Halloween decorating has begun! So happy to share this awesome easy project with all of you.
Showing posts with label ornaments. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ornaments. Show all posts
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Monday, November 19, 2012
Vintage Paper Ornament Tutorial
If you follow me on Facebook you saw that I ordered myself an early birthday present! This weekend it was delivered. I was so excited I couldn't wait to open it and start creating. This little product is genius!
Oh how I love doilies! This Martha Stewart circle edge punch is awesome. This is not a review. I purchased it after seeing it on Michele's blog. (The Scrap Shoppe)
I decided to make a beautiful vintage ornament with my first creation. Since my last couple of posts have been paper related I thought this would keep with the theme!
Don't you just love it!! With a little help from The Graphics Fairy and some German glass glitter this ornament came to life,
Heres how you do it
I purchased some Christmas scrapbook paper and began using my punch. By the way this is just one of the patterns.
Then I got two pages from an old hymnal and started to fold on a zig zag motion
I folded in half and measured where I wanted to cut by eyeing it in the inner circle.
I cut it ti fit and glued the fan to make a circle and glued the circle on the doily
I decided it needed some sparkle. I grabbed my Meyers German glass glitter and edged the music sheets.
See that sparkle! That is what you get when you use Glass!
Then I printed a vintage Santa from The Graphics Fairy, cut and trimmed with glitter.
Then I glued to the top of the folded music,
Because there are so many punched holes I used them to thread some red satin ribbon.
I threaded it through two holes so it hangs even and balanced, Then hung it!
I can see I will be using my new gift for years to come. I hope you like and will create some too!
Have an awesome week! So glad to hear your comments. As always thanks for following!
Oh how I love doilies! This Martha Stewart circle edge punch is awesome. This is not a review. I purchased it after seeing it on Michele's blog. (The Scrap Shoppe)
I decided to make a beautiful vintage ornament with my first creation. Since my last couple of posts have been paper related I thought this would keep with the theme!
Don't you just love it!! With a little help from The Graphics Fairy and some German glass glitter this ornament came to life,
Heres how you do it
I purchased some Christmas scrapbook paper and began using my punch. By the way this is just one of the patterns.
Then I got two pages from an old hymnal and started to fold on a zig zag motion
I folded in half and measured where I wanted to cut by eyeing it in the inner circle.
I cut it ti fit and glued the fan to make a circle and glued the circle on the doily
I decided it needed some sparkle. I grabbed my Meyers German glass glitter and edged the music sheets.
See that sparkle! That is what you get when you use Glass!
Then I printed a vintage Santa from The Graphics Fairy, cut and trimmed with glitter.
Then I glued to the top of the folded music,
Because there are so many punched holes I used them to thread some red satin ribbon.
I threaded it through two holes so it hangs even and balanced, Then hung it!
I can see I will be using my new gift for years to come. I hope you like and will create some too!
Have an awesome week! So glad to hear your comments. As always thanks for following!
Monday, December 19, 2011
Christmas Tree Story
Christmas for me is all about celebrating the birth of Christ and keeping with traditions of the holiday. Our family has many different things we do that make it special for us.
I don't buy a real tree although I love them. It just has always been easier to have the fake one. I grew up with that and I guess it stayed with me. When my husband and I got married our tree was lacking in the ornament department. I remember gathering pine cones and pine boughs to decorate the house with. I made my ornaments out of napkin rings that year, that I found for almost nothing. Funny I have been making things out of "nothing" for years!
As we made a life for ourselves, we also made our own traditions. We started creating our Christmas tree to tell "our" story.
We started buying ornaments that related to what and where we've been. Some were made too. I started with this one that I made when I was a little girl.
I don't buy a real tree although I love them. It just has always been easier to have the fake one. I grew up with that and I guess it stayed with me. When my husband and I got married our tree was lacking in the ornament department. I remember gathering pine cones and pine boughs to decorate the house with. I made my ornaments out of napkin rings that year, that I found for almost nothing. Funny I have been making things out of "nothing" for years!
As we made a life for ourselves, we also made our own traditions. We started creating our Christmas tree to tell "our" story.
We started buying ornaments that related to what and where we've been. Some were made too. I started with this one that I made when I was a little girl.
Then the babies came
As they grew so did our tree. It started to represent them and their acheivements.
College ornament
All the Broadway shows my daughter has seen
The instruments and music my son played
Vacations and places that we visited.
Even our pets that we have and some that are no longer with us.
Our Story......
So every year as I unwrap the ornaments for our tree, I relive the memories of us!
So my tree isn't the latest fad or a Pottery Barn look alike.
My tree is the continuing story of our lives and the changes the occurred in our history.
It is the most cherished Christmas decoration in our home. It is wrapped up with all the emotions of the season.
I share this with you!
Merry Christmas!
Friday, November 25, 2011
New Ornaments!
Well Thanksgiving is over and I am still full! Thankful to have had a wonderful day with my family. The turkey was great and so was all the goodies! The only problem.....my refrigerator broke! Not a good time for this to happen with all the Thanksgiving leftovers. Thank God I have one in my garage. I spent the last part of the night emptying one and transferring food to the other. So I guess I will be shopping today looking for great black Friday deal!
I wanted to show you all my new bird and owl ornaments that I put on Etsy. You can also order one on this page! They all come wrapped too! If you are out of the US please email me for postal rate.
I wanted to show you all my new bird and owl ornaments that I put on Etsy. You can also order one on this page! They all come wrapped too! If you are out of the US please email me for postal rate.
Shop now and get some of that Christmas giving done!
8.00 plus 2.50 shipping US
6.00 plus 2.50 shipping US
6.00 plus 2.50 shipping US
8.00 plus 2.50 shipping US
Happy Holidays!!!
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