Mini Decorative Birdhouse

Happy 4th of July!

When I was visiting my sister I noticed a small birdhouse decoration sitting on a shelf in her greenhouse window.  A friend of hers had painted it and wood burned some flowers into it. 

I had seen birdhouses like that in JoAnn's and Michaels and decided I'd make some for my house. 

I painted a house with a couple of coats of apple green and white acrylic paints.  The paints dried very quickly.  I decided to use some of my papercrafting supplies to decorate the house.  I used a Fiskars grass border punch to cut some green tag grass.  I used a strip of 1/8" Scor-tape to adhere the grass to the base of the house. 

I cut off the prongs on some bird and musical note brads that I found in my stash.  I used glue dots to adhere the brads to the house.  I love the way it turned out. 

Have a great day!

"You're Sweet" pineapple card

Hi Everyone!

I was organizing my stamps last night when I spotted the pineapple stamp in my Hero Arts "Simply the Best" clear stamp set.  I decided to use it to make some cards.

I used a Sizzix tags die to cut some watercolor paper.  I inked the pineapple stamp with Versamark Ink and stamped it onto the tags I had cut.  I applied white embossing powder to the ink and used my heat gun to melt it. 

I used some of my Distress Ink pads to watercolor the pineapple images.  Then I applied a Wink of Stella clear glitter pen to the painted images to make them shimmer.  I used a Tumbled Glass Distress Ink pad to watercolor the remainder of the tag. 

The sentiment was created with an Impression Obsession wooden stamp. 

Here's one of the cards.

Have a great night!

You Color My World

Good Morning!

I am loving this sunny, but cool weather.  No humidity! Wish it would stay this way.

Lawn Fawn's mini clear stamp set "Color My World" is a favorite of mine.  It has 2 clear stamps-a crayon and a sentiment.  Here's one of the cards I made from it.

The "thanks" sentiment was created from a Lawn Fawn die.  I am a huge fan of the fonts she uses.  I layered 5 of the thanks die cuts on top of each other to create dimension on the card.  The yellow crayon has foam under it to add dimension to it. 

Have a wonderful day!

Today is National Sunglasses Day

Hi Everyone!

Happy National Sunglasses Day!  I found a scrap of sunglasses paper in my stash and decided to turn it into a card.

I used a Taylored Expressions die to create the sun.  The center of the sun is backed with a thin piece of foam to add dimension to the card.  The sunglasses are a sticker.  The sentiment was created from Lawn Fawn's "Hello Sunshine" clear stamp set. 

Have a great day!

Outdoor Pinwheels

Hi Everyone!

Many of you have seen the paper pinwheels I create to use as decorations and on gift bags and packages.  I use a We R Memory Keepers pinwheel maker to cut the paper for them.

My sister Paula asked me to create some outdoor pinwheels for her.  I knew that paper ones wouldn't last long outdoors.  I tried plastic scrapbook paper and that didn't work either.

I walked around Staples and found some heavy duty plastic file folders.  The blade in the pinwheel maker would not cut the plastic so I made some paper templates.  I traced them onto the plastic and cut the plastic by hand.  

It was raining so I quickly put one out on my deck.  It immediately started to spin around.  When I looked outside the next morning the pinwheel was still spinning and was still intact.

So I made these pinwheels for Paula.

Have a great day

 

A Gardening Collage

Good morning!

I am writing this post from Seattle.  I am typing it with one finger on my tablet so I will be brief.  I made this wall art for my sister Paula many years ago.

I added a variety of real objects and fussy cut stamped images to the frame. 

Have a great day!

Gift bag

Good Morning!

I found some pictures on my computer that I have never posted and plan to share them with you. 

Here are a couple of gift bags. 

 

These bags are so easy to make.  I paper punched the flowers and added a brad to the center of each of them.  I free cut the leaves and used some Martha Stewart fringe scissors to cut the grass.  The flower stems are paper straws.  I used different widths of Scor-tape to adhere each of the pieces to the bags.  

Have a great day!