Happy Fall

Wow! Can you believe September is over and we are into October already!?!?!?! I know I sure can't.

It is also time for another 3D challenge over at CardzTV.  The new challenge is to make a Home Decor project for Fall.  This is what I came up with.

I had a lot of fun making this project and used my Explore to cut out the letters for Fall.  I cut the shadow 3 times for each letter and the top layer 3 times to give the letters better thickness, more like chipboard.  I glues the letters to some burlap banners I cut and attached them to some jute with my Tim Holtz tiny attacher.  To cover the staples I found some wooden dots.  I hot glued the banner on top of the foliage I added.

I stamped Happy Fall Ya'll from the Thankful for You stamp set. Now it is your turn to show us your home decor projects and a chance to win a set of CardzTV stamps.

Wishing Well Home Decor Project

I have for you today a Home Decor or Gift Item. I saw this wishing well in one of the KaiserCraft Workshop magazines Kim sent me and I just had to have one. I thought this would make a cute table decoration for just about any event. You can use it as a bank if you wish. As you can see, I decided to decorate mine up for Christmas. First I painted all the areas I wasn't going to cover with paper with my Bottle Green Adirondack Paint Dabber. I then traced around my pieces onto my patterned paper and attached them to the wooden pieces with some Matte Glue N Seal. I really  like this adhesive and find it doesn't wrinkle my paper like some of the other products out there. Once I had all my pieces covered with paper I sprayed them all with some Gold and Silver Glitter Dust. WOW! Do they sparkle, love it.

I let everything dry overnight and then put my pieces all together adhering them with a little Beacon 3 in 1 Glue and the tabs to help secure the pieces together. I really like this glue thought it can be a bit stringy. It is my go to glue with nothing else will work, like when I am glue wood, or metal pieces. It is a thick clear glue and dries clear. I added some Cabbage  Glitter Tape (just ask and Kim and order this for you) along the edge of the roof peak and the top and bottom of each side. Finally I hot glued a few small roses to each side of the well.

It was a lot of fun to do and really quick and easy. I know Kim can special order one for you if you are interested.

Christmas Home Decor Project

I picked up this frame on clearance at Joann's when I was there yesterday. I have seen some really cute projects done with frames so wanted to give it a try. Here is what I came up with. The frame size is 7" X 7".  I covered the mat on the inside of the frame with some patterned paper from DCWV Christmas stack that I got a few weeks ago also at Joann's.  Mat is 5 1/2" X 5 1/2. I just used my ATG gun to adhere the patterned paper to the mat. The tree was cut at 4" from the Lyrical Letters cartridge. I used some really dark green card stock from Core'denations. This paper has a gold glittery look to it. Because it was pretty thick card stock I did set my blade on 6 and pressure on high. I then used my Gypsy and the George and Basic Shapes cartridge to resize a triangle to fit the shape of the tree since it didn't have a shadow or any layers to it. I cut that out of some lighter olive green card stock.  The word Joy was cut out at 1 1/2" from the Winter Woodland cartridge. I ran the top red layer through my Xyron sticker maker and added some red Martha Stewart fine glitter to each letter. The shadow was cut from the olive green paper I used for the tree layer. To spruce up the tree and help it stand out more, I added some of the heat set rhinestones in a variety of colors. I think it looks like lights on a Christmas tree. The final touch was to add some ribbon along the bottom of the mat. The ribbon is also some I picked up at Joann's yesterday.

I apologize the photo isn't better. I had a hard time taking a picture of it without getting a reflection of some kind. I had to go with the best one I was able to get. I am still debating about adding something to the frame, either trying to stamp snowflakes on the frame, or emboss something with gold embossing powder or even adding some of that gold rub on stuff to jazz it up. Let me know what you think. Thanks for visiting.

Halloween Wreath

Here is a Home Decor project I just finished up. It has taken quite awhile because I have been sick with a nasty cold that has knocked me flat. However this afternoon I decided I just had to do something for a few minutes besides sitting and sleeping.

I started with a plain black wreath that I picked up at Michael's. I found some spider lights at a local store and adhered them to my wreath. I cut a ghost, pumpkin, witches hat and the witches cauldron from the Mini Monsters cricut cartridge all at 3 1/2" I glittered up everything with glitter and added orange shadows cut from some DCWV orange glitter stock.  I then colored Popsicle sticks black with my Bic markers and hot glued them to the backs of each cut. I then added hot glue to the bottoms of the sticks and glued them to the wreath. I added a bow (which I am not very good at tying yet) with hot glue to the bottom of the wreath.  We are going to hang the wreath in our front window.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Wall Sign

I got the idea for this wall sign from Momo at Made by Momo. When is saw this I knew right away I wanted to make one.  A friend of mine's son is getting married a few weeks and I thought this would be a perfect gift. The photo on the sign was sent out with the wedding invitation. I chose colors that went with colors in the photo. Each section of the sign is 4" X 6". I started with chipboard, and covered it with a dark turquoise card stock. The patterned paper is by Bo Bunny. I cut the mats from the patterned paper at 3 3/4" x 5 3/4". I used Plantin Schoolbook for their names and the date. I cut the letters from cream paper at 1 1/4" and the shadow from the same dart turquoise also at 1". The word Forever is from the Tie the Know cartridge and was cut at 2" also in cream and turquoise. I matted the picture with the same cream and turquoise and placed it on the center section of the sign. I used my Bind-it-All and 1/2" wires to attach the sections together. The ribbon I got at Joanns. the flowers are Prima flowers and I added some clear rhinestones to the center of each flower as well as some smaller rhinestones to the centers of some of the flowers on the patterned paper. The rhinestones don't show up well in this picture.  Check out Momo's blog (linked above) for a great video tutorial on how to make these signs.