A LOVEly little tree

Here is how the little Valentine tree turned out.

I am very happy with it! It was fun using pink and red!!

And look what surfaced..more of those heart cut outs..

I told you I wasn't joking about cutting alot of them lol!

Even the cat enjoyed the tree..

A little too much!!! Darn cat!

And even my plastic kids got dressed for the occasion!

Hope your Valentine's Day is full of lots of love!!

Picky Little Plant

           Remember I told you I cut out alot of hearts..

                                       well here are some of the things I ended up doing with them all.                              

I hung some from the greenery on the hutch. (Love how

this turned out!)

                                         Then I had alot left over so I got this grand idea to make plant picks.
                                          I just glued them onto a skewer and sprinkled glitter on them.

I do believe that I went a little over board on the Valentine decorating :)

I'm already brain storming St. Patty's Day :)

Love is in the air....

litterally...in the air...hanging above my sink...

We all loved having the Christmas lights hanging in the kitchen, it gave off a nice gentle glow early in the mornings or late at night when someone got up to drink or drain..

It made me sad to take them down...then I got an ah ha moment..

Why not put up red lights in replace of the Christmas colors...but then...it would still look "Christmasy"..

In enters..red paper..a stencil..and glitter...

And here we go folks..I went on a heart creating frenzy!!

I made a ton of hearts..and I mean a ton..I started putting hearts all over the place if we're gonna be honest here.. :)

The pictures here aren't the greatest but I was trying to capture the pinkish red glow..I think you get what Im trying to capture here..or at least I hope.

Stay tuned to see what else these hearts made an appearance on :)

Making A Fall Tree

Excuse my funky mantle right now..it's in the process of being redone and repainted..

I started out with an old cereal box...and a stencil and some free hand...

Glued them on to various scrapbook papers...

Inked the edges...

Cut them all out..... (again)

Hot glued some string on them...

Added some corrugated cardboard to a jar, plopped the branches in it..

And there you have it...a quick fall decorations..!!

Monkey See...

I'm not real sure how I feel about this paper piecing.

He's not totally ugly, but his face don't look right to me.

Even after looking at the pattern tho, that is how the face is suppose to be.

Ole well He can be used on a card if anything (a kids card ha ha)

BEE-YOURSELF

I made this for a challenge over

at Paper Piecing and Scrapbook Fun (yahoo group)

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Paper-Piecing-And-Scrapbook-Fun/
The challenge was to make a paper piecing that represents spring.

I made this little bee from a rubber stamp image

(I belive the stamp is made by TAC)

Once I got the piece finished I thought he turned out really cute

and wanted to use him on a layout...

And this is the layout I done. I thought it came out so cute!

I love that photo of Carter!

Altered Cd with a Unicorn Paper Piecing

My friends daughter is doing her room

in fairies and unicorns.

I made this paper piece and wasn't sure what

I was going to do with it.

Well I ended up mounting it onto a regular old

no good cd and making it into a wall hanging for her.

She will receive this for her birthday.

Hope she likes it!!

This is a little Easter Ducky paper piecing I did for a challenge in a yahoo group called

Paper-Piecing-And-Scrapbook-Fun

I think she turned out rather cute if I do say so myself :)

I think I'm going to add some light pink cheeks tho!

Paper Piecing-Making your own pattern

Ok I'm going to try to explain this the best I can.

To make your own pattern for a paper piecing

is fairly easy. It can be time consuming but it's not

that bad-honest.

The penguin pattern using is actually a rubber stamp.

I stamped it onto a piece of paper in black ink, then I scanned

it into my computer enlarged it and printed...

Basically to make this penguin into a PP I have to pretty much

"dissect" the pattern. Meaning I had to cut each piece of it off.

Following the pictures below will give you a general idea.

First I cut the hat off the penguin.

The reason for that is so I could get the black body

outline of the penguin.

I then placed the pattern face down and traced it.

As you can see, this is how I got the black part of the body

Next I cut all the black part of the body off of the pattern

time to trace the white part of the body.

I left the other pieces intact on the body so that it did not

mess it up when I traced it.

You will eventually cut the rest apart as well. But in the mean

time leave them attached

As you can see here, there are gaps along the edge from

where the scarf and stars are. If you don't think you can cut without having it

filled in go ahead and connect the lines. It don't have to be perfect.

Here it is with the lines filled in.

Ok, now it's time to really dissect the pattern.

I cut the rest of the smaller pieces apart from the pattern.

Just as I did the body, face down, and trace on the color you choose.

Ok here are all the pieces...it is now time to assemble.

Now all you do is rebuild the pattern. You may want to print two copies of your pattern if you aren't sure you'll remember how to assemble

I Also want to mention, that you will have LOTS of little scraps.

Instead of throwing them away, toss them in a blender with water and make some handmade paper (check out my paper making in "fun techniques)

Waste not want not!!

Here he is all assembled.

Only thing left to do is add the final details to liven him up!

And here is the final project!

Isn't he so cute!!!

You might notice I did not add the stars to mine. I had intentions on doing so, but it was for a swap and I ran out of time (due to my procrastinating)

If anyone is interested I think I might still have this penguin saved on my computer. Leave me your email if you want it and I will send it to you!

Snowman Paper Piecing

I used a pattern out of a toll painting book. I think he turned out cute.

It's hard to see the snowballs, but they're there and even glittered.

I made this for a swap in a scrapbook group.