Wine List

Good morning and welcome to another Creative Paperclay® post.

Before I share my project with you, I would like to remind you that there is a Design Team call going on here.  I believe you have until April 11th to sign up, but click on the link above and check out all the details.  This is my second term and I'm not sure I will be reapplying.  Not that I don't enjoy working with the products, but I may let some new talent step in.  It's going to be sad leaving the team as I have learned so much and enjoyed being a part of the team tremendously.  Creative Paperclay\® is definitely a fabulous product and I will for sure continue using it...so now onto my project.

I had received a wine bottle holder for Christmas

yes, I am a Vikings fan and proud of it  :) 

In this shoe there was this tag and I got the idea to use it as a pattern for a Wine List! 

So I laid it ontop of my Creative Paperclay® after I rolled it out about an 1/8 of an inch. 

I just used my craft knife and traced around the pattern of the bottle. 

laid it out to dry...Hindsight, I wish I had NOT cut out the holes, but I really didn't know where this project was going when I started it. 

Here are the holes I cut out. 

Then I painted the bottle silver with some acrylic paints and used some old style letter rubons and added the word WINE LIST to the top of the bottle. 

I added a mini clothespin so I could also use it as an actual list, but again, hindsight, I would have covered up the WINE LIST wording, so.... 

instead I used a transparency and used the template to cut the exact size out and now I have a dry erase wine list... 

see, dry erase...love it  

I really like the way it came together.  I added a magnet to the back and now it can hang on my refrigerator and when I finish a bottle I can just write what I am in need of...LOL  I hope you like my tutorial and hope to see you back soon.

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.