Hi friends! Yes you read that correctly. I made some shabby chic style purple feather trees for my craft room holiday decor : ) Since I am such a purple lovin crafter, it only made sense that my first project for the "launch" of my 2016 Craft-MAS holiday crafts is a purple one.
I didn't take any step-out photos for this project as I did a full tutorial video (link below) but here are some photos of the beautiful purple feather trees...
I did film a video tutorial for this project as I do for all of my crafts. This way you can see how what items I used and how I created my version of feather trees. I will link the video below so you can check it out. If you aren't already subscribed to my YouTube Channel please consider doing so as this way you will be notified every time I upload a new video, which is at least 4 times a week, depending on what I'm working on.
I hope that you enjoyed seeing some photos of these gorgeous feather trees that I love so much (my addiction to purple is growing more by the day lol).
Please check out the video linked above so you can see what I used to create these items, using things I found at the Dollar Tree and Michaels, along with how I put them together.
Thanks for stopping by my blog and for following along on my crafty journey.
Welcome to the 3 Girl JAM/Pretty Paper, Pretty Ribbons Co-blog Hop!
If you came from Lisa's blog then you are in the right place. If not
and you would like to start at the beginning please go here 3 Girl Jam.
3 Girl Jam and Pretty Paper, Pretty Ribbons have teamed up for this
fabulous blog hop! We are using PPPR cut files, digital clip art, and
digital paper packs (http://www.prettypapergraphics.com/) and 3GJ crinkle ribbon (http://www.3girljam.com/)
And now for my project.......
I chose to create a Halloween Tag display for my project. I was really inspired when I was looking through the FAB digital paper choices at Pretty Papers, Pretty Ribbons but ultimately I chose to work with the Sunny Skies Swirly paper collection. I have to tell you that this was my first time using digital paper and I LOVE IT!! To go along with this collection I chose to use the Halloween Harvest Crinkle Ribbon from the new Seasons Bungle and the Goblin Green Crinkle Ribbon from the Spooky Bundle.
I used some TH Distress Ink on all the papers & tags to give them that spooky, haunted house, aged feel that I was going for with this project. I fussy cut one of the swirls & used it to sort of frame the frame...haha. I used some of the Crackle Accents from Ranger on the swirls in the background. Here's a closer look...
You can see from this pic that I used some eyelets & some of the Halloween Harvest crinkle ribbon as a hinge/binding system to hold the tags together.
Love love love this blue paper. I wanted to mix in some color with the oranges and yellows from the other tags. I fussy cut another swirl to give this tag some dimension. Platinum stickles on my witch since she's a diva ; ) and I embossed my Happy Halloween stamped sentiment. Check out the awesome vintage black button at the top...you can get these HERE.
Ok this is probably my favorite tag & let me tell you why...I used another vintage button from 3GJ and used it as a knob to hang my frame...cool huh?? I used some of the Goblin Green crinkle ribbon for this..just to add that pop of color. My spooky sentiment is inked on a piece of the new burlap trim from 3GJ...love this stuff!!
And lastly my ghostly tag. I used the Iron Gate border punch from Martha Stewart on a strip of black CS. I only adhered the bottom portion so there was a slight pocket where I tucked in my baby ghost. You will just die laughing when I tell you what my "moon" is made of. I have a fan in my craft room and it blew the backing from one of the dimensional foam dots I was using for my ghosts onto the tag...light bulb moment...I inked it up and stuck it down..looks pretty good right?
This was a super fun project to make & I can't wait to display it on my desk at work. I hope I was able to show you some alternate ways to use your papers by distressing them and mixing it up a bit and using it for a Fall theme.
Wanna see what is up for grabs????
PRIZES:Pretty Paper, Pretty Ribbons and 3 Girl Jam are both offering a $25 gift card to their store! How to win: You must be a follower of PPPR and 3GJ's blogs. You must also comment on every blog in this hop. For an additional entry: LIKE PPPR and 3GJ on facebook then go back
to those two blogs and let them know you liked them on facebook.
Prize winners will be announced on PPPR and 3GJ blogs on Sunday October 7
Happy New Years my craft & scrappy friends : ) Sorry for being "MIA" for the past few days. I've had some family medical issues & with ringing in the New Year & spending time with my family...I haven't been as faithfully blogging as I normally do. I know the holidays can be a super busy time for everyone and I am really excited to start this new year and get back to scrappin & blogging on a regular basis : )
Welcome back for another weekly challenge at Made Especially For You! This weeks challenge fits right in with the spirit of this week...create a New Year's card featuring glitter. You can create this card in any color scheme you want..just as long as there is glitter in the card somewhere.
Here is my DT submission for this weeks challenge.....
I knew I had the perfect paper to use for this challenge once I found out we had to use glitter. The glittery striped paper is from the All Dressed Up stack by DCWV. I admit that I am a DCWV paper stack junkie and I am proud of it :) I have soooo many of their paper stacks & they just came out with some new ones for 2012...can't wait to pick up some more!
The polka-dot glittery ribbon is from Dashes, Dots and Checks. I think I bought this at either Michaels or Joann's, it's been awhile since I purchased this.
I tied some Charcoal black/white twine around the 2012, the C & on the inside of the card~that pic is coming up~you can find this twine at The Twinery. The glitter letter & number stickers are from Making Memories, Shimmer Alpha. I have to confess that I can't recall where the large chipboard C is from...I don't typically keep my chipboard letters in their original packaging. I used some QuickSilver pigment ink from Color Box Cat Eye inks after distressing the edges of the card stock.
I used more of the striped glitter paper on the inside and tied some of the Charcoal black/white twine to carry the look from the front to the inside.
And one last look of my glittery New Year's card...........
Now you will want to head on over to the Made Especially For You Challenge Blog to check out some more inspiration from my fellow DT members and for all of the details surrounding this week's challenge.
The sponsor we have for this week is Decade of Scrap and they are offering up a fabulous prize of up to three sets of digital New Year's sentiments. Be sure to head on over to their website and show them some love : )
I also want to take a moment and thank each and everyone of you that have become my followers & continue to come back and take a peek into my scrappy world. I am still fairly new in the blogging world so it just makes me so happy to see my followers increase and it blows my mind that people want to come back and see what new projects, scrappy purchases or junkin treasures I have found.
I hope you all have a fantastic first week of the New Year & be sure to come back tomorrow for another scrappy post : )
