Dollar Tree blocks into ornaments

I bought a box of 9 children blocks at Dollar Tree.

Spray painted them and drilled a hole in the top.

Added twine, lace, buttons, etc with my hot glue gun. Lastly I added the hook and twine to hang.

4 x 6 leather swirl mini album

I love how this came out! All paper and card stock from Recollection at Michael's.
The swirl on the cover is a Sizzix die that I cut out of very thin leather!!! Inked and added Stampin' Up flat back pearls, all hot glued in place.

The flowers are also from Michael's recollection collection I got in the clearance section. The lace is vintage lace I bought at  a quilt show hot glued to the covers and a piece tied to the Cinch binding.

The charm on the side is three layers of the leather that I die cut, glued, inked and punched a hole with my Crop-A-Dile. Added a couple jump rings to a seed bead necklace I broke down to make the dangle.

The pages are all 4 x 6 double matted and used the labels Cuttlebug embossing and cutting die. They are inked and raised on foam squares.

You can watch the video for more details, thanks for stopping by would love comments.

4 inch peanut can repurposed

I covered this can with a wallpaper sample that my friend Sue gave me and some wired ribbon I add in my stash from something I took off to reuse at a later time.

I hot glued the vintage lace to the plastic cover's edge. I did not make it all frilly as it is going in my living room as I recently repainted the walls in cream and blue - so this is perfect.

Inside I'm keeping individually wrapped life savers, for a little sweet snack while watching TV or crafting!

 

If you like more details - I made a short video.

Hope you give it a try.

Repurpose nut can

I was about to toss this peanut can in the recycle bin, when I thought I would redecorate it! I used a wallpaper sample cut at 2 3/4" x 12" and ATG that to the can.
Hot glued the lace to the cover and the bottom of the can.

I created the satin flowers and the black mini rose and hot glued those in place. To add more details I also included some wedding picks and loops of black ribbon.
The flower on the can itself is from Creative Charms. I think the can came out sweet! So look around and you can cover and repurpose just about anything!!

The video can be viewed here.
Thanks for viewing and comments! Much appreciated!

Simple lace flowers

Hi all, give these a try. They are addicted - make one make lots.

Birthday card using OWH sketch

This is the matching card for the photo holder in the previous post.
Card stock and sentiment from SU, paper from Mind Minds Eye, lace from Joann's craft store.

I started using the OWH S&S sketch - love that they give you the measurements!

I added the Happy Birthday sentiment to follow Sentimental Sundays challenge and framed the circle sentiment with lace to assist in completing the challenge at CRAFTS and Me.

Grapevine Wreath

I bought the plain grapevine wreath at a second hand thrift store months ago. My daughter asked that I make something for her apartment with it, which I took the challenge with yest. I was trying not to make it Valentiney (made my own word - LOL) so she could hang it as a general decoration, but I think I kept it too true to form.

My friend just gave me this awesome lace a couple days ago, and what's nice about it - is the red and white is seamed together. There is also a cording in the middle to allow for ruffling! I am a true lace girl, I have boxes of lace and was thrilled when Terry gave me a good amount.

I ended up pulling the cording and ruffling it and wrapping the top half, If I wrapped the whole wreath - you ind of lost the heart shape.
I added the string of beads to the lower center by hot gluing them down. I took some more lace and fan folded it into a circle and hot glued that over the wire ends.

Now, what to put in the middle. I used to paint wooden shapes long ago and knew right where to look in my stash, I grabbed a couple hearts, paint and added glitter and glued them to the bottom.

I'm please with it hope she likes it. I mailed it today so she should get it in a day or two.

CDAC Paper Angel's class

Well I got my angel done from a class at CDAC. I went to Jo-Ann's today and bought the little bulbs and went to work.
Going to make a few more. Here is one all in white.