Special Girl sign SimonSays

Happy Sunny Day to you all,

It's so beautiful out today.  I cannot wait to finish this post and get outdoors.  It's been a very, very long winter.  I believe the high today should be around 60 degrees.  YEAH!

So, I've been entering some challenges over at Simon Says Stamp Blog.  They have a Monday and Wednesday challenge and this week's Wednesday challenge is "Mother's Day/Special Girl"  My granddaughter will turn 2 on Sunday and since she's pretty special I thought I'd make her something for her room.  I had purchased these foam signs a LONG time ago at my favorite store...The Dollar Tree and had planned on making something for the girls but never got around to it.  Going through my stash of "stuff" I came across this one and knew it was time for Alexis to get her own room sign.  

I started out with my cricut and cut Alexis in a basic block font and then again as a Shadow Black Out Round to give it some depth.  I also created the butterfly and flower from my Amazing Crafting Products.  You can go here and see how I originally did the butterfly.  This time I used my Casting Resin instead of the Paperclay (less drying time) to create my pieces and painted them both with my Terri Sproul mixers from Sakura Craft.  It's super easy to mix the mixers with some 3d crystal lacquer and it paints onto the resin fabulously.  I also created Alexis' name in resin, but the letters were just too small for the sign.  I will just have to make her another project :)

I glued all my pieces to the foam sign after "stamping" some flourishes directly onto the foam sign.  I tried it on the back first to make sure it would work and it was fabulous.  Then I highlighted the edged flourishes with some purple glitter glue. 

a few glitter glue dots to the letters 

more glitter glue to the rhinestones 

more glitter glue dots as butterfly's flight pattern

and now she has her own room sign.  

I just love how this turned out...now I should make one for Miss Bella also.

I hope you've enjoyed my post today and as always,

have a great day and God Bless.

Snowflake Christmas Tree

Good day all,

what a beautiful Sunday it is here.  It started to snow yesterday, very light and fluffy and continued off and on throughout the night.  Today we have a beautiful white blanket covering.  I love the snow, I just don't like the cold that usually comes with it.  Now yesterday I had a day off and decided to take one of Terri Sproul's classes.  She was doing a class yesterday in her linqo room.  I love going to her classes.  She always records them so you can see them any time, but if you go to her live class you can win prizes.  I can't always make it to her live classes, but that's what is so great about her recording them.  Plus if you ever forget how she did something you can always go back and watch the tutorial again and again.  Anyway...onto my project.  She was teaching us how to make a Christmas Tree using curled paper.  She started out with a paper mache cone and card stock.  Go here to watch her video.  Well, I didn't have a paper mache cone laying around and I told Terri that I would be using an empty wine bottle instead.  But first I would have to empty one.  LOL.  So my Saturday afternoon became crafting and wine drinking.  Don't worry, I didn't finish the entire bottle myself, hubby did help a little.

Reisling, one of my favorite white wines 

of course I will be saving the cork for something to make in the future 

Now you need to determine how small or large you want your curls.  I made mine 3 inches in length.  Terri used double sided tape and of course I didn't have any, so I used my ATG gun and ran a strip all the way down the paper and then used some parchment paper to keep the glue from sticking when I cut my strips. 

hmmm, I guess I didn't take a picture of my strips.  Anyway, you would cut this paper now in 1 inch strips and start curling.  Curl from the opposite side your glue is on.  Once you have all your curls made... 

This project took 3 sheets of double sided paper.  Make sure you are using double sided paper, because you will see both sides on your tree. 

now start gluing your strips onto your cone, or wine bottle in my case, by altering your paper here and there. I decided to put a few plain blue pieces onto it and then I embellished those pieces with dew drops from the Robin's Nest and some silver glitter glue.  I also added some blue glitter glue to various snowflakes. 

I cut 3 snowflakes with my cricut at about 3 inches and glued them together to form a topper to my tree. 

See the glitter and dew drops? 

See how my Snowflake topper is 3d?

So I hope you've enjoyed my curled paper Snowflake tree.  I really love how it turned out.  If you make one, please let me know and I will come and check it out.

As always, have a great day and God Bless.

Festive Friday 9/23

Good morning and welcome to another edition of Festive Fridays. If you are new to us, sit back, grab a cup of coffee, relax and enjoy some wonderful Christmas Cards. Yes, I did say Christmas...Festive Fridays will be every other Friday with samples of Christmas cards. This way, you can be making your cards all year long and you will avoid the mad rush when you could be enjoying the Christmas Season. You should have just come from Amanda. If you stumbled upon this post you can go back to Terri and start at the beginning. There is also a complete list of the Festive Friday hop on the left sidebar under the Festive Fridays blinkie in case you get lost along the way.

Today I've got a simple card for you.

The paper and ribbon was from my Christmas stash

The mint is cut out of some Christmas fabric and I added some glitter glue to sparkle it up a bit.  I also added some glitter glue randomly to the stick candy canes and pop dotted a few of the mint candies to give a little 3d affect.  This was super easy and took maybe 5 minutes to complete.  I love having these simple cards on hand for a "Oh I need a quick card for the maillady or the newspaper guy"

Again, I didn't use a cricut or E-craft at all this time.  Sometimes simple is best.

I hope you liked my Festive Friday card and hope to see you back in two weeks for another Christmas card.  Now head on over to Angela and check out what she has for you.