Wall Hanging - Anything But a Card challenge #33

Good morning,

I have been so busy creating lately and have just had an awesome time doing it.  I decided to take on a few more challenges and today I am going to be adding my creation over at Anything But a Card Challenge 33: Sparkle.  I really need to get back into doing some scrapbooking and I think this will be the perfect avenue for me to pursue.  While I did not make a scrapbook layout per say this time around, I did do a layout wall hanging.

I started with some plain beer coasters and  I covered the first coaster with glittered card stock in purple.  I am seriously trying to use up as many scraps as I can so I have no idea where this paper comes from.  I cut "It's a Girl" from scraps with my cricut.  Then I added some fake flowers with some rhinestones and of course some butterflies.  Each of my grandbabies have an animal associated with their name and Alexis is butterflies.  You will be seeing more of my grandbabies and their "animal" personalities in the future.  The butterflies are made with my Amazing Crafting Products.  When I pour my molds I usually create multiples of them and I happened to have 4 butterflies; love it when I have the perfect embellishment on hand.  I painted them with Terri Sproul Mixers by Sakura.  Isn't that just the sweetest sleeping picture?

The second coaster was also covered with pink glittered cardstock paper.  I printed her date of birth, weight and length from my computer on some scraps and tore the edges and layered it.  Again the same fake flowers with some more rhinestone embellishments and I also made 2 pins with her name.  The big butterfly was also created with my ACP and you can see here how I did it originally.  I added some glitter to the butterfly for more "sparkle" affect.

The third coaster was covered with another purple glitter card stock.  The same fake flowers, another butterfly and I cut a "dress" trying to mimic her outfit in the picture.

Before adding paper to the back of the coaster I added "ribbon" to hold them all together.

Now for the most "sparkly" part.  I created the "hanger" for this lovely wall hanging.  I had a picture frame that broke and it had this awesome metal hanger.  I thought I could probably mimic the hanger by molding and casting it and manipulating it however I wanted.

Here is a step by step tutorial on how I did this:

here is my hanger molding with Amazing Crafting Resin mixed with Alumilite Metallic Silver. 

Before the hanger was completely cured I demolded it and while it was still plyable I 

taped it down to create the shape that would fit my coaster and let it cure the rest of the way. 

Then I painted it with some pink acrylic paint and while the paint was drying I sprinkled some glitter all over it for that "sparkle" affect I was going for. 

Once that was completely dry I hot glued it to the back of my coaster.  

The backside isn't the prettiest, but who is gonna see that?

and now I finally have Alexis' birth layout done! 

Very SPARKLY for this "sparkly" little girl! 

It's pretty sad that she just turned 2 and this is one of the first things I've done of her.  

Things are about to change!  

Stay tuned because I may be sharing some exciting news pretty soon!

I hope I've inspired you with this out of the "scrapbook" layout and can't wait to hear what you think.  

Leave me a comment and let me know if I've inspired you to do a layout for a non scrapbook.

Baptism Frame

Good morning,

I'm here with another fun project for the Robin's Nest.  This is my last post for them and I cannot tell you how sad I am to be leaving this fabulous Design Team, but with summer here I will be very busy.  I have enjoyed my time with them and showing you all the wonderful products The Robin's Nest has to offer.  Remember, everything I show case for them you can find here plus a lot more.

So for today I will show you an easy way to dress up a plaque.  I purchased this in the clearance section with this project in mind.  The original plaque was a bit dinged up and scratched, but for 50 cents I couldn't pass it up.

I repainted it with some black acrylic paint.  While that was drying... 

I cut out a cross with my cricut again using these fabulous papers from the Robin's Nest.  I love the sparkle in their glitter papers. 

I also cut out a border for the outside of this plague and embossed it also.  Then I ran my ink pad slightly over the raised areas to give it a bit more depth.

Glued everything onto it and of course, the best part is adding the embellishments. 

I added round dew drops and also the diamond dew drops which we are featuring this month and are on sale.  I added them to the ribbon to give it a sort of a burst affect.  Love how this turned out.  Please be sure to head on over to their On-line store and check out all the fun colors of diamond drops they have.  You will be amazed at all the fun colors.

As always, have a great day and God Bless.

Wooden Name Blocks for RN

Good morning all, and welcome to another post for the Robin's Nest Design Team.  I've been so actively altering anything I can get my hands on.  Hubby just said he's gonna have to hide the cat and dog cuz I'll probably alter them soon.  Seriously though, I love making something out of nothing and here is a cute project I made for my granddaughter.  She turned 3 on New Year's Eve and I wanted to make her something for her room.  Her room is primarily pinks and purples and when I got these papers from the Robin's Nest I knew I needed to use them for Miss Bella.  

I cut a bunch of squares using my cricut out of the 2 different papers.  I used Plum Classic Glitter and since the Pink Classic Glitter is double sided with the Distressed Lavender on the other side, I got 3 different styles.

I started with some wooden blocks that I had gotten at Hobby Lobby and painted them black around the edges (no need to paint the whole block) and then mod podged the squares onto the wooden blocks.

 

I did ink the papers a bit with black ink also to really give it that 3d look.

Then I added the Pink Glitter Stickers with BELLA 

Then of course for further embellishment, I had to add the tear shaped dew drops.  

I added one to each of the non lettered sides and five on the tops of the letters so you could stack them on top of each other like this: 

or they can sit side by side like this:

 Thanks for stopping by  and seeing what I've created for the Robin's Nest and I hope I've inspired you to create something from nothing.  I know I'm in heaven every time I start creating something with her papers.  Don't forget to check out all the designers here.  They do an amazing job and I look forward to sharing more projects with you next month.  As always, have a great day and god bless.