{Christmas Frame Ornament}

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{Needle Felted Snowman}

Made this little needle felted snowman for this years Christmas crafts.

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{Mini Tutorial On How To Make Your Own Alcohol Inks}

 

 

Here Is How:

• Powder Rit dye
• Isopropyl alcohol (Rubbing Alcohol) the higher % kind
• Liquid Rit fabric dye
• jars
• ink applicator

• Empty a package of Rit powdered dye into a small empty lidded jar.
• Now fill the rest of the jar with rubbing alcohol, place the lid on the jar and shake it up very well, trying to make sure the Rit powder has dissolved as much as possible.

OR:

• For a less grainy mixture with liquid Rit dye and isopropyl alcohol instead. Mix  ½ cup of isopropyl alcohol to two teaspoons of Rit dye. The more dye you add the deeper the color will be. However, a little bit of this dye will go a long way.
• Again, be sure and shake well, ensuring that the two liquids mix completely before use.
• Now apply the ink with your favorite applicator.

Note: Before you do your stamping on your original project do a few practice runs on a piece of scrap paper to see how much or little of your home made ink you will need.

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{ Wallhanger Tutorial }

I've seen this wall decor online somewhere and wanted to make one for myself.

Here is my own version of it along with a quick tutorial.

I bought a lot of these wooden plaques at Hobby Lobby one time. 

I'm pretty sure there was a reason. Some project I had in mind? I really don't remember, so when I saw that wall hanger, I found my reason to at least make use of three.

I've painted them white.

Then I used my black stamp pad and aged the edges and corner a bit.

Instead of making my own svg file I downloaded the damask design SVG File from BeaOriginal and used my die cutting machine to cut it out of vinyl.

  (Noticed the little dot missing?...Yep, I found it ) :0}

I embellished the plaques with some ribbon....

added some little black dots to the corners...

and Rhine stones. 

You could of course use any other decorative bits you might like instead.

 Adhered the plaques to a nice piece of ribbon and a bow for hanging voila it was finished!

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{ X-Mas Deer SVG File }

 

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{ Free Fall Leafs SVG }

 

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{ Mini Scrapbook Album }

I really like anything miniature. 

Some of my favorites are mini scrapbook albums. They are cute, fun to decorate and you can use a lot of your smaller paper scraps for these!

Carry them with you and show to friends or family and brag about the newest grandchild or the best vacation ever! They also look great in a bowl placed on your coffee table so visitors can take a look at them. Make them as individual little gifts of captured moments with friends and family members.

In this tutorial I will show you how to make one of these little albums. I've seen these somewhere and have made many of them since.

You will need 4 pieces of card stock  each measuring 2 3/4" x 11"

 

On 3 of these strips you will make your scores at 3", 6" and 9".

(The 4th strip will become the album cover.)

 

After you scored your 3 strips you will fold your score lines alternately and then glue them together to make one strip.

First take a strip with a small section at the end and glue it to the back of the beginning section of your 2nd strip.......

 

Repeat with the last strip and the inner section of your album is already done!

 

Now we make the albums cover:

Score the 4th paper strip at 3", 3 1/2", 6 1/2", 7" and 9".

 

Fold the section at the 9" score over and glue it down.

This will be the closing flap and give your cover a little more strength.

 

Fold the paper at the other score marks as well.

 

Now line your cover and paper strip up and glue the beginning section of your cover to the back of the beginning section of your paper strip.

 

This is how it would look like glued together.

Now fold your paper strip alternately and close the cover around it.  Your basic mini album is complete!

Embellish your album sections and the cover as you wish.

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{ Paper Folded Flower }

 

You need 9 paper circles. I cut mine with my die cutting machine, but a circle punch will do just fine. The bigger the circles the bigger the flower. I cut mine here at 1 1/2".

 

Fold the paper in half and then folded in half again.

 

 Open it up and fold two little flaps. 

The edges of your flaps should touch the folds.

Now turn the circle over and fold flaps in again. 

The creases from your first flaps should touch the center fold of your circle. 

 

Do the same steps with 8 of your 9 circles.

 

 

You will start creating your flower with the 9th circle as it's base. The easiest way to do this is to do the top, bottom, left and right petals first. Then adhere each of the pedals in between.

Then find something you like to embellish the flowers center with. Above I just used a button and below I used a glass pebble.

 

{Check out a sample of what you can do with these lovely flowers}

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{ Folded Flowers Wall Art }

 I've had this old perfectly square frame laying in my craft room. The thing was constantly in my way and finally I had enough!

It was time to place something in the frame and find it a home within my home so it would not be in the way anymore and serve a purpose. 

We just remodeled the last 2 of our guest rooms and they had absolutely nothing in them yet.

I figured this frame would be a nice beginning. The only thing I needed was some picture or something else artsy to place inside of it.

I decided on doing a paper crafty insert for said frame. 

It was painted a chocolate brown, and I started to fold 9 of these lovely flowers. They were adhered to this nice vintage sheet music paper and embellished in the center with a glass pebble. Tadaaa.....

If you would like to {learn how to fold these flowers} check out my tutorial and use them in your own projects.

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{ Dining Room Hutch }

Quite some time ago I found this old dining room hutch on craigs list and ended up buying it. 

It is solid wood and has been hand crafted by an elderly gentlemen who was a retired cabinet maker.

 

It came in 2 pieces, is unbelievably heavy and had several layers of  bad paint jobs. One of them seemed to be a dark green at one point.

 

The hardware did not look so great either. It wasn't original to the piece and just did not look right.

 

My Table and chairs were mostly black in color so the choice to paint this hutch black was an easy one to make.

For the hinges, drawer and cabinet pulls i chose a contemporary satin nickle look

 

I think it turned out nice. It was a lot of work and at times frustration, but it sure was worth having a huge hutch with tons of storage for china and silverware.

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