modge podge to seal it.  Then I embellish it according to what the client would like.  They are super fun to make and I love to see the finished product.  I used the gypsy wanderings cartridge for the butterfly.  for the life of me I can't remember what cart I got the grass from.  :(  the pink ribbon is from none other than Martha Stewart.  The flowers I believe are primas.   have a great night everyone!!

Forever Flowers

Happy Friday!  Wanted to share with you what I made for my kids teachers for the end of the year.  I learned how to make this some time last year.  It was from a class I took at my local scrapbook store.  It turned out so cute that I kept the first one I made for myself.  They make great gifts.  You can change the colors of the flowers to go with the seasons.  The pot can be easily decorated or painted a different color.  Best of all is how inexpensive they are and the flowers never die.  I made all the flowers with my Cricut machine.  Stay tuned for a tutorial on how to make this.

Flowers!!!

Happy Friday!!  I'm so happy the weekend is finally here.  So I'm all about flowers these days.  I've seen so many people make their own flowers I figured I should try it out.  Let me know what you think.  Personally I think they came out pretty good for a 1st timer.  Inspired by Tim Holtz...He uses a Sizzix die cut flower.  I use my Plantin Schoolbook Cricut cartridge.  There's a really cute flower on there.  To color them I used "fake" glimmer mist.  I'll do another post one of these days on how to make "fake" glimmer mist.  Enjoy.   

1st photo - displays the flowers after I cut them with the Cricut.

2nd photo - cut one petal off and two petals of the other. Take one corner of the cut flowers and glue it to the other side.  forgot to photograph this step but basically it forms a bud.  You'll see what i mean in the next couple of pics.

3rd & 4th photo - take a pencil or back of a paint brush and roll the petals back.  This is where you finally see them looking like roses.   so cute!!

5th & 6th photo -  cut the back tip slightly(not pictured) to be able to glue and stack each layer.  

7th photo - use the petals that you cut off to fill in the center of the flowers.  Feel free to use a brad or button in the center.  

8th photo - my finished product along with two others that I made.