It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!!!

Hi there!! Well, the last time I posted I was getting ready for Halloween and now it's a month later and Christmas is just a little over a month away!!! Time sure does fly by fast, especially when I have over 50 wreaths and centerpieces to create!! These days there's not much time for papercrafting .... I've been busy with my wreath making.

Here's  few samples of what I made for custom orders .....

 

I love burlap ... and this one has lots of it! The pinecone printed ribbon with a little glitter was just right for this wreath that can be left up all winter. I made six of these this year!

 

 

 

The golds and browns of this decomesh wreath look so much better in real life! a few pumpkins and fall flowers finish this wreath off.

 

 

 

This was custom order .. love the golds and ivory of this centerpiece. You can also see some of my fav pinecone burlap ribbon peeking throughout this project!

 

 

 

Just one of the dozen or more fall swags I made this year! They were a big hit!

 

 

 

I made this wreath for my SIL this past September. I love the traditional theme of it ... and she did too!

 

 

 

I only made one grapevine fall wreath... found some inspiration on Pinterest for this one.

 

 

 

This was giant wreath! Lots of glittery ornaments, flex tubing , decomesh and a vintage looking metal sign! It sold very quickly!

 

 

 

 

 

My dad helped make these candy cane wreath forms with coathangers!! They were a fun alternative to traditional shape wreaths and I loved making them! Maybe I'll actually make one for myself next year!

 

This fall I designed and made nearly 100 wreaths ,swags and centerpieces! I was super busy all fall, and I only just barely made my own Christmas door swag at the very last minute!

 

My craft room is covered in glitter, ornaments and lots and lots of rolls of decomesh!!! I can't wait to have some me time so I can work on my Xmas cards and maybe even a scrappage or two!!

 

 

Thanks for stopping by my blog today.... have a wonderful creative day!!

 

 

Happy thoughts for your birthday

Hi and welcome to my blog! It's been awhile since I lasted posted..... almost a month! The kids started back to school at the beginning of the month  and a few days later I had a mini vacation visiting my sister in law across the country! I started a new project for me, wreath making, and it turned out that I made and sold several of them! Here's a sample of one I made....

 

I made eight of these and a bunch of fall and Halloween wreaths! That left little time for papercrafting!!! I have a whole bunch of scrap goodies that I purchased on my trip that I've been just dying to play with!!         Soon....** sigh***

 

 

I managed to spare a few  moments to play along with the current card sketch over at Cardabilities. Here is the latest sketch:

 

 

 

 

 

And here is my interpretation of this sketch........

 

 

I started off with a kraft cardstock base and then a chocolate brown cs layer. My patterned paper is from Basic Grey called Paper Cottage,which I distressed and inked. I used a chicken wire stencil (The Crafter'sWorkshop) and some gold embossing paste ( Dreamweaver Stencils;Studio 490).... I love the texture of this paste. For a bit more color, I splattered inks from Ranger's  Dylusions line in yellow and gold. The journaling block( distressed and inked) and flower are from Prima and the sentiment is rom C.C. Designs. I adhered a scarp of burlap , just because !!! A few Doodlebug Designs sequins and my card is finished!

 

 

Thanks for visiting my blog today.... have a wonderful creative day!!!

 

 

Felt Fall Banner

Good morning bloggers! Fall is here ( officially it arrived this past weekend, but I'm late posting!!!!!! ) - it's my favorite season! I love all those gorgeous colors and the crisp days and how about all those fab fall décor ideas ????  I saw a cute little banner on Pinterest ( my go-to place for just about everything these days!!) , which was made by BoBunny fabrics, I think (. Click here to see my pin.) Since I didn't have any of the super cute fabric I had to make do with what I could find in my stash and here's my take on the banner....

 

 

I cut letters on my Silhouette on scrap cardstock first - couldn't get my machine to successfully cut felt- and then traced on felt and handcut them out. I used the Art Philosophy for the banner shapes and repeated the same cut-trace steps for the felt base, and all the shapes but I was with my  able to cut the fabric with my Cricut. The leaves, except the first one, are also from the same cartridge and the owl is from Give a Hoot. I added a little stitching to the banner base and shapes with X- stitching floss , which really finishes them up. The buttons and flowers are all from my stash as well as the eyelets ( ohhh, haven't used my eyelet setter in ages!!!!) and the hemp twine is from Walmart.

 This was a fun and fairly simple project to make .... I'm already thinking of ideas for a winter banner.

 

Thanks for stopping by my blog today... have a great day!!