Dollar Store centerpiece

Dollar Tree Globe

Dollar Tree tea lights

Paint, Glitter, and gold Doilies from Micheal's.

My daughter was in a wedding last month and I created a sample for her as she had to make 9 globe type centerpieces. She told me what she wanted to do and this is what the intent was.

1. Masked off a line with painters tape and painted 4 layers of gold paint on the bottom third of the globe.
2. Painted a thin band at the top and added a layer of gold glitter over the paint line before it dried
3. added sand (not in this picture) and then a tea light
4. Placed the globe on a gold doilie

The 9 other globes had a variation of glitter sections and paint in different sections and they all looked fabulous and were traveled well to VT.

Right now I have this "sample / prototype" filled with life savers until perhaps Christmas time whee I'll put little string lights and foliage in there. I'll add to this post when I change up the insides.

Vintage birthday cards

Created these for two birthdays this month for Allison and Jen.

Pattern paper from HOTP, doilies I picked up at Michael's, sentiment from SU and butterflies I punched from a paint chip.

Can't decide which I like better, the stripes horizontal or vertical...

Happy New Year

I call this card, a little of this and a little of that. I used a sheet of pattern paper from an old Christmas stack from Hot Off The Press, doilies I just bought in the Christmas clearance at Michael's, some metallic silver 6 strand thread (more like floss), and for the butterflies a paint chip from Lowes.

Sentiment from SU Teeny Tiny Wishes and butterfly punch from SU as well.

Graduation Card for a friend

Here is a card I made using the paper doilies I picked up at a store, there were 30 in a pack and a perfect size for card. Pairing it with a couple Sizzix embossing folders (background and the butterfly). Also used Stampin' Up punches and a Teeny Tiny Sentiment, I got to use up some scraps (I have my scraps sorted by color in file folders) to complete this card.

Finished off the butterfly with some flat back pearls. The border is a Martha Stewart punch to go with the lace doily theme. Quick card to pull together.

Valentine's Card using a scrabble tile

I love this simple household items card I made for my daughter. I'm going to add a Dunkin' Donuts gift card to it.

 The lace border is a Martha Stewart border punch.

 The inside heart stamp is from the dollar bin at Micahels I believe.

I used a couple regular paper doilies, a scrabble tile and pearls. The scrabble tile had the 4 on it per the game design so I add the "1" to make it reference to February 14th.