Washi Tape Decorated Gift Bag

I love me some polka dots!  And I love me some washi tape! And I love free gift wrapping supplies!

If you follow me on instagram you may remember seeing this pic of my loot from the community trash bin (let’s not call it a dumpster, OK?).

I used three different washi tapes, a solid red, a grey polka dot and red with two lines of polka dots. I used the plain white paper handled bags.

And just made a total of four stripes around the bag with the tape.  It repositions easily so I just kept straightening the tape until I was pleased with it.

It only took 15 minutes to make.  I added some red and white netting for a “bow” and it was done!  Hope she likes it!

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Super Star Number 137!

I have been featured at Cut Out and Keep!  I have 7 paper projects that I have submitted and the site will be featuring a new project every day!  Go check it out here!

I completed  a “facts about me” interview and provided tutorials for my seven projects and they did the rest!  I’m curious to see if this will affect my stats. 

Paris Love

For Jess’s birthday I made this LOVE project.  I used a new map of Paris…couldn’t find an old one although I looked for several months. 

I used Mod Podge to attach the map to 8 inch paper mache letters , smoothing the edges and trimming as I went…I used plain brown Kraft paper for the back to make it look professional.

I tried to be sure I included all the places Jess and Mike went on their trip to Paris.  You can see the Eiffel tower on the L!

I love how it looks in the nook Jess created! 

I am thinking of covering an E for my letter wall in my bedroom with a Connecticut map since that is where I was born.  And maybe make an S letter covered in a Missouri map for my son’s room.  The possibilities are endless!

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Owl always love you!

Cute huh?

Bradykins and I (and his mama Jess) did our first (but not our last) craft together!

This sweet boy wanted to send a card to his dad who is deployed…so we got crafty with some ink and some scrapbooking paper. 

Brady’s learning how to wave bye bye here, it’s fairly amusing to him!

Off to JoAnn Fabrics to find some scrappy papers and some blank greeting cards.

I needed a simple owl to use as a pattern and I loved this guy, I found him on a Google image search.   We printed the owl and

used it to cut an owl from some green paper, I added eyes and a belly from the scrap pack.  Very cute if I do say so myself!

Brady kinda hung around while we put the cards together.

Then we restrained put him in his high chair so we could get the footprints we needed to make the wings on the owl.  He ate puffs while we had our way with his cute little piggies!

Here’s the finished product!  So cute!!

And his mama wrote a very sweet note to his daddy…his daddy gets to come home soon too!

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12 Top Viewed Posts of 2012

I love to do this type of post!  I definitely appreciate my followers and their comments!

So here is #12—Cement gazing ball coming in at 1438 views!

#11 Knotted Burlap Wreath with 1549 views…

#10 Butterfly Eggs with 1686 views…

#9 Painted Glass Bottles coming in at 1732 views!

#8 is Dictionary Page Note Cards…one of my favorites with 1733 views.

#7 is Cardboard Rose Wreath with 2025 views!

#6 is Painting Glass Jars with 2647 page views!

#5 is Drop Cloth Patio Umbrella, still really proud of my work here, with 2670 views!

Coming in at #5 is my Ruffle Yarn post with 2798 views!

And #3 was my Pinterest inspired  Yardstick Stool Makeover with 2833 views!

My sister gift to Sarah came in at #2 with 8810 views for the Heart Necklace!

And a drum roll please….the #1 viewed post was Flower Wall Art at 18,056 views!!!

Thanks to all my loyal readers and followers!  None of this would be possible without you!

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Makin’ Christmas Cards…or how to cover your living room with glitter!

I decided to make my own Christmas cards this year…

I used pages from an old tattered hymnal

I taped the hymnal pages onto regular printer paper (Washi tape worked perfectly for that) and printed the pine cone/branch printables I found on a blog this week (for the life of me I can’t figure out where I found them) (I have looked and looked) (It’s driving me crazy if anyone knows which blog had these posted this week, PLEASE let me know.  I think I need to ask the Wizard of Oz for a memory!). UPDATE::  Angie from Knick of Time was nice enough to let me know that it was from her blog just last week that I found these graphics!  How embarrassing, but thanks Angie! (I swear I looked there!)  Where can I find that Wizard?

After trimming the printed pages to fit my cards and I used a glue stick to attach them to the card.

I touched a bit of glitter here and a bit of glitter there on the print…

 

just enough to highlight the design.

Martha Stewart adhesives are the best, I used a glue stick to attach the music to the card and the gel adhesive to apply the glitter.

My coffee table may never be the same!

But I do love the cards!  Each one is a bit different…

On the inside of the card I glued a piece of music with Merry Christmas printed on it.

in keeping with the music theme. 

Loving them!

I also made some Shutterfly collage Christmas cards to put inside these.  I only paid $6.73 for 25 cards and can’t wait to get them.

Aren’t they cool?  I can’t wait to send them out!

I made these stickers with my Xyron to put on the outside of the envelopes.

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